Hymns Selected from Various Authors with a Key of Musical Expression

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Crocker & Brewster, 1838 - Hymns, English - 776 pages

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Page 170 - How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.
Page 164 - Remember Thee, and all Thy pains, And all Thy love to me; Yea, while a breath, a pulse remains, Will I remember Thee.
Page 173 - O'er every thought and step preside. 2 The light of truth to us display, And make us know and choose thy way : Plant holy fear in every heart, That we from God may not depart.
Page 248 - WHILE, with ceaseless course, the sun Hasted through the former year, Many souls their race have run, Never more to meet us here : Fixed in an eternal state, They have done with all below : We a little longer wait, But how little none can know.
Page 159 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid!
Page 13 - He comes, the broken heart to bind, The bleeding soul to cure, And with the treasures of His grace T
Page 82 - The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious light and heat : His truths upon the nations rise ; They rise, but never set. 4 Let everlasting thanks be thine, For such a bright display, As makes a world of darkness shine With beams of heavenly day.
Page 131 - GLORY to Thee, my God this night, For all the blessings of the light ; Keep me, O keep me, King of kings, Beneath Thine own Almighty wings.
Page 59 - Thou, O Christ, art all I want, More than all in thee I find: Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind...

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