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 Scripture Selections for Each Day of the Year, 
 Arranged Topically 
 
 nv 
 
 REV. W. H. PORTER, M.A., 
 
 Author of (Poems) '-Ihe Year Round," "Gathered Lilies.- etc 
 FOUKIH KlMTIOX, kKVlM.:i,ANh Km.AR.;K1). 
 
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 TORONTO : 
 WILLIAM BRIGGS, 
 
 WESLEY BUILDINGS. 
 
 Montreal: C. W. COAXES. 
 
 1898 
 
 Halifax : S. F. HUESTIS. 
 
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 Entered according' to Act of :iie Parliament of Canada, in tlie year one 
 thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, by VV. H. Portkr, at the 
 Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. 
 
PRHFACIL 
 
 " Heciiuse the proaclier wns wi«e he stili taught the peopk- 
 kiiowk'flgo ; yea, \\ei/rire ijoml Afrr/, ami sniii/hf oiif, and ■irf in 
 ortfer many pri)verl)s. Tl»e preacher sought to Hnd tuit <ircf)>t- 
 ah/i> words, . . . even words of truth. Tlie words of tlie wise 
 are as goait-i, and as nai/s ircll /axt>'>ie<l.'^ — Keel. xii. 0-11. 
 
 God's words, like rubies, an? worthy of tlio costliest 
 setting. Indeed, a book of Scripture selections, worthy 
 of its matter and its aim, would well employ and repay 
 the labors of a lifetime. 
 
 The object of such a book is not to super.sech; Bibh; 
 study, but to entice to it ; to give to weary toilers in 
 their spare moments the results of days and weeks of 
 labor ; to su[)ply prepared *ood for hungry souls, ready 
 help for private devotion, family worship) and public 
 service, and especially to aid young people ; to provide 
 also a ready hand-book for ministers and students. In 
 pastoral and pulpit work, the author of this book has 
 found it vr'vy helpful. To enhance its effectiveness the 
 readings liave l)een arranged responsively. Indeed, it 
 was the discovery of this feature of Scripture — "deep 
 calling unto deep," or, as Spurgeon put it, " the deeps in 
 God answering to the deeps in man " — that first sug- 
 gested this volume ; while the work of the wise Preacher 
 furnished its ideal. Conscious, however, of its inferior- 
 ity thereto, we nevertheless commit it to Him who has 
 *' magnified His word above all His name," and send it 
 on its mission with the words of an old friend, "Go 
 forth thou manual of devotion, to cheer and bless, and 
 stir to holier desires the numberless who need thee " 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
 Brantford, Ont. 
 2 
 
A'M 
 
 INTRODUCTORY NOTES. 
 
 "CONVKRSK WITH THK KlN(i " is H Ht'lit'S (»f doliglitful grouj)- 
 iiigs of Sciii)tui'o pfissugt's. It in liku ii gfirden wlieru nn 
 expert lloiist luis heeii iit worl-c. The subjects are liapjtily 
 clioseii, Mini tlie jKissjiges ranged under them are like l>eanis 
 of God's own sunshine upon a landscape. The design is 
 good and the execution excellent. Many of the grou[)nigs 
 could not be exceeded in etl'ectiveness. 
 
 To familiarize the mind with Scrijiture [)aHsages bearing 
 U])on a great variety of subjects, to keep the flame of spirit- 
 ual life glowing in the soul, and to promote ever-growing 
 intimacy with tTie Eternal Father, and with .lesus (.-hrist our 
 Lord, there are few books that connuend themselves more 
 strongly than this of my beloved brother, Rev. W. H. 
 Porter. 
 
 Rev. B. D. Thomas, D.D., 
 
 Panto?; J(i7-vit< Strat Buptisl Chvirh, Toronto. 
 
 '' CoNVEKSK WITH THE KiX(j " l)elongs to a class of very 
 useful books. The nature, number, and variety of its topics 
 cannot but l)e instructive to the children of the King. It 
 is a labor-sjiving book, which, at a glance, gives a great 
 number of api)osite (juotaticms from the oracles of God. 
 
 I Avould not write in commendation of this bocjk if I 
 thought the reading of the classified passages would lessen 
 interest in The Book, but I feel satisfied that it will only 
 tend to whet the appetite for a greater searching of the 
 Scriptures. 
 
 Rev. John Potts, D.D., 
 
 General Secretarn of the Canada Methodist Educational 
 Societi/, Victoria College, Toronto. 
 
INTKODLTTOKV NOTKS. 
 
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 wlieru Jin 
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 dt'Hign is 
 ^rou[»iiigs 
 
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 of Hpirit- 
 r-growing 
 'hrist our 
 ves more 
 VV. H. 
 
 Toronto. 
 
 An examination of the book entitled "Convkhmk wrru 
 TMK Kino," by the Kev. W. II. Porter, M.A., -.f Hrantford, 
 has atfoi'ded me very great pleasure. Its .selections and 
 arrangement are most admirably suited to aid thosi' who, in 
 the vaiious walks of life, are striving to follow the footsteps 
 of the Divine Master. As daily readings they carry us to 
 the foinitain of truth, to the source of all strength and 
 comfort ; they point us to Jesus in the j)ure words of inspir- 
 ation, enabling us verily t(» hohl "eonverse with the Iving." 
 
 There is another feature of this work that calls for notice, 
 namely, the poetical selections and original productions of 
 the author, all of which are admirably suited to give point 
 to each reading. 
 
 I most heartily recommend this book, to the pie|»aration 
 of which so nnich time and sanctified judgment have been 
 devoted, and I tru.st that, by the guidance of the Holy 
 Spirit, it may j>rove helpful to many a pilgrim through the 
 rough join'uey (»f life to the blessed rest beyond. 
 
 Vk:v Hkv. Gkoiujk M. Innks, M.A., D.D., 
 
 Ihan (if Huron a ml Rirtor of St. I'mti's 
 ('((thiilral, Loiii/oii, Out. 
 
 It is with the greatest jdeasure T commend these Scrip- 
 ture Headings of my brother, Rev. W, H. Porter, to all 
 who know me. The selections are exceedingly choice and 
 apposite, as might bo expected from one who has not oidy 
 been for long years a most diligent student of God's word, 
 but who has nuich of the Christian i»oet in his mental struc- 
 ture. He possesses a peculiar genius for .seizing upon points 
 of Christian truth and experience that are apt to elude the 
 notice of others, and to j)resont them in a clear and com- 
 manding light, as beneticial, if not essential, to the Christian 
 life. Via aim is far from controversial, and his spii-it 
 thoroughly unsectarian. The selections in this volume will 
 be found admirably suited to the wants of God's children, 
 and their daily perusal under the influence of God's Sj)irit 
 cannot be otherwise than helpful and sanctifying. His 
 poetic introduction to the volume is not unworthy of being 
 compared to that of John Bunyan's to his innnortal allegory. 
 
 Rev. WxM. Cochrane, D.D., 
 Zion Presbi/terian Church, Brantford. 
 
PR(^HM. 
 
 Siiiighf iiuf, anil net in ortlcr. EccL xii. 0. 
 
 Kniiiring that soon I iiniHt ]>ut olf nil/ Inhrrnaelr, . . , I will rnileaviir 
 thai a/ti'r nnj tlr/iarhitr, iie man ''<' "W« '" have these thimjH alaaijit in 
 remenihrance.—-! I'elei'x. 14, ITi. 
 
 Hulc wreathed are Howorets bright with Orient dyes, 
 
 And blended lines from radiant eastern skies ; 
 
 And gathered frnits most lascions, grown in cliineH 
 
 Ft)rover hallowed by tl'.o raptnrous chimes 
 
 Of heavenly mnsie. and inspired l)ard ; 
 
 And perfnnies sweet from fields of myrrh and nard. 
 
 Here food prepared is found, and waters cold 
 From springs that rise in snowy mountains old. 
 And here are rubies rich, and gold most tine, 
 And jewels rare fron\ ancient stream and mine. 
 Here gathered treasures lie from many a land, 
 And distant age, "sought out," and lu'ought to hand. 
 
 Here God reveals to man His glorious face, 
 Dispensing through His Son rich st(»res of grace. 
 Here comfort, peace, and joy, and strength are found : 
 }rere counsels wise and promises abound : 
 And V)est of all, to him who but receives. 
 All things are his if only he believes. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
Jan. 1.] 
 
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 W'hosoi ri r sliull rouf'tss flint ,h hiis is tin Son of tioii, iio<l 
 (iliif/itli ill him, mill hi in li'mf. I John iv. I."). 
 
 Ood is 1(»\<'; iiiid lie (Iiat ahidctli iti love jil)i«lt'tli 
 ill (io<i, and (lod in him. I .loliii i\. Id. 
 
 If ye Hl)id(! in nic, and my woids ahidc in you, y«' 
 shall ask what ye will, and it shall he done uuto you. 
 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall ahidc in my 
 love ; even as T have kept my I^'atlicr's eonnnandments, 
 and abide in his love. .John xv. 7, 10. 
 
 lie that ke(!peth his eoimuandments ahidcth in him, 
 and he in him. 1 John iii. 24. 
 
 Tf that which ye h(»ard from the he^inninj;' abide in 
 you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the KatluT- 
 1 John ii. 24. 
 
 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also 
 so to walk, even as he walked. 1 Jolin ii. G. 
 
 Abide in nie, and I in you. As the branch cannot 
 bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine ; no more 
 can ye, except ye abide in me. T am the vine ; ye are 
 the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him 
 the same beareth much fruit : for apart from me ye can 
 do nothing. John xv. 4, 5. 
 
 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not. 1 John iii. G. 
 
 And now, little children, abide in him ; that if he 
 shall be manifested, we may have l)oldness, and not be 
 ashamed before him at his coming. 1 John ii. 28. 
 
 Abide in me, O Father, Spirit, Son, 
 And I in Tliee, Thou blessed Three in One. 
 Ho shall my life, in every act, and hour, 
 Yield fruits of tliy indwelling love and power. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
[Jan. ■>. 
 
 afflictions. 
 
 The 7)iore thuy afflict* d ffiem, the more they multiplied and, 
 (jnw, Ex. i. 12. 
 
 I know, O Lord, tiiat thy judj^nnents are riglit, and 
 that thou in faitlifulncss hast affhcted mo. Psa. cxix. 75. 
 
 Bohold, I have chosen thee in the furnace of 
 affliction. I will also leave in the midst of thee an 
 afflicted and pojin* people, and they shall trust in the 
 name of the Lord. Isa. xlviii. 10 ; Zeph. iii. 12. 
 
 lie doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children 
 of men. In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the 
 angel of his presence saved them. Lam. iii. 33 : Isa. 
 Ixiii. 9. 
 
 T hiive surely seen the affliction of my people, and I 
 know their sorrows. Many are the afflictions of the 
 righteous, but the Lord d'^livereth him out of them all. 
 Ex. iii. 7 : Ps. xxxiv. 19. 
 
 It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; before 
 I was afflicted I went astrfiy ; but now have I kept thy 
 word. Our light affliction which is but for a moment, 
 worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal 
 weight of glory. Ps. cxix. 71, 67 : 2 Cor. iv. 17. 
 
 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction 
 and of her miseries, all her pleasant things. In their 
 affliction they will seek me early. Lam. i. 7 : Hos. v. 15. 
 
 He kindles for my profit purely, 
 Affliction's glowing, fiery brand ; 
 
 And all His heaviest blows are surely 
 Inflicted by a master hand ; 
 
 So I say, praying, " As God will ! " 
 
 And in His miglity hand hold still. 
 
 Ji'Lius Sturm. 
 
.Jan. ;{.] 
 
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 a lfrtcn^. 
 
 A friend lovath at all fimc-f, (ind (lure As- a friend that sfieketh 
 closer than a brother. Pror. xvii. 17 ; xviii. 24. 
 
 Art not thou our God, wlio didst drive out tho 
 inhabitants of this land l)oforo thy peoplo Israel, and 
 i,'avest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever i 
 2 Chron. xx. 7. 
 
 Thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have 
 chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. Isa. xli. S. 
 
 Abraham . . . was called the friend of God. Jas. 
 ii. 23. 
 
 The Lord said. Shall I hide from Abraham that thing 
 which I do? Gen. xviii. 17. 
 
 The Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man 
 speaketh unto his friend. Ex. xxxiii. IL 
 
 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I coinman<l 
 you. Henceforth I call you n')t servants; for the ser- 
 \ ant knoweth not what his lord doeth : })ut I have called 
 you friends ; for all things that I have heard of my 
 Father I have made known unto you. John xv, 14, 15. 
 
 A man that hath friends nmst show himself friendly. 
 Prov. xviii. "24. 
 
 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend forsake 
 
 not. Know ye not that the friendship of the world is 
 
 enmity with God ? Whosoever therefore will be a friend 
 
 of the world is the enemy of God. Prov. xxvii. 10 : 
 
 Jas. iv. 4. 
 
 One there is, above all others, 
 
 Well deserves the name of friend ; 
 His is love beyond a brother's, 
 
 Costly, free, and knows no end. 
 They who once his kindness prove, 
 Find it everlasting love. 
 
 Newtox. 
 
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 [Jan. 4. 
 
 after Death. 
 
 Mail (lieth, aiiif, ijintli up the </hos(, and irhcre /s he '{ Job 
 xiv. 10. 
 
 Or ever tlie silver curd be lot)sed, or the golden bowl 
 be broken ; . . . then shall the dust return to the 
 earth as it was : and the spirit shall retui'n unto God 
 who gave it. Eool. xii. 6, 7. 
 
 The spirit of man . . . goeth upward. Ecc. iii. 21. 
 
 They stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying. 
 Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts vii, 59. 
 
 The beggar (Jjjizarus) died, and was carried by the 
 angels into Abraham's bosom : the rich man also died, 
 and was buried ; and in Hades he lifted up his eyes, 
 being in torment, and seeth Abraham afar off, and 
 Lazarus in his bosom. Luke xvi. '12, 23. 
 
 I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to 
 depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better. 
 Phil. i. 23. 
 
 Then were there two thieves crucified with him. 
 And one . . . railed on him, saying. If thou l)e Christ, 
 save thyself and us. But the other . . . said unto Jesus, 
 Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 
 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day 
 shalt thou be with me in Paradise. Matt, xxvii. 38 : 
 Luke xxiii. 39-43. 
 
 We are . . . willing rather to be absent from the 
 body, and to be present with the Lord. 2 Cor. v. 8. 
 
 Ye are come unto ... an innumerable company of 
 angels, and to the general asseml)ly and church of the 
 fiistborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the 
 Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. 
 Heb. xii. 22, 23. 
 
 Earth's journey done, heaven's rest begun, 
 
 Life's toils and sorrows ended ; 
 To joys above, on wings of love, 
 
 The spirit hath ascended. 
 
 W. H. P., from J. S. B. Monsell. 
 
Jan. 5.) 
 
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 A good nama is fictter than prt.ciou.'i oiutmnif. Ecci. vii. I. 
 
 David behaved himself more wisely than all the ser- 
 vants of Haul ; so that his mime was much set by. And 
 David <^at him a name when he returned from smiting 
 the Syrians in the valley of salt. 1 Sam. xviii. 30 : 
 '2 Sam. viii. 13. 
 
 Say unto David, Thus saith the Loi'd of hosts, T took 
 thee from the"sheep-cote, from following the sheep, to 1ki 
 ruler over my j)eople, over Israel : and I was with thee 
 whithersoever thou wentest, and have Jut off all thine 
 enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great 
 name, like unto the name of the great men that are in 
 the earth. And the king's servants came to bless king 
 David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better 
 than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy 
 throne. 1 Sam. vii. 8, 9 : 1 Kings i. 47. 
 
 Israel . . . blessed Josejih, and said, God, before 
 whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the 
 (xod who fed me all my life long unto this day, the 
 Angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the 
 lads ; aad let my name 1)3 named on them, and the 
 name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac ; and let them 
 gi'ow into a multitude i.i the midst of the earth. Cen. 
 xlviii. 14, 15. 
 
 A good name is rather to be chosen thin great 
 riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. 
 Thus saith the Lord urto the eunuchs that keep my 
 »Sal)baths, and choose the things that please me, and 
 take hold of my covenant ; even unto them will I give 
 in mine house ... a name better than of sons and 
 of daughters : I will give them an everlasting name 
 that shall not be cut off. And I will get them praise 
 and fame in every land where they have been put to 
 shame. Prov. xxii. 1 : Isa. Ivi. 4, 5 : Zeph. iii. 20. 
 
 O riches the most precious Ll.v, .. saith that life outlives, 
 That now and ever onward, true bliss and blessing gives ; 
 Worth more than golden treasures, or worldly power and fame, 
 Is the enduring heritage of an untarnished name. 
 
 W H. P. 
 
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 angels. 
 
 Anil Jdt'oh jn-iif on his "'fii/, fnifl fhe at>tf(/H of<loil met him. 
 And ii'hcn Jacoh sair them he. said, Tliix ix ^»W.s /to.s^ (I'm.- 
 xxxii. 1, 2. 
 
 T belieM, and I heard the voico of many angels round 
 about the throne, and the livin<^ creafcvires and the elders; 
 and the number of them was ten thousand times ten 
 thousand, and thousands of thousands, llev. v. 11. 
 
 The chariots of (Jod are twenty thousand, even many 
 thousands of angels. Thousand thousands ministei'ed 
 unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood 
 before him. Ye are eome unto an innumerable company 
 of angels. Ps. Ixviii. 17 : Dan. vii. 10: Heb. xii. 22. 
 
 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, mighty in strength. 
 Ps. ciii. 20. 
 
 The Lord Jesus shall be re\ealed from heaven with 
 his mighty angels. 2 Thess. i. 7. 
 
 Whiles T was praying, Gabriel, l)eing caused to fly 
 swiftly, touched me. Dan. ix. 21. 
 
 Of the angels, he saith. Who maketh his angels 
 spirits. . . . And suddenly there was with the angel 
 a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and 
 saying. Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth and 
 good will to men. Heb. i. 7 : Luke ii. l'^, 14. 
 
 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came 
 and ministered unto him. Matt. iv. 11. 
 
 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to 
 
 minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation ? 
 
 Heb. i. 14. • 
 
 Angels, sing on, your faithful watches keeping ; 
 Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above ; 
 Till morning's joy shall end the night of weeping. 
 And life's long shadows break in cloudless love. 
 
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 13 
 
 Hnnor. 
 
 Saul armed Dai'id irifh his armor, (iiid hi' jtiif an hthntt of 
 f trass upon his head, and he r/ad him n'ifh a roaf of mail, . . . 
 And Darid said, unto SanI, I cannot (fo n-ilh fhesf : for I lian not 
 yron-d them. 1 Sa}ii. xvii. 3S, .SJ). 
 
 T oven set tlio people after their families with their 
 swords, their spears, and their bows. Neh. iv. 1,'i. 
 
 'J hey which builded om the wall, and they that bare 
 burdens, with those that laderl, every one, with one of 
 his hands wrouj^ht in the woik, and with the other held 
 his weapon ; for the builders, every one had his sword 
 iLfirded by his side, and so builded. Neh. iv. 17, 18. 
 
 L'^t us put on the armor of light ; — the armor of 
 righteousness on the right hand and on the left. For 
 the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty 
 through (lod, to the pulling down of strongholds. Rom. 
 xiii. 12:2 Cor. vi. 7 ; x. 4. 
 
 Put on the whole armor of Ood, that ye may be aV)le 
 to stand against the wiles of tlu; devil. . . . Stand 
 therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and 
 having put on the breastj)late of righteousness, and 
 having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel 
 of peace ; withal taking up the shield of faith, where- 
 with ye shall be abk to quench all the fiery darts of the 
 evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the 
 sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God ; pi'aying 
 always with all prayer and supplication in the Sj)irit, 
 and watching thereunto with all perseverance. Eph. vi. 
 IMS. 
 
 Hast thou faith to wield the weapons, 
 
 Fupnished by the Leader's love ; 
 Formed and fitted for each soldier, 
 
 In the armory above ? 
 If thou hast, then gird them on thee, 
 
 Shield and helmet, sword and brand ; 
 And go forth to life's hard contest, 
 
 Waging, winning, laurelled stand. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
14 
 
 [Jav. 8. 
 
 a6iccp. 
 
 ,1 ' I 
 
 While men slept, his enemy came and soind fans. Matt. 
 xiii. 25. 
 
 Slothfulness cast(>tli into ;i deop sleep, . . . and 
 drowsiness sliall clothe a man with la^s. Prov. xix. 
 15 ; xxiii. 21. 
 
 Love not sleep, lest thou conu? to j)overty ; open 
 thine eyes, and thou shalt he satisfied with bread. How 
 long wilt thou sleep, O slug<^ard I When wilt thou 
 arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little 
 slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall 
 thy poverty come as one that tra\elleth, and thy want 
 as an armed man. Prov. xx. 13; vi. !i-ll. 
 
 Let us not sleep as <lo others, but let us watch and 
 be sober. They that sleep, sleep in the night, and they 
 that are drunken, are drunken in the night ; but let 
 us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breast- 
 plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of 
 salvation. 1 Thess. v. 6. 
 
 Why sleep ye ? Arise and pray that 3'e enter not 
 into temptation. Luke xxii. 4G. 
 
 While the bridegroom tarried thev all slumbered and 
 slept. And at midnight there was a cry made. Behold, 
 the bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to meet him. Matt. 
 XXV. 5, 6. 
 
 Watch, therefore, for ye know not when the master 
 of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the 
 cock crowing, or in the morning : lest coming suddenly 
 he find you sleeping Mark xiii. 35, 3G. 
 
 Why sleep we so, and morning in the sky ? 
 The sounds of busy life grow near and high ; 
 The sowing waits our coming, and the soil 
 So ready now the burning heat will spoil. 
 The Master, too, is coming, — even now I hear, 
 " What, tliou asleep so late, and 1 so near I " 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
Jan. 9.] 
 
 Heeurancc. 
 
 15 
 
 Tht ti'orh of riiihtno}(.'<urMs shuH he. jienee ; niiil thf ejifrt of 
 ri'jhtcoHsiios, qiiiilitixx and nssurnnrc fortrer. Ixit. xxxii. 17. 
 
 The Lord is my portion, saitli my soul. The Lord 
 is the portion of mine inhtu'itanoe, and of my cup. Lam. 
 iii. '2\ : Ps. xvi. 5, 
 
 Cast not away your confidence, which hath great 
 recompence of reward. Heh. x. 35. 
 
 INIy beloved is mine and T am his. I am my be- 
 loved's, and my beloved is mine. Cant. ii. 16 ; vi. 3. 
 
 I will say to them that were not my people, Thou 
 ait my j)e()ple ; and they shall sav, Thou art my God. 
 Hos. ii. 2.3. 
 
 Now we are the sons of God. Hereby know we that 
 we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us 
 of his spirit. The Spirit himself beareth witness witfi 
 our spirit that we are the children oi God. 1 John 
 iii. '2 ; iv. 13 : Rom. viii. 1(5. 
 
 He that l)elieveth on the Son of God hath the wit- 
 ness in himself. And because ye are sons, God hath 
 sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, 
 Abba, F.dher. 1 John v. 10 : Gal. iv. 6. 
 
 We know that we are of God ; . . . and that the 
 Son of God is come, and hath gi\en us an understand- 
 ing, that we may know him that is true, and we are in 
 him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. 1 John 
 V. 19, -JO. 
 
 These things have I written unto you that Iwlieve 
 on the name of the Son of God ; that ye may know that 
 ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the 
 name of the Son of God. 1 John v. 13. 
 
 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine ! 
 O what a foretaste of glory divine ? 
 Heir of salvation, purchase of God, 
 Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood. 
 
 FA>':fY J, CROspy, 
 
16 
 
 [Jan. 10. 
 
 at lEaec. 
 
 1I(: flinf is ratdi/ lo slip iritli his J'crt, is as ti /(imp iltsj)i>,t(l 
 in the t/ioKi/hl of him thai is at (ttsr. Joh xii. 5. 
 
 Our soul is oxcoedin^ly filled with tho'scorninj^ of 
 tlioso that {ir(! at case, and with the contempt of the 
 proud. Ps. cxxiii. 4. 
 
 Rise up, ye women tliat are at ease ; hear my voice, 
 ye careless daughters. Woe to them that are at ease in 
 Zion ; . . . that put far away the evil da}' ; . . . that 
 lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon 
 their couches, and eat the lambs out of the Hock, and 
 calves out of the stall ; that chant to the sound of the 
 viol ; . . . that drink bowls of wine, and anoint them- 
 selves with the chief ointments : but they are not grieved 
 for the affliction of Joseph. Therefore shall they go 
 captive with the first that go captive. Isa. xxxii. 1) : 
 Amos vi. 1-7. 
 
 ^I'i I. 
 
 KM H 
 
 m f'li 
 
 They came to Laish, and saw the people, . . . how 
 they dwelt careless, . . . (juiet and secure ; . . . and 
 they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business 
 with any man ; . . . and they smote them with the edge 
 of the sword, and burnt the city with fire. Judges 
 xviii. 7, 27. 
 
 Moal) hath been at e.ase from his youth, and he hath 
 settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied frtjm 
 N'essel to vessel. Therefore I will empty his vessels, 
 and break their bottles. And I will punish the men 
 that are settled on their lees ; that say in their heart. 
 The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil. 
 And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses 
 a desolation. Jer. xhiii. 11, 12 : Zeph. i. 12, 13. 
 
 Christian, seek not yet repose, 
 
 Cast thy dreams of ease away ; 
 Thou art in the midst of foes : 
 " Watch and pray." 
 
 C. Elliott. 
 
 
Jax. 11.] 
 
 awahc. 
 
 17 
 
 Whtti Iht >/ ii'f re nirtih thoj snir /(m 'jlonj. /jith ix. '>V2. 
 
 Awake u}), my glory , jiwakc, psaltery and liar}) : F 
 inysi'lf will awake right eai'ly. Ps. Ivii. 8, 
 
 Awake, awake, ])eb(>rah : awake, awake, utter a 
 sung. .lud. v. 1 . 
 
 lie wakeneth morning hy morning, he wakeneth 
 mine ear to hear as the learned. Is. I. 4. 
 
 ISly son, keej) thy father's coinmandment, and for- 
 sake not the law of thy mctther : hind them continually 
 upon thine heart, tie them about thy neck. When thou 
 walkest, it shall lead thee ; when thou slee[)est, it shall 
 watch over thee ; and when thou awakest it shall talk 
 with thee. Prov. vi. '20-'2-2. 
 
 It is high time to awake out of sleej) : for now is our 
 salvati(»n nearer than when we believed, llom. xiii 11. 
 
 Awake to righteousiu'.ss suid sin not. Awake thou 
 that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall 
 shine upon thee. 1 Cor. xv. 34 : Ej)h. v. 14. 
 
 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousiu'ss : 
 T shall be satisfied, when I awake with thy likeness. 
 When I awake I am still with thee. Ps. xvii. 1.") ; 
 cxxxix. 18. 
 
 Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew- 
 is as the dew f»f herbs, and the earth shall cast out the 
 dead. Is. xxvi. 19. 
 
 Awake, my soul, with grateful song, 
 Thy great Recleeiner's praise prolong, 
 From early morning's dawning light, 
 Till darkness deepens into night. 
 Then wake, and on exultant wing. 
 With sainted spirits soar and sing. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
18 
 
 [Jan. 12. 
 
 Mi:. 
 
 ffiachbltiuo. 
 
 All thf}/ did not like to ntnin Hod. in their kiioir/rdijc, O'od 
 r/are them orcr to a nprohatc, mind ; . . . Ik iti<i /id/ of , . . 
 maliijniti/, . . . irhispenr^, lhirl.h>f;is. Horn. i. 2H-.S0. 
 
 All that liatc iii(» wliisjicr tog'tlier against nic : 
 against mo do they desire my hurt. Ps. xli. 7. 
 
 Thou sittest and speakest agaiiist thy brother. De- 
 bate thy cause with thy neighl)or himself ; and diseover 
 not a secret to another : lest he tliat heareth it out thee 
 to shame, and thine? infamy turn not away. Ps. 1. '20 : 
 Prov. XXV. 9, 10. 
 
 A talebearer revealeth secrets ; but he that is of a 
 faithful spirit concealeth the matter. Prov. xi. 13. 
 
 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer amtrng 
 thy people. He that goeth about as a talebearer reveal- 
 (>th secrets ; therefore meddle not with him that openeth 
 wide his lips. Lev. xix. 10 : Prov. xx. 19. 
 
 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love ; Imt 
 he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. 
 Prov. xvii. 9. 
 
 I fear lest when I come, I shall not find y<^u such as 
 I would . . . lest there be . . . envyings, . . . back- 
 bitings, whisperings. 2 Cor. xii. 20. 
 
 The north wind bringeth forth rain : so doth a back- 
 biting tongue an angry countenance. Prov. xxv. 23. 
 
 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and clamor, and evil 
 speaking, be put away from among you, with all malice ; 
 and be ye kind one to another. But if ye bite and 
 devour one another take heed that ye be not consumed 
 one of another. Eph. iv. 31 : Gal. v. 15. 
 
 See Ps. Ixiv. 1-8 : Prov. xxvi. 22-27. 
 
 Love, with tniM frankness, speaks in open dfiy, 
 But hatred in the darkness hides away ; 
 The whisperer of evil, false or true. 
 Defaming others, doth himself undo. 
 
 W. H. P 
 
Jan. 13] 
 
 19 
 
 %acheli^ino* 
 
 117/// M fhit /tii)/i/r of Jtrii'<nft:in M'uldui hack by a prrjitfniif 
 harksdilitiij / Jtr, viii. 5. 
 
 O Lord, . . . (»uf back si i( lings aro many : we havo 
 siinied a<,'ainst thoo. iJcr. xiv. 7. 
 
 My |)«'oj)l(' are licnt to backsliding fnnn me. Their 
 hackslidiiiL's are increased, llo.s. xi. 7 : Jer. v. 0. 
 
 The backslider in heart .shall b(^ filled with his own 
 ways. l*ro\. xiv. 11. 
 
 Thin<! own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy 
 i)acksliding shall reprove thee: know theref(>re and see 
 tliut it is an evil thing and bittei", that thou h.wt for- 
 saken th(^ Lord thy Uod. Jer. ii. 19. 
 
 Hast thou seen what b.icksliding Israel hath dom; 1 
 Slie hath . . . played the harlot. Jer. iii. 6. 
 
 lleturn, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord : I 
 will not look in anger upon you ; for T am merciful, 
 saith tlu^ Lord ; I will not keep anger forever. lU'turn, 
 () backsliding children, saith the Lord ; foi" T am an 
 husband unto you. Return, ye backsliding children, I 
 will heal your backslidings. O Tsiael, return unto tlu^ 
 Lord thy God ; for thou hast fallen by thine ini(iaity. 
 Tuke with you words, and turn unto the Lord : say unto 
 him, Take away all inicjuity, and receive us graciously ; 
 so will we render the calves of our lips. Asshur shall 
 not save us ; we will not ride upon horses : neither will 
 we say any more to the w^)rk of our hands, Ye are our 
 gods : for in tliee the ..ttherless findeth mercy. I will 
 li(!al their backsliding, I will love them fi'eely ; for mine 
 anger is turned away from him. Jer. iii. 12, 14, 22 : 
 Hos xiv. 1-4. 
 
 Return, O backslider, to Jesus return ; 
 How long shall His loving heart over thee yearn ? 
 How long wilt thou grieve Him, how long turn aside 
 From the love that would shield thee, the hand that 
 
 would guide ? 
 
 Mks. J. C. YCLK. 
 
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20 
 
 [Jan. U. 
 
 ffiapttenu 
 
 ./»;/(// Iiidfii/ Ixift/izitl irith irafi't'. Ami . . . J> mix ctiim fi'inn 
 Xir.ant/i of' (iti/ihi , fim/ imx hnpfi'y t/ n/ Jn/iii in Jorf/un. A<:(i 
 i. 5 : Murk i. 4. 
 
 Jolin also wjis hapti/iiif^ in Kikim near to Saliin, 
 lu'causcf there was imu'h water there ; and they came, 
 and wen^ baptized, .lolm iii. 2.'i. 
 
 .Jesus made and haj)tized more disciples thati John 
 (thoii^di Jesus himself hapti/.ed not, hut his disciples). 
 And .lesus came and spake unto them .saying', All 
 authority hath l)e<>n j^iven unto ni(» in heaven and on 
 earth, Go y(^ therefore and disci[>l( all nations, ba])ti/,in;^ 
 them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of 
 the Holy (ihost, teachin;,' them to observe all thing's 
 wliatsoever 1 have commanded you ; and, lo, I am with 
 you always even unto the end of the world (a<i;e). .lohn 
 iv. 1, 2 : Matt, xxviii. IS-L'O. See Mark xvi. 15, IT*. 
 
 See, here is water, what doth hinder me to be baj)- 
 tized ? Acts viii. 3(). 
 
 Can any man f(H'bid water, that these should not be 
 baptizecl, who have received the Holy Ghost as well as 
 we? When they believed Philip |)reachin^ the thin {.^s 
 concerning the kint^dom of God, and tin* name of Jesus 
 Christ, they wen; baptized, both men and wom(!n. And 
 many of tlu; Corinthians hearinji^, believed, and were 
 baptized. Acts x. 47 ; viii. 12; xviii. 8. See ii. 38, 41. 
 
 Know ye not that all we who were baptized into 
 Jesus Christ were ba})tized into his death 1 We were 
 buried therefore with him by baptism into death : that 
 like as Christ was raised from the dea(M)y the fj;lory of 
 the Father, so we also nii^ht walk in newness oi life. 
 Horn. vi. 3, 4. See Col. ii. 12. 
 
 As many of you as were baptized into Christ did 
 put on Christ. Gal. iii. 27. 
 
 We gave ourselves to Thee, Lord, 
 
 Content to be despised ; 
 When we obedient to Thy word, 
 
 Believed, and were baptized. 
 
 B. W. Noel. 
 
.Ian. 15] 
 
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 fficUcvtno in (5o^ 
 
 Diiiiit/ ii'iiH l(ih)i lift onf of' t/ii ifni, ntnl no itintimr n/ fiiirf 
 nw/uiiinl upon /dm, luruusr ht liilitntl in hia (lu<l. Jhin, vi. 'J.'J. 
 
 Tl. 
 
 UllUM 
 
 IT j< )!(•('(! ^(rciitly, Ix'lii'N iiii; in (»<»(! 
 
 with all his house. A»'ts xvi '11, '.\\. 
 
 Now the (io<l of hope 1111 you witli all joy uiid }m'jico 
 
 III lu'lieviti''. 
 
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 oin. XV, 
 
 i;{. 
 
 Il«' that comcth to (Jod nuist liclii'vc that \w is, and 
 that lu' is a i'«'\var<l<'r of tlicin that dili<j;rtitlv srrk him. 
 llcl). xi. 0. 
 
 He that bclievetli not (Sod hath made liim a liar. 
 
 1 .lol 
 
 in V, 
 
 10. 
 
 T belit^ve ; help thou mine unbelief. Mark ix. 21. 
 
 How can ye i)elieve who receive ^dory one of another, 
 and seek not the f^lory which is from the only (io<l t 
 .John V. 44. 
 
 Lord, T l)elieve. I ])eliev(! God tliat it shall be eve 
 
 n 
 
 as it was 
 
 told 
 
 me. 
 
 .John ix. .'{S : Acts xxvii. 2'). 
 
 As thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. 
 
 Matt. 
 
 vni. 
 
 13. 
 
 (Aliraham) believed 0<»d, wln) (juickeneth the d«'ad, 
 and calleth the things that are not, as thou<;h they were. 
 . . . Yea, looking unto the jiromise of (jiod, he wavered 
 not throuirh unbelief, l)ut waxed stroni; throuiih faith ; 
 
 fully 
 
 d that what he had 
 
 d. h 
 
 assured mat wiiat ne na<i proini 
 ai)le also to [)erform Kom. iv. 17-21. 
 
 All tilings are possible to him that believeth. Mark 
 ix. 2:i. 
 
 " Onlv believe," tlie Saviour says, 
 
 l^ov doubt (lod's faithfulness and power, 
 And joy shall till thy lips with praise, 
 
 •or 
 
 For bliss 
 And 
 
 clear light in nii<liiight's hour 
 
 noon 
 
 >m gri 
 sweetness from the bitter uross 
 
 rief, and gain from loss, 
 
 For victory in life's defeat, 
 And dungeon changed to monarch's seat. 
 
 W, H. P, 
 
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 22 
 
 [Jan. 1G. 
 
 II k 
 
 BclkvinQ on tbe Son. 
 
 He (hat hefierefh on the Son hath eferla.i(iii</ life ; and hr (hat, 
 helie.veth not the Son shall not nee life ; fmt the wrath o/Godabideth 
 on him. John iii. 36. 
 
 To Jiim give all the prophets witness, that through 
 his name whosoever believeth in him, shall receive 
 remission of sins. Acts x. 43. 
 
 Be it known unto you, that through this man is 
 preached unto you tiie forgiveness of sins ; and by him 
 all that believe are justified from all things, from which 
 ye could not })e justified by the law of Moses. Acts 
 xiii. 38, 39. 
 
 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of 
 the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we 
 believed on Christ Jesus. Gal. ii. 16. 
 
 To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that 
 justifieth the ungcKlly, his faith is counted for righteous- 
 ness. Rom. iv. 5. See iii. 25, 26 ; x. 4. 
 
 We are of them that believe to the saving of the 
 soul. Heb. X. 39. 
 
 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be 
 saved. Acts xvi. 31. 
 
 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that 
 believeth that Jesus is the Son of God 1 1 John v. 5. 
 
 All things are possible to him that believeth. He 
 that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do 
 also ; nnd greater works than these shall he do, because 
 I go unto my Father. Mark ix. 23 : John xiv. 1 2. 
 
 " Only believe," the Saviour says, 
 
 And you may know your sins forgiven ; 
 Grace shall be eijual to your days, 
 
 Sweet promise ftnd foretaste of heaven. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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Jan. 17.] 
 
 23 
 
 Beet IRobe. 
 
 The father xaid to his .senrinls, Jiriiuj forth the heat robe and 
 put it on him. Luke xv. 'i'i. 
 
 All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. isa. 
 Ixiv. 6, 
 
 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and 
 stood before the angel. And he . . . spake unto tln)se 
 that stood before him, saying. Take away the filthy 
 garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I 
 have caused thine initjuity to pass fi'om thee, and I 
 will clothe thee with change of raiment. Zech. iii. .3, 4. 
 
 The King's daughter is all glorious within : her 
 clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto 
 the King in raiment of needlework. Ps. xlv. 13, 14. 
 
 When I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in 
 thine own blood, . . . then washed I thee with water. 
 ... I clothed thee also with broidered work, . . . and 
 T girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee 
 with silk. I decked thee also with ornaments ; . . . 
 and thou wast exceeding beautiful. . . . For thy l)eauty 
 . . . was perfect through my comeliness, which I had 
 put upon chee, saith the Lord. Ezek. xvi. 6, 9-14. 
 
 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be 
 joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the gar- 
 ments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of 
 righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with 
 (irnaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her 
 jewels. Lsa. Ixi. 10. 
 
 The righteousness of God is . . . unto all, and upon 
 all them that believe. Rom. iii. 22. 
 
 Jesus, thy robe of righteousness 
 My beauty is, my glorious (h'ess ; 
 
 This spotless robe the same appears, 
 When ruined nature sinks in years ; 
 
 No age can change its glorious hue, 
 The robe of Christ is ever new. 
 
 J. Weslkv. 
 
 
 
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 24 
 
 [Jan. 18. 
 
 ffii6bop0, Etc. 
 
 The .saints in, Chri.st Jesus which (ire at Philippi, with the 
 bishops {oi'er<seers) and deacons. Phil. i. I. 
 
 Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the^ otiice of 
 a l)ishoi), he desireth a good work. A bishop then must 
 )>e without reproach, tlie husband of one wife, vigilant, 
 soberminded, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching ; no 
 brawler, no striker, but forbearing ; not contentious, no 
 lover of money ; ruling well over his own house, having 
 children in subjection with all gravity ; (but if a man 
 knoweth not how to rule his own house, how sh.all he 
 take care of the church of God?) not a no\ice, lest 
 being puffed up he fall into the judgment of the devil. 
 Moreover he must have good testimony fi'om them that 
 are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of 
 the devil. 1 Tim. iii. 1-7. See v. 17-19. 
 
 
 fe!- 
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 >!' 
 
 From Miletus (Paul) sent to Ephesus, and called for 
 the elders of the church. And ... he said unto them 
 . . . take heed . . . unto yourselves, and to all the 
 flock, over which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops 
 (overseers), to feed the church of God which he hath 
 purchased with his own blood. Paul, a servant of God, 
 ... to Titus, . . . For this cause left I thee in Crete, 
 that thou shouldest set in order the things that were 
 wanting, and appoint elders in every city. ... If any 
 be blameless, the husband of one wife, having children 
 that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly. 
 For the bishop (overseer) must be blameless, as God's 
 steward ; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to 
 wine, a lover of goodness, just, holy, temperate, holding 
 fast the faithful word according to the teaching, that he 
 may be able both to exhort in the sound doctrine, and 
 to convict the gainsayers. Acts xx. 17, 18 : Titus i. 4-9. 
 See 1 Peter v. 1-4. 
 
 Bishop of souls, what nobler, more Christly work than thine, 
 To lead the lost and eiring up to the life Divine. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
Jax. 19.'1 
 
 25 
 
 ffilC66Cb to (BtVC. 
 
 It IS niort hle-^wd to 'jive than to receive.. Adx xx. 35. 
 
 A river went out of Eden to water the j^'urden, and 
 from thence it was parted and became four lieads. 
 Oen. ii. 10. 
 
 The hheral soul shall be made fat ; and he that 
 watereth shall be watered alst) himself. Prov. xi. 25. 
 
 There is that scattereth and yet increaseth ; and 
 there is that withholdeth more than is meet, aiul it 
 tendeth to poverty. Prov. xi. 24. 
 
 He' fliat soweth sparingly, shall reap also sparingly ; 
 and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bounti- 
 fully. 2 Cor. ix. G. 
 
 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, 
 so let him give ; not grudgingly, or of necessity : for 
 God loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Cor. ix. 7. 
 
 Give, and it shall be given unto you : good measure, 
 pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, 
 shall men give into your bosom. For with what measure 
 ve mete withal it shall be measured to you again. Luke 
 Vi. 38. 
 
 Since the people began to bring the oiferings into 
 the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat, and 
 have left plenty : for the Lord has lilessed his people : 
 and that which is left is this great store. 2 Chron. 
 xxxi, 10. 
 
 The liberal deviseth liberal 'things, and by liberal 
 things shall he stand. Isa. xxxii. 8. 
 
 The Lord is not in need of our poor gold, 
 For He has wealth exhaustless and iiiitoUl ; 
 But if we give to Him witli cheerful heart, 
 He doth to us more will ami power impart. 
 So giving makes the giver rioher far, 
 As sliining doth the lirightness of a star. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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26 
 
 [Jan. !>0. 
 
 Bioob. 
 
 AliHosf all thiiigx are J>if the lair jiurtfftl w'th blood ; and irith' 
 out shedding of hlood i.i no remi'MWii. IJeh. ix. 22. 
 
 If any one sin, . . . and be guilty, ... lie shall 
 lu'ing his offering, . . . and the priest shall pour out 
 all the blocxl thereof at the bottom of the altar ; . . . 
 and he shall be forgiven. Lev. iv. 27-31. 
 
 The life of the flesh is in the blood : (for the blood 
 is the life. Deut. xii. 23) and I have given it to you 
 upon the altar to make atonement for your souls ; for it 
 is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul. And 
 when I see the blood I will pass over you Lev. xvii. 
 11 : Ex. xii. 15. 
 
 There was a tabernacle made, the fii'st, called the 
 Holy place. And after the second veil, the tabernacle, 
 called the Holv of holies. Into the second went the 
 high priest alone once every year, not without blood, 
 which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the 
 people. But Christ being come a high priest of good 
 things to come, by a greater and more perfect taber- 
 nacle ; not ... by the blood of goats and calves, but 
 by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy 
 place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Heb. 
 ix. 2, 3, 7, 11, 12. 
 
 If the blood of bulls and goats, . . . sanctifieth to 
 the purifying of the flesh : how much more shall the 
 blood of Christ, . . . purge your conscience from dead 
 works, to serve the living God ? Heb. ix 13, 14. 
 
 « 
 
 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, 
 Save in the death of Christ my (iod ! 
 
 All the vain tilings that charm me most 
 I sacrifice them to his blood. 
 
 I. Watts. 
 
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Jan. -Jl.l 
 
 27 
 
 ffiloo^. 
 
 Thiy ii'nxhcd their vuht.s and made, them irhite in the blood of 
 the Lnnili. h'er. vii. 14. 
 
 W hile we were yet sinners, Clirist died for us. Much 
 more then, bein<^ now justified by his l)loo(l, we shall Ije 
 saved from wrath through him. In whom we have 
 redemption through his blood, the ft)rgiveness of sins, 
 ju'C'oi-ding to the riches of his grace, llom. v. S, 9 : 
 Ki>h. i. 7. 
 
 (Jod hath set forth Jesus Christ, a j)ropitiation, 
 tlii-ough faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness 
 for the remission of sins that are past ; . . . that he 
 might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in 
 Jesus. Kom. iii. 25, 20. See Heb. ix. 
 
 Thou hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of 
 every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. 
 Rev. V. 9. 
 
 Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as 
 silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by 
 tradition from your fathers ; but with the precious blood 
 of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without 
 spot. 1 Pet. i. 18, 19. 
 
 Having boldness to enter into the holiest by the 
 ))lood of Jesus, . . . let us draw near with a true 
 heart, in full assurance of faith. Heb. x. 19, 22. 
 
 Now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far oif 
 are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Eph. ii. 13. 
 
 Dear dying Larnh, Thy precious blooil 
 
 Shall never lo.se it.s power, 
 Till all the ransomed church of Ood 
 
 Are saved, to sin no more. * 
 
 Wm. Cowi'er. 
 

 28 
 
 [Jan. '2± 
 
 ffioni of (Bo&. 
 
 Whoioever helierefk ffmt Jemt.'i is the Christ is horn of d'od : 
 and erery out that hnth him that ht-tjat, iortth him also that is 
 hnjottm of him, 1 John v. 1. 
 
 Beloved, let us love one another : for love is of God ; 
 and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth 
 God. 1 John iv. 7, 
 
 Seeinj:^ ye have purihed your souls in obeying the 
 truth through the Sj)irit unto unfeigned love of the 
 brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart 
 fei'vently : being born again, not of corruj)tible seed, 
 but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth 
 and abideth forever. 1 Peter i. 22, 23. 
 
 Except a man b(^ born again (from a])ove) he cannot 
 see the kingdom of God. Whosoever doeth not right- 
 eousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his 
 brother. John iii. 3 : 1 John iii. 10. 
 
 Marvel not that I said unto thee. Ye must be born 
 again. If ye know that he is righteous, ye knov, that 
 every one that doeth righteousness is born of him John 
 iii. 7 : 1 John ii. 29 
 
 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth 
 not; but he th is begotten of God, keepeth himself, 
 cand that wicked one toucheth him not. For whatsoever 
 is born of God overcometh the world. 1 John v. 18, 4. 
 
 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin ; for 
 his seed remaineth in him : and he cannot sin, because 
 he is born of God. 1 John iii. 9. 
 
 Angels ben(Hng from the skies. 
 
 8aw less pleased this n.- '-formed earth, 
 Than they view with glad surprise 
 
 Soids renewed by heavenly birth ; 
 * Destined with themselves to dwell, 
 
 And their glory to excel. W. H. P. 
 
J AX. 23.] 
 
 29 
 
 ffiotn of tbc Sptrit. 
 
 That irfiiih m born of the Spirit, Is sjiirif. John iii. (5. Saf v. 8. 
 
 Come from tho four winds, O breath, and Ureathe 
 njM)ii the.se slain tliat they may live. Kzek. xxxvii. 1). 
 
 T will put my spirit in you, and ye shall live. Kzek. 
 xxxvii. 14. 
 
 It is the Spirit that (luickeneth. The lettei- killeth, 
 hut the Spirit <^iveth life. John \i. G'{ : 2 C'or. iii. (J. 
 
 You hath he (juickened, who were dead in trespasses 
 and sins. Eph. ii. 1. 
 
 The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, hath 
 made me free from the law of sin and fleath. Rom. 
 viii. 2. See Gal. v. 25. 
 
 Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts 
 of the rtesh. If ye be led by the S{)irit, ye are not under 
 the law. Gal. v. 16, 18. 
 
 As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are 
 the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of 
 bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of 
 adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit 
 himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the 
 children of G()d. Rom. viii, 14, 16. 
 
 Jiecause ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit 
 of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 
 (!al. iv. 6. 
 
 'J'he Spirit, like some heavenly wind, 
 
 Breathes on tlie son.s of fleslj. 
 Creates anew the carnal mind, 
 
 And forms the man afresh. 
 Oiir (juickened souls awake and rise 
 
 From tlieir long sleep of death ; 
 On heavenly things we fix our eyes 
 
 And praise employs our breath. 
 
 I. Waits. 
 
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 30 
 
 [Jan. L'4. 
 
 ffircvitp of %ifc. 
 
 Mail is I'th'. to raiiifi/ : his dai/s arc. a.s a ihadoir that jxissith 
 aivay. J's. cxliv. 4. 
 
 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure 
 of my day.s, what it is ; that I may know how frail I 
 am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand- 
 breadth ; and mine age is nothing Ijefore thee. Verily 
 every nian at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. 
 xxxix. 4, 5. 
 
 Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full 
 of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut 
 down ; he tleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 
 Job xiv. 1,2. 
 
 Our days on the earth are as a shadow. We all do 
 fade as a leaf. 1 Chron. xxix. 15 : Tsa. Ixiv. G. 
 
 As for man, his days are as grass ; as a flower of the 
 field so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, 
 and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no 
 more. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning 
 heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof 
 falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth. 
 Ps. ciii. 15 : James i. 11. 
 
 m 
 
 O remember how short my time is ! My days are 
 swifter than a post ; . . . they are passed aM'ay as the 
 swift ships ; as the eagle hasteth to the prey, Ps. 
 Ixxxix 47 : Job ix, 25, 26, 
 
 What is your life ? It is even a vapor, that appeareth 
 for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Jas, iv, 14. 
 
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 u!ii: 
 
 Man's life is but a brief deceptive dream, 
 
 A flittering bubble on a flowing stream, 
 
 A flower that bloom ^ in beauty but to fade, 
 
 A light that quicklj- leaves a deeper shade. 
 
 Such is man's transient life of joy and pain, 
 
 Which but for Christ and Heaven were lived in vain, 
 
 W, H. P. 
 
.r.w. 25.] 
 
 ffirothcil^ love. 
 
 31 
 
 Love ihthrolhrrhooil. Lon (ts liri/linii. 1 I\t>r i'l. 17; iii. 8. 
 
 I>y this wo know tliat we love tlie childion of (Jotl, 
 when we love (Jod, and keep his eoimiiiin(hiieiits. And 
 tliis is his coinnianfhnent, That we should believe on the 
 jiiiine of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as 
 he t^ave us contniaiulnient. 1 .lohn v. 2 ; iii. 23. 
 
 A new coninumdnient I i^ive unto you, That ye love 
 <nm another ; as 1 hav«! loved you, that ye also love one 
 (inotlier. . John xiii. .'U. 
 
 In this was manifested the love of (Jod towan^ us, 
 that God sent his only begotten Son into the wf>rld, 
 that we might live through him. JJeloved, if God so 
 loved us, we ought also to love one another. 1 John 
 iv. 9, 11. See Kph. v. 1, 2. 
 
 This is my commandment, That ye love one another 
 as I have loved you. And above all things have fervent 
 love among yourselves : for love shall cover the multi- 
 tude of sins. John xv. 12 : 1 Pete-r iv. 8. 
 
 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay 
 down his life for his friends. Hereby know we the love 
 (of Christ) to us, that he laid down his life for us : and 
 we ought also to lay down our lives for the brethren. 
 John XV. 18:1 John iii. 16. 
 
 Tn love of the brethren be tenderly aflectioned one 
 to another, in honour preferring one another. And the 
 Lord make you to increase and abound in love one 
 toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do 
 toward you. Rom. xii. 10 : 1 Thess. iii. 12. 
 
 Dwell in me, Jesus, love's true pattern, source, and strength. 
 And make mo know its wondrous breadth and length ; 
 So shall I seek by its inspiring glow, 
 Kindness to Thee, in Thy redeemed, to show. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
32 
 
 [Jan. 20. 
 
 ffirotbcrl? Xovc, 
 
 WB 
 
 L<( hrofho'fi/ loi'< <(ni/iiiiii. I/ih. xiii. !. 
 
 This is the incssuf^c that ye luid from th(! hc^^jiiininj^, 
 that \vi' should love one juiothrr. 1 John iii. 11. 
 
 These thiii^^s I coininaiid you, that ye love; ori'* an- 
 other. Owe no man anythin<^ but to love one another. 
 As touchiri<j: brotherly love ye have no need that I write 
 unto v<)U ; for ve voui'selves an tau'dit of (lod to lov(^ 
 om anothei'. John xv. 17 : IJom. xiii. S : 1 Thess. iv. i). 
 
 This connnandment have we from him, That he who 
 loveth Ood love his brother also. 1 John iv. 21. 
 
 If a man sa}', I love God, and hateth his brother, he 
 is a liar ; for he that loveth not his brother whom he 
 liath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 
 He that lov(?th not his brother abideth in death. 
 1 John iv. 20; .ii. U. 
 
 Beloved, let us love one another ; for love is of God ; 
 and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth 
 God. 1 John iv. 7. 
 
 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light. 
 Every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also 
 that is begotten of him. 1 John ii. 10; v. 1. 
 
 We know that we have passed from death unto life, 
 because we -love the bretliren. If we love one another, 
 God dwelleth in us, -^nd his love is perfected in us. 
 1 John iii. 14 ; iv. 12. 
 
 J5y this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, 
 if ye have love one to another. John xiii. 35. 
 
 Love is the golden chain that binds 
 
 The happy souk above ; 
 And he's an heir of heaven that finds 
 
 His bosom glow with love. 
 
 . Swain, 
 
.Fan. 27.] 
 
 33 
 
 Called 
 
 Hi is llii iii'iHtttor of' till' iirtr (iMtniiimf, titat tlu if ir/ilr/i air. 
 rallnl inl'j/U rinirr tlir prommt of eternal inheritance, llih, i.\. \b. 
 
 (Jod hath HHved us, aiul calli'd us witli an lioly call- 
 in^'. '1 Tim. i. t). 
 
 (Jod is faithful, hy wlioni ye were call»;d unto the 
 fellowship of his Son. Anion<5 whom ai-«! yo also tho 
 called of .Josus Christ : . . . b('lov«'d of ( Jod, called to he 
 saints. 1 Cor. i. : Kom. i. (>, 7. 
 
 Jude, the servant of .Jesus Christ, to tlunn that aio 
 sanetiHed by (Jod the Father, and pieserved in .lesus 
 Chiist, and called. Jude i. 
 
 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal 
 life, whereunto thou art also called. 1 Tim. vi. 12. 
 
 The God of all grace, hath called us unto his eternal 
 glory by Christ Jesus. 1 Ptiter v. 10. 
 
 (Jod hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation 
 through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the 
 truth : whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the 
 obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 
 Thess. ii. 13, 14. 
 
 We know that all things work together for good to 
 tlieni that love God, to them who are the called accord- 
 ing to his purpose. Horn. viii. 28. 
 
 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also 
 called : .'.nd whom he called, them he also justified : and 
 whom he justified, them h(^ also glorified. Rom. viii. .'iO. 
 
 TIki Gful of grace and glory calls, 
 
 And 'eads the wondrous way 
 To His own palace, where He reigns 
 
 lu uncreated day. 
 
 Noel's (Jol. 
 
 Mi 
 
 
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 [.Ian. lis. 
 
 CaUino ITlpoi; tbc loi^. 
 
 To Sefh . . . n'ns horn a son, aii>/ h> mllnl hin vnnif Kitos ; 
 fhffi heijfin men to call upon the. name, of t/ir Lont. <li it. iv. '20. 
 
 Hour mo when T call, O (hmI of my ri<^lit<'<)U.siu'ss ; 
 . . . liJivo inertly upon mo, and luvir my praycM*. . . . 
 Tlio Lord will hoar wIhmi 1 call upon him. 1'h. iv. 1, .'?. 
 
 Thus saith iiio Lord, .... Call unto mo and I will 
 answor thoe, and show thoe j^ioat and mi<^hty things 
 that thou knowost not. .J(M'. xxxiii. 2, 3. 
 
 Bow down thine oar, () Lord, iioar nu^ ; for T am 
 poor and needy. In the day of my tiouhle I will oall 
 upon theo, for thou wilt answer me. Ps. Ixxxvi. 1, 7. 
 
 He will be very gracious to tho(; at the voice of thy 
 cry ; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. For 
 he shall deliver the needy when he crieth ; the poor 
 also, and him that hath no helper. Isa. xxx. 19 : Ps. 
 Ixxii. 12. 
 
 Hear, O Lord, when T ciy with my voice : have 
 mercy also upon mo and answer me. Incline thine oar 
 unto me ; in the day when I call answer me speedily. 
 Ps. xxii. 7 ; cii. 2. 
 
 Before they call I will answer ; and while they are 
 yet speaking I will hear. Isa. Iv. 21. 
 
 As for me, I will call upon (»od, and the Lord shall 
 save me. 1 will call upon the Lord who is worthy to 
 be '^raised ; so shall 1 be saved from mine enemies. 
 Ps. Iv. IG ; xviii. 3. 
 
 Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will 
 deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify nie. For whosoever 
 shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 
 Ps. I. 15 : Rom. x. 13. See Deut. iv. 7 : P». cxlv. 18, 
 19 : Rom. x. 12, 13. 
 
 Call to Him, though He dwelleth 
 
 Far, far above the sky ; 
 In danger, need, or trouble. 
 
 You'll find Him very nigh. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
Jan. 20.1 
 
 35 
 
 (Tbaatcning. 
 
 Xn rlinitfiiinif for titt /trcMrnt nnmtth Jui/oiim, hiif tjrirrnv.t ; 
 viVfrlhfltH/i it ({f'fenrarU tjUhldh lln /teafuh/t' f'niifM of riffhtrnm- 
 iirsM unto them that harp heen pxerrincil thfrthi/. /frh. xii. II. 
 
 Lord, rcWuke ine not iu thine an^'or, neither cimNten 
 WW in thy iiot (lispleasure. For all the day lon;j; have 1 
 lieen |)lague(J, and chastened every morning. Ps. vi. 1 ; 
 Ix.xiii, II. 
 
 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that as a 
 man chasteneth his .son, so the Lord tliy (lod cliastenetii 
 thee. Therefore tliou shalt keep the connnanchnents of 
 the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 
 Deut. viii T), (}. 
 
 The Lord hath cliastened me .sore : but he hatli not 
 delivered me over unto death. Ps. ex viii. 18. 
 
 He that spareth the rod liateth liis son ; but he that 
 loveth him chasteneth him betimes. Tf ye endure chas- 
 tening, God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what 
 son is he whom the Father cha.«iteneth not? An many as 
 T love, T rebuke and chasten ; be zealous therefore, and 
 repent. Prov. xiii. 24 : Heb. xii. 7 : llev. iii. 19. 
 
 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, 
 and teachest him out of thy law ; that thou mayest give 
 him rest in the day of adversity. Ps xciv. 12, 13. 
 
 Happy is the man whom God correcteth, therefore 
 despi.se thou not the chastening of the Almighty. Mj' 
 son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor 
 faint when thou art rebuked of him ; for whom the 
 Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son 
 whom he receiveth. Job v. 17 : Heb. xii. 5. 
 
 After the shower the shining sun ; 
 Solace and rest when the work is done 
 Fealty and favor after pain, 
 
 As after the sickle the golden grain. 
 
 W. H. 1' 
 
36 
 
 [Jan. 30. 
 
 (EbilMcn. 
 
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 Chi/flreu . 
 cxlviii. 12, 13. 
 
 . let thnn praise tha name of the Lord, /'.>. 
 
 The child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before 
 Eli. Ham. iii. 1. 
 
 The disciples came unto Jesus saying, Who is the 
 greatest in the kingdom of heaven : And Jesus called a 
 little cliild unto liim, and set him in the midst of them, 
 and said, Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, 
 and become as little children, ye shall not enter into 
 the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever, therefore, shall 
 humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest 
 in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one 
 such little child in my name receiveth me. But wijoso 
 shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, 
 it were better for him that a millstone were hanged 
 about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth 
 of the sea. Take heed that ye despise not one of these 
 little ones ; for I say unto ycu. That in heaven their 
 angels do always behold the face of my Father who is 
 in heaven. For ... it is not the will of your Father 
 who is in heav^en, that one of these little ones should 
 perish. Matt, xviii. 1-6, 10, 14. 
 
 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd ; he shall 
 gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in xiis 
 bosom. Tsa. xl. 11. 
 
 Love-jt thou me? Feed my lambs. John xxi. 15. 
 
 See Israel's gentle Shepherd stands, 
 
 Witli uU engaging charms ; 
 Hark I how He calls the tender lambs, 
 
 And folds them in His arms. 
 
 P. Doddridge. 
 
Jan. 31.] 
 
 Cbil& BMct^. 
 
 Samuel niinisttred before (ht Lord, beiinf a child. And the 
 child Samuel yreio before the Lord. 1 Sam. ii. 18, 21. 
 
 T1h3 child Samuel grew on, 
 
 and the Lord was 
 
 with him : and he was in favor both with the J^ord, 
 and also with men. And the Lord called Samuel, , . . 
 and Eli perceived that the Lord had called the child. 
 1 Sam. ii. 2G ; iii. 8. 
 
 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his 
 work be pure, and whether it be right. Prov. xx. 1 1. 
 
 Then were brought unto him little children, that he 
 should put his hands on them and pray : and the dis- 
 ciples rebuked them. But Jesus was much displeased, 
 and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come 
 unto me, and forbid them not : for of such is the king- 
 dom of God. Matt. xix. 13 : Mark x. 11. 
 
 I write unto you, little children, because your sins 
 are foi-j^iven vou for his name's sake. 1 John ii. 12. 
 
 The child shall die an hundred years old. Lsa. 
 Ixv. 20. 
 
 I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, 
 because thou hast hid these things from the wise and 
 piudent, and hast revealed them unto babes ; even so, 
 l'\ither, for so it seemed good in thy sight. Matt. xi. 25. 
 
 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou 
 (;rdained strength — perfected praise — that thou might- 
 est still the enemy, and the avenger. Ps. viii. 2 : Matt, 
 xxi. 16. 
 
 A little child shall lead them. lsa. xi. G. 
 
 Saviour, in life's earliest hours, 
 
 I would give myself to Tliee : 
 Heart's best love, and life's best power?, 
 
 EveF, wholly, Thine to be. 
 Thy full right to nie I own, 
 Thine to be, and Thine alone. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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38 
 
 [Feb. 1. 
 
 Cboeen. 
 
 They that arc. irith (the Lamh) arc ralltd, and chosen, and 
 fnithj'iU. Jier. xvii, 14. See Afatt. xxii. 14. 
 
 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest 
 to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts : 
 we shall he satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even 
 of thy holy temple. Ps. Ixv. 4. 
 
 The Lord will show who are his, and who are holy ; 
 and will cause him to come near unto him : even him 
 whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto 
 him. Num. xvi. 5. 
 
 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord ; and 
 the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. 
 Ps. xxxiii. 12. 
 
 The Lt)rd thy God hath chosen thee to be a special 
 people unto himself, above all people that are upon the 
 face of the earth. Ye are a chosen generation, a royal 
 priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye 
 should show forth the praises of him who hath called 
 vou out of darkness into his marvellous light. Deut. vii. 
 G : 1 Peter ii. U. 
 
 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings 
 in hea^'enly places in Christ : according as he hath cho- 
 sen us in him before the foundation of the world, tiiat 
 we should be holy and without blame before lini in love. 
 Eph. i. 3, 4. 
 
 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen }0 , and 
 ordained you, that ye should go and bring fortn fruit, 
 and that your fruit should remain : that whatsoever ye 
 shall ask of the Father in my name, lie may give it you. 
 (Jod hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation 
 llii'ough sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the 
 tiuth. .John XV. IG : 2 Thess. ii. 13. 
 
 It Wiia not I who chose the Saviour first. 
 But He of His own lo\e and mercy free, 
 
 Did seek and win nie when a rebel lost, 
 Pledging me all that I would need or l)e. 
 
 W. H. F. 
 
Pkh. 2.| 
 
 ;}n 
 
 Clni6t(an6* liobtt\ 
 
 Ooil said, L>t there he /iifhf.s In die firt)i<>)tieiif of the henreii 
 . . . fo ijire lif/hf iijioii f/ie. enrt/i. And it fan xn. i!eu, i, 14, 15. 
 
 Let them that love him he us the sun when he goeth 
 forth ill his might. Jud. v. 31. 
 
 If iniquity be in thy ha id, put it far away, and let 
 not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles ; then thine age 
 shall be clearer than the noonday ; thou shalt shine 
 forth, thou shalt l)e as the morning. Job xi. 14, 17. 
 
 No man when he hath lighted a cand'e putteth it in 
 a secret place, neither under a ))ushel, but tm a candle- 
 stick, that they who come in may see the light. Luke 
 xi. 33. 
 
 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on 
 an hill cannot be hid. Let your light so shine before 
 men, that they seeing your good works may glorify your 
 Father who is in heaven. Matt. v. 14-16. 
 
 y. 
 
 (John) was a burning and a shining light. John 
 V. 35. 
 
 Ye were once darkness, but now are ye light in the 
 Lord : walk as children of the light. And have no 
 fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but 
 rather reprove them. Do all things without murmur- 
 ings and disputings : that ye may be blameless and 
 harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst 
 of a crooked and perverse nation, aming whom shine ye 
 as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life ; 
 that ye may show forth the excellences of him who 
 hath called you out of darkness into his marvel l<)us 
 light. Eph. v. 8, 11 : Phil. ii. 14, lo : 1 Peter ii. 9. 
 
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 it 
 
 
 Father, shine on our souls from heaven, 
 And make us for Thy glory shine ; 
 
 We would not keep one gift ungiven, 
 We would not hide one beam of Thine. 
 
 T. H. (liu.. 
 
40 
 
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 Cbrtet tn ^o\l 
 
 
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 •I . ;! 
 
 Christ in yon the ho/)t of ijlorff. Col. i. '11. 
 
 I am crucified with C'hrisi; nevertheless T live; yet 
 not J, but Christ liveth in me. Ui\\. ii. 20. 
 
 If Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin ; 
 but the spirit is life because of righteousness. Rom. 
 viii. 10. 
 
 He that keepeth his commandments, dwelleth in 
 him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he 
 abideth in us, by the spirit which he hath given us. 
 1 John iii. 24. 
 
 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blootl, 
 dwelleth in me, and I in him. The flesh profitetli 
 nothing ; the words that I speak unto you, they are 
 spirit, and they are life. Abide in me, and I in you. 
 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall 
 ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John 
 vi. 56, G4 ; xv. 4, 7. 
 
 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, 
 because he has given us of his Spirit. 1 John iv. 13. 
 
 In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, 
 and ye in me, and I in you. Do ye not know your own 
 selves that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be repro- 
 bates ■? John xiv. 20 : 2 Cor. xiii. 5. 
 
 As some rare perfume in a vase of clay 
 Pervades it with a fragrance not its own ; 
 
 So wlien Thou dwellest in a mortal soul, 
 
 All heaven's own sweetness seems around it throMU, 
 
 Thank (iod, there have been moments richly blest, 
 
 When we Iiave felt His own indwelling power ; 
 
 And we wouM have it evei-y day and hour. 
 
 From Hakrikt Bekcher SroWE. 
 
Fkh. 4.1 
 
 41 
 
 Cbrist'e Seconb Coiniitg. 
 
 Lookhoj for that hfessed hojti', mid flic (jlorious npjunrlng of 
 thf ijreat Ootl and our Sarioiir Jesus Christ. Titus ii. 13. 
 
 Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall 
 see him. Rev. i. 7. 
 
 Ye shall see the Son of man . . . coming in the 
 clouds of heaven. Matt. xxvi. 64. 
 
 The Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with 
 thee. Zech. xiv. 5. 
 
 Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his 
 saints. Jude xiv. 
 
 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. Ps. 
 1. 3. 
 
 The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a 
 shout, with che voice of the archangel, and with the 
 trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 
 1 Thess. iv. 16. 
 
 Then we who are alive and remain, shall be caught 
 up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord 
 in the air ; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 
 1 Thess. iv. 17. 
 
 I go to prepare a place for you ; and if I go and 
 prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive 
 you unto myself ; that where I am, there ye may be also. 
 John xiv. 2, 3. 
 
 The weary Church has waited long, 
 
 Her Lord's return to sing ; 
 With pledges of affection strong, 
 
 His longing bride to bring. 
 Full soon He'll come, nor tarry long ; 
 
 His chariot wheels I hear ; 
 Prepare Him a reception song, 
 
 For even now He's near. 
 
 VV. H. P. 
 
12 
 
 [Vv.u. r^. 
 
