...Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His most successful war. The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her Cod! Nor asks a witness of her song. Nor thirsts for human praise. Author and guardian of my life,...

...Baptist, and lie had lately returned from the banks of the Jordan to his quiet home at Cana in Galilee. "The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ;" and just as the bard of Olney had his arbour, so many of the old Hebrew rabbis had their shady tree, which...

...religious experience. We cannot resist the temptation to transcribe three verses of the last hymn : "The calm retreat, the silent shade With prayer and praise agree ; And seem, by tliy sweet bounty, made For those who follow thee. There, if thy spirit touch the soul, And grace her...

...Gothic alcove where Cowper used to sit, lost in reverie, and delighted with the perfect seclusion. " A calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise...Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee." >&a From a photograph The " Church Walk, " Langton by PE Nainby This was the " Proud Alcove " that...

...clamour of the world are left behind, thought, meditation and devotion are so much freer and easier. " The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...by Thy sweet bounty made, For those who follow Thee ! " 3. It likewise assures us He will be present with us. He does not say "go ye yourselves apart,"...

...like the prophet of God to go another forty days' journey along the toilsome way of the desert. ' ' The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who worship thee. ' ' II MIRRORS, NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL n MIRRORS, NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL WE are to consider...

...resolution to retire into the country, and which contains the following well-known and beautiful lines : — The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love A red leather trunk containing his papers had disappeared when he left the Temple ; so had his books,...

...summerhouse, where many happy hours were passed in company with Newton and with his women friends : — The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and...Thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, O with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours...

...die Menschen, die die Narrheit der Welt und deren unheilvolle Fröhlichkeit noch nicht kennen.1) Tht. calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by the sweet bounty made For those who follow thee.2) Obwohl dem Menschen das religiöse Bedürfnis angeboren...

...the turbulence of everyday existence and the storm of temptation and sin, man can commune with God: There, if thy Spirit touch the Soul And grace her mean abode; O with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God! But it is only in these isolated moments...