 | 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... | |
 | 1830 - 696 pages
...her last change commencing. She accordingly, with great sweetness, repeated: " Jesus can make a dyinp bed Feel soft as downy pillows are; While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there." She had requested her friend Charlotte to sing her... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 lived. The Bible... | |
 | Lowell Mason - Bible - 1831 - 584 pages
...wings in haste, mf Fly fearless through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she passed. — 4 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, ;» And breathe my life out sweetly there. CM Marlow. Mcdford. D J. M Faith giving Victory... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lowell Mason - Bible - 1831 - 594 pages
...and our clay. 3 Oh ! if my Lord would come and meet, My soul should stretch her wings in haste, mf Fly fearless through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she passed. — 4 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean... | |
 | 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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Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there. 
