| 1847 - 720 страница
...Croesus — and seek a kingdom which cannot be moved. Maj you be enabled to point to heavco and say ' There is my house and portion fair, My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home.' And if this be said by you in truth — you will possess wealH' far beyond the riches of Crcesu? or... | |
| Hymns - 1840 - 464 страница
...call our own, As strangers to the world, unknown. We'd all its joys despise ; We 'd trample on its whole delight, And seek a city out of sight, A city in the skies. 2 There is our house and portion fair, Our treasure and our hearts are there, And our abiding home... | |
| John George Breay - 1841 - 572 страница
...towards it let all your steps be bent : say ' Here I have no continuing city, but I seek one to come.' ' There is my house and portion fair, My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home." " These are duties of commanding importance, and of considerable difficulty. You know not the various... | |
| 1868 - 286 страница
...seemed to be in full sight, whilst her countenance beamed with holy joy. Pointing upwards she said — " There is my house and portion fair ; My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home." She lost her voice a few days before her departure, so that it was with difficulty she could be heard.... | |
| 1842 - 284 страница
...again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.' " She then cried out, " ' There is my house and portion fair ; My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home.' I wish father, mother, sisters, brothers, and all the world, were converted to God : I should like... | |
| 1852 - 590 страница
...this gloriously sufficient. Often did he say, both when in health, and during his illness, "Yonder is my house and portion fair; My treasure and my heart are there, And my abiding home,"_&c. From the beginning of his affliction, he had a presentiment that he should not recover,... | |
| 1841 - 214 страница
...bounds of time, and looking up to heaven, in humble dependence upon a crucified Redeemer, can say, " There is my house and portion fair, My treasure and my heart is there, And my abiding home." For such as by faith are united to Christ, by whose blood they are... | |
| William Jones - 1842 - 294 страница
...while they walk upon it, sing,— " Nothing on earth I call my own, A stranger to the world unknown, I all their goods despise ; I trample on their whole...And seek a city out of sight, A city in the skies." Impenitent sinners, whose hearts have been cold and hard as stones, whose consciences have continued... | |
| Linus Smith Everett - 1843 - 124 страница
...Nothing on earth I call my own ; A stranger to the world — unknown — T all their goods despUe ; I trample on their whole delight, And seek a city out of sight, A city in the skies. The tilings eternal I pursue, There ia my house and portion fair, A life divine beyond the view My... | |
| 1843 - 404 страница
...painful struggle; and the fiist words she uttered, were a recital of the beautiful verse — "Yonder'e my house and portion fair, My treasure and my heart are there And my abiding heme ; For me my elder brethren stay, And aneeis beckon me awity, And Jesus bids me come." The longest... | |
| |