 Nearer, my God, to Thee ! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me, Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee !  A soldier of the Cumberland: memoir of Mead Holmes, jr., by his father [M ... - Page 57by rev. Mead Holmes, Mead Holmes - 1854 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Theodore Parker - Atheism - 1861 - 448 pages
...perfect Providence, I can do all things : no doom is hopeless ; disaster is the threshold of delight. " Nearer, my God, to Thee ! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me, Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee? Nearer to Thee ! " 21* SERMON VIII. OF PROVIDENCE... | |
 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1865 - 682 pages
...perfect Providence, I can do all things : 110 doom is hopeless ; disaster is the threshold of delight. " Nearer, my God, to Thee ! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me, Still all my song shall he, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee ! " VIII. A SEEMON OF PROVIDENCE.... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Theology - 1867 - 338 pages
...perfect Providence, I can do all things : no doom is hopeless ; disaster is the threshold of delight. " Nearer, my God, to Thee ! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me, Still all my song shall be, — Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee ! " VIII. A SERMON OF PEOYIDENCE.... | |
 | Mary Baskin - 1874 - 188 pages
...proposition to which she gave a delighted assent. As I write I hear her voice, sweet still, singing, " Nearer my God to Thee, E'en though it be a cross, That raiseth me." Now she is bending over me, her peaceful face corresponding with the prayerful praise which has just... | |
 | Christianity - 1879 - 334 pages
...proposition to which she gave a delighted assent. As I write I hear her voice, sweet still, singing, " Nearer my God to Thee, E'en though it be a cross, That raiseth me." Now she is bending over me, her peaceful face corresponding with the prayerful praise which has just... | |
 | Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association - Deerfield (Mass.) - 1912 - 608 pages
...note, that these village graves were almost wholly those of women and children. That impressive hymn "Nearer, my God, to thee, E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me," sounds no new note. The same theme, and the same tone dominates the threnody which is heard through... | |
 | Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr - 1893 - 362 pages
...road which leads from Calvary to paradise. For herself asking only with a sublime submission — " Nearer, my God, to Thee; E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me !" CHAPTER XIV. SORROW BRINGS US AH. HOME. " Look in my face. My name is Might-have-been: I am also... | |
 | Arthur Fraser Sim - Clergy - 1896 - 304 pages
...things be welcomed, courted, triumphantly borne, if they will, but bring us nearer to our goal ? " Nearer, my GOD, to Thee, E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me." True, good fortune may come to the Christian as to a man of the world. Success in worldly enterprise... | |
 | George Rawlinson - Bible - 1896 - 454 pages
...present, and he can light us and guide us into the one everlasting way. He is a Lamp and a Guide. " Nearer, my God, to thee ! . . . E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee." If God could or would come... | |
 | John Patterson Coyle - Sermons, American - 1896 - 334 pages
...favor, it may be they could pray no more timely petition than that which we sing so thoughtlessly, — "Nearer, my God, to thee, E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me." " Where slopes the beach to the setting sun, On the Pescadoro shore, Forever and ever the restless... | |
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