Memorials of John CurwenJ. Curwen & Sons, 1882 - 315 pages |
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addresses Basingstoke beautiful blessing boys brother certificates Chapel choir Christ Christian church congregation Crystal Palace dear death delight Exeter Hall father feel Forest Gate friends Frome girls give Glasgow hand happy harmonium heart Heckmondwike hope hymns interest Jesus John Curwen Karlsbad labour lady lectures lived London look Lord LOWELL MASON meeting minister Miss Glover morning mother Nelly Vanner never Observe Harmony Plaistow pleasant pleasure psalmody pupils ragged school RECOLLECTIONS religious remember School Board singing song speak spirit staff notation Stowmarket Sunday School sweet sympathy taught teachers teaching thankful thing thought Tonic Sol-fa Association Tonic Sol-fa College Tonic Sol-fa method Tonic Sol-fa movement Tonic Sol-fa notation Tonic Sol-fa Reporter Tonic Sol-fa system Tonic Sol-faists took tunes voice words writes young Ziegelhausen
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Page 288 - For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better: nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Page 284 - ONE sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home to-day Than I ever have been before; Nearer my Father's house, Where the many mansions be; Nearer the great white throne, Nearer the crystal sea; Nearer the bound of life, Where we lay our burdens down; Nearer leaving the cross! Nearer gaining the crown!
Page 272 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Page 254 - Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my heacl, And breathe my life out sweetly there.
Page 296 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia ; for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Page 1 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Page 107 - Mine's a better country, Where there is no sin — Where the tones of sorrow Never enter in.
Page 22 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me : — " My father, Thou art the guide of my youth?
Page 121 - Commit thy way unto the Lord ; trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.
Page 294 - OUR birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ; The Soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath elsewhere had its setting, And cometh from afar ; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home...