 Cbrtet's Sccon^ Comino- 
 
 111': 
 
 To I III III that look for him shall In nfipiar flit siroml timi 
 ii'ithoiit s'ni unto snl ration. Ihh, ix. 28. 
 
 Our citizenship is in heaven, from whence also we 
 look for the Savioui", the Lord Jijsus Christ, wlu) shall 
 change our vile body, that it may he fashione(l like 
 unto his gloiious b«Kly. Phil. iii. 20, 21. 
 
 This same Jesus who is taken uj) from you into 
 heaven, .ihall so come in like manner as ye liave seen 
 him go into heaven. Acts i. 11. 
 
 A very little while and he that cometh shall come 
 and shall not tarry. Heb. x. .37. 
 
 Be ye also patient ; stablish your hearts ; fc>r the 
 coming of the Lord draweth nigh. James v. 8. 
 
 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of 
 righteou.sness, which the Lord the righteous Judge shall 
 give me at that day : and not to me only, but unto all 
 them also that love his appeai-ing. 2 Tim. iv. 8. 
 
 I thank God . . . that ye come Ijehind in no gift ; 
 waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And 
 the Lord direct your hearts into tlie love of God, and 
 into the patient waiting for Christ. Looking for and 
 hastening the coming of the day of God. 1 Cor. i. 4, 7 : 
 2 Thess. iii. 5: 2 Peter iii. 12. 
 
 Even 80, come. Lord Jesus. Rev. xxii. 20. 
 
 Behold I come (juickl}', and my reward is with me, 
 to give to every man according as his work shall be. 
 S'ely I come quickl}'. Rev. xxii. 12, 20. 
 
 Beyond Hfe's light and shadows drear ; 
 Beyond the smile-succeeding tear ; 
 Beyond alternate hopes and fear ; 
 Jesus my mansion doth prepare, 
 And soon he'll come to take nie there. 
 
 W. IT. 1'. 
 
Fku. <).] 
 
 43 
 
 dbriet Supreme. 
 
 Out (>l' Jnruh sli<(ll 'oiin In IJkiI slni/l In;; 
 Nxiv. M>." 
 
 <l<>inliii<>ii. Num. 
 
 The sceptre shall not depart fioni .iudah, nor a law- 
 giver from hetweeu his ftM!t until Shiioh come, ami to 
 him shall the obedience of the people be. They shall 
 fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure throughout 
 all generations. He shall have dominion also from 
 sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the 
 earth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he 
 have set judgment in the earth : and the isles shall wait 
 for his law. For he must reign till he have put all 
 enemies under his feet. (ien. xlix. 10 : Ps. Ixxii. T), 8 : 
 Is. xlii. 4 : 1 Cor. xv. 25. 
 
 The Lord said unto my Loid, Sit thou at my right 
 hand, until 1 make thine enemies thy footstool. Ask of 
 nie, and I will give thee the heathen ft)r thine inheri- 
 tance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy 
 possession. Ps. ex. 1 ; ii. 8. 
 
 I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the 
 Son of man came with the clouds of heaven. . . . And 
 there was given unto him dominion, and glory, and a 
 kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should 
 serve him : his dominion is an everlasting dominion, 
 which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which 
 shall not be destroyed. Dan. vii. 13. 14. 
 
 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before 
 him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. The kings of 
 Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents, the kings 
 of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall 
 fall down before him ; all nations shall serve him. And 
 he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of 
 Sheba : prayer also shall be made for him continually, 
 and daily shall he be praised. Ps. Ixxii. 9-11, 15. 
 
 Hail Him, ye tribes and nations, bond and free, 
 Rude and refined, adoring bend the knee ; 
 Savage and cidtured, sovereign and slave, 
 Worship the lieavenlv King, earth-V)orn to save. 
 
 VV. H. P. 
 
 
II 
 
 [Fkh. 
 
 Cbriet tbc liobt 
 
 III him iras lift : and the fl/e iras the litjht of men. John i. 4. 
 
 He slmll be as the liglit of the morning, when the 
 sun riseth, even a morning Avitliout clouds. 2 Sam. 
 xxiii. 4. 
 
 Unto you that fear my name sliall the sun of right- 
 eousness arise with healing in liis wings. Mai. iv. 2. 
 
 The people that sat in darkness saw a great light, 
 and to them that sat in the regio!i and shadow ()f death, 
 light is sprung up. AFatt. iv. 10. 
 
 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever 
 believeth on me should not abide in darkness. John 
 xii. 46. 
 
 That was the true light, which lighteth every man 
 that Cometh into the world. John i. 9. 
 
 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the 
 world. While ye have the light, believe on the light, 
 that ye may be the children of light. John ix. 5 ; 
 xii. 3G. 
 
 (lod, who commanded the light to shine out of dark- 
 ness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the 
 knowledge of the glory of God in the f.ice of Jesus 
 Christ. 2 Cor. iv. 6. 
 
 Walk while ye have the light, that darkness over- 
 take you not. xYwake thou that sieepest, and arise 
 from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee. B\)r 
 ye are all the children of light, and the children of the 
 day. John xii. 35 : Eph. v. 14 : 1 Thess. 
 
 v. 5. 
 
 Choose thou the liglit, the pure and lioly light, 
 Live in the light, a child of day and light. 
 
 And Christ, who is the light, shall shine on thee. 
 Walk in the light as He is in tlie light. 
 
 And evermore His light thy light shall be. 
 
 I). A. M((Jre(!ok, 
 
Fkh. 8.] 
 
 »:> 
 
 Clean. 
 
 Wfidt In innii tJint III shoiilil !>■ f/<<iii ; or hoir rnii lie lit rhnii 
 thut M hovu of a ironi'iii ; J oh xv, ^\ ; xxv, 4. 
 
 If I wash myself in snow wjitfM", and niak«? my hands 
 never so clean, yet shalt thou plunj^e me in the ditch, 
 and mine own clothes shall abhor me. For we are all 
 as an unclean thin",', and all our righteousnesses are as 
 filthy rags. Job ix. ^50, .'U : Jsa. Ixiv. (). 
 
 1 will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall 
 1)0 clean ; from all your filthiness, and from all your 
 idols will T cleanse vou, E/e, xxxvi. 25. 
 
 Wash me throughly from mine ini(iuity, and cleanse 
 me from my sin. Ps. li. 2. 
 
 Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as 
 white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they 
 shall be as wool. Isa. i. 18. 
 
 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall V)e clean ; wash 
 me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Create in me a 
 clean heart, O God ; and renew a right spirit within me. 
 Ps. li. 7. 
 
 Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it ; 
 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the 
 washing of water with the word. Now ye are clean 
 through the word which I have spokcMi unto you. What 
 God hath cleansed, that call thou not connnon or 
 unclean. Eph. v. 25, 2G : John xv. ?» : Acts x. If). 
 
 O for a heart of whiteness, 
 
 Clean as the stainless snow ; 
 Fit for the hind of brightness, 
 
 Where the redeemed ones go. 
 Jesus, I trust this hour. 
 To Thy blood's eleansing power. 
 
 \V. H. P. 
 
 f^ it 
 
40 
 
 I I- KM. 1>. 
 
 Come. 
 
 En II to him ■•<hiill im n cuiiii. 
 
 '■s(t. 
 
 xlv. -24. 
 
 () thou tliat heare.st prayer, unto thee shall all flesh 
 come. IJohold we conu? unto thee ; foi thou art the 
 
 i^ord 
 
 our 
 
 God. Ps. Ixv. 2 : Jer 
 
 iii. 22. 
 
 Jesus saith, 
 
 no man cometh unto the Father, 
 
 hut by me. All that the heather <;iv«'th me shall come 
 to me ; and him that cometh to me T will in no wise 
 cast out. John xiv. 6 ; vi. 37. 
 
 As the hart panteth after tlu; water bi'ooks, so pant- 
 eth my soul after thee, ( ) (lod. My soul thirsteth for 
 (jtxl, for the living God : when shall I come and appear 
 before God? Ps. xlii. 1, 2. 
 
 In the hist day, that great day of the feast, Jesus 
 stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come 
 unto me, and drink. 1 am the bread of life ; he that 
 cometh to me shall never hunger ; and he that believeth 
 on me shall never thirst. John vii. Ii7 ; vi. 35. See 
 Rev. xxii. 17. 
 
 O God, thou art my God ; early will 1 seek thee ; 
 my soul thirsteth for thee ; my flesh longeth for thee in 
 a dry and thirsty land, where no water is ; to see thy 
 power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the 
 sanctuary. Ps. Ixiii. 1, 2. 
 
 Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, 
 and he that hath no money ; come ye, buy, and eat ; 
 yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and with- 
 out price Wherefore do ye spend money for that which 
 is not bread ? and your labor for that which satisfieth 
 not ? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which 
 is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. In- 
 cline your ear, and come unto me : hear, and your soul 
 shall live ; and I will make an everh>, *^ing covenant 
 with you, even the sure mercies of David. Is. I v. 1-3. 
 
 The " comes" of Jesus, O, how sweet they sound, 
 To weary, longing souls, wherever found : 
 They offer freely fi-om God's bounteous store 
 Tlie good wo e'er shall neetl, and even more. 
 
 W. II. P. 
 
Fkr. 10.] 
 
 47 
 
 Comfort. 
 
 Tlip Lonf xfiaff nun/oii Zion : In- nHI rom/orf nil her tniMtp 
 ]ihnr.t, Im, li. 3. 
 
 Tm tlu^ inultitudo of my tliou<^ljts witlMii me, thy 
 comforts (leli<j;lit my soul. F >r whatsoever things were 
 written aforetime, were written for our learning, that 
 we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might 
 have hope. Ps. xciv, 19 : Rom. xv. 4. 
 
 The Comforter, which is the Holy Gliost, whom the 
 Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all 
 things, and bring all things to your remembrance, what- 
 soever I have said unto you. John xiv. 20. 
 
 Thou shalt . . . comfort me on every side. Ps. 
 Ixxi. -21 
 
 I will not leave you comfortless : T will come to you. 
 When the Comforter is come, whom I send unto you 
 from the Father, he shall testify of me. John xiv. 18; 
 XV. 26. 
 
 If, 
 
 f 
 
 
 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all com- 
 fort ; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we 
 may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, 
 l»y the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of 
 God. 2 Cor. i. 3, 4. 
 
 Now, our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even 
 our Father, who hath loved us, and given us everlast- 
 ing consolation and good hope through grace, comfort 
 your hearts. 2 Thess. ii, 16, 17. 
 
 
 Loi'il, touch, and to ThyHelf my spirit turn, 
 And let Thy light my darkness chase away : 
 Let Thy warm love within mj' cold heart bum, 
 And let Thy comfort come with me to stay. 
 Then thanks to Thee shall fill my lips, lone sad, 
 And mourning hearts shall listen, and be glad. 
 
 W. H. 
 
 P. 
 
IS 
 
 [Fi:h. U. 
 
 Confct^i^ino (Ibriet 
 
 VihitHOi nv slid// cfiii I'l IS /luif Ji'-sii-H Is tin Son nf (ind, O'od 
 ibi'vj/i:th hi him, nmf lu iii (t'od. I John iv. I't. 
 
 Mfiny (lecciivcrs jin; ;,'one out into tin? world, wlio 
 confess not tliiit Josus Cliiist is c(jnie in tlio tlesh. This 
 is a (lt!c(;iv(M' and an anticlnist. 2 J(jhn 7. 
 
 Ev(!ry spirit tliat confossctli imt that Josus Chi'ist is 
 conui in th«! flesh is not of (iod : and this is that spirit 
 of anticlnist, \vherc«)f ye have Inward that it should come ; 
 and even now alreadv is it in the world. 1 John iv. 3. 
 
 Amon<^ the chief rulers many l)(!lieved on him ; hut 
 l)ecause of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest 
 they should \)o put out of the synagogue. (For the Jews 
 had agreed already, that if any did confess that he was 
 the Christ, he should he put out - " the synagogue.) 
 For thev loved the praise of men n than the praise 
 
 of God.' John xii. 42 (ix. 22), 13. 
 
 Whosoever shall confess me before men, liim will \ 
 confess also ])efore my Father who is in heaven. Jiut 
 whosoevei" shall deny me before men, him will I also 
 deny before my Father who is in heaven. Matt. x. 32, 
 33. 
 
 We have seen and do testify that the Father sent 
 the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Wherefore also 
 God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name 
 which is above every name ; that at the name of Jesus 
 every knee should bow, . . . and that every tongue 
 should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of 
 God the Father. 1 John iv. 14 : Phil. ii. 9-11. 
 
 If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, 
 and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised 
 him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the 
 heart man belie veth unto righteousness, and with the 
 mouth confession is made unto salvation. Rom. x. 9, 10. 
 
 Confess thee ? yea, though death should tlireaten nie, 
 Let me but be confessed, O Christ, bv Thee. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
11. 
 
 Fkm. I'J.] 
 
 40 
 
 (Tonfceeino Stn. 
 
 Thf i*i'(''l of iMrni/ srparatnl tlmnnrh'f'i J't'nin all itrtiiitjcri, 
 nntl xtood and rvufrxHiid thtir xin, S<h. ix. 2. 
 
 David said unto Nathan, I have sinned. '1 Sam. 
 xii. i.l 
 
 And Nathan said unto T)aM*d, The Tiord also hath 
 put away thy sin : tliou slialt not (he. '1 Sam. xii. \',S. 
 
 When T ke[)t silence, my hones waxed old through 
 my roarinj^ all the day lon<^. For day and ni^dit thy 
 hand was heavy upon me : my moisture is tuiiunl into 
 the drouj^ht of summer. I acknowledged my sin unto 
 thee, and mine ini(|uity have I not <lid. I .said, 1 will 
 confess my transgressions unto the Lord ; and thou for- 
 gavest the iniijuity of my sin. Ps. xxxii. 3 5. 
 
 He looketh upo' men, and if any say, I have sinned, 
 . . . and it profitt^d me not; he will chjliver his soul 
 from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. 
 Job xxxiii. 27, 28. 
 
 If I covered my trnnHgressions as Adam, by hiding 
 mine inicjuity in my bosom : . . . l(!t thistles grow in- 
 stead of wheat, aud cockle instc^ad of barley. I said. Lord, 
 be merciful unto me ; heal my soul, for 1 have sinned 
 against thee. I acknowledge my transgressions ; and my 
 sin is ever before me. Job. xxxi. 33, 40 : Ps. xii. 4 ; li. 3. 
 
 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper : but 
 whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall find mercy. 
 Pro v. xxviii. 13. 
 
 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to for- 
 give us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteous- 
 ness. 1 John i. 9. 
 
 Only acknowledge thine initpiity, that thou hast 
 transgressed against the Lord thy God. Confess your 
 faults one to another, and pray one for ancjther, and ye 
 shall be healed. Jer. iii. 1 3 : James v. 1 6. 
 
 While I concealed my guilt 
 
 I felt the festering wound ; 
 Till I confessed my sin to Thee, 
 
 And ready pardon found. I. Watts. 
 
 / 
 
50 
 
 [Feb. 13. 
 
 (Toneccration. 
 
 ;!.^:. 
 
 \ri^ 
 
 The Lord hath set apart him that /.< ijoilly for himself. Ps. iv. 3. 
 
 The Lord's portion is his people. Deut. xxxii. 9. 
 
 Thus saith the Lord who created thee, () Jacob, hikI 
 he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not : for I have 
 redeemed thee, 1 have called thee by thy name, thou art 
 mine. This people have I formed for myself; they shall 
 show forth my praise. Isa. xliii. 1, 21. 
 
 First they jjave their own selves to the Lord, and to 
 us by the will of God. 2 Cor. viii. 5. 
 
 Consecrate yourselves to-day to the Lord, that he 
 may bestow upon you a blessi:>g this day. Who then is 
 willing to consecrate himself (fill his hand) this day unto 
 the Lord 1 Now ye have consecrated yourselves untt) 
 the Lord, come near and bring sacrifices and thank- 
 c»iferings unto the house of the Lord. Ex. xxxii. 2d : 
 1 Chron. xxix. 5: 2 Chron. xxix. 31. 
 
 Whether we live, we live unto the Lord ; and whether 
 we die, we die unto the Lord : whether we live therefore, 
 or die, we are the liOrd's. He died for all, that they 
 who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but 
 unto him who died for them, and rose again Rom. xiv, 
 7, 8 : 2 Cor. v. 15. 
 
 Know ye not that your body is the temple of the 
 Holy Spirit ? . . . and ye are not your own ; for ye 
 are bought with a price : therefore glorify God in your 
 body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Whether 
 therefore ve eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to 
 the glory of God. 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20; x. 31. See Rom. 
 xii. 1, 2* 
 
 Take my life ami let it be 
 (,'onsecrated, Lord, to Thee ; 
 Take my .silver and my gold. 
 Not a mite would I withhold. 
 Take myself, and 1 will he 
 Kver, only, all for Thee. 
 
 F. R. Havekcjal. 
 
 
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 51 
 
 dontcntmcnt. 
 
 iiO'lI'miixH ii'ith crmtitiUmmU is ijvcat ijniii. 1 Tidi. \i. H. 
 
 Haviiif* food {inrl raiment, let us l)e therewith con- 
 tent. 1 Tim. vi. 8. 
 
 Let your conversation be without covetoMsivss ; and 
 be content with such v\hin,s,'s as ye have ; for he hath 
 said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Heb. 
 
 • • • a^ 
 
 Xlll. o. 
 
 I have learned in whatsoever state T am, therein to 
 be content. Piiil. iv. 11. 
 
 Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or 
 what ye shall drink ; nor yet for your body, what ye 
 shall put on. liehold the fowls of the air : they sow- 
 not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet 
 your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not mu«h 
 better than they ? And why take ye thought for rai- 
 ment ? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; 
 they toil not, neither do they spin : and yet I say unto 
 _you, 'I'iiat even Solomon i all his glory was not arrayed 
 like tne of these. Wherefore if God so clothe the grass 
 of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into 
 the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of 
 little faith ? Take therefore no thought for the morrow, 
 for the morrjw .shall tak(^ thought for the things of 
 itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matt, 
 vi. 25-34. 
 
 He not anxious foi' the morrow, 
 Joy He gives, aiitl also soiiow ; 
 All things, rightly uudcrstooil, 
 Work together foi- thy good. 
 'J'herefore let thy soul consent, 
 Having (Jod, to be content. 
 Craving neither more nor less, 
 Than His will and righteousne.ss. 
 
 W. H. 1'. 
 
52 
 
 [Feb. 15. 
 
 Continuinfl. 
 
 Paul and Barnabas . . . urged them to continue in the grace 
 of God; . . . exhortinij them to continue in the faith. Acts 
 xiii. 43 ; xiv. 22. 
 
 Christ's house are we, if we hold fast the confidence 
 and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. For we 
 are made partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the begin- 
 ning of our confidence firm unto the end. Heb. iii. 6, 14. 
 
 You . . . hath he reconciled in the body of his 
 flesh through death, to present you holy, and without 
 blemish and unreprovable in his sight, if ye continue in 
 the faith, grounded and settled, and be not moved away 
 from the hope of the Gospel. Col. i. 21-23. 
 
 Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and 
 continueth therein, he bein-^ not a forgetful hearer, but 
 a doer of the work, this man shall ])e blest in his doing. 
 Jas. i. 25. 
 
 If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples 
 indeed. John viii. 31. 
 
 God . . . will render ... to them who by patient 
 continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and 
 immortality, eternal life. Rom. ii. 6, 7. 
 
 Ye are they that have continued with me in my 
 temptations ; and I appoint unto you a kingdom as my 
 Father hath appointed unto me. Behold then the good- 
 ness ... of God . . . toward thee, ... if thou 
 
 continue 
 xi. 22. 
 
 in his goodness. Luke xxii. 28, 29 : Rom. 
 
 When toil is o'er wc lay our l)iir<lens down, 
 Nor ^ease the race till we the goal have won ; 
 The fight is fought before we gain the crown ; 
 Rewards aie given wlien we our work have tloni*. 
 
 \V. H. P. 
 
Feb. 16.] 
 
 53 
 
 Covetouencee. 
 
 Out of the hfiiirt of man proceed evil thoiujhts . . . corttoits- 
 nesn: — which is iilolatri/. Mark vii. 21, 22: CoL iii. 5. 
 
 Woe to them that . . . covet fields, and seize thein, 
 and houses, and take them away. Micah ii. 1, 2. See 
 Tsa. V. 8 : Hab. ii. 9, 
 
 Thou shalt not covet. Ex. xx. 17. 
 
 Incline ray heart unto thy testimonies, and not to 
 covetousness. Ps. cxix. 36. 
 
 Take heed, and beware of covetousness : for a man's 
 life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which 
 he possesseth. Let your conversation be without covet- 
 ousness. Let it not be once named among you as 
 becometh saints. Luke xii. 15 : Heb. xiii. 5 : Eph. v. 3. 
 
 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. 
 Acts XX. 33. 
 
 A bishop . . . must . . . not be (jovetous. For the 
 love of money is a root of all evils : which some reaching 
 after, have been led astray from the faith, and have 
 pierced themselves through with many sorrows. I have 
 written unto you not to keep company, if any man that 
 is called a brother, ... be covetous . . . with such 
 an one no, not to eat. For this ye know, that no . . . 
 covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance 
 in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 1 Tim. iii. 2, 3 ; 
 vi. 10: 1 Cor. v. 11: Eph. v. 5. 
 
 I would not ask, O Lord, another's store, 
 
 But M'hat thou givest take, nor (irave for nioi-e : 
 
 O help Tliou nie in Thy dear love to rest, 
 
 And know that what TIiou givest for me is iKsst. 
 
 >1hs. .T. C. \vh¥,. 
 
54 
 
 [Fkb. 17, 
 
 (Trice to iSob anewercb. 
 
 Mo.scs rrii'fl unto the Lord hecanse of the /roifx trhirh he had 
 In'onifht aijaimt Pharaoh. And, the Lord did arrordinq to the 
 word of Moses. Ex. viii. 12, 13. See xv. 23-25 : 1 Sam. vii. 7-10. 
 
 I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard 
 ine out of his holy hill. Ps. iii. 4. See John ii. 7. 
 
 The ey(^s of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his 
 ears are open unto their cry. Ps. xxxiv. 15. 
 
 In my distress I called upon the Lord and cried unto 
 my God ; he heard me out of his temple, and my cry 
 came })efore him, even into his ears. He delivered me 
 from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me ; 
 for they were too strong for me. P«. xviii, 6, 17. 
 
 When he maketli inquisition for blood, he remem- 
 bereth them ; he forgetteth not the cr}' of the humble. 
 Ps. ix. 1 2. 
 
 Lord, my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast 
 healed me. Thou hast brought up my soul from the 
 grave ; thou hast kept me alive. In the day when I 
 cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with 
 strength in my soul. Ps. xxx. 2, 3 ; cxxxviii. 3. 
 
 He heareth the cry of the afflicted. Job xxxiv. 28. 
 
 1 waited patiently for the Lord ; and he inclined unto 
 me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of 
 an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet 
 upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath 
 put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God. 
 Ps. xl. 1-3. 
 
 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and 
 saved him out of all his troubles. Ps. xxxiv. 6. See 
 xxii. 4, 5. 
 
 Shall He wlio liears the raven's cry, 
 Not hear His chihlren in distress ? 
 
 He listens to their faintest sigh, 
 An»l hastes to succor and to bless. 
 
 His ear in tender pity bends, 
 
 And gladlv He deliverance sends. 
 
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 CriC0 to (Bo^ '^Iluan6WCtc^. 
 
 
 Tk'i/ cri/, hut iioiii' ifii'i'//i amn'cr, litcauHf of the priih of i ri/ 
 mill. Jolt XXXV. 1*2. 
 
 He that turneth away his ear from heai-iiig the hiw, 
 even his prayei- shall be abomination. Prov. xxviii. 9. 
 
 Because I have called, and ye have refused ; I have 
 stretched out my hand, and no man rejrarded : but ye 
 have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of 
 my reproof : I also will laugh at your calamity : I will 
 mock when your fear cometh. . . . Then shall they call 
 upon me, but I will not answer ; they shall seek me 
 early, but they shall not find me. Therefore it is come 
 to pass, as he cried and they would not hear ; so they 
 cried, and I would not hear, saith the Lf)rd. Prov. i. 
 24-28: Zech. vii. i;3. 
 
 Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear 
 them ; he will even hide his face from them at that time, 
 as they behaved themselves ill in their doings. Mic. iii. 4. 
 
 The inhabitants of Jerusalem are turned back to the 
 iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my 
 words : . . . therefore thus saith the Lord : . . . though 
 they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them, 
 Jer. xi. 10, 11. 
 
 O my God, I cry nto thee in the daytime ; but 
 thou hearest not. Thou hast covered tliyself with a 
 cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. Ps. 
 xxii. 2 : Lam. iii. 44. 
 
 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices 
 unto me, saith the Lord ? . . . When ye spread forth 
 your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you ; yea, when 
 ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are 
 full of blood. Wash you, make you clean ; put away 
 the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Isa. i. 
 11, 15, 16. See Jer. ii. 29; xi. 13, 14: ^z. viii. 17, 18. 
 
 The only l)ar to mercy's door is sin ; 
 Repent of that and freelv cntc in. 
 Ask and receive as largely as you may, 
 If only evil first be put away. 
 
 \V. H. 1'. 
 
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 dvicB to (5o& ^Ilnan6wcrc^. 
 
 Tht'!/ <•)•' :d, hitt (here inii,s noiir to lai'r (fum: rri'ii unto th»' 
 Lord, hut he, an-viu'rad them not. Ps. xviii. 41. 
 
 Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not? 
 Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, ^nd thou takest 
 no knowledge 1 Isa. Iviii. 3. 
 
 Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and 
 ^'xact all your labors. Behold, ye fast for strife and 
 debase, and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Ye 
 ask, and receive not, because __ -. ask amiss, that ye may 
 consume it upon your lusts. Isa. Iviii. 3, 4 : Jas. iv. 3. 
 
 O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against 
 the prayer of thy people 1 Ps. Ixxx. 4. 
 
 Thus saith tke Lord unto this people, Thus have 
 they loved to wandor, they have not refrained their feet, 
 therefore the Lord doth not accept them : he will now 
 remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. . . . 
 When they fast, I will not hear their cry ; and when 
 they oflFer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not 
 accept them ; but I will consume them by the sword, 
 and by the famine, and by the pestilence. For I will 
 pour their wickedness upon them. Jer. xiv. 10-12, 16. 
 
 We know that Gou heareth not sinners. John vii. 31. 
 
 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it 
 cannot save ; neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear : 
 but your iniquities have separated between you and 
 your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that 
 he will not hear you. Isa. lix. 1, 2. 
 
 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not 
 hear me. Ps. Ixvi. 18. 
 
 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination : how 
 much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind. 
 Prov. xxi. 27. 
 
 The altar at the temple gateway stood, 
 That all might enter hy the cleansing blood. 
 And so nuist our sins be all forgiven, 
 If we would find a free access to heaven. 
 
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 dvoQB fficartno. 
 
 He bearinij hU crosn ireiit J'or/h into a place called . . , 
 Oolijotha: where they or ncified him. John \\\. 17, 18. 
 
 As they led him away, they laid hold upon one called 
 Hiinon, . . . and on him tliey laid the cross, that he 
 might bear it after Jesus. Luke xxiii. 26. 
 
 Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, 
 and take up his cross, and follow me. Mark viii. 34. 
 
 God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ. Gal. vi. 14. 
 
 If any man will come after me, \et him deny himsel?, 
 and tcake up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke ix. 
 23. See xiv. 26, 27. 
 
 Let us run with patience the race that is set before 
 us, looking unto Jesus, . . . who for tlie joy that was 
 set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, 
 and is now set down -it the right hand of the Majesty 
 on Higli. Heb. xii. 1,2. 
 
 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ 
 Jesus ; who bei ig in the form of God, thought it not 
 robbery to be equal with God, but emptied himself, . . , 
 and became obedient unto death, even the death of the 
 cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted ^Mm, 
 and given him a name whych is above every nam»a ; that 
 at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, and that 
 every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, 
 to the glory of God the Father. Phil. ii. 5-11. 
 
 "Deny thyself, and t^'-e thy cross," 
 '^ Is the Redeemer's ^reat demand ; 
 
 Nature must count hei- gold but dross, 
 If she would gain that heavenly land. 
 
 I. Watts. 
 
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 Fkh. 21 
 
 Da? of 3u&0iiicnt. 
 
 Thi. Loytl l:iioiri'fli hoio lo . . . hep the mit'iifhfioua under 
 ptmixltiiifut unto the day nj' Jiidfpiinit. '2 Pclir ii. 9. 
 
 The lieavens . . . and the earth . . , have been 
 ,st<»red with fire, . . . against the (hiy of judgment and 
 destruction of ungodly men. 2 Peter iii. 7. 
 
 The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the 
 night ; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a 
 great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent 
 heat, and the earth pnd the works that are therein shall 
 l)j hurned up. Seeing then that all these things shall 
 he dissolved, what manner of persons ought )'e to be in 
 all holy living and godliness, looking for and hastening 
 the coming of the day of (xod, wherein the heavens 
 being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall 
 melt with fervent hej«t ? 2 Peter iii. 10-12. 
 
 I saw , at white throne, and him that sat on it, 
 from whose idce the earth and the heaven fled away ; 
 and there was found no place for them. And I saw the 
 dead, small and great, stand before God ; and the books 
 were opened. . . . And the dead were judged out of 
 those things which were written in the books. Rev. xx. 
 11, 12. 
 
 And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is 
 rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved 
 out of their places. And the kings of the earth, the 
 princes, and chief captains, and the rich and the strong, 
 and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the 
 caves and in the rocks of the mountains ; and said to 
 the mountains and rocks, Fall on u.«, and hide us from 
 the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the 
 wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of his wrath is 
 
 Rev. vi 14-17. 
 
 come ; and who is able to stand ? 
 
 Christ, be thou my shield and stay, 
 Wlien lieaveii and earth shall pass away. 
 
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 Death. 
 
 
 />// man iiuik itifi/li. I Cor. xv. 21. 
 
 By one niuii's offence death rei«^ned. lioin. v. 17. 
 
 l»y one man sin entered into the world, and death by 
 sin, and so death passed upon all men, for all sinned. 
 Kom. V. 12. 
 
 What man is he that liveth and shall not see death 1 
 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the 
 ground that shall not be gathere*! up ; neither floth (»od 
 lespect any person. Ps. Ixxxix. 48 : 2 Sam. xiv. 14. 
 
 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to 
 retain the spirit ; neither hath he power in the day of 
 death ; and there is no discharge in that war. For the 
 living know that they shall die. Ecc. viii. 8 ; ix. 5. 
 
 When a few yeais are come, then I shall go the way 
 whence T shall n«>t return. For I know that thou wilt 
 bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all 
 living. Job xvi. 22 ; xxx. 2.'i. 
 
 They that trust in their wealth, and boast them- 
 selves in the multitude of their riches ; none can by any 
 means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for 
 him : . . . that he should still live alway, and not see 
 corruption. For wise men die, likewise the fool and 
 the brutish perish, and leave their wealth to others. . . . 
 Like sheep they are laid in the grave ; death shall feed 
 on them ; . . . their beauty shall consume in the grave. 
 They shall lie Jlown alike in the dust, and the worms 
 shall cover them. Ps. xlix. 6-14 : Job xxi. 26. 
 
 All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Eccl. 
 iii. 20. 
 
 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : 
 and the spirit shall return unto God, who gave it. Tt 
 is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the 
 judgment. Eccl. xii. 7 : Heb. ix. 27. 
 
 One sinned, and wide the infection flew 
 From realm to realm, and deadlier grew ; 
 And so by one offence and fall, 
 Death holds dominion over all. NV. H. P. 
 
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 Death of tbc 1Riol)tcou0. 
 
 Pi'ti'ioiit ill llii .■iiif/if III' till LiifU is llii ifififh of /(If sitiii/s, 
 Tlw riy/itcniis hath hope, in hisihath /*k, cxvi. 1.'): i'ror. xiv. .*V2. 
 
 Let me die the death r)f the righteous, and let ray 
 hist end he like his. Num. xxiii. 10. 
 
 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright : for 
 the end of that man is peace. Ph. xxxvii. ."{7. 
 
 Whether we live, unto the Lord : and whether we 
 die, we die unto tlu; Lord. Whether we live therefore, 
 or die, we are the Lord's. For we know that if the 
 earthly house of our bodily frame be dissolved, we have 
 a building of 'Jod, a house not made with hands, eternal 
 in the heavens. . . . Being therefore always of good 
 cf)urage, and knowing that whilst we are at home in the 
 body, we are absent from the Lord, . . . we are willing 
 lather to be absent from the body, and to be at home 
 with the Lor(]. Wherefore we make it our aim, that 
 whether at home or absent, we may be well-pleasing 
 unto him. For to rae to live is Christ, and to die is 
 gain : . . . and what I shall choose I know not, but I 
 am in a strait bel wixt the two, having the desire to 
 depart and to be with Christ ; for it is far better. Rom. 
 xiv. 8 : 2 Cor. v. 1-9 : Phil. i. 21 23. 
 
 Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, from 
 henceforth ; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest 
 from their labors, and their works do follow them. Rev. 
 xiv. l;i. See Luke xvi. 22 : Matt. xxii. 32 : Heb. xii. 
 23, etc. 
 
 Oui- (U'a<l yet livo. The stoiie-niarked burial ground 
 Contains not them. No tomb can hold the mind. 
 
 In liriglitest realms their golden voices sound ; 
 In service high their pf)wers employment find. 
 
 (Jrand tlioughts are theirs beyond earth's shadowy bound — 
 O, lii'i'ig us soon to them, Lonl (iod, most kind I 
 
 J. Clakk. 
 
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 ©cUflbtinG in tbc loi^. 
 
 lilfuseil is fill' man flint fmn lli tin /.onl, tlint ililiijhtitli iffiathj 
 in hi-H I'nminandmonfn, /'.v. cxii. |. 
 
 They delighted themselves in thy great goodness. 
 Nevertheless they were disobedient, aiul rel)ened against 
 thee, and cast thy hivv behind their back. Neh. ix. 
 •Jo, 26. 
 
 Ye are they that forsake the fxjrd, that forget my 
 holy mountain. When f spake, ye did not hear ; but 
 did evil before mine eyes, and flid choose that wherein f 
 delighted not If thou return to the Almighty, thou 
 shalt be built up, thou shalt put away inicjuity far from 
 thy tal)ernacles. Then shalt thou have thy delight in 
 the Almighty, and thou shalt lift up thy face un*.o God. 
 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall liear 
 thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. Thou shalt also 
 decree a thing, and it shall l)e established unto thee : 
 and the light shall shine upon thv ways. Isa. Ixv. 11, 
 12: Job xxii. 23, 26-28. 
 
 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments ; 
 for therein do I delight. Ps. cxix. 35. 
 
 Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give 
 thee the desires of thine heart. If thou turn away thy 
 foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my 
 holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight ; the holy of 
 the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing 
 thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor 
 speaking thine own words : then shalt thou delight th}'- 
 self in ihe Lord ; and I will make thee to ride upon the 
 high places of the earth ; and I will feed thee with the 
 heritage of Jacob thy father : for the mouth of the Lord 
 hath spoken it. Ps. xxxvii. 4 : Isa. Iviii. 13, 14. 
 
 How blest is he who makes God's Word 
 
 His thought by day and night : 
 And to oJjey and please the Lord 
 
 Is his supreme delight. 
 
 \V. H. l». 
 
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 Dcn^iiifl dbriet 
 
 Who ix a /i(tr .<ii, fit tint/ i/iiiiifh that Jexnx is th< Hhnst / 
 If)' is antirhrisf, Iht f thiilcth th> F<ilhf r mid thf Son. 1 John 
 ii. 22. 
 
 Every spirit that coiifoHseth not that Jesus Christ is 
 come in the flesh is not of (Jod. 1 John iv. '.\. 
 
 Wliosoever denietli the Son, the same huth not the 
 Father. I Jolin ii. 23. 
 
 Tliere shall b(; false teachers, . . . who shall hrinj? 
 in destructive heresies, even denying the Ijord that 
 l)Ought them. Ungwily men, turning the grace of our 
 God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Master, 
 and our Lord Jesus Christ. '2 Feter ii. 1 : Jude iv. 
 
 Them that are defiled and unbelieving, . . . profess 
 that they know (Jod, hut in works they deny him. 
 Titus i. 15. 
 
 If we deny him, he also will deny us. 2 Tim. ii. 12. 
 
 Whosoever shall deny me })efore men, him will I 
 also deny before my Father who is in heaven : — before 
 the angels of God. Behold, I have set before thee an 
 open door, f > d none can shut it ; for thou hast kept 
 my word, and hast not denied my name. Matt. x. 33 : 
 Luke xii. 9 : Rev. iii. 8. 
 
 Peter said unto (Jesus), Though I should die with 
 thee, yet will I not deny thee. . . . But he denied 
 before them all, saying, ... I know not the man. 
 Matt. xxvi. 35, 70, 72. 
 
 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And 
 Peter remembered the word of the Ix)rd, how he said 
 unto him, Before the cock crow this day, thou shalt 
 deny me thrice. And Peter went out and wept bitterly. 
 Luke xxii. 61, 62. 
 
 Hlest Saviour, though for Thee I die, 
 O let me never Thee deny ; 
 But e'en through Buffering and shame, 
 Rejoice to own Thy precious name. 
 
 Mrs. J. C. Yule. 
 
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 furor is <i/( ill ir iijtDii /III ifrfMs. I^ikf n 
 
 i'loinl, of ili'ir in f/ir ffftf of linrrr.H/. I'ror, xix, 12: I'li, xviii. 4. 
 
 Who hath l)«jgotteii tho (li'«>ps of dew ? Jol) xxxviii. 
 28. 
 
 Tho Lord hy wisdom luitli founded the eaith ; hy 
 luiderstaadinj,' hath he estal)lished th(! heavens. By his 
 knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds 
 (h'op down the dew. Prov. iii. 1!>, '10. 
 
 Of Joseph he said, lUessivl of the Lord l)e his hind ; 
 
 for the precious things of neav(M» ; for the dew. The 
 
 fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine ; 
 
 yea, his heavens shall drop down tlew. Deut. x.xxiii. 
 
 13, 28. 
 
 T will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as 
 the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His 
 branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the 
 olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. Hos. xiv. 5, G. 
 
 Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days 
 when God preserved me. My root was spread rmt by 
 the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 
 Job. xxix. 2, 19. 
 
 God give thee of the dew of heaven. (Jen. xxvii. 28. 
 
 When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the 
 manna fell upon it. And in the morning the dew lay 
 round about the camp. Num. xi. 9 : Kx. xvi. 13. 
 
 My speech shall distil as the dew. Deut. 32. 2. 
 
 Softly at evening the dews gently fall, 
 (Sweetly refreshing the earth and the air. 
 
 Welcome the dew droiKS, how grateful to all, 
 Mountain, antl nieailow, and flowerets fair. 
 
 Softer and sweeter the dews of gra(;e fall. 
 
 Leaving behind them ri(;h manna foi- all 
 
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 2)ivtne (5uit)ancc. 
 
 H>' hil forth hi-i oirn people like slteep, <iu<l tjuirleil Ihem in the 
 ii'ihhrness like a flock. lie tjuideil tlieni hy the skilfiilnenn ofhin 
 hnvff. /*.s. Ixxviii. 52, 7-. 
 
 Lord, . . . for thy name's sake lead me, and guide 
 me. Cause me to know the way wherein 1 should walk, 
 for I lift up my soul unto thee. Ps. xxxi. 1, 3 ; cxliii. 8. 
 
 1 will instruct thee, ajid teach thee in the way which 
 thou shalt go ; T will guide ihea with mine eye. Ps. 
 xxxii. 8. 
 
 Shew jiie thy ways, i) Lord ; teach me thy paths. 
 Lead me in thy truth and teach me : for thou art the 
 God of my salvation. Ps. xxv. 4, 5. 
 
 When he, the Spirit of truth is come, he shall guide 
 you into all truth. John xvi. 13. 
 
 This God is our God for ever and ever : he will be 
 our guide even unto death. Ps. xlviii. 14. 
 
 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart ; and lean 
 not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways 
 acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy p:iths. And 
 thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is 
 the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the righ' hand, 
 and when ye turn to the left. Frov. iii. 5, 6 : La. xxx. 
 21. See Jer. iii. 4. 
 
 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and after- 
 ward receive me to glory. Ps. Ixxiii. 24. 
 
 The Fjord shall guide thee continually. Lsa. Iviii. 11. 
 
 'IVudor Sliophei'd, ffiithful Friend, 
 
 (Juide me «'vei" to life's (mkI. 
 
 Through the shadow and the fear, 
 
 Leave me i.ot, hut he Tliou neai-. 
 
 Hold luv luind and lead the way, 
 
 Till 1 walk in vloudless day. ' W. H. P. 
 
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 Bivine Ibcaling. 
 
 Up . . . hfalfd all that were )iicl' ; — ami th* )ii that hnil mcrj 
 ofhealiutj. Matt. viii. 10: LuJce \x. 11. 
 
 Hea! me, O Lord, and I shall be healed. Jer. xvii, 11. 
 
 If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the 
 Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his 
 sight, ... I will put none of the diseases upon thee, 
 which r have put upon the Egyptians : for I am the 
 Lord that healeth thee And I will tike sickness away 
 from the mid t of thee. Ex. xv. 20 ; xxiii. 25. 
 
 O Lord, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. 
 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his bene- 
 fits ; who forgiveth all thine iniquities ; who healeth all 
 
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 iseases. 
 
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 2, 3. 
 
 I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears 
 
 behold I will heal thee. 1 
 and I will heal thee. 2 K 
 
 will restore health unto thee, 
 ings XX 5 : Jer. xxx. 17. 
 
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 Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. 
 And his name, through faith in his nanu; hath made 
 this man strong : . . . yea, the faith which is by him 
 hath given him this perfect soundness. Matt. viii. 17 : 
 Acts iii 16. 
 
 Is any sirk among you ; let him call for the elders 
 of the church , and let them pray over him, anointing 
 him with '/il in tli^ name of the Lord ; and the prayer 
 of faith shall save the sick, and the liOrd shall raise 
 him up. Jas. v. N. 
 
 The Saviour " Himself our iiitiiiiiitu's took, 
 
 AikI our si(;kneds»!s hnie," aw wc i«'ii(l in f3i.s l»ool\. 
 
 He teiulerly cured all who trustingly eauH'. 
 
 ()!• Wlu) HOU 
 
 V cured all who rrustiiiKly eanu'. 
 'jjht for His aid : and lie's over " > he 
 
 .same. 
 
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 Divtnc pra\>cn 
 
 It came to pass as (Jesus) was praying in a certain 
 place, that when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto 
 him, Lord, teach us t<» pray, even as John also taught 
 his disciples. And lie said unto them, When ye pray, 
 use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they 
 think that they shall he heard for their much speakin<^. 
 Be not ye therefore like unto them : for your Father 
 knoweth what thing's ve have need of l)eii»re ve ask him. 
 After this manner therefore pray ye : Our Father, who 
 art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name, thy kini^dom come, 
 thy wiD be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us 
 this day — day by day — our needful bread. And forju'ive 
 us our debts — sins — as we also have for<^iven our debtors 
 — those that trespass against us. And lead us not into 
 temptation, but deliver us from evil. For if ye forgive 
 men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also 
 forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, 
 neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Luke 
 xi. 1,2: Matt. vi. 7-15. 
 
 Sweet, simple |mi\er, lisped at the mother's knee. 
 
 By wearied childliotMl, ere it sinks to sleep; 
 
 (irundlv incliuliug all that man Mould be, 
 
 Oi' have, or know, ht)wever higli or <leep. 
 
 All for the Father, riches, power and fame, 
 
 Through eartij's wid(^ hounds, on every sea and shore: 
 
 Tliat men would love and sei\ e Hint here the same 
 
 As angels do in heaven, forever more. 
 
 All for ourselves, that would he really gain. 
 
 For life's hest purpose, or its noblest end ; 
 
 All that for earth oi- heaven one might attain. 
 
 To fit him as (Jod's servant, <hild, or- frieml. 
 
 () matcihless prayer, grand asean reaeh the skies, 
 
 In words as simple as a cliild can say. 
 
 With spirit filial, forgiving, wise ; 
 
 Ijortl, teai'h us so, and help >is thus to pray. 
 
 \v. H r. 
 
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 Divieione. 
 
 Thpfi ii'fts a (lii'iMtoii amoiuj the multitudv hpcaiise of (Jifusj. 
 . . . And iriry limn n't iif 1111(0 his own hoiii^e, John vii. 43,53. 
 
 Ahiaham said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I 
 pray thee hetwixt mo and thee, and between my herd- 
 ineii and thv herdmen, for we are brethren. Gen. xiii. 8. 
 
 When ye come together in the churcli, I hear that 
 tliere aie divisions among you ; and I partly believe it. 
 Now, 1 l)eseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, . . . that there be no diNisions among 
 you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same 
 mind, and in the same judgment. 1 Cor. xi. 18 ; i. 10. 
 
 Now, the works of the Hesh are manifest, which are 
 these : enmities, strifes, jealousies, wraths, factions, 
 divisions. Gal. v. 1!», "iO. ' 
 
 V/hereas there is among you envying, and strife, and 
 divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men 1 For 
 while one saith, I am of Paul ; and another, I am of 
 Apollos, are 3'e not carnal '. 1 Cor. iii. .'5, 4. 
 
 A naughty, wicket i man . . . soweth discord. The 
 Lord hatetli . . . him that soweth discord among breth- 
 ren. Prov. vi. 12, U, IG, 19. 
 
 T beseech you, brethren, mark them that cause divi- 
 sions and offences contrary to the teaching which ye 
 have "arned ; and avoid them. For they that are such 
 serve n< t our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by 
 their smooth and fair speech l)eguile the hearts of the 
 simple (innocent). Rom. xvi. 17, 18. 
 
 God hath tempered the bo<ly together . . . that 
 there should l>e no schism (division) in the body. 1 Cor. 
 xii. 1*5. 
 
 Every kingdom > vind against itself is brought to 
 desolation, and a house divided against a house falleth. 
 Luke xi. 17, 
 
 DimiiAttkr l>raii(ls, uuil kooii no tire we'll f^ee ; 
 Divide the ranks, and icatteretl htxsts will tlee ; 
 Pivide the strands, and iron ropes will break ; 
 Divide the Church, and men will it forsake. 
 
 VV. H. P. 
 
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G8 
 
 [March 2. 
 
 Dohtfl an^ vEeacbinfl. 
 
 Ezra net hin heart to seek the laxo of the Lord, and to do it, 
 and to teach in Israel statntea and judyments. Ezra vii. 10. 
 
 The scribes and the Pharisees . . . say, and do not. 
 Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be l>orne, 
 and lay them on men's shoulders ; but they themselves 
 will not move them with cme of their fingers. Matt, 
 xxiii. 2-4. 
 
 Unto the wicked God snith, What hast thou to do 
 to declare my statutes? Thou therefore that teachest 
 another, teachest thou not thyself ? Thou that preach- 
 est a man should not steal, dost tliou steal 1 Thou that 
 saycsl a man should not commit adultery, dost thou 
 commit adultery 1 And why beholdest thou the mote 
 that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam 
 that is in thine own eye ? . . . Thou hypocrite, first 
 csist out the beam out of thine o.vn eye^ and then shalt 
 tliou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's 
 ♦•ye. Ts. 1. 16 : U<»m. ii. 21, 22 : Matt. vii. .3-5. 
 
 Tlie former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of 
 all that JesuH began both to do and to teach. Acts i. 1. 
 
 The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear 
 witness of me. If I do not the works of my Father, 
 believe nme not ; but if I do, though ye believe not me, 
 believe the work . : that ye may know, and believe, that 
 the Father is in me, and I in him. Believe me that I 
 am in the Father, and the Father in me : or else believe 
 me for the very works' sake. Ye are the light of the 
 world. ... So let your light shine before men, that 
 they may see your good works, and glorify your Father 
 who is in heaven. John x. 25, .37, .38; xiv. 11 : Matt. 
 V. 14, 16. See Rom. i. 8 ; xvi. 19:1 Theas. i. 8, 9. 
 
 So let our lips and lives express 
 Tlie lioly (Jospel we profess, 
 So let our works and virtues shine, 
 To prove the doctrine all divine. 
 
 I. Watts. 
 
 } 
 
March 3.j 
 
 G9 
 
 Doing 6oVb Mill. 
 
 li 
 
 Scrrant-'t qfChn'sf, doimj the vill of (iod from the heart. Ejjh. 
 vi. 6. 
 
 Lo, T come ; in the volume of the book it is written 
 of me ; I delight to do thy will, O my Gwl. My meat 
 is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his 
 work. For I came down fiom heaven, not to do mine 
 own will, but the will of him that sent me. Ps. xl. 7, 8: 
 John iv. 34 ; vi. 38. 
 
 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall 
 enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth 
 the will of my Father who is in heaven. Whosoever 
 heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will 
 likiMi him unto a wise man who built his house upon 
 a rock, and the rain descended, and the floods came, 
 and the winds blew, an(! beat upon that house ; an<l it 
 fell not : for it was founded upon a rock. Whosoever 
 shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the 
 same is my brother, and sister, and mother. Matt. vii. 
 21, 24, 25; xii. 50. See Jas. i. 22-25. 
 
 The world passeth away and the lust thereof, but he 
 that doeth the will of God abideth forever. 1 John 
 ii. 17. 
 
 The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to evei 
 lasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness 
 unto children's children, to such .as keep his covenant, 
 and to those that remember his commandments to do 
 them. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do 
 them. Ps. ciii. 17, 18: John xiii. 17. 
 
 God willed, and worlds from chaos s|)riiiig, 
 Darkness was light, and silence sung. 
 He wills, and myriads fly and run : — 
 So let His will by us be done. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
70 
 
 Doiufl (Boo^ 
 
 [Makcii 4. 
 
 JtHUs . . . ii'^i'tit ahout doimi tfood. 
 God. Act>ix. 38: 3 John ] I. 
 
 Jit' that doi'th tjood /■«( of 
 
 Jesus Christ . . . jjfave himself for us, that he ini«5ht 
 redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a 
 peculiar people, zealous of good works. Tit. ii. 14. 
 
 These things I will that thou aflirm constantly, that 
 they who have believed in God might he careful to main- 
 tain good works. These things are good and profitable 
 unto men. Tit. iii. 8. 
 
 I know that there is nothing better for (the sons of 
 men) than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they 
 live. Ecc. iii. 12. 
 
 Trust in the Lord, and do good ; so shalt thou dwell 
 in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. To do good 
 and to communicate forget not : for with such sacrifices 
 God is well pleased. Ps. xxxvii. 3 : Heb. xiii. 16. 
 
 Aa we have therefore opportunity, let us do good 
 unto all men, especially unto them who are of the house- 
 hold of faith. Gal. vi. 10. 
 
 See that none render evil for evil unto any ; but 
 ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, 
 and to all men. If ye do good to them that do good to 
 you, what thank have ye 1 for sinners also do even the 
 same. But do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again: 
 and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the chil- 
 dren of the Highest ; for lie is kind unto the unthank- 
 ful and to the evil. 1 Thess. v, 15 : Luke vi. 33, 35. 
 
 Let ours also learn to maintain good works for neces- 
 sary uses, that they be not unfruitful. Titus iii. 14. 
 
 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they 
 ... do good, that they be rich in good works, etc. 
 1 Tim. vi. 17-19. 
 
 Saviour divine, whose path 
 
 Lay strewn with blessings given, 
 
 May our lives like Thine be spent, 
 And be like Thine in heaven. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
1\[akcii 5.] 
 
 71 
 
 Dreanie. 
 
 Xt'hiirhn'ho'.zar ilnumrd drranix, irhfnwifh his nfiin't iras 
 froKhfet/, nnil/il.H sit' fp (/I'partcd from lihn. Dan. ii. I. 
 
 Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his 
 bed ; then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the 
 matters. Dan. vii. 1. 
 
 If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will 
 make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak 
 unto him in a dream. Num. xii. (i 
 
 Jacob . . . dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on 
 the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and 
 behold the angels of God ascending and descending on 
 it. Gen. xxviii. 12. See 13-lG. 
 
 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream 
 by night ; and God said. Ask what I shall give theo 
 . . . And Solomon awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. 
 1 Kings iii. 5, 15. 
 
 When (Pilate) was set down on the judgment seat, 
 his wife sent unto him, saying. Have thou nothing to do 
 with that just man (Jesus) : for I have suffered many 
 things this day in a dream because of him. Matt, 
 xxvii. 19. 
 
 God speaketh once, yea twice, though man regardeth 
 it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep 
 sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed ; 
 then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their' 
 instruction, that he may withdraw man from his pur- 
 pose, and hide pride from man. He keepeth back his 
 soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the 
 sword. Job xxxiii. 14-18. 
 
 Though hke a wanderer, 
 
 The sun gone down, 
 Darkness conies over me, 
 
 My rest a stone, 
 Yet in my dreams I'd be 
 Nearer my God to Thee 
 Nearer to Thee. 
 
 S. F. Adams. 
 
72 
 
 [March 6. 
 
 Dnmhcnncee. 
 
 Thf ii'ofk'n off he fftsh arc, 
 mvhliki.. i,'aL \. M), 21. 
 
 ffruiikcnin' ■•<.■< , rci'p/flui/i, ami 
 
 The children of Israel who look to other ^ods, and 
 love fla<^ons of wine. Woe to the ciown of pride, to the 
 drunkards of Ephraini, that are overcome with wine ! 
 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be 
 trodden under feet. Hosea iii. 1 : Isa. xxviii. 1, 3. 
 
 lie not among winebibljers, amon<( riotous eaters of 
 flesh ; for the drunkard and the j^lutton shall come to 
 poverty. I write unto you not to keep company, if any 
 man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, 
 or an idolater, . . . oi a drunkard, . . . with such an 
 one, no not to eat. Be not deceived : neither forni- 
 cators, nor idolaters, . . . nor drunkards, . . . shall 
 iidierit the kin<(dom of God. Prov. xxiii. 20, 21 : 
 1 Cor. V. 11 ; vi. 10. 
 
 Let us walk honestly as in the day ; not in rioting 
 and drunker ;. ess. For the time past of our life may 
 suffice us to have . . . walked in . . . lusts, excess of 
 wine, revellings, bantjuetings, and abominable idolatries. 
 Rom. xiii. 13 : 1 Pet. iv. 3. 
 
 Should there be among you man, or woman, . . . 
 saying, I shall have peace, th(;ugli I . . . add drunken- 
 ness to thii'st, . . . the aiigcr of the Lord . . . shall 
 smoke against that man, and the Lord shall blot out his 
 name from under heaven. Take heed to yourselves, lest 
 at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting 
 and drunkenness, . . . and that day come upon you 
 unawares. Deut. xxix. 19, 20 : Luke xxi. 34. 
 
 Beware the wine-cup's sparkling glow, 
 Tha+; lures to sin, anil shame, and woe : 
 
 And makes men fools and Satan's tools. 
 For freedom with the tempting }>owl 
 Involves the hody, mind, and soul 
 
 In evils sore for evermore. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
Makcii 7.] 
 
 73 
 
 £arl? Ipictv. 
 
 Joxiah, . . . while he iron i^et i/oiniij, hrtfan to spi k ajh r (he 
 Hod It/ hi-ij'alhir DuriU, 2 Chroii, xxxiv. 1, li. 
 
 O God, thou art tny God, early will T sock thee. 
 Ps. Ixiii. 1. 
 
 T love tliem that love me, and tiiose tliat seek )ne 
 early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. 
 
 O satisfy us early with thy mercy ; that we may 
 rejoice ami be glad all our days. Ps. xc. 14. 
 
 llemember now thy Creator in tlie days of thy 
 youtli, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw 
 nigh, when thou shult say, I have no pleasure in them. 
 Eccl. xii. 1. 
 
 Thou art my hope, O Lord God, thou art my trust 
 from my youth. My praise shall be continually of thee. 
 Ps. Ixxi. 5, 6. 
 
 Tt is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his 
 youth. Wilt thou not from this time cry unto lue, My 
 Father, thou art the guide of my youth. Lara. iii. 27 : 
 Jer. iii. 4. 
 
 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth : and 
 hitherto have T declared thy wondrous works. Now 
 also, when T am old and greylieaded, O God, forsake me 
 not, until I have showed thy strength unto this genera- 
 tion, and thy power to every one that is to come. Ps. 
 Ixxi. 17, IS. 
 
 Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned, 
 and hast been assured of ; knowing tliat from a child 
 thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to 
 make thee wise unto salvation through faith whicli is in 
 Christ Jesus. '2 Tim. iii. 14, 15. 
 
 In early chihlhood seek the Loril ; 
 
 In youth chocwe thou His ways ; 
 In manhood store His faithful word, 
 
 To cheer thy latest days. 
 
 L. M, Hattrav. 
 
^l 
 
 [Ma urn 8. 
 
 1 
 
 leffcctual ipra^cr. 
 
 77i*' ijI'ertiKtl I'trvnU /nuii/ar oj' a ri<iht<(His ninn aitnliili iiiinh. 
 JatHrs V. I(). Soo Luke xi. IS. 
 
 tjjicol) was V'.h alone; and Umtc wrestled u man with 
 lilni until the hr(;akin,tj of tlu* day. And lie naid, Let 
 nie go, for tlio day hreaketh. And ho said, 1 will lutt 
 let thee go, exce})t thou bless me. . . . And he hlessed 
 him there. Yea, ho had power over the angel, and jti'e- 
 A'ailed : he wept, and made suj)plication unto him. Gen. 
 xxxii. 24, 26, 20 : Hosea xii. 4. 
 
 And he said, Tliy name shall be called no mnr(5 
 Jacob, but Tsrael ; foi' as a piince hast thou power with 
 God and with men, and hast prevailed. (Jen. xxxii. 2S. 
 
 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, 
 and lu! prayed earnestly that it might not rain : and il 
 rained not on the earth by the space of three yeais and 
 six months. A'ul he prayed again, and the heaven gave 
 rain, and the irth brought tV>rth her fruit. Jas. v. 
 17, 18. 
 
 Pray without ceasing. Men ought always to pray, 
 and not to faint. 1 Thess. v 17 : Luke wiii. 1. 
 
 (Jesus) continued all night in prayer to G»>d. And 
 being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly : and his 
 sweat was as it were great drops of l)lood falling down 
 to the ground. Who in the days of liis flesh, when he 
 had ottered up supplications and prayers, with strong 
 crying and tears unto him who was able to save him 
 from death, and was heard, in that he feared. Luke vi. 
 12; xxii. 44: Heb. v. 7. 
 
 And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry 
 day and night unto him, though he bear long with 
 them It I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. 
 Luke xviii. 7, 8. 
 
 rniyer wings the spirit's ca^le flight 
 Ahove tlie realms of cloud iuid night ; 
 Ploads with the King upon His throne, 
 And nuikes the wealth of lieaven its own. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
Makoii (♦.] 
 
 len^ of nil ttlMiKie. 
 
 Tin nil/ of (il> lliitiijM in (1/ hand. I I'fttr iv. 7. 
 
 Tin' cfiitli uiul the lie.'uoiis . . , shall p«'iish : yea, 
 ull of thtin shall wax old like a ^^anuent ; hh a vrsturti 
 shall llntu chaiiiL'r tlii'in, and tlicv >hall bo chan<M'<l. 
 
 ps. c'ii. lT), lm;. 
 
 The htav(Mis shall vanish away liko sinuko, ami the 
 eaith shall wax old liko a ^^aniu-nt, and they that dwell 
 therein shall (li«^ in like manner. Isa. li. G. 
 
 I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, 
 there was a <^reat eaithi|uake ; and the sun became black 
 as sackcloth of haii', and the moon became as blcMid ; 
 and the stars of heav»Mi fell unto the earth, evi ii as a 
 IW-tree casteth her untimely Hi's, when she is shaken of 
 a mighty wind. And the heavens departed iis a scroll 
 when it is rolled togi'ther ; and every mountain and 
 island were removed out of their places. And the kin<i;s 
 of the earth, and the <^reat men, and tiie rich men, and 
 the chief captains, and the miifhty men, and every 
 bondman, and exciy free man, hid themselves in the 
 (lens and in the rocks of tlu; mountains; and said to i\w 
 UKtuntains and rocks, Fall (»n us, and hide us froui the; 
 face of him that sitteth on tlm throne, and from the 
 wrath of the Lamb : for the <.freat tlay of his wiath is 
 come; and who shall be able to stand? Kev. vi. ll' 17. 
 
 Heaven and earth shall pass ;iway: but my words 
 shall not pass away. Matt. xxiv. .'i5. 
 
 Lo, He comes, in power (lesceii»liii>,', 
 Heaven's firm arches "ncatli Him Ixmling ; 
 While liet'oie Him liills and mountains, 
 Oceans, rivers, lakes an<l fountains 
 I)isappear. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
76 
 
 [Maucii 10. 
 
 £n^urill0. 
 
 liy f'lilth, .yfosfi 
 Nih. xi. 24, 27. 
 
 riitlrrcil, at seviiKj hhn who in iiii'iMi'hlr, 
 
 Tbese aro they which arc sown on .stony ground ; 
 who, when tliey Imve licurd the word, reeeivo it immedi- 
 ately with gladness; and have no root in thcmselvivs, 
 aiul so endure but for a time ; afterward, when afHiction 
 or persecution aris(;th because oi the word, immediately 
 they are offended. Mark iv. 16, 17. 
 
 Ijove . . . beareth all thin<^s, believeth all things, 
 hopeth all things, endureth all things. 1 Cor. xiii. 4, 7. 
 
 Thou hast fully known my . . . conduct, . . . afflic- 
 tions, . . . what persecutions ... 1 endured. I en- 
 dure all things for the elect's sake. 2 Tim. iii. 11, I'J; 
 ii. 10. 
 
 Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 
 Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners 
 against himself, lest ye be wearied, and faint in your 
 minds. 2 Tim. ii. '.\ : Heb. xii, .3. 
 
 After (Abraham) had patiently endured, he ob- 
 tained the promise. Heb. vi. 1.5. 
 
 He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be 
 saved. Matt. xxiv. 1.3, 
 
 Behold we count them happy who endure. Jas. 
 V. 11. 
 
 Happy is the man who endures temptation; for when 
 he is approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which 
 the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Jas. 
 i. 12. 
 
 Through nights of pain, or joyous days, 
 Througli flowery meads or thorny ways, 
 Be strong, my heait, and still endure, 
 For thy reward is great and sure. 
 
 W, H. v. 
 
Maucii 11.] 
 
 77 
 
 Env?. 
 
 Thi If tiii'litt J/n.x(.-< a/fo In the rniii/t, nnif Anro'i th*' naint of 
 Ih l.on'l. /•«. cvi. 1(5. 
 
 Israel lovotl Joseph nioro than all his childnni, 
 hnauso he was the son of his old a<;o. And when his 
 hrethren saw that their fath(>r loved Iiitn more than all 
 his hrethrei), they hated him, and could not speak peacc- 
 ahly untu him. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and lu; 
 told it his brethren : . . . and his hrethreii envied him. 
 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Jos(^ph into 
 E^'ypt. Gen. xxxvii. .'jr), 1 1 : Acts vii. 1). 
 
 And Isaac dwelt in (ierar. . . . Then Isaac sowed 
 in that land, and received in the same year an hundred- 
 fold ; and the Lord blessed him. And the man waxed 
 great, and went forward, and gr((w until he became very 
 gHMit : for he had possessions of Mocks, and . . . herds, 
 and great store of servants : and tlie Philistines envied 
 him. Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous ; but who 
 is able to stand before envy. Ix)ve envieth not. (Jen. 
 xxvi. G, 12-14: Prov. xxvii. 4: I Cor. xiii. 4. 
 
 Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in . . . 
 strife and envying. Let us not be desirous of vain 
 glory, provoking one another, envying one another. For 
 we ourselves were s<mietiines foolish, disobedient, . . . 
 living in malice and envy. Rom. xiii. l.'i : Gal. v. 26 : 
 Titus iii. :j. 
 
 Now, the works of the flesh are manifest, which are 
 these : . . . emulations, . . . envyings, . . . and 
 such like : of the which I tell you plainly, . . . that 
 they whfch do such things shall nut inherit the kingdom 
 of God. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in 
 your hearts, glory not, and He not against the truth. 
 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and 
 every evil work. Gal. v. 19-24 : Jas. iii. 14, IG. 
 
 Give me the love tiiat etiviea not, 
 When others pi-osper and abound ; 
 
 Let selfish sorrows be forgot, 
 And joy in others' joys be found. 
 
 VV. H. P. 
 
ml 
 
 78 [March 12. 
 
 Error an^ lEvil of tbc Ibcart. 
 
 Iti fiohonm . . . did rril, f)irtiii-sf he prepared not his hrrtrf to 
 silk I In Lord. 2 ('/iron, xii 14. 
 
 A deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he 
 cannot deliver his soul, nor say. Is there not a lie in my 
 right hand ? Is. xliv. 20. 
 
 iiecause they receivt^ not the love of the truth, that 
 they might be saved ; . . . therefore God shall ser.d 
 them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie : 
 that they all might be judged who believe not the truth, 
 but had pleasure in unrighteousness. '2 Thess. ii. 10-12. 
 
 This people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart : 
 they are revolted and gone. A stubborn and a rebel- 
 lious generation ; . . . that set not their heart aright, 
 and whose spirit was not steadfast with God. . . . 
 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk 
 in his law. . . . For their heart was not right with 
 him, neitV'or were they steadfast in his covenant. . . . 
 Yea, th^y turned back, and tempted God, and limited 
 the Holy One of Israel. Jer, v. 23 : Ps. Ixxviii. 8, 10, 
 37, 41. 
 
 To-day if ye will hear his voice harden not your 
 heart, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in 
 the wilderness ; when your fathers tempced me, proved 
 me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was 
 grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway 
 err in their heart ; find they have not known my ways. 
 So I sware in my wrath, that they shall not enter in'o 
 my rest. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of 
 you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the 
 living God. Heb. lii. 7-12. See 2 Cor. iii. 15, 16: Eph. 
 iv. 17, 18. 
 
 As through the body to its every part, 
 Carj'ies the life-blood from the beating heart, 
 Sickness or heaUh, revival or decay ; 
 So through the soul our lives the affections sway, 
 Ennobling or debasing day by day. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
March 13.] 
 
 Je0tabli0bc^♦ 
 
 Hin heart It fixfd, fnisfiny in Iht Lord: his htart is e-'ttah- 
 liahfd. Pf<. cxii. 7, S, 
 
 Ifc is a <,'<)od thiiii,' that the heart be establislied with 
 (hy) grace. Heb. xiii. 1). 
 
 I long to see you that I may impart to you some 
 spiritual gift, to the end that yo may be established. 
 Horn. i. xi. 
 
 Establish thou the righteous. Ps. vii. 9. 
 
 Believe in the Lord your (Jod, so shall ye ])e estai)- 
 lished. In righteousness shalt thou be established. '2 
 Chron. xx. 20: Isa. liv. 14. 
 
 He brought me up out of an horrible pit, out of the 
 miry clay; and set my feet ui>on a rock, and established 
 my goings, and he hath put a new song in my moutli, 
 even praise unto our God. Ps. xl. 2, 3. 
 
 As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk 
 in him, rooted and ouilt up in him, and established in 
 the faith, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Col. 
 ii. 6, L 
 
 Now, he Avho establisheth us in Christ, ... is God. 
 2 Cor. i. 2L 
 
 The God of ail grace, . . . after ye have suftered a 
 while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you. 
 The Lord is faithful who shall establish you. 1 Peter 
 V. 10 : 2 Thess. iii. 3. 
 
 Steadfast and strong, my Saviour, 
 
 Faith roots itself in Tlieu ; 
 And strengthened l)y Thy Spirit, 
 
 Becomes a towering tree ; 
 Unshaken by the storms tliat sweep, 
 Save but to send its roots more deep. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
 (' mn 
 
80 
 
 [March 14. 
 
 Evil dommimicatione. 
 
 w • 
 
 Evil commnnkationx corru/if (/ood morals. 1 Cor. xv. 33. 
 
 Aluaz . . . did not right in the sij^ht of the Lord 
 liis (iml, like David his father. But he walked in the 
 way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his sons to 
 pass through the Hre according to the abominations of 
 the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the cliildren 
 of Israel. 2 Kings xvi. l-.'i. 
 
 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel 
 of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor 
 sitteth in the seat of the scornful. He that walketh 
 with wise men shall be wise ; but a companion of fools 
 shall l)e destroyed. Ps. i. 1 : Prov. iv. 14. 
 
 Manasseh . . . did evil in the sight of the Lord, 
 after the abominations of the heathen. "J Kings xxi. 
 1 •' 
 
 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. Ivx. 
 xxiii. '2. 
 
 Ahab . . . did very abominably in following idols, 
 according to all that the Amorites had dime. '2 Kings 
 xxi. G. 
 
 Beware of evil workers. Phil. iii. '2. 
 
 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the 
 workers of iniijuity. Depart from me, ye evil workers, 
 for I will keep the commandments of my God. Ps. 
 xxviii. 3 ; cxix. 15. 
 
