 | Lucy Larcom - Authors, American - 1889 - 292 pages
...not be afraid of them ; they would no doubt be chained. The last verse began with the lines, — " I can but perish if I go: I am resolved to try : " and my heart beat a bravo echo to the words, as I started off in fancy on a " Pilgrim's Progress... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - Biography & Autobiography - 1889 - 284 pages
...not be afraid of them ; they would no doubt be chained. The last verse began with the lines, — " I can but perish if I go : I am resolved to try : " and my heart beat a brave echo to the words, as I started oft in fancy on a " Pilgrim's Progress... | |
 | Granville Moody - Clergy - 1890 - 502 pages
...me." When I said, "Shall I not this evening hear some one say, by appropriate action, if not in words: 'I can but perish if I go, I am resolved to try ; For if I stay away I know, I must forever die?' lo! a little girl of twelve, neatly but yet poorly dressed, came forward to the altar... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - Sermons, American - 1890 - 392 pages
...which always seemed to me doubtful as the expression of a healthy or even of a possible experience. ' ' I can but perish if I go. I am resolved to try ; For if I stay away, I know I shall forever die." It is a question whether a faith as desperate as that is faith at all, but certainly... | |
 | Morton Bryan Wharton - Bible - 1890 - 346 pages
...every burden, resolved to take no denial, as you exclaim : "Perhaps he will admit my plea, Perhaps will hear my prayer ; But if I perish I will pray And perish only there." HE WOMAN OF SAMARIA. CHRIST CONVERSING WITH THE SAMARITAN WOMAN. LECTURE IX. THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA,... | |
 | International Sunday School Lessons - 1890 - 412 pages
...they neglect not repentance. — Lapide. So runs the hymn : — ., , , . , .,, I can but per1sh 1f I go, I am resolved to try; For if I stay away, I know I must forever die." IV. The Fruits of Repentance. — Ver. 10. And God saw their workg. Not their professions,... | |
 | Samuel Harrod - 1891 - 682 pages
...tell Hrm I'ma -wretch undone Without His sov'reign grace. 4 Perhaps He will admit my plea — In mercy hear my prayer ; But if I perish I will pray, And perish only there. 5 I can but perish if I go ; I am resolv'd to try ; For if I stay away, I know I must for ever die.... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - Hymns, English - 1891 - 196 pages
...His sovereign grace, 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."... | |
 | Robert Pollok Kerr - Hymns, English - 1893 - 526 pages
...may command my touch, And then the suppliant lives. 5 " Perhaps he will admit my plea, Perhaps will hear my prayer; But if I perish, I will pray, And perish only there. 45 " I can but perish if I go ; I am resolved to try ; For if I stay away, I know I must for ever die."... | |
 | General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists - Hymns, English - 1893 - 672 pages
...him, I 'ma wretch undone Without his sovereign grace. 4 Perhaps ho will admit my plea, Perhaps will hear my prayer; But if I perish I will pray, And perish only there. Edmund Jones. 399 HARVEY'S CHANT, CM WILU*MB.B«DBUKV. 1 3^ *** 1. Come to the liv- Ing wa-ters, come!... | |
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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. 
