The Vestry Hymn Book: A Choice Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Social and Private Worship |
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Page 91 - 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.
Page 100 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God ; All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to His blood.
Page 456 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 363 - GUIDE me, O Thou great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land ; I am weak, but Thou art mighty ; Hold me with Thy powerful hand ; Bread of heaven, Feed me till I want no more.
Page 269 - JUST as I am, without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that Thou bid'st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come...
Page 388 - AM I a soldier of the cross, A follower of the Lamb, And shall I fear to. own His cause, Or blush to speak His name ? 2 Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas...
Page 263 - Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind ; Sight, riches, healing of the mind, Yea, all I need, in Thee to find, O Lamb of God, I come.
Page 320 - FAR from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far ; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. 2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Page 133 - Lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, "While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high ; Hide me, O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past ; Safe into the haven guide ; O, receive my soul at last.
Page 128 - THERE is a Fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins ; And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Vestry Hymn Book: A Choice Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Social and Private Worship |
| Author | Elias Nason |
| Compiled by | Elias Nason |
| Publisher | J.P. Jewett, 1858 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Dec 5, 2006 |
| Length | 574 pages |
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