01c. 1812 ADWhen the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).James Montgomery / quote ↗
02c. 1812 ADGashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie; Though they fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendour through the sky.James Montgomery / quote ↗
08c. 1812 ADBliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past; At once the fountain, stream, and sea, They were, they are, they yet shall be.James Montgomery / quote ↗
09c. 1812 ADFriend after friend departs; Who hath not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end.James Montgomery / quote ↗
10c. 1812 ADNor sink those stars in empty night: They hide themselves in heaven's own light.James Montgomery / quote ↗
12c. 1812 ADBeyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of years; And all that life is love.James Montgomery / quote ↗
13c. 1812 ADNight is the time to weep, To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory where sleep The joys of other years.James Montgomery / quote ↗
14c. 1812 ADWho that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?James Montgomery / quote ↗
15c. 1812 ADHere in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.James Montgomery / quote ↗
16c. 1812 ADIf God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!James Montgomery / quote ↗
17c. 1812 ADReturn unto thy rest, my soul, From all the wanderings of thy thought, From sickness unto death made whole, Safe through a thousand perils brought.James Montgomery / quote ↗
18c. 1812 ADPrayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed,— The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast.James Montgomery / quote ↗
19c. 1812 ADPrayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.James Montgomery / quote ↗
20c. 1812 ADBaptized as for the dead, He rose With prayer from Jordan’s hallowed flood: Ere long by persecuting foes, To be baptized in His own blood: The Father’s voice proclaimed the Son, The Spirit witnessed;—these are one.James Montgomery / quote ↗
21c. 1812 ADLo! through the gloom of guilty fears, My faith discerns a dawn of grace; The Sun of Righteousness appears In Jesus’ reconciling face. My suffering, slain, and risen Lord! In deep distress I turn to Thee— I claim acceptance in thy word, My God! my God! forsake not me!James Montgomery / quote ↗
22c. 1812 ADMethinks I see a distant vessel ride, A lonely object on the shoreless tide, Within whose ark the innocent have found Safety, when stayed destruction ravens round; Thus, in the hour of vengeance, God, who knows His servants, spares them, while He smites His foes.James Montgomery / quote ↗
23c. 1812 ADSunk beneath the wave, The guilty share an universal grave; One wilderness of waters rolls in view, And heaven and ocean wear one turbid hue; Still stream unbroken torrents from the skies, Higher, beneath, the inundations rise; A lurid twilight glares athwart the scene, Now thunders peal, faint lightnings flash between.James Montgomery / quote ↗
24c. 1812 ADWhen Mary chose the “better part,” She meekly sat at Jesus’ feet! And Lydia’s gently-opened heart, Was made for God’s own temple meet: Fairest and best adorned is she, Whose clothing is humility. The saint that wears heaven’s brightest crown, In deepest adoration bends; The weight of glory bows him down, Then most, when most the soul ascends: Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility.James Montgomery / quote ↗
