 Jesus, permit Thy gracious name to stand As the first effort of an infant's hand ; And as her fingers on the sampler move, Engage her tender heart to seek Thy love ; With Thy dear children may she have a part, And write Thy name Thyself upon her heart.  The Juvenile Missionary Magazine (and Annual). - Page 202by London missionary society - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1818 - 396 pages
...sacred way, Which leads to blissful everlasting day. Evan. Mag., LINES FOR A MISS'S SAMPLER. JESUS, permit thy gracious name to stand, As the first effort of an infant's hand ; And while her fingers o'er this canvas move, Engage her tender heart to seek thy Ipve ; With thy dear children let her share... | |
 | 1818 - 400 pages
...sacred way, Which leads to blissful everlasting day. Evan . Mag. LINES FOR A MISS'S SAMPLER. JESUS, permit thy gracious name to stand, As the first effort of an infant's hand ; , / And while her fingers o'er this canvas movCt Engage her tender heart to seek thy love ; With thy dear children let her share... | |
 | Ethics - 1829 - 258 pages
...children, who are seeking Grace do dwell with him above. No. 104.] LINES FOR A SAMPLER. [Saturday. JESUS permit thy gracious name to stand, As the first effort...her fingers on the canvas move, Engage her tender thoughts to seek thy love : With thy dear children let her have a part, And write thy name, thyself,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 568 pages
...first sampler at Ingleton — beautiful lines, with which we shall close our citations : — ' Jesus, permit thy gracious name to stand As the first effort of an infant's hand ; And as her fingers on the sampler move, Engage her tender heart to seek thy love ; With thy dear children... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 564 pages
...first sampler at Ingleton — beautiful lines, with which we shall close our citations : — ' Jesus, permit thy gracious name to stand As the first effort of an infant's hand ; And as her fingers on the sampler move, Engage her tender heart to seek thy love ; With thy dear children... | |
 | Robert Southey - Children's stories - 1834 - 394 pages
...indeed daily are so, to more celebrated persons, upon less likely grounds. These are the verses ; Jesus permit thy gracious name to stand As the first effort of an infant's hand ; And as her fingers on the sampler move, Engage her tender heart to seek thy love ; With thy dear children... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - Great Britain - 1837 - 226 pages
...mark out all those verses ? they are very grand verses, and as sweet as ever I read : — " Jesus, permit Thy gracious name to stand As the first effort of an infant's hand, And while her fingers o'er this canvas move. Engage her tender heart to seek Thy love. With Thy dear children may she share... | |
 | 1834 - 562 pages
...gracious name to stand As the first effort of an infant's hand ; And as her fingers on the sampler move, Engage her tender heart to seek thy love ; With thy dear children may she have a part, And write thy name thyself upon her heart.' — vol. ii., p. 1 36. We much regret... | |
 | 1840 - 440 pages
...is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven !" F. LINES FOR A SAMPLER. Jesus, permit thy gracious name to stand, As the first effort of an infant's hand, And while her fingers o'er the canvass more, Incline her tender heart to seek thy love, With thy dear children let her have... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1840 - 398 pages
...it. Mary sighed as she almost unconsciously repeated the lines to herself, Jesus, permit Thy gracions name to stand As the first effort of an infant's hand, And while her fingers o'er this sampler move, Engage her tender mind to seek Thy love; With Thy dear children may she bear... | |
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