 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1822 - 520 pages
...our prison and our clay. 3 O if m^jord would come and meet, My Bnl would stretch her wings in haste, Fly fearless through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she past I 4 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head,... | |
 | 1822 - 570 pages
...exclaimed, — " Olí that my Lord would cume and meet! My soul should stretch lier wing« in haste ; Fly fearless through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she past." These things were recited with no faulteriug accent, but with a firm tone, and л most placid,... | |
 | 1823 - 622 pages
...appeared to brighten, and in her departing moments she experienced the sentiment of the poet : — . " 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." Her happy spirit attended by a convoy of guardian... | |
 | Theology - 1822 - 500 pages
...strong was his faith and hope in the God of his salvation, that with his expiring breath he sung, " Jesus can make a dying bed, Feel soft as downy pillows are." And we have many instances of the old martyrs, over whose minds the pangs of death, inflicted in the... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1825
...distressing : but, (cheerfully,) I don't mind it, a little pain does not signify, and 'Jesus ran make the dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are : While on his breast I lean my head, And sweetly breathe ray life out there.' " adding, " Is not that a beautiful hymn, Miss H.?"... | |
 | Ashbel Green - Presbyterian Church in the U.S. - 1824 - 500 pages
...situation one of befriends approached her bed-side, and said in the language of Watts ; " Jesus c.'in make a dying bed " Feel soft as downy pillows are ; " While on his breast [ Jean my head, " And breathe my life out sweetly there.™ " Yes !" she exclaimed, " \t \ь а// true... | |
 | Edward Sutleffe - 1824 - 638 pages
...enough to witness the peace and composure with which she hailed the messenger of death, exclaiming — " Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, On thy kind arms I lean my head, And gently breathe my life out there." She recovered from the fever,... | |
 | James Janeway - 1824 - 262 pages
...do 1 But why do I complain ; he makes all my bed in my sickness." She then repeated those lines, ' Jesus can make a dying bed, Feel soft as downy pillows are.' " Yes," he replied, " he can, he does, I feel it." CHAP. V. General Outlines of hi> Character. To develop... | |
 | S B Haslam - 1824 - 658 pages
...to this sordid clay ! 3 Let but my Saviour come and meet, My soul would stretch her wings in haste. Fly fearless through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she past ! 4 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head,... | |
 | Rowland Hill - Christian life - 1825 - 330 pages
...of heart, that verse from Dr. Waits, (whose hymns she frequently quoted in her last sickness.) Jesua can make a dying: bed Feel soft as downy pillows are ; While on his breast I 1-an my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there. Then she paused and said, taking me by the hand... | |
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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. 
