This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ... for you, that I should go, You lingering yet awhile below;"--'Tis thine own gracious promise, Lord! Thy saints have proved the faithful word, When Heaven's bright boundless avenue Far open'd on their eager view, And homeward to thy Father's throne, Still lessening, brightening on their sight, Thy shadowing car went ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ... for you, that I should go, You lingering yet awhile below;"--'Tis thine own gracious promise, Lord! Thy saints have proved the faithful word, When Heaven's bright boundless avenue Far open'd on their eager view, And homeward to thy Father's throne, Still lessening, brightening on their sight, Thy shadowing car went soaring on; They track'd Thee up th' abyss of light. THE PENTECOST. 251 Thou bid'st rejoice; They dare not mourn, But to their homo in gladness turn, Their home and God's, that favor'd place, Where still he shines on Abraham's race, In prayers and blessings there to wait Like suppliants at their monarch's gate Who bent with bounty rare to aid The splendors of his crowning day, Keeps back awhile his largess, made More welcome for that brief delay In doubt they wait, but not unblest; They doubt not of their Master's rest, Nor of the gracious will of heaven--Who gave his Son, sure all has given--But in ecstatic awe they muse What course the genial stream may choose, And far and wide their fancies rove, And to their height of wonder strain, What secret miracle of love Should make their Saviour's going gain. The days of hope and prayer arc past, The day of comfort dawns at last, The everlasting gates again Roll back, and lo! a royal train--From the far depths of light once more The floods of glory earthward pour: They part like shower-drops in mid air, But ne'er so soft fell noontide shower, 252 THE PENTECOST. Nor evening rainbow gleam'd so fair To weary swains in parched bower. Swiftly and straight each tongue of flame Through cloud and breeze unwavering came And darted to its place of rest On some meek brow, of Jesus blest. Nor fades it yet, that living gleam, And still those lambent lightnings stream; Where'er the Lord is, there are they; In ...
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