 | Matthew Simpson - Methodism - 1881 - 369 pages
...England, this record : " I went to America to convert the Indians ; but O, who shall convert me ! ... I have a fair, summer religion ; I can talk well ;...spirit is troubled, nor can I say, ' To die is gain.' " On his return to London he attended the social meetings of the Moravians, and both he and his brother... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1880 - 1004 pages
...year or two, but wallowed in a score ? — When thou hast done, thou hast not done ; For I have more. OULD I were an excel ; But swear by thyself, that at my death thy Son Shall shine, as he shines now and heretofore; And... | |
 | Frances Bevan - 1883
...oh 1 who shall convert me ? Who, what is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? I can talk well — nay, and believe myself, while...death look me in the face, and my spirit is troubled. " ' I have a sin of fear that, when I're spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore."* And yet... | |
 | Holland Nimmons McTyeire - Methodism - 1885 - 692 pages
...convert the Indians; but O who shall convert me? wno, what is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? I have a fair summer religion....' To die is gain.' I have a sin of fear that, when I've spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore. I think, verily, if the gospel be true, I am... | |
 | 1872
...said : " I went to America to convert the Indians ; but oh, who shall convert me ? I can talk well ; but let death look me in the face, and my spirit is troubled." He had need to remember in his missionary venture the dying words of his aged father : " The inward... | |
 | John Henry Overton - Emotions - 1891 - 216 pages
...convert the Indians ; but oh ! who shall convert me ? I have a fair summer religion. I can talk well, but let death look me in the face, and my spirit is troubled. Alienated as I am from the life of God, I am a child of wrath, an heir of hell." Are we to take such... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Vernon Blackburn - Authors, English - 1895 - 295 pages
...year or two ; — but wallow'd in a score ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I 've spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore ; But swear by thyself, that at my death thy Son Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore ; And... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1895 - 382 pages
...A year or two, but wallow'd in a score ? When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done ; For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I 've spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore ; But swear by Thyself that at my death Thy Son Shall shine as He shines now and heretofore : And having... | |
 | Joseph Edmund Hutton - 1895 - 280 pages
...he wrote, bitterly, in his Journal, when he returned to England ; " but oh, who shall convert me ? I have a fair summer religion. I can talk well ; nay, and I believe myself, when no danger is near. But let death look me in the face, and my spirit is troubled.... | |
 | Frederic Ives Carpenter - English poetry - 1897 - 276 pages
...shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done; For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I 've spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore; But swear by Thyself, that at my death Thy Son Shall shine, as He shines now and heretofore : And having... | |
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I went to America to convert the Indians but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? I have a fair summer religion. I can talk well, nay, and believe myself, while no danger is near. But let death... 
