 | 1821 - 614 pages
...they seek or wish. How different the real Christian ! He can address his .heavenly Father, and say The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...agree, And seem, by thy sweet bounty, made For those that follow Thee. COWPEB. Mortimer. Indispensable as Religion is to the well-being of «very society,... | |
 | 1821 - 488 pages
...whether any stranger listens to the strain." Edin. Rev. No. LI. p. 198. Thus in one of Cowper's hymns : The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those that worship Thee. Thee, if Thy spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what joy,... | |
 | 1821 - 740 pages
...calling him at the eleventh hour, and he can say, while thus employed in worshipping his God — , . "The calm retreat — the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet boiimy made For those who follow Thee." I was present when he united with the church. The air of deep... | |
 | Jonathan Peele Dabney - 1821 - 316 pages
...where sin is waging still, Its most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With pray'r and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow thee. 3 There, if thy presence cheer the soul, And grace her mean abode ; O with what peace, and joy, and... | |
 | John Newton - 1821 - 686 pages
...where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With pray'r and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee. 3 There if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and... | |
 | 1821 - 468 pages
...With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those that worship Thee. Thee, if Thy spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what joy, and peace, and love, She communes with her God ! There, like the nightingale, she pours * Her... | |
 | 1865 - 1194 pages
...became most familiar : — "Tho calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And arc by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee....Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, O, with what peace, and joy, xnd IOTP, She communes with her Go<l ! " There, like the nighting.de,... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1822 - 326 pages
...Lord, I flee; From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His most .successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those that fo'.low tuee. There, if the Spirit touch the soul And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace,... | |
 | 1872 - 1200 pages
...overhead. On entering this path, the following words of a hymn came generally into my mind : — ' The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made, For those that worship Thee. ' There if Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, 0 with what peace,... | |
 | Ann Yosy - 1822 - 198 pages
...experience, the truth of those beautiful lines of your amiable poet: ' The calm retreat, the silenfrshade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee.' " Here my friend paused, and we seated ourselves for a moment on the verdant bank that lined our path.... | |
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The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee. 
