...repeating lines which I can remember from my childhood : — Lord ! I lay me down to sleep, I pray to Thee my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray to Thee my soul to take. I think it proper to give children some simple form as a foundation for their...

...relations, kissing them as he took them by the hand, he seemed desirous to fall asleep, saying,— "I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, V . I pray the Lord my soul to take." , . .; Jt was not thought he would say any more, yet he revived...

...nursery prayer seemed to be the only appropriate one for her to repeat : " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep : If I should die before 1 wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." The subject of this curious experiment was conveyed in a...

...day, I never close my eyes to rest, without first saying, ' Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep If I should die before I wake, I pray thee, Lord, my soul to take.' " (/) THE SICK SAILOR AND HIS MOTHER.— A clergyman, at a public religious...

...never close my eyes to rest, without first saying : •Nnw ! lay me down to tleep. I pray the LOHD my soul to keep : If I should die before I wake, I pray the LORD my HOul to take.' ' Profession, as contradistinguished from, or unconnected with, the practice of good...

...day. I never dose my eyes to rest, without first saying,— ' Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I prey Thee, Lord, my soul to take.' •' /ESOP ILLUSTRATED. FAELR I. THE SHEPHERD BOY AND THE WOLF....

...one's folded hands between her own, and bade her repeat after her — Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Ijprd ray soul to take. " That is a sweet little verse. What is my soul?" asked the child. for want...

...said McCarty, " you can't repeat the Lord's Prayer now, if you try." " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep, If I should die before I wake, I pray ihe Lord my soul to take." " There! I told you I could." "Well, I give up, beat," said McCarty, paying...

...evening, a few hours before his death, he repeated the nursery prayer : " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I woke, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; " and, turning to his son, said, " My son, this little prayer...

...home, to repeat with those whp have not, the significant rhymes : — " Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my sonl to take." John Quincy Adams, it is said, never grew so old or so independent as to retire to rest...