...deliver us, O Lord, from an earthly mind. Help each of us to shake it off with ease, and finely to say, " O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest." Give us these wings for thy mercy's sake. An acknowledgment of our jorfeiture of God's...

...sin, an offensive carcass, how can the higb-boin creature be happy? The language of the soul is, " О that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest!" "My soul thirsteth for God in a dry and thirsty land where no water is." This calling...

...Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me : and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 6. And I said, 0 that I had wings like a dove : then would I flee away and be at rest. [BATTEN, HOLMES, STROUD, KENT, NORRIS, BATTISHILL, CARTER, J. CAMIDGE. 1 34 PSALM Iv....

...man in the world. " Oh ! (said he) how this soul of mine longs to be gone ! Like a bird imprisoned in a cage, it longs to take its flight. O that I had...for I long to be absent from this body, and to be wilh my Lord for ever. Being asked by a friend, if he always enjoyed such manifestations, he answered,...

...their salvation. During her illness she was patient, resigned, and happy. She would often exclaim, " O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest.'' Often too, would she ask the question, "What are these arrayed in white robes ? and...

...many, and so sore. Temptations are so strong. Satan is so malignant. "O,"saith the fainting soul, " O that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away, and be at rest." Yet would this be right? Flee away ? A follower of Jesus flee away ? Did He do this...

...their stations, all may persevere ib the ascent of being, and approach r nearer to the LIFE DIVINE. O THAT I had wings like a dove ! Then would I flee away, and be at rest As for me, I will call upon God, And he will save me. Evening, and morning, and at noon,...

...lonely lakes, and the blue glaciers, with flowers fringing them ! Are you quite weary of all these? " " O, that I had wings like a dove ! Then would I flee away, and be at rest." Erica hardly murmured these words ; but Frolicli caught them. " Do you know," said...

...beautiful are these " longings after immortality," like those of the sweet Lyrist of Israel : " Oh that I had wings like a dove, then would I flee away and be at rest." The subject of the next is " Church rents and schisms." We tremble at the bare possibility...

...there was but a quiet place where I could lie down, and nobody disturb me — Mrs. P. " Then 1 said, Oh that I had wings like a dove : then would I flee away, and be at rest." O. That is beautiful ! It is in the Psalms, is it not? Mrs. P. Here is another verse...