 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1878 - 794 pages
...him, I 'ma wretch undone Without his sovereign grace. 4 Perhaps he will admit my plea, Perhaps will hear my prayer; But, if I perish, I will pray, And perish only there. 5 I can but perish if I go; I am resolved to try; For if I stay away, I know I must forever die. Edmund... | |
 | Julia Ann Tevis - Teachers - 1878 - 506 pages
...humble saints absorbed in prayer for me, whilst I felt the full force of that beautiful expression, "I can but perish if I go, I am resolved to try." It was a season of holy influences. I can not tell—I never could; but this much I know, I felt willing... | |
 | Henry Smith - 1879 - 138 pages
...though my sins Oft like a mountain rose : I know his courts, — I'll enter in, Whatever may oppose. "I can but perish if I go : I am resolved to try ; For if I stay away, I know I must for ever die." How often has this made me go to Him. Dear Sir, you know something of the rest: how I received good... | |
 | John Beatty - United States - 1879 - 406 pages
...from the Chaplain's tent a sweet and solemn refrain : " Perhaps He will admit my plea, Perhaps will hear my prayer ; But if I perish I will pray, And perish only there. I can hut perish if I go. I am resolved to try, For if I stay away I know I must forever die." While these... | |
 | Robert MacDonald - 1879 - 710 pages
...travelled, and is heaven at the end of it? When assured of this, they straightway press resolutely onward. " I can but perish if I go ; I am resolved to try : If I stay away, I know I must for ever die." If the kingdom is won, everything is won ; for the kingdom... | |
 | Asa Hull - Hymns, English - 1880 - 266 pages
...What- ev - er may op - pose. With-out His sovereign grace. Perhaps He will admit my plea, Perhaps will hear my prayer ; But, if I perish, I will pray, And...perish only there. I can but perish, if I go ; I am resolv'd to try ; For if I stay away, I know i&^-J-/ -| Jj-pt: 3= — j^l ITS — —$— i— And... | |
 | Christianity - 1846 - 344 pages
...Hath like a mountain rose; I know his courts — I'll enter in — Whatever may oppose. il " I can hut perish if I go ; I am resolved to try; For if I stay away, I know, I must for ever die. " But if I die with mercy sought, When I the King have tried : This were to die — delightful thought !... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1880 - 422 pages
...reject my plea, And disregard my prayer ; Yet still, like Esther, I will stay, And perish only there. Í "I can but perish if I go ; I am resolved to try ; For if I stay away, I know I must forever die. 6 "But should I die with mercy sought, When I the King have tried, I there should die... | |
 | Evangelical Lutheran General Synod in North America - Hymns, English - 1880 - 678 pages
...Him I'ma wretch undone "Without His sovereign grace. 4 Perhaps He will admit my plea, Perhaps will hear my prayer; But if I perish, I will pray, And perish only there. 5 I can but perish if I go ; I am resolved to try : For if I .stay away, I know I must for ever die.... | |
 | Hiram Mead - Hymns, English - 1880 - 436 pages
...him I 'ma wretch undone, Without his sovereign grace. 4 " Perhaps he will admit my plea, Perhaps will hear my prayer ; But if I perish, I will pray, And perish only there. 5 " I can but perish if I go ; I am resolved to try ; For if I stay away, I know I must for ever die."... | |
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I can but perish if I go; I am resolved to try; For, if I stay away, I know I must for ever die. 