 If sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Go not in 
 the way of evil men, . . . for they sleep not, except they 
 have done mischief : and their sleep is taken away unless 
 they cause some f,o fall. Prov. i. 10 ; iv. 14, IG. 
 
 How widely, iiuickly full diseases spread, 
 
 Like noxious weeds that heedless winds have sown. 
 
 So evils which become a scourge and dread, 
 Spontaneous spring, and speedily are grown, 
 
 Sending their pois'nous roots and branches round. 
 
 Destroying all they touch in air or ground. 
 
 VV. H. P. 
 
March 15.] 
 
 jfaitb. 
 
 81 
 
 Now ahide.th faith. 1 Cor, xiii. 13. 
 
 To one is given 
 
 . failli by the . . . Spirit. 1 
 Cor. xi. 8, 9. 
 
 The fruit of the Spirit is . . . faith. Gal. 
 
 V. 'I'l. 
 
 Barnabas was a good man, and full of the Holy 
 (rhost and of faith : and much people was added unto 
 the Lord. Acts xi. 'J4. 
 
 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great won- 
 ders and miracles among the people. Acts vi. 8. 
 
 This is the victory that overcometh the world, even 
 our faith. I John v. 4. 
 
 What shall I more say? for the time would fail me 
 to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah ; of David 
 and Samuel, and the prophets : who through faith sub- 
 dued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained prom- 
 ises, stopped the mouths of lions, (juenched the power of 
 fire, escaped tlie edge of the swt)rd, out of weakness 
 were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to 
 
 flight armies of aliens. 
 
 Heb. xi. 32-34. 
 
 In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any- 
 thing, nor uncircumcision ; but faith working by love. 
 Gal. V. G. 
 
 We give thanks always for you all, . . . remember- 
 ing the work of 3'our faith, and the labour of your love ; 
 because that your faith increaseth exceedingly, and the 
 love of every one of you all toward each other abound- 
 eth. 1 Thess. i. 3 : '1 Thess. i. 3. 
 
 Lord, increase our faith. Luke xvii. 5. 
 Have faith in God. According to your faith be it 
 unto you. Mark xi. 22 : M itt. ix. 29. 
 
 " Have faith in God," the Saviour saith ; 
 
 And of His bounteous gifts receive. 
 " Be it according to your faith," 
 
 " All things are yours," if you Ijelieve. 
 
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 Prerioiis faith , hrlinj more jitrcion-'^ Oiaii (/ofd /lint ])tri'<li</li. 
 2 J'tftr i. 1 :" 1 Peftr i.' 7. 
 
 By faith Noah , . . prepared an ark to the saving of 
 liis house, by which he . . . became heir of the right- 
 eousness which is by faitli. ]leb. xi. 7. 
 
 I)elie^ e on the Lord Jesus Christ aiid thou shalt be 
 saved, anrl thy house. For l)y grace are ye save«l 
 througli faith, and that not of yourselves ; it is the gift 
 of (jod. Not of works, lest any man should boast. 
 Acts xvi, ;}1 : Eph. ii. 8. 
 
 Being justified l)y ft h, we have peace; with God 
 through our Lord Jesus dirist ; by whom also we ha\ e 
 access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and 
 rejoice in hope of the glory (>f (Jod. Bom. v. 1, '2. 
 
 Stand fast in the F.'.ith. For by faith ye stand. Be- 
 ceiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your 
 souls. 1 Cor. xvi. l.'i : 2 Cor. i. 24 : 1 Peter i. 9. 
 
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 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, 
 . . . that we might receive the promise of the Spirit 
 through faith, (^al. iii. L3, 14. 
 
 Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or 
 by the hearing of faith? liaving ))elieved, ye were 
 sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise. Gal. iii. 2 ; 
 Ei)h. i. l:}. 
 
 We through the Spirit wait for the hope of right- 
 eousness by faith. Gal. v. 5. 
 
 Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ 
 Jesus. And if children, then heirs ; heirs of God, inrl 
 joint heirs with Christ. Gal. iii. 26 : Bom. viii. 17. 
 
 Faith gi'iisps llic blessing she desires, 
 
 Hope points the upward gaze ; 
 And Love, eelestial Love, inspires 
 
 The eloquence of praiae. 
 
 T '.Vir'* Montgomery. 
 
March 17.] 
 
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 ]faitb b? Ibcarinfl. 
 
 Faith roiiK'th hi/ hmriiitj. lioin. x. !7. 
 
 Jehosi. ipMJit . . . sent fiCvitoM, and , . . piMcsts, and 
 tlicy taui^dit in Judah, and had \\w hook of tlu; law of 
 thf Lonl with them, and went ahout thiouj^'hout all the 
 cities of Judali, and tauf^ht tlie people. And .)elK»sh- 
 aphat l)roui;ht them back unto the Lord. And I'^/ra, 
 tiic priest, . . . and tlie Levites, . . . read in the hook 
 of the law of (iod distinctly, and j^ave the sense, and 
 caused th(^ people to understand the reading. And . . . 
 all the people wept wheii they lieard the woi'ds of tlie 
 law. '1 Chron. xvii. 1, 8, 1) ; xix. \ ; Neh. viii. "J, 7-9. 
 
 Gather the ])«-oj>le to<^etiiei', . . . that they may 
 hear, and that they niay learn, and fear tlu* Loi'd. 
 If the pi-ophets had stood in my cctunsel, and had caused 
 the people to ohey my words, then they s' ould have 
 turn'^d them fioni their evil way, and f: the evil of 
 their doin;.^s. Deut. xxxi. 12: .lei*. xxiii. 'I'l. 
 
 The people shall hear and he afraid. All the kings 
 (»f the earth shall praise thee, O Lord, when they hear 
 tlie words of thy mouth. Ex. xv. 14 : Ps. cxxxviil. 4. 
 
 A people whom T have not known shall serve me ; as 
 soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. Ps, xviii. 
 4;}, 44. 
 
 Many of them tliat heard the word believed. And 
 many of the Corinthians hearing, believejd, and wer(5 
 baptized. Acts iv. 4 ; xviii. 8. 
 
 Incline 3'our ear, and come unto me : hear, and your 
 sf)ul shall live. Every m;.» , . . that hath heard, and 
 hath learned of the Fathov, cometli unto me. So then 
 taith cometh by hearing, and hearing by tlie w<jrd of 
 God. Isa. Iv. '.\ : John vi. 4;') : llom. x. 17. 
 
 Faith foaiuled on fiod's Word alone can stand ; 
 
 All else, however linn or fair, imist fall. 
 Then spread tlie (lospel wide through every land, 
 
 That all who will niiiy hear the saving call. 
 
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 Theri' ii'as no rcekoitintj made irifh tlum of the mom y f/iat iras 
 dttivored into l/ieir hand, hecanut they dealt faith/nlly. 2 K'uujh 
 xxii. 7. 
 
 Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth ; the faithful 
 fail from among the children of men. A faithful man 
 who can find ? Ps. xii. 1 : Prov. xx. 6. 
 
 Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, and 
 the house of Israel with deceit ; but Judah yet ruleth 
 with God, and is faithful with the Holy One. Hos. 
 xi. 12. 
 
 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, 
 . . . that 1 gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah 
 the ruler of the p.alace, charge over Jerusalem : for he 
 was a faithful man, and feared God above many. Neh. 
 vii. 1, 2. 
 
 The Lord render to every man according to his faith- 
 fulness. 1 Sam. XX vi. 23. 
 
 He that is faithful in a very little, is faithful also 
 in much. Moveover, it is required in stewards that a 
 man be found faithful. Luke xvi. 10 : 1 Cor. iv. 2. 
 
 AVho then is that faithful and wise servant, whom 
 his Lord hath set over his household, to give them their 
 food in due season ? Blessed is that servant, whom his 
 Lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say 
 unto you, That he will set him over all that he hath. 
 Be thou faithful i:nto death, and J. will give thee the 
 crown of life. Matt. xxiv. 45, 47 : Rev. ii. 10. 
 
 *' Well done ! " to the faithful, the Saviour w ill say, 
 As He crowns them with glory, that fades not away : 
 " Come ye bless'd of Mj* Father, of My kingdom partake, 
 Since ye faithfully toiled and endured for My sake." 
 
 \v. u. r. 
 
Makch 19.] 
 
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 A/aitli/itf man uliall ahonnd vith hfrssinys, Pror. xxviii. 20. 
 
 I made treasurers over the treasuries, Sheleiniali, . . . 
 Zatlak . . . Pedaiah, . . . and Haiian, . . . tor they 
 were counted faithful, and tlnur ollice was to distribute 
 unto their l)rethren. Neh. xiii. 13. 
 
 Mine eyes shall he upon the faithful of the land, 
 that they may dwell with me ; he that walketh in a 
 l)erfect way, he shall serve me. Ps. ci. G. 
 
 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occa- 
 sion against Daniel concerning the kingdom ; but they 
 could find none occasion nor fault ; forasmuch as he 
 was faithful. Dan. vi. 4. 
 
 The Lord preserveth the faithful. Ps. xxxi. 23. 
 
 JSIoses verily was faithful in all his house, as a ser- 
 vant, for a testimony of those things w hich were to be 
 spoken after. Ueb. iii. 5. 
 
 My servant Mosos . . . is faithful in all mine house. 
 With him will 1 speak mouth to inouth ; . . , wherefore 
 then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant 
 Moses 1 Num. xii. 7, 8. 
 
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 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled 
 me, for that he counted me faitliful, putting me into the 
 ministry. I Tim. i. 12. 
 
 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that 
 is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast licard 
 of mo among man}' witnesses, the same t <>mmit thou to 
 faithful men, who shall be able to teacli others also. 
 2 Tim. ii. 1, 2. 
 
 Faithfully, lovingly doing God's will ; 
 
 Painfully, pleasingly, through good oi- ill ; 
 
 Censured, or praised for it, doing it still ; 
 T!na is what pleases the Master we love. 
 Laving up gladness and glory above. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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 jfatbere. 
 
 The yloi'j/ of rhihln ii an I heir fathers. Pror. xvii. (1. 
 
 He sluill turn the heait oi the fathers to tlu^ cliil- 
 dren. The fathtT to the children shall make known 
 thy truth. Mai. iv. G : Tsa. xxxviii \\\ 
 
 Fathers provoke not your chihh'en, tluit they be 
 not discouraged ; hut bring them up in the nurture and 
 a(hi\onition of the Lord. Col. iii. 21 : Eph. \ i. 4. 
 
 (yome, yv. children, h« uk«Mi uuto !Ut' \ \ w|l| teach 
 you the fear of {\\v Lord. Ph. xxx(V. 11. 
 
 \v sluvll lay up my woids in yoUt* neart and in \<»ur 
 soul ; aiid ye shall teach them your ihildren, speaking 
 of them \vh(M\ ihow wit lent In thine house, and when 
 thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and 
 when thou ri.se.st up. Deut. xi. IH, 19. 
 
 1 will open my mouth in a parable ; I will utter 
 dark sayings of old : which we have heai'd and known, 
 and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them 
 from their children, telling to the generation to come 
 the praises of the Lord, and his sti'ength, and his won- 
 drous works that he hath done. That the generation to 
 come might know them, even the children which should 
 be born ; who should arise and tell them to their chil- 
 dren : that they might set their hope in God, and not 
 forget tlie works of God, but keep his commandments. 
 Ps. Ixxviii. 2-4, 6, 7. 
 
 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when 
 he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov. xxii. 6. 
 
 Fathers, to you a trust is given 
 More blest than angels chvini in heaven ; 
 To train the offsj)ring of your love, 
 For life more full than theirs above. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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 Iini'l . . . raiiic fn /in rslnhn, niiif qil'irtit siirrijir^.s iiiifo 
 flu fiiii/ (>/ /ils/tif/n r Isdfir. </*//. xlvi. 1. 
 
 Asa . . . (lid li^dit ill tlu; eyes of tlie Lord, as did 
 David his father, lie bioiii^ht into th(5 house of (Jod tlie 
 things that his father !iad dedicated, and that lie Ijiniself 
 had dedicated. 1 Kings xv. I I : L' Chron. xv. \H. 
 
 Jehoshaphat walked ... in all the ways «tf Asa his 
 fatluu' ; he turned not aside from it, doing right in the 
 eyes of tiie Lord. I King.s xxii I'J, f.'l. 
 
 Azariali . . . (Jid rigid In I lie sjglit or iiw Lord 
 
 I'iccording to all that his father Ania/.iah had dune. 
 '2 Kings XV. ."1. 
 
 Jothani . . did right JII the sight of the Lord, 
 
 iiccording to all that Iiis tather U//iaii had done. 
 '2 Ki//g.s XV. 'M. 
 
 ll(^/,ekiah, the son of Aha/, . . . did right in tlu; 
 sight of the Lord, accoiding to all that David his fatliei' 
 did. 2 Kings xviii. 1, 3. 
 
 Josiah did right in the sight of the Lord, and walked 
 in all the way of David his fatiier, and turned ncjt aside 
 to the right hand or to the left. 2 Kiags xxii. 2. 
 
 The; sang M(/.ses and the children of Israel this 
 song, . . . The Lord ... is my Ood, and I will pre- 
 pare him an habitation ; my father's God, and I will 
 exalt him. Ex. xv. I, '2. 
 
 Instead of thy fatheis shall be thy children, whom 
 thou mayest make princes in all the earth. Ps. \lv. IG. 
 
 . . Oh, may our children ever hante 
 
 To seek their father's God ; 
 Nor e'er forsake the happy path 
 Their father's feet have trod. 
 
 1'. Doddridge. 
 
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 Jfatbcnv 3nfluencc Evil. 
 
 Ahljcun . . . ii'd/lri/ III nil (hr .v/».s of hix ffithi i\ n-huh In- 
 had doHi' In fore him. I Kimjs xv. 2. ',\, 
 
 JeiolxKun (lid nin, juul lUiKlt! Isnu^l to nin. 1 Kings 
 xiv. 16. 
 
 And Niidab, the sou of Jerobouin, . . . did evil iti 
 tin? sight of the Lord, and wjilkud in the way of his 
 ffithin*, find in tht; sin wherewith lie made fsrael to sin. 
 1 Ki igs XV. 25, 2G. 
 
 Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the fjord, and did 
 won.e than all that wore before iiiin. And Ahab, the^ 
 son of Oniri, . . . did more to provoke the Lord God of 
 Israel t ) anger than all the kings of Israel that were 
 before him. 1 Kings xvi. 25, 33. 
 
 And Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, . . . did evil in 
 the sight of the Lord, . . . and served liaal, and wor- 
 shipped him, and provoked to anger the Lord Clod of 
 Israel, according to all that his father had done. 1 
 Kings xxii. 51-53. 
 
 Manasseli . . . did evil in the sight of the Lord, 
 after tlie abominations of the heathen ; and walked in 
 tlu; way of his father, and in the way of his motiier, and 
 he reared up altars for Jiaal, and made a grove, as did 
 Ahab, King of Israel ; and worshipped all the host of 
 heaven, and served them. 2 Kings xxi. 1-3. 
 
 And Anion his son, . . . did evil in the sight of 
 the Lord, as his father Manassch did. He walked in all 
 the way that his father walked in, and served the idols 
 that his father served, and worshipped them. 2 Kings 
 xxi. 19-21. 
 
 Hail to the new-born scion of a royal line, 
 
 In whom a nation's, and pi-oud parents' hopes combine I 
 
 Alas, that such a pillar of the land 
 
 Should never in full strength or beauty stand, 
 
 But ruined fall by its own guardian's hand. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
 
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 Jehiiufift:. . . . iliil > rii in >/■■ ii-jlif nf' /fii /jurd, (trroiiliii'/ fo 
 all /lid/ liis/n//in:i lnvl ihiif. 2 Kimj-* x\iii. .'{'2. Sci' xiv. 2, .T 
 
 tIcrulMMini tin* son of .loasli . . . ('i«l evil in tin* 
 sij^ht of the Lord : \\{\ (|»;j>;ii't«'(l not from all tin- sins of 
 J«'rol)o;irn tin; son of Nobal, who iiuule Urats' to sin. 
 2 Kiij<,'s xiv. 21. 
 
 Zac'liariah tlio son of Icroboam . . , <li(l evil in tlio 
 .si;.;ht of the Lunl, as lii> fathers had done. 2 Kinj^s 
 XV. S, 9. 
 
 Ji'hoiakini . . . did ••vii in the si^ht of th«! Lord, 
 a('cordin<» to all that his fathers had done. 2 Kind's 
 xxiii. 'M\, M. 
 
 And .Jeh(»iachin his son . . . <lid evil in the si^ht 
 of th«! Lord, accordin;; to all that his fath(M' had done. 
 2 Kin;^s xxiv. S, J). 
 
 Menaheni . . . did evil in the sight of the \m\{\ : 
 he depart«!d not all his days from the sins of .lerohoam 
 the s(jn of Nehat, who made Israel to sin. 2 Kings xv. 
 IG, 18. 
 
 Pekahiah the son t»f Menaheni . . . di<l evil in the 
 sight of tlie Lord : ho departed not from tiie sins of 
 .Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Lsrael to sin. 
 2 Kings XV. 23, 24. 
 
 We have sinned with our fathers. . . . Our fathers 
 have sinned, . . . and we have borne their ini({uitie8. 
 Thou recompensest the inicjuities of the fathers into the 
 bosom of their children after them. Ps. cvi. 6 : Lara. v. 
 7 : Jer. xxxii. 18. 
 
 I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the 
 iniijuity of the fathers upon the children unto the third 
 and fourth generation of them that hate me. Ex. xx. 5. 
 See 2 Kings xvii. 41 : Acts vii. 31. 
 
 From impure fountains impure streams proceed, 
 And poisonous mists along tiieir courses spread ; 
 
 From godless fathers spring a godless seed, 
 To be to all around a curse and dread. 
 
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 God is <^'reatly to he feared in the assembly of the 
 saints, and to be had in re\erence of all them that are 
 about him. Ps. Ixxxix. 7, 
 
 O fear the Lord, ye his saints : for there is no want 
 to them that fear him. He hath given meat unto them 
 that fear him : he will ever be mindful of his covenant. 
 Ps. xxxi\'. !) ; cxi. 5. 
 
 What man is he that feareth the Lord '. him shall 
 he teach in the way that he shall choose. His soul shall 
 dwell at ease ; and his seed shall inherit the earth. Ps. 
 XXV. 12, i:{. 
 
 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord ; that de- 
 lighteth greatly in his commandments. His seed shall 
 be mighty upon earth : the generation of the upright 
 shall be ))lessed, Ps. cxii. 1,2. 
 
 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that ffar him, in 
 those that hope in his mercy. For as the hea v^en is high 
 above the earth, so great is his mercy toward th?m that 
 fear him. Ps. cxlvii. 11 ; ciii. 11. 
 
 Ye that fear the Lord, bless the Lord. He will 
 bless them that fear the Lord, both small. and great. 
 Ps. cxxxv. 20; cxv. 13. 
 
 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear hiin ; 
 and he will show them his covenant. Ps. xxv. 14. 
 
 My covenant was with (Levi) of life and peace ; and 
 I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, 
 and was afraid before my name. Mai. ii. 5. 
 
 Lord, I would with lilial awe, 
 Observe Thy will, fulfil Thy law ; 
 Nor heeding censure nor applause. 
 Seek Thee to please, and serve Thy cause. 
 
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 Hananiah . . . hwl chanji- onr Jeriisafcm:/orhe irasa/aifh- 
 fnl man and feared <lod above many. Neh. vii. 2. 
 
 I know that it shall be well with them that fear 
 (xod. Who would not fear tliee, O King of nations ? 
 Eccl. viii. \'l : Jer. x. 7. 
 
 Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord ; that 
 walketh in his way ; . . . happy shalt thou be, and it 
 shall be well with thee. Ps. cxxviii. 1, 2. 
 
 There is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be 
 feared. Ps. cxxx. 4. 
 
 The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to ever- 
 lasting upon them that fear him. Sanctify the Lord of 
 hosts himself ; and let him be your fear, and let him be 
 your dread. Ps. ciii. IT : Isa. viii. .3. 
 
 God is greatly to be feared in the assemh»ly of his 
 saints, and to be had in reverence by all them that are 
 about him. Ps. lix. 7. 
 
 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to 
 another ; and the Lord hearkened, and heai-d it ; and a 
 l)ook of lemembrance was written before him for them 
 that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name. 
 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that 
 day when I make up my jewels ; and 1 will spare them 
 as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Mai. 
 iii. 16, 17. 
 
 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter : 
 Fear God and keep his commandments : for this is the 
 whole duty of man. Eccl. xii. l.S. 
 
 Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after 
 that have no more that they can do. But . . . fear 
 him, who, after he hath killed hath power to cast into 
 hell. . . . Fear him. Luke xii. 4, 5. 
 
 Angela, with veiled faces, drawing neai- 
 (xod's throne above, praise Him with holy fear ; 
 Much more should we, in dwellings made of clay, 
 With hiunble reverence our homage pay. 
 
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 There was a man in fhe land of Uz, who'ie name was Job ; and 
 that man was ji^i'f^ct and upriyht, and one that /eared God and 
 shunned ei'il. Job i. 1. 
 
 The fear of the Lord is the beginninji; of wisdom. Ps. 
 cxi. 10. 
 
 Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; and to 
 depart from evil is understanding. Job xxviii. 28. 
 
 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. Prov. viii. 13. 
 By ihe fear of the Lord men depart from evil. Prov. 
 xvi. 6. 
 
 The fear of the Lord tendeth to life : and he that 
 hath it shall abide satisfied ; he shall not be visited with 
 evil. Prov. xix. 23. 
 
 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them 
 that fear him, and delivereth them. By humility and 
 the fear of the Lord are riches, and honor and life. Ps. 
 cxv. 7 : Prov. xxii. 4. 
 
 Oh, how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid 
 up for them that fear thee ; which thou hast wrought 
 for them that trust in thee before the sons of men. Ps. 
 xxxi. 19. 
 
 O that there were such an heart in them, that they 
 would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, 
 that it might be well with them, and with their children 
 for ever ! Deut. v. 29. 
 
 Teach rae thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth : 
 unite my heart to fear thy name. Ps. Ixxxvi. 1 1 . 
 
 Unto you that fear my name shall the sun of right- 
 eousness arise with healing in his wings ; and ye shall go 
 forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. Mai. iv. 2. 
 
 Fear Him, ye saints, and you will then 
 
 Have nothing else to fear ; 
 Make but His service your delight, 
 
 He'll make your wants His care. 
 
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 He ii'ill keep theftd of his saints. \ Saw ii. 9. 
 
 Hold up my goings in thy paths, tliat my footsteps 
 .slip not. Ps. xvii. 5. 
 
 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord ; 
 and he delig'hteth in his way. The law of his God is in 
 his heart : none of his steps shall slide. Ps. xxxvii. 
 
 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet 
 did not slip. When ^ said, my foot slippeth ; thy mercy, 
 O Lord, held me up. Ps. xviii. 36; xciv. IS, 
 
 My son, forget not my law ; but let thy heart keep 
 my commandments : then shalt thou walk in thy way 
 securely, and thy foot shaii not stumble. For the Lord 
 shall be thy confidince, and shall keep thy foot from 
 being taken. Prov. iii. 1, 23, 26. 
 
 Thou hast delivered my soul from death : wilt not 
 thou deliver my feet from falling 1 that I may walk 
 before God in the light of the living'? Ps. Ivi. 13. 
 
 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings ; and . . . 
 when thou goest, thy steps shall not be straightened ; 
 and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. Prov. 
 iv. 10, 12. 
 
 bless our God, . . . who suffereth not our feet 
 to be moved. Ps. Ixvi. 8, 9. 
 
 Because thou hast made the Lord who is my refuge, 
 even the Most High, thy habitation, there shall no evil 
 befall thee. . . . For he shall give his angels charge 
 over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways, lest thou dash 
 thy foot against a stone. Ps. xci. 9-12. 
 
 In all the strife of mortal Ufe, 
 
 Our feet shall stand securely ; 
 Temptation's hour shall lose its power, 
 
 For thou shalt guard us surely. 
 
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 Then said David to the Philistine, . . . The Lord 
 saveth not with sword and spear, for the battle is the 
 Lord's. 1 8ain. xvii. 45, 47. 
 
 Thus saith the Lord, ... Be not afraid nor dis- 
 mayed by reason of this great multitude, for the battle 
 is not yours, Vjut God's '2 Chron. xx. 15. 
 
 When He/ekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and 
 that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, . . . 
 he set captains of war over the people, . . . and spake 
 comfortably to them, saying, Be strong and courageous, 
 be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor 
 for all the multitude that is with him : for there be 
 more with us than with him : with him is an arm of 
 fiesh ; but with us is the Lord our God, to help us, and 
 to fight our battles. 2 Chron. xxxii. 2, 6-8. 
 
 The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the 
 strong. Quit you like men and fight. Only be thou 
 valiant, . . . and fight the Lord's battles. Eccl. ix. 11 : 
 1 Sam. iv. 9 ; xviii. 17. 
 
 So fight I, not as one that beateth the air. I have 
 fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have 
 kept the faith ; henceforth there is laid up for me the 
 crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous 
 judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, 
 but to all them also that love his appearing. 1 Cor. 
 ix. 26 : 2 Tim. iv. 7, 8. 
 
 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, 
 whereunto thou art also called. To him that over- 
 cometh will I give to sit with me in my throne, even as 
 I also overcame, Jiud sat down with my Father in his 
 throne. 1 Tim. vi. 12 : Rev. iii. 21. 
 
 To him that overconieth, 
 
 A crown of Hfe shall be ; 
 He, with the King of glory. 
 
 Shall reign eternally. 
 
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 Ill' fiUcth the hitnt/ri/ u'if/i ijood fhiiigs. LiiLr i. 23. 
 
 niesserl are they that huiif^jer and thirst after ri<^ht- 
 eousuess, for they shall be tilled. Matt. v. 0. 
 
 Blessed are ye that hunger now, for ye shall ))e filled. 
 Luke vi. 21. 
 
 My mouth shall be filled with thy praise, and with 
 thy honour all the day. Ps. Ixxi. 8. 
 
 I am the Lord thy God, . . . open thy mouth wide, 
 and I will fill it. Ps. Ixxxi. 10. 
 
 It was the good pleasure of the Father that in him 
 should all fulness dwell. For in him dwelleth all the 
 fulness of the Godhead bodily. Col. i. 19 ; ii. 9. 
 
 My God shall fully supply every need of yours, 
 according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Phil. 
 iv. 19. 
 
 for grace 
 
 Out of his fulness have all we received, and grace 
 John i. 16. 
 
 God is able to make all grace a})ound toward you ; 
 that ye, always, having all sufficiency in everything, 
 may abound in every good work. For this cause 1 bo\^" 
 my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 that he would grant yju, according to the riches of his 
 glory, to be strengthened with nnght by his spirit in the 
 inner man ; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by 
 faith ; . . . that ye might be filled unto all the fulness 
 of God. 2 Cor. ix. 8 : Eph. iii. U-19. 
 
 O fill nie with Thy fulness, Lore 
 
 Until my very heart o'erflow 
 In kindling tliought, and glowing word, 
 
 Thy love to tell, thy praise to show. 
 
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 BarfimcuH , . . receired his -siyhf, and followed Jesus in the 
 way. Mark x. 46, 52. 
 
 When he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth 
 before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know 
 his voice. John x. 4. 
 
 These are they that follow the Lamb, whithersoever 
 he goeth. Rev. xiv. 4. 
 
 As (Jesus) passed by, he saw Levi, the son of 
 Alphieus, sitting at the receipt of custom, and saith unto 
 him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him. 
 Mark ii. 14. 
 
 If any man serve me, let him follow me ; and where 
 I am, there shall also ray servant be. John xii. 26. 
 
 And (Jesus) . . . saw two brethren, Simon, called 
 Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the 
 sea; for they were fishers. And he saith unto them. 
 Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And 
 they straightway left their nets, and followed him. 
 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, 
 James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a 
 boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets ; and 
 he called them. And they straightway left the boat 
 and their fathtr, and followed him. Matt. iv. 18-22. 
 
 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not 
 worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more 
 than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not 
 his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. 
 Matt. X. 37, 38. 
 
 Through floods and flames, if Jesus lead, 
 
 I'll loUow where He goes : 
 Hinder me not shall be my cry, 
 
 Though earth and hell oppose. 
 
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 Jo'<liii(t blessed . . . Caleb, and r/are him Hebron for an 
 inheritance, . . . because he wholly folloired fhe Lord. Josh, xvi. 
 V.i, 14. 
 
 llighteousness shall go before him ; and shall set us 
 in the way of his steps, Ps. Ixxxv. 13. 
 
 Then spake Jesus, I am the light of the world : he 
 that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall 
 have the light of life. John viii. 1 2. 
 
 He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also 
 so to walk, even as he walked. 1 John ii. 6. 
 
 Even hereunto were ye called ; because Christ also 
 suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should 
 follow his steps. 1 Peter ii. 21. 
 
 Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. 
 Matt. viii. 19. 
 
 If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, 
 and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke ix. 23. 
 
 Lo, we have left all, and followed thee. Matt. xix. 27. 
 
 Verily I say unto you, Ye who have followed me in 
 the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the 
 throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, 
 judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one 
 that hath forsaken brethren, or sisters, or father, or 
 mother, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall 
 receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life. 
 Matt. xix. 28, 29. 
 
 Blest Jesus, thou hast promised 
 
 To all who follow Thee, 
 That where Thou art in glory, 
 
 There shall thy servants be. 
 Blest Jesus, we will follow. 
 
 Through losses, crosses, night ; 
 For these are but the passports 
 
 To riches, crowns, and light. 
 
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 Itcart is n fool, J'ror. x. 21 ; xxviii. '2(). 
 
 A fool (lespisetii his father's instruction. A fool 
 hi'itli no (loli^flit in undoistamlin"^. Piov. xv. 5 ; wiii. 2. 
 
 Fools despise \visd(»ni and instruction. Wisdom is 
 too high for a fool. Pro\'. i. 7 ; -\xi\'. 7. 
 
 A foolish son is a giief to his father, and Intterness 
 to her that bare him. Prov. xvii. 25. 
 
 A foolish son is the heaviness of his mother, and the 
 father of a fool hath no joy. Prov. x. 1 ; xvii. 21. 
 
 Fools, l)eoause of their transgression, and because of 
 their inicjuiticss, are attlicted. Ps. cvii. 17. 
 
 Judgments are prepare(] for scorners, and stripes for 
 the back of fools. Prov. xix. 29. 
 
 Tiie fool hath said in his heart. There is no (lod. 
 They are corrupt, they have done aliominable works, 
 there is none that doeth good. It is abomination to 
 fools to depart froni evil. Ps. xiv. 1 : Prov. xiii. 19. 
 
 Fools make a mock at sin. God hath no pleasure in 
 fools. Prov. xiv. 9 : Eccl. v. 4. 
 
 A companion of fools shall come to harm. Prov. 
 xiii. 20. 
 
 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou 
 perceivest not (in him) the lips of knowledge. Prov. 
 xiv. 7. 
 
 "There is no dlol," lie said ; then turned, and lo ! 
 
 Nature awoke, ar;iazed that one shoukl so 
 
 The Eternal One dishonor, and deny 
 
 The Almighty Fashioner of earth and sky ; 
 
 When realms of order, and of dire misrule 
 
 Made shudd'ring answer all — " O fool ! O fool ! " 
 
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 Tilt chihlnii of lunul diil iril in (Ik siif/i/ of I Ik: Lniil, timl 
 fori/df thi /jonl tlnir (loil, and acrvid liaadin <tnd tin yrons. 
 Jiidi/r-i iii. 7. 
 
 Our ffitliors . . . forgat (Jod thoir Saviour. . . . 
 They joined themselves also unto Baal Peor, and ate; the 
 sacrifices of the dead. Yea, they sacrificed their sons 
 and their daughters unto demons, and shed innocent 
 blood ; even the blood of their sons and of their 
 daughters whom they sacrificed unto the idols of 
 Canaan. . . . Thus were they defiled with their own 
 works, and went a whoring after their own inventions. 
 Ps. evi. 7, 21, 2S, ;37-;i9. 
 
 I earnestly . . . protested unto your fathers, . . . 
 rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. 
 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked 
 every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart. . . . 
 They are turned back to the inicjuity of their fore- 
 fathers, who refused to hear my words ; and they went 
 after other gods to serve them. Jer. xi. 7, 8, 10. 
 
 Jeshurun waxed fat and bricked : . . . then he for- 
 sook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the 
 Rock of his salvation. They provoked him to jealousy 
 with strange gods, with abominations provoked they 
 him to anger. They sacrificed unto demons, which were 
 not gods ; they trespassed against the God of their 
 fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the 
 peoples of the lands. Forsaking the right way, they 
 went astray, following the way of J3aalim. Deut. 
 xxxii. 15-17 : 1 Chron. v. 25 : 2 Peter ii. 25. 
 
 Your fathers . . . have gone far from me, and have 
 walked after vanity. They have forsaken my law, which 
 I set before them, and . . . have walked after the stub- 
 bornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim which 
 their fathers taught them. Jer. ii. 5 ; ix. 1 3, 1 4. 
 
 The soul unloosed from its sure anchorage in Thee, 
 Is like a helmless bark far out at sea ; 
 Forced by the furious gale that rudely mocks 
 Its helpless victim ruined 'mid the rocks. 
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 H/fiiHetl in hi' ir/iosf traiiKijressioii in Jonjiri n, n'liom sin in 
 roi'i'tri/. Thi:. ftioph , . . sha//. he foryiven their iiiiqiiili/. l*s, 
 xxxii. 1 : Ina, xxxiii. 24. 
 
 Look upon iniiu! affliction and my pain ; and for- 
 give all my sins. For thou Lord, art good, and roady 
 to forgive. There is forgiveness with thee that thou 
 niay(!st be feared. Ps. xxv. 18 ; Ixx.wi. 5 ; cxxx. 4. 
 
 If my people . . . humble themselves and pray, . . . 
 and turn from their wicked ways ; then will 1 hear 
 from heaven, and forgive their sin. '2 Chron. vii. 1-4. 
 
 Thou hast forgiven the inicjuity of thy people, thou 
 hast covered all their sin. JJless the Lord, O i»iy soul, 
 and forget not all his benefits, who forgiveth all thine 
 inicjuities. As far as the east is from the west, so far 
 liath he removed our tiansgressions from us. Ps. 
 Ixxxv. 2 ; ciii. 2, li, 12. 
 
 Son, be of good cheer ; thy sins be forgiven thee. 
 Matt. ix. 2. 
 
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 The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins. 
 Him hath God exalted with his own right hand, a 
 Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance unto Israel, 
 and remission of sins. In whom we have redemption 
 through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according 
 to the riches of his grace. Matt. ix. 6 : Acts v. 31 : 
 Eph. i. 7. 
 
 Be it known unto you therefore that through this 
 man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins : and 
 by him all that believe are justified from all things. 
 Having forgiven you all trespasses. Acts xiii. 38, 39 : 
 Col. ii. 13. See 1 John ii. 12. 
 
 Forgiveness, full and free, 
 
 Mercy proclaims to thee ; 
 
 Through faith in Him who died to save, 
 
 And rose triumphant from the grave. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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 F«)r<;ivo us our sin.s; for wo also forgive every oiio 
 tliiit is indebted to us. Luk(5 xi. I. 
 
 When ye stuiul praying, forgive, if y(! liave ought 
 against any : that your Father wlio is in heaven may 
 forgive your trespasses. Hut if ye do not forgive, 
 neitlier will your Father who is in heaven forgive your 
 trespasses. Mark xi. 25, 'JO. 
 
 How efleu shall my brotlmr sin against mt(, and T 
 forgive him? Until :;even times? Matt, xviii. '21. 
 
 I say not uuto thee, until seven times, but, until 
 seventy times sevun. If thy brother trespass against 
 thee, rebuke liim ; and if lie repent, forgive him. And 
 if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, .and 
 seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I 
 repent, forgive him. Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven, 
 Matt, xviii. 22 : Luke xvii. 3, 4 ; vi. 37. 
 
 
 
 
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 Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. 
 Matt. vi. 12. 
 
 Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving 
 one another, even as God, for Christ's sake hath for- 
 given you. Put on therefore, as the elect of CJod, holy 
 and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, . . . long 
 suffering, forbearing one another, and foi'giving one 
 another, if any man have a (piarrel against any : even 
 as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you, so also 
 do ye. Eph. iv. 32: Col. iii. 12, 13. See Matt, xviii. 
 23, 35. 
 
 Lord give us grace to pardon foes, 
 
 Whose sins are " seventy times seven." 
 
 For ours more multiplied than those 
 In mercy Thou hast all forgiven. 
 
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 The children of Israel formcK the Lord, and followed other 
 (/od.s : . . , (hey forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashiaroth. 
 Judf/es a. 11, 13. 
 
 Tlie children of Israel cr'ed unto the Lord saying, 
 We have siiined, because we have forsaken the Lord, 
 and served Baalim and Ashtaroth. 1 Sam. xii. 10. 
 
 And the Lord said unto the children of Israel, . . . 
 Ye have forsaken me, and served other gods. Israel 
 hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples. Judges 
 X. 11, 13 : Hosea viii. 4. 
 
 The children ()f Israel sinned against the Lord their 
 God : . . . they rejected his statutes and his covenant ; 
 . . . and they followed vanity, . . . and went after 
 the heathen that were round about them. They left all 
 the commandments of the Lord their God, and made 
 them molten images, . . . and worshipped all the host 
 of heaven, and served Baal. 1 Kings xvii. 7, 15, 16. 
 See Acts vii. 38-11 : Rom. i. 28-32. 
 
 My people have committed two evils ; they have 
 forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and have 
 hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold 
 no water. Because my people have forgotten me, they 
 have burned incense to vanity. Jer. ii. 13 ; xviii. 15. 
 
 Jeshurun . . . forsook God, . . . and sacrificed unto 
 devils. Tliev forsook the Lord God of their fathers, 
 . . . and laid held on other gods, and worshipped them, 
 and served them. Deut. xxxii. 15, 17 : 2 Chron. vii. 22. 
 See 2 Peter ii. 15. 
 
 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the last 
 times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to 
 seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. 1 Tim. iv. 1. 
 
 As when a ship from its moorings free, 
 . Is borne on the waves of the billowy sea ; 
 So the soul from Cocl having gone astray, 
 Soon becomes sin's slave, and Satan's prey. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
April 6.] 
 
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 Amon . . . (lid eril in the fiiijJd of the Lord, and iralkcd ill 
 the way that his fathtr iralked in, and strvtd the iilols that his 
 father .■served, and irorshipped them ; and he forsook the Lord d'oif 
 of his fathers, and iralked not in the way of the Lord. 2 Kimjs 
 kxi. 21, 22; 
 
 The children of Israel did evil again in the sight of 
 the Lord, and served Baalim and Ashtaroth : . . . and 
 forsook the Lord, and served not him. Judges x. 6. 
 
 The house of Israel are all estranged from me through 
 their idols. The house of Israel rebelled against me in 
 the wilderness. They despised my judgments, and 
 walked not in my statutes, but polluted m}-^ Sabbaths, 
 for their heart went after their idols, and their eyes 
 went after their fathers' idols. Ezek. xiv. 5 ; xxi. 13, 
 IG, 24. 
 
 Our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the 
 eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and 
 have turned away their faces from the habitation of the 
 Lord. 2 Chron. xxix. 6. 
 
 Your fathers . . . obeyed not, nor inclined tlunr 
 ear, but walked ev^ery one in the imagination of their 
 evil heort. They are turned back to the iniijuity of 
 their forefathers, who refuse to hear my words ; and 
 they went after other gods to serve them. Jer. xi. 7-10. 
 
 Our transgressions are with us ; . . . in transgress- 
 ing and lying against the Lord, and departing away 
 from our God. Isa. lix. 12, 13. 
 
 Your fathers . . . have walked after other gods, 
 and have served them, . . . and have forsaken me, and 
 have not kept my law ; and ye have done worse than 
 your fathers ; for ye walk ever}'^ one after the imagina- 
 tion of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto 
 me. Jer. xvi. 11, 12. See Heb. iii. 12. 
 
 Tho soul thii yields to sin's seduotivo sway, 
 Full soon from God and goodness turns away. 
 
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 Solomon, made aho an house, for Pharaoli's dauylder. . . . 
 And the fonndationn were of coMly itones, even great .stones. 
 1 Kings vii. 8, 10. 
 
 In the first year of Cyrus the king Cyrus the king 
 made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem. 
 Let the house of God be builded, and let the founda- 
 tions be strongly laid. Ezra vi. 3. 
 
 Behold, I will lay thy . . . foundations with sap- 
 phires. Isa. liv. 11. 
 
 If the foundatiogis be destroyed, wiiat can the right- 
 eous do? Ps. xi. 3. 
 
 The foundation of God standeth sure, having this 
 seal, The Lord knoweth them that iire his. 2 Tim. ii. 19. 
 
 His foundation is in his holy mountains. Ps. 
 Ixxxvii. 1. 
 
 Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried 
 stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation ; he 
 that believeth shall not make haste (be ashamed). Isa. 
 xxviii. 16: 1 Peter ii. 6. 
 
 Other foundation can no man Lay than that is laid, 
 which is Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. iii, 11. 
 
 Ye are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the 
 household of God ; and are built upon the foundation of 
 the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being 
 the chief corner stone. Eph. ii. 19, 20. 
 
 My hope is built on nothing less 
 Than Jesu's blood and righteousness ; 
 I dare not trust the sweetest frame, 
 But wholly lean on Jesu's name : 
 On Christ the solid rock I stand, 
 All other ground is sinking sand. 
 
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 He that is calhtl in the Lord, . . . i.s the Lord's freeman. 
 Whete the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. 1 Co7\ vii. 22 ; 
 2 Cor. iii. 17. 
 
 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because 
 ... he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, 
 to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of 
 the prison to them that are bound. Isa. Ixi. 1. 
 
 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and 
 will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee 
 for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles : 
 to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from 
 the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the 
 prison house. Isa. xlii, 6, 7. 
 
 O Lord, truly I am thy servant, I am thy servant, 
 and the son of thine handmaid : thou hast loosed my 
 bonds. Ps. cxvi. 16. 
 
 If the son make you free, ye shall be free indeed. 
 John viii. 36. 
 
 The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath 
 made me free from the law of sin and death. Rom. 
 
 viii. 2. 
 
 Being then made free from sin. 
 
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 servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and 
 the end eternal life. Rom. vi. 22. 
 
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 How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer 
 therein 1 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified 
 with him, . . . that we should not henceforth serve sin. 
 For he that is dead is freed from sin. Ilom. vi. 2, 6, 7. 
 
 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged 
 by the law of liberty. James ii. 12. See Gal. v. 13. 
 
 The l>ird let loose, and soaring with a song ; 
 The slave released from cruel l>onn<ijj^ ^„.;g : 
 Hail with not such delight their liberty, 
 As those who from sin's thraldom Christ sets free. 
 
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 Soine of the heads of the fathers offered imUingh/ for the howe 
 of Ood. And they kept the . . . feasts of the Lord. . . . and 
 afterward offered the continual burnt offering, . . . of et^ery one 
 that offered a freewill offering unto the Lord. Ezra ii. 08; iii. 4,3. 
 
 The Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the children 
 of Israel, that they bring me an offering : of every man 
 that giveth it willingly with his heart, ye shall take my 
 offering. Whosoever is of a willing heart let him bring 
 the Lord's offering. And all the congregation of the 
 children of Israel came, every one whose heart stirred 
 him up, and whose spirit made him willing, and brought 
 the Lord's offering. They brought sufficient for all the 
 work, and too much. Ex. xxv. 1, 2; xxxv. 5, 21; 
 xxxvi. 7. 
 
 Freely ye have received, freely give. Matt. x. 8. 
 
 And David said. Because I have set my affection to 
 the house of my God, of mine own gold and silver I give 
 unto the house of my God. Who then is willing to fill 
 his hand this day unto the Lord ? Then the princes of 
 the fathers, and captains, and rulers over the king's 
 work, offered willingly for the house of God. Then the 
 people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because 
 with perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord. 
 1 Chron. xxix. 1, 3, 6, 9. 
 
 If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted, accord- 
 ing to that a man hath, and not according to that he 
 hath not. Every man as he purposeth in his heart, so 
 let him give, not grudgingly or of necessity : for God 
 loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Cop. viii. 12 : ix. 7. 
 
 Lord, of Thine own, we render back to Thee 
 What Thou didst give, with willing heart, and free. 
 Accept tl e offerings we present, and bless 
 Our tabors, and increase our fruits of righteousness 
 And Thine the glory shall be, now, and evermore. 
 
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 The root of the righteous ykldeth fruit. Prov. xii. 12. 
 
 My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful 
 hill : and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones 
 thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine ; . . . 
 and he looked that it should brihg forth grapes. . . , 
 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of 
 Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. Tsa. 
 V. 1, 2, 7. 
 
 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto 
 himself. Woe is me ! for I am as when they have 
 gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of 
 the vintage : there is no cluster to eat : my soul desired 
 the first-ripe fruit. Hosea xi. 1 : Micah vii. 1. 
 
 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah 
 shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 
 Israel shall blossom and bud ; and they shall fill the face 
 of the world with fruit. 2 Kings xix, 30 : Isa. xxvii. 6. 
 
 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husband- 
 man. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he 
 taketh away : and every branch that beareth fruit, he 
 cleanseth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Abide 
 in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit 
 of itself, except it .abide in the vine ; no more can ye, 
 except ye abide in me. He that abideth in me, and I 
 in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit : for apart 
 from me ye can do nothing. Ilei'ein is my Father 
 glorified, that ye bear much fruit ; so shall ye be my 
 disciples. John xv. 1-8. See v. 16. 
 
 
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 Since thou'rt a branch of this most precious Vine. 
 
 Let faith, and hope, and boundless charity, 
 
 And patient service, all abound, in Thee. 
 
 Be zealous for His honor, who has given 
 
 To thee to bear for Him rich fruits of heaven. 
 
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 Erery «/ood tree hri)i«/dhforfh ijood fruit. Matt. vii. 17. 
 
 Every tree wliich bringeth not fortli good fruit, is 
 hewn down and cast into the fire. Matt. iii. lOi 
 
 What could have been done more to my vineyard 
 that I have not done to it 1 wherefore when I looked 
 that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild 
 grapes ? And now go to ; I will tell you what 1 will 
 do to my vineyard ; I will take away the hedge thereof, 
 and it shall be eaten up : I will break down the fence 
 thereof, and it shall be trodden down ; and 1 will lay it 
 waste. Therefore I say unto you, The kingdom of God 
 shall be taken away from you, and shall be given to a 
 nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Isa. v. 4-G : 
 Matt. xxi. 43. 
 
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 Either make the tree good and his fruit good, or 
 else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt : for 
 the tree is knoM'n by his fruit. Matt. xii. .3.3. 
 
 A good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit ; neither 
 doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every 
 tree is known by his own fruit. Luke vi. 43, 44. 
 
 The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffer- 
 ing, gentleness, goc Iness, etc. Gal. ii. 22, 23. 
 
 The fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness. And this 
 I pray, that ... ye may ... be filled with the fruits 
 of righteousness. Being fruitful in every good work. 
 Eph. V. 9: Phil. i. 9-11 : Col. i. 10. 
 
 The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then 
 peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy 
 and good fruits. James iii. 17. 
 
 My fruit is better than gold. Prov. viii. 19. 
 
 Fruit for the Master ! grown on boughs that bear 
 Rich, heavy clusters, filled with juices rare. 
 F'rait of the lips, and life, and heart, always 
 Brought forth and gathered for His use and praise. 
 
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 The. disciples irere Jilted with joy, and with the iloly Ohod. 
 Acta xiii. 52. 
 
 The fruit of tlie Spirit is love, joy, peace longsuffer- 
 irjf^, gentleness, goodness, etc. Gal. v. 22. 
 
 The fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, etc. Eph. 
 V. 9 
 
 The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the 
 Holy Spirit which is given unto us. lloin. v. 5. 
 
 Epaphras, our dear fellowservant, . . . hath declared 
 unto us your love in the Spirit. Col. i. 7, 8. 
 
 The Spirit helpeth our infirmities : for we know not 
 what we should pray for as we ought : but the Spirit 
 himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which 
 cannot he uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts 
 knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he 
 maketh intercession for the saints according to the will 
 of God. Rom. viii. 26, 27. 
 
 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, 
 . . . praying always with all prayer and supplication 
 in the Spirit : . . . praying in the Holy Ghost. Eph. 
 vi. 13, 18 : Jude xx. 
 
 Through him we both have access by one Spirit 
 unto the Father. Eph. ii. 18. 
 
 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 
 2 Cor. iii. 18. 
 
 Spirit of grace, th}' power display, 
 And make me know and choose tliy way. 
 O let thy light within me shine ; 
 Making each thought and action thine. 
 
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 {fiftn ; gold, aiid/rankinceufie, and myrrh. Matt, ii. 11. 
 
 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring 
 presents : the kings of Sheba and Peba shall ofter gifts. 
 And to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. All 
 they from Sheba shall come : they shall bring gold and 
 incense ; and they shall show forth the praises of the 
 Lord. Ps. Ixxii. 10, 15 : Isa. Ix. 6. 
 
 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of 
 Tarshish first : to bring thy sons from far, their silver 
 and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord 
 thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he 
 hath glorified thee. From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia 
 my supplicants . . . shall bring mine offering. Isa. 
 Ix. 9 : Zeph. iii. 10. 
 
 Let all that be round about him, bring presents unto 
 him that ought to be feared. Ps. Ixxvi. 11. 
 
 Give unto the Lord, O, ye kindreds of the people ; 
 give unto the Lord glory and strength : give unto the 
 Lord the glory due unto his name ; bring an offering 
 and come into his courts. None shall appear before 
 me empty. Ps. xcvi. 7, 8 : Ex. xxiii. 15. 
 
 All things come of thee, and of thine own have we 
 given thee. 1 Chron. xxix. 14. 
 
 Thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according 
 as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee : every man 
 shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the 
 Lord thy God which he hath given thee. Deut. xvi. 
 10, 17. 
 
 We give Thee but Thine own, 
 
 Whate'er the gift may be. 
 All that we have is Tliine alone, 
 
 A trust, O Lord, for Thee. 
 
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 Ha (hat i/lrcth uiifo the, poor shull not lack-. Frur. xx\ iii 27. 
 
 He that hath pity upon the poor leiideth unto the 
 Lord ; and that which he hath given vvi.. he pay liiin 
 again. Prov. xix. 17. 
 
 He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. Prov. 
 xiv. 21. 
 
 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed ; for 
 he giveth of his bread to the poor. Prov. xxii. 9. 
 
 Blessed is he that considereth the poor : the Lord 
 will deliver him in time of trouble. . . . and he shall be 
 blessed upon the earth. Ps. xli. 1, 2. 
 
 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor. 
 Prov. xxviii. 7. 
 
 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor ; his 
 righteousness endureth for ever. Ps. cxii. i). 
 
 I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I 
 knew not I searched out. Job xxix. 16. 
 
 Thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine 
 hand from thy poor brother : but thou shalt open thine 
 hand wide unto him ; . . . and thy heart shall not be 
 grieved when thou givest unto him : because for this 
 thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works. 
 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever 
 ye will ye may do them good. Deut. x v. 7,8, 10: Mark 
 xiv. 7. 
 
 Teach iis, O Lord, with reverent love, 
 
 Thee in Thy poor to see ; 
 Anil while we minister to them, 
 
 To do it as to Thee. 
 
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 The Lord is (ht true (Jod, he it tha licinij Hod. Jtr. x. 10. 
 
 Who is (iod, save the Lord ? and who is a rock, save 
 our GoiH 2 Sam. xxii. 32. 
 
 Is there a God beside me ? yea, there is no rock j I 
 know not any. Before me there was no God formed, 
 neither shall tliere be after me. Isa. xliv. 8; xliii. 10. 
 
 Lord, . . . there is none like thee, nei*^her is there 
 any God beside thee. 2 Sam. vii. 22. 
 
 1 am the first, and I am the last ; and beside me 
 there is no God. I am the Lord, and there is none else. 
 There is no God beside me ; and there is none like rae. 
 Isa. xliv. 6 ; xlv. 5 ; xlvi. 9. 
 
 Lord, . . . thou art the God, even thou alone ; 
 thou hast made heaven and earth. Isa. xxxvii. IG. 
 
 1 am God, and there is none like me. I form the 
 light, and create the darkness. ... I am the Lord, that 
 doetli all these things. Isa. xlvi. 9 ; xlv. 7. 
 
 This is life eternal, that they should know thee, the 
 only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou didst send. 
 John xvii. 3. 
 
 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the 
 earth : for I am God, and there is none else. Isa. xlv. 22. 
 
 My God, how wonderful Thou art ! 
 
 Thy Majesty how bright ! 
 How beautihil Thy mercy-seat, 
 
 In depths of burning light ! 
 Father of Jesus, love's reward, 
 
 What raptures it will be, 
 Prostrate before Thy throne to lie, 
 
 And gaze, and gaze on Thee. 
 
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 Till' Lord xhitll jiKbjc his prrpfe ; . . . /te irill (iiriiift the 
 hlood u/ his scrraiifi. Dent, xxxii. .'i6, 4.S. 
 
 Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with 
 me ; . . . for without cause have they hid for me their 
 net in a pit. Judj^e me, O Lord my God, aecordinj; to 
 tliy righteousness ; and let tlumi not rejoice over me ; 
 and my ton<;ue sliall speak of tliy rigliteousness and of 
 thy praise all the day. Ps. xxxv. 1, 7, 24, 1*8. 
 
 Thou shalt not avenge or hear any grudge against 
 the chihlren of thy people. Say not tliou, I will recom- 
 pense evil ; but widt on the Lord, and he shall save 
 thee Say not, I will do so to him as lie hath done to 
 me • I will render to the man according to his work. 
 For the Lord Uod of recompenses shall surely recjuito. 
 Lev. xix. 18 : Prov. xx. 22; xxiv. 29 : Jer. li. 50. 
 
 It is God that avengeth me. . . . He delivereth me 
 from mine enemies. Ps. xviii. 47, 48. 
 
 The Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully 
 rewardeth the proud doer. So that man shall say, 
 Verily, there is a reward for the righteous ; verily, he is 
 a God that judgeth in the earth. Ps. xxxi. 23 ; Iviii. 11. 
 See Lam. iii. 59-64. 
 
 Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, 
 that we should follow his steps : who did no sin,' neither 
 was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, 
 reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not ; 
 but committed himself to him who judgeth righteously. 
 I Peter ii. 21-23. See Rev. vi. 10. 
 
 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather 
 give place unto wrath ; for it is written, Vengeance is 
 mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Rom. xii. 1 9. 
 
 We need not ward hato'.s poisoned shafts away, 
 
 Which foes may send ; 
 Or guard ourselves 'gainst aught men do or say, 
 
 If heaven defend : 
 The righteous Judge will right all in the end. 
 
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 (UkI/kII ot' rotn/utx.^ioii, and, i/ritrioiis, xloiii to aiiyer, and plcnftuwi 
 in merry and truth. Ex. xxxiv. 0. 
 
 Hath GcmI forgotten to Ikj gracious? I lath he in 
 angof sliut u[) his tender mercies I Ps. Ixxvii. 9. 
 
 The Lonl is gracitnis, and full of coni[)assion, slow to 
 anger, and of great mercy. Ps. ex I v. 8. 
 
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 thee. Thou ait a gracious and merciful God. Isa. 
 xxxiii. 2 : Heh. ix. '.W. 
 
 Therefore will th(! Lord wait, thai he may be gra- 
 cious unto you. He will be very gracious unto thee at 
 the voice of thy cry. Isa. xxx. IS, 20. 
 
 Thou, O Loi'd, art a God full of compassion, and gra- 
 cious. The Lord is gracious. He is gracious and full 
 of compassion, and righteous. Ps. Ixxxvi. 15; cxii. -i. 
 
 The Lord your God is merciful and gracious, and 
 will not turn his face from you if ye return unto iiim, 
 therefore turn unto the Lord your God, for he is gra- 
 cious. 2 Chron. xxx. 1) : Joel ii. 1.3. 
 
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 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous ; yea, our God is 
 merciful. Ps. cxvi. 5. 
 
 O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God ; for thou 
 hast fallen by thine ini(juity. Take with you words, 
 and turn unto the Lord : say unto Iiim, Take away all 
 iniijuity, and receive us graciously : so will we render 
 the fruit of our lips. Hos. xiv. 1, 2. 
 
 All-gracious God, whom saints in light adore, 
 And whom angelic hosts praise evermore, 
 To Thee in deep distress our sins we bring, 
 And Thou dost freely pardon ; so we sing 
 The wondrous goodness of our gracious King. 
 
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 Ilix tf/ory rovt red fhr h'.are.iiM, , . . and his hr'nihtwxH mm iis the. 
 litj/it. l/ah. iii. H, 4. 
 
 Where is tho way wliore li^lit «lwolloth 1 Job 
 xxxviii, 19. 
 
 Th(^ light dwelleth with him, — who only hath immor- 
 tality, (lwelliii<; in li;^ht unap])roachabl(; ; whom no man 
 hath s(H!n, nor can sec. Dan. ii. '22 : I Tim. vi. I (5. 
 
 Tlu! Lord is my lij^ht and my salvation. When T sit 
 in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto me. Ps. xxvii. 
 1 : Micah vii. 8. 
 
 This is the message that wo have heard of him, and 
 declare unto you ; that God is light, and in him is no 
 darkness at all. 1 John i. 5. 
 
 house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the 
 light of the Lord. If we walk in the light as he is in 
 the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the 
 biood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 
 Isa. ii. 5 : 1 John i. 7. 
 
 Arise, shine, for thy light is come ; and the glory of 
 the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness 
 shall cover >)he earth, and gross darkness the people ; 
 but the Lord shi'H arise upon thee, and his glory shall be 
 seen upon thee. The sun shall be no more thy light by 
 day ; neither for brightness shall the moon give light 
 unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlast- 
 ing light, and thy God thy glory. Isa. Ix. 1, 2, 19. 
 
 Walk in the Ught and thou shalt see 
 
 Thy gloomy pathway bright ; 
 For God Himself shall walk with thee, 
 And God Himself is light. 
 
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 T/<«.s j)oot' mail, vritd, iiiul the Lo7xl heard him, and nartd him 
 out of all his tronh/cs. /N. xxxvi. 4. 
 
 Bow down thine oar, O Lord, hear me : for I am 
 poor and needy. . . . Save thy servjint that trusteth in 
 thee. Fs. Ixxxvi. I, 'J. 
 
 T will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor 
 people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord. 
 Zeph. iii. 12. 
 
 I am poor and needy : yet the Lord thinketh upon 
 me ; thou art my help and my deliverer ; make no tarry- 
 ing;, O my (Jod. Ps. xl. 17. 
 
 The Lord heareth tlie poor. The Lord delivereth the 
 poor in his affliction. Ps. Ixix. 33 : Job xxxvi. 15. 
 
 Thou, O Lord, hast prepared of thy goodness for the 
 poor. And the }toor among men shall rejoice in the 
 Holy One of Israel. Ps. xviii. 10 : Isa. xxix. 19. 
 
 Jesus . . . said, . . . Go, show John again those 
 tilings which ye do hear and see : the blind receive their 
 sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and 
 the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have 
 the gospel preached unto them. Hath not God chosen 
 the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the 
 kingdom. Matt. xi. 5 : James ii. 5. 
 
 When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear 
 in his glory. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, 
 and not despise their prayer. Ps. cii. 16, 17. 
 
 What shall one then answer the messengers of the 
 nation 1 That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the 
 poor of his people shall trust in it. The first born of 
 the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in 
 safety. Isa xiv. 32, 30. 
 
 VVeli cared for, Lord, with Thee the poor abide ; 
 And 'neath Thy sheltering wing securely hide ; 
 From all their foes and fears in perfect rest, 
 Safely protected, and supremely blest. 
 
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 (SoVe Care for Mibowe anb ®rpban6. 
 
 A father of the, faflurlrss, anda judye of the widoirs, inCtod in 
 hi.s holy habitation. P.s. Ixviii. 5. 
 
 God . . . (loth execute the judgment of tlie father- 
 less and widow. He relieveth the fatherless and widow. 
 Deut. X. 18 : Ps. cxlvi. 9. 
 
 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them 
 alive; and let thy widows trust in me. Jer. xlix. 11. 
 
 Oursed be he that perverteth tlu; judi^fiunit of the 
 stranger, fatherless and widow, Deut. xxvii. 19. 
 
 Ye shall not afHict any widow or fatherless child. 
 If thou afHict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto 
 me, I will surely hear their ciy ; and my wrath shall 
 wax hot, and I will kill you with the swoid ; and your 
 wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. Ex. 
 xxii. 22-24. 
 
 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and 
 when the eye saw me it gave witness to me : because I 
 delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and 
 him that had none to help him. The blessing of him 
 that was ready to perish came upon me : and 1 cjiui^ed 
 the widow's heart to sing for joy. Job xxix. 11-l'J. 
 
 Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the 
 fatherless, plead for the widow. Pure religion and 
 undefiled before God and the Father is this. To visit the 
 fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep 
 himself unspotted from the world. Isa. i. 17: Jas. i. 27. 
 
 Friend of the friendless, God of pity Thou, 
 
 A sure and ready refuge in distress ; 
 The widow's husband, heretofore and now, 
 
 And ever Father of the fatherless. 
 
 Inspire in us Tliine own kind, tender care 
 For helpless orpiians, and for widows sad ; 
 
 That we may thus their griefs and burdens share, 
 And help to make their lives more light and ^dad. 
 
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 They shall fear the name of the Lord from the west, 
 and his glory from the rising of the sun. Isa. lix. 19. 
 
 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the 
 same, my name sliall be great among the nations ; and 
 in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, 
 and a pure oifering. Mai. i. 11. 
 
 Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. 
 Ps. Ixviii. 31. 
 
 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants 
 . . . shall bring mine offering. Zeph. iii. 10. 
 
 Let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his 
 praise in the islands. Isa. xlii. 12. 
 
 Men shall worship him, every one from his place, 
 even all the isles of the nations. Zeph. ii. 11. 
 
 All the ends of the world shall remember, and turn 
 unto the Lord ; and all the kindreds of the nations shall 
 worship before thee, O Lord ; and shall glorify thy 
 name. Ps. xxii. 27 ; Ixxxvi. 1). 
 
 As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to 
 me, and every tongue shall confess to God. Rom. 
 xiv. 11. 
 
 Let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Ps. 
 Ixxii. 19. 
 
 As truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with 
 the glory of the Lord. Num. xiv. 21. 
 
 Extend tliine eiupire, glorious King, 
 
 And speed the promised day, 
 When all mankind Thy praise shall sing, 
 
 And own 'I'hy Sovereign sway. 
 
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 Hagar called the name of the Loid that spake unto 
 her, Thou God seest me. Gen, xvi. l.'J. 
 
 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding 
 the evil and the good. For his eyes are upon the ways 
 of man, and he seeth all his goings. Prov. xv. .3 : Job 
 xxxiv. 21. 
 
 The Lord looketh from heaven, he beholdeth al! the 
 sons of fnen. From the place of his habitation he 
 looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. For the 
 ways of man are before the eyes of the liord and he 
 pondereth all his goings. Ps. xxxiii. 13,14 : Prov. v. 21. 
 
 The Lord's throne is in heave.i : his eyes behold, his 
 eyelids try the children of men. Ps. xi. 4. 
 
 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the 
 workers of iniquity may hide themselves. Yea, . . . 
 the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. For 
 thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men. 
 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his 
 sight ; but all things are naked, and lying open before 
 the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Job xxxiv. 
 22 : Ps. cxxxix. 12 : Jer. xxxii. 19 : Heb. iv. 13. 
 
 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not 
 see him 1 saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and 
 earth 1 saith the Lord. Jer. xxiii. 24. 
 
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 Thine eye beholds whate'er I do, 
 I'm ever in Thy hand. 
 
 The darkness cannot hide from Thee 
 The night — it cannot cover me ; 
 Before Thee still I stand. 
 
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 The Lord seeth not as man see/h ; for man looketh on the out- 
 irard appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. 1 Sam. 
 xvi. 7. 
 
 O Lord, tliafc triest the righteous, and seest the reins 
 and the heart; thou, Lord, knowest the hearts of all 
 men ; for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. 
 Jer. XX. 12 : Acts i. 24 : Ps. vii. 9. 
 
 Hades and destruction are before the Lord : how 
 much more then the hearts of the children of men. 
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 Search me, O God, and know my heart ; tiy me, and 
 know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way 
 in me. For thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of 
 all the children of men. Ps. cxxxix. 23 : 1 Kings 
 viii. 39. 
 
 I, tlie Lord, search the hearts ; I try the reins, to 
 give bo every man according to his ways. Jer. xvii. 10. 
 
 Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. 
 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising ; thou 
 understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest 
 my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with 
 all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, 
 but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. For the 
 Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the 
 imagination of the thoughts. Ps. cxxxix. 1-4 : 1 Chron. 
 xxviii. 9. 
 
 1 am he which searcheth the reins and hearts : and 
 I will give unto every one or you according to your 
 works. Rev. ii. 23. 
 
 O Thoix, whoso piercing eye of fire, 
 Discerns the unexpressed desire, 
 
 In the soul's hidden part : 
 Search with Thine own revealing flame, 
 As when to David Nathan came ; 
 
 And renovate this heart. 
 
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 The LonVx fire is in Zion, nud his fiiriiact' in Jernsnhm. 
 And he shall sit as a rejincr and, pnrijier 0/ si/rer : and he sha/l 
 purij}/ the sons of Len, an ' putijr fhi-m as ijo/d ami silrer, (hat 
 they may offer unto the Lord an ojf'eriny in righteousness. Isa. 
 XX xi. 9 : MaL iii. 3. 
 
 Moses came to Horeb ; and the angel of the Lord 
 appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a 
 Ijush ; and behold the bush burned with fire, and the 
 bush was not consumed. Ex. iii. 1, 2. 
 
 Thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and 
 he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not : for I have 
 redeemed thee ; thou art mine. When thou vvalkest 
 through the fire thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall 
 the flame kindle upon thee. Isa. xliii. 1, 2. 
 
 We went through fire md through water ; but thou 
 broughtest us out into a wealthy place. Ps. Ixvi. 12. 
 
 I will bring the third part through the fire, and will 
 refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as 
 gold is tried ; they shall call on my name, and I will 
 hear them : I will say. It is my people ; and they shall 
 say, The Lord is my God. Beloved, think it not strange 
 concerning the fiery trial that is to try you, as though 
 some strange thing happened unto you ; but rejoice, 
 inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings : that 
 when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also 
 with exceeding joy. Zech. 13. 9 : 1 Pet. iv. 12, 13. 
 
 Pain's furnace-heat within nie quivers, 
 (iod's breath upon the fire doth blow, 
 
 And all my heart in anguish shivers, 
 And trembles at the fiery glow ; 
 
 And yet I whisper, " As God will ! " 
 
 And in His hottest fire hold still. 
 
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 Hoio great is his yoodness. Zech. ix. 17. 
 
 Good and upright is the Lord : therefore will he 
 teach sinners in the way. Ps. xxv. 8. 
 
 Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and for- 
 bearance and longsuffering : not knowing that the goc"'- 
 ness of God leadeth thee to repentance ? Kom. ii. 4. 
 
 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy 
 paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the 
 wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. 
 The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also 
 are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they 
 also sing. Ps. Ixv. 11-13. 
 
 The Lord is good to all ; and his tender mercies are 
 over all his works. The earth is full of the goodness of 
 the Lord. Ps. cxiv. 9 ; xxxiii. 5. 
 
 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid 
 up for them that fear thee ; which thou hast wrought 
 for them that trust in thee before tht sons of men ! 
 Ps. xxxi. 19. 
 
 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, 
 and for his wonderful works to ti children of men ! 
 Pg. cvii. 8. See cxlvii. 7-14 : Acts xiv. 17. 
 
 Amid the niaddeni'.g maze of things, 
 
 And tossed with storm and flood, 
 To one fixed stake my spirit clings ; 
 
 I know that God is good. 
 
 Yet more and more a Providenco 
 
 Of love is understood ; 
 Making the springs ot time and sense 
 
 Sweet with eternal good. 
 
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 (Ireat is the Lord and greatly to he prained, and his yreatnens 
 is nn-searrhable. Ph. cxlv. 3. 
 
 Who is so great a god as our God ? O Lord, my 
 God, thou art very great. Ps. Ixxvii. V,\ ; civ. 1. 
 
 Behohl God is great. Because he could swear by no 
 greater, he swear by himself. Job. xxxvi. 2() : Heb. 
 vi. 13. 
 
 Thou art great, O Lord God : for there is none like 
 thee, neither is there any God beside thee. Thine, O 
 Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, 
 and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the 
 heaven, and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, 
 O Tj<3rd, and thou art exalted as head a])ove all. 2 Sam. 
 vii. 22 : 1 Chron. xxix. 11. 
 
 The Lord thy God is tamong you a mighty God : a 
 great God, a mighty and a terrible. Deut. vii. 21 ; 
 X. 17. 
 
 Who is like unto thee, O Lord, amoug the gods 1 
 For what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can 
 do according to thy works, and according to thy mighty 
 .acts ? There is none like unto thee among the gods, O 
 Lord ; neither are there any works like unto thy works. 
 For all the gods of the nations are idols : but the Lord 
 made the heavens. Ex. xv. 11 : Deut. iii. 24 : Ps. 
 Ixxxvi. 8 ; xcvi. 5. 
 
