<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421529" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dwelling In Mesech</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a mournful life is mine,<br>Fill with crosses, pains and cares!<br>Every work defiled with sin,<br>Every step beset with snares! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If alone I pensive fit,<br>I myself can hardly bear;<br>If I pass along the street,<br>Sin and riot triumph there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jesus! how my heart is pained,<br>How it mourns for souls deceived!<br>When I hear thy name profaned,<br>When I see thy Spirit grieved! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When thy children's griefs I view,<br>Their distress becomes my own;<br>All I hear, or see, or do,<br>Makes me tremble, weep and groan. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mourning thus I long had been,<br>When I heard my Saviour's voice;<br>Thou hast cause to mourn for sin,<br>But in me thou may'st rejoice. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This kind word dispelled my grief,<br>Put to silence my complaints;<br>Though of sinners I am chief,<br>He his ranked me with his saints. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though constrained to dwell a while<br>Where the wicked strive and brawl;<br>Let them frown; so he but smile,<br>Heav'n will make amends for all. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, believers, we shall rest,<br>Free from sorrow, sin and fears;<br>Nothing there our peace molests,<br>Through eternal rounds of years. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us then the fight endure,<br>See our Captain looking down;<br>He will make the conquest sure,<br>And bestow the promised crown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421529" data-title="Dwelling In Mesech de John Newton" data-description="What a mournful life is mine, Fill with crosses, pains and cares! Every work defiled with sin, Every step beset with snares! If alone I pensive fit, I myself can hardly bear; If I pass along the street, Sin and riot triumph there. Jesus! how m..."></div> </div> </div>

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