 If there be some weaker one, Give me strength to help him on ; If a blinder soul there be, Let me guide him nearer Thee. Make my mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ; Let...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 851863Full view - About this book
 | Nadage Dorée - 1908 - 378 pages
...God." "Noble Nedia, henceforth I will help further your sublime aim — we shall both work with God." Let me find in Thy employ Peace that dearer is than...all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. 192 CHAPTER XX. Nedia was not only a girl of great love and tenderness, but she was a born optimist.... | |
 | Charles William Wendte - Gospel music - 1908 - 360 pages
...true With the work I fain would do; Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ! 4 Out of self to love be led, And to heaven acclimated, Until all things sweet and good Seein my natural habitude. John G. Whittier. 103 Johnson. Out of Self. 1 What Thou wilt, 0 Father,... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1909 - 456 pages
...a blinder soul there be, Let me guide him nearer thee. Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant; Let me find in thy employ Peace...all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. John G. Whittier, 1807 13 How few who, from their youthful day, Look on to what their life may be,... | |
 | James Russell Miller - Christian life - 1909 - 318 pages
...mortal dreams come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life my weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ; " Let me find in thy employ, Peace...that dearer is than joy; Out of self to love be led, Until all things sweet and good Seem my nature's habitude." ' There are many more saints in the world... | |
 | James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin - Readers - 1911 - 312 pages
...mortal dream come true With the work I fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent ; Let me be the thing I meant; Let me find in thy employ Peace...all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. — WHITTIER. THREE THINGS There are three lessons I would write ; Three words as with a burning pen,... | |
 | Charles Sumner Nutter, Wilbur Fisk Tillett - Hymn writers - 1911 - 630 pages
...worship rightly is to love each other. Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer." "Let me flnd, In Thy employ, Peace that dearer Is than Joy ; Out...all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude." Lines like these not only reveal the heart of Whittier, but explain why It is that he is coming to... | |
 | William Channing Gannett - 1911 - 194 pages
...true With the work I fain would do; Clothe with life the weak intent; Let me be the thing I meant! Out of self to love be led, And to heaven acclimated,...all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. JOHN O. WnlTTIER 116. WITH HEART AS THINE GolltrhaH. .14 Jlolley, 11 Heavenly Helper, Friend divine,... | |
 | 1899 - 398 pages
...with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant; Let me find in my employ Peace that dearer ie than joy; Out of self to love be led, And to heaven...acclimated, Until all things sweet and good Seem my nature's habitude. — John G. Whittier. FREDERICK FROEBEL said : "The destiny of nations lies in the... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) - Quakers - 1913 - 922 pages
...the world may, with the Quaker poet, plead consistently and individually with the Heavenly Father: "Let me find in Thy employ Peace that dearer is than...to Love be led, And to Heaven acclimated, Until all that's sweet and good Seem my natural habitude." So, dear Friends, with the feeling that it has been... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - Hymns - 1914 - 576 pages
...blinder soul there be, ' Let me guide him nearer thee. Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant; Let me find in thy employ Peace...all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIEI, 1863. MINISTRY. 8.4.8.4.8.8. JOHN HENRY GOWER, 1909. Copyright, 1910, by the... | |
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