 To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be 
 equal to him 1 saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes 
 on high, and see ; who hath created these, that bringeth 
 out their host by number : he calleth them all by name; 
 by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong 
 in power, not one is lacking. Isa. xl. 18, 25, 26. 
 
 Great ia the Lord beyond all human praise ; 
 Great in Himself, and in His works and ways. 
 His greatness shines in every rolling sphere, 
 In every orb and atom, far or near ; 
 But O, in Christ His Soa, His greatness is so dear. 
 
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 Surely Gwl is in tliis place, thoui^li I knew it not. 
 Tills is none other but the house of God, and this is tlio 
 gate of h(;aven. Gen. xxviii. 10, 17. 
 
 Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanc- 
 tuary : I am the Lord. Lev. xix. .30. 
 
 Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and 
 the place where thine honor dwelleth. Blessed is the 
 man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto 
 thee, that he may dwell in thy courts : we shall be 
 satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy 
 holy temple. Ps. xxvi. 8 ; Ixv. 4. 
 
 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his 
 courts with praise : be thankful unto him and biess his 
 name. Ps. c. 4. 
 
 Will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? 
 behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain 
 thee ; how much less this house which I have built ! 
 2 Chron. vi. 18. 
 
 In all places where I record my name, I will come 
 unto thee, and I will bless thee. Ex. xx. 24. 
 
 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I 
 seek after ; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord 
 all the dsiys of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, 
 and to inquire in his temple. Ps. xxvii. 4. 
 
 Where two or three are gathered together in my 
 name, there am I in the midst of them. Matt, xviii. 20. 
 
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 To meet with the Lord in His dwellings below, 
 Is next to the bliss that the glorified know. 
 Even so. Hallelujah ! 
 
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 fhf> ijate of fit an n. Hen, xxviii. 17. 
 
 Plow amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts ! 
 My soul lonj^eth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the 
 Lord : my heart and my flesh crieth out for the livinfj 
 God. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the 
 swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her youn«;, 
 even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my 
 (Jod. 
 
 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house ; they will 
 be still praising thee. Blessed is the man whose strength 
 is in thee ; in whose heart are the ways of them. Who 
 passing through the valley of IJaea, make it a well ; the 
 rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to 
 strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before 
 God. 
 
 O Lord of hosts, hear my piayer; give ear, O God 
 of Jacob, Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the 
 face of thine anointed. For a day in thy courts is 
 better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper 
 in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of 
 wickedness. For the Lord (Jod is a sun and shield : 
 the Lord will give grace and glory : no good thing will 
 he withhold from them that walk uprightly. O Lord of 
 hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. Ps. 
 Ixxxiv. 1-12. 
 
 In the house of the Lord is my sweetest delight, 
 There my grief turns to joy, and my darkness to light ; 
 There my Saviour sheds on me the beams of His face, 
 And refreshes my soul witli the dews of His grace. 
 
 There relax their firm hold on my heart the world's cl\r.rms, 
 And its cares and ambitions, its griefs and alarms, 
 As the glories celestial grow bright on my view, 
 Till I all things for Jesus could suffer or do. 
 
 There my weakness I change for faith's conquering power, 
 As visions unspeakable crowd the glad hour; 
 There my soul gets sweet foretastes of infinite love, 
 That shall ravish forever the ransomed above. 
 
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 Our fathers have transgressed, and done evil in the 
 eyes of the Lord our Uod, and have forsaken him, and 
 have turned away th(!ir faces from the habitation of the 
 Lord. 2 Chron. xxix. 6. 
 
 Thus saith the Lord, Consider your ways. Ye 
 looked for much, and, lo, it came to little ; and when ye 
 brought it home, I did blow it away : . . . because of 
 mine house, ti-at lieth waste, while ye run every one to 
 his own house. Hag. i. 7, 9. 
 
 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none do come 
 to her solemn feasts ; all her gates are desolate ; her 
 priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bit- 
 terness. Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies 
 prosper : her children are gone into captivity before the 
 enemy. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned : therefore 
 she came down wonderfully. We will not forsake the 
 house of the Lord our God. Not forsaking the assem- 
 bling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some ; 
 but exhorting one another; and so milch the more, as 
 ye see the day approaching. Lam. i. 4, 5, 8, 9 : Neh. 
 X. 39 : Heb. x. 25. 
 
 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away 
 from mine ordinances and have not kept them. Return 
 
 unto me, and I will return unto 
 Your words have been stout 
 Lord. Yet ye say. What have 
 
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 me. 
 
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 we spoken so much 
 against thee 1 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God ; 
 and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, 
 and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of 
 hosts. Mai. iii. 7, 13, 14. 
 
 Avert Thy rod, Lord, as low we fall ; 
 
 And in Thy courts, long left, for mercy call : — 
 
 Incline Thou us to serve Thee, one and all. 
 
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 A/f ffii /Hif/is o/t/w Lnt'il tiri' mi IT}/. Iff dditf/ifrfh in vu mj. 
 dud it rich in mercy. Ps. xxv. 10 : Micah vii. IS : Kfth. ii. 4. 
 
 God be merciful to mo a sinner. Luke xviii. 13. 
 Whoso confesHeth and forsaketh his sins shall iiave 
 mercy. Pro v. xxviii. IM. 
 
 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me. Have 
 mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkind- 
 ness ; according to tiie multitude of thy tender mercies, 
 blot out my transgressions. Ps. xxx. 10 ; li. 1. 
 
 () give thanks unto the Lord ; for he is good : for 
 his mercy endureth forever. Let Israel hope in the 
 Lord ; for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him 
 there is plenteous redemption. Ps. cvi. 1 ; cxxx. 7. 
 
 Turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me ; for T 
 am desolate and afflicted. For thou. Lord, art good, 
 and ready to forgive, and plenteous in mercy to all 
 them that call upon thee. Ps. xxv. 16 ; Ixxxvi. 5. 
 
 Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break 
 forth into singing, O mountains ; for the Lord hath 
 comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his 
 afflicted. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so 
 great is his mercy toward them that fear him. Isa. 
 xiix. 13 : Ps. ciii. 11. 
 
 There's a wideiiesa in God's mercy, 
 
 Like the wideness of the sea ; 
 There's a kindness in His justice, 
 
 Which ill more than liberty. 
 
 For the love of God is broader 
 Than the measure of man's mind ; 
 
 And the heurt of the Eternal 
 Is most v/ondorfidly kind. 
 
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 Imuran,; . . . /te hatl horn/i roniinif out of hia hand: and there 
 n'as the hidimj of his ponu r. Iltih. iii. 3, 4. 
 
 Touching tlu; Alini^'Iity, we cannot find hitn out : 
 he is exc(!llent in powoi'. He liath made th(! earth hy 
 his power. Job xxxvii. .'i.'J : Jer. x. 12. See Ps. Ixxxix. 
 l.'{ ; xciii 4. 
 
 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall T ho equal, 
 saith the Holy One '{ Lift up your eycss on hi^^'h, and 
 behold, who hath creatcnl these, that brin^^eth out their 
 host by number ; ho calleth them all by names by the 
 gieatness of his power ; not one faileth. He ruleth by 
 his power forever. Tsa. xl. 25, 20 : Ps. Ixvi, 7. 
 
 Be thou exalted. Lord, in thine own strength : so 
 will we sing and praise thy power. God hath spoken 
 once ; twice have T heard this ; that power belongeth 
 unto God. Ps. xxi. 13 ; Ixii. 11. 
 
 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works ! 
 through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies 
 submit themselves unto thee. Ps. Ixvi. '^. 
 
 Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power. Tn 
 thy hand is power and might ; and in thine hand it is 
 to make great, and to give strength unto all. Ex. xv. 6. 
 
 Behold, God exalteth by his power. Job xxxvi. 22. 
 
 O Lord God of our fathers, ... in thine hand is 
 there not pow^er and might, so that there is none able to 
 withstand thee ? Thy right hand, O Lord, is become 
 glorious in power : thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed 
 in pieces the enemy. 2 Chron. xx. G ; Ex. xv. 6. 
 
 God hath power to help and to cast down. 2 Chron. 
 XXV. 8. 
 
 nod of grace and power, 
 
 On Thee my hopes depend, 
 What foe can fright or harm me, 
 
 If Thou but do defend, 
 
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 ihali l» ihroitl of jtoii'c.r, (Un. xviii. 14: Liib '\, 37. 
 
 I know that thou oanst do (^vei'ythiiii,'. Thtut) is 
 nothiii"^ too hard for thm*. With CJod all things aro 
 possible. Jol) xlii. -: .lor. xxxii. 17: Mark x. '11. 
 ►See Rom. iv. I7-L'l. 
 
 I>(;hul<l, I am the Lord, tlu; Ood of all llcsh ; is there 
 anytiiing too hard for mo? Jor. xxxii. 27. 
 
 O Lord of iufsts, wlio is a stron;^ Lord lik(; unto 
 thoo I or to thy faithfulness round ah(jut thee '\ l*s. 
 Ixxxix. S. 
 
 (jod is faithful, who will not sutler you to he tempted 
 al)ovo that ye are able : but will with the temptation 
 als(» make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear 
 it. 1 Cor X. l;J. See '1 Pot. ii. U. 
 
 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who 
 rideth u[)on the heaven in thy help, and iu his excellency 
 on the sky. J)t!ut. xxxiii. 26. 
 
 God is able to make all grace abound toward you ; 
 that ye, always havin<; all sutiicicuicy in all things, may 
 abound to every good work. 2 Cor. ix. S. 
 
 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abund- 
 antly above all that we ask or think, . . . unto him be 
 glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, 
 world without end : Amen. Eph. iii. 20, 2L 
 
 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling 
 and to present you faultless before the presence of his 
 glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our 
 Saviour, by glory and majesty, . . . both now and ever. 
 Amen. Jude xxiv. 25. 
 
 Firm as His tlirone His promise stands, 
 
 And He can well secure 
 What I've committed to His hands, 
 
 Tjll the decisive hour. 
 
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 Glory and honor are in hin presence : strength and gladness 
 are in his place. 1 Ghron. xvi. 27. 
 
 The uprif^Iit shall dwell in thy presence. In the 
 covert of thy presence shalt thou hide them from the 
 plottings of man ; thou shalt keep them secretly in a 
 pavilion from the strife of tongues. Ps. cxl. 13 ; 
 xxxi. 20. 
 
 Behold, I have made thee a defonced city, and an 
 iron pillar, and brazen walls against the . . . people. 
 And they shall fight against thee ; but they shall not 
 prevail against thee ; for 1 am with thee, saith the 
 Lord, to deliver thee. Jer. i. 18, 19. 
 
 If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up 
 hence. For wherein shall it be known that I and thy 
 people hare found grace in thy sight 1 Is it not in that 
 thou goest with us ; so shall we be separated from all 
 the people that are upon the face of the earth ? Ex. 
 xxxiii. 15, 16. 
 
 My presence shall go with oheo, and I will give thee 
 rest. Ex. xxxiii. 14. 
 
 In thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand 
 there are pleasures fcr evermore. Ps. xvi. 11. 
 
 In my Father's house are many mansions ; . . . I 
 go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare 
 a place for you, I wii^ come again, and receive you unto 
 myself : that where I am, there ye may be also. John 
 xiv. 2, 3. 
 
 I need Thy presence every p.isaing hour — • 
 Willi but Thy grace can foil the tempter's power : 
 Wlio like Thyself my guide and stay can be ? 
 Through cloud and sunshine, abide with me. 
 
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 When he would not he persuaded, we ceased, saying. The will 
 of the Lord be done. Acts xxi. 14. 
 
 He gave them their request ; but sent leanness into 
 their souls. Ps. cvi. 15. 
 
 He gave them* their own desire; . . . but while 
 their meat was yet in their mouths, the wrath of God 
 came upon them, . . . and smote down the young men 
 of Israel. Ps. Ixxviii. 29-31. 
 
 The people refused to obey the voice of Samuel ; and 
 said, Nay ; but we will have a king over us ; that we 
 also may be like all the nations. 1 Sam. viii. 19, 20. 
 
 Ye did that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose 
 that wherein I delighted not. I gave thee a king in 
 mine anger, and took him away in my wrath. Isa. Ixv. 
 12 : Hosea xiii. 11. 
 
 He shall choose our inheritance for us. What I 
 shall choose I know not. Ps. xlvii. 4 : Phil. i. 22. 
 
 What man is he that feareth the Lord ? him shall 
 he instruct in the way that he shall choose. Wherefore 
 be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of 
 the Lord is. Ps. xxv. 12 : Eph. v. 17. 
 
 (Jesus) prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be pos- 
 sible, let this cup pass from me : nevertheless not as I 
 will, but as thou wilt. . . . Thy will be done. Matt, 
 xxvi. 39, 42. See John v. 30. 
 
 Ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into 
 such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, 
 and get gain. . . . Ye ought to say. If the Lord will, 
 we shall live, and do this, or that. James iv. 13, 15. 
 
 I would not choose my lot : I dare not if I might : 
 Choose Thou for me, my God ; and all will then be right. 
 Choose for me friends or foes ; sickness and pain or health : 
 Choose for me joys or woes ; choose poverty or wealth. 
 Nor let one wish a moment rest 
 On aught but what Thou deemest best. 
 
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 These be the hist words of David, . . , the an- 
 ointed of God, and the sweet psahnist of Israel : The 
 Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his v«ord was in 
 my tongue. 2 Sam. xxiii. 1, 2. 
 
 The Holy Ghost spake by the mouth of David. 
 Acts i. 16. 
 
 We know that God spake unto Moses. John ix. 29. 
 
 The Lord said unto Moses, Who hath made man's 
 
 mouth ? . . . Have not T the Lord % Now, therefore, 
 go, and T will be with thy mouth, and teach thee \\ 'lat, 
 thou shalt say. And the Lord spake unto Mo.jCS lace 
 to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. Ex. iv. 
 11, 12 ; xxxiii. 11. 
 
 The words of Jeremiah . . . The Lord said unto me. 
 Behold, I have put my words into thy mouth. Jer. 
 i. 1, 9. 
 
 The word to Jeremiah from the Lord . . . Write 
 thou all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a 
 book. Son of man, get thee unto the house of Israel, 
 and speak with ray words unto them. Jer. xxx. 1, 2 : 
 Ezek. iii. 4. 
 
 The prophecy came not in old time by the will of 
 man ; but holy men of God spake as they were moved 
 by the Holy (ihost. 2 Peter i. 21. 
 
 We thank God . . . that, when ye received from us 
 the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, 
 but as it is in truth, the word of God. 1 Thess. ii. 13. 
 Also see Acts iii. 21 : Heb. i. 1. 
 
 'Twas by an order from the Lord, 
 
 The ancient prophets spoke His word ! 
 
 His spirit did their tongues inspire, 
 
 And warmed their hearts with heavenly tire. 
 
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 77je mouth of (he rujhteom sppahth vixdom, and his fonifue 
 lalkiih ofjudiimcnt. The. lair of his God is in his heart : none of 
 his steps shaJ I slide. l*s. xxxvii. 30, 31, 
 
 Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not 
 sin against thee. Ps. cxix. 11. 
 
 Take heed to yourselves that your heart be not de- 
 ceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and 
 worship them. . . . Therefore shall ye lay up my words 
 in your heart and in your soul. Receive, I pray thee, 
 the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine 
 heart. Deut. xi. 16, 18 : Job xxii. 22. 
 
 I said, I will not make mention of him nor speak 
 any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart 
 as a burning fire shut up in my bones, {ind I was weary 
 with forbearing, and I could not stay. Jer. xx. 9. 
 
 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the 
 people in whose heart is my law ; fear ye not the 
 reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. 
 All my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in 
 thine heart, and lieav with thine eirs. And go, get thee 
 to . . . thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them. 
 Thus saith the Lord ; whether they will hear, or whetlier 
 they will forbear. Isa. li. 7 : Ezek. iii. 10, 11. 
 
 In the volume of the book it is written of me, T 
 delight to do thy will, O my God : yea, thy law is within 
 mj' iieart. Ps. xl. 8. 
 
 My son, attend to my words ; incline thine eai unto 
 my sayings. Let them not depart from thine e3'es ; 
 keep them in the midst of thine heart. Prov. iv. 20, 21. 
 See Prov. iii. 1-4 : Jer. xxxi. 33. 
 
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 Naught else oan so cleanse from all sinful desire, 
 In trial sustain, and to duty inspire, 
 As having for comfort, instruction, control. 
 The word of the Lord hidden deep in the soul. 
 
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 T'/ie commnndment is a lamp ; and the law is liyht ; and 
 reproof fi of instrnr.tion are the tray of life. Prov. vi. 23. 
 
 All things that are reproved are niude manifest by 
 the light : for whatever doth make manifesb is light. 
 Eph. V. 13. 
 
 Everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither 
 
 -Cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 
 
 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his 
 
 deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in 
 
 God. John iii. 20, 21. 
 
 O send out thy light and thy truth ; let them lead 
 me. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto 
 my path. The entrance of thy words giveth light. Ps. 
 xliii. 3; cxix. 105, 130. 
 
 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and 
 lay up his words in thine heart ; . . . and the light shall 
 shine upon thy ways. Job xxii. 22, 28. 
 
 The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening 
 the eyes. Thy commandments make me wiser than 
 mine enemies ; for they are ever with me. I have more 
 understanding than all my teachers ; for thy testimonies 
 are my meditation. T understand more than the aged, 
 because I have kept thy precepts. Through thy pre- 
 cepts I get understanding : therefore I hate every false 
 way. Ps. xix. 8 ; cxix. 98-100, 104. 
 
 My son, forget not my law ; but let thine heart keep 
 my commandments. So shalt thou find favor and good 
 understanding in the sight of God and man. Search 
 the Scriptures ; for in them ye think ye have eternal 
 life : and they are they which testify of me. Prov. 
 iii. 1,4: John v. 39. See Tsa. viii. 20 : Jer. viii. 9 : 
 Actsxvii. 11 : 2 Tim. iii. 14-17. 
 
 Shine on my way, celestial Fount of Life, 
 And let Thy beams within my spirit come : 
 
 O'er crag and dell make all my pathway bright, 
 And safely through the night conduct me home. 
 
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 Ih. thai hath received his tesfimoni/, hath set to /«/.<( seal that 
 God is true. John iii. 33. 
 
 Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which 
 thou hast caused me to hope. Ps. cxix. 49. See Rom. 
 XV. 4. 
 
 All tiesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the 
 dower of grass. The gniss withereth and the ilower 
 thereof falleth away : but the word of the Lord endureth 
 forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is 
 preached unto you. 1 Pater i, 24, 2'). 
 
 My soul tainteth for thy salvaticm ; but I hope in 
 thy word. Ps. cxix. 81. See cxiv ; cxxx. 5. 
 
 Many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of 
 his disciples, which are not written in this book ; but 
 these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is 
 the Christ ; and that believing, ye might have life 
 through his name. John xx. "50, 31. 
 
 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me ; 
 because I have hope in thy word. I prevented the 
 tiawning of the morning, and cried : I hoj)ed in thy 
 word. Ps. cxix. 74, 147. 
 
 These things have I written unto you that believe 
 on the name of the Son of God : that ye may know that 
 ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the 
 name of the Son of God. 1 John v. 13. 
 
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 Hope built on ({od's sure word is on a rock, 
 Nor fears the raging waves, nor l)illow's shock ; 
 The stonn-cloiida liere may burst in floods of rain, 
 And angry tempests spend their force in vain. 
 
 On God's sure word hope well may rest her all. 
 Assured that nothing ill can here befall : 
 For what He saith shall stand, whate'er as.sail, 
 Since (iod's own promises can never fail. 
 
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 Tht word of the Lord wan precious in those days. 1 Sam. 
 Hi. 1. 
 
 How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! Yea, 
 sweeter than honey to my moutli. How precious also 
 are thy thou<,'hts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum 
 of them. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, 
 than much fine gold : sweeter also than honey and the 
 honeycomb. Ps. cxix. 103 ; cuxxix. 17 ; xix. 10. 
 
 Son of man, . . . eat thv; roll . . . that I give thee. 
 Take the book, . . . and eat it up ; and ... it shall 
 be in thy mouth sweet as honey. Rev. x. 8, 9. 
 
 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thou- 
 sands of gold and silver. I rejoice at thy word as 
 one that findeth great spoil. Ps. cxix. 72, 1G2. Hee 
 vs. 16, 24, 47, 77," 126, 127, 163, 167. 
 
 lleceive tuy instruction and not silver ; and know- 
 ledge rather than choice gold. Buy the truth and sell 
 it not. Prov. viii. 10 ; xxiii. 23. 
 
 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as 
 as much as in "11 riches. Thy testimonies have I taken 
 as an heritage forever : for they are the rejoicing of my 
 heart. Ps. cxix. 14, 111. 
 
 These things write we unto you that your joy may 
 be full. 1 John i. 4. 
 
 Oh how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the 
 day. Thy words were found and I did eat them, and 
 thy word was unto me the joy and the rejoicing of mine 
 heart. Ps. cxix. 97 : Jer. xv. 16. 
 
 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy 
 may be in you, and that your joy may be full. John 
 XV. 11. 
 
 Wluit treasures fair of jewels rare 
 
 For us Thy words unfold ; 
 More prtjcious far tlian rubies are 
 
 Or pt'arls and purest gold ! 
 
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May 10.] 
 
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 The commandment of the'. Lord is jtiirt, enliyhteni>i(j the eyen. 
 Pa. xix. 8. See Rom. vii. 12. 
 
 Thy word is very pure ; therefore thy servant loveth 
 it. Every word ot" God is pure. Ps. cxix, 140 : Pro v. 
 XXX. 5. 
 
 The words of the Lord are pure words : as silver 
 tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven tini's. Ps. 
 xii. 6. 
 
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 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ? 
 By taking heed thereto according to thy word. Ps. 
 cxix. 9. 
 
 Now ye are clean through the word which I have 
 spoken unto you. John xv. 3. 
 
 Through thy precepts I get understanding : there- 
 fore I hate every false way. Ps. cxix. 104. See xvii. 4. 
 
 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that 
 seek him with the whole heart. They also do no 
 iniquity ; they walk in his ways. Ps. cxix. 2, 3. 
 
 Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it ; 
 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the 
 washing of water with the word. Eph. v. 25, 26. 
 
 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience 
 to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love 
 one another from a clean heart fervently ; having been 
 begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incor- 
 ruptible, through the word of God, which livetli and 
 abideth forever. 1 Peter i. 22, 23. 
 
 (iod's word is pure as pure can be : 
 Heaven's light is not from stain more free. 
 With whomsoe'er it enters in, 
 It purifies the life from sin, 
 Where'er admitted to the heart, 
 It doth its purity impart. 
 
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 The law of truth wan in his mouth. Mai. ii. 6. 
 
 O Lord, . . . thy words be true. 2 Sam. vii. 28. 
 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his 
 seal that God is true, John iii. 33. 
 
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 Thy word is true from the beginning. Tliy word is 
 truth. Ps. cxix. IGO : John xvii, 17. 
 
 Have I not written to thee excellent things in coun- 
 sels and knowledge, that I might make thee know the 
 certainty of the words of truth : that thou mightest 
 answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee 1 
 Prov. xxii. 20, 21. 
 
 Joshua took the whole land, .according to all that 
 the Lord said unto Moses. There failed not aught of 
 any good thing that the Lord had spoken unto the 
 house of Lsrael ; all came to pass. Josh. xi. 23 ; xxi. 45. 
 
 Ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, 
 that not one thing hath failed of all the good things 
 which the Lord your God spake concerning you : all 
 are come to pass unto you ; not one thing hath failed. 
 Josh, xxiii. 14. 
 
 God is not a man, that he should lie ; neither the 
 son of man, that he should repent : hath he said, and 
 shall he not do it 1 or hath he spoken, and shall he not 
 make it good ? Num. xxiii. 19. 
 
 The strength of Israel will not lie. Yea, let Cod 
 be true, but every man a liar. For all tlu; promises of 
 God in (Christ) are yea, and in him Amen, to the glory 
 of God. God . . . cannot lie. 1 Sam. xv. 29 : Rom. 
 iii. 4 : 2 Cor. i. 20 : Titus i. 2. 
 
 Thy word is everlasting truth, 
 
 How pure is every page ! 
 That holy hook should guide our youth, 
 
 And well support our age. 
 
 I. Watts. 
 
May 12.] 
 
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 The Lord wan irifh {Hezekiah) ; and he prof^pered iikitin'rHO- 
 errr he went. 2 KimjH xviii. 7. 
 
 O that 1 were as in months j)ast ; . . . when the 
 Almighty was yet with me ; . . . when J washed my 
 steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of 
 oil. Job xxix. l', 5, 6. 
 
 Abimelech . . . sj)ake unto Abraham, sayin<^, (lod 
 is with thee in all that thou doest : now tiierefon; swear 
 unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely 
 with me : . . . but according to the kindness that I 
 have done unto thee. Then Abimelech . . . and Phichol 
 . . . w n\t to Isaac, . . . tand they said, We certainly 
 saw that the Lord was with thee : and we said. Let 
 there be now an oath betwixt us . . . and thee, . . . 
 that thou wilt do us no hurt, ... as wo have done 
 nothing but good to thee. Gen. xxi. 22, 2.'i ; xxvi. 2G-29. 
 
 Gideon said, . . . Tf the Lord be with us, why then 
 is all this befallen us ? . . . The Lord hath forsaken 
 us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midiani<os. 
 Judges vi. 13. 
 
 The angel of the Lord . . . said unto him, The Lord 
 is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. Go in this thy 
 might, and thou shalt save Israel. Surely, I will be 
 with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one 
 man. Judges vi. 12, 14, 16. 
 
 The children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal ; 
 and Caleb . . . said unto him. . . . (xive me this moun- 
 tain ; ... if so be the Lord will be with me, then I 
 shall be able to drive out (the Anakims), as the Lord 
 said. Joshua xiv. 6, 12. 
 
 The Lord was with Judah ; and he drave out the 
 inhabitants of the mountains. Judges i. 19. 
 
 "God with lis I" what wondrous courage 
 
 Doth the blest assurance bring ; 
 Strongly sheltered, safe from danger, 
 
 'Neath His wing. 
 
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 The Lord iras irifh Joseph, and he wan a prospcrouH man. 
 , . . And his inanfe?' xnto fh(tf Iht Lord, iras with him, . , . and 
 all that he had he put into his hand. (Jen. xxxix. 2-4. 
 
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 Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with 
 him, and was departed from Saul. And David waxed 
 greater and greater ; for the Lord of hosts was with 
 him. 1 Sam. xviii. 12: 1 Chron. xi. 9. 
 
 Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine 
 heart; for God is with thee. Thus saith the Lord of 
 hosts ; . . . I have hvim with thee whithersoever thou 
 wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies from before 
 thee, and have made thee a name like the nanie of the 
 great ones of the earth. 1 Chron. x\ii. 2, 7, 8. 
 
 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, . . . and . . . stab- 
 lished the kingdoPi in his hand ; and all Judah brought 
 to Jehoshaphat presents ; and he had riches and honor 
 in abundance. 2 Chron. xvii. 3, 5. 
 
 And (Asa) gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and 
 the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, 
 and out of Simeon: for chey fell to him out of Israel in 
 abundance, when they saw that the Lord his Cod was 
 with him. 2 Chron. xv. 9. 
 
 The Lord his God was with (Solomon), and magni- 
 fied him exceedingly. 2 Chron. i. 1. 
 
 And David said to Solomon, . . . Now, my son, the 
 Lord be with thee ; and prosper thou, and build the 
 house of the Lord thy God. ... Is not the Lord your 
 God with you ? . . . Arise, therefore, and build ye the 
 sanctuary of the Lord yoar God. 1 Chron. xxii. 7, 11, 
 18, 19. 
 
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 If God bo with me, what have I to fear? 
 
 Foes cannot harm, for friends are strong and near. 
 
 Wisdom is mine to plan my loved employ; 
 
 And strength that comes with heavenly peace and joy. 
 
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 T'/if// s/iall call Ai-* name Emmanvrf, which, beiiiy iiiterprcttd, 
 is Hod I'rifh us. Matt. i. 23. 
 
 If God will be with me, and keep me in this way 
 
 that I go, and give nie bread to eat, and raiment to put 
 
 on, so that 1 come again to my father's house in peace; ; 
 then shall the Lord be n\y God. Gen. xxviii. 20, 21. 
 
 Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all 
 }>laces whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into 
 this land : for I will not leave thee, until T have done 
 that which I have spoken to thee of. Return unto the 
 land of thy fatheis ; . . . and I will be with thee. Fear 
 not to go down into Egypt ; for ... I will go down 
 with thee into Kgypt ; and I will also surely bring 
 thee up again. Gen. xxviii. l."); xxxi. 3 ; xlvi. 3. 
 
 If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up 
 hence. Ex. xxxiii. 15. 
 
 Certainly I will be with thee. Be strong and of a 
 good courage ; . . . for the Lord thy God, he it is that 
 doth go with thee ; he will not fail thee or forsake thee. 
 Ex. iii. 12. Deut. xxxi. 6. 
 
 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of 
 death, I will fear no evil ; for thou art with me ; thy 
 rod and thy staff they comfort me. Ps. xxiii. 4. 
 
 Fear thou not ; for I am with thee : be not dis- 
 mayed ; for I am thy God : I will strengthen thee ; 
 yea, I will help thee ; yea, I will uphold thee with the 
 right hand of my righteousness. Isa. xli. 10. Sec; xliii. 2. 
 
 " God with lis ! " O wondrous thought ! 
 With what strength and courage fraught ! 
 
 Joyful mid the gloom I sing, 
 'Neath His eye, and hand, and w ing. 
 
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 They han' yoiK aicay harkiriirtl. I.sa, i. 4. 
 
 The cliildrou of Epl.'aini iMsintj Jiniu'd, and ciiirying 
 l)owH, turned hack in tin day of l)attl('. Tlu^y turned 
 hack and tenij)ted (Jod, and limited the Holy One of 
 lHi'a(!l. They tui'ned hack, and dealt unfaithfully, like 
 th(ur fatheis ; and in their hearts tuined hack again to 
 Ej,'yi)t. Ph. Ixxviii. i), 41; 57 : Acts vii. 'Ml 
 
 (Youi- fathers) hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, 
 Itut walk(^d in the counsels and in the inia<^ination of 
 their (!vil heai't, and went hackwaid, and not foiward. 
 1 will cut oil' . . . thenj that are turned hack from the 
 Lord ; and those that hav(^ not sought tlu^ l.ord, nor 
 erKjuircKi aftei* him. .ler. vii. 21 : Zeph. i. 4, G. 
 
 Our heart is not turned hack, neither have our steps 
 declined from thy ways. His way have T kept ; . . • 
 neither I have not gone hack from the commandni' 
 of his lips. ?s. xliv. IS : .lot) xxiii. 11, 12. 
 
 If any man draw hack, my soul shall have no 
 pleasure in liim. Heh. x. .'JtS. 
 
 T have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I can- 
 not go hack. Judges xi. o5. 
 
 No man having put ]jis hand to the plougli, and 
 looking b.ack, is fit for the kingdom of God. Luke 
 ix. 62. 
 
 We are not of them that draw back unto perdition, 
 hut of them th^^t believe to the saving of the soul. 
 Heb. X. 39. 
 
 Look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the 
 plain. llememl)er Lot's wife. Gen. xix. 17 : Luke 
 xvii. 32. 
 
 The fearful soul that tires and faints, 
 And walks the ways of (Jod no more, 
 
 Is but esteeme<l, almost a saint, 
 
 And makes his own destruction sure. 
 
 I. Watts. 
 
May IG.] 
 
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 7'hi Loril Kin'il unto Mo'os^ ]Yhit'i/i,rr I'rii.st ffinn unfn me ? 
 Spritk iiuh) th< rhilUri n of Isriul, that f/ii y ijo j'unraid. bix, 
 xiv. 1'). 
 
 Leaving tho priiu'iples of tlu) doutrino of I'lirist, let 
 U8 go oil unto |)('rf(;ction. Jlcl). vi. 1. 
 
 As new boi-n hahes, desire the sincere milk of the 
 w(nd, that ye may grow therein', (irow in grace;, and 
 in the knowledge of our Loid and Saviour .Je.sus Christ. 
 1 Peter ii. 2 : 2 Peter iii. IS. 
 
 I count not myself to have apprehended : hut this one 
 thing 1 do, forgetting thost; things that are ht^hind, and 
 reaching forth unto those things which aic lu^fore, I 
 press toward the mark for the prize of th(! high calling 
 of (iod in Christ Jesus. Phil. iii. l.'i, U. 
 
 We beseech you, hrethren and e.vhort you, by the 
 liord Jesus, that as ye have r(i't>i\ ed of us how ye ought 
 to walk and to please Cod, ye would abound more and 
 more. 1 Thess. iv. 1. 
 
 Seeing we also are compassed tihout witli so great a 
 chmd of witnesses, let us lay Jisidt; every weight, and the 
 sin that doth so easily beset us (unbelief), and let us 
 run with patience the race that is set before us, looking 
 unto Jesus. Heb. xii. 1, 2. 
 
 The righteous shall hold on his way, and he that 
 hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger. The 
 path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth 
 more and more unto the perfect day. Job xvii. : Prov. 
 iv. 18. See Ps. Ixxxiv. 7. 
 
 " Forward ! " be our watchword, 
 
 Steps aiul voices joined. 
 Seeking things before us, 
 
 Not a look behind. 
 
 Forward, ever forward, 
 Clad in armor bright ; 
 
 Till the veil be lifted, 
 And our faith be sight. 
 
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 The lain u-as i/ireu uy Moxn-^, hut grtice and Iriifh came hy 
 Je-fHs Christ. John i. 17. 
 
 The law entered, that the offence might abound. But 
 wliere sin abounded, grace did much more abound : 
 that as sin hatli reigned unto death, even so might 
 grace reign tln"ough righteousness unto eternal life by 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. v. 20, 21. 
 
 Not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if 
 through tlie offence of one many be dead, much more 
 the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one 
 man, Jesus Christ, hatli abounded unto many. Horn. 
 V. 1.'). See Deut. ix. 5 : Ezek. xxxvi. 'I'l. 
 
 We believe that throuijh the nxncoi of the Lord Jesus 
 Christ we shall be saved. Being justified freely by his 
 grace tlirough the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 
 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children 
 by Jesus Clirist to himself, according to the good pleas- 
 ui'e of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace. 
 Not according to our works, but according to his pur- 
 pose and grace ; — which was given us in Christ Jesus 
 befoi-e the world began. Not by works of righteousness 
 which we have donti, but according to his mercy, he 
 saved us : . . . that being justified by his grace we 
 should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal 
 life. Acts XV. 11 : Rom. iii. 24 : Eph. i. 5, 6 : 2 Tim. 
 i. 9 : Titus iii. 5, 7. 
 
 It is of faith, that it may be by grace. And if it be 
 by grace, then it is no more of works ; otherwise grace 
 is ro more grace. For by grace are ye saved, through 
 faih ; and that not of yourselves ; it is the gift of God : 
 not of works, lest any man should boast. Rom. iv. 1 G ; 
 xi. 6 : Eph. ii. 8, 9. 
 
 'Twas His own purpose that begun 
 
 To re^^cue rebels doomed to die. 
 He gave iis grace in Christ Hia Son, 
 
 Before He formed the starry sky. 
 
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May 18.] 
 
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 When { finrnnhn.'i) n'n<* i^ome (to Aufiorh), and had xeen the 
 ffrace of t! oil, he n'as tjfad. Acts xi 23. 
 
 Unto everyone of us is given grace according to the 
 measure of the gift of Christ. Eph. iv. 7. 
 
 As every man hath received tlie gift, even so min- 
 ister the same one to another, as good stewards of the 
 manifold grace of God. 1 Peter iv. 10. 
 
 Having then gifts differing according to grace given 
 to us ; — let us have grace whereby we may serve God 
 acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. llom. xii. 
 6 : Heb. xii. 28. 
 
 God is able to make all grace abound tf)ward you, 
 that ye always having call sufficiency in all things, may 
 abound to every good work. 2 Cor. ix. 8. 
 
 By the grace of God I am what I am : and his grace 
 which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I 
 laljored more abundantly than they all : yet not I, but 
 tlie grace of God which was with me. 1 Cor. xv. 10. 
 
 My grace in sufficient for you. 2 Cor. xii. 9. 
 
 Out of his fuiUess have all we received, and grace 
 for ffiace. Seeing then that we have a great High 
 Priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of 
 n God; — let us therefore come boldly unto the throne 
 of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to 
 help in time of need. John i. 16 : Heb. iv. 14, 16. 
 
 He giveth more grace. The grace of the Lord Jesus 
 Christ be with you all. Amen. James iv. 6 : Rev. 
 xxii. 21. 
 
 Grace ! 'Tis a charming sound, 
 
 Harmonious to the ear ; 
 Heaven with the echo shall resound, 
 
 And all the earth shall hear. 
 
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 The. Lord vnl.l (jice f/race and <jlory. Ps. Ixxxiv. 11. 
 
 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us, for thou also 
 hast wrouj^ht all our works in us. Isa. xxvi. 12. 
 
 Work out your own salvation with fear and trem- 
 bling. For it is God who worketh in you both to will 
 and to do of his good pleasure. Phil. ii. 12, 1.3. 
 
 (Christ) gave himself for us, that he might redeem 
 us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar 
 people, zealous of good works. Titus ii. 14. 
 
 Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it ; 
 that he might . . . present it to himself a glorious 
 church ; not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. 
 Eph. V. 25, 27. 
 
 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, who hath . . . chosen us in him before the foun- 
 dation of the world, that we should be holy and without 
 blame before him in love. For we are his workmanship, 
 created anew in Christ Jesus unto good works, which 
 God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 
 Eph. i. 3, 4 ; ii. 10. 
 
 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the 
 dead our Lord Jesus, . . . that great shepherd of the 
 sheep, make you perfect in every good work to do his 
 will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his 
 sight through Jesus Christ. Heb. xiii. 20, 21. 
 
 The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me. 
 Ps. cxxxviii. 8. 
 
 He that hath begun a good work in you, will perfect 
 it until the day of Jesus Christ. Phil. i. 6. 
 
 The work which His goodness began, 
 The arm of His strength will complete ; 
 
 His promise is Yea, ana Amen, 
 And never was forfeited yet. 
 
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May 20.] 
 
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 Israel . . . shaH ijroir as the lily. Consiihr the lilies houj 
 they fjron'. Hos. xiv. 5 : Luke xii. 27. 
 
 Rescue me and deliver mo out of the hand of 
 strangers, whose moutli speaketh vanity, and their 
 right liand is a right hand of falsehood : that our sons 
 may be as plants grown up in their youth ; and our 
 daughters as corner stones hewn after the fashion of a 
 pahice. Ps. cxliv. 11, 12. 
 
 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree : he 
 shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They that are 
 {)lanted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the 
 courts of our (Jod. They shall still bring forth fruit in 
 old age ; they shall be fat and flourishing. Ps. xcii. 
 12-U. 
 
 Can the rush grow without mire? Job viii. 11. 
 
 When for the time, ye ought to be teachers, ye 
 have need again that some one teach you the (very) 
 rudiments, the first principles of the oracles of God. 
 For every one that useth milk, is unskilled in the word 
 of righteousness ; for he is a babe. As new-born babes, 
 desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow 
 thereby : if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is 
 gracious. Heb. v. 12, 13 : 1 Peter ii. 2, 3. 
 
 When he ascended up on high, he . . . gave gifts 
 unto men : And he gave some, apostles ; and some, 
 prophets ; and some, evangelists ; and some, pastors and 
 teachers ; for the perfecting of the saints, . . . for the 
 building up of the body of Christ: till we all attain 
 unto ... a full grown man, unto the measure of the 
 stature of the fulness of Christ. Eph. iv. 8-13. 
 
 Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord 
 and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Peter iii. 18. 
 
 I would not be an infant all my days, 
 In strength and knowledge, character and ways ; 
 But I would grow in Hkeness to my Lord, 
 * By doing what he teaclies in His word. 
 
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 A iviched man harthntth 1m face. Proi\ xxi. 29. 
 
 In tlie time of his di.stress did he trespass yet more 
 a<(aipst the Lord, this same king Ahaz. 2 Chron. 
 xxviii. 22. 
 
 Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and 
 smote the dust of the eartli, and it became lice in man 
 and in beast, . . . throughout all the land of Egypt. 
 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the 
 finger of God : and Pharaoh's heart was hardened. Ex. 
 viii. 17, 19. See Job xv. 25, 26 : Amos iv. 6-11. 
 
 They shall pass through (the land) hardly bestead, 
 and hungry. And, . . . when they are hungry, they 
 shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their 
 God. For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth 
 them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts. Isa. 
 viii. 21 ; ix. 13. See Hag. ii. 17. 
 
 While their meat was yet in their mouths, the wrath 
 of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, 
 and smote down the young men of Israel. For all this 
 they sinned still, and believed not in his wondrous 
 works. Ps. Ixxviii. 30 32. 
 
 O Lord, . . . thou hast stricken them, but they 
 were not grieved ; thou hast consumed them, but they 
 have refused to receive instruction : they have made 
 their faces harder than a rock ; they have refused to 
 return. Jer. v. 3. 
 
 The fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun ; 
 and power was given unto it to scorch men with fire. 
 And men were scorched with great heat, and they blas- 
 phemed the name of God, . . . and they repented not. 
 Rev. xvi. 8, 9. See ix. 17-21 ; xvi. 10, 11, 21 : Isa. i. 5. 
 
 Spirits condemned, and demons held in chains, 
 Are only liardened by tiieir torturing pains : 
 And wicked, carnal natures, ever so, 
 Sutter for sin, and only harder grow. 
 
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 The fear of the Lord U to hate evil. Pror. viii. 13. 
 
 There be six things which the Ijord liateth : yea, 
 seven which are an abomination unto him : liauglity 
 eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent 
 blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet 
 that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness 
 that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discord among 
 brethren. Prov. vi, 16-19. 
 
 Pride and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the 
 froward mouth, do I hate. Prov. viii 13. 
 
 I hate vain thoughts — every false way — but thy hiw 
 do I love. Ps. cxix". 11:5, 128. 
 
 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil, 
 and love the good. Abhor that which 
 to that which is good. Ps. xcvii. 10 
 Rom. xii. 9. 
 
 Hate the evil, 
 
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 I hate the work of them tliat turn aside : it shall 
 not cleave unto me. Ps. ci. >]. 
 
 This thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the 
 Nicolaitanes, which I also hate. llev. ii. 6. 
 
 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee ? and 
 am not I grieved with them that rise up against thee ? 
 1 hate them with perfect liatred : I count them mine 
 enemies. Ps. cxxxix. 21, 22. 
 
 Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them tliat 
 hate the Lord ? For this thing wrath is ui)on thee from 
 before the Lord. Know ye not that the friendship of 
 the world is enmity with God I Whosoever therefore 
 would be €a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy 
 of God. 2 Chron. xix. 2 : James iv. 4. See JVlatt. x. 
 34-36 : Luke xiv. 26. 
 
 (io(l bids me, and my soul obeys, 
 To turn from evil men and ways ; 
 To hate the dark, and love the hght, 
 To shun the wrong, and choose the i-ight. 
 
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 hat fad therci'nth. Pror. xv. 17. 
 
 Hatred stirreth up strifes. Prov. x. 12. 
 
 When (Joseph's) hiethren saw that their father ^oved 
 him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and 
 could not speak peaceaV)ly unto hira. Gen. xxxvii. 4. 
 See vs. 5, 8, 18-20; xlix. 23. 
 
 The works of the ilesh are, . . . ha '-ed, variance, 
 etc. For we ourselves also were once . . hateful, and 
 hating one anotlier. (Jal. v. 19, 20 : Titus iii. 3. 
 
 Thou slialt not hate thy brother in thine heart. 
 Every one that hateth his brother is a murderer, and 3'e 
 know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 
 Lev. xix. 17:1 John iii. 15. See Gen. iv. 8 ; xxvii. 41. 
 
 If c'l man say, I love (Jod, and hateth his brother, he 
 is a liar : for he that lo\'eth not his brother whom he- 
 hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen. 
 1 John iv. 20 
 
 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his 
 brother, is in darkness even until now. He that hateth 
 his brother is in darkness, and w.^lketh in darkne.ss, and 
 knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness 
 hath blinded his eyes. 1 John ii. 9, 11. 
 
 As (Jesus) sat upon the Mount of Olives, the dis- 
 ciples came unto him privately, crying, Tell us, . . . 
 what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end 
 of the world ? Matt. xxiv. 3. 
 
 Then shall many be offended, and shall betray one 
 another, and shall h;ite one another. Matt. xxiv. 10. 
 See vs. 48-51 
 
 Hatred is hell's liot spark within the soul, 
 Kindling bad passions with its dread control ; 
 Till bursting names of murderous ire appear, 
 J^eaving whole homes and realms in ruins drear. 
 
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 He that Is of (rod /lenrtth UuWn u'ord. John viii. 47. 
 
 Bless the Ijord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, 
 that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of 
 his word. Ps. ciii, 20. 
 
 Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak ; and hear, 
 O earth, the words of my mouth. Deut. xxxii. 1. 
 
 Who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and 
 hath perceived and heard his word I who hath marked 
 his word and heard it ? Jer. xxiii. IS. 
 
 If (the prophets) had stood in my counsel, and had 
 caused my people to hear my woids, then they sliould 
 have turned them from tlieir evil way, and from the 
 evil of their doings. Jer. xxiii. 22. 
 
 The word preached did not profit them, not being 
 mixed with faith in them that heard it. Heh. iv. 2. 
 
 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I 
 will send a famine in the land, not ... of bread, nor 
 . . . water, })ut of hearing the words of the Lord. 
 Amos viii. 11. 
 
 Mary . . . sat at Jesus' feet, a' id heard his word. 
 Luke X. 39. 
 
 Happy are your . . . ears, for ti ey hear. For verily 
 T say unto you, that many pniphet* and '•ighteous men 
 iiave desired ... to hear wiiat ye hear, and have not 
 lieard. Take heed what ye hear. Matt. xiii. 16, 17 : 
 Mark iv. 24. 
 
 The Holy Ghost fell on them that heard the word. 
 Acts X. 44. 
 
 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. Take 
 heed how ye hear. Mark iv. 28 : Luke viii. 18. 
 
 How rare a treasure hath the soul possessed, 
 Where God's own message found a wilUng ar : 
 
 Not Mary's ehosen portion was more blest, 
 
 Nor did Christ seem to lier more near anci dear 
 Than where His word is heard with filial fear. 
 
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 They helped erery one his neiyhhor. Inu. xli. 6. 
 
 Moses called . . . every wise hearted man, every 
 one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work 
 to do it. David also commanded all the princes of 
 jsrael to help Solomon his son. Ex. xxxvi. 2 : 1 Chron. 
 xxii. 17. 
 
 There are workmen with thee in abundance. And 
 there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship, 
 every willing skilful man, for any manner of service; also 
 the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy com- 
 mandment. 1 Chron. xxii. 15; xxviii. 21. 
 
 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me. 
 Ps. cxviii. 7. 
 
 Amasai . . . said. Thine are we, David, and on thy 
 side, thou son of Jesse : peace, peace be unto thee, and 
 peace be to thine helpers ; for thy God helpeth thee. 
 1 Chron. xii. 18. 
 
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 We are laborers to^,^ uer with God 
 workers together with him, 
 helpers to the truth. 1 Cor. iii. 9 
 John 8. 
 
 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the 
 gospel of Christ : that whether I come and see you, or 
 else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand 
 fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for 
 the faith of the gospel. Phil. i. 27. 
 
 O thtat they were wise, . . . that they would consider 
 their latter end. How should one chase a thousand, and 
 two put ten thousand to flight. Deut. xxxii. 29, 30. 
 
 Five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred 
 of you shall put ten thousand to flight. Lev. xxvi. 8. 
 
 Together we rally, one and all, 
 
 To fight or work at the Master's call. 
 
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 God is our refiii/r. and sfniiii/h, a ii ry jn'csdif help in tronhh'. 
 Ps. xlvi. 1. 
 
 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? . . . 
 I3e not far from me, for troulile is near; for there is 
 none to help. Ps. xxii. 1, 11. 
 
 The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble , . . . the 
 God of Jacob defend thee; send thee help from the sanc- 
 tuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion. Ps. xx. 1, 2. 
 
 Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of 
 man. For thy name's sake, O Lord, bring ray soul out 
 of trouble. Ps. Ix. 11 ; cxliii. 11. 
 
 He shall deliver thee in six troubles ; yea, in seven 
 there shall no evil touch thee. Job v. 19. 
 
 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for T am in trouble. 
 The troubles of my heart are enlaiged. O bring thou 
 me out of my distresses. Ps. xxxi. 9 ; xxv. 17. 
 
 Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver 
 thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Ps. 1. 1 5. 
 
 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried 
 unto my God : he heard my voice out of hi i temple ; 
 and my cry before him came into his ears. He sent 
 from on high, he took me ; he drew me out of many 
 waters. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. 
 Ps. xviii. 6, 16, 19. 
 
 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and fleliv- 
 ereth them out of all their troubles. Thou calledst in 
 trouble, and I delivered thee. Ps. xxxiv. 17 ; Ixxxi. 7. 
 
 Did ever trouble yet befall, 
 And He refuse to hear thy call ? 
 He who hath helped me hitlierto, 
 Will help nie all my journey through ; 
 And give me daily cause to raise 
 New Ebenezers to his praise 
 
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 Ibibino place. 
 
 A man nhall he ns a» hitlitig place from the irintl, and a rorert 
 frohi the tempest ; . . , as the shadow of a (jreat rock in a weary 
 land. Isa. xxxii. 2. 
 
 In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavil- 
 ion : in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me ; 
 He shall set me up upon a rock. Ps, xxvii. 5. 
 
 Behold, there is a place by me. and thou slialt stand 
 upon the rock; and it shall come to j)ass, while my glory 
 passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, 
 and will cover thee with my hand, until I have passed 
 by. Ex. xxxiii. 21, 22. 
 
 In the covert of thy presence shalt thou hide them 
 from the pride of man : thou shalt keep them secretly in 
 a pavilion from the strife of tongues. Ps. xxxi. 20. 
 
 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the t(mgue ; 
 neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it com- 
 eth. Job v. 21. 
 
 Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies : I flee unto 
 thee to hide me. Thou art my hiding place and my 
 shield. Thou art my hiding place ; thou shalt preserve 
 me from trouble ; thou shalt compass me about with 
 songs of deliverance. Ps. cxliii. 9; cxix. 114; xxxii. 7. 
 
 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the 
 earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ 
 in God. Col. iii. 2, 3. 
 
 In the shadow of his hand hath he hid me. Isa. 
 xlix. 2. 
 
 I have covered thee in the shadow of my hand. Isa. 
 11. 16. 
 
 In tlie I'iven rock I'm hiding, 
 
 Safe from danger and alarm ; 
 In my Saviour's love confiding, 
 
 I can fear no foes nor harm. 
 Safe the siielter — covering grand, 
 
 In the shadow of His hand. 
 
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 An hitfhtray sfia/l ht there, aiol itn'ny, atnl it nha/l hi fallal 
 the nay of holi in <<■'<. Ami thci/ shall call than, The holy jxojile. 
 Ixa. XXXV. 8 ; Ixii. 12. 
 
 Blessed be the (jod and Father of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, who hath . . . chosen us in him before the 
 foundation of the woild, tliat we should be holy, and 
 without blame l)efore him in love. Eph. i. li, 4. 
 
 Know ye not that ye are the temph; of God, and 
 that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you ■? Jf any man 
 defile the temple ((f God, him shall God destroy ; for the 
 temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 1 Cor. iii. 
 16, 17. 
 
 Holiness beeometh thine house, Lord, forever. Ps. 
 xeiii. 5. 
 
 Ye also as living stones, are built up a spiritual 
 house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, 
 acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter ii. v. 
 
 God hath . . . called ns . . . unto holiness. 1 Thess. 
 iv. 7. 
 
 As he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in 
 all manner of conversation : because it is written. Be ye 
 holy; for I am holy. 1 Peter i. 15, 10. 
 
 Having these promises, ... let us cleanse ourselves 
 from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holi- 
 ness in the fear of God. 2 Cor. vii. 1. 
 
 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without 
 which no man shall see the Lord. Heb. xii. 14. 
 
 More holiness give me, more strivings within : 
 More patience in sutl'ering, more sorrow for sin ; 
 More faith in my Saviour, more sense of His care ; 
 More joy in His servicie, more purpose in prayer. 
 More tit for the kingdom, more used would I he ; 
 More blessed and holy, more, Saviour, like Thee. 
 
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 Ihfort honor m /iiiiiiilifi/. Hi/ hiiinUltif mid //u J'lfir of flu 
 Lord arc. riehts, honor, tnid/ij't, I'ror, xviii. 12; xxii. 4. 
 
 He that followetli after ri;,'lite()usness and mercy, 
 fitidetli life, ri;;hteousne.s.s, anv 'ionor. Prov. xxi. 21. 
 
 And (lod sjiid to Stjloinoii, Ji(;cauHe . . . tliou hast 
 not asked i-iches, wealth, or honoi', nor tlie life of tliine 
 enemies, neither yet hast asked h»n^ life : but hast 
 nsked wisdom and knowled<^e for thystslf, that thou 
 nii^htest judj^e my people, . . . wis(K)m and knowledge 
 is granted unto thee ; and I will give thee riches, and 
 wealth, and honor, sueh as none of the kings liave had 
 Ixjfoie thee, neither shall any after thee have the like. 
 2Chron. i. 11, 12. 
 
 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom. . . . For 
 the merchandise of it is better thaii the merchandise of 
 silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. . . . Length 
 of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand riches 
 and honor. Prov. iii. l."MC). 
 
 Wisdom is the principal thing ; . . . Exalt her and 
 she shall promote thee : she shall bring thee to honor 
 when thou dost embrace her. Prov. iv. 7-9. 
 
 In a great house the are not only vessels of gold 
 and of silver, but also of wood and of earth ; and some 
 to honor, and some to dishonor. If a man therefore 
 purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto 
 honor, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and 
 prepared for every good work. 2 Tim. ii. 20, 21. 
 
 Them that honor nie I will honor. If any man 
 serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall 
 also my servant be ; if any man serve me, him will my 
 Father honor. 1 Sam. ii. 30 : John xii. 26. 
 
 I ask the lionors not of earth and time, 
 But honors more enduring and sublime : 
 Tliese often only leave us grief and pain ; 
 Those erown us with unending bliss and gain. 
 
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 Now our LonI Jesus Clirist liiinsclf, uiul God, even 
 our KatluM", huth loved us, aiui hiitli ;^iv»'ii us rvciIuHtiii;^ 
 consolation and <,'ood Iiojh^ tlirou^li grace. 2 Tliess. ii. 1(1. 
 
 Which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Col. i. 27. 
 
 Let us, who art; of the day, be sober, putting on tin; 
 breastplate of faith and love ; and for an hehnet, tin; 
 hope of salvation. For we are saved by hope : but iiope 
 that i.s seen is not ho})e : for what a man seeth, why 
 doth he yet hope for 'I JJut if we hope ^or that we see 
 not, then do we with patience wait ior it. I Thess. 
 V. 8 : Rom. viii. 24, 25. 
 
 It is good for a man that he both hope and (juietly 
 wait for the salvation of the Lord. And we desiie that 
 every one of you do show the same diligence to the full 
 assurance of hope unto the end : — and be not moved 
 away from the lu>pe of the gospel. Lam, iii. 2G : II eb. 
 vi. 11 : Col. i. 23. 
 
 Tribulation worketh patience ; and patience, experi- 
 ence ; and experience, hope : and hope maketh not 
 ashamed ; because the love of God is shed abroad in our 
 hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. For 
 we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness 
 by faith. Rom. v. 3-5 : Gal. v. 5. 
 
 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace 
 in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the 
 power of the Holy Ghost. Rom. xv. 13. 
 
 Spirit of hope, wliose cheering ray 
 Transforms our darkness into day ; 
 Strengthen our souls froiu tins blest liour. 
 By thy imlwelling grace and i)<»wer. 
 
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 T'/k^ hope of the riyhfeoiis .shall he gladness. Pror. x. 28. 
 
 Why art thou cast down, O my soul 1 and why art 
 thou disquieted within me ? hope thou in God : for I 
 shall yet prai.ie him, who is the health of my counten- 
 ance, and my Cod. Ps. xlii. 11. 
 
 Let Israel hope in the I^ord ; for with the Tjord 
 there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. 
 P>,. cxxx. 7. 
 
 Now Lord, what wait I for ? my hope is in thee 
 For thou art my hope, () Lord God : thou art my trust 
 from my youth. Ps. xxxix. 7 ; Ixxi. 5. 
 
 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, 
 whose hope is in the Lord his God. Ps. cxlvi. 5. 
 
 Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we 
 hope in thee. Ps xxxiii. '22. 
 
 Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear 
 him, upon them that hope in his mercy. Ps. xxxiii. 18. 
 
 In thee, O Lord, do I hope : make haste to help me, 
 O God of my salvation. Ps. xxxviii. 15, 22. 
 
 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in 
 those that hope in his mercy. Ps. cxlvii. 11. 
 
 The Lord is in my portion, saith my soul ; therefore 
 will I hope in him. I will hope continually, and will 
 yet praise thee more and more. Lam. iii. 24 : Ps. 
 Ixxi. 14. 
 
 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and 
 who'ie hope the Lord is. Jer. xvii. 7. 
 
 Htjpe clioera with light the darkest gloom, 
 And clothes its haiTen wastes witii bloom ; 
 It counts fur gain the greatest loss, 
 And glories even in the cross. 
 
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 The Lord wilt be the ho/fc of his jnople. Joel iii. 16. 
 
 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, who accordin;^ to his abundant inercy hath 
 begotten us again uato a living hop(! by the resurrection 
 of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incor- 
 ruptible, and undeliled, and that fatleth not away, 
 reseived in luNiven for you, who are kept by the power 
 of (Jod through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed 
 in the last time. 1 P(;t('r i. 3-5. 
 
 We give thanks to (lod . . . for the hope which is 
 laid up for you in heaven. Col. i. 3, 5. 
 
 The Lord .lesiis Chiist is our hope. Whose house 
 are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing 
 of our hope firm unto the (md. 1 Tim. i. 1 : lleb. iii. G. 
 
 ^^llerefore giid up the loins of your mind, be sober, 
 and hope to the end for tlu; grace that is to be bi'ought 
 unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 
 
 i. i;j. 
 
 Beloviul, now are we the sons of (Jod, and it doth 
 not yet apjiear what we shall be : but we know that 
 when he shall apptsir, we shall be lik(^ him ; for we shall 
 se(^ him as he is. And evei'y man that hath this hope 
 in him puvifieth himself, even as he is pure. 1 John 
 iii. 2, X 
 
 Sanctif}' the I»rd Cod in your hearts ; and be ready 
 always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a 
 leason of the hope that is in you with meekness and 
 fear. 1 Peter iii. 15. 
 
 Hope with npliftf/l ffK)t, set free from earth, 
 Pants for the plaoe <«^ its eth<T«'al hirtli ; 
 On steady wings tlies through the immense abyss. 
 Plucks amaranthine jo;.>( from J)ow«'rs of bliss, 
 And crowns the soul while yet a sufferer here, 
 With wreaths like those angelic .spirits wear, 
 
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 to the .YwiiDj oj'hix honic. Heh. xi. 7. See, Gen. vii. 1, 7. 
 
 Josliuji said, . . . As for me and my house, we will 
 serve the Lord. Josh. xxiv. 15. 
 
 1 know (Abraham), that he will command his chil- 
 dren and his household aft(!r him, and they shall keep 
 the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment. Gen. 
 xviii. 19. 
 
 I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. 
 Mine eyes shall !)(> upon the faithful of th(» land, that 
 they may dwell with me. . . . He that worketh deceit 
 shall not dwell witliin my house. Hid me, and deliver 
 me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth 
 sp(!aketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of 
 falsehood : that our sons may be as plants grown up in 
 their youth ; that our daughters may be as corner-stones, 
 polished after the similitude of a palace Ps. ci. 2, G, 7 ; 
 cxliv. II, 12. 
 
 (Job's) sons went and feasted . . . e\ery one his day. 
 And . . . when the days of their f(;asting were gone 
 about, Job sent and sanctified them, . . . and ottered 
 burnt offerings, ac«rording to the number of them all : 
 for Job said, It may be that my sons have cursed God 
 in their luuirts. Thus did Job continually. Job i. 4, 5. 
 
 Cornelius . . . feared G<jd, with all his house. Acts 
 X. 1, 2. 
 
 Ye know the house of Stophanus, . . . that they 
 have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints. 
 Salute . . . Nyiwphas, and the church which is in his 
 house. 1 Cor. xti. I.j : Col. iv. 15. 
 
 Blest is the piotis house, 
 
 Where zeal Jind frieiulship meet ; 
 Tiieir songs of praise, their mingled vows, 
 
 Make their comminion sweet. 
 
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 Before honor is humility. Pror. xv. 33. 
 
 Whosoover exalteth himself shall be abased ; and he 
 that huiiibleth himself shall be exalted. Luke xiv. 11. 
 
 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he 
 shall lift you up. James iv. 10. 
 
 God resisteth the proud, but givetli grace unto the 
 humblt James iv. 6. 
 
 Thui. the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto 
 the lowly but the proud we kn()vv to be afar off. 
 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of 
 (Jod, that he may exalt you in due time. Ps. cxxxviii. 
 6 : 1 Peter v. 6. 
 
 O Lord, . . . forget not the humble. Ps. x. 12. 
 
 He forgettetli not the cry of the iiumble. Thus saith 
 the high and lofty One that iidiubiteth eternity, whose 
 name is Holy ; I dwell in the high and holy place ; with 
 him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive 
 the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the 
 contrite ones. Ps. ix. 12: Isa. Ivii. 15. 
 
 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the 
 lowly, tl an to divide the spoil with the proud. Prov. 
 -vi. 19. 
 
 He hath show- 1 thee, O man, what is good . and 
 what doth the Lord require (»f thee, l)ut to do justly, 
 and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy (J<m1? 
 Take my yoke uj)on you, and leain of me ; for I am 
 meek and lowly in heart . and ye shall find rest unto 
 your soul. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is 
 light. Micah vi. 8 : Matt. xi. 29, 30. 
 
 The Saviour's lowly niiiwl IM liave, 
 
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 <ffntl( , (iiifl easy to he e,iitt'i',at<<l,J'iill of Durcy au>l good fruit s, 
 ii'ithoiit partiality, and tinihoiit hyjmrrisy. James iii. 17. 
 
 An liypocrite with his mouth dostroyetli his neigh- 
 bor. Piov. xi. 9. See Tsa. ix. 17; xxxii. G: I Tim. 
 iv. 1, 2. 
 
 Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypoc- 
 risy. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees ; liypocrites ! 
 for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte ; and 
 when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child 
 of hell than yourselves. Luke xii. 1 : Matt, xxiii. 15. 
 
 Tlie hypocrites in luiart heap up wrath. The sinners 
 in Zion arc afraid ; fcarfulness hath surpi-ised the hypo- 
 crites. Who amon«jf us shall dwell with the devouring 
 fire? who amoni; us shall dwell with everlasting burn- 
 ings. .]t)l) xxxvi. i;?: Isa. xxxiii. 14. 
 
 Wo. unto you, scribes and Pharisees; hypocrites! 
 for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for 
 ye neither g»> in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that 
 are entering to ^o in. Ye st^rpents, ye generation of 
 vipers, how «-in y*' escape the damnation of hell I Matt, 
 xxiii. l.'{, ."».'{. See xxiv. 4)S-51. 
 
 What is the hope of the hypocrite, though he get 
 him gain, when (rod t;iketh away his soul? Will (liod 
 hear his cry w:;cn tn»ublc coinetli upon hira ? for an 
 hypoci'ite shall not come beture hitn. Job xxvii. 8, 9 ; 
 xiii. 16. 
 
 Th«! joy of the hypocrite is but a moment. The hope 
 of the hy[)ociite shall perish : whose hope shall be cut 
 oir, and whoso trust shall be as a spider's web. Job xx. 
 5; viii. I'l, 14. 
 
 Lord, l«'t not nil my ho}M'a be vain, 
 
 Cirutt' my lieart entirely new ; 
 Which hypocrites could ne'er attain, 
 
 Wliii^h false apostates never knew. 
 
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 The iiiifjititi/ of Soiloiii, n'u.s /tridCf falii< ss uf Iniml, (iiid iilh- 
 . I'hrk. xvi. 4J>. 
 
 Why sit we lun-o until wo «lio ? If we sit still Ikmo, 
 we (lie. 2 Kind's vii, ."{, 4. 
 
 Slothfulness cjusteth into Ji deep sleep : .and the idle 
 soul shall sutler huugei-. The slu^'<,'ard will not plow, 
 hy reason of th«; cold ; ther<'fore shall he be;^ in harvest 
 and have nothing. Prtjv, xix. 15; xx. 4. 
 
 This is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace : 
 if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will 
 come upon us. 2 Kings vii. 9. 
 
 Why stand ye here all the day idle ? . . . (Jo ye 
 also into the; vineyard. When we weie with you, we 
 counnanded you, that if any would not work, neither 
 should he eat. Matt. xx. G, 7 : '1 Thess. iii. 10. See 
 1 Thess. iv. 10-12. 
 
 Tlie younger widows . . . learn also to he idle, wan- 
 dering about from house to house; and not only idle, 
 but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things that 
 they ought not. 1 Tim. v. 1.'}. 
 
 Thou sittest and sjjeakest against thy brother: thou 
 slanderest thine own mother's son. We hear that there 
 are some an^ong you woi'king not at all, but an; busy- 
 bodies. Now them that are such we command and 
 exhort by our Jjord Jesus Christ, that with (juietness 
 they work, and eat their own bread. Ps. 1. 20 : 2 Thess. 
 iii. 11, 12. 
 
 Live for something, he not idle : 
 
 Look ahoiit yon for employ. 
 Sit not down to useless dreaming, 
 
 J^abor brings health, wealth and joy. 
 
 Foldeil hands grow weak and weary, 
 
 Idle lives are thrown away, 
 Heaven and earth ai'e fnll of labor ; 
 
 Then be doing while you may. 
 
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 Salvte. Appe/es, approved in Chrht. Rom. xvi. 10. 
 
 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, who liath . . . chosen us in him before the 
 foundation of the world: having . . . made us accepted 
 in the Beloved. Eph. i. [\, 4, 6. 
 
 Now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off, 
 are made nigh by the blood of Christ. And ye are com- 
 plete in him. Eph. ii. 1.'3 : Col. ii. 10. 
 
 He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, 
 that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 
 2 Cor. V. 21. 
 
 There is now, therefore, no condemnation to them 
 who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh ; 
 but after the Spirit. Rom. viii. 1. 
 
 God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love where- 
 with he hath loved us, even when we were dead in sins, 
 hath quickened us together with Christ ; and hath raised 
 us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly 
 places in Christ Jesus. For we are his workmanship, 
 created in Christ Jesus unto good works. Eph. ii. 
 4-6, 10. 
 
 If any man be in Christ he is a new creature ; old 
 things are passed away : behold, all things are become 
 new. For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision availeth 
 anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. 2 
 Cor. V. 17; GaL vi. 15. 
 
 Abide in me, I pray, and I in Thee ! 
 
 Prolong these seasons, beautiful and rare : 
 Fulfil at once Thy precept and my prayer — 
 
 Come, and abide in Me, and I in Thee. 
 
 W. H. P., from Harriet Beecher Stowb. 
 
June 7.] 
 
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 3nflucnce— Evil 
 
 Rahohoam . . . fovMook flit lair of the Lord, find all Israel 
 with him. 2 Chron. xii. 1. 
 
 Manasseh seduced (Israel) to do more evil than did 
 the nations whom the Lord destroyed. Manasseh . . . 
 made Judah also to sin with his idols. 2 Kings xxi. 9, 1 1. 
 
 Jeroboam . . . drave Israel from following the Lord, 
 and made them sin a great sin. For the children of 
 Israel walked in all the way of Jeroboam, which he did ; 
 they departed not from them. 2 Kings xvii. 21, 2i' 
 
 Baasha . . . did evil in the sight of the Lord after 
 the abominations of the heathen, and walked in the 
 way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made 
 Israel to sin. 1 Kings xv. 33, 34. 
 
 The word of the Lord . . . against Baasha. Be- 
 cause . . . thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, 
 and hast made my people Israel to sin, ... I will 
 make thy house like the house of Jeroboam, . . . who 
 did sin, and who made Israel to sin. 1 Kings xvi. 1-3 ; 
 xiv. 16. 
 
 Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did 
 worse than all that were before him. For he walked in 
 all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his 
 sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. 1 Kings xix. 
 25, 26. 
 
 The statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of 
 the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels ; that 
 I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants 
 thereof an hissing. A little leaven leaveneth the whole 
 lump. One sinner destroyeth much good. Micah vi. 
 16: Gal. v. 9: Eccl. ix. 18. 
 
