"Earnest Willie," or, Echoes from a recluse : containing the letters, poems, addresses and sketches -- chiefly moral and religious -- with bits of laughing humor, smiling fancy and tender sentiment -- everywhere / the earnest heart-throbs of William D. Upshaw, during this more than sixteen years of invalid life -- (seven years spent on a bed).
- Upshaw, Willie D. (William David), 1866-1952.
- Date:
- 1903
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: "Earnest Willie," or, Echoes from a recluse : containing the letters, poems, addresses and sketches -- chiefly moral and religious -- with bits of laughing humor, smiling fancy and tender sentiment -- everywhere / the earnest heart-throbs of William D. Upshaw, during this more than sixteen years of invalid life -- (seven years spent on a bed). Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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!['Oh Pow'r behind each note, each thought, Speak from Thy starry dome; Make these gifts with blessing fraught, To point up to Thy Throne The world that needs—Oh, how great !— ( Because so weak and blind )— The quickening music—wonder-thought Of Thy Infinite Mind ! JESUS CALMS THE TROUBLED BREAST. [Note.—Suggested in an hour of great trial—the first line impulsively spoken from my heart as a glad prayer of sweet -repose—^happy, comforting trust.] Jesus, Jesus ! in Thee is rest; Jesus, Jesus ! on Thy dear breast I find sweet peace when cares enfold— I find sweet warmth when the world is cold. Clhrist, O Christ! in Thy dear arms, When pains distress, and fear alarms, I find glad strength when I am weak, I find a balm I cannot speak. Father, Son and Spirit—all. When waves engulf, when storms appall, You come in power—I turn to You, And you lead me gladly, sweetly through. And when I reach that Peaceful Shore Where naught of these shall trouble more— O Father mine ! O Spirit sweet! O Christ in whom I stand complete— Til praise You all for what You've done](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21167035_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)