We All Do Fade As a Leaf

We All Do Fade As a Leaf – R.M. McCheyne SHE LIVED—     So dying-like and frail, SHE LIVED—     So dying-like and frail,     That every bitter gale     Of winter seemed to blow     Only to lay her low!     She lived to show how He,     Who stills the stormy sea,          Can overrule the winter’s power,          And keep alive […]

Poem Written for his Father’s Birthday

Poem Written for his Father’s Birthday – R.M. McCheyne Ah! where is the harp that was strung to thy praise,So oft and so sweetly in happier days? When his brother David (who generally wrote a birthday song) was no longer on earth. Ah! where is the harp that was strung to thy praise,So oft and […]

Peace to This House

Peace to This House – R.M. McCheyne Long may peace within this dwelling             Have its resting place; Long may peace within this dwelling             Have its resting place;Angel shields all harm repelling—             God, their God of grace. May the dove-like Spirit guide them             To the Upright land!May the Saviour-shepherd feed them             From his gentle hand! Facebook […]

Peace Be to Thee

Peace Be to Thee – R.M. McCheyne Peace be to thee, gentle boy!Many years of health and joy! Peace be to thee, gentle boy!Many years of health and joy!Love your Bible more than play—Grow in wisdom every day.Like the lark on hovering wing,Early rise, and mount and sing;Like the dove that found no restTill it […]

On the Death of the Wife of an English Clergyman

On the Death of the Wife of an English Clergyman – R.M. McCheyne Oft as she taught the little maids of FranceTo leave the garland, catanet, and dance, Oft as she taught the little maids of FranceTo leave the garland, catanet, and dance,And listen to the words which she would sayAbout the crowns that never […]

On Reading Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted

On Reading Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted – R.M. McCheyne Though Baxter’s lips have long in silence hung,And death long hush’d that sinner-wakening tongue; Though Baxter’s lips have long in silence hung,And death long hush’d that sinner-wakening tongue;Yet still, though dead, he speaks aloud to all,And from the grave still issues forth his “Call.”Like some […]

He Tenderly Binds Up the Broken in Heart

He Tenderly Binds Up the Broken in Heart – R.M. McCheyne He tenderly binds up the broken in heart,     The soul bowed down he will raise; He tenderly binds up the broken in heart,     The soul bowed down he will raise;For mourning the ointment of joy will impart,     For heaviness garments of praise. Ah, come […]

Gideon’s Fleece

Gideon’s Fleece – R.M. McCheyne When God called Gideon forth to fight—“Go, save thou Israel in thy might,— When God called Gideon forth to fight—“Go, save thou Israel in thy might,—The faithful warrior sought a signThat God would on his labors shine.     The man who, at thy dread command,     Lifted the shield and deadly brand,     […]

I Will Arise and Seek My God

I Will Arise and Seek My God – R.M. McCheyne I will arise and seek my God,And, bowed down beneath my load, I will arise and seek my God,And, bowed down beneath my load,     Lay all my sins before Him;Then He will wash my soul from sin,And put a new heart me within,     And teach […]

Child Coming To Jesus

Child Coming To Jesus – R.M. McCheyne Suffer me to come to Jesus,  Mother, dear, forbid me not; July 1841 Suffer me to come to Jesus,  Mother, dear, forbid me not;By His blood from hell he frees us;  Makes us fair without a spot. Suffer me, my earthly father,  At His pierced feet to fall;Why […]

To Yonder Side

To Yonder Side – R.M. McCheyne Behind the hills of Naphtali  The sun went slowly down,

The Sea of Galilee

The Sea of Galilee – R.M. McCheyne How pleasant to me thy deep blue wave,  O sea of Galilee!

“Thy Word Is A Lamp Unto My Feet, and A Light Unto My Path”

Thy Word Is A Lamp Unto My Feet, and A Light Unto My Path”- R.M. McCheyne 1838. When Israel knew not where to go,God made the fiery pillar glow;By night, by day, above the campIt led the way – their guiding lamp;Such is Thy Holy Word to meIn day of dark perplexity.When devious paths before […]

Jehovah Tsidkenu

Jehovah Tsidkenu- R.M. McCheyne I once was a stranger to grace and to God,I knew not my danger, and felt not my load;

The Barren Fig-Tree

The Barren Fig-Tree -R.M. McCheyne Within a vineyard’s sunny boundAn ample fig tree shelter found,

On J.T., A Believing Boy

On J.T., A Believing Boy – R.M. McCheyne I little thought when last we met,Thy sun on earth was nearly set—

Oil in the Lamp

Oil in the Lamp Learn here, my child, how vain      This world, with all its lies,

Fountain of Siloam

Fountain of Siloam – R.M. McCheyne Beneath Moriah’s rocky sideA gentle fountain springs, At the Foot of Carmel, June 1839Isaiah 8:6   Beneath Moriah’s rocky side      A gentle fountain springs,Silent and soft its waters glide,      Like the peace the Sprit brings. The thirsty Arab stoops to drink      Of the cool and quiet wave,And the thirsty […]

Children Called to Christ

Children Called to Christ – R.M. McCheyne Like mist on the mountain,      Like ships on the sea,

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