The Empty Crib: A Memorial of Little Georgie, with Words of Consolation for Bereaved Parents

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Baker and Taylor, 1868 - 158 páginas
 

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Página 29 - JESUS loves me ! this I know, For the Bible tells me so ; Little ones to him belong, They are weak, but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus loves me, The Bible tells me so.
Página 12 - And our love no broken ties : We shall roam on the banks of the River of Peace, And bathe in its blissful tide ; And one of the joys of our heaven shall be The little boy that died.
Página 128 - As God will ! And in His hottest fire hold still. He comes and lays my heart, all heated, On the hard anvil, minded so Into His own fair shape to beat it With His great hammer, blow on blow ; And yet I whisper : As God will ! And at His heaviest blows hold still.
Página 122 - OUR BABY. TO-DAY we cut the fragrant sod, With trembling hands, asunder, And lay this well beloved of God, Our dear dead baby, under. Oh, hearts that ache, and ache afresh ! Oh, tears too blindly raining ! Our hearts are weak, yet, being flesh, Too strong for our restraining ! Sleep, darling, sleep ! Cold rains shall steep Thy little turf-made dwelling ; Thou wilt not know — so far below...
Página 151 - Then what my thoughts design to do, My hands, with all your might pursue ; Since no device nor work is found, Nor faith nor hope, beneath the ground, 4 There are no acts of pardon passed In the cold grave to which we haste ; But darkness, death, and long despair, Reign in eternal silence there.
Página 12 - And her head fell on my neck, and she wept For the little boy that died. I shall miss him when the flowers come, In the garden where he played; I shall miss him more by the fireside, "When the flowers have all decayed.
Página 138 - I have been permitted, during my ministry, to receive over one thousand persons into the church, on confession of their faith ; and not one dozen of these had outgrown their fiftieth year. I did, indeed, once baptize a veteran of eighty-five ; but the case was so remarkable that it excited the talk and wonder of the town. Such late repentances are too much like what the blunt dying soldier called "flinging the fag-end of one's life into the face of the Almighty.
Página 105 - Christ wished to rebuke the selfish ambition of his disciples, he took a little child and " set him in the midst of them." From that child they were taught a lesson of unselfishness and humility. So our heavenly Father now sets little children in our houses to be our teachers, as well as to be taught themselves. No home is complete without child-music to enliven it, and little faces to light up its * This is from the discourse preached on the day of Georgie's baptism in the Lafayette-Avenue Church.
Página 129 - Sir, not at all. When I was well, I used to hear the Lord say, day by day, ' Betty, go here; Betty, go there ; Betty, do this ; Betty, do that ; ' and I used to do it as well as I could: and now I hear Him say every day,
Página 122 - And birds shall sing, in the warm spring, And flowers bloom about thee : Thou wilt not heed them, love, but oh, The loneliness without thee ! Father, we will be comforted ! Thou wast the gracious giver : We yield her up — not dead, not dead — To dwell with Thee forever ! Take Thou our child ! Ours for a day, Thine, while the ages blossom ! This little shining head we lay In the Redeemer's bosom ! ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND'S CHILD.

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