The churchman's daily remembrancer, with poetical selections for all seasons of the Christian year1879 |
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Common terms and phrases
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Angels Behold Bishop Blessed blest Blood bright CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER CHATTERTON DIX CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Cross crown dark dear death didst earth EDWARD CASWALL eternal everlasting eyes FABER faint faith Feast FREDERICK GEORGE LEE FREDERICK W Genesis GERARD MOULTRIE give glory God's grace hand HATH XXXI heart Heaven heavenly HENRY NUTCOMBE OXENHAM holy Isaiah Jesus Christ JOHN KEBLE JOHN MASON NEALE JOHN NEWTON Kings Lamb light live Lord LUKE Martyr MATTHEW mercy night o'er peace PHILIP JAMES BAILEY praise PSALM rest REVELATION RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Saints Saviour Second Lesson shine sing sins song SOPHIA MAY ECKLEY sorrow soul Spirit sweet TABLE OF LESSONS tears Thee Thine things THOMAS ASHE Thou art Thou hast thou shalt unto viii Virgin voice weary weeping xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv xxvi
Popular passages
Page 309 - Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean : thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Page 42 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 200 - Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene, — one step enough for me.
Page 104 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
Page 124 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 6 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these, Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart, is joy.
Page 309 - HAVE mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness : according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.
Page 218 - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists — one only; an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power; Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.
Page 28 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid ! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid ! 2 Cold on His cradle the dew-drops are shining ; Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall ; Angels adore Him, in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all.
Page 278 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...