 | New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 էջ
...outward gesture. The poet Montgomery beautifully expresses this : — " Prayer, is the heaving of a sigh; The falling of a tear : The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. " Prayer, is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try; Prayers are the highest strain that... | |
 | 1819 - 576 էջ
...speech That infant lips can try; Prayer, the sublimest strain« that reach The Majesty on high. Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native...The watch-word at the gates of death; — He enters heav'u with prayer. Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, The turning from his ways; While angels... | |
 | 1819 - 594 էջ
...unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try; Prayer, the sublimest strains that... | |
 | 1819 - 788 էջ
...orunexpress'd; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech The Majesty on high. Prayer is the Christian's vital brea'th,... | |
 | 1819 - 774 էջ
...unexprcss'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer, the sublimest strains that... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1820 - 490 էջ
...unexprest; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. 2 Pray 'r is the burjjbit of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye,...form of speech That infant lips can try ; Pray'r, the sublimes! strains that reach The Majesty on high. 4 Pray'r is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's... | |
 | Selection - 1822 - 276 էջ
...unexpressed ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burthen of a -sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. 3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech, That infant lips can try ; Prayer the sublimest strains that... | |
 | Charles Sleech Hawtrey - 1822 - 478 էջ
...unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Pray'r is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear ; The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Pray'r is the simplest form of speech, 1 hat infant lips can try ; Pray'r, the sublimcst strains that... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - 312 էջ
...unexprest ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burthen of a sigh, The falling of a tear,'. The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. ,t. Prayer is the simplest form of speech, That infant lips can try ; Prayer the sublimest strains... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - 330 էջ
...unexprest ; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burthen of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. Prayer is the simplest form of speech, That infant lips can try ; Praver the sublimest strains that... | |
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Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near. 
