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A memorial volume of sacred poetry

by the late Sir John Bowring. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author, by Lady Bowring

Bowring, John (1792-1872)

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Matter and Mind.

The Divine Apocalypse.

Rejoice with Trembling.

Heaven the Christian's Home.

Changes Wrought by Time.

The House of God.

Mourn not as those without Hope.

Unchanging Changes.

Christian Unity.

The Reign of Law.

God our Strength.

Scriptural Hymn.

Thy Kingdom Come.

What is Truth?

Confidence in God.

Christian Hopes.

Looking Upward.

To a Mother on the Death of a Child.

Dedicatory Hymn

The Tide of Tendency.

The Lord's Prayer.

The Beauties of Creation.

God Everywhere.

Look on the Bright Side.

The Innocence of Infancy.

The Dawning of the Day.

Pleasures of Memory.

Divine Influence.

Thy Will be done.

The Blessed Dead.

The Future of Mankind.

Truth in Progress.

The Light of the Spirit.

Brotherly Love.

Ohne Hast und ohne Rast.

Laborare est orare.

Where? When? How?

The Teachings of God in Nature.

Gospel Teachings.

The Restless Sea.

Brotherhood of Humanity.

The Life of Christ.

Forgive, as we hope to be forgiven.

Evils of Ignorance.

Hopes of Futurity.

Eternal Punishment.

The Good Samaritan.

Faith, Hope, Charity.

Confidence in God.

Aspiration after higher Truth.

Ioy after Sorrow.

God's Paternal Care.

Evening Praises.

Iesus teaching the People.

Perpetual Praise.

Divine Influences.

Mysteries of Providence.

Hymn to the Deity.

Progress of Gospel Truth.

God near in Sorrow.

What is our Duty here.

The Greatest of all is Charity.

Prayer for Guidance.

They are risen.

The Heart knoweth its own Bitterness.

God alone the fit Object of Praise and Prayer.

The End of the good Man is Peace.

God's Will be Done.

Gratitude and Praise to God.

Simeon's Thanksgiving.

Awake, Thou that sleepest.

Submission to God.

Come, Ye Blessed of My Father.

Lord! I believe.

The World Beautiful.

Be sure your Sin will find you out.

Rest of the Righteous.

Virtue and Truth Immortal.

Help sought from God.

Humble Worship.

Their Works shall follow Them.

The Resurrection.

God's Guidance implored.

Agar's Petition.

Death a Blessing.

Ye believe in God—believe also in Me.

The Poor have the Gospel preached unto Them.

We walk by Faith, and not by Sight.

Watchman! what of the Night?

Thou hast the Words of Eternal Life.

The Cross of Christ.

Outward and Inward Virtue.

God Omnipresent.

Infinite Greatness of God.

Pure Religion and Undefiled.

Blessed are the Dead who die in the Lord.

Death! where is thy Sting?

My Times are in Thy Hand.

Luther's Angel-Song.

God ever Present.

God our Comforter.

Religious Comfort.

Heirs of God and Ioint Heirs with Christ.

“Father, glorify Thy Name.”

Vicissitude a Blessing.

Parental Providence.

God the chief Good.

The Grave no Terror to the Virtuous.

Sleep of the Grave.

“It is finished.”

Adoration of the One True God.

Rest of the Grave.

Sabbath Evening.

God our only Refuge.

Iesus the Day-star.

Life's Pilgrimage.

Acceptable Worship.

Christian Triumphs.

Every Thing derived from God.

God, the Source of all Good.

Future wisely concealed.

The Lord's Prayer.

Advent of Christ.

Acceptable Worship.

Private Devotion.

“Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.”

Aspirations after Truth.

Past, Present, and Future.

Virtue its own Reward.

Life fleeting and vain.

Loss of Friends.

Lessons of Time for Eternity.

A Wise Man—builds upon a Rock.

Faith and Works.

Song of the Triumphant Christian.

“Truly this Man was the Son of God!”

The Resurrection.

Traveller's Hymn.

God always nigh.

“This Mortal shall put on Immortality.”

Adversity salutary.

Comfort in God's Goodness.

Felix trembled.

“Whether living or dying, we are Thine.”

“Thy Will be done.”

“That They also may be One in Us.”

“I will not leave You comfortless.”

Lines addressed to E. B.

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What is Truth?

What is truth? said Pilate, groping
In the darkness of his ire.—
Trembling, doubting, fearing, hoping,
Calmer souls may well inquire,
What is truth?—that prize whose worth
Far exceeds the gifts of earth.

Truth—of love and light the presence,
Truth—the stepping-stone to heaven,
Truth—of knowledge soul and essence,
Truth—celestial pole-star given,
Wandering barks to cheer and guide
Through the tempest and the tide.