| Bristol Sunday-school union - 1844 - 236 页
...every page ! That holy book shall guide our youth, And well support our age. 106 plory of the Word. 1 "•THE Spirit breathes upon the word, And brings...Precepts and Promises afford A sanctifying light. 2 A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun ; It gives a light to every age — It gives... | |
| Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 352 页
...Uncle William has written a verse in the blank leaf. So he has; I did not observe it. What is it? " A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun;...light to every age,— It gives, but borrows none." That is a verse of Cowper's—very suitable, and very true; for there is not an idea in the world,... | |
| William Greenleaf Eliot - 1845 - 406 页
...the stream, to rise above ! 13 * 149 THE SCRIPTURES. t 45. CM COWPEB. Light and Glory of the Word. 1 A GLORY gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun...a light to every age ; It gives, but borrows none. 2 The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious light and heat : His truths upon the nations rise... | |
| William Goodman - 1845 - 440 页
...denote an intimate acquaintance with the management of style." Some author has beautifully written : " A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun...a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none." Religion was the great subject of discussion from the reformation down to the revolution, and through... | |
| Cheshire Pastoral Association (Cheshire, Conn.) - 1845 - 498 页
...promises afford, And give new strength to fainting souls. 197. CM COWPER. Light and Glory of the Word. 1 THE Spirit breathes upon the word, And brings the...Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. 2 A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun : It gives a light to every age ; It gives,... | |
| John Greenleaf Adams, Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1849 - 676 页
...sacred page, Majestic like the sun : It gives a light to every age ; It gives, but borrows none. 3 The hand that gave it still supplies The gracious...upon the nations rise ; They rise, but never set. 3 Let everlasting thanks be thine, For such a bright display, As makes a world of darkness shine With... | |
| 1891 - 542 页
...receive, And by its holy precepts live. Benjamin "Rc-rt'lnmc '1 horn:is l.'ottenll 1781 BURLINGTON CM 82 A GLORY gilds the sacred page, Majestic, like the...a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none. 2 The hand that gave it, still supplies The gracious light and heat; Its truths upon the nations rise,... | |
| Thomas De Witt Talmage - 1891 - 434 页
...— 1748), 1709. Ab. CM 1 Cfi " The L'Sht ?nd Glory of the Word." XUU Ps. cxix. 123. 2 COR. iv. 4. 1 A GLORY gilds the sacred page, Majestic, like the...a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none. 2 The hand, that gave it, still supplies The gracious light and heat ; Its truths upon the nations... | |
| 1891 - 556 页
...matter ; — it is all pure, all sincere ; nothing too much, nothing wanting. Locke. GLORY OF THE. Л glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun,...a light to every age; It gives, but borrows none. Cowper. IMPERISHARLENESS OF THE. All flesh is grass, and all the goodllness thereof is as the flower... | |
| David James Burrell - 1892 - 350 页
...is no book in universal literature which at any point of literary merit approaches the Scriptures. "A glory gilds the sacred page Majestic like the sun...a light to every age, It gives but borrows none." 5. Its Unity. Here are sixty-six books upon a large variety of themes embraced under the general head... | |
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