The Seaboard Parish Volume 3 by George MacDonald
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Father, therefore the disciples saw him tenfold more. His body no longer in
their eyes, his very being, his very self was in their hearts--not in their affections only--in their spirits, their heavenly consciousness." As I said this, a certain hymn, for which I had and have an especial affection, came into my mind, and, without prologue or introduction, I repeated it: "If I Him but have, If he be but mine, If my heart, hence to the grave, Ne'er forgets his love divine-- Know I nought of sadness, Feel I nought but worship, love, and gladness. If I Him but have, Glad with all I part; Follow on my pilgrim staff My Lord only, with true heart; Leave them, nothing saying, On broad, bright, and crowded highways straying. If I Him but have, Glad I fall asleep; Aye the flood that his heart gave Strength within my heart shall keep, And with soft compelling Make it tender, through and through it swelling. If I Him but have, |
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