No horses being to be had, I had an unexpected repose. I sat in the orchard and thought with sweet comfort and peace of my God, in solitude my Company, my Friend, and Comforter. Oh ! when shall time give place to eternity ! When shall appear that new... The Christian Conquest of India - Page 152by J. M. Thoburn - 1906 - 291 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Bible - 1882 - 378 pages
...shall be sweet." The last words ever written by Henry Martyn, dying among Mohammedans in Persia, was : I sat in the orchard and thought with sweet comfort...God, in solitude my company, my Friend and Comforter. Verse 34.— "My meditation, of him shall be sweet." I must meditate on Christ. Let philosophers soar... | |
| William Pakenham Walsh (bp. of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin.) - Missionaries - 1882 - 376 pages
...before his death, is this: — " Oct. 6th. — No horses being to be had, I had an unexpected repose. I sat in the orchard, and thought with sweet comfort...in solitude my Company, my Friend, and Comforter. Oh ! when shall time give place to eternity ? when shall appear that new heaven and that new earth... | |
| Christian army - Missionaries - 1900 - 426 pages
...without sleep, on account of fever, he wrote, " No horses being to be had, I had an unexpected repose. I sat in the orchard, and thought with sweet comfort...in solitude my company, my friend, and comforter. Oh ! when shall time give place to eternity ? When shall appear that new heaven and new earth wherein... | |
| Theology - 1882 - 552 pages
...the 6th, he wrote the well-known words : — ' No horses being to be had, I had an unexpected repose. I sat in the orchard, and thought with sweet comfort...in solitude, my company, my friend, and comforter. O ! when shall time give place to eternity ? When shall appear that new heaven and new earth wherein... | |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Bible - 1882 - 380 pages
...Henry Martyn, dying among Mohammedans in Persia, was : I sat in tbe orchard and thought with sweat comfort and peace of my God, in solitude my company, my Friend and Comforter. Verse 34.— "My meditation of him shall be sweet." I must meditate on Christ. Let philosophers soar... | |
| Daniel T. Taylor - 1882 - 644 pages
...Tokat, Asia Minor, penned in his journal those, his last recorded words: "Oh! when shall time give plaee to eternity? When shall appear that new heaven and new earth, wherein dwoll1tli righteousness? There, there shall in no wise enter anything that defileth. None of that wickedness... | |
| Missions - 1820 - 674 pages
...are probably the last that he penned : — ' No horses being to be had, I had an unexpected repose. I sat in the orchard, and thought, with sweet comfort...solitude — my company, my friend, and comforter ! O ! when shall time give place to eternity ! When shall appear that new heaven aud new earth wherein... | |
| Bible - 428 pages
...thought, with sweet comfort and peace, of my God ; in solitude my company, my friend and comforter. Oh, when shall time give place to eternity ! When shall...heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness ! " Like Brainerd, he finished his course at the early age of thirty-two. Some years later a monument... | |
| Robert Young (of the Free ch. of Scotland.) - 1883 - 456 pages
...some sweet communion with God, he gave expression in his journal to the longing aspiration, " Oh ! when shall time give place to eternity! When shall...heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness ! " He had not long to wait for the answer. " At Tocat (in Pontus) on October 16, 1812, either falling... | |
| Missions - 1819 - 618 pages
...horses being to be had, 1 had an unexpected repose. I sat in the orchard, and thought, with secret comfort and peace of my God; in solitude, my Company, my Friend, arid my Comforter ! O ! when shall time give place to eternity! When shall appear that new heaven and... | |
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