 Full many shining seraphim from realms of light, 
 Have fall n by evil influence to endless night : 
 Full many a noble soul with purpose high, 
 Has thus sunk far as angels from the sky. 
 
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 Simon Peter saifh unto them, I ijo a Jinhimj. They .say unto 
 him, We. also <jo with thee. John xxi. 3. 
 
 Amasiah . . . willingly offered himself unto the 
 Lord ; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men 
 of valor. 2 Chron. xvii. IG. See '1 Kings xxiii. 1-3. 
 
 Jehoshaphat . . . went out through the people, . . . 
 and brought them back unto the Lord. 2 Chron. xix. 4. 
 
 Jehoash did right in the sight of the Lord all his 
 days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 2 
 Kings xii. 2. 
 
 Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the 
 king and the people, that tiiey should be the Lord's peo- 
 ple. 2 Kings xi. 17. 
 
 (David) said, T3ecause I have set my affection to the 
 house of my (Jod, I h."- e of mine own proper good, of 
 gold and silver, . . . given to the house of my God. 
 Who then is willing to fill hiss hand this day unto the 
 Lord? 1 Chron. xxix. 3. 
 
 Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the 
 tribes of Is'ael, and the captains of thousands and of 
 hundreds, with the rulers of the king'^ work, offered 
 willingly, and gave for the service of the house of God. 
 
 1 Chron. xxix. 6, 7. 
 
 Let us consider one another, to provoke unto love 
 and to good works. Heb. x. 24. 
 
 As touching the ministering to the saints, it is super- 
 fluous for me to write unto you : for I know your readi- 
 ness ; . . . and your zeal hath provoked very many. 
 
 2 Cor. ix. 1, 2. See Cant. i. 4 : John i. 40-42. 
 
 Oh, be this service all my joy ; 
 
 Around let my example shine, 
 Till others love the blest employ, 
 
 And join in labors so divine ! 
 
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 Jottah took- airnt/ all the abominnfious out of all the count rus 
 that pertained to the children of' Israel, and made all that were 
 found in hrad . . . to serre the Loril. 2 t'hron. xxxiv. 33. 
 
 (Neheiniah) said, . . . Ye see the distress that wo 
 are in, how JerusahMu lieth waste, and the ^ates thereof 
 are burned witli fire : fonu», and let us build up the walls 
 of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. . . . And 
 they said. Let us rise up and build. So they strength- 
 ened their hands for this <^ood work. Neh. ii. 17, 18. 
 
 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of 
 love. Hosea xi. 4. 
 
 Joshua said, ... If it seem evil unto you to serve 
 the Lord, c'n^ose you this day whom ye will serve ; . . . 
 but as for me and my house, we will servo the Lord. 
 . . . And the people said, God forbid that we should 
 forsake the Lord our (Jod. Josh. xxiv. '2, 15, 16. 
 
 Israel served the liord all the days of Joshua, and 
 ... of the elders that outlived Joshua, and had seen 
 all the great works of the Lord, that he had wrou.,'ht for 
 Israel. Josh. xxiv. 31. 
 
 Ezra . . . said, . . . Separate yourselves from the 
 people of the lands, and from the strange women. Then 
 all the congregation answered and said, As thou hast 
 said concerning us, so must we do. Ezra x. 10-12. 
 
 licvi . . . walked with me in peace and uprightness, 
 and did turn many away from iniquity. Mai. ii. 4, 6. 
 
 John . . . shall be great in the sight of the Lord ; 
 . . . and many of the children of Israel shall he turn to 
 the Ijord. Luke i. 15, 16. 
 
 They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of 
 the firmament ; and they that turn many to righteous- 
 ness, as the stars for ever ar«d ever. Dan. xii. 3. 
 
 O blessed life, to live for others' need. 
 To lead the lost in wisdom's pleasant way ; 
 
 To sow in human lives the precious seed, 
 That will bear fruit when we have passefl away. 
 
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 Tfuy .shall iniU- up nio/ ilnwn in his name, naith the Lord. 
 For his iiaiiii'\s sah ihi y ti'cnl j'urt h , (ak'iwf iiothiin/ of the, (lentilet. 
 Zich. X. 1-2: WJohii 7. 
 
 Til tlio iifiino of our (lod wo will set up our li.innors. 
 Ph. XX. 5. See iMiculi iv. 5. 
 
 WhatHocvcr yt» do in w«)i(l or deed, do all in the 
 name of the Lord .Jesus, 1 know thy works, . . . and 
 how thou . . . hast borne, and hast patience, and, for 
 my name's sak<! hast lalxjred, and hast not fainted. Col. 
 iii. 17 : Kev. ii. 2, .'J. 
 
 For thy sake I . . . am become a stranger unto my 
 brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. Ps. 
 Ixix. 8. 
 
 Every one that hath irsaken liomes, oi- brethren, 
 or sisters, or father, or moiher, or wife, or children, or 
 lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfohi, 
 and shall inherit everlasting life. Matt. xix. '29. 
 
 I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in neces- 
 sities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake. 
 1 Cor. xii. 10. 
 
 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy 
 are ye ; for the sjiirit of glory and of (iod resteth upon 
 you. Kor unto you it is given on In'half of Christ, not 
 only to believ(^ on him, but also to sutler for his sake. 
 1 P(!ter iv. 14: Phil. i. 2U. 
 
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 For thy sake we are killed all the day long : we are 
 counted as .sheep for the slaughter. Rom. viii. 36. 
 
 Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and who- 
 soever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. Matt, 
 xvi. 25. 
 
 Well may we nil things gladly hear or do 
 
 In His dear naino, and for His sake wlio bore 
 
 The cross, its shuine, and ciuel curse and woe, 
 To give us life and bliss for evermore. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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 ITv Mtn' that there iciim no nutn, niui woikI* red thnt fliire iras 
 no Iiiti rrtxMor, I so, \[x. I(>. 
 
 Tf one man m aj^aiiist ariotli«M', tin; .ju<l<^(! sliall Ju(l,i,'o 
 liitn ; hut it" a man sin ai^'ainst th(» Loid, who shall 
 entreat foi* him? l*\)r he is not a man, as I am, . . . 
 that we should come toi^ether in jud^nuMit. Neither is 
 there any daysman l)etwi.\t us, that mij^ht lay his hand 
 ujKtn us hoth. 1 Sam. ii. 2'); .loh ix. .'?-, M^ 
 
 No man cometh unto tln^ I'^ather, hut hy me. .lohn 
 xiv. 6. 
 
 O that one mi^dit plead for a man with (lod, as a 
 
 man pleadeth for his nei<;hhoj' ! .loh xvi. 21. 
 
 There is one (Jod, and on«' nu^diator hetween Ood 
 
 and men, the man Christ .lesus. 1 Tim. ii. f). 
 
 Tf any man sin, we have an ad\oeate with the 
 Father, .Jesus Christ the ri<j;hteous ;^\\ho is at the ri^ht 
 hand of God, who also maketli intercession foi' us. 1 
 .lohn ii, 1 : Horn. viii. .'U. 
 
 Simon, Simon, hehold, Satan hath desired to have 
 you, that he mi;j;ht sift you as wheat : hut I have prayed 
 for thee, that thy faith fail n(»t. I pray not for the 
 world, hut for those whom thou hast ^iven me ; for they 
 are thine. Neither for tlu^se only do I pray, hut for 
 them also that helieveon me throuj,di their word, Luke 
 xxii. in, 32 : .John xvii. 1), 20. 
 
 Through him we . . . have access by one Spirit unto 
 the Father. For Christ is . . . now , , , in the pres- 
 ence of (Jod for us. Kph. ii, 18 ; Heh, ix, 2 k 
 
 He ever liveth to make intercession, Heh. 
 
 vu. 25. 
 
 Christ who diod, now livos forever 
 On His Priestly tlirone : 
 
 Him th<' Father hearetli ever, 
 IMeiuliiig for His own. 
 
 (Jla«l He h» ars His fervent plea ; 
 
 Largely gives, and gives as free. 
 
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 T/n ir ii OIK iiiiillii/<n' lit /in I II iioil iiwl iinii, hi mm ff' until, 
 Cht'tit J( siis. 1 Tim. ii. .'>, 
 
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 .rosiis ( Ml fist . . . w.'VH IxnTi of the seed of Duvid 
 accoidiiii^ to tin; llcsli (Honi. i. 1, .'{). Kor.isiiiuch tln'ii us 
 the cliildicii uit; pfU'tfikers of Ih'sli iind blood, he also Iiiin- 
 sclf likcwis*! took pai't of tlie same ; tliat throu^^h death 
 hti mif^ht destroy him that had tlic power of death, that 
 is, the «h'vil. . . . For verily he took not on him the 
 iiatuK! of angels ; l)ut he took on him the sci'd of Ahra- 
 ham. Wlierefor*; in all thiii«,'s it hehoved iiim to )»; 
 made like unt(> his hretlncn, that lie might be a merciful 
 and ^faitliful hif^h jjiiest in things j)eitaining to (j!(k1. 
 For we have not an high priest who cannot b(! touched 
 witii the feeling of oui' inliiinities ; but was in all points 
 temi)ted lik(( as we are, yet without sin (Heb. ii. 14-17 ; 
 iv. I.')). The Son of man came eating and drinking 
 (Matt. xi. 19). And Jesus increased in wisdom and stat- 
 ui-e, and in favor with God and man (Luk(! ii. 52). Hv 
 was asleep. Mo, was hungry (Mark iv. .'{S ; xi. \'2). .lesus, 
 . . . being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. 
 Jesus wept (Jt^sus) said, I thijst (John iv. (5 ; xi. .'55 ; 
 xix. 'JS). He himself hath suflered, being tempted (Heb. 
 ii. IS), And \\o took with him Peter and James and 
 John, and began to be sore ama/.ed and to be very heavy ; 
 and he saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful 
 even unto death ; tarry y(; hei'e, and watch. And he 
 went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed 
 that, if it were possible, the ])eing in an agony, he prayed 
 more earnestly : and his houi- might pass from him (Mark 
 xiv. 'M\, .'{f)). And sweat was as it were great drops of 
 blood falling down to the ground (Luke xxii. 44). And 
 he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost (John xix. 30). 
 
 O Jcstis, how untold Thy love, 
 To leave Thy glorious throne al)ov(!, 
 And tliroiigh tlie manger and the grave, 
 Pass life and death mankind to save. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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 3C0U0 (Ebrtet, Creator. 
 
 Ily the ii'ortl of fhv. Lord tmr thf lunreun ntmh'. iloil . . , 
 n'cnftif (ill //ilii<f< hy JfHiis Clin'if. I'm. xxxiii. 0: tJjth. iii. \l 
 
 liy faith we understund that tho worlds \v(M'(» funiu'd 
 by the word of (5(m1. 1I(»1). xi. .'{. Sec John i. 1. 
 
 All thiiiifH w«'r(! mad*' hy him, and without him was 
 not anything made that was made. il(> was in the 
 worhl, and th(f world was niado hy him, and th(> world 
 knew iiim not. John i. .'{, 10. S(<e "J P«?ter iii. 5. 
 
 God, who in many portions, aiul in divers manners, 
 spake in tinuj past unto the fatluMs hy the proph(!ts, 
 hath at the (;nd of the.se days spoken unto us in his Son, 
 whom he app()inted heir of all thing's, hy whom also ho 
 made the worlds ; who l)(!in<; tlu! l)ri«j;htness of his x'"'}'' 
 and the express imaj^e of his suhstatice, and uphoMins,' 
 all things hy the w(jr(l of his power, when he had made 
 purification of sin, sat down on the light hand of the 
 majesty on high. Heb. i. 1-4. See llev. xix. 1 l-l.'{. 
 
 To the Son (God) saith, . . . Thou l^ord, in the 
 beginning hast laid t\u) foundation of the earth, an<l tho 
 heavens are the works of thy hands. Heb. i. 8, 10. 
 
 To us there is but one (Jod, th<; Father, of whom are 
 all things, and we unto him ; and one Lord Jesus Chiist, 
 by whom are all things, and we by him. 1 Cor. viii. 0. 
 
 JJy him were all things created, that are in heaven, 
 and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they 
 be thrones, or dominions, or firincipalities, or powers ; all 
 things were created by him, and for him ; and he is 
 bef(»re all things, and by him all things consist. Col. 
 i. IG, 17. See John i. :J, 10. 
 
 O wnmlroua thought, too (loop to find, 
 For huiiian or iingolic iiiiiul, 
 That fashionoi- of soa aii«l laml, 
 Should ho a hahy's diinplod hand ; 
 That Ho who forinod tlio oarth and sky. 
 Should sleop or sutler, drof»p or die. 
 
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 Jexiis ChrUt in the same yenterday, to-day, and for ever. 
 Heb. xiii. 8. 
 
 Thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little 
 among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall he 
 come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel ; whose 
 goings forth are from old, from everlasting. Micah v. 2. 
 
 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, 
 before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, 
 fr.;m the beginning, or ever the earth was. . . . Before 
 the mountains were settled, before the hills was I 
 brought forth : while as yet he had not made the earth, 
 nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the 
 world. When he prepaied the heavens, I was there : 
 . . . when he appointed the foundations of the earth : 
 then I was by him, as one brought up with him ; and I 
 was daily his delight ; . . . rejoicing in the habitable 
 par<" of his earth ; and my delights were with the sons 
 of men. Pro v. viii. 22-31. 
 
 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was 
 with (j()(l, and the Word was God. The same was in 
 the beginning with God, That which was from the 
 beginning, which we have heard, which we have vseen 
 with our eyes, . . . and our hands have handled of the 
 Word of life ; (for the life was manifested, and we have 
 seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eter- 
 nal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested 
 unto us ;) tht'it which we have seen and heard declare 
 we unto you. John i. 1, 2 : 1 John i. 1-3. 
 
 Jesus said. Verily, veri'y, I say "nto you, Before 
 Abraham was, I am. I am the first and the last ; I am 
 he tliat liveth, and was dead ; and, Lehold, lam alive 
 for evermore. Amen. John viii. 58 : Rev. i, 17, 18. 
 
 Before the first faint beam of light 
 Illumed the worhr^ cluiotie night, 
 Christ WHS, and is eternally, 
 Though time and nature cer.se to be, 
 
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 3C6U0 (Tbriet 10 lorb. 
 
 No man can say that J>xu< li Lo, •/, Imt in the. Holy Sjnrif. 
 1 Cor. xii. 3. 
 
 There is one . . . Lord Jesus Christ. To this end 
 Christ died and Hved, that he mi<^'lit be Lord, both of 
 the dead and the living. 1 Cor. viii. G : Rom. xiv. 9. 
 
 Jesus Christ is Lord of all. And he hath on his 
 vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings, 
 and Lord of lords. Acts x. 30 : Uev. xix. 16. 
 
 This is the name wherewith he shall be called, the 
 Loi'd our righteousness. Jer. xxiii. 0. 
 
 Ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 1 Cor. vi. IL 
 
 We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; 
 and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. '2 Cor. iv. 5. 
 
 Be ye not called . . . mastei's ; for one is your 
 Master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren. Ye call 
 me Master and Lord ; and yo, say well , for so I am. 
 Matt, xxiii. 8, 10 : John xiii. l.'J. 
 
 God hath exalted him, and given him a name that is 
 above every name ; that at the name of Jesus every knee 
 sh(Tuld bow ; . . . and that every tongue should confess 
 that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of Goil the 
 Father. Phil. ii. 9, 10. 
 
 David . . . saith himself. The Loid said unto my 
 Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy foes 
 thy footstool. Therefore let all the house of Israel 
 know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, 
 whom ye have crucified, both Lord and (/hrist. For he 
 is Lord of lords. Acts ii. 34-36 : Rev. xvii. 14. 
 
 Jesus, thovi Lord of worlds al>ovo, 
 By right of power, and powcf of love ; 
 Extend thy wise .and giaeious sway, 
 From nu»rniiig dawn to close of day, 
 And take control of every soul. • 
 
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 Lit (ill till' (17111) /sol' (rod n'orshi/) him. Uvh. i. (i. Covip. Arts 
 X. 2."), 20; xiv. «-18 : AVr. xxii. 8, J) : Ex. xx. 3; xxxiv. 14: 
 Matt W. f>. 
 
 Now, when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, 
 . . . there ciiine wise men from the east, ... to wor- 
 ship him. And, behold, a le})er, ... a certain ruler, 
 they that were in the ship, ... a woman of Canaan, 
 . . . Mary Magdalene and the other Maiy, . . . and 
 the eleven disciples, . . . ^v<)rshil)ped him. Matt. ii. 
 l-L'; viii. '1 ] ix. 18; xiv. ^J-'i ; xv. 22, 25; xxviii. 1, 9, 
 16, 17. 
 
 And, ... he was carried up into heaven. And 
 they worshipped him. Luke xxiv. 51, 52. See Ps. 
 xiv. 1 1 ; Ixxii. 9, 11 : Rom. xiv. 1 1. 
 
 I heard the voice of many angels round about the 
 throne, and the living creatures and the elders ; and the 
 number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, 
 and thousands of thousands ; saying with a loud voice, 
 Worthy is the Livmb that was slain to receive the power, 
 and riches, and wisdom, and might, and honor, and 
 glory, and blessing. And every created thing which is 
 in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, .' . . 
 heard I saying. Unto him that sitteth on the throne, 
 and unto the Lamb be the blessing, and the honor, and 
 the glory, and the dominion, for ever and ever. . . . 
 And the elders fell down and worshipped. Rev. v. 11-14. 
 
 God highly exalted him, and gave him the name 
 which is above every name ; that at the name of Jesus 
 every knee should bow, . . . and that every tongue 
 should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of 
 God the Father. Phil. ii. 8-11. 
 
 Through all the oarth, on sea and shore, 
 Sliall ransomed myriatla Christ adore : 
 
 While heavenly hosts serapliie praise, 
 In sweet and swelling chorus raise, 
 
 To Him for evermore. W. H. P. 
 
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 J ('fills , . . sfiid . . . flmf (iO(l was his Fafhi r, iiiakimj liiin- 
 si'lj'ci/iial ii'ith Cioil. John v. 17, 1<S. 
 
 The Fatlier judgetli no man, but hath comniitted all 
 judgment unto the Son ; that all may honor the Son, 
 even as tlujy honor the Father. .John v. '2'2, L'.'i. 
 
 Let this mind be in you which wa.s also in Christ 
 Jesus; who, bein<^ in the form of (jod, thought it not 
 robbery to be e(|ual with (Jod : being the brightness of 
 his glory, and the exact image of his person, and u})hold- 
 ing all things by the word of his power. Phil. ii. o, I) ; 
 Heb. i. 3. 
 
 Tiuly our fellowship is with the Father, and with 
 his Son Jesus Christ. I John i. .'5. 
 
 If a man love me, he will keep my words : and my 
 Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and 
 make our abode with him. John xiv. '2'.\. 
 
 He showed me a pure river of water of life, ch'ar as 
 crystal, proceeding out of the throne of Cod and of the 
 Lamb. ]lev. xxii. 1. 
 
 The throne of Cod and of the Lamb shall be therein. 
 Rev. xxii. ,3. 
 
 And I saw the holy city. New Jerusalem, coming 
 down out of heaven from Cod. . . . And I saw no 
 temple therein : for the Lord Cod Almighty and clie 
 Lamb are the temple thereof. And . . . the glory of 
 (rod did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 
 Rev. xxi. 2, 22 ; xxii. 23. 
 
 Crace be unto you, mercy and peace, from (Jod the 
 l^'ather, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. He that 
 abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the 
 Father and the Son. 2 John 3, 9. See Eph. vi. 23. 
 
 Jesus was one with God ero time began, 
 In forming worlds, and in redeeming man : 
 One in His earthly ministry of love, 
 And now upon His throne of power above. 
 
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 Behold, a virj^iii shall conceivo and bear a son, and 
 shall call his name Inimanuel (which ... is, God with 
 us. Matt. i. 23.) For uiito us a child is born, unto us a 
 son is given ; and the <^overnnient shall be upon his 
 shoulder ; and his name shall be called Wonderful, 
 Counseller, The mighty (Jod, The ev "lasting Father, 
 The Prince of Peace. Tsa. vii. 14; ix. 
 
 God was manifested in the ilesh. 1 Hin iii. 16. 
 
 The Jews answered him. For a good work we stone 
 thee not, l>ut for blasphemy ; and because that thou, 
 being a man, makest thyself G"od. John x. 3 '5. 
 
 Jesus answered them, If I do 7;ot tluj works of my 
 Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe 
 not me, })elieve the works ; that ye may know, and 
 believe, that the Father is in me, and I in hin* T and 
 my Father are one. John x. 34, 37, 38, 30. 
 
 Thomas . . . said unto him. My Lord and my God. 
 John XX. 28. 
 
 Believe in God, believe also in me. He that hath 
 seen me hath seen the Father. Believe me that I am 
 in the Father, and the Father in me ; or else believe me 
 for the very works' sake. John xiv. 1, 9, 11. 
 
 We know that the Son of God is come, and hath 
 given us an understanding, that we may know him that 
 is t-rue, . . . even his Son Jesus Christ. This is the 
 true God, and eternal life. 1 John v. 20. 
 
 To the Son (God) saith. Thy throne, O God, is for 
 ever and ever. Heb. i. 8. 
 
 Jesus, well may mortals trust Thee, 
 Angels serve Thee and adore. 
 
 Saints shall hail Thee God of glory, 
 In their songs for evermore, 
 And their love in praise outpour. 
 
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 Thert. is anothe- \'in</, Jesns. Acts xvii. 7. 
 
 My heart is overflowing with a goodly matter : I 
 speak the things which I have made touching the king. 
 Ps. xlv. 1. 
 
 Behokl the days come, saith the Lord, that I will 
 raise unto David a righteous liranch, and he shall reign 
 as King and prosj)er. ll(ijoice greatly, O daughter of 
 Zion ; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem : behold, thy King 
 Cometh unto thee : he is just, and having salvation. 
 Jer. xxiii. 5 : Zech. ix. 9. 
 
 Liico us a child is born, unto us a son is given : and 
 the government shall be upon his shoulder : and liia 
 name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty 
 (iod, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Is; , 
 ix. 6. 
 
 I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings 
 of the earth. In his times ho shall show who is the 
 blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord 
 of lords : who only hath immortality, dwelling in the 
 light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man 
 hath seen, nor can see : to v.hom be lumor and power 
 everlasting. Amen. Ps. Ixxxix, 27 : 1 Tim, vi. 15, IG. 
 
 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus. . . . Him 
 did God exalt with his right hand to be a Prince and a 
 Saviour. cts v. 30, .31. 
 
 Jesus Christ is . . . the Prince of the kings of the 
 earth. For he is King of kings, an'- Lord of lords. 
 And he hath on his vesture and on ?.?.- thigh, a name 
 written, King of kings, and Lord of lords. Rev. i. 5 ; 
 xvii. 14; xix. 16. 
 
 Crown the Saviour King of glory : 
 Angt Is, all your trophies bring ; 
 Saints, with Calvary's lam-els gory, 
 Weave your garlands for tlie King, 
 While all iieaven His praises sing. 
 
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 iron/, of' fhc oath, . , . )iiak(.tli the Son, ]» r/tctcd for erermorr. 
 Ileh. vii. 28. See v, lO ; ix. 11, 12. 
 
 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass aqainst the Lord, 
 . . . the priest shall make an atonement for liim before 
 the Lord ; mhI it shall be forgiven him. Lev. vi. 2, 7. 
 
 The priest shall make an atonement for you, to 
 cleanse you ; from all your sins shall ye 1)6 clean before 
 the Lord. Lev. xvi. 30. 
 
 The man whose name is the Branch . . . shall build 
 the temple of the Lord ; and he shall bear the glory : 
 . . . and he shall be a priest upon his throne. Zee. vi. 
 12,13. 
 
 I will raise me up a faithful priest, who shall do 
 according to that which is in uiy heart, . . . and I will 
 build him a sure house. 1 B;un. ii. 3.5. 
 
 Seeing then that we have a creat High Priest that is 
 passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us 
 hold fast our confession. Having an High Priest over 
 the house of God ; let us draw neai with a true heart 
 in full assurance of faith. Heb. iv. 14 ; x. 21, 22. 
 
 Wherefore, holy brethren, . , . consider the Apostle 
 and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus ; who 
 was faithful to him that appointed him, as Moses was 
 faithful in all his house. Heb. iii. 1, 2. 
 
 Jesus, our great High Priest, 
 
 Has shod His blood and died ; 
 
 Our guilty conscience needs 
 
 No sacrifice beside : 
 His precious blood did once atone, 
 And now it pleads before the throne. 
 
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 Jesn<i . . . ii'dH a prophtt miijhtij in deed and word be/ore 
 (iod and all the pt'ople. Luk'e xxiv. M). 
 
 By a pro[)hot the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, 
 and by a prt)phet was he preserved. Ilos. xii. 13. 
 
 Moses truly saitl unto tlie ftitheis, A prophet shall 
 the Lord your (\od raise up unto j'ou of your brethren, 
 like unto nie ; him shall y(i heai' in ail things whatsoever 
 he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that 
 every soul that will not hear that j)ropliet, shall bo 
 destroyf^l from among the people. Aets iii. 22, 23. 
 
 When he was eouu! into Jerusalem, all the city was 
 moved, saying, Wiio is this? And the multitude said, 
 This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of (Jalilee. Matt, 
 xxi. 10, 11. 
 
 The woman saitJi unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou 
 art a prophet. Johni\. lU. 
 
 Then those m(;n, when tlu^y had s(^en the miracle that 
 JesuH did, said, This is of a truth that [)ro|)het that 
 should I'ome into the world. Jolin \i. 14. 
 
 Many of tlu' pe(»ple, when they heard this saying, 
 said. Of a truth this is the prophet. John vii. 10. 
 
 (iod, having in many portions and in divers manners 
 spoken in time past unto the fathers by th(> prophets, 
 hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son. 
 lleb. i. 1, 2. 
 
 The testimouy of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 
 Rev. xix. 10. 
 
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 By Thee the j<jyful news 
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 Of hell subdued, an<l peace with heaven. 
 
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 T/k II /*lil/i/t in lit i/iiint /n th( city of Sninnrin, niiif, /n'ear/u il. 
 C/irisf iiiifo thi'in. Ami Ihifi' iras ijnal joij in thai I'iti/, AvfH 
 viii. r», 8. 
 
 Thou hast inadt! known to nu; th(; ways of life ; thou 
 sliali make nie full of joy with thy counteuance. Acts 
 ii. 28. 
 
 '{('hold, my servants shall rigoitM' ; . . . hchold, my 
 servants shall sin<; for joy <if heart. Is.i. Ixv. l.'J, 14, 
 
 lUessi'd is the people that know (he joyful sound; 
 tliey shall walk, < ) Loi'd, in (he lif^ht of ('-y countenance. 
 In thy nani(! shall they rejoice all the day. Ps. Ixxxix. 
 15, IG. 
 
 These thin<^s have I spoken unto you, that my joy 
 mij^ht remain in 3'ou, and that your jo)^ might be full. 
 John XV. 1 1. 
 
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 We joy in God through oui' Lord Jesus Christ, l)y 
 whom we have now received the atonement. Rom. 
 V. 11. 
 
 Whom having not seen, ye love ; in whom, though 
 now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy 
 unspeakable and full of glory. 1 Peter i. 8. 
 
 Thou wilt show me the path of life : in thy presence 
 is fulness of joy ; at thy right luind there are pleasures 
 for (>vermore. Ps. xvi. 1 1 . 
 
 The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to 
 Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads ; 
 they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sigh- 
 ing shall flee away. Isa. xxxv. 10. 
 
 I havo a heritage of joy, 
 
 That yvX I may not see ; 
 The liau'l that hied to make it mine, 
 
 lis keeping it for me. 
 
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 God ijtrrfh to fhc man that pltomfh /u'm, iri.'<iloin, ami knom- 
 letl'/e, aiutjoi/. Keel. ii. 28. 
 
 Ilestore unto mo tho joy of thy .salvation, and uphold 
 mo witli thy froo Spitit. Thon will I t(^ach tniiisj^ros- 
 sofs tliy ways; and sinnor.s shall bo converted unto thee. 
 Ps. li. 12, 13. 
 
 Behold, Cod will not cast away a pcu'fect man . . . 
 till he fill thy mouth with laughin;;. 'md tjjy lips with 
 rejoicin/jj. Job viii. 20, 21. 
 
 My Noul sliall bf joyful in the toflj : ^i sli-ill n-joice 
 In his salvatio//. ps. xxxv. 0. 
 
 Oo your way : t'ii\, tin; fat, and d; j/jk the sweet ; and 
 send pojtlo/j« unto them foi w'/jor/i nothi//^ \ii prepared; 
 neither be ye soriy ; for the joy of the lAttd is y^f^f 
 strength. Neh. viii. 10. 
 
 O come, let us sing unto the r^)rd : let us make a 
 joyful noise unto the rock of our salvation. Let all 
 those that put their tiust iti thee rejoice ; let tiiem also 
 that love thy name be joyful in thee. Ps. xcv. 1 ; v. II. 
 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him : let tho 
 children of Zion be joyful in their king. Let tho .saints 
 be joyful in glory : let th^.:n sing aloud upon their beds. 
 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a 
 two-edged sword be in their hand : to execute . . . the 
 judgment written ; this honor have all his saints. Ps. 
 cxlix. 2, 5, 6, 9. 
 
 Fountain of pure, unending Idiss, 
 
 Thou boundless, fathondess abyss ; 
 
 Thee would I laud in loveliest lays 
 
 Of rapturous notes, with sweetest pi'aise ; 
 
 Through time and through eternal days. 
 
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 I kiKjw that tlio Lord will maintain llio cause (»f tlu; 
 afHicted, and tlui ti;,djt of tho poor. For tlio needy shall 
 not alway l)e for<^otten : the expectation of the poor 
 shall not perish forever. Ps. cxl. 12; ix. 18. 
 
 Jieh(*id (Jod ifr" niiji^hty, and despiseth not any. Ho 
 pniscnveth not the life of the wicked, but j^ivcth ri<i[ht to 
 the pool-. He deliveretli the poor in his atlliction, and 
 openeth their ears in oppression. Job xxxvi. 5, G, 15. 
 
 Lord, who is lik«; unto thee, who deliv(M"eth the poor 
 from him that is too strong ft>r him, yea, the poor and 
 the needy from him that spoileth him 1 For thou hast 
 been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in 
 his distress, a refuge from the stoiin, a shadow from the 
 heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm 
 against the wall. Ps. xxxv. 10 : Isa. xxv. 4. 
 
 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the 
 needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him 
 in safety from him that })uffeth at him. Ps. xii. 5. 
 
 I will greatly praise the Lord. For he shall stand 
 at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those 
 that condemn his soul. Ps. cix. 30, 31. 
 
 I will also leave m the midst of thee an afflicted and 
 poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the 
 Lord. The meek also shall increase their joy in the 
 Lord, and the poor aiuong men shall rejoice in the Holy 
 One of Israel. Zeph. iii. 12 : Isa. xxix. 19. 
 
 How aafo the heiple&s whom the Lord defends ; 
 How well supplied the poor to wliom He lends ; 
 His ear in pity the afflicted hears, 
 And gives them joy for sorrow, smiles for tears. 
 
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 Tin Lord shdtt JKttiff the projih . Fur God is jnifif hhuMilf. 
 Ps. vii. 8 ; I. (>. ' 
 
 Diivid's aii<^('r was greatly kiinllcd a;;aiiist the man ; 
 and lie said to Xatliaii, As the Lord livcitli, tlu' man i nat 
 hath done this shall surely die. Atid ^ athan said to 
 David, Thou art the man. 1' Sam. xii. T), 7. 
 
 Judj^e not, that ye he not judj^ed ; for with wliat 
 juiljjment ye judj^e, yc; shall he judged ; and witli what 
 measure ye mete, it shall he measured to you again, lie 
 that is without sin among you, let him first cast a st(»n(\ 
 Thou art inexrusahle, O man, whosoev»'r tliou art that 
 judgest. Matt. vii. I : John viii. 7 : Ro;a. ii. 1. 
 
 With (ue it is a very small thing that T should I)e 
 judged of . . . man's judgment, lie that judgeth mo 
 is the Lord. 1 Cor. iv. M, \. See xi. 31. 
 
 Who art thou that judgest anothei" man's servant ? 
 To his ow n master he standeth or fa'leth. Thei-efore 
 judge nothing before tiie time, until the r^)rd c(Kne; who 
 will both bring to light the hiddt»n things of <larkness, 
 and make manifest the counsels of the hearts ; and then 
 shall each man have his praise from (Jod. Horn. xiv. 4 : 
 1 Cor. iv. 5. 
 
 Let us not judge one another any more ; but judge 
 this rather, that no man put a stumbling block, or tin 
 occasion to fall in his brother's way. For we must all 
 appear before the judgment seat of Christ ; that every- 
 one may receive the things done in his body, according 
 to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Rom. 
 xiv. 13:2 Cor. v. 10. 
 
 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged. Luke vi. 37. 
 
 " He shall judge among the people" 
 Whose own life their ransom bought ; 
 
 Who can pity all their weakness, 
 
 While He knows their every thought. 
 
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 How can man hejudijied before God '/ Job ix. 2. 
 
 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn 
 me: — for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. 
 For there is not a just man upon earth, tliat doeth good 
 and sinneth not. For all have sinned, and come short 
 of the glory of God. Job ix. 20 : Ps. cxliii. 2 : Eccl. 
 vii. 20 : Rom. iii. 23. 
 
 How then can man be justified with God 1 He that 
 justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, 
 both are abomination in the sight of the Lord. Job 
 XXV. 4 : Prov. xvii. 15. 
 
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 Behold now I have ordered my cause, I know that I 
 shall be justified. For he is near that justifieth me; — 
 a just God and a Saviour. Being justified freely by his 
 grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ; 
 whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through 
 faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness ; . . . 
 that he might be just, and the justifier of him that 
 believeth in Jesus. Who was delivered up for our tres- 
 passes, and was raised for our justification. Job xiii. 
 IS : Isa. 1. 8 ; XV. 21 : Rom. iii. 24-26 ; iv. 25. 
 
 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion : . . . behold thy 
 king Cometh unto thee : he is just and having salvation. 
 By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify 
 many : for he shall bear their iniquities. Be it known 
 unto you, therefore, . . . that through this man is 
 preached unto you the forgiveness of sins ; and by him 
 all that believe are justified from all things, from which 
 ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Zech. 
 ix. 9 : Isa.l iii. 11 : Acts xiii. 38, 39. 
 
 How can the guilty else but die, 
 If subject to God's scrutiny, 
 And justice doth decide ? 
 But liark, the law itself hath cried, 
 Sinners are justly justified, 
 Since Christ for them hath died ! 
 
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 In the Lord shall all (he seed of Israel he justified. Isa. 
 xlv, 25. 
 
 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of 
 the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have 
 believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by 
 faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law ; for by 
 the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Where- 
 fore the law hath been our tutor to bring us unto Christ, 
 that we might be justified by faith. Gal. ii. 16 ; iii. 24. 
 
 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned 
 of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, 
 but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his 
 faith is counted for righteousness. Rom. iv. 4, 5. 
 
 That no man is justified by the law in the sight of 
 God, is evident ; for, The just shall live by faith. There- 
 fore we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without 
 the deeds of the law. Gal. iii. 11 : Rom. iii. 28. 
 
 Ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus. 
 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you 
 are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 1 Cor. 
 vi. 11 : Gal. V. 4. 
 
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 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace 
 with God through our Lord Jesus Christ ; . . . through 
 whom also we have access by faith into this grace 
 wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of 
 God. Rom. V. 1, 2. 
 
 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? 
 It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth 1 
 It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, 
 who is even at the right hand of God. Rom. viii. 3.3, 34. 
 
 . Christ the sinless for my guilt, 
 As a sinner freely died ; 
 Trusting in the blood He spilt, 
 I am fully justified. 
 
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 Ikeepino (Bob'e (^omman^0 
 
 He that hepeth /t/.s commandmenis direUe'h in him, and he in 
 him. 1 John iii. 24. 
 
 The Lord our God be wit,h us ; . . . thcat he may 
 incHne our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and 
 to keep his commandments. 1 Kings viii. 57, 58. 
 
 Thou shalt remember tdl the way which the Lord thy 
 God liath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to 
 humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in 
 thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his command- 
 ments, or no. Deut. viii. 2. 
 
 Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep 
 his commandments. 1 John ii. 3. 
 
 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, 
 he it is that loveth me : and he that loveth me shall be 
 loved of my Father, and I will love him, «and will mani- 
 fest myself to him. John xiv. 2L 
 
 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his com- 
 mandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But 
 whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God 
 perfected : hereby know we that we are in him. 1 John 
 ii. 4, 5. 
 
 If ye love me, keep my commandments. If ye keep 
 my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, even as I 
 have kept ray father s commandments, and abide in his 
 love. John xiv. 15; xv. 10. 
 
 (iod of wisdom, power and love, 
 Send from thy gracious throne ahove, 
 Thy Spirit to my inmost heart, 
 Tliat ffe may never hence depart. 
 Engrave thy law upon my soul, 
 My life to fashion and control. 
 
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 Ikeepina (Bob'e iprcccpte. 
 
 The precepts of the Lord are riijht, rejoivinn the heart. In 
 keepiiKj of 0iem there is great reward. Ps. xix. 8, 11. 
 
 This is the love of God ; tliat we keep his command- 
 ments. 1 John V. .3. 
 
 If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. John 
 xiv. 15. 
 
 Whoso keepeth his word, in him, verily is the love of 
 God perfected. 1 John ii. 5. 
 
 If a man love me, he will keep my words, and ray 
 Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and 
 make our abode with him. John xiv. 23. 
 
 I will run in the way of thy commandments, when 
 thou shalt enlarge my heart. Make me to go in the 
 path of thy commandments, for therein do I delight. Ps. 
 cxix. 32, 35. 
 
 A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I 
 put within you. . . . And I will put ray spirit within 
 you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall 
 keep my judgments, and do them. Ezek. xxxvi. 26, 27. 
 
 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy command- 
 ments. My soul hath kept thy testimonies ; and I love 
 them exceedingly. Ps. cxix. 60, 167. 
 
 Keep my commandments, and live ; and my law as 
 the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers: 
 write them upon the table of thine heart. Prov. vii. 
 
 Lord, let Thy precious precepts be 
 
 Deep graven on my heart ; 
 That I may ever cleave to Thee, 
 
 Nor from Thy ways depart. 
 
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 They made me keeper of the vineyards ; but mine 
 own vineyard have I not kept. Cant. i. 6. 
 
 A vineyard of red wine. I the Lord do keep it ; I 
 will water it every moment; lest any hurt it, I will 
 keep it night and day. Isa. xxvii. 2, 3. 
 
 Keep me as the apple of the eye. Ps. xvii. 8. 
 He that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye. 
 Zech. ii. 8. 
 
 keep my soul, and deliver me. Keep me, O Lord, 
 from the hands of the wicked. Ps. xxv. 20 ; cxl. 4. 
 
 Holy Father, keep through thine own name those 
 whom thou hast given me. . . . Those that thr u gavest 
 me I have kept. John xvii. 11, 12. 
 
 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that 
 thou wouldest bless me indeed, . . . and that thou 
 wouldest keep me from evil. 1 Chron. iv. 10. 
 
 The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord is thy 
 keeper. The Lord is faithful who shall stablish you, and 
 keep you from evil. Num. vi. 24 : Ps. cxxi. 5 : 2 Thess. 
 iii. 3. 
 
 1 know whom I have believed, and am persuaded 
 that he is able to keep that which I have committed 
 unto him against that day. 2 Tim. i. 12. 
 
 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, 
 and to present you faultless before the presence of his 
 glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our 
 Saviour, be glory, and majesty, dominion and power, 
 both now and ever, Amen. Jude 24, 25. 
 
 His honor is engaged to save 
 
 The meanest ef His sheep ; 
 All, whom His heavenly Father gave, 
 
 His hands securely keep. 
 
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 The people that do kuoir their God shall he afroiKj, and do 
 exploitii. Dan. xi. 32. 
 
 Show me now thy way, that I may know thee. Ex. 
 xxxiii. 13. 
 
 My people shall know my name. I will give them 
 an hear; to know me. Israel shall cry unto me, My God, 
 we know thee. Isa. Hi. 6 : Jer. xxiv. 7 : Hosea viii. 2. 
 
 They that know thy name will put their trust in 
 thee. Ps. ix. 10. 
 
 That thy trust may be in the Lord, I have made 
 known to thee this day, even to thee. Prov. xxii. 19. 
 
 This is life eternal, that they might know thee the 
 only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. 
 John xvii. 3. 
 
 Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither 
 let the mighty man glory in his might ; let not the rich 
 man glory in iiis riches : but him that glorieth glory in 
 this, that he understa.ideth and knoweth me, that I am 
 the Lord, who exercise lovingkindness, jnclijment, and 
 righteousness in the earth : for in these things I delight, 
 saith the Lord. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you 
 through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus Christ our 
 Lord. Jor. ix. 23, 24 : 2 Peter i. 2. 
 
 I know whom I have believed, and am pei'suaded 
 that he is able to keep that which I have committed 
 unto him against that day. 2 Tim. i. 12. 
 
 All things have been delivered unto me of my 
 Father : and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father, 
 neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he 
 to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Matt. xi. 27. 
 
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 Hczeliah spalr comfortahl y unlo all thi- Levifes that fnutfht 
 the f/oo(l kiioirledge of the Lord. 2 Ghron. xxx. 22. 
 
 The Lord luitli a controversy with the inhabitants of 
 the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor 
 knowledge of (lod in the land. Hosea iv. 1. 
 
 I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the know- 
 ledri^e of God more than burnt ofl'erings. Hosea vi. G. 
 
 As they did not like to retain God in their know- 
 ledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind. Rom. 
 i. 28. 
 
 Awake to righteousness, and sin not ; for some have 
 not the knowledge of God : I speak this to your shame. 
 1 Cor. XV. 34. 
 
 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom : 
 and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 
 Prov. ix. 10. 
 
 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my 
 commandments with thee : . . . yea, if thou criest after 
 knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; 
 if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for 
 Itid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of 
 the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. We give 
 thanks to God, . . . praying always for you ; . . . that 
 ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will, . . . 
 and increasing in the knowledge of God in all wisdom 
 and spiritual understanding ; . . . being fruitful in every 
 good work. Prov. ii. 1-5 : Col. i. 3, 9, 10. 
 
 Knowing the Lord ! what knowledge half so sweet, 
 As those receive who listen at His feet ! 
 Tlmt soul is well endowed with all 'hat's best, 
 Who with this knowledge is divinoly blest. 
 
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 From his rvjht hand luent a fieri/ law. Di iif. xxxiii. 2. 
 
 The law made nothing perfect, hut tlio bringing in 
 of a better hope did. Hoi), vii. 19. 
 
 That no man is justified l)y tlu? law in the sight of 
 (Jod is evident : for, The just shall live by faith. There- 
 fore by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified 
 in his sight. Gal. iii. 11 : Rom. iii, 20, 
 
 I had not known sin but by the law. For by the 
 law is the knowledge of sin. Rom. vii. 7 ; iii. 20. 
 
 The commandment is a lamp, and the law is a light. 
 For whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Prov. vi. 
 23: Eph. V. 13. 
 
 I was alive without the law once, but when the 
 commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the 
 commandment ... I found to be unto death. Rom. 
 vii. 9, 10. 
 
 The law entered that the offence might abound ; 
 that through live commandment sin might become ex- 
 ceeding sinful. The strength of sin is the law. Rom. 
 V. 20; vii. 13, 16: 1 Cor, xv. 56. 
 
 The people wept when they heard the law. Neh. 
 viii. 9. 
 
 As many as are of the works of the law, are under 
 the curse ; for cursed is every one that continueth not 
 in all things that are written in the book of the law to 
 do them. The law worketh wrath. Gal. iii. 10 : Rom. 
 iv. 15. 
 
 The threatenings of Thy broken law 
 
 Impress the soul with dread : 
 If God His sword of justice draw 
 
 It strikes the sinner dead. 
 
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 •safcfi/, .so that they ftarni not. Pn. Ixxviii. 5'2, 5.S. 
 
 () Lord, I know tlwit the way of inan is not in him- 
 self : it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. 
 Jer. X. 23. 
 
 I will brin^^ the blind by a way that they know not ; 
 T will lead them in paths that they have not known. I 
 will make da.kness li<^ht before them, and crooked places 
 straight. Isa. xlii. IG. 
 
 Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of 
 mine enemies ; make thy way straight before my face. 
 Ps. V. 8. 
 
 T am the Lord thy God who teacheth thee to profit, 
 who leadest thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 
 Isa. xlviii. 17. 
 
 I ])eing in the way, the Lord led me to the house of 
 my master's brethren. . . . The Lord . . . led me in 
 the right way. Gen. xxiv. 27, 48. 
 
 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom ; T have 
 led thee in right paths. Prov. iv. 11. 
 
 He led them forth by the right way, that they might 
 go to a city of habitation. Ps. cvii. 7. 
 
 Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord 
 thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to 
 humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in 
 thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his command- 
 ments, or no. Deut. viii. 2. 
 
 He leadeth me ! blessed thought, 
 O words with heavenly comfort fraught ; 
 Whatever I do, where'er I be, 
 Still 'tis God's hand that leadeth me. 
 
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 The Jenr of thv Lonl is a fountain of lif( , In his favor is 
 
 life. Pror. 
 
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 With thee is the fountain of life. Ps. xx,\vi. 9. 
 I will give to him that is athirst of the fountain of 
 the water of life freely. Rev. xxi. 6. 
 
 The gift of (Jol is eternal life, through Jesus Christ 
 our Lord. Koin. vi. 23. 
 
 See, I have set before thee this day life and good. 
 . . . Therefore choose life, that thou niayest live. Who- 
 soever will, let him take of the water of life freely. 
 Deut. XXX. 15, 19: Rev. xxii 17. 
 
 Man dcth not live by bread alone> but by every 
 word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord. () 
 Lord, by these things men live, and by these is the life 
 of my spirit. Deut. viii. 3 : Isa. xxxviii. 16. 
 
 Incline your ear, and come unto me : hear, and your 
 soul shall live. I am the bread of life. If any man 
 eat of this bread he shall live for ever. Isa. Iv. 3 : John 
 vi. 48, 58. 
 
 He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as 
 crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the 
 Lamb. And on either side of the river was there the 
 tree of life, bearing twelve manner of fruits, yielding its 
 fruit every month : and the leaves of the tree were for 
 the healing of the nations. Rev. xxii. 1, 2. 
 
 To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the 
 tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God. 
 Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may 
 have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through 
 the gates into the city. Rev. ii. 7 ; xxii. 14. 
 
 O life ! how blessed ! how divine ! , 
 High life, the earrjest of a higher. 
 
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 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even 
 length of days foi* (!ver and ever. Ph. xxi. I. 
 
 Ah the Father hath life in hiiiiHclf, even ho hath he 
 given to the Son to have life in himself. John v. 'IQ. 
 
 Thou wilt show me the path of life. Ps. xvi. 11. 
 
 Whoso findeth me findeth life. I am the light of 
 the world : he that follow(!th me shall not walk in 
 darkness, but shall have the light of life. 1 am come 
 that they might have life ; and tliat they might have it 
 more abundantly. Prov. viii. .'{5: John viii. 12; x. 10. 
 
 God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world 
 that we might live through him. 1 John iv. 9. 
 
 God so loved the world that he gave his only begot- 
 ten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not 
 perish, but have eternal life. He that believeth on the 
 Son hath eternal life ; but he that believeth not the Son 
 shall not see life, but the wrath of (iod abideth on him. 
 John iii. IG, .36. 
 
 This is the record (witness) that God gave to us 
 eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath 
 the Son hath liie, and he that hath not the Son of God 
 liath not life. 1 John v. 11, 12. 
 
 Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my 
 word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath ever- 
 lasting life, and . . . hath passed out of death unto life. 
 John V. xxiv. 
 
 Sing them over again to me, wonderful words of life ; 
 
 Let me more of their beauty see, wonderful words of life. 
 Words of life and beauty, teach me faith and duty : 
 
 Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life. 
 
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 Cod sail/, f.i f Ihwe tip I'njht ; and thpre. wn'* liifhl. Am! (,'od 
 saw the fii/hf, that It iras good. Truly Ihi' lii/ht is simt. O'ln. 
 i. ;i, 4 ; Err/, xi. 7. 
 
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 () Lord, my (Jod, li^^litcii iniiio eyes. The lij^ht of 
 the eyes rejoiceth tlie heart. IN. xiii. .'i : Prov. xv. '\0. 
 
 The lij^ht of the body is tlie ey«' : tlierefoie if thine 
 eve be siiii'le, thv whoh; body shall be full of li^fht: 
 . . . a.s when a lamp with its bright .shining doth give 
 thee light. Luke xi. 3 t-3G. 
 
 O that T were as in montljs past, a:-i in the days 
 when '^iod preserved me ; when his lamp shined upon 
 i.iy liead, and by his light I walked through darkness. 
 Job xxix. 2, '^. 
 
 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness. 
 Ps. cxii. 4. See xcvii. 11. 
 
 Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon 
 us. Turn us again, O (Jod, and cause tliy face to shine, 
 and we shall be saved. Ps. iv. G ; Ixxx. 3. 
 
 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, 
 and perverted that which v/as right, and it profited me 
 not ; he will deliver his soul from going into the pit, 
 and his Iffe shall see the light. Job xxxiii. 27, 2H, 
 
 
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 God is the Lord, who hatli showed us light. The 
 light of the righteous rejoiceth (burneth brightly). Ps. 
 cxviii. 27 : Prov. xiii. 9. 
 
 The path of the just is as the shining light, that 
 shineth more and more unto the perfect day. And it 
 shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. 
 Prov. iv. 18 : Zeeh. xiv. 7. 
 
 Fill Thou my soul, celestial fount of light, 
 And let Thy beams illumine all my way, 
 
 To that bright land in which is known no night, 
 But where shines one glad, everlasting day. 
 
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 Who in the .ikies can be compared unto (he Lord ? Who 
 amo.,g the fions of the yodi is like U)do the Lord? Ps. Ixxxix. 6. 
 
 In the (lay that God created man, in the likeness of 
 God made he him. Gen. v. 1. 
 
 God said, Let us make man in our image, after our 
 likeness. ... So God created man in his own image, in 
 the image of God created he him. Gen. i. 26, 27. 
 
 Whom lie foreknew, he also foreordained to be con- 
 formed to the image of his Son. Rom. viii. 29. 
 
 The new man ... is renewed after the image of 
 him who created him. Col. iii. 10. 
 
 We all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the 
 glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image 
 from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit. 
 2 Cor. iii. 18. 
 
 Be renewed in the spirit of your inind ; and . . . 
 put on the new man, which hath been created after 
 God's image in righteousness and holiness of the truth. 
 Eph. iv. 23, 24. 
 
 As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness : 
 I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness. As 
 we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also 
 bear the image of the heavenly. It doth not yet appear 
 what we shall be, but we know that when he shall 
 appear, we shall be like him ; for we shall see him as he 
 is. Ps. xvii. 15 : 1 Cor. xv. 49 : 1 John iii. 2. 
 
 They shall see his face : and his name shall be in 
 their foreheads. Rev. xxii. 4. 
 
 glorious hour ! blest abode ! 
 
 1 shall be with and like my God, 
 And flesh and sin no more control 
 The sacred pleasures of my soul. 
 
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 They . . . separafed (hemselre-i tinfo a shameful fhiu;;, and 
 hecamc (thomiuahle like that n'hkh thy lortd. Ilosea ix. 10. 
 
 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the 
 work of men's hands. They that make them are like 
 unto them ; so is every one that trusteth in them. Ps. 
 cxxxv. 15, 18. 
 
 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the 
 molten image. Thus they changed their glory into the 
 similitude of an ox that eateth grass. Ps. cvi. 19, 20. 
 
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 The children of Israel . . . served idols, . . . and 
 they followed vanity and became vain. 2 Kings xvii. 
 9, 12, 15. 
 
 Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers 
 found in me, that they are gone away from rae, and have 
 walked after vanity, and are become vain 1 Jer. ii. v. 
 
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 Solomon loved many strange women, besides the 
 Pharaoh. . . . Solomon clave unto these in 
 love. And ... it came to pass when Solomon was old, 
 that his wives turned away his heart after other gods. 
 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the 
 abomination of Moab ; . . . and for Molech, the abomi- 
 nation of the children of Ammon. And so did he for 
 all his strange wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed 
 unto their gods. I Kings xi. 1-4, 7, 8. 
 
 They that make a graven image are all of them 
 vanity ; and their desirable things shall not profit : . . . 
 they see not nor know : that they may be ashamed. . . . 
 He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him 
 aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say. Is there 
 not a lie in my right hand ? Isa. xliv. 9, 20. 
 
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 And is my life to be like that I love ? 
 ThCii let my heart be set on things above. 
 O Jesus, so reveal Thyself to me, 
 That I may be a reflex, Lord, of Thee. 
 
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 WelLn wilhoitt >rat(r. Fountains ahonndiny with irater. A 
 irdl of lirirKf inatirs, and >tireatiif^ from Lthanon. 2 Petnr ii. 17 : 
 I'ror. viii. 24: Cdiit. iv. lo. 
 
 O that one would give me drink of the water of the 
 well of Bethlehem. 2 Sam. xxiii. 15. 
 
 If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. 
 I will give unto him that is athirst, of the fountain of 
 the water of life freely. John vii. .37 : Rev. xxi. 6. 
 
 Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is 
 deep : from whence then hast thou that living water ? 
 John iv. 11. 
 
 If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that 
 saith unto thee. Give me to drink ; thou wouldest have 
 asked of him, and he would have given thee living 
 water. John iv. 10. 
 
 Give me this water that I thirst not. John iv. 15. 
 
 Spring up, O well ; sing ye to it. With joy shall ye 
 draw water out of the wells of salvation. Num. xxi. 17: 
 Isa. xii. 3. 
 
 With thee is the fountain of life. All my springs 
 are in thee. Ps. xxxvi. 9 ; Ixxxvii. 7. 
 
 Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give 
 him shall never thirst : but the water that I shall give 
 him shall be in him a well of water springing up into 
 everlasting life. He that belie veth on me, as the Scrip- 
 ture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living 
 water. John iv. 14 ; vii. 38. 
 
 Thou of life the fountain art, 
 
 Freely let me take of Thee ; 
 Spring Thou up within my heart, 
 
 Rise to all eternity. 
 
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July 11.] 
 
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 RujhteonmesH tcnthfh to life. Pror. xi. 19. 
 
 The fear of the Lord prolongeth days. Prov. x. 27. 
 
 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom : 
 and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 
 For by me shall thy days be multiplied, and the years 
 of thy life shall be increased. Prov. ix. 10, 11. 
 
 Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise 
 of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 
 1 Tim. iv. 8. 
 
 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many 
 days, that he may see good 'I Keep thy tongue from 
 evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from 
 evil, and do good ; seek peace, and pursue it. Hear, O 
 my son, and receive my sayings ; and the years of thy 
 life shall be many. Ps. xxxiv. 12-14: Prov. iv. 10. 
 
 Happy is the man that findeth \n isdom, and the man 
 that "etteth understanding. For the merchandise of it 
 is better than the m( rchandise of silver, and the gain 
 thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than 
 rubies : and all the things thou canst desire are not to 
 be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right 
 hand ; and in her left hand riches and honor. Her 
 ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are 
 peice. Prov. iii. 1.3-17. 
 
 My son, forget not my law ; but let thine heart keep 
 my commandments. For length of days, and long life, 
 and peace shall they add to thee. Prov. iii. 1, 2. 
 
 Well may th« liir'iteous praise the Lord, 
 For lengthened lite, and mercies given ; 
 
 And the blest promise in His word, 
 Of an unending life in heaven. 
 
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 A^'o*" ahideth faith, hope, lore, these three ; but the greatest of 
 thene is lore. I Cor. xiii. 13. 
 
 The fruit of the Spirit is love. G;il. v. 22. 
 We give thanks to God, . . . since we heard of your 
 . . . love in the Spirit. Col. i. .3, 4, 8. 
 
 We have not received the Spirit of fear, but the 
 Spirit of . . . love. 2 Tim. i. 7. 
 
 There is no fear in love ; but perfect love casteth out 
 fear. 1 John iv. 18. 
 
 Now the end of the commandment is love out of a 
 pure heart. 1 Tim. i. 5. 
 
 Love is the fulfilling of the law. Let all your things 
 be done with love. llom. xiii. 10 : 1 Cor. xvi. 14. 
 
 Love thinketh (imputeth) no evil. 1 Cor. xiii. 5. 
 Love covereih a multitude of sins. Love covereth 
 all sins. 1 Peter iv. 8 : Prov. x. 12. 
 
 Love is strong as death. . . . Many waters cannot 
 quench love. Cant. viii. 6, 7. 
 
 Love never fail' ' , 1 Cor. xiii. 8. 
 
 Love is of God ; and every one that loveth is born of 
 God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth 
 not God ; for God is love. 1 John iv. 7, 8. 
 
 God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth 
 in God, and God in him. He that loveth not abideth in 
 death. 1 John iv. 16; iii. 14. 
 
 Spirit of love, when will my soul 
 Yield to thy strong and sweet control? 
 To serve as angels do above, 
 Impelled by heaven's great law of love. 
 
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 loved the people. Dent, xxxiii. 2, 3. 
 
 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that lie 
 loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our 
 sins. We love him, because he first loved us. 1 John 
 iv. 10, 19. 
 
 The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose 
 you, because ye were more in number than any people : 
 for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the 
 Lord loved you. Deut. vii. 7, 8. 
 
 In this was manifested the lovo of God toward us, 
 that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that 
 we might live through him. 1 John iv. 9. 
 
 I have loved you, saith the Lord. Mai. i. 2. 
 
 We know and have believed the love that God hath 
 toward us. God is love ; and he that abideth in love 
 abideth in God, and God in him. 1 John iv. 16. 
 
 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you ; 
 continue ye in my love. If ye keep my cnmmandments, 
 ye shall abide in my love ; even as I have kept my 
 Father's commandments, and abide in his love. John 
 XV. 9, 10. 
 
 Behold what manner of love the Father hath be- 
 stowed upon us, that we should be c.Ued the children of 
 God. 1 John iii. 1. 
 
 Having loved his own which were in the world, he 
 loved them unto the end. John xiii. 1. 
 
 Who shall separate us from the love of God*? Rom. 
 viii. 35. 
 
 I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Jer. 
 xxxi. 3. 
 
 love of God, how strong and true, 
 Eternal, and yet ever new : 
 Eternal, love, in Thee we rest, 
 For ever safe, for ever blest. 
 
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 Love iti of God. For (Jod in love. 1 John iv. 7, 8. 
 
 Though 1 speak with the tongues of men and of 
 aiigels, and have not love, I am become as sounding 
 brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift 
 of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all know- 
 ledge ; and though 1 have all faith, so that I could 
 remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. 
 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and 
 though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, 
 it profiteth me nothing. 
 
 Love suffereth long, and is kind ; love envieth not ; 
 love vaunteth not itself, is not pufi'ed up, doth not be- 
 have itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily 
 provoked, thinketh no evil ; rejoiceth not in inicjuity, 
 but rejoiceth in the truth ; l)eareth all things, believeth 
 all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 
 
 Love never faileth : but whether there be prophecies, 
 they shall fail ; whether there be tongues, they shall 
 cease ; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish 
 away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 
 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which 
 is in part shall be done away. When T was a child, I 
 spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a 
 child : but when I became a man, I put away childish 
 things. For now we sec through a glass, darkly ; but 
 then face to face : now I know in part ; but then shall 
 I know even as also I avn known. And now abideth 
 faith, hope, love, these three ; but the greatest of these 
 is love. 1 Cor. xiii. 1-13. 
 
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 Happy the heart where graces reign, 
 
 Where love inspires the breast ; 
 Love is the brightest of the train, 
 
 And strengthens all the rest. 
 
 This is the grace that lives and sings, 
 When faith and hope shall cease ; 
 
 'Tis this shall strike our joyful strings 
 In brightest realms of bliss. 
 
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 I will love thee, O Jjord, my strength. Ps. xviii. 1. • 
 Thou ahalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy 
 
 heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and 
 
 with all thy strength. Mark xii. 30. 
 
 I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and 
 my supplications. Ps. cxvi. 1. 
 
 O love the Lord, all ye his saints. Ps. xxxi. 23. 
 
 Lord, thou knowest all things ; thou knowest that I 
 love thee. John xxi. 15. 
 
 Lovest thou me ? . . . feed my lauibs. . . . Feed my 
 sheep. John xxi. 15, 16. 
 
 This is the love of God, that we keep his command- 
 ments. 1 John V. 3. 
 
 If ye love me, keep my commandments. If a man 
 love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love 
 him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode 
 with him. John xiv. 15, 23. 
 
 They shall prosper that love thee. Ps. cxxii. C. 
 The Lord preserveth them that love him. Ps. cxlv. 
 20. 
 
 The faithful God keepeth covenant and mercy with 
 them that love him. Deut. vii. 9. 
 
 Let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth 
 forth in his might. Judges v. 31. 
 
 Do I not love Thee, O my Lord ? 
 
 Behold my heart and see ; 
 And turn each cursed idol out 
 
 That dares to rival Thee. 
 
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 The wicked ... go astray as soon as they be born, 
 speaking lies. Israel shall not. speak lies. Ps. Iviii, 3 : 
 Zeph. iii. 13. 
 
 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the 
 house of Israel with deceit. He feedeth on nuhcs ; a 
 deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot 
 deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right 
 hand 1 Hosea xi. 12 : Isa. xliv. 20. 
 
 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the 
 Christ ? This is the antichrist, even he that denieth the 
 Father and the Son. 1 John ii, 22. 
 
 (They) who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in 
 the flesh, this is the deceiver and the antichrist. 2 
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 walk in darkness, v.e lie, and do not the truth. If we 
 say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the 
 truth is not in us. 1 John i. 6, 8. 
 
 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his com- 
 mandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. He 
 that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is 
 in darkness even until now. 1 John ii. 4, 9. 
 
 If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, 
 he is a liar : for he that loveth not his brother whom he 
 hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 
 1 John iv. 20. 
 
 If ye have bitter envying and strife in your heart, 
 glory not, and lie not against the truth ! James iii. 14. 
 
 The man who lies is both a fool and knave, 
 And Satan's meanest menial and slave ; 
 He thinks that through his covering of lies, 
 God s weapons cannot pierce, nor yet his eyes. 
 
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 A riyhteotia man hafeth lyinij. Prov. xiii. 5. 
 
 He that practises deceit shall not dwell witiiin my 
 house : he that speaketh falsehood shall not abide in my 
 sight, Ps. ci. 7. 
 
 Ye shall not . . . deal falsely, nor lie one to another. 
 Lev. xix. 11. 
 
 The Lord . iteth ... a lying tongue. The law is 
 . . . made . . . for the ungodly, and for liars. Prov. 
 vi. 16, 17: ITim. i. 9. 
 
 Put away lying, and speak every man truth with his 
 neighbor. Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put 
 off the old man with his deeds. Eph. iv. 'lb : Col. iii. 9. 
 See John viii. 44. 
 
 I hate and abhor lying. Let lying lips be struck 
 dumb. Ps. cxix. 1G3; xxxi. 18. 
 
 The lying tongue is but for a moment. For the 
 mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. Prov. 
 xii. 19 : Ps. Ixiii. 11. 
 
 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a 
 deceitful tongue. What shall he give to thee, and what 
 shall he do more to thee, thou deceitful tongue. Ps. 
 exx, 2, 3. 
 
 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that 
 speaketh lies shall not escape, . . . He that speaketh 
 lies shall perish. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, 
 and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and 
 whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. All liars shall have 
 their part in the lake which burnetii with fire and brim- 
 stone : which is the second death. Prov. xix. 5, 9 : 
 Rev, xxii. 15 ; xxi. 8. 
 
 Oh, for the men in our time and land, 
 Who to the truth at any coat would stand ; 
 Who would not, all of India's wealth to win, 
 Or to obtain renown, or cover sin, 
 Tell what is false ; but would far rather die, 
 Than bear the stain and stigma of a lie. 
 
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 I have ke[)t thy precepts, and thy testimonies : for 
 all my ways are before thee. Ps. cxix. 1(18. 
 
 TIh! ways of man are before the eyes of the L<jr(l, 
 and h<^ pondei'etli all his goings. Prov. v. 21. 
 
 Thine eyes arc upon all the ways of the sons of men; 
 to give every one according to his ways. Jer. xxxii. 19. 
 ' I the Lord, search the heart, I try the reins, even to 
 give every man according to his ways. Jer. xvii. 10. 
 
 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but 
 the end thereof are the wa3's of death. Prov. xiv. 12. 
 
 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but 
 the Lord weigheth the spirits. Prov. xvi. 2. 
 
 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again unto 
 the Lord. Lam. iii. 40. 
 
 Stand in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, 
 where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall 
 find rest for your souls. Jer. vi 16. 
 
 When a man's ways please the Lord, he rnaketh even 
 his enemies to be at peace with him. Prov. xvi. 7. 
 
 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and 
 Israel had walked in my ways ! T should soon have sub- 
 dued their enemies, and turned my hand against their 
 adversaries. Ps. Ixxxi. 13, 14. See cxix. 59: Isa. 
 xlviii. 17; Iv. 8, 9. 
 
 Thy way, O Lord, I seek, not mine to tread ; 
 All otlier ways than Thine I truly dread ; 
 " Show nie Thy way," O Lord, Thy way is right, 
 And ever onward grows more smooth and bright. 
 
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 The head of the woman is the man ; . . . hut the 
 woman is the glory of the man. Howheit neith(!r is 
 the woman without the man, nor the man without the 
 woman in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, 
 so is the man also by the woman ; but all things aie of 
 God. 1 Cor. xi. ^, 7, 11, 12. 
 
 God created man in his own image, in the image of 
 God created he him : a male and a female created lie 
 them. And (Jod blessed them, and God said unto them. 
 Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and 
 subdue it. Gen. i. 27, 28. 
 
 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter 
 times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to 
 seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, . . . forbid- 
 ding to marry. 1 Tim. iv. 1, 3. 
 
 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man 
 have liis own wife, and let every woman have hei' own 
 husband. I will therefore that the younger woman 
 marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occa- 
 sion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. 1 Cor. vii. 
 2: 1 Tim v. U. See Gen. ii. 18. 
 
 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and 
 obtaineth favor of the Lord. A prudent wife is from 
 the Ijord. Frov. xviii. 22 ; xix. 14. 
 
 This is a true saying, If a man desireth the oftice of 
 a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must 
 be blameless, the husband of one wife, . . . one tliat 
 ruleth well his own house, having his children in sub- 
 jection with all gravity. Let deacons (also) be husbands 
 of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses 
 well. 1 Tim. iii. 1, 2, 4, 12. 
 
 How blest two lives that heaven has deigned to wed, 
 
 And so made one ; 
 Like streams that find their common river bed, 
 
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 The Lord (jiod said, Tt in not j^ood that the man ;ihould 
 he alone ; I will inai.e him an helper suited to him. 
 And the Lord (rod caused a deep .sleep to fall upon the 
 man : . . . and he took one of his ribs, and closed up 
 the flesh instead thereof: and of the rib which he took 
 from man, the Lord God formed woman, and brought 
 her to the man. And the man said. This is now bone of 
 my bones, and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called 
 woman, because she is taken out of man. Gen. ii. lH-2."{. 
 
 From the beginning of the creation God made them 
 a male and a female. For this cause shall a man leave 
 his father and mother, and cleave to his wife ; and they 
 twain shall be one flesh ; so then they are no more 
 twain, but one liesh. What therefore (iod hath joined 
 together, let not man put asunder. Mark x. 6-9. 
 
 Let not the husband put away his wife. 1 Cor. 
 vii. n. 
 
 Art thou bound to a wife ? seek not to be loosed. 
 Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornica- 
 tion, and shall marry another, committeth adultery. 
 Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal 
 treficherously against the wife of his youth. For the 
 Lord . . . hateth putting away. 1 Cor. vii. 27 : Matt, 
 xix. 9: Mai. ii. 15, 16. 
 
 Isaac . . . took Rebecca, and she became his wife, 
 and he loved her. Gen. xxiv. 67. 
 
 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against 
 them. Let every one of you ... so love his wife even 
 as himself. Col. iii. 19 : Eph. v. 33. See vs. 25, 28, 
 29 : 1 Peter iii. 7. 
 
 The Saviour, in devotion to His bride, 
 Left His bright home, and for her hved and died. 
 And so should we, as Christians, for our wives, 
 Renounce our selfish comforts, if not lives. 
 
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 hmhand. 1 Cor. vii. 34. .SVc Proi'. xii. 4; xxxi. 10-I2, 28. 
 
 Tho licud of the woman is the inuti. For the man is 
 not of tlie woman ; but the woman of the man. Neither 
 was the man created for the woman ; but tlie woman for 
 the man. And let the wife see that she reverence her 
 husband. 1 Cor. xi. 3, 8, 9 : Eph. v. :\X 
 
 Unto the woman (God) said, . . . Thy desire shall 
 be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. For the 
 husband is head of the wife, even as Christ is the luiad 
 of the church. . . . Therefore as the church is subj(!ct 
 unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands 
 in everything. Gen. iii. 10 : Eph. v. 23, 21. 
 
