 | 1875 - 522 pages
...it is said of our religion : " Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives, She gilds our quiet, and she forms our lives ; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in our hearts a little heaven." Have you tasted this peace that passeth understanding? I once heard a... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...thrown with the other things upon the altar of burnt-offerings. Richter. CHARITY. NOT soon provoked, she easily forgives ; And much she suffers, as she much...peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven. E'en constant Faith, and holy Hope shall die, One lost in certainty, and one in joy ; Whilst... | |
 | William Henry Bainbrigge - 1881 - 208 pages
...' Softens the high, and rears the abject mind ; Which brings sweet peace wherever she arrives, And builds our quiet, as she forms our lives ; Lays the...rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each breast a little heaven. ' To a mother, therefore, is confided by God Himself the most important of... | |
 | William Henry Bainbrigge - 1881 - 206 pages
...' Softens the high, and rears the abject mind ; Which brings sweet peace wherever she arrives, And builds our quiet, as she forms our lives ; Lays the...rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each breast a little heaven. ' To a mother, therefore, is confided by God Himself the most important of... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1882 - 838 pages
...hereafter in eternal life. The pleasures of religion never clog — we never get tired of them. " Sweet peace she brings wherever she arrives. She builds...rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each breast a little heaven." • " Great peace have they which love Thy law : and nothing shall offend... | |
 | Landon Taylor - 1883 - 540 pages
...new faith and a new life. This is what the Christian religion does for the human race. It not onlv lays the " rough paths of peevish nature even, and opens in each breast a little heaven, but by its transforming influence it changes old habits into new virtues, and... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1888 - 258 pages
...patient, and in prosperity not unduly elated — we taste the fruits of charity. In the words of Prior : " Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives, She builds...peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven." None may plead that he lacks the opportunity of being charitable, for wherever there is a... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - 1889 - 334 pages
...Hebrew seer, "is immortal." Religion is the guardian of health, as well as the hope of the soul: — " Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrives, She builds...rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each breast a little heaven." " It was a principle among the ancients," says Dr. Johnson, whose piety was... | |
 | John Wesley, James Henry Potts - 1891 - 568 pages
...one that partakes of it, both from sin and misery, from every unhappy and every unholy temper. Sott peace she brings, wherever she arrives ; She builds...rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each breast a little heaven. 9. If you ask, " Why then have not all men this faith ? all, at least, who... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. s. Ports— Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 307. Heaven. t. PRIOR — Charity. An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary... | |
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Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives; She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven. 
