| 1840 - 498 страници
...death-divided friends at last Shall meet to part no more. Scotch I'ur. 519. Burial of Friends. CM 1 Why do we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms ? 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends To call them to his arms. 2 Are we not tending upward too, As fast as time can move ? Nor would we wish the... | |
| Collection - 1840 - 660 страници
...asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. — 1 THES. iv. 13, 14. 1 WHY do we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms ? Tis but the voice that Jesus sends To bear them to his arms. 2 Are we not tending upward too, As fast as time can move ? And can we wish... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1840 - 760 страници
...Kong. 1094 CM Certainty of the resurrection dispels the gloom of the grave. WHY do we mourn for dying friends, Or shake at death's alarms ? 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends, To call them to his arms. 2 Are we not tending upward too, As fast as time can move? Nor should we wish the... | |
| Isaac Dowd Williamson - 1840 - 240 страници
...blessed Gospel, death is " The door to everlasting bliss," and it comes to man as a friend, and is " But the voice that Jesus sends, To call us to his arms." In this light we can see how a wise and kind Father could introduce death into the world. The mind... | |
| 1841 - 598 страници
...mount to-morrow, And soar to thee away. 667 CM WATTS. The Death and Burial of a Saint. 1 WHY do we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms ? 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends To call them to his arms. 2 Why should we tremble to convey Their bodies to the tomb ? There the dear flesh... | |
| Eliza Cheap - 1841 - 412 страници
...girls as singers, in white, singing most sweetly the hymn — ' Why do we mourn departing friends, And shake at death's alarms ; 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends, To call them to his arras.' Death of a young man, temptation, and triumph. ' The other instance I alluded to... | |
| 1841 - 586 страници
...away. 667 CM WATTS. Hi, Death -and Burial of a Saint. 1 WHY do we mourn departing friends, Or shak e at death's alarms ? 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends To call them to his arms. 2 Why should we tremble to convey Their bodies to the tomb ? There the dear flesh... | |
| Samuel SMITH (Dissenting Minister.) - 1842 - 276 страници
...justice too, That strikes our comforts dead. HYMN CXCV. The death of a believer. CM 1 T/lfHY do we mourn departing friends, * Or shake at death's alarms ? 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends To call them to his arms. 2 Are we not tending upward, too, As fast as time can move ? Why should we wish the... | |
| James Frederick Schön, Samuel Crowther - 1842 - 440 страници
...blessing, I trust, to all of us. This evening, before Prayers, we sang the beautiful hymn, Why do we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms ? 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends, To call them to his arms. The singing was led by an old weather-beaten sailor, and all present joined in it... | |
| 1846 - 872 страници
...that I could not help singing with mingled emotions of sorrow and joy — Why do we mourn departed friends, Or shake at death's alarms ? Tis but the voice that Jesus sends, To call them to his arms. Well : as I said, we set off next day for London. It was a fine evening, and there... | |
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