| Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
...afraid of death?" "No." Her teacher repeated shortly after, these lines of Watts. •' Jesus can made a dying bed. Feel soft as downy pillows are ; While...his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out softly there," and asked her if she felt them true ; for the last time she pronounced the delightful... | |
| 1829 - 560 pages
...she replied, " Jesus Christ ;" and soon after she said, with great delight, " Jesus can make a Hving bed Feel soft as downy pillows are; While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my soul ont sweetly there." " Yes, mother," she continued, " you have made my bed very soft ; but Jesus... | |
| John Everitt Good - Sermon on the mount - 1829 - 692 pages
...blessedness, and protection. " .I.'sus can make a dying bed Feel 8oft a* downy pillows are ; While on hii breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there." Secondly. We therefore observe, however assailed, the Christian is secure. Like a plain and solid building,... | |
| Gorham D. Abbott - Children - 1830 - 154 pages
...heard it, and rising up in the bed, clasped his hands together, and repeated the verse, ' Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are: While...lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.' And after sitting a few moments in silence, he added another, ' Jews, my God, I know his name, His... | |
| Short memorials - 1830 - 300 pages
...were watching around his bed, the blessed spirit had taken its station before the Throne ! " Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are ;...lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there." WATTS. It might be said, almost literally, that the four last months had been spent by the AGED. SHEPHERD... | |
| 1830 - 696 pages
...her last change commencing. She accordingly, with great sweetness, repeated: " Jesus can make a dyinp bed Feel soft as downy pillows are; While on his breast...lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there." She had requested her friend Charlotte to sing her favorite hymn, whenever they saw that she was leaving... | |
| Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1841 - 612 pages
...and caressed her; then desired ihat she be taken away. She audibly and firmly then iaid— "Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head 59G THE ORPHAN BOY. From tin Jfeu Y«rt Courier of the I knew a widow very poor, 'Who four small children... | |
| Lowell Mason - Bible - 1831 - 584 pages
...haste, mf Fly fearless through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she passed. — 4 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While...my head, ;» And breathe my life out sweetly there. CM Marlow. Mcdford. D J. M Faith giving Victory over Death. 1 1 1 OH for an overcoming faith To cheer... | |
| Back to Africa movement - 1831 - 400 pages
...he said, "for me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Again he repeated the stanza — 'Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are; While on his breast I lean my head, And breath my life out sweetly there.' He lived the life of a Christian, and died as he lived. The Bible... | |
| Benjamin Braidley - Sunday schools - 1831 - 204 pages
...her sister, who stood near her bed, weeping on account of her great pain, she said — " Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are ; While on His breast I lean my head And breath my life out sweetly there." She was in the habit of employing herself when left alone, which... | |
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