Religion! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Never sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled... The English Journal of Education - Page 1981847Full view - About this book
| John Hartley - Greece - 1831 - 426 pages
...was a stillness and serenity all around, which seemed to harmonize with a Christian Sabbath : but, " The sound of the Church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard: " or, if the invitation to Christian Worship was ever known, it has long since been superseded by the... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Never sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appeared. Ye winds that have made me... | |
| George Pearson - Cumbria (England) - 1832 - 160 pages
...Missionary Station, OR THE MOORLAND PREACHING-HOUSE. -• (Addressed to the Home Missionary Society. J " But the sound of the Church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Never sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smil'd when a sabbath appear'd." THE station visited is Bleak-House,... | |
| William Ellis - Ethnology - 1833 - 362 pages
...exercises. That, however, is not to be expected in the present circumstances of the people ; for ; " The sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard ; Never sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Nor smiled when a Sabbath appear'd." And probably until this... | |
| Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Never sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smil'd when a sabbath appear'd. Ye winds, that have made me... | |
| William Jay - Christian life - 1834 - 326 pages
...of this in the lines supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk in his solitary abode : "But the sound of the church-going bell, These valleys and rocks never heard; Ne'er sighed at the sound of a knell, Nor smiled when a sabbath appeared." But it is principally designed... | |
| Edward Nares - Bible and geology - 1834 - 366 pages
...stillness and serenity all around, which seemed to harmonize with a Christian Sabbath: but,— " ' The sound of the Church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard :' or, if the invitation to Christian worship was ever known, it has long been succeeded by the cry... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 396 pages
...in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appear 'd. Ye winds that have made me... | |
| Stewart William Hanna - Haiti - 1836 - 244 pages
...proclaimed, so that the hearers have a prospect of being edified, the lines of Cowper are applicable:— ' The sound of the church.going bell These valleys and rocks never heard.' January 26th. Malaguette, an aromatic herb, flavoured not unlike aniseed, grows in this neighbourhood.... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford. But the sound of the church-going bell These valleys and rocks never heard, Never sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a sabbath appear'd. Ye winds, that have made me... | |
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