 | S B Haslam - 1824 - 658 pages
...return, Sweet messenger of rest ! I hate the sin that makes thee mourn, And spurns thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 6 So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; And purer light shall mark the road... | |
 | John Newton - 1824 - 638 pages
...they have left an aching void The world can never fill. * Rom. viii.36. t Holi. x'ti. ?£ 4 Return, O holy Dove, return ! Sweet messenger of rest ; I...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 748 pages
...How sweet their mem'ry still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return ! Sweet messenger of rest ; I...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship... | |
 | Primitive Methodists, Hugh Bourne - 1824 - 394 pages
...still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return, The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. c. 165 4 lines 7's. 1 "p|EPTH of Mercy ! can there be _LJ Mercy still reserv'd for me? Can my God his... | |
 | 1824 - 636 pages
...return, Sweet messenger of rest .' 1 hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 5 So shall my walk be close with GOD, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road... | |
 | William Haslett - 1825 - 224 pages
...have lost an opportunity so precious ? Well may thou adopt the words of the pious Cowper, " Return, O holy dove, return Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate...thee from my breast. The dearest idol I have known, WKate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee." 0, my soul ! hast... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1825 - 482 pages
...sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. -I Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate...that made Thee mourn, And drove Thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'cr that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship... | |
 | 1825 - 232 pages
...'d! How sweet their mem'ry still ! But now I find an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove ! return, Sweet messenger of rest ! I...the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from mv breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne,... | |
 | 1841 - 440 pages
...please God, he can overcome it with his love shed abroad in my heart. That I long for, and to say, — " The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol...walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame." Not as I am now, rebelling against the Lord, and, as the poet says, " dwelling too much upon his image."... | |
 | Asahel Nettleton - 1826 - 522 pages
...How sweet their mem'ry still ! But they have left an aching void, The world can never fill. 4 Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest ; I hate...that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to leaf it from thy throne, And worship... | |
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Return, O holy Dove, return, Sweet messenger of rest! I hate the sins that made thee mourn, And drove thee from my breast. 5 The dearest idol I have known, Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. 
