The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Charles Wesley

4 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Sing aloud, children! sing to the glorious King Of Redemption, who sits on the throne, For the seraphim high veil their faces, and cry, And the angels are praising the Son. With His raiment blood-dyed, and with wounds in His side, He returns like a chief from the war, When His champion blow hath laid death and hell low, And hath driven destruction afar. A. R. THOMPSON, D.D.-Sing Aloud, Children. Christ is our Passover! And we will keep the feast With the new leaven, The bread of heaven: All welcome, even the least! a. A. R. THOMPSON, D.D.- We Keep The Festival. From the Roman Breviary. "Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.— filed under Easter
See the Gospel Church secure, And founded on a Rock! All her promises are sure; Her bulwarks who can shock? Count her every precious shrine; Tell, to after-ages tell, Fortified by power divine, The Church can never fail.— filed under Remorse
A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify: A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.— filed under Sound
Not from his head was woman took, As made her husband to o'erlook; Not from his feet, as one designed The footstool of the stronger kind; But fashioned for himself, a bride; An equal, taken from his side.— filed under Woman
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