| William Gadsby - 1995 - 950 страници
...here below, Fond of these trifling toys; Our souls can neither fly nor go, To reach eternal joys. 3 In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive...Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. 4 Dear Lord, and shall we ever live At this poor dying rate? Our love so faint, so cold to thee, And... | |
| Karl Kroeger - 1995 - 200 страници
...grovel here below, Fond of these trifling toys! Our souls can neither fly nor go, To reach eternal joys. In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive...Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. 5. Dear Lord! and shall we ever lie At this poor, dying rate? Our love so faint, so cold to thee And... | |
| Ellen Eslinger - 1999 - 332 страници
...singing a hymn while some of the people loudly began to praise God. He sang out an old Watts hymn, Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove, With all thy Quickening...flame of sacred love, In these cold hearts of ours. According to a lay member, McGee "had not sung more than the verse quoted, when an aged lady, Mrs.... | |
| 68 страници
...grovel here below. Fond of these trifling toys: Our souls can neither fly nor go To reach eternal joys. In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive...Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. Dear Lord, and shall we ever live At this poor, dying rate? Our love so faint, so cold, to Thee, And... | |
| Horace Clarence Boyer - 2000 - 288 страници
...eloquent in their hymns than Watts, who, for his 1707 publication of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, wrote: Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly dove, With all Thy quickening...flame of sacred love In these cold hearts of ours. Although mostly a New England and eastern religious movement, the fervor of the Great Awakening overtook... | |
| Michael D. McNally - 2000 - 264 страници
...Watts's "Come Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove" was among the first hymns translated into the Ojibwe language: Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, With all Thy quickening...flame of sacred love In these cold hearts of ours. In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And... | |
| William E. Phipps - 2001 - 306 страници
...Dove," another of Watts's hymns, has a stanza that criticizes contemporary congregational singing: In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive...Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies.9 Some of the thousands of hymns composed by Charles Wesley, John's younger brother, also had... | |
| Frances Sherwood - 2003 - 452 страници
...skirts swishing; she suggested they sing a hymn, and leading in her high, pretty voice, she began: Come, holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, With all thy quickening...flame of sacred love In these cold hearts of ours. Dear Lord! and shall we ever live At this poor dying rate? Our love so faint, so cold to Thee, And... | |
| Robert J. Higgs, Michael Braswell - 2004 - 438 страници
...lined a hymn, speaking the words before they were sung, holding the great stick of his arm in the air: "Come Holy Spirit, heavenly dove With all thy quickening...flame of sacred love In these cold hearts of ours." ...The singing ended. A fleece of beard rose behind the pulpit, blue-white, blown to one side as though... | |
| Robert Brown - 2005 - 401 страници
...grovel here below, Fond of these earthly toys; Our souls, how heavily they go, To reach eternal joys. In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive...Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. Father, and shall we ever live At this poor dying rate, Our love so faint, so cold to Thee, And Thine... | |
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