 | Hymns - 1849 - 478 pages
...Saviour ! when the stroke doth fall, Hallow our grief! 342. 11 & 4S. WHITTIER. THE ANGELS OF GRIEF. 1 WITH silence only as their benediction, God's angels...shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb. 2 Yet would we say, what every heart approveth, — Our Father's will, Calling to Him the dear ones... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1850 - 408 pages
...poor world's common And heartless phrase, Nor wrong the memory of a sainted woman With idle praise. With silence only as their benediction, God's angels...the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb I Yet, would I say what thy own heart approveth : Our Father's will, Calling to Him the dear one whom... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Bible - 1851 - 294 pages
...and voiceless, bearing only the inscription of the dead on its breast. She was one who felt that " With silence only as their benediction, God's angels...the shadow of a great affliction The soul sits dumb !" But Martha, with hurried step, sought the highway Jesus was travelling, and looking into his placid... | |
 | 1852 - 626 pages
...meet no more until we met at the judgment-seat of Christ. VOL. II.—No. 9 62 THE ANGELS OF GRIEF. WITH silence only as their benediction, God's angels...him the dear ones whom he loveth, Is mercy still. Not upon us or ours the solemn angel Hath evil wrought; The funeral anthem is a glad evangel, The good... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1852 - 636 pages
...II.— No. 9 52 THE ANGELS OP GRIEF. WITH silence onlv as their benediction, God's angels come. AVhere, in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits...him the dear ones whom he loveth, Is mercy still. Not upon us or ours the solemn angel Hath evil wrought ; The funeral anthem is a glad evangel, The... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - Unitarian churches - 1852 - 674 pages
...WHITHER. ZTIjc Sliijjtl* of ffirtrf. 1 WITH silence only as their benediction, God's angels come 2 Yet would we say, what every heart approveth, —...him the dear ones whom he loveth, Is mercy still. 3 Not upon us or ours the solemn angel Hath evil wrought ; The funeral anthem is a glad evangel ; The... | |
 | J. B. Syme - Death - 1852 - 196 pages
...poor world's common And heartless phrase, Nor wrong the memory of a sainted woman With idle praise. With silence only as their benediction, God's angels...great affliction, The soul sits dumb ! Yet, would I say what thine own heart approveth: Our Father's will, Calling to him the dear one whom he loveth,... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...poor world's common And heartless phrase, Nor wrong the memory of a sainted woman With idle praise. With silence only as their benediction, God's angels...a great affliction, The soul sits dumb ! Yet would 1 say what thy own heart approveth : Our Father's will, Calling to Him, the dear one, whom He loveth,... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...world's common And heartless phrase, Nor wrong the memory of a sainted woman With idle praise. AVith silence only as their benediction, God's angels come,...a great affliction, The soul sits dumb ! Yet would 1 say what thy own heart approveth : Our Father's will, Calling to Him, the dear one, whom He loveth,... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - Hymns, English - 1853 - 674 pages
...nigh ; There may be grief, and pain, and care, But, O my Father ! thou art there. 694. 11 & 4s. M. 1 WITH silence only as their benediction, God's angels...shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb. 2 Yet would we say, what every heart approveth, — Our Father's will, Calling to him the dear ones... | |
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With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where, in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb... 
