 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 páginas
...mine, My life and death attend, Thy presence through my journey shine, And crown my journey's end. THERE is a secret in the ways of God, With his own...we find, What will it be to see him as he is, And pass the reach of all that now disturbs The tranquil soul's repose? To contemplate, In retrospect unclouded,... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1845 - 516 páginas
...the pious King of Israel. " Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." " There is a secret in the ways of God With his own...hand, we find, What will it be to see him as he is !" — Swain. Doubtless there are innumerable spirits around the throne of God, who are rejoicing that... | |
 | Thomas Bayley Fox - 1837 - 188 páginas
...WASHING THE DISCIPLES' FEET. " What them knowest not now, tlmu shalt know hereafter." — John xiii. 7. THERE is a secret in the ways of God With his own...we find, What will it be to see him as he is, And pass the reach of all that now disturbs The tranquil soul's repose ? To contemplate In retrospect unclouded,... | |
 | John N Woodroffe - 1839 - 408 páginas
...3—5 ; viii. 18. 1 Cor. xi. 32. 2 Cor. iv. 17, 18. Heb. xii. 10, 11. James i. 3, 12. 1 Peter i. 6, 7. There is a secret in the ways of God With his own...hand we find, What will it be to see him as he is ? Come then, affliction, if my Father bids, And be my frowning friend; a friend that frowns Is better... | |
 | M. N - 1840 - 220 páginas
...not a little surprised to find himself so kindly received by a number of strangers. CHAPTER XXIII. "There is a secret in the ways of God, With his own...which none others know, That sweetens all he does : " Swttine, AFTER dinner, Owen Parry was requested to gratify the wishes of the company by relating... | |
 | William Jones - 1842 - 294 páginas
...shine forth, till all the happy soul Basks in the beams of his meridian smile, And needs no other sun. There is a secret in the ways of God With his own...and if such peace While under his afflicting hand I felt, What will it be to see him as he is, And—past the reach of all that can disturb The tranquil... | |
 | John West - 1842 - 310 páginas
...the feeling, no friend however dear, no voice however loved, can comfort me. Yes, " there is indeed a secret in the ways of God with his own children, which none others know." Oh! the hand which has so deeply wounded, alone can heal; that love, which has seen it needful in very... | |
 | H. D. - 1843 - 438 páginas
...grief: When all around to darkness turns, Thy inward light more brightly burns. WILLS. JOHN XIII. 7. There is a secret in the ways of God With His own...under His afflicting hand, we find, What will it be to know Him as He is, And pass the reach of all that now disturbs The tranquil soul's repose ? To contemplate,... | |
 | John Bruce - 1844 - 306 páginas
...with them that fear him ; and he will show them his covenant." CHAPTER V. THE MOUENEE'S ADVANTAGES. There is a secret in the ways of God With his own...While under his afflicting hand, we find, What will it he to see him as he is? Come, then, affliction, if my Father bids, And be my frowning friend : a friend... | |
 | John Lindsay Adamson - 1844 - 256 páginas
...were taught wisdom even in troublous times. CHAPTER NINTH. JOSEPH STILL SEEMS AS ONE DEAD TO JACOB. « There is a secret in the ways of God With his own...which none others know, That sweetens all he does." IT has been deemed strange that Joseph, who was manifestly a person of amiable disposition and an affectionate... | |
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There is a secret in the ways of God, With His own children, which none others know, That sweetens all He does : and if such peace, While under His afflicting hand, we find, What will it be to see Him as He is ? And... 
