 Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. My Father's house on high, Home of my soul ! how near, At times, to faith's foreseeing eye, Thy golden gates appear! Ah! then my spirit faints To...  A Memoir of Captain W. Thornton Bate, R.N. - Page 119by John Baillie - 1859 - 255 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1860 - 410 pages
...breath Shall rend the vail in twain, By death I shall escape from death, And life eternal gain. 614 SM MY Father's house on high ! Home of my soul, how near, At times, to faith's foreseeing eye, Thy golden gates appear ! ! Ah ! then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, The... | |
 | 1860 - 450 pages
...body pent, Absent from Hun I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. 3 — My Father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near At times to faith's illumin'd eye Thy golden gates appear ! 4 — My thirsty spirit faints To reach the land I love, The... | |
 | Horatius Bonar - 1860 - 408 pages
...the body pent, Absent from Him I roam ; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. 3 My Father's house on high ; Home of my soul how near, — At times to faith's foreseeing eye Thy golden gates appear ! 4 Ah, then, my spirit faints To reach the land I love ; The... | |
 | 1860 - 452 pages
...travelling into a far country! The words of the hymn are the language of our inward experience : — " My Father's house on high, Home of my soul! how near At times to faith's foreseeing eye Thy golden gates appear !" But sin is travelling away, where God and heaven are out... | |
 | 1860 - 926 pages
...Hymn Book, 1237), is seldom published correctly. Often it is made to contain the following words : My father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near At times to faith's Jar-se.eing eye Thy golden gates appear. Frequently the word discerning is substituted for far-seeing.... | |
 | Austin Phelps, Edwards Amasa Park - 1860 - 440 pages
...Hymn Book, 1237), is seldom published correctly. Often it is made to contain the following words : My father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near At times to faith's far-seeing eye Thy golden gates appear. Frequently the word discerning is substituted for farseeing.... | |
 | George Burgess - 1860 - 388 pages
...body pent, VI Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. 3 My Father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near At times to faith's illumined eye Thy golden gates appear 1 4 Ah then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, The bright... | |
 | 1860 - 950 pages
...Hymn Book, 1237), is seldom published correctly. Often it is made to contain the following words : My father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near At times to faitVs far-seeing eye Thy golden gates appear. Frequently the word discerning is substituted for far-seeing:... | |
 | John William Dadmun - 1860 - 56 pages
...Lord," A - men, so let it be; Life from the dead is — t ^T ' ' ' '- ' ' ' ' ' '~ 2. My Fa-ther'shou?e on high, Home of my soul, how near, At times, to faith's as3. Yet doubts still in - ter - veiie, And all my com -fort flies; Like No-ah's dove I in that word;... | |
 | Christian lyrics - 1861 - 240 pages
...fytavtn. 'OR ever with the Lord!" " *** Amen ; so let it be ; Life from the dead is in that word 'Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him...high, Home of my soul, how near, At times, to faith's far-seeing eye Thy golden gates appear ! Ah ! then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, The bright... | |
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