Memoir of REV. Benjamin G. Paddock; With Brief Notices of Early Ministerial Assciates. Also, an Appendix, Containing More Extended Sketches of REV. George Gary, Abner Chase, William Case, Seth Mattison, Isaac Puffer, Charles Giles, and Others (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. POETICAL.EFFUSIONS. SIMPLY as poetry, the following compositions may have no very great merit. But as they are of elevated religious tendency, and therefore, perhaps, adapted to do a. little good; and as it is thought their publication here may please many of the author's old friends, they are inserted. It should be remembered, too, that they were mostly composed when the writer was "old and well stricken in years," and when he thus sought, to beguile the occasional weariness incident to the infirmities of age. CHRISTMAS GIFT OF A GRANDFATHER TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN Hail happy Christmas Day, That we have lived to see In heart we join the lay, To praise the Deity. The Christmas gifts we all do love; But Christ, God's gift, is from above. God's gift unspeakable The gift of his loved Son: Now pard'ning grace is full To each believing one--The gift of God to sinners given, To lead them safe from earth to heaven. Written by a grandfather eighty years of age. The prophets join their songs In harmony of praise: ( Our song to earth belongs--The Christian's song we'll raise: From other gifts we lift our eyes To God's gift coming from the skies. Come let us join and sing The song which angel's sang: Glory to God our King, Who saves rebellious man Glory and peace, good-will divine--The new-born Christ--the holy sign I If angels round the throne Commenced the Christmas song, We now will join as one And thus the song prolong, And spread the sound from shore to shore, Till time and earth shall be no more. The angels came to earth Tidings of joy to.bring, Proclaiming Jesus' birth, The Prince of Peace, their King. Good-will and love on earth do reign, For Christ is born in Bethlehem I RETROSPECTION. My threescore years are more than gone; They're fled away l...