 (Let) the aged women teach the young women to 
 love their husbands ; ... to be obedient to their own 
 hu.ibands, that the word of Cod be not blasphemed. 
 Titus ii. ;J 5. 
 
 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, 
 as it is fit in the Lord. Likewise, ye wives, be in sub- 
 jection to your own husbands, that if any obey not the 
 word, they may without the word be won by the V)ehav- 
 iour of their wives ; beholding your chaste behaviour 
 coupled with fear. For how knowest thou, O wife, 
 whether thou shalt save thy husband? Col. iii. 18 : 1 
 Peter iii. 1, 2 : 1 Cor. vii. 16. 
 
 Let not the wife depart from her husband. For the 
 woman who hath an husband is bound by the law to her 
 husband as long as he liveth. 1 Cor. vii. 10 : Rom. 
 vii. 2. 
 
 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband 
 liveth ; but if her husband be dead she is at liberty to 
 be married to whom she will, only in the Lord. 1 Cor. 
 vii. 10. 
 
 A loyal wife is royally enthroned ; 
 Her sceptre love, her empire grandly zoned 
 With a world-circling realm — her husband's heart. 
 
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 The fruit of the spirit is . . . meekness. Gal. v. 22. 23, 
 
 The meek shall eat and be satisfied. The meek shall 
 inhe»'it the earth, and shall delight themselves in the 
 abundance of peace. Ps. xxii. 2G ; xxxvii. 11. 
 
 Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the 
 earth. Matt. v. 5. 
 
 The Lord lifteth up the meek. He will beautify the 
 meek with salvation. Ps. cxlvii. 6 ; cxlix. 4. 
 
 Put on, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, hum- 
 bleness of mind, meekness. And receive with meekness 
 the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 
 Col. iii. 12 : James i. 21. 
 
 The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek 
 will he teach his way. Ps. xxv. 9. 
 
 The Lord hath appointed me to preach good tidings 
 unto the meek. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of 
 me ; for 1 am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find 
 rest for your souls. Jsa. Ixi. 1 : Matt. xi. 29. 
 
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 The meek shall increase their joy in the Lord. Isa. 
 xxix. 19. 
 
 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you 
 that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye .are 
 called, with all lowliness and meekness. Eph. iv. 1, 2. 
 
 The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit . . 
 the sight of God of great price. 1 Peter iii. 4. 
 Seek meekness. Zeph. ii. 3. 
 
 *' Seek meekness." Moses was most meek 
 
 Of all God's saints of old : 
 And so the Lord to him did speak, 
 
 And His blest truths unfokt. 
 Jesus was meeker far than he, 
 
 And meek His followers should be. 
 
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 The rhildrev of Israel jotirneyed from Barneses to Suceoth. 
 And a mixed multitude went vji aha n-ith them. Ex. xii. 37, 38. 
 
 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell 
 a lusting ; and the children of Israel also wept again, 
 and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat 1 We reiiiember 
 the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely ; the cucum- 
 V>ers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and 
 the garlic : but now our soul is dried away : there is 
 nothing at all but this manna before our eyes. . . . 
 And the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly ; and 
 Moses also was displeased. Num. xi. 4-6, 10. 
 
 They lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and 
 tempted God in the desert. They did not destroy the 
 nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them : 
 but were mingled among the heathen and learned their 
 works. And they served their idols, which were a snare 
 unto them. Ps. cvi. 14. 
 
 The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, 
 have not separated themselves from the people of the 
 lands, doing according to their abominations. . . . For 
 they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and 
 for their sons : so that the holy seect have mingled them- 
 selve? with the people of those lands. Ezra ix. 1 , 2. 
 
 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the nations ; 
 strangers have devoured his strength, anrl he knoweth it 
 not ; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he 
 knoweth it not. Ephraim also is like a silly dove, with- 
 out heart. Though I have redeemed them, yet have 
 they spoken lies against me. They return, but not to 
 the Most High : they are like a deceitful bow. They 
 have deeply corrupted themselves. Hosea vii. 8, 9, 11, 
 
 16; ix. 9. 
 
 Israel must sow her field with unmixed seed. 
 Nor even plough with ox the ass beside ; 
 
 Her garments must not be of mingled thread : 
 Nor should Gotl's seed and Satan's be allied. 
 
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 He shall .speak peace to the heathen. Zech. ix. 10, 
 
 This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all 
 tlie world for a testimony unto all the nations : and then 
 shall the end come. Matt. xxiv. 14. 
 
 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders 
 among all people. Say unto the heathen that the Lord 
 reigneth. Go ye into all the world, and preach the 
 gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is 
 baptized shall be saved ; but he that believeth not shall 
 be condemned. Ps. xcvi. 3, 10: Mark xvi. 15, IG. 
 
 It behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead 
 the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins 
 should be preached in his name among all nations, lie- 
 ginning from Jerusalem. Luke xxiv. 46-48. 
 
 Ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is 
 come upon you ; and ye shall be witnesses unto me both 
 in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and unto 
 the uttermost parts of the earth. Be it known unto you 
 therefore, that this salvation of God is sent unto the 
 Gentiles, and they will hear it. Acts i. 8 ; xxviii. 28. 
 
 I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, 
 having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that 
 dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, 
 and tongue, and people. Rev. xiv. 6. 
 
 Jesus . . . spake, . . . saying. All authority is given 
 unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore, and 
 disciple all nations ; baptizing them into the name of the 
 Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit ; teach- 
 ing them to observe all things whatsoover I have com- 
 manded you ; and lo, I am with you alway, even unto 
 the end of the world (age). Matt, xxviii. 18-20. 
 
 Fly abroad, thou mighty Gospel, 
 
 Win and conquer, — never cease ; 
 May thy lasting wide dominions 
 Midtiply and still increase : 
 
 Sway thy sceptre, 
 Saviour, all the world around. 
 
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 Repentance and remimon of xin-s should he preached, in 
 (ChrhiVs) name, . . . beginiiiiiy at Jerusalem. Luke xxiv. 47. 
 
 The words which God sent unto the children of 
 Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, . . . was pub- 
 lished throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee. 
 Acts X. 36, 37. 
 
 When Jesus was come into his own country, he 
 taught them in their synagogue. And he preached in 
 the synagogues of Galilee. Matt. xiii. 54 : Luke iv. 44. 
 
 And he appointed twelve, that they should be witii 
 him, and that he might send them forth to preach. 
 And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout 
 every city and village, preaching, and showing the glad 
 tidings of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were 
 with him. Mark iii. 14 : Luke viii, 1. 
 
 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, 
 saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into 
 any city of the Samaritans enter ye not : but go rather 
 to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye 
 go, preach, saying. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. 
 Matt. X. 5-7. 
 
 When Jesus had made an end of commanding his 
 twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to 
 preach in their cities. And he preached in their syna- 
 gogues throughout all Galilee. Matt. xi. 1 : Mark i. 39. 
 
 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy 
 also, and sent them two and two before his face into 
 every city and place, whither he himself would come. 
 And he said unto them, The harvest is plenteous, but 
 the laborers are few : pray ye therefore the Lord of the 
 harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his har- 
 vest. Luke X. 1, 2. 
 
 Tell the good news the first to those most near, — 
 Thy frientls and neighbors round, and kindred dear ; 
 For 80 the Saviour did, and bid us do, 
 And thence diffuse His light the whole world through. 
 
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 teachath in all (food thmgs. Clal. vi. 6. 
 
 (Jesus) appointed twelve that they mij^ht be with 
 him, and that he might send them forth to preach. 
 Mark iii. 14. 
 
 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them 
 saying, . . As ye go, preach. . . . Provide neither 
 gold, nor silver, nor brass, in your purses, nor scrip for 
 your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet 
 staves : for the workman is worthy of his meat. Matt. 
 
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 The Lord appointed other seventy also. And he 
 said unto them, . . . Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor 
 shoes ; . . . and into whatsoever house ye enter, . . . 
 
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 for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke x. 1, 4-7. 
 
 Who goeth a warfare at any time at his own charges ? 
 Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit 
 thereof % Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the 
 milk of the flock 1 . . . For it is written in the law of 
 Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out 
 the corn. For our sakes, no doubt, this is written : that 
 he that ploweth should plow in hope ; and that he that 
 thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. If we 
 have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if 
 we shall reap your carnal things ? Do ye not know that 
 they who minister about holy things live of the things 
 of the temple ? and they who wait at the altar, are par- 
 takers with the altar 1 Even so hath the Lord ordained 
 that they who preach the gospel should live by the 
 gospel. 1 Cor. ix. 7-14. 
 
 God was the portion of His ministers of old, 
 
 And theirs the tithes of fruit, field, fowl, and fold ; 
 
 The best alone was worthy to be given 
 
 To the anointed messengers of heaven. 
 
 And so we render to the Lord to-day, 
 
 What to His servants freely we repay. 
 
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 If any man minister let him ilo it as of the alnli/y irhlch God 
 (jii'eth ; that Ood in all thiiujs may he tjlorified fhroinjh Jesn.s 
 Christ, to trhom be pralsi, and dominion for ercr and erer, Amen. 
 1 Peter iv. 1 1 . 
 
 All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to 
 himself by Jesus Christ, and God hath given to us the 
 ministry of reconciliation. 2 Cor. v. 18. 
 
 Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received 
 in the Lord that thou fulfil it. Study to present thyself 
 approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be 
 ashamed, handling aright the word of life. Till I come, 
 give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. 
 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given 
 thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the 
 presbytery. Be diligent in these things : give thyself 
 wholly to them ; that thy profiting may appear unto all. 
 Take heed to thyself, and to the teaching. Continue in 
 them ; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and 
 them that hear thee. Col. iv. 17 : 2 Tim. ii. i5 : 1 Tim. 
 iv. 13-16. 
 
 Having then gifts differing according to the grace 
 that is given to us, whether . . . ministry, let us wait 
 on our ministering. Rom. xii. 6. See 1 Cor. iv. 1. 
 
 I adjure thee before God, and Christ Jesus, who shall 
 one day judge the quick and the dead at his appearing 
 and his kingdom ; preach the word, be urgent in season, 
 out of season ; convict, rebuke, exhort with all longsuf- 
 fering and doctrine. For the time will come that they 
 will not endure sound doctrine, but will heap to them- 
 selves teachers, having itching ears. But watch thou in 
 all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evange- 
 list, make full proof of thy ministry. 2 Tim. iv. 1, 2, 5. 
 
 Sound abroad the wondrous story 
 
 Of redeeming grace and love ; 
 Till the earth, filled with His glory, 
 
 Echoes to the strains above. 
 
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 children arise lip and cali her blessed. Proo. xxxi. 30, 28. 
 
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 As is the mother, so is her daughter. Ezek. xvi. 44. 
 
 When Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of 
 Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod 
 Whereupon he promised with an f 'th to give her what- 
 soever she would ask. And she, being before instructed 
 of her mother, said. Give me here John Baptist's head 
 in a charger. . . . And his head was brought in a 
 charger to the damsel : and she brought it to her mother. 
 Matt. xiv. 6-11. 
 
 Ahaziah . . . did evil in the sight of the Lord, and 
 walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his 
 mother. For his mother was his counsellor to do 
 wickedly. 1 Kings xxii. 52 : 2 Chron. xxii. 3. 
 
 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with 
 the Lord ; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted 
 out. Ps. cix. 14, 15. 
 
 The words of King Lemuel, the prophec\- that his 
 mother taught him. Prov. xxxi. 1. See 2 Tim. i. 3-5. 
 
 Behold King Solomon, with the crown wherewith 
 his mother crowned 1 hn. Cant. iii. 11. 
 
 Hannah said, . . . For this child I prayed, and the 
 Lord hath given me my petition that I asked of him ; 
 therefore also I i e lent him to the Lord as long as he 
 liveth. 1 Sam. i. 22, 27, 28. 
 
 Pharaoh's daughter said, . . . Take this child and 
 nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And 
 . . . Elisha . . . said, ... Is it well with thee ? is it 
 well with thy husband t is it well with the child 1 Ex. 
 ii. 9 ; 2 Kings iv. 26. 
 
 A mother's hands, what jewels rare they liold ! 
 More precious far than richest gems or gold : 
 By holy influence, and teachings wise, 
 To train for earth, and fashion for the skies. 
 
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July 29.] 
 
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 Blesxed are they that mourn, for they shall be con\forted. 
 Matt. V. 5. 
 
 I am troubled ; I am bowed down greatly : I go 
 mourning all the day long. Ps. xxxviii. 6. 
 
 God . . . comforteth those that are cast down. '1 
 Cor. vii. 6. 
 
 Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the 
 enemy? Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction. 
 Ps xlii. 9 : Ixxxviii. 9. 
 
 I will restore comforts unto . . . mourners. T will 
 turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, 
 and make them rejoice from their sorrow. Isa. Ivii. 
 18 : Jer. xxxi. 13. 
 
 gladness 
 
 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing. 
 Thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with 
 
 Ps. XXX. 11. 
 
 The spirit of the L( - d God is upon me , because the 
 Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the 
 meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted ; 
 to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of 
 the prison to them that are bound ; to proclaim the 
 acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance 
 of our God ; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto 
 them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland 
 for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of 
 praise for the spirit of heaviness. Isa. Ixi. 1-3. 
 
 Mourning souls, ili-y up your totars, 
 All your sighs the Saviour hears : 
 Feels too, like a winged dart, 
 Every pang that rends your heart. 
 For your sorrows you shall sing, 
 When He doth His comfort bring. 
 Sweet the joy He doth impart 
 To the sad and sorrowing heart. 
 Be not then with grief oppressed, 
 liut with Christ's own comfort blest. 
 
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 ^Hr/ Abraham drew ufar (the. Lord) and .said, Wilt thou 
 couHume the riyhleom with the tricked: Oen. xviii. 23. 
 
 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sin- 
 ners to hear him. Luke xv. 1. 
 
 Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord shall say. 
 Deut. V. 27. 
 
 Let us draw near hither unto God. 1 Sam. xiv. 36. 
 
 Let the priests that come near to the Lord sanctify 
 themselves. I will be sanctified in them that come nigh 
 me. Ex. xix. 22 : Lev. x. 3, 
 
 The Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy ; 
 and will cause him to come near unto him : even him 
 whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto 
 him. Num. xvi. 5. 
 
 Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's 
 tents, . . . and their governor shall proceed from the 
 midst of them ; and I will cause him to draw near unto 
 me : for who is this that engaged his heart to approach 
 unto me 1 saith the Lord, Jer. xxx. 18, 21. 
 
 It is good for me to draw near to God. Ps. Ixxiii. 
 28. 
 
 Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. 
 James iv. 8. 
 
 The law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of 
 a better hope did, by the which we draw nigh to God. 
 Having therefore boldness to enter into the holiest by 
 the blood of Jesus ; let us draw near with a true heart, 
 in full assurance of faith. Heb, vii. 19 ; x. 19, 22. 
 
 Now in Christ Jesus, ye A^ho sometimes were far off 
 are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Eph. ii. 1 3. 
 
 So nigh, so very nigh to God 
 
 I cannot nearer ue ; 
 For in the person of His Son 
 
 I am as near as He. 
 
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 While thy romjnuiied foijithr and recmotod, Jvsux himxelf 
 drew near, and irent trifh thm. Lab- xxiv. \b. 
 
 Be not far from me, O ray God. Make haste for my 
 help. Ps. Ixxi. \'l. 
 
 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye 
 upon him while he is near. Isa. Iv. 6. 
 
 Hear me, O Lord ; for thy lovingkindness is good : 
 turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender 
 mercies. . . . Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it ; 
 deliver me because of mine enemies. Ps. Ixix. 16, 18. 
 
 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, 
 to all that call upon him in truth. Ps. cxlv. 18. 
 
 What nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh 
 unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we 
 call upon him for ? Deut. iv. 7. 
 
 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and 
 ye shall be my people. Lev. xxvi. 12. 
 
 I called upon thy name, O Lord . . . thou hast 
 heard my voice : . . . thou drewest near in the day 
 that I called upon thee. Sam. iii. 55-57. 
 
 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken 
 heart ; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Ps. 
 xxxiv. 18. 
 
 Thou art near, O Lord ; and all thy commandments 
 are truth. Ps. cxix. 151. 
 
 Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into 
 heaven 1 (that is, to bring Christ down from above :) or, 
 Who shall descend into the deep 1 (that is to bring up 
 Christ again from the dead.) But . . . The word is 
 nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart, and in 
 thy mouth. Rom. x. 6-8. 
 
 Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, 
 And spirit with spirit can meet. 
 
 Closer is He than breathing, 
 
 And nearer than hands and feet. 
 
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 We, according to his promise, look for new heavens 
 and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 
 And I saw a new heaven and a new aerth ; for the 
 first heaven and tiie first earth were passed away ; and 
 there was no inoie sea. And I John saw the holy city, 
 new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, 
 prepared as abride adorned for her husband. And I 
 hen 1(1 a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold the 
 tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with 
 them, and they shall be his people, and Gcd himself 
 shall be with them, and be their God. And God 
 shall wipe away all tears from their eyes : and there 
 shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, 
 neither shall there be any more pain : for the former 
 things are passed away. And he that sat upon the 
 throne said, Behold I make all things new. . . . And 
 one of the sevcii angels talked with me saying. Come 
 hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. 
 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and 
 higli mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy 
 Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having 
 the glory of God, . . . And the city had no need of the 
 sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of 
 God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 
 And . . . the kings of the earth do bring their glory 
 into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all 
 by day : for there shall be no night there. . . . And 
 there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, 
 neither whatsoever dooi/h an abomination or a lie ; but 
 only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life. 
 2 Peter iii. 13 : Rev. xxi. 1-5, 9, 10, 22-27. 
 
 " Jerusalem the golden," with God's own presence bright ; 
 Where comes nor sin, nor sorrow, nor pain, nor death, nor night: 
 I long for thee, dear city, thy rapture and thy rest ; 
 To be at home with Jesus, and dwelling with the blest. 
 
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 Perstrufe.d, hut not formh n. 2 Cor. iv. U. 
 
 Forsake me not, O Lord. Ps. xxxviii. 21. 
 The Lord thy God, he it is that doth go wiih thee ; 
 he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Deut. xxxi. G. 
 
 Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsiike 
 us so long time ? Lam. v. 20. 
 
 Fear not ; for thou shalt not be ashamed. For a 
 small moment have I forsaken thee ; but with great 
 mercies will I gather thee. Isa. liv. 4, 7. 
 
 Cast me not off in the time of old age, forsake me 
 not when my strength faileth. When T am old and 
 greyheaded, O God, forsake me not, until I have showed 
 thy strength to this generation, and thy power to every 
 one that is to come. Ps. Ixxi. 9, 18. 
 
 Even to old age, and to hoar hairs will I carry you, 
 and deliver you, I will never leave thee nor forsake 
 thee. Isa. xlvi. 4 : Heb. xiii. 5. 
 
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 They that know thy name will put their trust in 
 thee : for thou. Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek 
 thee. I have been young, and now am old ; yet have I 
 never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging 
 bread. Ps. ix. 10; xxxvii. 25. 
 
 Zion said. The Lord hath forsaken me, and my God 
 hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking 
 child that she should not have compassion on the son of 
 her womb ? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget 
 thee. Behold, [ have graven thee upon the palms of 
 my hands ; thy walls are continually Ijefore me. Isa. 
 rdix. 14-16. 
 
 The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, 
 I w.Ul not, I will not desert to its foes ; 
 That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, 
 I'll never, no never, no never, forsake. 
 
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 eternal Hali'at ion to all them that ol>ey him. Ileh. v. 8,9. 
 
 The people said unto .Joshua, The Lord our (Jod will 
 we serve, and his voice will we ohey. Josh. xxiv. 24. 
 
 Obey, 1 l)es«!ech thee, the voice of the JA)i'd . so shall 
 it be well with thee, and thy soul .'■hall live. .Jer. 
 xxxviii. 20. 
 
 We will oVjey the voice of the Lord our Uod, . . . 
 that it may he well with us, when we obey the voice of 
 the Lord our (Jod. .ler. xlii. 6. 
 
 If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my cove- 
 nant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above 
 all people : for all the earth is mine : and ye shall be 
 unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. Ex. 
 xix. 5, 6. 
 
 Samuel said. Hath the Loi'd as great delight in burnt 
 offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the 
 Lord 1 Behold, to o})ey is better than sacrifice, and to 
 hearken than the fat of rams. 1 Sam. xv. 22. 
 
 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing ... if 
 ye obey the commandments of the Lord your Cod. Obey 
 my voice . . . according to all I command you ; so shall 
 ye be my people, and I will be your God. Deut. xi. 
 26, 27 : Jor. xi. 4. 
 
 We ought to obey God rather than man. Acts 
 V. 29. 
 
 God hath given the Holy Spirit to them that obey 
 him. Acts v. 32. 
 
 The winds and streams Thy voice obey, 
 Each rolling sphere, each ocean wave : 
 
 All living creatures — shall not they 
 
 Whom Jesus came from heaven to save ? 
 
 Soon'^-r let suns refuse to shine 
 
 Against their Maker's word divine. 
 
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 i/nini irifli (Jnsrp/i nml Marjf) to Nauir> th, mul irus nuhjirf viifo 
 lliiin. Hill, xxviii. 7 : Lnk'i ii. .11. 
 
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 <>})ey(Hl tlio voice of .lonadul) the sou of Hcch.ii) our 
 fatlipr ill hU that ho hath char;>;('(l us, . . . and havo 
 ohcycd and done accofdin*^ to all that .lonadal) t)ur 
 father commanded us Avw xxxv. W, 8, 10. 
 
 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the (Jod of T.siael. 
 ]?(5cause ye have ohcycd the commandment of Jonadab 
 your father, and ke{)t all his pieccpts, and done accord- 
 in;? to all that he hath connnaiuhnl you : theiefore, thus 
 saith tin; Lord of hosts, tiie Ciod of Israel; .lonadah, tlu; 
 son of Hechal) shall not want a man to stand Inifore nu; 
 forever. Jer. xxxv. IH, 10. 
 
 A wise son heareth his fathei's instrnction ; hut a 
 scorner heareth not rehuke. Prov. xiii. 1. 
 
 Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father. 
 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake 
 not the law of thy mother. Hearken unto thy father 
 that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she in 
 old. Lev. xix 3 : Prov. vi. 20 ; xxiii. 22. 
 
 In the last days perilous times shall c^rae. For men 
 shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, 
 blasphemers, disobedient to parents. 2 Tim. iii. 1, 2. 
 
 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is 
 well pleasing unto the Lord. Children, obey your 
 parents in the Lord, for this is right. Col. iii. 20 : Eph. 
 vi. \. 
 
 As Jesus to His parents did glad obedience give, 
 
 So would we have our children like their Example live. 
 
 As He to please His Father did labor, suffer, die, 
 
 So children who are like Him, shall dwell with Him on high. 
 
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 Gni. xlviii. 10.' 
 
 Ahijah couki not see ; for his eyes were set by reason 
 of his a<^e. 1 Kinfifs xiv. 4. 
 
 Xow, Bar/.illia was a very a<;e(l man : . . . and Bar- 
 zillia said unto the king, How long have I to live? I 
 am this day fourscore years old : can I discern between 
 good and evil ? Can thy servant taste what I eat or 
 drink 1 Can I hear any more the voice of singing men 
 and singing women 1 Wherefore then should thy ser- 
 vant be a burden unto the king? 2 Sam. xix. 34, 35. 
 
 The days of our yeais are threescore years and ten ; 
 and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, 
 yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut 
 oil", and we Hy away. Ps. xc. 10. 
 
 If a man live many years and rejoice in them all ; 
 yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they 
 shall be many. Remember now thy Creator in the days 
 of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years 
 draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no i)leasure in 
 them; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the 
 stars, be not (hn'kened ; nor tlie clouds return after tlie 
 raiii : in the day when the keepers of the house shall 
 tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and 
 the grinders cease because they are few, and those that 
 look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors 
 shall be shut in the street ; when the sound of the 
 grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a 
 bird, and all the daughtei-s of music shall be brought 
 low ; yr»a, they shall be afriad of what is high, and fears 
 shall be in the way ; and the almond tree shall blossom, 
 and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall 
 fail : because man goeth to his long home, and the 
 mourners go about the streets. Eccl. xi. 7, 8 ; xii. 1-5. 
 
 01(1 ago walks thoughtful on the silent, solenm shore 
 Of that vast ocean it iimst sail so soon. 
 
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 . ht tlnm praise, the name of the Lord. Ps. 
 
 Righteousness tendetli to life. The rigliteous shall 
 flourish as the palm tree, he shall grow like a cedar in 
 Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the 
 Lord, shall flourish in the courts of our (jod. They 
 shall still bring forth fruit in old age ; they shall be fat 
 and flourishing ; to show that the Lord is upright : he 
 is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. Ps. 
 xcii. 12-15. 
 
 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a 
 good old age, an old man and full of days. >nd Isaac 
 gave up the ghost, and died . . . being old, and full of 
 daj's. And Moses was an hundred and twenty years 
 old when he died : his eye was not dim, nor his natural 
 force abated. Gen. xxv. 8 ; xxxv. 29 : Deut. xxxiv. 7. 
 
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 T said, O my God, take me not away in the midst 
 of my days. Ps. cii. 24. 
 
 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a 
 shock of corn cometh in its season. Job v. 26. 
 
 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth : and 
 hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Now 
 also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me 
 not ; until T have showed thy strength unto this genera- 
 tion, and thy power to evei'vone that is to come. Ps. 
 Ixxi. 17, 18. 
 
 Even to your old age I am He ; and even to hoar 
 hairs will I carry you : I have made, and 1 will bear ; 
 even I will carry, and will deliver you. Tsa. xlvi. 4. 
 
 Even down to old age all lu}- people shall prove 
 My .sovereign, eternal, unchangeahle love ; 
 
 And then, when gray hairs .shall their temples adorn, 
 Like land)s th«jy sliall still in My l)o&orn l)e hoiiie. 
 
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 The God of heaven . . , made the sea. The sea is his and he 
 made if. Jonah i. 9 : Ps. xcv. 5. 
 
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 hand 1 Wlio hath placed the sand for the bounds of the 
 sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass if? and 
 though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they 
 not prevail ; though they roar, yet can they not pass 
 over it. Tsa. xl. 12 : Jer. v. 22. See Ps. Ixv. 7. 
 
 He gathereth the sea together as an heap, he layeth 
 up the depth in the storehouses. He gave to the sea 
 his decree, that the waters should not pass his command- 
 ment. Ps. xxxiii. 7 : Prov. viii. 29. 
 
 The floods have lifted up, () Lord, the floods have 
 lifted up their voice ; the Hoods lift up their waves. 
 The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many 
 waters ; yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. Thou 
 rulest the raginjj of the sea : when the waves arise thou 
 stillest them. Ps. cxiii. .3 ; Ixxxix. 9 See cxxxix. 9, 10. 
 
 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do 
 business in great waters ; these see the works of the 
 Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he command- 
 eth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the 
 waves thereof. They mount up to heaven, they go down 
 again to the depths ; their soul is melted because of 
 trouble. They reel to and fro, and st.v,!re>- like a 
 drunken man, and are at their wit's end. Tli n hhey cry 
 unto the Lord in their trouble, and he briiii'c h them 
 out of their distresses. He maketh the storm u calm, so 
 that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad 
 because they be (juiet , so he bringeth them unto 
 their desired haven. Ps. cvii. 23-30. 
 
 The voice that stilled rough Galilee, 
 Can calm the roaring, boisterous sea. 
 The hand that holds the restless wave, 
 Hath power the mariner to save. 
 
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 They overcame him hi/ the blood of the Lanih, ami hy the irord 
 of their testimony. Rer. xii. 11 
 
 Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world : 
 and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even 
 our faith. 1 John v. 4. 
 
 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that 
 believeth that Jesus is the Hon of God 1 I have written 
 unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the 
 word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the 
 wicked one. 1 John iv. 5; ii. 14. 
 
 He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second 
 death. Rev. ii. 11. 
 
 To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree 
 of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. To 
 him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden 
 manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the 
 stone a new name written, which )io man knoweth, 
 saving he that receiveth it. He that overcometh, the 
 ."same shall l)e clothed in white raiment ; and I will not 
 blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will 
 confess his name before my Father, and before his 
 angels. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in 
 the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out : and 
 I will write upon him the name of my God, tand the 
 name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, 
 which cometh down out of heaven from my God : and I 
 will write upon him my new name. To him that over- 
 cometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even 
 as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in 
 his throne. He that overcometh. shall inherit all things : 
 .and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. Rev. 
 ii. 7, 17; iii. 5, 12, 21 ; xxi. 7. 
 
 To him that overcometh, 
 
 A crown of life shall be : 
 He with the King of glory 
 
 Shall reign eternally. 
 
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 A God ready to pardon. Neh, ix. 17. 
 
 I have sinned : what shall I do unto thee, O thou 
 preserver of men ? . . . Why dost thou not pardon my 
 transgression, and take away mine iniquity ? Job vii. 
 20, 21. 
 
 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast 
 transgressed against the Lord thy God, . . . and ye 
 have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 13. 
 
 I have sinned. . . . Now, therefore, I pray thee, 
 pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may 
 worship the Lord. 1 Sam. xv. 24, 25. 
 
 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous 
 man his thoughts : and let him return unto the Lord, 
 and he will have mercy upon him ; and to our God, for 
 he will abundantly pardon. Isa. Iv 7. 
 
 For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity ; 
 for it is great. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot 
 out all mine iniquities. Ps. xxv. 11; li. 9. 
 
 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions ; 
 and as a cloud thy sins. Isa. xliii. 25 ; xliv. 22. 
 
 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity ? 
 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people accord- 
 ing to the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast for- 
 given, . . . until now. Micah vii. 18 : Num. xiv. 19. 
 
 And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to 
 thy word. The iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, 
 and there shall be none ; and the sins of Judah, and 
 they shall not be found ; for I will pardon them. Num. 
 xiv. 20 : Jer. 1. 20. 
 
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 T lough heaped like mountains round ; 
 And 'neath God's pardoning love engulfed, 
 
 They're sought, but never fqund. 
 
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 By faith, Mosen when he iras hnrn, n'a-'< hid three >Ho»//ix hi/ 
 his ptu'eut-s, herauxe they sair that hi- irns a he.antifnl child ; anil 
 they irere not afraid of the kimfs edit t. lleh. xi. 23. 
 
 The children ought not to hiy up for the parents, but 
 the parents for the children. 2 Cor. xii. 14. 
 
 If any provide not for his own, and specially for 
 those of his own house, he hsith denied the faith, and is 
 worse than an infidel. 1 Tim. v. 8. 
 
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 A good man leave th an inheritance to his children's 
 children. Prov. xiii. 22. 
 
 Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty 
 nation. . . . For I know him, that he will command his 
 children and his household after him, and they shall 
 keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment. 
 Gen. xviii. 18, 19. 
 
 and let them grow into a multitude in 
 
 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid 
 it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his 
 left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wit- 
 tingly. . . . And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, 
 before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, 
 the God who hath fed me all my life long unto this day, 
 the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless 
 the lads ; . . 
 the midst of the earth. Gen. xlviii. 14-16. 
 
 The God of thy father shall help thee ; and . . . 
 bless thee. The blessings of thy father have prevailed 
 above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost 
 bounds of the everlasting hills : they shall be on the 
 head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him 
 that was separate from his brethren. Gen. xlix. 25, 26. 
 
 My boast is not that I deduce my birth, 
 From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; 
 But higher far my pinud pretensions rise — 
 The son of parents passed into the skies. 
 
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 Hem is the, palienre of the saints. Her. xiv. 12. 
 
 We j^lory in tribulations also, knowing that tribu- 
 lation worketh patituioe ; aid patience, experience ; and 
 experience, hope. Bat if we hope for that we see not, 
 then do we with patience wait for it. Rom. v. 3, 4 ; 
 viii. 25. 
 
 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into mani- 
 folc t»"i.t'is ; knowing this, that the trying of your faith 
 worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect 
 work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking noth- 
 
 ing. 
 
 James i. 2-4. 
 
 In all things commending ourselves as the ministers 
 of God, in much patience. 2 Cor. vi. 4. 
 
 Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious 
 fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until 
 he receive the early and the latter rain. Be ye also 
 patient ; stablish your hearts : for the coming of the 
 Lord draweth nigh. Take, my brethren, the prophets, 
 who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an exam- 
 ple of suffering affliction, and of patience. And we 
 desire that every one of you do show the same diligence 
 to the full assurance of hope unto the end : that ye be 
 not slothful, but followers of them who through faith 
 and patience inherit the promises. James v. 7, 8, 10 : 
 Heb. vi. 11, 12. 
 
 Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth 
 so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race 
 that is set before us, looking unto Jesus. Heb. xii. 1, 2. 
 
 Ye have need of patience, that, having done the will 
 of God, ye may receive the promise. Heb. x. 36^ 
 
 Be patient, and thy murmurings quell ; 
 In love, " He doeth all things well." 
 The glad heart singeth after pain, 
 As sunshine cometh after rain. 
 
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 How heni't'jiif upon thi moniifa!ii-< ay the ffct of him that 
 hriiKjeJh ;/oo'l tidlnifs, thcit piihlishdh pf.aci-. Ita. lii. 7. 
 
 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, 
 preaching peace by Jesus Christ. Acts x. ."{6. 
 
 Having abolished in his ilesh the enmity, even the 
 law of commandments contained in ordinances ; to make 
 in himself of twain one new man, so making peace. . . . 
 He came and preached peace unto you who were afar 
 off, and to them that were nigh. Eph. ii. 15, 17. 
 
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 I will hear what God the Lord will speak : for he 
 will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints : but 
 let them not turn again to folly. Ps. Ixxxv. 8. 
 
 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! 
 Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteous- 
 ness as the waves of the sea. Isa. xlviii. 18. 
 
 Great peace have they who love thy law : and 
 nothing shall offend them. Ps. cxix. 165. 
 
 All thy children shall be taught of the Lord ; and 
 great shall be the peace of thy children. These things 
 I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. 
 In the world ye shall have tribulation : but be of good 
 cheer; I have overcome the world. Isa. liv. l-'i : John 
 xvi. 33. 
 
 Peace, thou art come to abide, 
 Deep as the fathomless sea ; 
 Cahii as the motionless tide 
 On the stilled lake of (Galilee. 
 Peace that distils with His peace-speaking Word, 
 Is the infinite, unfailing peace of the Lortl. 
 
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 The Lord will Uchx his people n'ith peace. P,h. xxix. 11. 
 
 The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot 
 rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no 
 peace, saith my God, to the wicked. The way of peace 
 they know not. Isa. Ivii. 20, 21 ; lix. 8. 
 
 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace : 
 thereby good shall come unto thee. Job xxii. 21. 
 
 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou hast 
 also wrought all our works for us. Isa. xxvi. 12. 
 
 The work of righteousness shall be peace ; and the 
 effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever. 
 And my people shall dwell in peaceable habitations, and 
 in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places. Isa. xxxii. 
 17, 18. 
 
 God hath called us to peace. 1 Cor. vii. 15. 
 
 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace 
 always by all means. And let the peace of God rule in 
 your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body ; 
 and be ye thankful. 2 Thess. iii. 16 : Col. iii. 15. 
 
 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is 
 stayed on thee : because he trustetK in thee. Isa. xxvi. 3. 
 
 Let not your heart be troubled : believe in God, 
 believe also in me. Peace I leave with you, my peace I 
 give unto you : not as the world giveth, give I unto 3^ou. 
 Let not your heart be tioubled, neither let it be afraid. 
 John xiv. 1, 27. 
 
 As under the ocean's wide billows there lieth, 
 
 A calm that's unstirred by the tempest's rough blast ; 
 
 So flown in the soul that on Jesus relieth, 
 
 There's peace undisturbed, and that ever sliall last. 
 
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 Thefrnit of rii/hteoumesti 19 /iou'n in ptacr of thon that make 
 peace. Jainvsux, IS. 
 
 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called 
 the children of God. Matt. v. 9. 
 
 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without 
 which no man shall see the Lord : endeavoring to keep 
 the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Heb. xii. 
 U: Eph. iv. 3. 
 
 God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as 
 in all the churches of the saints. 1 Cor. xiv. 33. 
 
 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : they shall prosper 
 that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosper- 
 ity within thy palaces. For my brethren and compan- 
 ion's sakes, I will now say. Peace be within thee. Ps. 
 cxxii. G-8. 
 
 Let us therefore follow after ti ' things which make 
 for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. 
 Horn. xiv. 19. 
 
 If it be possible as much as lieth in you, live peace- 
 ably with all men. And we beseech you, brethren, to 
 know them who labor among you, and are over you in 
 the Lord, and admonish you ; and to esteem them very 
 highly in love for tlieir works' sake. And be at peace 
 among yourselves. Finally, brethren, farewell. Be 
 perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in 
 peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 
 Rom. xii. 18:1 Thess. v. 12, 13. 
 
 By quiet streams in peaceful pastures lie 
 The thriving Hocks beneath the sliepherd's eye ; 
 So Christians fearless feed, and rest, and grow, 
 While Peace secures them from the fear of foe. 
 
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 A time o/peacti. Ecel, iii. 8. 
 
 He shall judj,'e among the nations, and shall rebuke 
 many people : and they shall beat their swords into 
 plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks : nation 
 shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they 
 learn war any more. But they shall sit every man 
 under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall 
 make them afraid : for the mouth of the Lord of hosts 
 hath spoken it. Isa. ii. 4 : Mieah iv. 4. 
 
 He maketh wars to cease unto the ends of the earth ; 
 he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; 
 he burnetii the chariot in the fire. Ps. xlvi, 9. 
 
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 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and 
 the little hills, by righteousness. Ps. Ixxii. 3. 
 
 The battlebow shall be cut off : and he shall speak 
 peace to the nations. Zech. ix. 10. 
 
 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, 
 good will toward men. For unto us a child is born, 
 unto us a Son is given : and the government shall be 
 upon his shoulder : and his name shall be called Won- 
 derful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting 
 Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the inciease of his 
 government and peace there shall be no end. Luke 
 ii. 14 : Isa. ix. 6, 7. 
 
 In his days shall the righteous flourish ; and abun- 
 dance of peace so long as the moon endureth. Ps. 
 Ixxii. 7. 
 
 Peace, with her olive wreaths shall wave 
 
 Her wand from shore to she "■. ; 
 And men shall reap their precio^. ■ fruits 
 From tields war-cursed no more. — 
 Till the war-drum throbs no longer, and the battle-flags 
 
 are furled 
 In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. 
 
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 He that woH horn afttr the flesh persecufeif him that ira-< horn 
 a/ftt' the Spirit, even so it is now. Oaf. iv. 20. 
 
 Thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, 
 . . . persecutions, . . . what persecutions I endured ; 
 but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all 
 that will live godly in Christ Jesus, sliall suffer persecu- 
 tion. 2 Tim. iii. 10-12. See Acts viii. 1 ; xiii. 49-52. 
 
 llemember the word that I said unto you, Tiio 
 servant is not greater than his lord If they have perse- 
 cuted me, they will also persecute you. . . . These things 
 will they do unto you for my name's sake, because tliey 
 know not him that sent me. John xv. 20, 21. 
 
 Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteous- 
 ness' sake; for theirs Is the kingdom of heaven. Matt, 
 v. 10. 
 
 Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and perse- 
 cute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you 
 falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad, — 
 leap for joy ; for, behold, your reward is great in heaven : 
 for in like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. 
 Mark v. 11, 12: Luke vi. 23. 
 
 Being reviled, we bless ; being persecuted, we en- 
 dure ; being defamed, we entreat. 1 Cor. iv. 12, 13. 
 
 Bless them that persecute you : bless, and curse not. 
 Bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate 
 you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and 
 persecute you : that ye may be the children of your 
 Father who is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise 
 on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the 
 just and on the unjust. Rom. xii. 14 : Matt. v. 44, 45. 
 
 The Saviour prayed not only for the good, 
 But those who hated him and sought his blood. 
 His cruel enemies He died to save, 
 And to his persecutors, pardon gave. 
 And so his followers like Him should be. 
 And love and bless their foes as cheerfully. 
 
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 mouy, thnt In. phaxttl (loil. lint irilhoiit faith it is iiujtonsihlt to 
 jilea-iit tiiin. Hih. xi. 5, 0. 
 
 The Lord takoth pleasure in his people. Ps. cxlix. 4. 
 The Lord taketh pleasure in theni that fear him, in 
 those that hope in his mercy. Ps. cxlvii. 11. 
 
 T will praise the name of God with a song, and will 
 ma<^nify him with tlianksyivinj^. This also shall please 
 the Lord better than an ox or a bullock, Ps. Ixix. 30, 
 31. 
 
 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth mo ; and to him that 
 ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salva- 
 tion of God. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts ; ye 
 ministers of his that do his pk^sure. Ps. 1. 23 ; ciii. 
 
 When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even 
 his enemies to be at peace with him. Prov. xvi. 7. 
 
 Thus saitli the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my 
 sabbaths, and choose the things that pleise me, and take 
 hold of my covenant ; even unto them will I give in 
 mine house and within my walls a place and a name 
 better than of sons and of daughters : I will give them 
 
 an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 
 4,5. 
 
 Isa, Iv. 
 
 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities 
 of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Rom. xv. 1. 
 To do <rood and to communicate foraret not : for wi'h 
 
 such sacrifices God is well pleased. 
 Phil. iv. 18; 1 Thess. iv. 1. 
 
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 I would not please myself, dear Lord, but Thee, 
 In all Thou wouldest have me do or be ; 
 To serve 'J"hy gracious pleasure I would try 
 To live and toil, or e'en endure and die : 
 And then when life is o'er, please Thee on high. 
 
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 Eirii Christ pltaxvd not hinise//. Ifom. i. 3. 
 
 .I(5HUs, when he was Ixiptized, went up atraij^htway 
 out of the water : and \o, the lieavens were ojjened unto 
 him, and he saw the Spirit of God deHcending H'"- ^ 
 <love, and liglitin^^ upon hiui ; and lo, a voice from 
 heaven, saying, This is my beloved tSon, in wlioin I am 
 well pleased. Matt. iii. 10, 17. See xvii. 5. 
 
 Then said J« aus, . . . he that sent me is with me : 
 . . . for I do always those things that please him. .John 
 viii. 28, 29. 
 
 If I yet pleased men, T should not l)e a servant of 
 JoHUS Christ. But as we were allowed of God to be 
 put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak ; not as 
 pleasing men but (Jod, who trieth our hearts. Gal. i. 
 10 : I Thess. ii. 4. 
 
 We beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the 
 Lord Jesus, that as ye leceived of us how yo ought to 
 walk, and to please (iod, ye would abound more and 
 more. 1 Tliess. iv. 1. 
 
 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we 
 confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we 
 receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and 
 do those things that are pleasing in his sight. I John 
 iii. 21, 22. 
 
 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the 
 dead our Lord Jesus, that great shei>herd of the sheep, 
 through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you 
 perfect in every good work to do his will, working in 
 you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through 
 Jesus Christ ; to whom be glory fo^* ever n-nd ever. 
 Amen. Heb. xiii. 20, 21. 
 
 Oh, that in thought, and deed, arul "ord, 
 I could well please my blessed Lo. 1 ; 
 AngelM could not more happy he, 
 Who serve Him ever perfectly. 
 
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 Ipowcr b? tbe Spirit. 
 
 God anointed Je-sun of Nct-areth with the Ilolif Ghost and 
 viith pover. Actn \. ^%. 
 
 Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into GaHlee, 
 and there went out a fame of him throujifh all that region 
 round about. And lie tau<^ht in theii" synagogues, being 
 gloiified of all. Luke iv. 14, 15. 
 
 I^ehold, my servant, whom 1 uphold ; mine elect, in 
 whom my soul delighteth : I have put my Spirit upon 
 him ; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. 
 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set 
 judgment in the earth. Isa. xlii. 1, 4. 
 
 (John) shall be filleil with the Holy Ghost, . . . and 
 many of the children of Israel shall he turti unto the 
 Lord their God. Luke i. 13, 15, l(i. 
 
 Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, 
 ... and power, wrought great wonders and signs among 
 the people. And Barnabas . . . was a good man, and 
 full of the Holy Ghost and of faith : and much people 
 was added unto the Lord. Acts vi. 5, 8 : xi. 22, 24. 
 
 Tiuly T am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord. 
 Micah iii. 8. 
 
 Not by might, nor' by power, but by my Spirit, saith 
 the Lord of hosts. And, behold, I send the promise of 
 my Father upon you : but tairy ye in the city of Jerusa 
 lem until yc be endued with power from on high. Ye 
 shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon 
 you : and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusa- 
 lem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and vnto the 
 uttermost part of the earth. Zech. iv. G : Luke xxiv. 
 49 : Acts i. 8. Sne Rom. xiv. 18, 19 : 1 Cor. ii. 4 : Eph. 
 iii. 14. 16. 
 
 Spirit of nught, who still doth dwell 
 In those who love the Saviour well : 
 Thy glorious power to me impart. 
 Thai I uuiy .speuk from heart to heart. 
 
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 nr/i ofth» IjOrdy and to thnuk nud prairie the Lord ; crvry morn- 
 iny, and lik-eirisa <it ercii. 1 Chroii. xvi, 4 ; xxiii. HO. 
 
 It came to pass, as the trumpeters and sin<T;ers . . . 
 lifted up their voice with the . . . instru'.ifiits of music, 
 and praised the Lord, . . . that the liouse was iiHed 
 with a cloud : . . . for the glory of the Lord tilled the 
 house of God. 2 Chron. v. 13, 14. 
 
 Praise ye the Lord : ... ye that stand in the house 
 of the Lord ; . . . for the Lord is good : sing j)raises 
 unto his name ; for it is pleasant. Ps. cxxxv. 1-3. 
 
 (Jehoshaphat) . . . appointed sing<*rs unto the Lord, 
 that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went 
 out before the army. . . . And when they l)egan to 
 sing and praise, the Lord set Hers in wait against . . . 
 (those) that were come against Judah ; and they were 
 smitten. 2 Chron. xx. 21, 22. 
 
 Let the saints exult in glory : let them sing aloud 
 upon their beds ; let the liigh praises of God be in their 
 mouth, and a tw o-edged sword in their hand , to execute 
 vengeance upon the h'^-^'hen, and punishments upon the 
 people: . . . this .onor have all his saints. Praise ye 
 the Lord. Ps. cxlix. 5-9. 
 
 At midnight Paul and Silas pra3'ed, and sang praises 
 unto God : and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly 
 there was a great earth(}u;ike, so that the foundations of 
 the prison were shaken ; and immediately all the doors 
 were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. Acts 
 xvi. 25, 26. 
 
 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him. Sing praises to 
 God, sing praises. Ps. xxii. 23 : xlvii. 6. 
 
 Lift up your hearts, your voices raise, 
 To Him whose goodness chiinis your praise. 
 For love's free gifts, a boundless store ; 
 Praise Him all creatures evermore. 
 
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 The people that shall be created nhall praise the Lord. Ps. 
 cii. 18. 
 
 O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show 
 forth thy praise. Ps. li. 15. 
 
 Whoso ofFeretli praise glorifieth me. Ps. 1. 23. 
 
 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the 
 city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Ps. 
 xlviii. 1. See cvii. 32. 
 
 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem ; praise thy God, O 
 Zion. Hing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in 
 the congregation of his saints. Ps. cxlvii. 12; cxlix. 1. 
 
 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, 
 and for his wonderful works to the children of men. 
 Ps. cvii. 15. 
 
 praise the Lord, all ye nations, praise him, all ye 
 people. Ps. cxvii. 1. See Isa. xlii. 12. 
 
 1 will praise thee, O God, with my whole heart. 1 
 will sing praises unto thy name while I have any being. 
 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and 
 shall declare thy mighty acts. Ps. ix. 1 ; cxivi. 2 ; 
 cxlv. 4. 
 
 Praise ye the Lord. . . . Praise him for his mighty 
 acts : praise him according to his excellent greatness. 
 Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise 
 ye the Lord. Ps. cl. 1, 2, 6. 
 
 Praise (Jod, to wliom all praise belongs, 
 Angels and seraphs, in your songs ; 
 And saints with all creation raise 
 To Him, your grateful hymns of praise, 
 For He deserves the nobleslt praise 
 Through boundless space anrl endless days. 
 
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 Behold he prayeth. Ads \x. \\. 
 
 What is the Ahnighty th.at we should serve him ? 
 And what profit should we have if we pray unto him 1 
 Job xxi. 15. 
 
 Ye have not because ye ask not. Ask and ye shall 
 receive. James iv. 2 : John vi. 24. 
 
 O thou tliat hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh 
 come. Ps. Ixv. 2. 
 
 There is no difference between the Jew and the 
 Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that 
 call upon him. Rom. x. 12. 
 
 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice : have 
 mercy also upon me and answer me. Ps. xxvii. 7. 
 
 He shall be very gracious unto thee at the voice of 
 thy cry ; when he shall hear, he will answer thee. Isa. 
 XXX. 19. 
 
 Incline thine ear unto me ; in the day when I call, 
 answer me speedily. Ps. cii. 2. 
 
 Before they call, I will answer ; and while they are 
 yet speaking, I will hear. Isa. Ixv. 24. 
 
 In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, 
 and will look up. Evening, and morning, and at noon, 
 will I pray, and cry aloud ; and the Lord shall hear me. 
 Ps. V. 3; Iv. 17. 
 
 Pray without ceasing. Men ought always to pray, 
 and not to faint. 1 Thess. v. 17 : Luke xviii. 1. 
 
 More things are wrought by prayer 
 Than this world dreams of, 
 For so the whole round earth is every way 
 Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. 
 
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 The prayirn of Darid the. son of Je.-<.se an-, f-nded. Ps. Ixxii. 20. 
 
 There is none that calleth upon thy name, that stir- 
 retli up himself to take 'iiold of thee. Isa. Ixiv. 7. 
 
 Theie ivS none among them tiiat calleth unto me, . . . 
 They have not cried unto me with their heart, but they 
 howl upon their beds. Thus saith the Lord, the Holy 
 One of Israel, and his Maker. Ask me of things to 
 come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of 
 my hands command ye me. Ye that are the Lord's 
 remembrancers, keep not silence, and give him no rest, 
 till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in 
 the earth. Thus saith the Lord God, ... I will cause 
 the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be 
 builded. . . . T the Lord have spoken it, and I will do 
 it. ... I will yet for this be enquired of by the house 
 of Israel, to do it for them. Hosea vii. 7, 14 : Isa xlv. 
 1 1 ; Ixii. 6, 7 : P^zek. xxxvi 33, 37. 
 
 He spake a parable unto them to this end, that men 
 ought always to pray. Continuing instant in prayer. 
 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the 
 Spirit Luke xviii. 1 : 1 Rom. xii. 12 : Eph. vi. 18. 
 
 Ask, and it shall be given you : seek, and ye shall 
 find. Be anxious for nothing ; but in everything by 
 prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your 
 requests be made known unto God. Continue in prayer, 
 and watch in the same with thanksgiving. I will there- 
 fore that men pray everywhere, lifting up iioly hands, 
 without wrath and doubting. Luke xi. 9 : Phil. iv. 6 : 
 Col. iv. 2 : 1 Tim. ii. 8. 
 
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 Spent with the One who hears and answers prayer : 
 That weakness kneeling, rises with such power, 
 And joy and peace succeed to grief and care. 
 But stranger far that want should stay away 
 From Him who giveth all to those who pray. 
 
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 The prayer of the upriijht is hia deliijhf. Prov. xv. 8. 
 
 Then said Solomon, . . . Now, iny God, leo, I be- 
 seech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be 
 attent to t!ie prayer of this place. 2 Chion. vi. 1, 40. 
 
 The Lord appeared unto Solomon by night, and said 
 unto him, I have heard thy prayer : . . . now mine 
 eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent to the prayer 
 of this place. 2 Chron. vii. 12, 15. 
 
 The Lord hath heard my supplication ; the Lord 
 will receive my prayer. Ps. vi. 9. 
 
 Thy prayers and thine ahns are come up for a 
 memorial before God. Acts x. 4. 
 
 Let n]y prayer be sot forth before thee as incense ; 
 and the lifting up of my hands as the evening .sacrifice. 
 Ps. cxli. 2. 
 
 The four living creatures and four-and-twenty elders 
 fell down before the Lamb, having each one a harp, and 
 golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of 
 saints. Rev. v. 8. 
 
 The priests the Levites arose and blessed the people : 
 and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up 
 to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven. 2 Chron. 
 XXX. 27. 
 
 Another angel came and stood at the altar, having a 
 golden censer ; and there was given unto him much in- 
 cense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all 
 saints upon the golden altar which was before the 
 throne. And the smoke of the incense, vvith the prayers 
 of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's 
 hand. Kev. viii. 3, 4. 
 
 " O sacred head once M'oundeu." 
 
 And side, and hands, an-.l feet, 
 To blend with prayers sw.'et odors 
 
 Before the mercy-seat. 
 
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 Eviry our that aahth veceArefh. Matt, vii, 8. 
 
 (Hannah) said, For this cliild I pr.iyed ; and the Lord 
 hath given me my petition which I asked of him : there- 
 fore I have lent him to the Lord as long as he liveth. 
 1 Sam. i. 26-28. 
 
 Eli said (to Hannah), Go in peace : and the God of 
 Israel grant thee thy 'petition that thou hast asked of 
 him. The Lord fultil all thy petitions. 1 Sam. i. 17 : 
 Ps. XX. 5. 
 
 Jabez. called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that 
 thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and 
 that thine hand might be with me, and that thou 
 wouldest keep me from evil, that it might not grieve me ! 
 And God granted him that which he requested. 1 Chron. 
 iv. 10. 
 
 What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, 
 will he give him a stone ? Or if he ask a fish, will he 
 give him a serpent ? If ye then, being evil, know how 
 to give good gifts unto your children, how much more 
 shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to 
 them that ask him. Matt. vii. 9-11. 
 
 Jonathan said unto David, Whatsoever thy soul 
 desireth, I will even do it for thee. 1 Sam. xx. 4. 
 
 Delight thyself a,lso in the Lord ; and he shall give 
 th^e the desires of thine heart. Ps. xxxvii. 4. 
 
 " Ask what ye will," the loving Lord doth say, 
 More willing far to hear than we to pray. 
 He gives us freely from His bounteous store, 
 And bids us ofteuer come and ask for more : 
 For none the less had He, though millions came, 
 His goodness and His fulness are the same. 
 
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 The Lord ixfar from the wirkfil ; hut he hcarcth the. ])rayer 
 of the rUjhteovH. The detiie of the riyhttons shall hei/rantcd. Pror. 
 XV. 29 ;"x. 24. 
 
 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble : 
 thou wilt prepare their heart, thou vvil*^ cause thine ear 
 to liear. Ps. x. 17. 
 
 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, 
 to all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the 
 desire of them that fear him : he also will hear their cry, 
 and will save them Ps. cxlv. 18, 19. 
 
 If our heart condemn us not, then have we conPJence 
 toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, 
 because we keep his commandments, and do those things 
 that are pleasing in his sight 1 John iii. 21, 22. 
 
 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye 
 shall ask wliat ye will and it shall be done unto you. 
 John XV. 7. 
 
 This is the confidence that we have in him, that if 
 we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us : 
 and if we know hat he heareth us, whatsoever we ask, 
 we know that we have the petitions that we have asked 
 of him. 1 John v. 14, 15. 
 
 All things whatsoever ye ask for, when ye pray, 
 believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. 
 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask 
 the Father in my name, he will give it you. Mark 
 xi. 24 : John xvi. 23. 
 
 Behold the throne of grace ! 
 
 The promise calls me near, 
 There Jesus shows a smiling face, 
 
 And waits to answer prayer. 
 My soul I asli "hat thou wilt ; 
 
 Thou canst ..ot be too bold : 
 Since His own blood for thee He spilt, 
 
 What else can He withhohi ? 
 
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 Joshua . . . /oKtflif irith Amalek. . . . Ami . . . irhcii 
 Mnsct hthi 11/) his hand, Isratl /irerai/ctl ; and u'heii he let dofni 
 his hand, Ainahk fnr railed. Jiitt Mosch hands in re heary ; and 
 fhf'i/ IdoIc a stone, and put it iindt r him, and he sat thereon : and 
 Aaron and ffiir stai/ed up his hands, . . . until the </oinff donui of 
 the snn. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the 
 edi/e of the sword. Ex. xvii. 10-13. 
 
 Btethren, pray for us. Continue in prayer, anrl 
 watch in the same with thanksgiving ; withal praying 
 also for us, that God would open to us a door of utter- 
 ance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am 
 also in bonds ; that I may make it manifest as I ought 
 to speak. 1 Thess. v. 25 : Col. iv. 24. 
 
 Now I beseech you, brethi'en, for the Lord Jesus 
 Christ's sake, and for the love of the ispirit, that ye 
 strive together with me in your prayers to God for me ; 
 that I may be delivered from them that do not believe in 
 Ju<^ ; and that 1113' service which T have f jr Jerusalem 
 m; accepted of the saints; that T may come unto 
 
 you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be 
 refreshed, llom. xv. 30-32. See Eph. vi. IS, 19. 
 
 Finally, brethren, pray for us, tliat the word of the 
 Lord may run and be glorified, even as it is with you ; 
 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and 
 evil men : for all have not faith. Ye also, helping 
 together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed 
 upon us by the means of many, thanks may be given by 
 many persons on our behalf. 2 Thess. iii. 1, 2 : 2 Cor. 
 i. n. See Acts iv. 29, 30. 
 
 Pray for us ; for we trust we have a good conscience, 
 in all things willing to live honestly. But I beseech 
 you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you 
 the sooner. Heb. xiii. 18, 19. 
 
 Come as a teacher .sent from God, 
 Charged His whole counsel to declare ; 
 
 Lift o'er our ranks the prophet's rod, 
 While we uphold thy hands with prayer. 
 
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 Matt. xii. 41. 
 
 rt'pentfd at thf preach in </ of Jonas. 
 
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 Now after tlmt John was put in prison, Jesus came 
 into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of 
 God. And he appointed twelve, that they should be 
 with him, and that he might send them fcjrth to preach. 
 Mark i. U ; iii. 14. See Titus i. 3. 
 
 And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the 
 Lord working with them, and confirming the word with 
 signs following. Mark xvi. 20. 
 
 It behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the 
 dead the third day ; and that repentance and remission 
 of sins should be preached in his name among all 
 nations, l)eginning from Jerusalem. Luke xxiv. 46, 47. 
 
 They that were scattered abroad went everywhere 
 preaching the word. And Philip went down to the city 
 of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. ^ nd the 
 people with one accord gave heed unto those things 
 which were spoken by Philip. . . . And there was great 
 joy in that city. Acts viii. 4, 5, 8. 
 
 This is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace : 
 if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will 
 befall us ; now therefore come, let us go and tell the 
 king's household. 2 Kings vii, 9. 
 
 Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to 
 every creat'ire. Mark xvi. 15. 
 
 The law and the prophets were until John : since 
 that time tl. , kingdom of God is preached, and every 
 man presseth liito it I^uke xvi. 16. 
 
 It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to 
 save them that believe. 1 Cor. i. 2L See xv. 11. 
 
 " Go, preach My gospel," saith the Lord, 
 " Bid the whole eartli My word receive ; 
 He shall be saved who trusts My wonl, 
 And be condemned who'll not b"'ieve." 
 
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 The Lord jireieri'efh all thim (hat love, him : hut all the wicked 
 iritl he (h'sfroi/. Px. cxlv. 20. 
 
 I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou 
 preserver of men 1 Job vii. 20. 
 
 Depart from evil, and do j^ood : and dwell for ever- 
 more. For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh 
 not his saints : they are preserved for ever. He shall 
 deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because 
 they trust in him. Pa. xxxvii. 27, 28, 40. 
 
 Prt>serve me, O God : for in thee do I put my trust. 
 O keep my soul, and deliver me : let me not be ashamed ; 
 for I put ray trust in thee. Bow down thine ear, O 
 Lord, and hear me, for I am poor and needy. Preserve 
 my soul ; for I am godly : O thou my God, save thy 
 servant that trusteth in thee. Ps. xvi. 1 ; xxv. 20 ; 
 Ixxxvi. 1, 2. 
 
 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil : he shall 
 preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going 
 out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even 
 for evermore. Ps. cxxi. 7, 8. 
 
 The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and 
 will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom ; to whom 
 be glory for ever and ever. 2 Tim. iv. 18. 
 
 The very God of peace sanctify you wholly ; and I 
 pray God your whole spirit, and soul, and body be pre- 
 served blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ. 1 Thess. v. 23. 
 
 The soul that on Jesus in faith but reposes, 
 May sleep amid fiery billows, on roses ; 
 For, from the worst evils that Satan can send, 
 He'll ever preserve them, and safely defend. 
 
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 Thf Lord prcscri'i ffi tinfaithj'iil. /'•<, xxxi. 23. 
 
 The Lord . . . preserv(»tli the souls of his saints : he 
 (lelivereth them out of the hand of tlie wicked. Ps. 
 xcvii. 10. See Iv. 22. 
 
 The Lord said to Simon, Simon, Sutnn hath desired 
 to have you, tliat lie may sift you as wheat ; but I have 
 prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. And this is the 
 Father's will who hath sent me, that of all which he 
 hath given me I should lose nothing', but should raise it 
 up at the last day. — To an inheritance incorruptible, 
 and undefiled, and that fadoth not away, reserved in 
 lieaven for you, who are kept \iy the power of God 
 through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the 
 last time. Luke xxii. 31, 32: John vi. 3'j ; 1 Peter i. 
 4, 5. 
 
 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall 
 tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or faniine, or 
 nakedness, or peril, or sword ? . . . I am persuaded, 
 that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor princi- 
 palities, nor things present, nor powers, nor things to 
 come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall 
 be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in 
 Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. viii. 35-39, See xvii. 12. 
 
 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and 
 they follow me ; and 1 giv(! unto them eternal life ; and 
 they shall never perish, neither shall an}' one pluck them 
 out of my hand. My Father who gave them me is 
 greater than all ; and no one is able to pluck them out 
 of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. Those 
 that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is 
 lost, but the son of perdition ; that the scripture might 
 be fulfilled. John x. 27-30 ; xvii. 12. 
 
 Yes, I to the end shall endure, 
 
 As sure as the earnest is given ; 
 More happy, but not more secure, 
 
 Are the glorified spirits in heaven, 
 
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 Though f}\e Lord bt; higli, yet liath ho respect unto 
 the lowly ; hut the proud he knoweth afar off. Ps. 
 cxxxviii. G. 
 
 Everyone that is proud in heart is an al)omination to 
 the Lord, (iod resisteth the proud, hut giveth grace 
 unto the humble. Prov. xvi. 5 : James iv. G. 
 
 The wicktHl through tlie pride of his countenance, 
 will not seek after God ; God is not in all his thoughts. 
 Ps. X. 4. 
 
 Hear ye, . . . and be not proud : for the Lord hath 
 spoken. But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep 
 in secret places for your pride. Jer. xiii. 15, 17. 
 
 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty 
 spirit before a fall. Prov. xvi. 18. 
 
 Be not higiiminded, l)ut fear. For who maketh thee 
 to differ from another I And what hast thou that thou 
 didst not receive '( Now ff thou didst receive it, why 
 dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it. Rom. 
 
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 1 Cor. iv. 7. 
 
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 When (Nebuchadnezzar's) heart was lifted up, and 
 his mind was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his 
 kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. Dan. 
 V. 20. See iv. 29-3;i. 
 
 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou 
 that dwellest in the clefts of the rock ; . . . that saith 
 in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground 'I 
 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou 
 set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee 
 down, saith the Lord. Obad. 3, 4. 
 
 Oh ! why shouUl the .spirit of mortal be proud ? 
 Like a swift-Heeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud ; 
 From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud, 
 Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? 
 
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Sept. 1.] 
 
 251 
 
 Ipromtsce, 
 
 By fnith Ahrahnm, irhni hi ii'at< h'inl, offirnl up fxntir : and 
 III that had rpnlrid thv pt'oiniiis offi i'<d up hii oidij hn/ntti ii son ; 
 (tri'niiiitinif that Ood n'aM nhh' fit mini' hint up, n-i ii from thr dmd ; 
 — In iiiif Jid/i/ /iir/mndid that, what hi had firotnitu/, he wan iiIi/h 
 also to perform, llih. xi. 17-l!>: linin, iv. '21. 
 
 Now to Abraliaiii were the promises nuule and to liis 
 seed, which is Christ. For all the promises of (}o<) in 
 him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of (Uxi by 
 us. (ial. iii 16: 2 Cor. i. 20. 
 
 There are priests that offer gifts according to the 
 law : ])ut ... he is the mediator of a better covenant, 
 which was establishes npon lietter promises. Heb. viii. 
 4,6. 
 
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 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let 
 us cleanse ourselves from all tilthiness of the Hesh and 
 spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of (tod. AVhereby 
 are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises. 
 2 Cor. vii. 1 : 2 Peter i. 4. 
 
 Through these ye may become partakers of the 
 divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in 
 
 the world t!. rough lust. 
 
 2 Peter i. 4. 
 
 This is tlie promise that he hath promised us, even 
 eternal life. 1 John ii. 25. 
 
 The Lord hath promised the crown of life to them 
 that love him. James i. 12. 
 
 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without 
 wavering; for he is faithful that promised. Heb. x. 2.S. 
 
 Ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done 
 the will of God, ye might receive the promise. Heb. 
 X. 36. 
 
 God's promises, how firm they stand ! 
 With mines of wealth, like mountains grand ! 
 And those who on their truth rely. 
 Securely live, triumphant die. 
 
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 Promotion cometh mUhtr/rom the casf, nor from the ires/, nor 
 from tht south. But (lod is tht jiidijt: he piitlefh doirn one, and 
 sette/h iijt another. /*s. IxXv. 6, 7. 
 
 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I com- 
 mit my cause; who doetli great things ; ... to set up on 
 high those that be low ; that those who mourn may he 
 exalted to safety. Joh v. 8, 9, 11. 
 
 The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich : he hringeth 
 low, and lifeth up. He raiseth up the poor out of the 
 dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dung-hill ; that he 
 may set him with princes, even with the princes of his 
 people. 1 Sam. ii. 7 : Ps cxiii. 7, 8. 
 
 And Mary said, My sonl/loth magnify the Lt)rd, and 
 my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath 
 regarded the low estate of his handmaiden : for, behold, 
 from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. 
 For, ... he hath scattered the proud in tlie imagination 
 of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from 
 their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath 
 filled the hungry with good things ; and the rich he hath 
 sent empty away, Luke i. 46 48, 51-53. 
 
 The Lord lifteth up the meek ; he casteth the wicked 
 down to the ground, lie poureth contempt upon 
 princes : . . . yet setteth he the poor on high from afflic- 
 tion, and maketh him families like a flock. Ps. cxlvii. 
 6; cvii. 40, 4 L 
 
 The meek shall increase their joy ir the Ijorfl, and 
 the poor among men shall rejoice in tie Holy One of 
 Israel. Isa. xxix. 19. 
 
 Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in 
 faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised 
 to them that love him ? James ii. 5. 
 
 Rich are the poor with God'a own favor crowned ; 
 In him their needs are met, their joys abound ; 
 
 On His strong gracious promises they rest, 
 Securely guarded, ami supremely blest. 
 
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Sept. 3.] 
 
 253 
 
 Iproapcrit?. 
 
 The proxperit If of fool'* shall destroy tlw III. Pror. i. 32. 
 
 In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. Ps. 
 XXX. 6. 
 
 I spake unto thee in thy prosjxM'ity : but thou saidst, 
 I will not hear. Jer. xxii. 21. 
 
 God helped (Uzziah) ; . . . and his name spread far 
 abroad. For he was marvellously helped, till he was 
 strong. But when he was stiong, his heart was lifted 
 up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the 
 Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to 
 burn incense. 2 Chron. xxvi. 7, 8, 15, IG. 
 
 When Uehoboain had established the kingdom, and 
 had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the 
 Lord, and all Israel with him. 2 Chron. xii, 1. 
 
 Israel is a luxuriant vine, which putteth forth fruit : 
 according to the multitude of his fruit he hath multiplied 
 his altars ; according to the goodness of his land they 
 have made goodly pillars. And now they sin more and 
 more, and have made them molten images of their silver, 
 and idols according to their own understanding. Hosea 
 X. 1 ; xiii. 2. 
 
 As they were increased, so they sinned a.(ainst me. 
 Of their silver and their gold have they made them 
 idoi.M. According to their pasture, so were they filled ; 
 tlt^-y wer«' filled, and their heart was exalted ; therefore 
 have they forgotten me. Hosea iv. 7 ; viii. 4 ; xiii. G. 
 
 Prosper us only, Lord, as we 
 
 Thy lx;aming suiisliine well may J)ear ; 
 Or let our pathway clouded he, 
 , If J>etter for us, hfre, or there. 
 
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 The Lord ira.s with Joseph, and he iras a proxperovx man. 
 The Lord . . . htith p/tu-itire in (he jtrox/Kiiti/ of his strranl. 
 (icii. xxxix. 2 : P.i. XXXV. 27. 
 
 IJzziah ... sot hiiuself to seek God in the days of 
 Zecharinh, . . . and as lon<( as he sou<:fht the Lord, God 
 made him to prosper, '2 Chron. xxvi. 1, 5. 
 
