Above the Breakers; Or, Simple Trust. [With Illustrations.]Sunday School Union, 56 Old Bailey, 1875 - 130 pages |
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66 THE LADY Adair ahoy ANDREW WINTER anxiously arms Atlantic Ocean Author baby beach beautiful BENJAMIN CLARKE Bessie BLEECKER STREET blessing boat Bonny Jean brave Burton called calm captain CHAPTER cheerful child CHILWORTH Cliff House cloth boards creature crew dear mamma Dear Margery deary distress EMMA LESLIE Ernest Ethel exclaimed eyes face Father Father Winter fear Flora Wallace gilt Godfrey Grand-dame Margery hamlet hand heard Hurrah husband infant Jessie Jesus kissed knew Lady Annie lifeboat live London looked Lord MARGERY LYNN Margery's cottage mast Mons Meg mother night OLD BAILEY papa papa's passed poor Rachel repeated mamma Rest your heart returned safely SARAH DOUDNEY seemed Shetland pony ship shore SIMPLE TRUST sing soon steamer stood storm Story Thee Thine thing THOMAS DEKKER tones Trowel trust vessel voice walked watching waves wife wind words wreck young
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Page 92 - Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts,— she moves,— she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms!
Page 92 - Then the master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And, at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs ! She starts ! she moves ! she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel! And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound She leaps into the ocean's arms ! And, lo!
Page 119 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition : This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
Page 17 - O Trinity of love and power ! Our brethren shield in danger's hour; From, rock and tempest, fire and foe, Protect them wheresoe'er they go ; Thus evermore shall rise to thee Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.
Page 17 - Christ, whose voice the waters heard, And hushed their raging at Thy word, Who walkedst on the foaming deep, And calm amidst its rage didst sleep ; O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea.
Page 25 - FROM every stormy wind that blows, From every swelling tide of woes, There is a calm, a sure retreat : "Tis found beneath the mercy-seat.
Page 77 - Jesus calls us from the worship Of the vain world's golden store ; From each idol that would keep us, Saying, "Christian, love Me more.
Page 7 - In wisdom let us grow, As years and strength are given, That we may serve Thy Church below, And join Thy saints in heaven.
Page 7 - For thus the holy word, Spoken by Moses, ran : — ' The first ripe ears are for the Lord, The rest he gives to man.
Page 11 - Thou ! 3. By Him who bowed to take The death-cup for our sake, The thorn, the rod — From whom the last dismay Was not to pass away, Aid us...