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...spirit steals, Will vanish at the morning light, \Vhich God, my east, my Son, reveals. LORD it helongs not to my care, Whether I die or live ; To love and...is my share, And this thy grace must give. If life he long, I will he glad, That I may long ohey ; If short ; yet why should I he sad. That shall have...

...on my sinking spirit steals, Will vanish at the morning light, Which God, my east, my Sun, reveals. LORD it belongs not to my care, Whether I die or live;...love and serve thee is my share, And this thy grace mast give. If life be long, I will be glad, That I may long obey ; If short; yet why should I be sad,...

...prove All their Father's boundless love ! HYMN 35. c. M. "Be careful for nothing." — Phil. iv. 6. 1 LORD ! it belongs not to my care, Whether I die or...serve thee is my share, And this thy grace must give. 2 If life be long, I will be glad, That I may long obey : If short, yet why should I be sad, That here...

...reserve, I offer here to thee ; Thy will and honour all shall serve, That thou hestow'dst on me. Now it belongs not to my care Whether I die or live ;...obey ; If short — yet why should I be sad — That shall have the same pay ! If death shall bruise this springing seed Before it comes to fruit, The will...

...smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty Immortal awakes from the tomb ! RESIGNATION. Barter. To live and serve Thee is my share, And this thy grace must...long obey ; If short, yet why should I be sad, That shall have the same to pay ? Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than he went through before; He...

...Death smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty Immortal awakes from the tomb ! RESIGNATION. SBajrter. LORD, it belongs not to my care, Whether I die or live ; To live and serve Thee is my share, And this thy grace must give. If life be long, I will be glad, That...

...said, this hymn describes my state and experience : — " Lord, it belongs not to my care, Whether 1 die or live ; To love and serve thee is my share,...be glad, That I may long obey : If short ; yet why should.I be sad, That shall have the same pay ? Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than he went...

...way we take ; Till in the ocean of thy love We lose ourselves in Heaven above. KEBLE. RESIGNATION. LORD, it belongs not to my care Whether I die or live...obey ; If short — yet why should I be sad, That shall have equal pay ? Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than he went through before ; He that...

...predecessors in English sacred song." Eichard Baxter had twenty years before, his beautiful, — " Lord, it belongs not to my care, Whether I die or live." But the single seed-corn did not sprout into a hymnologic Watts had struck the Meribah-rock of melody,...