| Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
...afraid of death?" "No." Her teacher repeated shortly after, these lines of Watts. •' Jesus can made a dying bed. Feel soft as downy pillows are ; While...his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out softly there," and asked her if she felt them true ; for the last time she pronounced the delightful... | |
| 1829 - 560 pages
...she replied, " Jesus Christ ;" and soon after she said, with great delight, " Jesus can make a Hving bed Feel soft as downy pillows are; While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my soul ont sweetly there." " Yes, mother," she continued, " you have made my bed very soft ; but Jesus... | |
| Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1841 - 612 pages
...bosom smiled and caressed her; then desired ihat she be taken away. She audibly and firmly then iaid— "Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head 59G THE ORPHAN BOY. From tin Jfeu Y«rt Courier of the I knew a widow very poor, 'Who four small children... | |
| Joel Parker - Universalism - 1830 - 134 pages
...immediate death, " Don't call this dying ; it is but just beginning to live. My Saviour is near — Jesus can make a dying bed feel soft as downy pillows are." I have also attended the death-bed of four avowed Universalists. Two of the», though greatly distressed... | |
| Presbyterians - 1832 - 460 pages
...the mind these surges of despair j and it was God who alone could say to them ' peace be still.' " ' Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are.' " But no Saviour was casting his love around this dying bed. No ray* of peace beamed upon that departing... | |
| Back to Africa movement - 1831 - 400 pages
...expired, he said, "for me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Again he repeated the stanza — 'Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are; While on his breast I lean my head, And breath my life out sweetly there.' He lived the life of a Christian, and died as he lived. The Bible... | |
| African Americans - 1831 - 398 pages
...expired, he said, "for me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Again he repeated the stanza — 'Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are; While on his breast I lean ray head, And breath my life out sweetly there.' lie lived the life of a Christian, and died as he... | |
| Rowland Hill - Children - 1831 - 128 pages
...with you." The day before she died, she was in a heavenly frame, she desired her dear mother to sing, Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are ; While on his hreast I lean my head, Aud breathe my life out sweetly there. While this hymn was singing, she rose... | |
| Benjamin Braidley - Sunday schools - 1831 - 204 pages
...in her mind ; to which she replied, " all is well : the conflict will soon be over. Now I know that 'Jesus can make a dying bed feel soft as downy pillows are :' " then raising herself up, and throwing her arms round her mother's neck, and kissing her, she said,... | |
| Harriet Newell - Missionaries - 1831 - 282 pages
...eminently pious lady, since deceased, warmly av tached to Miss Atwood : almost her last words were, "Jesus can make a dying bed, Feel soft as downy pillows are." condition. I have infinite reason to confess my ibligation to God, for the faint discoveries I have... | |
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