Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...in the Holy Ohost." 2 What can man do, himself alone. Beyond a faithless, useless moan? Helper of man's infirmity, O God the Spirit 1 help Thou me. 3 Descend, O purity Divine, And stoop to sins, and wants like mine; Humble Thyself to all my need. And in me, for me, with me plead. 4 Spirit of Holiness 1 control, Dilate, inspire, pervade my soul: Make it a harp, from whose poor strings Thy hand the suppliant music brings. 5 Make it a voice for heavenly thought, Spirit of power! by Thee inwrought; Thou tender Spirit! breathe in me, The tenderness of Deity. 6 Then God will hear; He knows right well The holy mind: Thy groaning tell All interceding might is there. Spirit of God I pray Thou the prayer. 1 A BLESSED Life! the heart at rest, J When all without tumultuous seems: That trusts a higher Will, and deems That higher Will, not mine, the best. 2 O blessed Life! the mind that sees, Whatever change the years may bring, A mercy still in everything, And shining through all mysteries. 3 O blessed life I the soul that soars, When sense of mortal sight is dim, Beyond the sense--beyond to Him Whose love unlocks the heavenly doors. 4 O blessed Life! heart, mind, and soul, From self-born aims and wishes free; In all at one with Deity, And loyal to the Lord's control. 5 O Life! how blessed!--how divine! High Life, the earnest of a higher: Saviour! fulfil my deep desire, And let this blessed Life be mine. 1AO John xv. 4. 10.10.10.10. lUO H. B. Stowk. 1 fTTHAT mystic word of Thine, O sove.L reign Lord, Is all too pure, too high, too deep for me; Weary of-striving, and with longing faint, I breathe it back again in prayer to Thee. 2 Abide in me, I pray, and I in Thee; From this good hour, Oh leave me nevermore; Then shall the discord cease, the...