 | Young people - 1871 - 686 páginas
...could tell you about God. You know what the hymn says : — " I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A happy English child. " I was not born, as thousands are, Where God was never known, And taught to pray a useless prayer... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1871 - 698 páginas
...doubtless, have learned at our mother's knee to say, — " I thank the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child." She might as well have been a little heathen, for anything that English Christianity so far had done... | |
 | Hymns - 1871 - 330 páginas
...Pour thy soul in gratitude ! Mary Howitt. r* THE HAPPY CHILD. I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A happy English child. 1 was not bom, as thousands are, Where God is never known, And taught to pray a useless prayer To blocks... | |
 | Mattie (fict.name.) - 1873 - 144 páginas
...doubtless, have learned at our mother's knee to say, — ' I thank the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child.' She might as well have been a little heathen, for anything that English Christianity, so far, had done... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1867 - 832 páginas
...to speak, lest a flake of snow should be disturbed, and they carried down with the avalanche." " ' I thank the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled,' " sang Nellie, " and cast my lot far away from those horrid mountains." " But the Swiss people love... | |
 | Alexander Mackie - 1874 - 442 páginas
...Somebody. Train up your bonny bairns to feel and sing — " I thank the goodness and the grace, Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A happy English child." I must not, however, omit to tell you that my notions of Rome's future are all sunshiny. The Romish... | |
 | Oil, Author of Toiling in rowing - 1875 - 258 páginas
...these privileges. When children we were taught to sing, " I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A happy English child." But we forget as we grow up. "One shall say, I am the Lord's, and another shall call himself by the... | |
 | S D Major - 1875 - 258 páginas
...1715 (died 1748). 256 J CM LONDON, 109. ST. MAGNUS, 115. THANK the goodness and the grace Which 011 my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. I was not born as thousands are, Where God was never known, And taught to pray a useless prayer To... | |
 | Crosby Howard Wheeler - 1876 - 180 páginas
...you was not born there. I once heard the children in a Sabbath-school in England joyfully singing, " I thank the goodness and the grace, That on my birth have smiled, And made me in these latter days A happy English child." They were right, and so will you be, if you thank God that you... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1876 - 248 páginas
...... 142 HYMNS FOR INFANT MINDS. i. A CHILD'S HYMN OF PRAISE. I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. I was not born as thousands are, Where GOD was never known ; And taught to pray a useless prayer To... | |
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I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child. 
