| 1847 - 648 pages
...this, he fell asleep." " Sure the last end Of the good man is peace ; how calm li is exit. Night dews fall not more gently to the ground. Nor weary worn-out winds expire so soft !" " Hark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace." We may conclude... | |
| George Peck - 1848 - 498 pages
...one period would cancel the vices of another. How different with the good and faithful servant ! " Behold him ! in the evening tide of life, A life well...was His riper years should not upbraid his green, By unpereeived degrees he wears away, Yet, like the sun, seems larger at his setting." Every act of life... | |
| Moses Mitchell - 1848 - 80 pages
...righteous, and let my last end be like unto his" — ".Sure the last end "Of the good man is peace. How calm his exit! " Night-dews fall not more gently to the...ground, " Nor weary worn-out winds expire so soft." THE GRAVE, BY EGBERT BLAIR. How often, when visiting with him here, have we seen him labour " from... | |
| John William Lester - 1848 - 112 pages
...Christian's death-bed : — Sure the last end Of the good man is peace ! How calm his exit ! Night dews fall not more gently to the ground, Nor weary, worn-out winds expire so soft, liehold him in the evening-tide of life, A life well spent, whose early care it was His riper years... | |
| John Williamson (vicar of Theale.) - 1848 - 164 pages
...his experience was fully realized the poet's description of the good man's death : — " Night dews fall not more gently to the ground, Nor weary worn-out winds expire so soft." The immediate cause of his illness was a severe cold taken in going from Cambridge to Ely to pay a... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...scourged the venom out. Sure the last end Of the good man is peace ! How calm his exit ! Night dews fall not more gently to the ground, Nor weary worn-out winds expire so soft. 2. Behold him ! in the evening tide of life, A life well spent, whose early care it was His riper years... | |
| William Lupton (Wesleyan minister.) - 1849 - 224 pages
...(1 Cor. xv. 54—57.) " Sure the last end Of the good man it peace ! How calm his exit 1 Night dews fall not more gently to the ground, Nor weary worn-out winds expire so soft 1 " The writer had intended to improve the occasion of his death, by preaching to the people assembled... | |
| George Burgess - 1850 - 362 pages
...eternity. LV. Contrite tymi in C[jwtian Drnt[j. '• The last end Of the good man is peace. How calm his exit ! Night-dews fall not more gently to the ground, Nor weary worn-out winds expire so soft." BLAIR. WHETHER emerging from conflict, or spared it entirely, the soul of the dying believer is generally... | |
| George Burgess - 1850 - 340 pages
...anchor for, the voyage of eternity. LV. in C[jri0fiim « The last Of the good man is peace. How calm his exit ! Night-dews fall not more gently to the ground, Nor weary worn-out winds expire so soft." BLAIR. WHETHER emerging from conflict, or spared it entirely, the soul of the dying believer is generally... | |
| 1863 - 896 pages
...man meets hia fate, quite on the verge of heaven !" " The last end Of the good man is peace. How calm his exit ! Night-dews fall not more gently to the ground, Nor weary worn-out winds expire so soft !" On the sunny banks of the Potomac, nine miles from Washington city, is Mount Vernon, and there,... | |
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