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. 1888 Excerpt: ...to the eye, But be it o'er rough hills, or weary seas, With confidence we can pursue our way Led by a higher hand. Oh, blessed thought! Even when the wind blows turbulent, and we Seem tossed on adverse billows, there is One Who will not suffer us to be o'erwhelmed! For He who walks unseen upon the wind, Who paints each ...
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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. 1888 Excerpt: ...to the eye, But be it o'er rough hills, or weary seas, With confidence we can pursue our way Led by a higher hand. Oh, blessed thought! Even when the wind blows turbulent, and we Seem tossed on adverse billows, there is One Who will not suffer us to be o'erwhelmed! For He who walks unseen upon the wind, Who paints each flower, and sends the balmy dew Upon the tender herb, who delicately Imparts the fragrant odour to the rose, And feeds the wildbird whistling in the grove, He with a heart of love, a hand of power, Will smooth our onward path, and rim with gold The cloud that threatens wrath. Above the vale Where, deep in shades of night, Sorrow and Sin And Unbelief and Death in darkness brood, There swells a height serene, where chastened souls Walk as in Beulah's land. Beneath their feet Lie care, perplexity, distracting fear, The noisy tumult of a warring world, Above them spreads the cloudless firmament Bright with the smile of heaven, on either hand Green heights and hollows, watered by pure rills Which irrigate the vernal plains of heaven! And Faith may climb those heights, and Patience meek, And heavenly Wisdom. There may buoyant Youth, And Age with staff in hand, linger betimes In the calm shadow of the Rock of Ages, --There, gazing out upon the troubled sea Of earthly passion seething far below, The soul may commune with its inner self, Weighing aright the vanities of time In the impartial scales of rectitude, The pure, unsullied, radiant light of Truth Beaming on all around, --the Present brightened, The Future glorious, the Past forgotten, Or but remembered as a vindication Of providential care and changeless love. There, on that higher standpoint, one may learn That life, like the material world around, Furrowed by hills and valleys, dreary wastes, .
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