 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 598 pages
...night before he died : VOL. XXXIII.— 64. " \Ve beseech Thee, Lord, bo behold us with favour, folk ol many families and nations gathered together in the peace of this roof. . . . Bless to us our extraordinary mercies; if the day come when these must be taken, brace us to... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1895 - 602 pages
...composed by Robert Louis Stevenson, and read aloud to his family only the evening before his death : — " We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us with favour, folk...; suffer us yet awhile longer — with our broken promises of good, with our idle endeavours against evil — suffer us awhile longer to endure, and... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - Fishing - 1895 - 376 pages
...which Robert Louis Stevenson wrote for his family in distant Samoa, the night before he died : — " We beseech thee, Lord, to behold us with favour, folk...of thy patience. Be patient still ; suffer us yet a while longer — with our broken promises of good, with our idle endeavours against evil — suffer... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Quotations, Scottish - 1895 - 238 pages
...integrity ; touch us with fire from the altar, that we may be up and doing to rebuild our city. •\T17"E beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us with * * favour,...of Thy patience. Be patient still ; suffer us yet a while longer ; — with our broken purposes of good, with our idle endeavours against evil, suffer... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...our integrity ; touch us with fire from the altar, that we may be up and doing to rebuild our city. beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us with favour, folk...of Thy patience. Be patient still ; suffer us yet a while longer ; — with our broken purposes of good, with our idle endermmrs against evil, suffer... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1895 - 604 pages
...the wailing minor key of some modern piety : — "We beseech thee, Lord, to behold us with fervor, folk of many families and nations, gathered together...still. Suffer us yet awhile longer, — with our broken promises of good, with our idle endeavors against evil, — suffer us awhile longer to endure, and,... | |
 | Home economics - 1897 - 342 pages
...AND READ TO HIS FAMILY THE EVENING BEKORE HIS DEATH. We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us with favor, folk of many families and nations, gathered together...still ; suffer us yet awhile longer, with our broken promises of good, with our idle endeavors against evil ; suffer us awhile longer to endure and (if... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1898 - 700 pages
...unpublished, we bless and thank Thee, O God. Help us yet again and ever. So order events, so strengthen our frailty, as that day by day we shall come before...thy patience. Be patient still; suffer us yet awhile longer;—with our broken purposes of good, with our idle endeavours against evil, suffer us awhile... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1899 - 414 pages
...Mr. Stevenson had written and had read aloud to his family only the evening before his death : — ' We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us with favour, folk...of Thy patience. ' Be patient still ; suffer us yet a while longer — with our broken purposes of good, and our idle endeavours against evil — suffer... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1899 - 514 pages
...that Mr. Stevenson had written and had read aloud to his family only the evening before his death: " ' We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us with favour, folk...covert of Thy patience. Be patient still; suffer us yet a while longer ; — with our broken purposes of good, with our idle endeavours against evil, suffer... | |
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We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us with favour, folk of many families and nations gathered together in the peace of this roof, weak men and women subsisting under the covert of Thy patience. 