 If thou wouldest seek dihgently unto God, and make 
 thy supplication to the Almighty : if thou wert pure 
 and upright ; surely now he would awake for thee, and 
 make the habitation of ti)y righteousness prosperous. 
 Job viii. 5, 6. 
 
 Save now, T beseech thee, O Lord : O Lord, T Ijesoech 
 thee, send now prosperity. Ps. cxviii. 25. 
 
 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : they shall prosper 
 that love thee. Ps. cxxii. G. 
 
 O Lord, T beseech thee, let thine ear be attentive to 
 the prayer of thy servant: . . . and prosper, T pray thee, 
 thy servant this day. Neh. i. 11, 
 
 Believe in the Li<rd your God, so shall ve be estab- 
 lished ; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. 2 
 Chron. xx. 20. 
 
 The God of luvaven, \u) will prosper us ; therefore we 
 his servants will arise and build. Neh. ii. 20. 
 
 Now, my son, the Lord be with thee ; and prosper 
 thou, and build the house of the Lord thy God, as he 
 hath said of thee. 1 Chron, xxii. 11. 
 
 We prospci- witli Thee, blessed LoihI, abiding, 
 And in Tliy love and pnunises eontiding. 
 '1 1 1 lough life, ami *h>iith, and in eternity, 
 Tliy favor, l^ird, is true prosperity. 
 
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 God ii'ho niatlt Ihi' irorld and aJI thimj'* f/ierain, . . 
 nil life, and hreafJi, and all thin<js. Acts xvii. 24, 25. 
 
 Who provideth for the raven his food, when his 
 young ones cry unto God, and wander for hick of meat ? 
 Job xxxviii. 41. 
 
 The younj^ Hons roar after their prey, and seek their 
 meat from God He giveth to the beast his food, and 
 to the young ravens which cry. Ps. civ. 21 ; cxlvii. 9. 
 
 The Lord is good to all : anfl his tender mercies are 
 over all his works. The eyes of all wait upon thee; and 
 thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou open- 
 est thine hand, and satisfiest tlie desire of every living 
 thing. Ps. cxlv. 9, 15, \[\, 
 
 O give thanks unto the Lord ; for ln' is good : for his 
 mercy eiidureth forever. Who giveth food to all Hesh ; 
 for his mercy endureth forever. Ps. cxxxvi. 1, 25. 
 
 O Loid, how maTiifold aie thy works! in wisdom 
 hjist thou made them all : the earth is full of thy riches. 
 So is this gi-eat and wide sea, wherein are thinys creep- 
 ing iiunimerable, both small and great beasts. . . . 
 These all wait upon thee : that thou mayest give them 
 their meat in due season. That thou gi\est them they 
 gather : thou openest thine hand, they are filled with 
 good. Ps. civ. 24-2H. 
 
 They that seek the L(jrd shall not want any good 
 thing. Ps. xxxiv. 10. 
 
 Ble»» the Ijord, O my soul, and forget not all his 
 benefits; who satisfieth thv nuaith with good things. 
 Ps. 
 
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 No g<*j<l thing will he withhold from them that walk 
 uprightly. ?s. Ixxxiv. 11. 
 
 ■and that opens when the birds ami beasts do cry, 
 Will, I am sure, the cliildren's wants supply. 
 TSt? Father will His huiii^ry household feed, 
 When He attends t<^ every creature's need. 
 
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 Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11. 
 
 Take no thouj^lit for your life, what ye shall eat, or 
 what ye shall drink , nor yet for your body, what ye 
 shall put on. . . . Behold the fowls of the air : for they 
 sow not, neither do tiiey reap, nor (gather into barns : 
 y(?t your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not 
 mucii better than they 1 Matt. vi. 25, 26. 
 
 Feed me with food convenient for me. Prov. xxx. 8. 
 
 C(msider the lilies of the field, how they j^row ; they 
 toil not, neither do they spin : and yet T say unto you, 
 That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like 
 one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe tlie grass of 
 the Held, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the 
 oven, shall he not nmch more clothe you, O ye of little 
 faith ? Therefore, take no thought, saying, What shall 
 we eat ? or, What shall we drink ? or, Wherewithal shall 
 we be clothed 1 . . . For your heavenly Father knoweth 
 that ye have need of all things. But seek ye first the 
 kingdom of God and his righteousness ; and all these 
 tinners shall be added unto you. Matt vi. 28-33. 
 
 He tha\; spared not his own son, but delivered him 
 up for us all, iiow shall he not with him also freely give 
 us all things. — Who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. 
 ]U)n\. viii. 32 : I Tim. vi. ^ 7. 
 
 My God shall supply all your need according to his 
 riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Phil. iv. 19. 
 
 Tliough troubles assail ixs, whatever betide, 
 His promise assures us, •' Tlie Lord will provide." 
 His saints what is needful shall ne'er be denied, 
 So long a3 "tis written, " The Lord will provide." 
 
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 Ipurtfict). 
 
 Many .shafl be purified, and made irhi'fe. Dnii. xii, 10. 
 
 Who shall ascend into the liill of the Lord ? or who 
 shall stand in his holy hill ? He that hath clean hands 
 and a pure heart. Ps. xxiv. .3, 4. 
 
 He that loveth pureness of heart, for the j^racc of 
 his lips the king shall be his friend. Prov. xxii. 11. 
 
 God, who knoweth the heai ts, . . . put no difTerence 
 })etwcen us (Jews) and them (Gentiles), purifying their 
 hearts by faith. Acts xv. S, 9. 
 
 Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall see GikI. 
 Seeing ye have purified your souls in ol)eying tlu? truth 
 through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren, 
 see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. 
 Matt. V. 8 : 1 Peter i. 22. 
 
 Christ hath loved us, and hath given himself for us ; 
 . . . that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and 
 purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good 
 works. And every man that hath this hope in him, 
 purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Eph. v. 2. Titus 
 ii. 14 : 1 John iii. 3. 
 
 Who may abide the day of his coming? and who 
 stand when he appeareth ? for he is like a refiner's fire, 
 and like fuller's soap : and he sliall sit as a refiner and 
 purifier of silver: and he sliall pui'ify the sons of ^ evi, 
 and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer 
 unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Mai. iii. 
 2, 3. 
 
 Blest are vhe jmre in lieart, 
 
 For they shall see our (Jod ; 
 The secret of the Lord is theirs ; 
 
 Their soul is his (vbole. 
 
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 the Lord. Jud(ffx x. 16. 
 
 Jacob said, . . . put away the strange g(xls that are 
 among you, and be clean ; . . . and let us arise and go 
 up to Bethel ; and I will make there an altar unto God. 
 Gen. XXXV. 2, .'^. 
 
 If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, 
 then put away the strange gods . . . from among you, 
 and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him 
 only. 1 Ham. vii. .S. 
 
 Manasseh . . . took away the strange gods, and the 
 idol out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars that 
 he had built, . . . and cast them out of the city. And 
 he repaired tin; altar of the Lord, and sacrificed thereon. 
 2 Chron. xxxiii. 15, 16. 
 
 They themselves report concerning us what manner 
 of entering in we had unto you ; and how ye turned 
 unto God from idols, to serve the living and true God, 
 and to wait for his Htm from heaven. 1 Thess. i. 9. 
 
 I will wash mine hands in innocency : so will I com 
 pass thine altar, O Lord. Ps. xxvi. 6. 
 
 Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of 
 your doings from before mine oyes ; cease to do evil ; 
 learn to do well. Return ye now every one from his 
 evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. 
 Amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice 
 of the Lord. Isa. i. 16, 17 : Jer. xviii. 11 ; xxvi. 13. 
 
 Turn U8, O Lord, from sinful ways, 
 That we may serve Thee all our days. 
 Then us, as gold and silver fined, 
 An offering on thine altar bind. 
 
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 puttiitG awa)? Sin, anb Scrvtno (Bob. 
 
 TAfi children of Israel ditl juit nn-ay Baalim and A-shtarofh, 
 and serrtd the Lord only. 1 Sam. vii. 4. 
 
 The workers with familiar .spirits, and the wizards, 
 and the images, and the idols, and all tlie abominations 
 that were spied in the land, . . . did Josiah put away, 
 that he might perform the words of the law which were 
 written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the 
 house of the Lord. 2 Kings xxiii. 24. 
 
 Put away the gods whieh your fathers served, which 
 were on the other side of the i'ood, and in Egypt : and 
 serve ye the Lord. Josh. xxiv. 14. 
 
 When Asa heard . . . the prophecy of Oded the 
 prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable 
 idols out of all the land, . . . and renewed the altar of 
 the Lord. . . . And they entered into a covenant to 
 seek the Lord . . . with all their heart and with all 
 their soul. 2 Chron. xv. S, 12. 
 
 Depart fiom evil and do good. Turn ye from your 
 evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, 
 according to all the law which I commanded your 
 fathers. Ps. xxxiv. 14:2 Kings xvii. 13. 
 
 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I 
 might keep thy word. Let the wicked forsake his way, 
 and the unrighteous man his thoughts ; and let him 
 return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon 
 him, and to our Gud, for he will abundantly pardon. 
 Ps. cxix. 101 : Isa. Iv. 7. 
 
 Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, . . . 
 nor defile yourselves with their idols : . . . walk in my 
 statutes, and keep my judgments and do them. Ezek. 
 XX. 18, 19. See 2 Kings xvii. 35, 36. 
 
 Oh, help me by Thy gracious power 
 To turn from sin this very hour ; 
 That henceforth all my life may be 
 Wholly devoted, Lord, to Thee. 
 
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 Xo fieri) of th<\tf>'l'l had yet xpt'itwj iiji : for (he Lord iSo^l had 
 not yi't rmisi-d if to rniii on the earth, (ii n. ii. 5. 
 
 Who divided channels; for the rain, and a track for 
 the thunder's Hash, to cause it to rain ; . . . to 
 satisfy the waste and desolate ground ; and to cause the 
 tendei' grass to spring forth ? Job xxxviii. 25-27. 
 
 Behold, God is great, . . . for he draweth up the 
 water-drops, which distil in rain from the vapor thereof ; 
 which the skies pour down, and distil on man abundantly. 
 For to the snow ho says, Fall thou on the earth, and to 
 the pouring rai'i, even the pouring of his mighty rains. 
 Job xxxvi. 20-28 ; xxxvii. 6. 
 
 T know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is 
 above all gods. He causeth the vapors to ascend from 
 the ends of the earth ; he maketh lightnings for the 
 rain. As for me, I would seek unto God, . . . who 
 doeth great things, and marvellous things without 
 number : who giveth rain upon the earth. Ps. cxxxv. 5, 
 7 : Job v. 8- 10. 
 
 This people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart ; 
 . . , neither say they in their heart. Let us now fear the 
 Lord our God who givyth rain. Ask ye of the Lord 
 rain in the time of the latter rain, even of the Lord, 
 who maketh lightni;if,s, and he shall give them showers 
 of rain. Jer. v. 23, 24 : Zech. x. 1. 
 
 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby 
 thou didst confirm thine inheritance when it was weary. 
 Ps. Ixviii. 9. 
 
 Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving ; . . . who 
 covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for 
 the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the moun- 
 tains. Ps. cxlvii. 7, 8. See Joel ii. 23. 
 
 O'er all the garden of the world is falling 
 The blessed rain, sweet heaven's fruitful dew, 
 
 Shook from the soft wings of the " morning stars," 
 Who speed His errands through the gulfs of blue. 
 
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 // is hetter to htar thv rdnikf of flm irise, than for a nuin toluar 
 (fit mill/ o/foo/x. Ecd. vii. 5. 
 
 He that rehuketh a man afterwards shall find more 
 favor than he that flattereth with the tongue. Prov. 
 xxviii. 23. 
 
 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee : rebuke a 
 wise man, and he will love thee. Debate thy cause with 
 thy neighbor himself, and disclose not the secret of 
 another : lest he that heareth it revile thee, and thine 
 infamy turn not away. Prov. ix. 8 ; xxv. 9, 10. 
 
 Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are 
 the wounds of a friend. Prov. xxvii. 5, 6. 
 
 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten : be zealous 
 therefore and repent, llev. iii. 19. 
 
 He that saith unto the wicked. Thou are righteous ; 
 him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him : but 
 to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a g<Mjd 
 blessing shall come upon them. Prov. xxiv. 24, 2'). 
 
 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart ; thou 
 shalt in any wise rebuke thy nei^^hbor, and not suffer sin 
 upon him. Lev. xix. 17. 
 
 Let the righteous smite me, it shall )>e a kindness ; 
 and let him reprove me, it shall be as oil upon the head ; 
 let not my head refuse it. Ps. cxli. 5. 
 
 If thy brother trespass against thee rebuke him ; and 
 if he repent, forgive him. Them that sin rebuke before 
 all, that others also may fear. Reprove, I'Cibuke, exhort 
 with all longsuffering and doctrine. p]xhort, and rebuke 
 with all authority. Luke xvii. 3 : 1 Tim. v. 20 : 2 Tim. 
 iv. 2 : Titus ii. 15. 
 
 With faithfulness rebuke thy neighbor's sin, 
 And thou his confidence and love shalt win ; 
 Or better still, absolve thyself from blame, 
 And rescue him perchance from guilt and shame. 
 
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 . . . II city net I'ni-sidi II. /sii. |\ii, 12. 
 
 O Lord, . . . jirise for our help, and recU'cm us for 
 thy mercy H sake. Ps. xliv. 2^^, '20. 
 
 Tlius saith the liord, Ye have sold yourselves for 
 nouj^ht ; l)ut ye shall be redeemed without money. Jsa, 
 Hi. ;{. 
 
 The Lord liveth, who hath i('d(!eme<l my soul out of 
 all adversity — distress. 2 Sam. iv. !) : 1 Kings i. 29. 
 
 The Tiord redeenujth th<^ soul ot his servants ; and 
 none of them that tiust in hiin shall he desolate. Ps. 
 xxxiv. 2* 
 
 niess the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his 
 benefits ; who forgiveth all thine ini(juities ; who healeth 
 all thy diseases ; who redeemeth thy life from destruc- 
 tion. Ps. ciii. 2-4. 
 
 give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good ; for his 
 mercy endureth forevei". Let the redeemed of the Lord 
 say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the 
 enemy. Ps. cvii. 1, 2. 
 
 God will redeem my soul from the power of the 
 grave. Ps. xlix. L5. 
 
 1 will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I 
 will redeem them from death : O death, I will be thy 
 plagues ; O grave, I will be thy destruction : repentance 
 shall be hid from me. Hosea xiii. 14. 
 
 To ransom iis'froiii sin and shame, 
 God's only .Son, our Saviour came ; 
 And conquering death by dying, He 
 Triumphant rose, and made us free 
 From sin and death eternally ; 
 For which we praise His name. 
 
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 unto iUxl anil th ljin\l>, l{i i\ xiv. 4. 
 
 Hear ine, () L(tnl ; t'oi' thy h)vinj^kiiMlii(vs,s is j^ood : 
 . . . draw ni<f|i uiit«) my hduI ami n-deeiii it: deliver im' 
 because of iriiiic enemies. l*.s. l\ix. 1«), IS. 
 
 Tiie Lord shall rt^de'Mii tlu'e from tin' hand of thin*' 
 enemies. Micah iv. 10. 
 
 () my (Jod, unto th(M' will I sini; with the harp. . . . 
 ^^y lips shall greatly rejoice when 1 sin^ unto thee, and 
 my soul, which thou hist redeemed. Ps. Ixxi. '22, 23. 
 
 The redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come 
 with sin^in«^ unto Zi(tn ; and (iverlastin«( joy shall Im^ 
 upon their lu^ad ; they shall obtain gladness and joy : 
 and sorrow and niuurninj^ shall lice away. Isa. li. II. 
 See Hev. v. 9 ; >iv. 3. 
 
 Christ hath rede«*med us from the curse of tlu; law, 
 being nmde a curse for us. Who gav(! himself for us, 
 that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and }»urify 
 unto himself a peculiar people, /oak)Us of good works. 
 Gal iii. 13 : Titus ii. 14. 
 
 Ye are not your own, for ye are l)ought with a price, 
 therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit 
 which are God's. Forasmuch as yc know that ye were 
 not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold ; 
 . . . but with the precious blood of Christ. 1 Cor. vi. 
 17, 20: 1 Peter i. 18. 
 
 All glory to Jesu.s, who stooped fi-oni tht- sky ; 
 
 And in love to redeem us, diil suffer ami die ; 
 
 All glory and praise for sueli M'onderful love, 
 
 By the ransome<l on earth, and tlie ransomed )il)ove. 
 
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 In the fear of fhf Lnnf Is xlrnntj rniijitfftirr ; ntiti hU I'hihlren 
 shall fuirr a ftlaci' of nj'injt'. I'ror. xiv. 26. 
 
 He thou my strong habitation, wliereunto T may 
 continually resort; . . . for thou art my rock and my 
 fortress : T will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my 
 fortress, my (iod ; in him will T trust. Ps. Ixxi. 3 ; 
 xci. 2. 
 
 Because thou hast made the Lord, who is my refuge, 
 even the Most High, thy hahitatioii ; there shall no evil 
 befall thee ; neither shall any plague come nigh thy 
 dwelling. Ps. xci. 9, 10. 
 
 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help 
 in trouble. I am as a wonder unto many, but thou art 
 
 my strong refuge. Ps. xlvi. 1 ; Ixxi. 7. 
 
 The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed ; a refuge 
 
 in times of trouble. The* eternal God is thy refuge ; and 
 
 underneath are the everlasting arms. Ps. ix. 9 : Deut. 
 
 xxxiii. 27. 
 
 In Go<l is my salvation and my glory : The rock of 
 my strength, and my rt^fuge, is in God. The Ijord is n»y 
 defence ; and my God is the rock of my refuge. Ps. 
 Ixii. 7 ; xciv. 22. 
 
 The name of the Lord is a strong tower : the right- 
 eous runneth into it, and is safe. He is the tower of 
 salvation. Prov. xviii. 10: 2 Sam. xxii. 51. 
 
 In tlie cleft of the Rock is a refuge complete : 
 
 Not a foe can ihsturh in tliat blissful retreat : 
 
 Jf the soul seeks its (iod when the wicked assail, 
 
 Then the angels of darkness can never prevail. 
 
 In the cleft of the Rock I will hasten to hide ; 
 
 In the cleft of the Rock 1 shall safely abide : 
 
 For the Lord Avith His han<l will protect me when there ; 
 
 I shall rest in His love ! I shall feel His sweet care ! 
 
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 Thv I'ni'rr of' ri Joirliii/ iiiiil sii/i'ti/iiin I'.i in //o hiht nxtch -i nf (In 
 riijhtionx. 1*1. cxviii. I.'). 
 
 My lips shall |^r«'atly rcjoict' when F siii^ unto tlu'c ; 
 and my soul wiiicli thou hast rcdtMMiu'd. l*s. Ixxi. *-'•'{. 
 
 lie ^1 ad ill the Lord and i(\joiee, y*' ri;^hteous : and 
 shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart. Ph. 
 xxxii. 11. 
 
 We will rejoit'e in thy salvation, and in tlu^ name of 
 our God we will s(!t up our haimers. Our heart shall 
 rejoiee in him, Ix'cauHe we have trusted in his holy name. 
 Ps. XX. 5 ; xxxiii. 21. 
 
 Let the ii<,'hteous he ^dad ; let them rejoice before 
 G(m1 ; yea, let them exceedin<^ly rejoice. Let the heart 
 of them rejoice that s(^ek the Lord. Ps. Ixviii. ',\ ; cv. '^. 
 
 I will be glad and rejoice in thee : I will sing praise 
 to thy name, O thou Most lligii. My soul shall bt; joy- 
 ful in the Lord : it shall rejoice in his salvation. Ps. 
 ix. 2 ; XXXV. 9. 
 
 Be glad, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord 
 your God. Joel ii. 23, 
 
 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be 
 joyful in my God ; for he hath clothed me with the 
 garments of salvation, lu^ hath covered me with the robe 
 of righteousness. Isa. Ixi. 10. 
 
 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Rejoice 
 ill the Lord alway ; and again I say, rejoice. Hejoice 
 evermore. Phil. iii. 1 ; iv. 4 : 1 Thess v, 16. 
 
 Joyful we live on our Saviour relying ; 
 Joyful in hope of more joyfully dying : 
 Joyful we taste of the fruits ot his love, 
 In assurance of feasting upon it aljove. 
 
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 The eunuch . . . urnt on h>'s iray rejoicing. Arts viii. .39. 
 
 The righteous dotli sing and rejoice. Prov. xxix. G. 
 Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous ; for praise is 
 comely for the upright. Ps. xxxiii. 1. 
 
 Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice ; let 
 them ever shout for joy, because thou defendcst them : 
 let them also that love thy name he joyful in thee. Ps. 
 V. 11. 
 
 Sing, O daughter of Zion ; shout, O Israel ; be glad 
 and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. 
 . . . The King of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst 
 of thee : thou sh^tit not see evil iiny more. Zeph. iii. 
 14, 15. 
 
 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in 
 thee ; let such as love th}' salvation say continually, The 
 Lord be magnified. Oh that men would praise the Lord 
 for his gO(3dness, and for his wonderful works to the 
 children of men. And let^liem s.icrifice the sacrifices of 
 thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing. Ps. 
 xl. 16; cvii. 21, 22. 
 
 Make a joyful noise unto the f.ord, all the earth ; 
 make a loud noise ; and rejoice, and sing praise. Hing 
 unto the Lord with die harp ; with the harp and the 
 voice of a psalm. . . . Make a joyful noise to the 
 Lord the King. Ps. xcviii. 4-6. 
 
 Rejoice ; (iod reigns as King ■ 
 
 This glorious King adore ; 
 Lift up yoiu- voice and sing 
 
 His praises evermore. 
 With sweetest song, your praise pi-olong; 
 
 With heart and voice, rejoice, rejoice. 
 
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 6'o</ . . . ir'll t'Cndtr to v.n ry niau accord iii<j to his iroihs. 
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 Jf it seem evil unto you to serve tlie Lord, choose 
 you this (Jay wh<un ye will serve ; . . . hut as for me 
 and my house, we will serve the Lord. Josh. xxiv. 15. 
 
 Jesus saith to Simian Peter, . . . Follow me. Petei- 
 . . . seeing the disciple wlu»m .lesus lov( d following, 
 . . . saiti'. to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this m.inilo.' 
 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tariy till 1 come, 
 what is that to thee ? Follow thou me. .John xxi. 15, 
 \\)'1-1. See Prov. ix. 1± 
 
 Let us clioo.se foi* us that which is right : let us know 
 among ourselves wliat is good, J^'or the work of a man 
 shall ((iod) render unto him, and cause every man to 
 Jind according to his ways. -Joh xxxiv. 4, 1 1. 
 
 fjct each man prove his own work, and then shall he 
 liave his glorying in j'egard to himself alone, and not in 
 regard to another. J^\)r each man shall bear his own 
 burden. (»al. vi. 4, 5. See J^^sther i\. 14. 
 
 Every one of us shall gi'/e an account of himself to 
 God. And every man shall receive his own rewai-d 
 according to Jiis own labor. For we nuist all appe ir be- 
 fore the judgment seat of Chiist ; that every one may 
 receive the things done in his body, according to that Ih; 
 hath done, whether it be good or bad. liom. xiv, \'l : 1 
 Cor. iii. M : 2 Cor. v. 10. 
 
 Wliatsoever go<»d thing any man doeth, the same 
 shall Jie receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or fi'ee. 
 But he tliat doeth wrong shall receive for tlie wiong 
 which lie liath done : and there is no respect of persons. 
 Eph. vi. 8 : Col. iii. 25. 
 
 When at God's Judgment l».ar we stand, 
 At His omnipotent con>inand, 
 Think you we'll hec<l in that great day. 
 What others think, or do, or say 't 
 
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 If Itfhorrd Christ to mffer, and to rise from the dead the third 
 day: aiitl that r< jitiifdiic' and /v/«/.s.v/o» of sins shon'il he preached 
 ill his uaim- anioiKj ad nations, heifinniiiif from Jernsalem. Liih' 
 xxiv. 46, 47. 
 
 He called unto liim the twelve, and be<,'an to send 
 them forth two and two. And they went out, and 
 j)i-eac'lied that men should repent. Mark vi. 7, 12. 
 
 The servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be 
 gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness 
 instructing those that oppose themselves ; if Gwl per- 
 adventure will give them repentance to the acknowledg- 
 ing of the truth. 2 Tim. ii. 24, 25. 
 
 I showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jeru- 
 salem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then 
 to the Gentiles, that they should repent, and turn to 
 God, and do works meet for repentance. Acts xxvi. 20. 
 
 llepent, and be baptized every one of you in the 
 name of Jt^sus Christ unto the remission of sins, and ye 
 shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Acts ii. 38. 
 See vs. 39. 
 
 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some 
 men count slackness ; but is longsuffering to us-ward, 
 not willing that any should perish, but that all should 
 come to repentance. 2 Peter iii. 9. 
 
 Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and for- 
 bearance and longsuffering ; not knowing that the good- 
 ness of God leadeth thee to repentance ? Repent ye, 
 thereforv'i, and be converted, that your sins may be 
 blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall c(>''\e 
 from the presence of the Lord. Rom. ii. 4 : Acts iii. iii. 
 See Acts xi. 18 : Luke xv. 4-7. 
 
 Lord, when men repentant fly 
 From their sins to seek Thy face, 
 
 Thou on them with pitying eye. 
 Dost bestow thy pardoning grace. 
 
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Sept. 19.] 
 
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 Godly sorrow vorketh reiwntam't which u unto lij'c, not to he 
 repented of. 2 Cor. vii. 10. 
 
 If thy people . . . sin against tliee, . . . and . . . 
 bethink themselves, . . . and ie{)ent, and make su})pliea- 
 tion unto thee, . . . sayinj^. We have sinned ; . . . and 
 return unto thee with all their heart, and with all tlieir 
 soul: . . . then hear thou their prayer and their supplica- 
 tion, . . . and forgive thy peo})Ie. 1 Kings viii. 44-r)0. 
 
 Repent, and turn yourselves frou) your idols ; and 
 . . . from all your ahominations ; . . . that the house 
 of Israel may go no more astray from nu; ; . . . hut 
 that they may be my people, and I may be their God, 
 saith the Lord God. Ezek. xiv. G, 11. 
 
 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the 
 baptism of repentance unto the remission of sins. Mark 
 i. 4. 
 
 In those days came John the liaptist preaching in 
 the wilderness of Judea, and saying, Ke[)ent ye : for the 
 kingdom of heaven is at hand. Now after John was 
 put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the 
 gospel of the kingdom of (iod, and saying, The time is 
 fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at liand : repent ye, 
 and l»elieve the gospel. Matt. iii. 1, 2 : Mark i. 14, lo. 
 
 The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgm(>nt 
 against this generation, and shall condemn it ; ))ecause 
 they repented at the preaching of J<mas ; and, behol<l, 
 a greater than Jonas is here. Matt. xii. 41. 
 
 God . . . raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hang- 
 ed on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his own 
 right hand to be a Pri.ice and a Saviour, to give repent- 
 ance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. Acts v. .'^0, 31. 
 
 Though Thy people from Thee stray 
 Into sin's forbidden way, 
 Yet if they repentant call, 
 Thou wilt freely pardon all. 
 
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 T/irii hiid fhf r/iiitrh rest; . . . atiil ini/ktii>j in fltr j'f-iir of 
 the Lord, mid in Ihr, coiafurt of the Hohf (tliost, irtn- fdifitil. 
 Ar/.s\x. .SI. 
 
 Tell me, () thou whom my soul h>vcth, wliero thou 
 fccdest, wIku'c tliou luakt'st thy Hovk to rest at noon : for 
 A\ liy should 1 be as one that turiiclii aside hy the flocks 
 of thy companions ? Cant. i. 7. 
 
 If lliou knowes* not, O thou faii-est amoni,' women, 
 «^o thy way foith l)\ h«' fo<»tste|)s of the Hock, and feed 
 tiiy kids heside the ; epherds' tents. Cant. i. 8. 
 
 The Lord is my shepherd ; \ shall not want. He 
 maketh me to lii; down in tficen pastures ; he leadeth m(> 
 beside tlu^ waters of rest. Ps xxiii. 1, 2. 
 
 My people have been lost sheeji ; . . . they have 
 wandered from njountain to hill, ajid have for«4;ott<'n 
 their restin<^ l)lace. Behold T will i)oth search my sheej), 
 . . . and will brinuf them ti .'irown land. And . . . 
 I will feed my sheej), and f will cause them to lie down, 
 saitli the Lord. . . . They shall <lvvell securely, and none 
 shall make them afraid. Jer. 1. (5: K/ek. xxxiv. 11, 
 l:\, U), 2H. 
 
 lleturn unto thy rest, oh my soul, for the Lord hath 
 dealth bountifully with thee. Ps. cxvi. 7. 
 
 Kest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Thus 
 saith the Loi"d. ... In returning and rest shall ye be 
 saved ; In ([uietness and in confidence shall be your 
 stiength. Ps. xxxvii. 7 : Isa xxx. 15. 
 
 I heard the voice of Jesus say 
 
 Come unto nie and rest ; 
 Lay down, thou weary one, hiy down 
 
 Thy head upon .My breast. 
 I came to .Jesus as I was, 
 
 Weary, and worn, and sad 
 I found in Him a resting place, 
 
 And He ha - .ti, .;_• n"J glad. 
 
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 Ixunchar . . . smr thtt rosf ims ijnod/. (I'rii. \\\\ 14, 15. 
 
 Bless(?d is the man whom thou eliastem'th, O Ijord, 
 and teacliost him out of thy law ; that thou mayest give 
 him rest in the day of advcisity. Ps. xciv. 12, 13. 
 
 The Lord sliall <;;iv(> thee rest from thy sorrow, and 
 from thy fear, and from thy hard bondage. Isa. xiv. 3. 
 
 Let us fear . . . lest a promise being left us of en- 
 tering into his i-est, any . . . should seem to come sliort 
 of it Heb. iv. 1. 
 
 Thus saith the Lord, Stand in the ways, and see, and 
 ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk 
 therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. Jer. vi. KJ. 
 
 Let us labor ... to enter into that rest, lest any 
 man fall into disobedience (unbeli«>r . Heb. iv. 11. 
 
 Come unto me all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, 
 and I will give you rest : Take my yoke upon you, and 
 learn of me ; for I am meek and lowly in heart ; and ye 
 shall find rest unto your souls ; for my yoke is easy and 
 my burden is light. Matt. xi. 2S-30. 
 
 We who have believed do enter into rest. Heb. 
 
 iv. 3. 
 
 He that is entered into his rest, he also liath ceased 
 from his own works, as God did from his. Heb. iv. 10. 
 
 O that T had wings like a dove ! for th(>n would I Hy 
 away, and be at rest. Ps. Iv. 6. 
 
 Arise, and depavi : for this is not your rest. Blessed 
 are the dead who d'.r in the Lord from hencef(»rth : Yea, 
 saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their laV)ors ; 
 and their works do follow them. Micah ii. 10 : lie v. 
 xiv. 13. See Heb, iv. 8, 9. 
 
 Life's sun goes sinking in the purpling west ; 
 
 To weary toilers soon cornea welcome rest, 
 
 And greetings glad at home with loved ones hlest. 
 
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 {Paul) prcarhul inifo /hi in Jr.siii, and the refiurre.cttoii. Arfs 
 xvii, 18. 
 
 Of tli(^ hope {ind rosuirectioii of the dead I am 
 called in (luestior. Acts xxiii 6. 
 
 If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised ; and 
 if Christ be n«)t raised, your faith is vain ; ye are yet in 
 your sins. 1 Cor. xv. 16. 17. 
 
 We should . . . trust in God who raiseth the dead ; 
 — knowinti; that he who raised nj) the Lord Jesus, shall 
 raise up us also l)y Jesus. For if we believe that Jesus 
 died and rose again, even so them also who sleep in Jesus 
 will God bring with him. 2 Cor. i. 9 ; iv. 14: 1 Thess. 
 iv. 14. 
 
 Marvel not at this : for the hour cometh, in which 
 all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall 
 come forth : they that have done good, unto the I'esur- 
 rcction of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the 
 resurrection of judgment. John v. 28, 29. 
 
 Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the 
 first-fruits of them that are asleep. For since by man 
 came death, bv man came also the resurrection of the 
 dead. 1 Cor. xv. 20, 21. 
 
 Verily, verily, I saj' unto you. The hour is coming, 
 and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the 
 Son of God ; and they that hear shall live. For the 
 Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, 
 with the voice of ihe archangel, and with the trump 
 of God : and the dead in Christ shall rise first. John 
 v. 25 : 1 Thess. iv. IG. 
 
 Jesua, the doatl, fiom death arose, 
 And triumphed o'er His vantjuished foes. 
 Hence Hia redeemed from death shall rise, 
 And hail Him coming in the skies. 
 
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 When thy lifjird of Ihi ri.-<itrriifinn o/t/n ilniil, .•<o))ii ninckril : 
 hiif of/ifrs .sniil, M'c (/'/// tiuir fhtc. roiio ruiiiif fhis ijit mjain. Arts 
 xvii. 32. 
 
 If a, man die, shall he live again ? Job xiv. 14. 
 
 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with 
 you, that God should raise the dead ? Ft)r, as the 
 Father raiseth up the dead, and qiiicken'.>th them ; even 
 so the Son (juickeneth whom he will. Acts xxvi, 8 : 
 Jolmv. 21. 
 
 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead ? Shall the 
 dead arise and praise thee? Ps. Ixxxviii. 10. 
 
 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead 
 body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell 
 in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the 
 earth shall cast out the de.ul. Tsa. xxvi. 19. 
 
 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee : thou wilt 
 have a desire to the work of thy hands. God will 
 redeem my soul from the power of the gra\'e ; for he 
 shall receive me. He will swallow \\\> death iu vic- 
 tory. Job xiv. 15 : Ps. xlix. 15 : Tsa. xxv. 8. 
 
 I will ransoni them from the power of the grave ; 
 I will redeem them from death ; () death, T will be 
 thy plagues : O grave, I will be thy destruction. The 
 last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. Death 
 is swallowed up in victory. Hosea xiii. 11:1 Cor. 
 
 XV. 26, 54. 
 
 Christ is riseii from the grave, 
 With the will and power to .s.ive : 
 Death, the victor, vanquished lies ; 
 Weeping mournei\s, dry your eyes ; 
 •Slunilteiing saints, arise and sing, 
 *' Deatli hath lost his venonieil sting. 
 Christ is risen, no more to die ; 
 Grave, where is thy victory ? " 
 
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 Tfii' IjOrd slinll .iinitc . . . niiil lual : diid t/ity xliall nliirn 
 to f/it' Lord. And ii'hni he i'<im<' to }tliusilj\ hi' stiid, . . . I ii'ill 
 ariit and (JO unto ini/ father. I'<a. xix. '22: Ijukt xv. 17, IH. 
 
 Tf thv people . . . sin against tliee, . . . and re- 
 pent, and make sui)pli('ati()n unto thee, . . . sayin<^. We 
 have sinned, . . . and return unto thee with their 
 heai't ; . . . then hear thou their supi)lication, . . . and 
 forgiv(^ thy jieople. I Kind's \iii. H-oO. 
 
 Heturn uiiln nie and I will rcliirn unto you, saith 
 the Lord of hosts. Mai. iii. 7. 
 
 Turn tliou nie, and I shall he turn('(| ; for thou 
 art the Lord my God. .Jer. xxxi. iS. 
 
 Return unto me, for I have nMletMiied tiu'e. Isa. 
 xliv. 'I'l. 
 
 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thino 
 anger towards us to cease. Turn th(ju us unto thee, 
 O Lord, and we shall be turned ; renew our days as 
 of old. Ps. Ixxxv. 4 : Lam. v. 21. 
 
 Turn again unto the Lord God ; . . . for the Lord 
 your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn 
 away his face from you, if ye return unto him. 2 
 Chron. xxx. 6, 9. 
 
 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to 
 the Lord. Behold, we come unto thee ; for thou art the 
 Lord our God. Lam. iii. 40 : Jer. iii. 22. 
 
 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the liord ; for I 
 am married unto you. Return, ye backsliding children, 
 and I will heal your backsliding. Jer. iii. 14, 22. 
 
 Return, O wanderer, to Thy God, and rest. 
 Leave sin, and want, and suffering, and be blest. 
 
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 •Revival. 
 
 TIk// fhitf ihi'ill iiiuler hix nhndow shnll nfiirii : flu 1/ .shall 
 7'irtn' fM //ii t'oni, (itnl ifron' hi the rinc ; (In sctiif tin nnf hIkiII he 
 ii.s thii ii'iiie 0/ Ijihttnoti, lloxta xiv. 7. 
 
 O Lord, I'ovivo thy work in the midst of tlic Vfars, 
 
 ill the midst of the vc 
 
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 Tims suith th«^ \\\)*\\ and hifty Oik' tliat iiihahiteth 
 ("ternity, whose name is holy ; f dwell in the hi<^h and 
 holy place, with him also that is of a (;ontrite and 
 humble spirit, to revive the spirit of {]w ||innh|e. an(| (to 
 revive the jieutj. f|f fjjfj PPfff^fif-M ♦»f|ptf. \m^ fvjf. 15. 
 
 Wilt linn not revive us a;xaln, that thy people may 
 /ejoice in thee/ pH,. Ixxxv. 0. 
 
 O Israel, return HUU) the fioi-d thy (Jod, for thou 
 h/i/Ht fallen hy Miirie Initpiify. Take with you words, 
 and tuiii unto the \diii\ ; say unto him, Take away all 
 ini(|uity, and receive uh ^raejously : so will we render 
 the fruit of our lij»H, Kosea xiv, I, 'i. 
 
 Com(>, and let us return unto the fiord : for he luith 
 torn, and he will heal us. After two days will he re- 
 vive us; and we shall live in his si;^ht. And he shall 
 come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain 
 uptm the earth, llosea vi. I-."). 
 
 K/^turn unto me, and I will return unto you, saith 
 the Lord of hosts. And T will cause the shower to come 
 down in its season ; there shall be showers of blessing. 
 Mai. iii. 7 : Ezek. xxxiv. 20. 
 
 Revive thy work, O Lord, 
 
 And give refreshing shower.s, 
 The glory shall })0 all thine own ; 
 
 The hlessinsj shall be our.s. 
 
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 WlwitHCMWcr j^ood tiling any man (It)etli, tlie .same 
 shall he I'cct'ivo of the Lord, whethiT hv be bond orfn^e. 
 Epii. vi. H. 
 
 He ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be 
 weak : for your work shall l)e rewarded. 2 Chron. x\. 7. 
 
 TliiiK^ eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of 
 men : to give everyone acconJing t< his ways, and accord- 
 ing to the fruit of his doings. .Jer. xxxii. 10. 
 
 T the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even 
 t'j give every man according to his ways, and according 
 to the fruits of his doings, Jer. xvii. 10. 
 
 Let us not be weary in well doing : for in due season 
 we shall reaj), if we faint not. As we have therefore 
 opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially unto 
 them who are of the household of faith. Gal. vi. 9, 10. 
 
 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a 
 prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward ; and he that 
 receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous 
 man, sliall receive a righteous man's reward. And who- 
 soever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a 
 cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I 
 say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. When 
 thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, 
 nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neigh- 
 bors ; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be 
 made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, 
 the maimed, the lame, the blind ; and thou shalt be 
 blessed ; for they cannot recompense thee ; for thou 
 shalt be recompensed in the resurrection of the just. 
 Matt. X. 41, 42 : Luke xiv. 12-14. 
 
 Rewards for our service are promised and sure, 
 Of beauty and worth that will ever endure ; 
 And to have and enjoy them will always be ours, 
 With unending life, and unfailing powers. 
 
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 lahor. \ Cor. iii. 8. Soo Mnff. xxv. Jil-40. 
 
 Unto tlioe, O Lord, beloti^'fth niorcy : for thou ron- 
 de rest to every man acconliri;^' to his work. Ps. Ixii. 12. 
 
 God will render to every iruui accordinj^ to his deeds. 
 For the work of a man shall c render unto him, and 
 cause every man to find ac'ordin^ to his ways. Kom. 
 ii. 6 : Job xxxiv. 1 i. 
 
 Every one of us shall giv«! account of himself to God. 
 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of 
 Christ ; that everyone may receive the things done in his 
 body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good 
 or bad. For the Son of man hall come in the glory of 
 his Father with his angels ; and then shall he rewai'd 
 every man according to his works. Kom. xiv. 12:2 
 Cor. V. 10 : Matt, xvi 27. 
 
 Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Loid, 
 and not unto men ; knowing that of the Lord ye shall 
 receive the reward of the inheritance : for ye serve the 
 Lord Christ. Col. iii. 23, 24. 
 
 I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God ; 
 and the books were opened : and another book was 
 opened, which is the book of life : and the dead wt-re 
 judged out of those things which were written in the 
 books, according to their works. And the sea gave up 
 the dead which were in it ; and death and hades deliver- 
 ed up the dead which were in them : and they were 
 judged every man according to their works, llev. xx. 
 12, 13. 
 
 Behold, I come quickly ; and my reward is with me, 
 to give every man according as his works shall be. Rev. 
 xxii. 12. 
 
 Rewarded at thy throne, O («od, we'll see 
 Each Christian act, however small it be ; 
 Rewarded thus by rich rewards eternally : 
 And howsoe'er Tieglected or obscure 
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 Ifcjikiah liwl ejiCtedi"{i much riches, an t honor. Gen. xiii. '2 : 2 
 Chron. xxxii. 27. 
 
 The crown of the wise is their riches : and by know- 
 h^dge !?liaU the chambers l>e filled with all precious and 
 pleasatit riches. Prov. xiv. 24 ; xxix. 4. 
 
 The blessing of the Lord, it inaketh rich, and ho 
 addeth no sorrow with it. Prov. x. 22, 
 
 O Lord, . . . both riclies and honor come of thee, 
 . . . and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give 
 strength unto all. 1 Ohron. xxix. 11, 12. 
 
 Thou shalt remember the Lord thy Cod : for it is he 
 that giveth thee power to get wenlth. Deut. viii. 18. 
 
 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that de- 
 lighteth greatly in his commandments. Wealth and 
 riches shall be in his house : and his righteousness 
 endureth for ever. Ps. cxii. 1, 2. 
 
 I>y humility and the fear of the L( rd are riches, and 
 honor, and life. Prov. xxii. 4. 
 
 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man 
 that getteth understanding. Length of days are in her 
 right hand ; and in her left hand riches and honor. 
 Prov. iii- 13-16. 
 
 Riches and honor are with me ; yea, durable riches 
 and righteousness. I lead in the way of righteousness, 
 in the midst of the paths of judgment : that I may cause 
 those that love me to inheiit substance; and I will fill 
 their treasures. Prov. viii. 18-21. 
 
 My Father ia rich in houses and lands, 
 He holdeth the wealth of the world in His hands ! 
 Of rul)ies and diamonds, of silver and gold, 
 His coffers are full. He has treasures untold. 
 I'm a child of the King ! a child of the King ! 
 With Jesus my Saviour, I'm a child of the King ! 
 
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 Let not the rich man 'jfori/ in his richi-'^. Jer. ix. 28. 
 
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 They that sell (tlie Hock) say, Blessed be the Lord ; 
 for I am rich. Zech. xi. 5. 
 
 If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. 
 For riclies certainly make themselves wings; they fly 
 away. Ps. Ixii. 10 : Prov. x::iii. 5. 
 
 Ephraim said. Surely I am become rich. Ephraim is 
 like a silly dove without heart. Hosea xii. H ; vii. 11. 
 
 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they 
 be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in 
 the living God. 1 Tim. vi. 17. 
 
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 Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, 
 and joined affinity with Ahab. And the Ammonites 
 gave gifts unto Uzziah : and . . . he strengthened him- 
 self exceedingly. But when he was strong, his heart 
 was lifted up to his destruction. 2 Chron. xviii. 1 ; 
 xxvi. 8, 16. 
 
 How hard it is for them that trust in riches to enter 
 into the kingdom of God. He that trusteth in his 
 riches shall fall. Mark x. 24 : Prov. xi. 28. 
 
 Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor. 
 But Hezekiah rendered not according to the benefit 
 done unto him ; for his heart was lifted up : therefore 
 there was wrath upon him. 2 Chron. xxxii. 27, 25. 
 
 Because there is wratli, beware lest he take thee 
 away with his stroke. Will he esteem thy riches ? no, 
 not gold, nor all the forces of strength. Job xxxvi. 
 18, 19. 
 
 
 
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 Lord, I ask not for riohe?, that deceive and then Hy ; 
 But I ask for the wi.sdon) to have treasure.s on higli ; 
 With enough for the present, and with (}od to sui)})!}', 
 I have plenty iu life, and a home in the sky. 
 
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 liichpn are not for ever. Uncertain rirhta. Pror. xxvii. 24 : 
 1 r/«t. vi. 17. 
 
 Give me neither poverty nor riches. Prov. xxx. 8. 
 Labor not to be rich. Prov. xxiii. 4. 
 
 
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 A little that a righteous man i;ath is better than the 
 riches of many wicked. Ps. xxxvii. 16. 
 
 Bettei is a little with righteousness than great reve- 
 nues without right. Prov. xvi. 8. 
 
 He that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, and 
 knoweth not that want shall come upon him. Prov. 
 xxviii. 22. 
 
 He that maketh haste to be rich shall not go unpun- 
 ished. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth 
 them not ; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, 
 shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end 
 shall be a fool. Prov. xxviii. 20 : Jer. xvii. 11. 
 
 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, 
 namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. 
 Eccl. V. 13. 
 
 They that will be ricli fall into temptation and a 
 snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which 
 drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love 
 of money is a root of all evils : which while some coveted 
 after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced them- 
 selves through with many sorrows. He that received 
 seed among the thorns, is he that heareth the word ; and 
 th-^ cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, 
 choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. 1 Tim. 
 vi. 9, 10 : Matt. xiii. 22. 
 
 Extol not riches then, the toil of fools. 
 
 The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare 
 
 To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, 
 
 Thau prompt her to do aught may merit praise. 
 
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 They (hat run in a met rim al/, hut one rerdreth the prhc. 1 
 Cor. ix. 24. 
 
 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou 
 shalt enlarge my heart. Ps. cxix. 32. 
 
 The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the 
 strong. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and 
 the young men shall utterly fall : but they that wait 
 upon tne Lord shall renew their strength ; they shall 
 mount up with wings as eagles ; they shall run, and not 
 be weary ; and they shall walk and not faint. Eccl. 
 ix. 11: Isa. xl. 30, 31. 
 
 Draw me, we will run after thee. Cant. i. 4. 
 
 Ye did run well ; who did hinder you that ye should 
 not obey the truth ? If thou hast run with the foot- 
 men, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou 
 contend with horses 1 and if in the land of peace, wherein 
 thou trustedst they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do 
 in the swelling of Jordan ? Gal. v. 7 : Jer. xii. 5. 
 
 Every man that striveth in the games is temperate 
 in all tilings. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible 
 crown ; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, 
 not as uncertainly. But this one thing I do, forgetting 
 those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto 
 those things which are before, I press toward the mark 
 for the prize of the high-calling of God in Christ Jesus. 
 Heb. xii. 1, 2 ; 1 Cor. ix. 25, 2G : Thil. iii. 13, 14. 
 
 So run, that ye niay obtain. 1 Cor. ix. 24. 
 
 Press onward, Christian, in the heaveiiwanl race ; 
 Win the bleat prize, and take thy crown and place. 
 
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 Six days shfiU work be done ; but on the seventh 
 is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Ex. xxxi. 15. 
 
 Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six 
 days shalt thou labor and do all thy work ; but the 
 seventh day is a sabbath unto the Lord thy God : in it 
 thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy 
 daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, [that 
 thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well 
 as thou, (Deut. v. 14)] nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger 
 that is within thy gates : for in six days the Lord made 
 heaven and earth, the seca, and all that in them is, and 
 rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed tne 
 sabbath day, and hallowed it. Kx. xx. 8-11. 
 
 J31essed is the man that . . . keepeth the sabbath 
 from polluting it. Isa. Ivi. 2. 
 
 Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the Lord 
 thy Ood connuanded thee. If thou turn away thy foot 
 from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy 
 day ; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of the 
 Lord, honorable ; and shalt honor it, not doing thine 
 own Nvays, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking 
 thine own words : then shalt thou delight thyself in the 
 Lord ; and I will make thee to ride upon the high places 
 of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob 
 thy father : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 
 Deut. V. 12; Isa. Iviii. 13, 14. 
 
 Sweet Sabbath ! day of seven the beat, 
 (Jod's resting day, Divinely blest : 
 Surcease from toil to mortals given ; 
 Emblem of endless rest in heaven. 
 
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 Salvation. 
 
 Salvation is of the Lord. Jonnh ii. 9. .SVr TitmVx. 11. 
 
 Save us, O Ood of our salvation. 1 Chron. xvi. 3'). 
 Look unto me and be ye saved, all ye ends of the 
 earth, for I an God, and there is none else. Isa. xlv. 22. 
 
 Trul}' my Sv»ul waiteth upon (Jod, from him cometh 
 my salvation, Ps. Ixii. 1. See Lam. iii. 2(5. 
 
 Wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee. Prov. 
 XX. 22. 
 
 Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, — save thy ser- 
 vant that trusteth in thee. Ps. cxix. 116 ; Ixxxvi. 2. 
 
 The salvation of the ri<,diteous is of the Loi'd. . . . 
 He shall . . . save them because they trust in him. 
 Ps. xxxvii. 39, 40. 
 
 Behold God is mv salvation ; I will trust and not be 
 afraid : for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my 
 song; he also is become my salvation. Isa. xii. 2. 
 
 Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall l)e safe. 
 Prov. xxix. 25. 
 
 We believe that througli the grace of the Lord Jesus 
 Christ we shall be saved. For God hath not appointed 
 us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord 
 Jesus Christ. Acts xv. 11:1 Thess. v. 9. 
 
 If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, 
 and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised him 
 from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart 
 man believeth unto righteousness ; and with the mouth 
 confession is made unto salvation. Kom. x. 9, 10. 
 
 Salvation, the song of the sainted in light, 
 The theme in which an^ 3ls and seraphs delight, 
 The joy of the ransomev. on earth and above, 
 The fruit and fruition of inlinite love. 
 Salvation, the purchase of Christ's pain and death, 
 Is given to those who receive it hy faith. 
 
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 xvii. 19. 
 
 The Lord hatli set apart him that is godly for him- 
 self. Ps. iv. ,'J. 
 
 Christ loved the cliurch, and gave himself for it, that 
 he might . . . sanctify it. For this is the will of God, 
 even your sanctification. Eph. v. 25 : 1 Thess. iv. 3. 
 
 By the which will we have been sanctified through 
 the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. For 
 by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are 
 sanctified. Heb. x. 10, 14. 
 
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 In a great house there are not only vessels of gold 
 and of silver, but also of wood and of earth ; and some 
 to honor, and some to dishonor. If a man therefore 
 purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto 
 honor, sanctified, and meet for the Master's use, and 
 prepared unto every good work. 2 Tim. ii. 20, 21. 
 
 Abstain from every appearance of evil. And the 
 very God of peace sanctify you wholly ; and may your 
 whole spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, with- 
 out blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 1 Thess. v. 22, 23. 
 
 Capture, and keep me Thine, Thou God of power ; 
 
 To Thee 1 yield a willing captive free : 
 To love and serve with all 1 am and have each hour, 
 
 A s;icred vessel set apart for Thee : 
 
 Filled with Thyself and by Thyself, to be 
 
 Meet for Thy use to all eternity. 
 
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 ht'tray (Jisns). Lnki xxii. 3, 4. 
 
 He that conimitteth sin is of the devil ; for the devil 
 sinnetli from the beginning'. 1 .John iii. S. 
 
 Ye are of your father the devil, an(i the lusts of your 
 father ye will do. He was a murderer from the Ix'gin- 
 ing, and abode not in the truth. When he speaUeth a 
 lie, he speaketh of his own ; for lie is a liar, and the 
 father of it. John viii. 44. Hee Gen. ii. 1(1, 17 ; iii. 1-6. 
 
 The woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and T did 
 eat. We are not ignorant of his devices. The serpent 
 beguiled Eve through his subtlety. And no marvel, 
 for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 
 Gen, iii. 1.'3: 2 Cor. ii. 11 ; xi. '.\ 14. 
 
 Put on the whole armor of (Jod, that ye may be able 
 to stand against the wiles of the devil. Resist the devil, 
 and he will flee from you. Eph. vi. 11 : James iv. 7. 
 
 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilder- 
 ness to be tempred of the devil. And when the tempter 
 came to him, he said. If thou be the Son of (iod, com- 
 mand that these stones be made bread. J>ut he an- 
 swered, , , . It is written, Man -hall not Jive by bread 
 alone, but by every word , . , of God, Matt, iv. 1-4. 
 
 Be sober ; be vigilant, because your adversary the 
 devil, as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he 
 may devour : whom resist steadfast in the faith. Above 
 all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able 
 to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And 
 take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 
 1 Peter v. 8, 9: Eph. vi. 16, 17, 
 
 God's hand can battle Satan's rage, 
 
 His word restiain the teniptej's power : 
 
 That hand shall guard my youtli and age, 
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 which deceiveth the whole world : he was cast out into 
 the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And 
 I heard a loud voice saying in heaven. Now is como 
 salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, 
 and the power of his Christ : for the accuser of our 
 brethren (see Job i. S-10 ; ii. 3-5) is cast down, which 
 accused them before our (Jod day and night. And 
 they overcame him ))y the blood of the Lamb, and by 
 the word of their testimony. Rev. xii. 7-10. 
 
 Woe to the earth, and the sea, for the devil is come 
 down unto you, having great wrath because he knoweth 
 that he hath but a short time. Kev. xii. 12. 
 
 I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the 
 key of the abyss, and a great chain in liis hand. And 
 lie laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is 
 the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand 
 years, and cast him into the abyss, and shut and sealed 
 it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more 
 till the thousand years should be finished. Rev. xx. 1-3. 
 
 The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake 
 of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false 
 prophet are ; and they shall be tormented day and 
 night for ever and ever. Rev. xx. 10. 
 
 Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 
 And rest can never dwell ; hope never conies, 
 . . . But torture witliout end still urges, . . . fed 
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 satisfy us early with thy inorcy, that we may re- 
 joice and be glad all our days. Ps. xc 1 1. 
 
 Wherefoie do ye spend money for that which is not 
 biead ? and your labor for that which satisficth not? 
 ]I('ark(!n diligently unto uu\ and eat ye that which is 
 good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Tsa. 
 Iv. 2. 
 
 The Loi'd uplioldeth the riuhteous ; . . . and in the 
 days of famine they shall be satisfuHl, They shall be 
 al)undantly satisfied with the fatiK^ss of thy hous(> ; and 
 thou shalt make hem drink of the rivei" <>f thy j)leas- 
 ures. Ps. xxxvii. 17, 1!); xxxvi. S. 
 
 1 will sjitiate the soul of the priests with fatness, 
 and my ])eoj)le shall be .satisfied v/ith my goodness, saith 
 the Lord. Jer. xxxi. 14. 
 
 My soul .shall be satisfied as with mari-ow and fat- 
 ness ; and my mouth shall prai.se thee with joyful lips. 
 We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy hous<% 
 even of thy holy temple. As for me. T will behold thy 
 face in righteousness : T shall be satisfied, when I 
 awake, with thy likeness. P.s. Ixiii. 5; Ixv. 4; xvii. 15, 
 
 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, 
 . . . for he satLsfieth the longing soul. Ps. cvii. S, 9. 
 
 I sliall he satisfied when I l)eli()l(l thee, 
 
 I shall he like thee, my Saviour and King ; 
 
 And in the radiance that will enfold thee, 
 I shall enfolded he, too, while I sing — 
 
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 dwell at ease ; and his seed shall iidieiit the earth. Ps. 
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 his children after him. Prov. xx. 7. 
 
 Observe and heai- all these words which I command 
 thee, that it may <^o well witli thee, and with thy chil- 
 dren after thee for ever, when thov. doest that which is 
 goo'.l and ri<^ht in the eyes of the Lord thy God. Deut. 
 xii. 2S. See iv. 40 ; v. 2!) ; xii. l'5. 
 
 T have been young, and now am old ; yet have I nob 
 seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. 
 Ps. xxxvii. '2r>. 
 
 (Jod is in the generation of the righteous : he is ever 
 merciful and lendeth ; and liis seed is blessed. Ps. 
 xiv. 5 ; xxxvii. 26. 
 
 The children of tliy servants continue, and their seed 
 shall be established before thee. They shall not labor 
 in vain, nor bring forth for trouble ; for they are the 
 seed of the blessed of i^he Lord, and their offspring witli 
 them. Ps. cii. 28 : Isa. Ixv. 23. 
 
 The liord . . . will bless them that fear him, both 
 small and great. The Lord shall increase you more and 
 more, you and your cliildren. Ps. ex v. 1.'?, 14. 
 
 How great the blessings promised to the good ; 
 
 Far more than any loving parents could 
 
 Crave for themselves ; their children's plighted share 
 
 In heaven's protection, and (iod's loving care. 
 
 Better than untold gold by far is this, 
 
 ( Jod's favor here, with hope of heavenly bliss. 
 
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 Israel, the Saviour. I'ehold, I go forward, hut he is 
 not there ; and backward, but I cannot percenve him : 
 on the left hand whei-e he doth woik, but T cannot behold 
 him ; he hidetii himself on the right hand, that T can- 
 not see liim. Isa. xlv. \') : Job. xxiii. S, 1). 
 
 No man hath seen Cod at any time ; the only begot- 
 ten Son who is in the bosouj of the Father, hv hath 
 declared him. John i. 18. 
 
 How ih it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, 
 and not unto the worhi ? John xiv. '22. 
 
 He that hath my con^mrindments, and kee})et!i them, 
 he it is that k)veth me ; and h(^ that lo\eth me shall be 
 loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will mani- 
 fest myself to liim. John xiv. 21. 
 
 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth 
 not yet appear what we shall be ; but we know that 
 when he shall appear, we shall be like him ; for w(! shall 
 see him as he is. For now we see through a glass, 
 darkly ; but then face to face. 1 John iii. 2 : 1 Cor. 
 xiii. 12. See Job xix. 25-27. 
 
 Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall see G(m1. 
 They shall see his face, and his name shall be in their 
 foreheads. Matt. v. 8. llev. xxii. 4. 
 
 Thrice hapj)y they wlio reach the place 
 Where they shall see the Saviour's face, 
 And sing the wonders of His grace. 
 In songs of everlasting praise, 
 With the redeenjed throiigli endless days. 
 
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 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I 
 seek after ; that I aiay dwell in the house of the Lord 
 all the days of my life, to liehold the beauty of the Lord, 
 and to enijuire in his temple. Ps. xxvii. 4. 
 
 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty. Tsa. 
 xxxiii. 17. 
 
 I beseech thee, show me thy glory. Ex. xxxiii. 18. 
 
 I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I 
 will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee. And 
 thou shalt stand upon a rock ; and . . . while my glory 
 passeth by, I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and 
 
 will cover thee witii my hand while I pass by. Ex. 
 
 xxxiii. 19, 21, 22. 
 
 Tlie Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and 
 we beheld his glory, (the glory as of the only begotten of 
 the Father,) full of grace and truth. For God, who com- 
 manded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined 
 in ( ur hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the 
 glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. John i. 14 : 
 2 Cor. iv. G. 
 
 The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh 
 shall Bee it together. I will gather all nations and ton- 
 gues ; and they shall come and see my glory. Father, 
 T will also that they whom thou hast given me, be with 
 me where I am ; that they may behold my glory. Isa. 
 xl. 5 ; Ixvi. 18 : John xvii. 24. 
 
 Let nie behold Thy glor^', Lord, and O, do not conceal 
 From nie the hidden beauty Thy mercy doth reveal. 
 Let me behold in Jesus Thy pardoning power and grace, 
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 ( Mosex) endured, (U seeing him irho ?••< inrisihfe. llel>. xi. 27. 
 
 What sign doest thou, that we may see and believe 
 thee. John vi. 30. Hee Mark xv. 32. 
 
 Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. 
 John iv. 48. 
 
 Except I sliall see in his hands the print of the nails, 
 and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. 
 John XX. 25. 
 
 Because tliou hast seen me, thou hast believed ; 
 V)lessed arc they that have not seen, and yet have 
 believed. John xx. 29. 
 
 AVe have seen and do testify that the Father sent the 
 Son to be the Saviour of the world. 1 John iv. 14. 
 
 Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and lie saw it, and 
 was glad. John viii. 56. 
 
 We look not at the things which are seen, but at the 
 things which are not seen. We walk by faith, not by 
 sight. 2 Cor. iv. 18 ; v. 7. 
 
 These all died in faith, not having received the pro- 
 mises, but having seen them afar off, cand were persuaded 
 of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they 
 were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that 
 say such things declare plainly that they seek a country, 
 . . . that is, an heavenly : wherefore God is not ashamed 
 to be called their God : for he hath prepared for them a 
 city. Heb. xi. 13-16. 
 
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 God . . . li.ath mcade of one blood all nations of men, 
 . . . that they should seek the Lord, if haply they 
 might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far 
 from every one of us. Acts xvii. 26, 27. 
 
 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye 
 upon him while he is near. Isa. Iv. 6. 
 
 With my soul have I desired thee in the night ; yea, 
 with my spirit within me will I seek thee early. Isa. 
 xxvi. 9. See Ps. xxvii. 8. 
 
 I love them that love me, and they that seek me 
 early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. 
 
 Saw ye him whom my soul loveth ? O that I knew 
 where I might find him ! Cant. iii. 3. Job xxiii. 3. 
 
 Ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall seek me 
 with all your heart. Jer. xxix. 13. 
 
 By night on my bed I sought him whom ray soul 
 loveth : I sought him, but I found him not. I said, I 
 will rise now, and go about the city, in the streets and in 
 the broadways, I will seek him whom my soul loveth. 
 . . . The watchmen that go about the city found me : to 
 whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth ? It 
 was but a little that I passed from them, when I found 
 him whom my soul loveth : I held him, and would not 
 let him go. Cant. iii. 1-4. 
 
 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord 
 your God. Thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with 
 all thy heart and with all thy soul. 1 Chron. xxii, 19 ; 
 Deut. iv. 29. 
 
 If I seek Him, shall I find Him ? 
 
 Canst thou tell me ? Say. 
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 ttlooU <iud cniifesseff their '<iiis \ch. ix. 2. 
 
 Blesse 1 is the man that walketh not in the coirisel 
 of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor 
 sitteth in the seat of the scornful. Ps. i. 1, 2. 
 
 Enter not into tiie path of the wicked, and go not 
 in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, 
 turn from it, and pass away. Prov. iv. 14, !5. 
 
 Now it came to pass, when they heard the law, they 
 separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. Neh. 
 xiii. 3. 
 
 Know ye not that a little leven leaveneth the 
 whole lump 1 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that 
 ye may be a new lump. I have written unto you not 
 to keep company, if any man that is called a brother, 
 be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a raiLir, 
 or a drunkard, or an extortioner ; with such a one, no, 
 not to eat. Now we command yoi\ brethren, in the 
 name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw your- 
 selves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and 
 not after the tradition which ye received from us. Men 
 of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing 
 that gain is godliness : from such withdraw thyself. 
 Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more 
 than lovers of God ; having a form of godliness, but 
 denying the po ver thereof : from such turn away. 1 
 Cor. V. 6, 7, 11 : 2 Thess. iii. 6 : 1 Tim. vi. 5 : 2 Tim. 
 iii. 4, 5. 
 
 How sweet, with God, from sin apart ; 
 His love transfused through all the heart. 
 
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 LOy the ptop/e sIkUI du'dl a/oiie, (nid shall not he reclcomd 
 niiiuiii/ tin iKtfloiis. I-srac! tlu u .shall (lircjl in >aj'tiy alont. Num. 
 xxiii. 9 : Dttiit. xxxiii. 28. 
 
 Tliy people Israel . . . thou didst separate from 
 among all the people of the earth, to be thine inherit- 
 ance. 1 Kings viii. 52, 53. 
 
 Ye shall not walk in the customs of the nations that 
 I cast out before you ; for ... I am the Loid your Ciod 
 who have separated you fiom the peoples. And ye shall 
 be holy unto me ; for I the Lord am holy, and have 
 separated you from the peoples, that ye should be mine. 
 Lev. XX. 2;J, 25, 20. 
 
 The people . . . that had separated themselves from 
 the peoples of the lands unto the law of God, . . . clave 
 to their brethren, . . . and enteied into an oath to walk 
 in God's law . . . and to do all the commandments of 
 the Lord. Neh. x. 28, 29. 
 
 1 remember thee, . . . the love of thine espousals ; 
 how thou wentest after me in the wilderness . . . Israel 
 was holiness unto the Lonl. Now therefore make con- 
 fession unto the Lord, . . . and do his pleasure ; and 
 separate yourselves from the peoples of the lands. Jer. 
 ii. 2 : Ezra x. 11. 
 
 He brought us out, that he might bring us in. Deut. 
 vi. 23. 
 
 Ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out 
 of the world. Wherefore come out from among them, 
 and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing ; 
 and 1 will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, 
 and ye shall be ray sons and daughters, saith the Lord 
 Almighty. John xv. 19 : 2 Cor. ix. 17, 18. 
 
 Earth's fondest friendship I resign, 
 Its honors, wealth, and pleasure ; 
 
 For I am His, and He is mine, 
 My Lord, my life, ray treasure. 
 
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 We have sinaed, because we have forsaken the Lord 
 and served Baalim and Ashtaroth ; but now deliver us 
 out of the hands of our enemies, and we will serve thee. 
 1 Sam. xii. 10. 
 
 If it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose 
 you this day whom ye will serve. If ye do return unto 
 the Lord with all your heart, then put away the strange 
 gods from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the 
 Lord, and serve him only. No man can serve two 
 masters ; for either he will hate the one, and love the 
 other ; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the 
 other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Joshua 
 xxiv. 1.') : 1 vSam. vii. .3 : Matt. vi. 2f. 
 
 As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 
 God forbid that we should forsake the Lord to serve 
 other gods : for the Lord our God, he it is that brought 
 us up . . . from the house of bondage, . . . and pre- 
 served us in all the way wherein we went ; . . . there- 
 fore will we also serve the Lord our God. The l^ord our 
 God will we serve. Joshua xxiv. 15, 18, 24. 
 
 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only 
 shalt thou serve. Now therefore fear the Lord, and 
 serve him in sincerity and in truth : and put away the 
 gods which your fathers served on the other side of the 
 flood and in Egypt ; and serve ye the Lord. Matt. iv. 
 10 : Joshua xxiv. 1-t. 
 
 All things do serve thee, Lord ; 
 
 All creatines great and small : 
 Help ine to serve thee too, njy (iod, 
 
 Thon Maker of iis all. 
 
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 xxii. 31) : Ji^r, xxii. 3. 
 
 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel ; for he hath 
 visited and redeemed his people : that we being delivered 
 out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without 
 fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the 
 days (*f our life. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom 
 which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we 
 may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly 
 fear. Luke i. 68, 74, 75 : Heb. xii. 28. 
 
 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of 
 God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, 
 acceptable unto (iod, which is your reasonable service. 
 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an 
 heifer sprir:kling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying 
 of the flesh ; how much more shall the blood of Christ, 
 who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without 
 spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to 
 serve the living God? Rom. xii. 1 : Heb. ix. 13, 14. 
 
 God, whose I am, and whom I serve ; — is my witness : 
 whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son. 
 Acts xxvii. 23 : Rom. i. 9. 
 
 My son, know thou the God of thy father, <nd serve 
 him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind. For 
 the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve 
 him. If any man serve me, him will my Father honor. 
 1 Chron. xxviii. 9 : 2 Chron. xxix. 11 : John xii. 26. 
 
 Dismiss me not, thy service, Lord, 
 
 But train me for thy will ; 
 And I will ask for no reward, 
 
 Except to serve Thee still. 
 
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 God, felt anleep. Arts xiii. 36. 
 
 Hereby perceive we the love of God, liecause he laid 
 down his life for us ; and we ought to lay down our lives 
 for the brethren. 1 John iii. 16. 
 
 I am among you as he that seTveth. As the Son of 
 man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, 
 and to give his life a ransom for many. Luke xxii. 27 : 
 Matt. XX. 28. 
 
 We that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of 
 the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us 
 please his neighbor for his good to edification. For 
 Christ also pleased not himself. Kom. xv. 1, 2, '^. 
 
 Let no man seek his own, but each his neighbor's 
 good. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the 
 law of Christ. 1 Cor. x. 24 : Gal. vi. 2. 
 
 Though I am free from all men, yet have I made 
 myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 
 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine 
 own profit, but the profit of the many, that they might 
 be saved. 1 Cor. ix. 19 ; x. .'?.3. 
 
 Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, 
 though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, 
 that ye through his poverty might be made rich. By 
 love serve one another. 2 Cor. viii. 9 : Gal. v. I'i. 
 
 All works are good, ami each is best, 
 
 As most it pleases Thee : 
 Each worker pleases when the rest 
 
 He serves in charity : 
 And neither man nor work emhlef5sed 
 
 Wilt Thou permit to be. 
 
