 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pàgines
...dropping tear. We have no tinie to sport away the hours, 'All must be earnest in a world like ours. Not many lives, but only one have we — One only...toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil." Then let our daily prayer be, "0 send out Thy light and Thy truth: let them lead me ; let them bring... | |
 | Church missionary society - 1863 - 614 pàgines
...to sport away the hours, All must be earnest in a world like ours. Not many lives, but only one have One, only one. How sacred should that one life ever...But only seem. 'Tis full of meaning as of mystery, Though strange and solemn may that meaning be. Our sorrows are no phantoms of the night, No idle tale,... | |
 | 1859 - 880 pàgines
...dropping tear. We have no time to sport away the hours ; All must be earnest in a world like ours, " Not many lives, but only one have we ; One, only one...toil ; Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil." DEATH WITHOUT FEAR. The following were the dying words of Mr. William M'Leau, of Edinburgh, a man of... | |
 | 1862
...— to labour without ceasing, believing that in due time they shall reap, if they feint not ! " Jfot many lives, but only one, have we ; One, only one....toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil." EDITH'S TEAR. FOR THE YOUNG. TEKEE it lay, one large, clear drop, on the soft, rounded cheek. The face... | |
 | 1872 - 722 pàgines
...that, whatever may be the number of our days, they shall be filled with true and God-given, work, — " Day after day filled up with blessed toil ; Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil;" live so that all our energies shall be bent to that great object which God has set before us. Let each... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1854 - 348 pàgines
...mast he earnest in a world like ours. Not many lives, hut only one have we — Frail, fleeting man ! How sacred should that one life ever be — That narrow span ! Day after day fill'd up with blessed toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil. Our being is no shadow of... | |
 | 1856 - 624 pàgines
...fleeting man ! How sacred should that one life ever be — That narrow span I Day after day f.ll'd up with blessed toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil." MUSING on these words as the year 1855 was drawing to its close, I could not help saying to myself,... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1885 - 746 pàgines
...momentous responsibilities. It bears a relationship to Sinai, to Calvary, to the judgment seat of Christ. " Not many lives, but only one have we, — One, only...should that one life ever be, — That narrow span ! " See that "your life " is not a worthless, aimless thing. What multitudes are frittering it away... | |
 | David Thomas - 1884 - 468 pàgines
...dropping tear; We have no time to sport among the hours ; All must be earnest in a world like ours. " Not many lives, but only one have we ; One, only one ! How sacred should that one life be ! That narrow span, Day after day filled up with blessed toil, Hour after hour still bringing in... | |
 | 1852 - 776 pàgines
...A dropping tear. We have no time to sport away the hours All most be earnest in a world like ours. Not many lives, but only one have we,— One, only one;— How aacred should that one life ever be,— That narrow span !— Day after day, filled up with blessed... | |
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Tis not for man to trifle ! Life is brief, And sin is here. Our age is but the falling of a leaf, A dropping tear. We have no time to sport away the hours, All must be earnest in a world like ours. Not many lives, but only one have we,— One, only one... 