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 Thfii/ go (heir iraj/ like .sheep, they are all nfJUiclcd because there 
 is no shepherd. Zech. x. 2. 
 
 T saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, aa 
 sheep that have no shepherd. They were scattered, 
 because there was no shepherd : and they became meat 
 to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. 
 1 Kings xxii. 17 : Ezek. xxxiv. 5. 
 
 My sheep wandered . . . upon all the face of the 
 earth ; and . . . became meat to all the beasts of the 
 field, because there was no shepherd. Ezek. xxxiv. 6, 8. 
 
 I have gone astray like a lost sheep. All we like 
 sheep have gone astray : we have turned every one to 
 his own way ; and the Lord hath laid on him the inicjuity 
 of us all. Ps. cxix. 176 : Isa. liii. 6. 
 
 Ye were as sheep going astray ; but are now returned 
 to the Shepherd and Hisliop of your souls. 1 Peter 
 ii. 25. 
 
 Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker : for he is 
 our God ; and we are the people of his pasture, and the 
 sheep of his hand. Ps. xcv, 6, 7. 
 
 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and 
 they follow me. But a stranger will they not follow, 
 but will flee from him ; for they know not the voice of 
 
 strangers. 
 
 John X. 27. 
 
 5. 
 
 I was a wandering sheep, 
 
 I did not love the fold ; 
 I did not love mj'^ Sliephei'd's voice, 
 
 I would not be controlled. 
 
 The Shepherd found His sheep. 
 
 Nigh famished on the wold, 
 And now 1 love my Shepherd's voice, 
 
 My Shepherd, and my fold. 
 
 From H. Bonar. 
 
Oct. 19.] 
 
 200 
 
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 Woe to the nfiejiherth , . . that /fed th< m.'itlvex. Should not 
 tht xhepherdu feed the flovk ? Ezrk. xxxiv. 2. 
 
 The shepherds are l>ecome brutish, and have not 
 inquired of the Lord ; therefore they have not dealt 
 wisely, and their flocl-' ■ are scattered. Jer. x. 21. 
 
 Woe unto the shepherds that desti'oy and scatter the 
 sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord. Therefore, thus 
 saith the Lord God of Israel against the shepherds that 
 feed ray people ; Ye have scattered my Hock and driven 
 them away, and have not visited them. My people 
 hath beep lost sheep ; their shepherds have caused them 
 to go astray, tliey have turned them away on the 
 mountains ; they have gone from mountain to hill, they 
 have forgotten their resting place. All that found 
 them have devoured them. Jer. xxiii. 1, 2 ; 1. 6, 7. 
 
 He that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose 
 own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and 
 leaveth the sheep, and fleeth ; and the wolf catcheth 
 them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling tleoth, 
 because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. 
 John X. 12, 1.3. 
 
 Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the 
 flock. Zech. xi. 17. 
 
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 Who care not for the fold, 
 But who are only eager 
 For honors, ease, and gold. 
 
 Blest Jesus, Thou "Good Shepherd," 
 When these false shephei'ds flee, 
 
 Mid dangers and desertions, 
 We'll trust our all to Thee. 
 
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 Ife xhall rome doim like rain niton the inon^n (jrasx ; a.s 
 nhon'1'r.H that intter the earth, Ps. Ixxii. (}. 
 
 Are there any amoiij; the vanities of the heathen 
 that can cause rain 1 or can tlie heavens give showers. 
 Jer. xiv. 22. 
 
 Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the hitter 
 rain ; so the Lor<l shall make bright clouds, and give 
 them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. 
 Zech. X. 1. 
 
 Thou visiteth the earth, and waterest it. Thou 
 waterest the ridges thereof abundantly ; settle^^t the fur- 
 rows thereof ; thou makest it soft with showers ; thou 
 blessest the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year 
 with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness : they 
 drop upon the pastures of the wilderness ; and the little 
 hills rejoice on ever}^ side. Ps. Ixv. 9-12. 
 
 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, and my speech 
 shall distil as the dew ; as the small rain upon the 
 tender herb, and as showers upon the grass. For thus 
 saith the Lord (Jod, Behold, I will search for my sheep, 
 and will seek them out. I, even I, will feed them in a 
 good pasture. And I will make them, and the places 
 round about ray hill a blessing ; and I will cause the 
 shower to come down in his season ; and there shall be 
 showers of blessing. Deut. xxxii. 2 : Exek. xxxiv. 11, 
 14, 2G. 
 
 " There shall be showers of blef.dng," 
 This is the promise of love ; 
 There shall be seasons refreshing, 
 Sent from the Saviour above ; 
 
 " There shall be showers of blessing," 
 Precious reviving again ; 
 Over the hills and the valleys, 
 " Sound of abundance of rain." 
 
 El. Nathan. 
 
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 To him that knowetli to ilo good, and doeth it not, 
 to him it is sin. James iv. 1 7. 
 
 Whatsoever is not of faith is sin. liom. xiv. 23. 
 
 Thou hast set our ini<juitios hofoi'e thee, our secret 
 sins in the light of thy countonaii'-e. Ps. xc. S, 
 
 [ know your manifold transgressions, and your 
 mighty sins. Amos v. 1 2. 
 
 I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever 
 before me. Against thee, thee only, have 1 sinned, and 
 done evil in thy sight : that thou mightest be justified 
 when thou speakest, and be clciai- when thou judgest. 
 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and 
 our sins testify against us : for our transgressions are 
 with us ; and as for our inicjuities, we know them. Ps. 
 li. 3, 4: Isa. lix. 12. 
 
 Be sure your sin will find you out. Num. xxxii. 23. 
 
 Mine inijjuities! have gone over mine head : as a 
 heavy burden are they too heavy for me. Ps. xxxviii, .. 
 Fools make a mock at sin. Prov. xiv. 9. 
 
 Whosoever committeth sin is the slave of sin. John 
 viii. 34. 
 
 Whosoever committeth sin is of the devil, for the 
 devil sinneth from the bejiuminj;. I John iii. S. 
 
 
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 The soul that sinneth it shall die. Ezek. xviii. 4, 20. 
 He that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul : 
 all they that hate me love death. Prov. viii. 36. 
 
 My sins, my sins, my Saviour ! as on Thy soul they fell, 
 Their number and their greatness, who us 'J hyself can toll ? 
 
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 iliMiihii/iiiici' the. vittiii/ ii'in rniisf'fiifi'ii Mi'iim rs. h'oiii, v. 1*2, M'. 
 
 (lod looked upon the euitli, uinl, beliold, it was 
 corrupt ; for all llesli had corruptt'd his way upon the 
 eaith. (U'u. vi. 1 '2. 
 
 The JiOi'd looked down from heaven upon the chil- 
 dren of men, to see if there were any that did under- 
 stand, and seek (Jctd. They are all ^'one asid(^ ; they are 
 altoj^ether become filthy : there is none that doeth good, 
 no not one. Ps. xiv. 2, ',). 
 
 Now we know t'nat what things soever the law saith, 
 it saith to them who are under the law ; that every 
 mouth may he stopped, and all the world may l)ecome 
 guilty before God. For there is no ditterence : for all 
 have sinned and come short of the glory of Uod. Mom. 
 iii. 19, 22, 23. 
 
 There is no man that sinneth not. 
 
 1 King viii. 46. 
 
 We have l)efore proved l>oth Jews and Gentiles, that 
 they are all under sin ; as it is written. There is none 
 righteous, no, not one : there is none that understandeth, 
 there is none that seeketh after God. Tliey are all gone 
 out of the way, they are together become unprofitable ; 
 there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat 
 is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used 
 deceit ; the poison of asps is under their lips. . . . There 
 is no fear of God before their eyes. Rom. iii. 9-13, IS. 
 
 There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, 
 and sinneth not. Eccl. vii. 20. 
 
 Man sinned, and through and through 
 His heart and life the infection spread. 
 
 One sinned, and mortals scarcely knew, 
 Till the whole race in sin were dead. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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 Thr nUiijn-'i irriif fif/ort , t/ir fi/ni/i )•■•< nn liiMfnum iif'^ f'o/loirnl 
 afhf : oiiioiiif fill III in n thi' ilaiii"'!'* iihiyiiiij irith hiiiilui/.s. /'s, 
 l.'iviii. '2i), 
 
 ])jivi«l and nil Ihdu'I jduycd brfoie (!<k1 witli all tiuMr 
 might, and with singing, and with haips, and with 
 psalteries, and with tinihicls, and with c^inhals, and 
 with trumpets. 1 (Jhron. xiii. H. 
 
 Chenaniah, chief of tlu! Le\ ites, was over the song ; 
 he instructed about the song; b«'caus(^ Ik; was skilful. 
 For in the days (»f David and Asaph (»f old, there wjM'e 
 chiefs of the singers and songs of praise and thanks- 
 giving unto (Jod. 1 Chion. xv. 22 : Neh. xii. 40. 
 
 All the kings of the eaith shall praisj' thee, O I.onI, 
 when they hear the woids of thy mouth. Yea, they 
 shall sing in th»i ways of the Lord : for great is the glory 
 of the Lord. Ps. cxxxviii. 4, T). 
 
 Kings of the earth, and all people, piinces, and all 
 judges of the earth, ... let them ])raise the name of the 
 Lord ; for his name alone is excellent, his glory is above 
 the earth and heavens. Ps. cxlviii. 11, 13 
 
 None saith. Where is God my mak<!r, who giveth 
 sc 'gs in the night ? Yet the Lord will connnand his 
 lovingl Indness in the daytime, and in tlie night his 
 song shall be with me, even a j>rayer unto the CJod of 
 my life. Job xxxv. 10 : Ps. xlii. M. See Ixxvii. G. 
 
 Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud 
 upon their beds. Ps. cxlix. 5. 
 
 Sing to the God who gave thee cause, voice, and heart to sing, 
 To Jesus who is worthy, thy grateful anthems l)ring : 
 Sing of His saving power, His faithfulness and love ; 
 And through life's latest hour sing on in realms above. 
 Singing glory ! Hallelujah ! 
 
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 Of tlu .sons of Axdph, th( slinio-s ire.rt oi'tr the hnsini'i.H of lite, 
 hout^e of Clod. Ant/, tin .simjirs satiij loud, irilh Jezrahiah (heir 
 ot'crwvr. Xt'I.. xi. '22 ; xii. 42. 
 
 The righteous doth sing and rejoice. Prov. xxix. 6. 
 I'ehold my servant shall sing for joy of heart. Isa. 
 Ixv. 14. 
 
 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God ; upon a 
 psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will 1 sing 
 praise unto thee. Ps. cxliv. 9. See xl. 3. 
 
 Give thanks unto the Lord with harp. Hing praises 
 unto him with a psaltery and on instruments of ten 
 strings. Sing unto him a new song ; play skilfully with 
 a loud noise. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his 
 praise in the congregation of saints. Ps. xxxiii. 2, 3 ; 
 cxlix. L See xcvi. 1, 2; xcviii. \. 
 
 I will sing unto the Lord as long .as I live ; I will 
 sing praise to my (jrod while I have my being. Ps. 
 civ. 3."]. 
 
 Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess ; but be 
 filled with the Spirit ; speaking to yourselves in psalms 
 and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making 
 melody in your heart to the Lord. Eph. v. 18, 19. 
 
 T will sing with the spirit, I will sing with the 
 understanding also. 1 Cor. xiv. 15. 
 
 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all 
 wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another in 
 psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with 
 grace in your hearts to the Lord. Col. iii. 16. 
 
 God sent His singers upon earth, 
 With songs of gladness and of mirth ; 
 That they might touch the hearts of men, 
 And bring them back to God again. 
 He gave a various gift to each, 
 To charm, to strengthen, and to teach. 
 
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 hoK'<e of the Lord; . . . and they miiiistereil trith noiiif Ite/ore the 
 tabtriiade of the tent of meetimj. 1 Chron. vi. .31, 32. 
 
 Be tliou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength : so 
 will we sing and praise thy power. Ps. xxi. l.'J. 
 
 Serve the Lord with gladness ; come before his pres- 
 ence with singing. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto 
 him : talk ye of all his wondrous works. Ps. 
 
 c. 2 ; cv. 2. 
 
 TARK. 
 
 come, let us sing unto the Lord, let us make a 
 joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Ps. xcv. I. 
 
 Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give 
 thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. Sing unto 
 the Lord, bless his name ; show forth his salvation from 
 day to day. Ps. xxx. iv ; xcvi. 2. 
 
 My heart is tixed, O God, my heart is fixed ; I will 
 sing and give praise. I will also praise thee with the 
 psaltery, even thy truth, O my God : unto thee will I 
 sing praises with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. 
 Ps. Ivii. 7 ; Ixxi. 22. 
 
 Sing unto the Lord with thaaksgiving ; sing praise 
 upon the liarp unto our God. Praise the Lord with 
 harp ; sing unto him with the psaltery and an instru- 
 ment with ten strings. Sing unto him a new song ; play 
 skilfully with a loud noise. Ps. cxlvii. 7 ; xxxiii. 2, 3. 
 
 1 will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt 
 bountifully with me. My lips shall greatly rejoice when 
 I sing unto thee ; and my soul, which thou hast re- 
 deemed. Ps. xiii. 6 ; Ixxi. 23. 
 
 Make a joyful noise unto God, all the earth ; sing 
 forth the glory of his name: make his p;a,ise glorious. 
 Ps. Ixvi. 1, 2. 
 
 Raised on devotion's lofty wing, 
 Do thou, my soul. His praises sing ; 
 And let His praise employ thy tongue, 
 Till listening worlds shall join the song. 
 
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 siny jonifien to the Lord. . . . And they sanij jtraises iinth (jlad- 
 ne.s.'i, and they hoiced their heads and irorshipped. 2 C'hron. xxix. 
 30. 
 
 When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion 
 we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth 
 filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Ps. 
 cxxvi. 1, 2. 
 
 Sing unto the Lord ; for he hath done excellent 
 things ; let this be known in all the earth. Isa. xii. 
 5. 8ee xlix. 13. 
 
 I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many 
 waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard 
 the voice of harpers harping with their harps : and 
 they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and 
 before the four living creatures, and the elders ; and no 
 man could learn that song but the hundred and forty 
 and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. 
 Rev. xiv. 2, 3. 
 
 The four living creatures and the four and twenty 
 elders fell down before the Lamb, having each one a 
 harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the 
 prayers of the saints. And they sung a new song, saying, 
 Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals 
 thereof. For thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to 
 God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and 
 people, and nation ; and didst make us unto our God a 
 kingdom of priests : and we shall reign on the eJirth. 
 Rev. V. 8-10. 
 
 Faith tunes the Ups to grateful song, 
 And peace and joy the notes prolong ; 
 While hope's sweet foretaste in the soul 
 Stirs its rapt powers with love's control : 
 Till singing through death's gate it flies, 
 With eager transports to the skies ; 
 There with the ransomed hosts to sing 
 The glories of its Saviour King. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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 As man}/ ax art led by the Spir': of God, they are the tion-i of 
 Ood. Rom. viii. 14. 
 
 When the fuhiess of the time was come, God sent 
 forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to 
 redeem them that were under the law, that we might 
 receive the adoption of sons. Gal. iv. 4, o. 
 
 It shall come to pass, that in the place where it was 
 said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be 
 said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. 
 Hosea i. 10. 
 
 As many as received him, to them gave he power to 
 become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his 
 name. John i. 12. 
 
 Do all things without murraurings and disputings : 
 that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, 
 without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse 
 generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world , 
 holding forth the word of life. Phil. ii. 14, 15. 
 
 Behold what manner of love the Father hath 
 bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of 
 God. . . . Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it 
 doth not yet appear what we shall be : but we know 
 that when he shall appear, we shall be like him ; for we 
 shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this 
 hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 1 
 John iii. 1-3. 
 
 Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit 
 of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 
 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son ; and 
 if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Gal. iv. 
 6,7. 
 
 What richer portion can a soul desire, 
 Or to what proiuler heights can he aspire, 
 Than rightfully to claim God as his own, 
 And that the Lord should own him as His son. 
 
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 Ah sorroirfiif, i/et always rejoiciiu/. 2 Cor. i. 10. 
 
 Altliough the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall 
 fruit be in the vines ; the labor of the olive shall fail, 
 and the fields ihall yield no meat ; the flock shall be 
 cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the 
 stalls; yet will I .ejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the 
 God of my salvation. Hab. iii. 17, 18. 
 
 Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous. Be glad and 
 rejoice in the Lord your God. Ps. xcvii. 12 : Joel ii. 23. 
 
 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in 
 the time that their corn and their wine increased. Ps. 
 iv. 7. 
 
 The meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and 
 the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of 
 Israel. Isa. xxix. 19. 
 
 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is 
 exalted : but the rich, in that he is made low : because 
 as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. James i. 
 9, 10. 
 
 Happy are ye that weep now : for ye shall laugh. 
 Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they 
 shall separate you from their company, and shall 
 reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the 
 Son of man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for 
 jo\ : for, behold, your reward is great in heaven. Luke 
 vi. 21-23. See Acts v. 40, 41. 
 
 Weeping saint, why dost thou mourn ? 
 Jesus all thy grief hath borne. 
 He can heal thy sore and smart, 
 And relieve thy aching heart. 
 
 Weeping saint, dry up thy tears, 
 Banish sorrow, cease thy fears ; 
 Jesus knows and feels thy pain, 
 He will give thee joy again. 
 
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 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity. He that 
 soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption. 
 Prov. xxii. 8 : Gal. vi. 8. 
 
 They that plow iniquity and sow wickedness, reap 
 the same. They sow the wind, and they shall reap 
 the whirlwind. Job iv. 8 : Hosea viii. 7. 
 
 He that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward. 
 Prov. xi. 18. 
 
 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to 
 mercy. Hosea x. 12. 
 
 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that 
 goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall 
 doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves 
 with him. Ps. cxxvi. .5, 6. 
 
 He that observeth the wind shall not sow ; and he 
 that regarc-eth the clouds shall not reap. In the morn- 
 ing sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine 
 hand : for thou knowest not which shall prosper, 
 whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike 
 good. Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters. But 
 this T say, He which .soweth sparingly shall reap also 
 sparingly ; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also 
 bountifully. And God is able to make all grace abound 
 toward you ; that ye, always having all sufticiency in all 
 things, may abound to every good work. Now he that 
 ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for 
 your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase 
 the fruits of your righteousness. Eccl. xi. -t, 6 : Isa. 
 xxxii. 20 : 2 Cor. ix. 6, 8, 10. 
 
 Now the sowing and the weeping, 
 Working hard and waiting long ; 
 
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 Harvest-home and grateful song. 
 
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 The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of 
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 Thou j,'}ive.st thy good spirit to instruct them. Neh. 
 ix. 20. 
 
 The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will -^^nd in my 
 name, he shall teach you all things. John xiv. 26. 
 
 Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have enter- 
 ed into the heart of man the things which God hath 
 })repared for them that love him. liut God hath revealed 
 them unto us by his Spirit : for the Spirit searcheth all 
 things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man 
 knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man 
 which is in him ? Even so the things of God knoweth 
 no man but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, 
 not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of 
 God ; that we might know the things that are freely 
 given to .s of God. But the natural man receiveth not 
 the things of the Sj)irit of God : for they are foolishness 
 unto him : neither can he know them, because they are 
 spiritually discerned. 1 Cor. ii. 9-14. 
 
 Ye have an antjinting from the Holy One, and ye 
 know all things. And ye neeci no", that any one teach 
 3'ou : but his anointing teacheth you concerning all 
 
 things. 
 
 1 John ii. 20, 27. 
 
 No man can say that J«. .us is the Lord, but by the 
 Holy Spirit. 1 Cor. xii. 3. 
 
 When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto, 
 you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which 
 proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me : 
 . . . for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto 
 you. John xv. 26 ; xvi. \\. 
 
 Spirit of trutli dwell thou with me, 
 And let me more of Jesus see : 
 Shed on His word Thy light divine, 
 And make it with His radiance shine. 
 
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 I will open my mouth in a parable : I will utter dai'k 
 sayings of old : . . . shewing to the generation to come 
 the praises of the Lord : . . . that they might set theii* 
 hope in God : . . . and not be as their fathers, ... a 
 generation that set not their hearts aright, and whose 
 spirit was not steadfast with God. For their heart was 
 not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his 
 covenant. Ps. Ixxviii. :l, 4, 7, 8, 37. 
 
 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine 
 hands toward him ; if iniciuity be in thine hand, put it 
 far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy taber- 
 nacles. Then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot ; 
 yea, thou shalt be steadfast. Job xi. 13-1."). 
 
 Seeing that we have a grtat high priest, that is 
 passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us 
 hold fast our profession. For we are become partakers 
 of (with) Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our 
 confidence steadfast unto the end. Heb. iv. 14 ; iii. 14. 
 
 Be sober, l)e vigilant ; because your adversary the 
 devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he 
 may devour : whom resist steadfast in the faith. Ye 
 therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, be- 
 v^are lest ye being led away with the error of the wicked, 
 fall from your own steadfastness. 1 Peter v. 8, 9 : 2 
 Peter iii. 17. 
 
 Settle and fix my wavering heart, 
 
 O blessed Christ, on Thee ; 
 And let it never more depart, 
 
 Or ever changeful be : 
 
 But like a tower amid the shock 
 
 Of bootless winds and tide, 
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 Let a man so account of us, as of tlie ministers of 
 Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover 
 it is retjuired in stewards here, that a man be found 
 faithful. 1 Cor. iv. 1, 2. 
 
 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister 
 the same one to another, as good stewards of the mani- 
 fold grace of God. 1 Peter iv. 10. 
 
 David said, . . . Who am I, and what is my people, 
 that we should be able to offer so willingly after this 
 sort ? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have 
 we giveii thee. 1 Chron. xxix. 10, 14. 
 
 Freely ye have received, freely give. Matt. x. 8. 
 
 Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit 
 done unto him. 2 Chron. xxxii. 25. 
 
 (Hannah said,) . . . For this child I prayed ; and 
 the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of 
 him : therefore I also have lent him to the Lord as long 
 as he liveth. 1 Sam. i. 27, 28. 
 
 What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits 
 toward me? Ps. cxvi. 12. 
 
 I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, to 
 present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well-pleasing 
 unto God, which is your reasonable service. Rom. xii. 1 . 
 
 By lovingkindness, undeserved, divine, 
 My whole desire is turned from self to Thee ; 
 
 Thou gracious Lord, I am. no longer mine, 
 But Thine to love and serve eternally — 
 
 Accept the life which to Thyself I give, 
 
 And in Thy service gladly will I live. 
 
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 The Lord will (jirt ■'<treii;/fh to /tin jttojjie. Ps. xxix, 11. 
 
 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee. Give 
 thy strength unto thy servant. Vs. Ixxxiv. 5 ; Ixxxvi. 
 16. 
 
 Seek the Lord, and his strength : seek his face ever- 
 more. The people that do know their (jrod shall be 
 strong, and do exploits. Ps. cv. 4 : Dan. xi. 32. 
 
 My soul droppeth for heaviness : strengthen thou me 
 according to thy word. Ps. cxix. 28. 
 
 He giveth power to the faint ; and to them that have 
 no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths 
 shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall 
 utterly fall : but they that wait upon the Lord shall 
 renew their strength ; they shall mount up with wings 
 as eagles ; they shall run, and not be weaiy : and they 
 shall walk and not faint. Isa. xl. 29, 31. 
 
 It is God that girdeth me with strength. Thou hast 
 girded me with strength unto the battle. In the day 
 when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me 
 with strength in my soul. Ps. xviii. 32, 39 ; cxxxviii. 3. 
 
 The God of Israel, he giveth strength and power 
 unto his people. Blessed be God. Ps. Ixviii. 3D. See 
 Eph. iii. 14, 16. 
 
 When I am weak, then am I strong. I can do all 
 
 things through Christ who strengtheneth me. 
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 is made perfect in weakness. Deut. xxxiii. 25 : 2 Cor. 
 xii. 9. 
 
 When cares and sorrows round me rise, 
 And hope grows weak, and comfort dies ; 
 When weary with my griefs and toils, 
 And from life's ills my heart recoils ; 
 With joy I hear Christ say to me, 
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 f<fnn(ffh awl irMoni. Joh ix. 4 ; xxxvi. .'). 
 
 Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power ; in 
 thine hand is power and might ; and in thine liand it is 
 to make great, and to give strength unto all. 1 Chron. 
 xxix. 11, 12. 
 
 Ascribe ve strength unto God. God giveth strength 
 and pv.^wer unto his people. Ps. Ixviii. 34, 35. 
 
 our God, ... we have no might against this great 
 company that cometh against us ; . . . but our eyes are 
 upon thee. 2 Chron. xx. 12. 
 
 Quit you like men, be strong. Be strong in the 
 Lord, and in the power of his might. 1 Cor. xvi. 13 : 
 Eph. vi. 10. 
 
 1 will go in the strength of the Lord God. The Ijord 
 is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. 
 Ps. Ixxi. 16; cxviii. 14. 
 
 Trust ye in the Lord for ever : for in the Lord 
 Jehovali is everlasting strength. Isa. xxvi. 4. 
 
 The Lord is the strength of my life ; of whom shall I 
 be afraid 1 I will trust and not be afraid : fur the Loi'd 
 Jehovah is my strength and my song ; he also is become 
 my salvation Ps. xxvii. 1 : J a. xii. 2. 
 
 We pray for j'ou, . . . that ye might be strength- 
 ened with all might, according to his glorious power. 
 Col. i. 9, 11. 
 
 E'trony in the Lord of hosts, 
 
 Ana in His mighty power, 
 The man who in the Saviour trusts, 
 
 Is more than conqueror. 
 
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 X. 12. 
 
 A wrathful man .stirreth up strife : but he that is 
 slow to aiij^er appeaseth strife. Pro v. xv. IS. 
 
 As coals are to burnin}^ coals, and wood to firi^ ; so 
 is a contentious man to kindle strife. Prov. xxvi. 21. 
 
 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out ; so 
 where there is no talebearer, the strife eeaseth. Prov. 
 xxvi 20. 
 
 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall ^o out ; 
 yea, strife and reproach shall cease. Prov. xxii. 10. 
 
 He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife. Prov. 
 xxviii. 2'). 
 
 There was also a strife among them, which of them 
 should be accounted the greatest. Luke xxii. 24. 
 
 It is an honor for a man to cease fiom strife : but 
 every fool will be meddling. Prov. xx. 3. 
 
 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out 
 water ; therefore leave off contention, before it be 
 meddled with. Prov. xvii. 14. 
 
 Now the works of the flesh are, . . . emulations, 
 wraths, strifes. Gal. v. 19, 20. 
 
 Whereas there is among you envying and strife, 
 are ye not carnal and walk as men ? — Let notliing be 
 done through strife or vainglory ; but in lowliness of 
 mind let each esteem other better than themselves. But 
 if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory 
 not, and lie not against the truth. 1 Cor. iii. 3 : Phil, 
 ii. 3. : James iii. 16. 
 
 Blest am the men oi peaceful life, 
 Wlio qutnch the cods of growing strife ; 
 Th iy shall be called the heirs of bliss, 
 The sons of God — the God of peace. 
 
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 xvii." 3, 22. 
 
 O Lord, ... let ine talk with thee. Jer. xii. 1. 
 Arise and go forth into the valley, and I will talk 
 with thee there. Ezek. iii. 22. 
 
 Surely T would speak with the Ahnij^hty. Job xiii. 3. 
 Son of man, stand upon tliy feet, and I will speak 
 with thee. Ezek. ii. 1. 
 
 Call thou, and I will answer : or let nie speak, and 
 answer thou nie. Job xiii. 22. 
 
 If he call thee, thou shalt say, Speak, Lord ; for thy 
 servant heareth. 1 Sam. iii. 9. 
 
 Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto 
 the Lord, who am but dust and ashes. If now I have 
 found «,a'ace in thy si<^ht, show me a sign that thou 
 talkest with me Thou that dwellest in the gardens, 
 the companions hearken to thy voice : cause me to hear 
 it. Gen. wiii. 27 : Judges vi. 17 : Cant. viii. 13. 
 
 Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you 
 from heaven. Ex. xx. 22. 
 
 If I speak to Him, will He hear nie ? 
 
 Will He deign to talk with man ? 
 Lift up thy voice and address Him, 
 
 And His words in the Scriptures scan. 
 
 He hath come again to " the garden," 
 
 And He speaketh to each one, 
 In wonls that are sweet and tender, 
 
 From the lips of His own dear Son. 
 
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 J'arr shom n'hih- h talbd irlth him. Hr. xxxiii. II ; xxxiv. 'J^>, 
 
 We have seen this day that (Jod doth talk with inan, 
 and he liveth. Deut. v. 24. 
 
 Did ever people hear the voice of Ood speaking out 
 of the midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and live f Out 
 of heaven he made thee to hear iiis voice, that he might 
 instruct thee : . . . and thou heaidest his words out of 
 the midst of the fire. Deut. iv. '.V.\, .SG. 
 
 God, who in various ways spake in time past unto 
 the fathers hy the proj)hets, hath in these last days 
 spoken unto us by his Son. And . . . w(» have heard 
 him, . . . and know that this is indeed the C-hrist, the 
 Saviour of the world. Heh. i. 1, "J : John iv. 42. 
 
 Thou hast both seen him, and He it is that speaketli 
 with thee. John ix. 37. 
 
 T will hear what God the Lord will speak ; for he 
 will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints : but 
 let them not turn again to folly. I will set me upon my 
 watch, . . . and will watch and see what he will speak 
 unto me, and what I shall answer v^hen I am argued 
 with. Ps. Ixxxv. 8 : Hab. ii. 1. 
 
 I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot 
 bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, 
 is come, he will guide you into all truth. He shall take 
 of mine, and declare it unto you. John xvi. 12-14. 
 
 A little talk with Jesus, 
 
 How it smoothes the nigged road ; 
 How it seems to help me onward, 
 
 When I faint beneath the load. 
 When my heart is crushed Vitli sorrow, 
 
 And mine eyes with teais are dim ; 
 There's naught can yield me comfort, 
 
 Like a little talk with Him. 
 
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 The;/ overcame him hy the blood of the Lamb, and by the 
 ivord of their teHtimony. Rev. \\\. \\. 
 
 Lord, open thou my lips ; and my mouth shall 
 shew forth thy praise. Ps. li. 15. 
 
 1 am the Lord thy God : . . . open thy mouth wide, 
 and 1 will fill it. Ps. Ixxxi. 10. 
 
 I have yet to speak on God's behalf. Job xxxvi. 2. 
 
 Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace. 
 Be not ashamed of the testimony of our Lord. Acts 
 xviii. 9 : 2 Tim. i. 8. 
 
 I will go in the strength of the Lord God ; I will 
 make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. 
 Ps. Ixxi. IG. 
 
 Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord. A true witness 
 delivereth souls. Therefore speak what thou knowest. 
 Holding forth the word of life. Isa. xliii. 10 : Pro v. 
 xiv. 25 : Job xxxiv. 33 : Phil. ii. 16. 
 
 Come and hear, all 3'e that fear God, and I will de- 
 clare what he hath done for my soul. Ps. Ixvi. IG. 
 
 Go home to th_; friends, and tell them how great 
 things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had com- 
 passion on thee. Mark v. 19. 
 
 We speak that we do know, and testify that we have 
 seen. John iii. 11. See Ps. xl. 9, 10. 
 
 He tliat cometh from above is above all. . . . And 
 what he hath seen and iieard, that he testifieth . . . He 
 that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that 
 God is true. John iii. 31-33. 
 
 Tell men tliat Christ came to be their Redeemer ; 
 Spread the glad tidings the witle nations o'er ; 
 Speak it as softly as whispering zephyr ; 
 Sound it as loud as the tliunder can roar ; 
 Herald it forth to the most distant shore, 
 Till all sliall hear it, believe, and adore. 
 
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 tempted hy Satan. Matt, iv, 1: Mark'x. 13. 
 
 We have not an high priest who cannot be touclied 
 with the feeling of our inhnnities ; but was in all points 
 tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Heb. iv. 15. 
 
 In that he himself hath suffered being tempteil, he is 
 able to succor them that are tempted. Heb. ii. 18. 
 
 Lead us not into temptation. Matt, vi, 13. 
 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. 
 Matt. XX vi. 41. 
 
 The Lord kiioweth how to deliver the godly out of 
 temptation. 2 Peter ii. 9. 
 
 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is 
 common to man : but (iod is faithful, who will notsufftu' 
 you to be tempted above that ye are able ; but will with 
 the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may 
 be able to bear it. 1 Cor, x. 13. 
 
 They on the rock are they, who, vv^hen they have 
 heard, received the word with joy; and these have no 
 root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation 
 fall away. Luke viii. \'.\. 
 
 To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write ; 
 . . . Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, 
 I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which 
 is about to come upon all the world, to try them that 
 dwell upon the earth. Rev. iii. 7, 10. 
 
 When teini)tati()ns round me close, 
 And my f:iith and hope oppose ; 
 When the powers of sin assail, 
 And seem ready to prevail ; 
 Thou who once didst make them flee, 
 O defend and rescue me. 
 Even me. 
 
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 the Lord, and liken-Ue at eren. 1 Chron. xvi. 2, 4 ; xxiii. 30. 
 
 It is a f(ood thing to give thanks unto the Lord, 
 and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High. Ps. 
 xcii. 1. 
 
 that men would praise the I.oid for his goodness, 
 and for his wonderful works to the children of men. 
 Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and 
 declare his works with rejoicing. Ps. cvii. 21, 22. 
 
 Let us come before his presence with luaaksgiving, 
 and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. Ps. 
 xcv. 2. 
 
 Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess : but be 
 filled with the Spirit ; speaking to yourselves in psalms 
 and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making 
 melody in your heart to the Lord ; giving thanks 
 always for all things unto God and the Father in 
 the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Eph. v. 18-20. 
 
 1 will give thanks in the great congregation : I will 
 praise thee among much people. I will offer unto thee 
 the sacrifices of thanksgiving, I will pay my vows 
 unto the Lord now in the presence of all his peo];!? hi 
 the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of tl ' > O 
 Jerusalem. Ps. xxxv. 18 ; cxvi. 17, 19. 
 
 Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows 
 unto the Most High. Enter into his gates with thanks- 
 giving, and into his courts with praise : be thankful 
 unto him and bless his name. Ps. 1. 14 ; c. 4. 
 
 Thanks we give, and praises sing, 
 To our gracious God and King : 
 For the goodness He displays, 
 In His works, and in His ways. 
 Thanks we'll give, and songs of praise, 
 for His grace, through endless days. 
 
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 will magnify him with thanksgiving. And it shall please 
 the Lord more than an ox or a bullock. Ps. Ixix. 30, 31. 
 
 Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing.. In every- 
 thing give thanks : for this is the will of God in Christ 
 Jesus concerning you. 1 Thess. v. 16-18. 
 
 Every creature of God is good, and to be received 
 with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. 
 
 Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer 
 and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests 
 be made known unto God. And let the peace of God 
 rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in 
 one body ; and be ye thankful. Phil. iv. 6 : Col. iii. 15. 
 
 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. By 
 him therefore let us offer a sacrifice of praise to (Jod 
 continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks 
 to his name. 2 Cor. ix. 15 : Heb. xiii. 15. 
 
 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, 
 so walk ye in him : rooted and built up in him, and 
 stablished in the faith, . . . abounding therein with 
 thanksgiving. And whatsoever ye do m word or deed, 
 do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to 
 God and the Father by Him. Col. ii. 6, 7 ; iii. 17. 
 
 Thanks we'll give for ever, Lord, 
 
 For Thy goodness to onr race ; 
 For the treasures of Thy word, 
 
 Anfl tl^e riches of Thy grace. 
 
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 The goodwHH of Ctcxl <'ndii,'''th continually. Ps. lii. 1. 
 
 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the good- 
 ness of the Lord in tlie bind of the living. Ps. xxvii. 13. 
 
 I will make all my goodness pass l)efore thee, and I 
 will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee ; and 
 will be gracious to whom T will be gracious, and will 
 show mercy on whom I will show mercy. Ex. xxxiii. 19. 
 
 According to thy mercy remerabei- thou me for thy 
 goodness' sake, O Lord. For thou. Lord, art good, and 
 ready to forgive ; and plenteous in mercy unto all them 
 that call upon thee. Ps. xxv. 7 ; Ixxvi. 5. 
 
 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, unto 
 the soul that seeketh him. Lam. iii. 2-5. 
 
 The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble ; 
 and he knoweth them that trust in him. Neh. i. 7. 
 
 O taste and see that the Lord is good : blessed is the 
 man that trusteth in him. Ps. xxxiv. 8. 
 
 One generation shall praiiie thy works to another, 
 and shall declare thy mighty acts. They shall abund- 
 antly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall 
 sing of thy righteousness. Ps. cxlv. 4, 7. 
 
 O give thanks unto the Lord ; for he is good : for 
 his mercy endureth for ever. Ps. cxviii. 29. 
 
 There is none good but one, that is, God. Mark 
 X. 18. 
 
 Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the 
 Lord is good ; his mercy is everlasting ; and his truth 
 endureth to all generations. Ps. c. 4, 5. 
 
 O give to every human heart, 
 To tas'^e and see how good Thou art ; 
 With grateful love, and reverent fear, 
 To know how blest Thy children are ! 
 
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 He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep 
 him, as a shepherd doth his flock. Jer. xxxi. 10. See 
 1 Sam. xvii. 34, 35. 
 
 Behold, I will search for my sheep, and will seek 
 them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock, . . . 
 so will I seek out my sheep ; and I will deliver them 
 out of all places whither they have been scattered. . . . 
 And I will feed them with good pasture, . . . upon the 
 mountains of Israel. Ezek. xxxiv. 11-15. 
 
 The Lord is my shepherd ; I shall not want. He 
 maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth 
 me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul ; he 
 .leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's 
 sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of death- 
 shade, I will fear no evil ; for thou art with me : thy 
 rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Ps. xxiii. 1-4. 
 
 I am the good shepherd ; and I know mine own : 
 . . . and I lay down my life for the sheep. . . . And I 
 give unto them eternal life ; and they shall never perish, 
 and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. John 
 X. 14, 15, 28. See vs. 29, 30. 
 
 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd : he shall 
 gather the lambs in his arms, and carry them in his 
 bosom, and shall gently lead those that have their 
 young. Isa. xl. 11. See Micali v. 4. 
 
 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he 
 lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine, . . . 
 and go after that which is lost, until he find it ? And 
 when he hatli found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, 
 rejoicing. Luke xv. 4, 5. See vs. 6, 7. 
 
 Blest Shepherd of Thy blood-bought sheep, 
 Who doth Thy flock in safety keep, 
 And kindly feed : I too would ever be 
 From want and worry free, tended by Thee. 
 
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 God . . . hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit. 
 1 Thess. iv. 8. 
 
 If ye being evil, know how to give good gifts unto 
 your children : h<>w much more shall your heavenly 
 Father gi /p tiie Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? 
 Luke xi. 13. 
 
 (God) hath sealed us, and given the earnest of the 
 Spirit in our hearts. 2 Cor. i. 22. 
 
 After ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy 
 Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance. 
 Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed 
 unto the day of redemption. Eph. i. 13, 14 ; iv„ 30. 
 
 We through the Spirit wait for the hope of right- 
 eousness by faith. Gal. v. 5. 
 
 jSTow the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace 
 in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the 
 power of the Holy Ghost. Rom. xv. 13. 
 
 Take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Ps. li. 11. 
 
 My Spirit abideth among you. I will pray the 
 Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that 
 he may abide with you for ever ; even the Spirit of truth; 
 . . . for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 
 Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy 
 Ghost which is in you? Hag. ii. 5 : John xiv. 16, 17 : 
 1 Tor. vi. 19. 
 
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 Come Holy Spirit, dwell within my breast, 
 Calming its fears, and soothing me to rest. 
 Strengthen the hope by Thee in mercy given, 
 And be my earnest of, and guide to heaven. 
 So shall my heart be filled with love and praise, 
 And grateful songs my willing lips shall raise. 
 
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 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, 
 
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 hath forgotten. . . . He will never see it. Ps. x. 4-11. 
 
 As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Prov. xxiii. 7. 
 
 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed 
 speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully 
 set in them to do evil. Eccl. viii. 11. 
 
 The heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and mad- 
 ness is in their heart while they live. Eccl. ix. 3. 
 
 Out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, mur- 
 ders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, cove- 
 tousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, . . . blas- 
 phemy, pride, foolishness ; all these evil things come 
 from within. Matt. xv. 19 : Mark vii. 21-23. 
 
 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desper- 
 ately wicked ; who can know it ? For the imagination 
 of man's heart is evil from his youth. Jer. xvii. 9 : 
 Gen. viii. 21. 
 
 Who can say, T have made my heart clean ? Create 
 in me a clean heart, O God ; and renew a right spirit 
 within me. Prov. xx. 9 : Ps. li. 10. 
 
 A new heart will I give jou, and a new spirit will I 
 put within you. . . . And I will cause you to walk in 
 my statutes. Ezek. xxxvi. 26, 27. 
 
 Take Thou these stony, sinful hearts, O Lord ; 
 Transform, and cleanse them by Thy power and word ; 
 So shalt Thou be in them henceforth adored. 
 
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 Sing pniises to God, sing praises ; sing praises unto 
 our king, sing praises. God is the king of all the earth. 
 For the Lord is a great God and a great king above all 
 gods. Ps. xlvii. 6, 7 ; xev. iii. 
 
 The Lord most high is terrible : he is a great king 
 over all the earth. I am a great king, saitli the Lord 
 of hv>sts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen. 
 Ps. xlvii. 2 : Mai. i. 14. 
 
 The Lord is king for ever and ever. The Lord sit- 
 teth king for ever. The Lord is . . . an everlasting 
 king. Ps. X. 16; xxix. 10 : Jer. x. 10. 
 
 I am the Lord, your \\o\y One, the Creator of Israel, 
 your king. The Lord his God is with him, and the 
 shout of a king is among them. Isa. xliii. 15 : Num. 
 xxiii. 21. 
 
 The Lord is our defence, and the Holy One of Israel 
 is our king. Let the king hear us when we call. The 
 Lord is our king; he will save us. Ps. Ixxxix. 18; 
 XX. 9 : Isa. xxxiii. 22. 
 
 Sing, O daughter of Zion : shout, O Israel : . . . 
 the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst of 
 thee. . . . The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is 
 mighty; he will save. Zeph. iii. 14, If, 17. 
 
 Thou art my king, O God. I will extol thee, my God, 
 O king ; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. 
 Ps. xliv. 4 ; cxlv. 1. 
 
 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him ; let the 
 children of Zion be joyful in their king. Ps. cxlix. 2. 
 
 What untold worlds Thy word commands, 
 Dread {Sovereign of unnumbered lands ! 
 Yet boundless as is Thy control, 
 Thou reignest Monarch in my soul. 
 
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 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the 
 communion of the blood of Christ? The V)read which 
 we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 
 For we being many are one loaf, one l)<.dy : for we are 
 all partakers of that one loaf. 1 Cor. x. 10, 17. 
 
 Now when the even was come, h<( sat down with the 
 twelve. And as they were eating, J» sus took bread, 
 and blessed, and brake it ; and he gave to the disciples, 
 and said, Take, eat : this is my body which is given for 
 you. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave 
 to them, saying. Drink j'e all of it : for this is my blocKJ 
 of the (new) covenant, which is shed for many for the 
 remission of sins But T say unto you, I will not drink 
 henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when 
 I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. Matt, 
 xxvi. L>0, •2()-29. 
 
 I have received of the Lord that which also 1 deliv- 
 ered unto vou. That the Lord Jesus Christ the same 
 night on which he was betrayed took bread ; and when 
 he had given thanks he brake it, and said. Take, eat : 
 this is my body which is broken for you ; this do in 
 remembrance of me. After the same manner also he 
 took the cup, when he had supped, saying. This cup is 
 the new testament in my blood : this do ye, as oft as ye 
 drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye 
 eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's 
 death till he come. 1 Cor. xi. 2,'i-2G. 
 
 Precious feast by .Tesiis given, 
 
 To remind us of His love ; 
 Ami to j)oint our thouglits to heaven, 
 
 To the festal hoard ahove ; 
 Feeding on such ])reciouH fare, 
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 to the /(iir of (I'otl, mJt her indeed can he. Horn. viii. 7. 
 
 Who can say, 1 have made my heart clean ; I am 
 pure from my sin ? JJeljold, I was shapen in iniquity, 
 and in sin did my mother conceive me. Prov. xx. : 
 Ps. li 5. 
 
 Though thou wash thee with nitre, and take much 
 8oap, yet thine ini(|uity is marked }>et'ore me, saith the 
 Lord. Jer. ii. 22. 
 
 How many are mine; iniquities and my sins 1 In- 
 numerable evils have compassed mo about; mine iniqui- 
 ties have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to 
 look up : they are more than the hairs of mine head : 
 theretore mine heart faileth me. Job xiii. 23 : Ps. xl. 12. 
 
 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints ; yea, the 
 heavens are not clean in his sight How much less the 
 abominable and polluted man, that drinketh iniquity 
 like water? Job xv. 15, IG. 
 
 Who can understand his errors 1 Make me to know 
 my transgression and my sin. I know nothing against 
 myself; yet am I not hereby justified. For in many 
 things we all offend. If we say that we have no sin we 
 deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we say 
 that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his 
 word is not in us. Ps. xix. 1 2 : Job xiii. 23 : 1 Cor. 
 iv. 4 : James iii, 2 : 1 John i. 8, 10. 
 
 God savy that the wickedness of man was great in 
 the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of 
 men's heart is evil from his youth. The heart of the 
 sons of men is full of evil. The heart is deceitful above 
 all things, and desperately wicked, who •^.n know it 1 
 Gen. vi. 5 : Eccl. ix. 3 : Jer. xvii. 9. 
 
 How dreadful is the picture God's hand paints 
 Of sinful man, and even of His saints. 
 Man's nature is so sin-grained through and through, 
 That it must be created all anew. 
 
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 The rich shall not give ni<)n>, and tlie poor sliall not 
 give less than half a shekel, when they give an t)il('ring 
 unto the Lord to make an atonement for your souls. 
 Ex. XXX. 15. 
 
 God acecpteth not the persons of princes, iioi- regardr 
 eth the rich more than the i)oor, for they all are the work 
 of his hands. Job xxxi^'. ID. 
 
 Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, 
 than he that is perverse in his ways, though h(> he rich. 
 Prov. xxviii. G. 
 
 Riches profit not in the day of wrath : but righteous- 
 ness delivereth from death. Prov. xi. 4. 
 
 A little that a rigliteous man hath is better than tlu; 
 riches of many wicked. Ps. xxxvii. IG. 
 
 Better is a little with righteousness than great reven- 
 ues without right. Prov. xvi. S. 
 
 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he 
 eat little or nmch : but the abundance of the rich will 
 not suffer him to sleep. Eccl. v. 12. 
 
 Take heed and beware of covetousness : for a man's 
 life consisteth not in the abundance of the thinirs which 
 he possesseth. As it is written, He that liad gatheied 
 much had nothing over ; and he that had gathered little 
 had no lack. Luke xii. 15 : 2 Cor. viii. 15. 
 
 The rich and poor of every land and age, 
 The high and low, the simpleton and sage, 
 Helpless and naked all alike were boin, 
 And all to death and dust alike return. 
 Their good or ill ends not with each alone, 
 But meets them all before (Jod's judgment throne. 
 Then poor will he the rich in naught but gobl, 
 And poverty acquire wealth untold. 
 
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 Many arc the aflliotions of the rif^'liteous, but tlic 
 Lord (i('livt'i'(^th tlicm out of tliciii all. lie licarcth iho 
 j)iayer of tlu* ri^litt'ctus. Ps. xx.\iv. 1!): Prov. xv. 2!). 
 
 TIk^ eyes of the Lord are over the I'i^diteous, and his 
 ears aie ojx^n unto their prayers. The li^diteous cry, and 
 the Lord heareth, and (h'livereth them out of all their 
 troubles. The desire of the righteous shall be j^ranted. 
 1 Peter iii. 12 : Ps. xxxiv. 17 : Prov. x. 24. 
 
 Th(! ri«i;hteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath 
 cUian hands shall wax stronger and stronger. Job xvii. 
 
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 The I'ighteous shall tlourish like the oahn tre(^ : ho 
 shall gi'ow like a cedar in Lebanon. Ps. •. 12. 
 
 Verily there is a reward for the righteous. Foi" 
 thou. Lord, wilt bless the righteous ; with favor wilt 
 thou compass him as with a shield. Ps. Iviii. 11 ; v. 12. 
 
 Pehold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the 
 earth. To the righteous good shall be rejtaid. Say ye 
 to the righteous. It shall be well with them, for they 
 shall eat the fruit of their doings. Prov. xi. 31 ; xiii. 
 21 : Isa. iii. 10. 
 
 The righteous doth sing and rejoice. Prov. xxix. G. 
 llejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous. The hope of 
 the righteous is gl.idness. Ps. xxxiii. 1 : Prov. x. 28. 
 
 Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my 
 last end be like his. Num. xxiii. 10. 
 
 The righteous hath hope in his death. Prov. xiv. 32. 
 
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 Of those who have God's rigliteousness ; 
 
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 lot'tlh I'ioltnce. hit houI hatrf/i. Ps, xi. f). .SV* /'ror. xi. 31. 
 
 Evil |)ur.su(5th HiiineiH ; hut to the rightiHius good 
 shall 1)0 repaid. Prov. xiii. L'l. Sue Ps. i. 
 
 (God) will render . . . trihulatioii and anguish upon 
 every soul of man that <loeth evil ; . . . hut gloiy, honor, 
 and peace, to every man that worketh go(>d. Horn. ii. 
 G, S), 10. See Prov. xiv. 3l> : Mai. iii. IS. 
 
 It shall he well with them that fear (iod : . . . hut 
 it shall not he well with the wicked. Keel. viii. PJ, l.'J. 
 
 Say ye to the rigtiteous that it shall he well with 
 him : for they shall <'at the fruit of their doings. Wot; 
 unto the wicked ! it shall Ik; ill with him : for the reward 
 of his hands shall hr gi^■en him. Isa. iii. 10, 11. 
 
 The Lord knoweth liow to deliver the godly out of 
 temptation, and reserve the unjust unto the day of judg- 
 ment to he punished. '2 Pet(;r ii. D. 
 
 When the Sou of man shall come in his glory, and 
 all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the 
 throne of his glory : and hefore him shall he gathered 
 all nations : and he shall separate them one from another, 
 as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats : and he 
 shall set the sheep on his right hand, hut the goats on 
 the left. 'J hen shall the king say to them on his right 
 hand. Come ye hlessed of my Father, inherit the king- 
 dom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 
 . . . Then shall he sav also to them on his left hand. 
 Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting tire, prepared 
 for the devd and his angels. . . . And these shall go 
 away into everlasting punishment, hut the righteous into 
 life eternal. Matt. xxv. 31-4G. See xiii. 40-43. 
 
 What untold blesaings shall reward the just, 
 Both here on earth, and evermore in heaven ? 
 
 But oh, the wicked Hiled with anguish must 
 Be into everlasting darkness driven. 
 
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 A rii'er went out of Eden to water the garden. Gen. ii. 10. 
 
 Thou visitest tlie earth and waterest it ; thou greatly 
 enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water. 
 Ps. Ixv. 9. See xxxvi. 8. 
 
 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is 
 none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will 
 hear them. ... I will open rivers on the bare heights ; 
 find rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my 
 chosen. Isa. xli. 17, 18; xliii. 20. 
 
 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad 
 the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the 
 Most High. Ps. xlvi. 4. 
 
 He that believeth on me, . . . out of his belly shall 
 flow rivers of living water. John vii. 38. 
 
 Behold, waters issued out from under the threshold 
 of the house, ... at the south side of the altar ; . . . 
 
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 swim in ; a river that could not be passed over. . . . And 
 , . . everything that liveth, . . . whithersoever the 
 rivers shall come, shall live. . . . And by the river, upon 
 the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow 
 all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall 
 the fruit thereof fail ; it shall bring forth fruit every 
 month. . . . And the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and 
 the leaf thereof for medicine, Ezek. xlvii. 1-5, 9, 12. 
 
 He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as 
 crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God aiid of tiie 
 Lamb And on either side of the river was there the 
 tree of life, which bare twelve manner of truiu.", and 
 yielded her fruit every month : o iJ the leaves of the tree 
 were for the healing of the na<^lons. Rev. xxii. 1, 2. 
 
 (jod'n river broailens as it flows, 
 And calmer, clearer, deeper grows ; 
 Till myriads gather on its strand, 
 With trees of life on either hand. 
 
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 He opened tfu' rot'k and the. watcrx (jushid out : they ran in the 
 dry places like a rirer. They drank of that sf)iritnal roek irhirh 
 followed them; and that roek ii'n/< Christ. Ps. cv. 41 : 1 Cor. x. 4. 
 
 A man shall he as an hiding-placo from the wind, 
 and a covert from the tempest : as rivers of water in a 
 dry place, as the shadow or a great rock in a weary land. 
 Isa. xxxii 2. 
 
 Behold, there is a place hy me, and thou shalt stand 
 upon a rock : and it shall come to pass, while my glory 
 passeth by, I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and 
 will cover thee with my hand while T pass by. Ex. 
 xxxiii. 21, 22. 
 
 Tiieir rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies them- 
 selves being judges. Neither is there any rock like our 
 rock. For who is God, save the Lord 1 and wlio is a 
 rock save, our God I The Lord liveth, and blessed be 
 my rock ; and exalted be the G<jd of the rock of my 
 salvation. Deut. xxxii. 31 : 1 Sam. ii. 2 : 2 Sam. xxii. 
 32, 47. 
 
 Give ear, ye heavtns, id T will speak ; and let the 
 earth hear the words of my mouth. . . . Ascribe ye 
 greatness unto our God. The Rock, his work is perfect : 
 for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth and with- 
 out iniquity, just and right is he. Deut. xxxii. 4. 
 
 The Lord is my rock and my fortresss ; my . . . 
 God, my rock, in whom I will trust. Ps. xviii. 2. 
 
 Behold, I lay in Zion a stwie of stumbling, and a 
 rock of offence : and whosoever believeth on him shall 
 not be ashamed. Horn. ix. 33. 
 
 .safe to tho rock thai is higher thn;i I, 
 My soul in its sorrow and eoiiHicts would tly : 
 So sinful, so weHry, Thine, Thine would 1 he : 
 Thou blest *' Kock of Ages,'' I'm hiding in Thee ! 
 Hiding in Tliee ! 
 
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 Zbc Saviour. 
 
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 God acroi'Uiw/ to his promise, raised unto Israel a Saviour, 
 even JtHiis. Acts xiii. 23. 
 
 thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of 
 ti'ouble, why shouldest thou he a.s a sojourner in the land, 
 and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for 
 a night ? Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as 
 a mighty man that cannot save ? Jer. xiv. 8, 9. 
 
 Who is this tliat eomcth from Edom, with dyed gar- 
 ments from Hozrah ? this that is glorious in his apparel, 
 tiavelling in the greatness of his strength 1 1 that speak 
 in righteousness, mighty to save. Isa. Ixiii. 1. See 
 Zeph. iii. 17. 
 
 We have seen and do testify that the Father sent 
 the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 1 John iv, 14. 
 
 The angel said unto the shepherds. Fear not, for 
 behold I bring you good tidings of gieat joy, wliich 
 shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in 
 the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 
 Him hath God exalted with his own right hand, to be a 
 Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance unto Israel and 
 the remission of sins. Luke ii. 10, 11 : Act§ v. 31. 
 
 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all accepta- 
 tion, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sin- 
 ners, of whom I am chief. Neither is there salvation in 
 any other ; for there is none other name under heaven 
 given among men whereby we must be saved. 1 Tun. i. 
 15 : Acts iv. 12. 
 
 1 am the door : by me if any man enter in, he shall 
 be saved. For the Son of man is come to seek and to 
 save that which was lost. John x. 9 : Luke xix. 10. 
 
 The Saviour ! O what endless charms 
 
 Dwell in that blissful sound ; 
 Its influence every fear disarms 
 
 And spreads delight around. 
 
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 Death and life art in the power of the tonyite. Pror. xviii. 21. 
 
 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked ; 
 from the insurrection of tlie workers of ini(]uity : who 
 whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to 
 shoot their arrows, even bitter words : that they may 
 shoot in secret at the perfect : suddenly do they shoot 
 at him, and fear not. Ps. Ixiv. 2-4. 
 
 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue : 
 neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction wlien it 
 cometh. Job v. 21. 
 
 My soul is among lions : and I lie even among them 
 . . . whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue 
 a shai'p sword. Continually are they gathered together 
 for war. They have sharpened their tongue like a ser- 
 pent ; adders' poison is under their lips. Ps. Ivii. 4 ; 
 cxl. 3. 
 
 Why boasteth thou thyself in mischief ; O mighty 
 man ? . . . Thy tongue deviseth mischief ; like a sharp 
 razor, working deceitfully. . . . Thou lovest all devour- 
 ing words, O thou deceitful tongue. God shall likewise 
 destroy thee for ever. Ps. lii. 1-5. 
 
 Then said they. Come, let us devise devices against 
 Jeremiah. . . . Come, and let us smite him with the 
 tongue. Jer. xviii. 18. 
 
 If any man among you seem to be religious, and 
 bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this 
 man's religion is vain. Behold, how great a matter a 
 little fire kindleth ! And the tongue is a fire, a woild 
 of iniquity ; ... it defileth the whole body, and setteth 
 on fire the course of nature ; and it is set on fire of hell. 
 . . . The tongue can no man tame ; it is an unruly evil, 
 full of deadly poison. James i. 20 ; iii. 5-8. 
 
 Take my tongue, aiul let it be 
 From all evil wholly free ; 
 Speaking only words that How 
 From a heart as pure as snow. 
 
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 Zbc Mor& of Xife. 
 
 Ilolfliii;/ forth the Word of Life. Phil. ii. 16. 
 
 Man dotli not live by bread alone, but by every 
 word that prooeedeth out ot the mouth of God doth 
 man live. Deut. viii. 3. 
 
 Incline your ear, and come unto me : hear and your 
 soul shall live. He that heareth my word, and believeth 
 on him that sent me, hath e\erlasting life, and shall not 
 come into judj^ment, but is passed out of death into 
 life. Isa. Iv. 3 : John v. 24:. 
 
 Thy word hath quickened me. Ps. cxix. 50. 
 
 The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, 
 and they are life. John vi. 63. See James i. 21 : 
 2 Tim. iii. 15. 
 
 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth. 
 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incor- 
 ruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth 
 for ever. James i. 18 : 1 Peter i. 23. 
 
 Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have 
 eternal life, and they are they which testify of me. 
 These are written that ye might believe that Jesus is 
 the Christ, the Son of God ; and that believing, ye 
 might have life through his name. John v. 39 ; xx. 31. 
 
 I have esteemed the v/ords of his mouth more than 
 my necessary food. Job xxiii. 12. 
 
 And now, I commend you to God, and to the word 
 of grace, which is able to build you up, and to give 
 you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified. 
 Wherefore putting away all wickedness, . . . as new- 
 born babes, long for the sincere milk of the word, that 
 ye may grow thereby. Acts xx. 32 : 1 Peter ii. 1, 2. 
 
 God's word is fraught with life and quickening power ; 
 And, like the seed lieneath the genial shower, 
 Yields to the influence of the sun and soil, 
 And with rich fruit repays the sower's toil. 
 
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 ZEbe Wov^ of power. 
 
 The kiwi'H word halh pon-er. Upholdimj all Ihiuij'* hi/ tkr 
 word of his poirer. Eccl. viii. 4 : Heh. i. 3. 
 
 Through faith we understand that the worlds were 
 framed by the word of God. For he commanded, and 
 they were created. Heb. xi. 3 : Ps. ex I viii. 5. 
 
 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made : 
 and all the hosts of them by the breath of his moutli. 
 For he spake, and it was done : he commanded and it 
 stood fast. Ps. xxxiii. 6, 9. See Gen. i. 3-24. 
 
 Lo, he uttereth his voice, and that a mighty voice. 
 For he is strong that executeth his word. Ps. Ixviii. 
 33: Joelii. 11. 
 
 My word . . . shall not return unto me void, but it 
 shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper 
 in the thing whereto I sent it. Isa. Iv. 11. 
 
 For the word of God is quick and powerful, and 
 sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the 
 dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and 
 marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents 
 of the heart. Heb. iv. 12. 
 
 Is not my word like, >3 to fire 1 saith the Lord : and 
 like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? Jer. 
 xxiii. 29. 
 
 Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee. 
 And they were astonished at his teaching ; for his word 
 was with power. Luke iv. 14, 32. 
 
 The hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall 
 hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear 
 shall live. John v. 25. 
 
 What power inheres in Thine almighty v/onl, 
 Thou sovereign franier of all worlds, an't Lord ; 
 Speak to the nations, and each wayward soul, 
 And bid them yield to Thy divine control. 
 
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 tiiheHofull. (kii. xiv. 18-20. 
 
 , . . inu the jtrlfst of the mnst 
 Ahfam. . . . And he ijare him 
 
 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with 
 ine, and will keep nie in this way that I go, and will give 
 ma bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come 
 again to my father's house in ^cace ; then shall the Lord 
 be my God : and this stone which I have set up for a 
 pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt 
 give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. Gen. 
 xxviii. 20-22. 
 
 All the tithe or the land, whether of the seed of the 
 land, or of the fru'.t of the tree, is the Lord's : it is holy 
 unto the Lord. And concerning the tithe of the herd, 
 or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, 
 the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord. Thou shalt truly 
 tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth 
 forth year by year. Lev. xxvii. 30, 32 : Deut. xiv. 22. 
 
 As soon as the oommandment came abroad, the chil- 
 dren of Israel brought in abundance the first-fruits of 
 corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of 
 the field ; and the tithe of all things brought they in 
 abundantly. 2 Chron. xxxi. 5. 
 
 Bring ye all the tithes unto the storehouse, that 
 there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now 
 herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you 
 the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, 
 that there shall not be room enough to receive it. Mai. 
 iii. 10. 
 
 Oh, render with a willing heart 
 To God His own and rightful due ; 
 
 The tenth has ever been His part, 
 Of all that breathed the air, or grew. 
 
 And when to Him His own was given, 
 
 The land enjoyed the smile of heaven. 
 
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 xiv. 22. 
 
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 7Vif /inlnt/ pof Is for nifrer, niitl ffie/nriiace for (jofd, hiif the 
 Lord Irivth fho, h i<irf'<. Pror. xvii. 3. 
 
 After these things God did try Abraham. Jiy faitli 
 Abraham when he was tried ; offered up Isuic, and he 
 that had received the promises ofl'ered up . . . liis only 
 begotten son. Gun. xxii, 1 : Heb. xi. 17. 
 
 The Lord trieth the righteous. Ps. xi. 5. 
 
 Examine me, O Lord, and prove me ; try my reins 
 and my heart. Ps. xxvi. 2. 
 
 The righteous (rod trieth the hearts and reins. Ps. 
 vii. 9. 
 
 I know my (iod, that thou triest the hearts. Thou 
 hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee. 1 
 Chron. xxix. 17 : Jer, xii. .'J. 
 
 I the Lord search the heart, T try the reins, even to 
 give every man according to his ways, and according to 
 the fruit of their doings Jer. xvii. 10. • 
 
 Thou, O Cod, . . . (last tried us as silver is tried. 
 Ps. Ixvi. 10. 
 
 I have refined thee, ()ut net with silver : . . . I have 
 chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Tsa. xlviii. 10. 
 
 When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. 
 Job xxiii. 10. 
 
 He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver ; and 
 he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purye them as gold 
 and silver tliat they, may offer unto the Lord an offering 
 in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and 
 Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of 
 old, and as in ancient years. M iii. 3, 4. 
 
 When through fiery trials thy patliway shall lie, 
 My grace all-su(Kcient shall be thy supply ; 
 The flame shall not hurt thee, I only design 
 Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine. 
 
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 nnr of lioiids (iiid iiiijirlsoiuiiciit : . , . (of ir/iom tht ii'orld ii'an 
 not irdr/lti/). Ihh. xi. 36, 3S. 
 
 The Lord appeared unto (Moses) in a ttame of fire 
 out of the midst of a bush ; and . . . behold, the bush 
 buined witli fire, and the l»usli was not consumed. Ex. 
 iii. 2. 
 
 Wlien thou walkest tlirough the fire, thou shalt not 
 be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee : 
 
 for I am with thee. 
 
 Tsa. xliii. 2, 5. 
 
 We went throu<,'h fire and through water ; but thou 
 broughtest us out into a wealthy place. Ps. Ixvi. 12. 
 See Daniel iii. 19-25. 
 
 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into 
 various trials, knowing this, that the trying of your faith 
 worketh patience. Th.-'t the trial of your faith being 
 much mor^ >recious than of gold that perisheth, iliougli 
 it be pn by fire, might be found unto praise and 
 
 honor ana g»ory at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Jas. 
 
 1. 2 
 
 1 Peter i. 7. 
 
 The Lord's fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusa- 
 lem. For every one shall be salted with fire, and every 
 sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Isa. xxxi. 9 : Mark 
 ix. 49. 
 
 Everything that may abide the fire, ye shall make it 
 go through the fire, and it shall l)e clean. Every man's 
 work shall be made manifest : for the day shall declare 
 it, because it shall be tried by fire ; and the fire shall 
 prove each man's work, of what sort it is. Num. 
 xxxi. 23 : 1 Cor. iii. 13. 
 
 Trials make the promise sweet ; 
 
 Trials give new life to prayer ; 
 Trials bring me to His feet, 
 
 Lay me low and keep me there. 
 
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 lalt not 
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 3ur faith 
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 though 
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 ffezek'itih . . . trii-sfttl in tfir Lord d'od, .so f/iaf aftir /ihti irtts 
 voiH' like him amomj all the, kiii'js o/Judnhy nor niiij ht/'ore him. 
 2 Kiitf/s xviii. 4. 
 
 It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confi- 
 dence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to 
 put confidence in princes. Ps. cxviii. S, 9. 
 
 Put not your trust in princes ; nor in the son of 
 man, in whom there is no help. Trust not in any 
 brother. Thus saith the Lord, Cursed is the man that 
 trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose 
 heart departeth from the Lord. For he siiall be like 
 the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good 
 cometh. Ps. cxlvi. 3 : Jer. ix. 4 ; xvii. o, G. 
 
 Oh how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid 
 up for them that fear thee : which thou hast wrought 
 for them that trust in thee before the sons of meu. 
 Ps, xxxi. 19. 
 
 O taste and see that the Lord is good : blessed is 
 the man that trusteth in him. Ps. xxxiv. 8. 
 
 Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust. 
 
 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in 
 
 thee. Ps. xl. 4; Ixxxiv. 12. 
 
 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and 
 
 whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be like a tree 
 
 planted by the wat*^ s, that spreadeth out her roots by 
 
 the river, and shall .lot see when heat cometh ; . . . 
 
 neither shall cejise from yielding fruit. Jer. xvii. 7, 8. 
 
 Lord, liow blessed it would he, 
 Did we only trust in Thee ; 
 Trust Thy wisdom, love and power, 
 Fully, firmly, every hour. 
 
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 Many Horvoir.s nhnll Ik tn /fir u'lcbil: hut irhnso fnittrth in the. 
 Lord, nu.rcjf shnii comixixx him about. P.i. xxxii. 10. 
 
 How down tljine ear, () Lord, hear me: for I am 
 poor and needy. . . . O thou my GfKl, .save thy servant 
 that trust(;th in thee. Ps. Ixxxvi. 1, 2. 
 
 I will also leave in th(! midst of thee an afflicted and 
 f)(»or [M'ople, and they sliall trust in the name; of the 
 Lord. Zeph iii. 12. 
 
 Mine eyes are unto thee, O (lod the Lord ; in tliee 
 is my trust ; leave not my soul destitute. Ps cxli. 8. 
 
 Trust in the Lord and do /^ood ; .so shalt thou dwell 
 in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Ps. xxxvii. 3. 
 
 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is 
 stayed on thee : because he trusteth in thee. He shall 
 not be afraid of evil tidings : his heart is fixed trustinf/ 
 in the Lord. Isa. xxvi. ',] ; Ps. cxii. 7. 
 
 Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that 
 obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in dark- 
 ness, and hath no light 1 let him trust in the name of 
 the Lord, and stay upon his God. Isa. 1. 10. 
 
 Though he slay me, yet will I trust him. Job xiii. 1.5. 
 Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. 
 Prov. xxix. 25. 
 
 Our fathers trusted in thee ; they trusted, and thou 
 didst deliver them. . . . They trusted in thee, and were 
 not confounded. Ps. xxii. 4, .5, 
 
 They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, 
 which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. Ps. 
 cxxv. 2. 
 
 When the days are dark and chill, 
 And God's ways seem full of ill, 
 
 Trust Him still. 
 Trust Him fully, firmly, ever, 
 And He'll surely fail tliee never ; 
 
 Trust Him ever. 
 
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 Whuno IruHfeth in //u Lord, fiiijtjiy is In. I'ror. xvi. 20. 
 
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 servant 
 
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 They that know thy name will put their trust in 
 thee : for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that secsk 
 thee. Ps. ix. 10. 
 
 That thy trust may be in tlie Lord, I have ma(h3 
 known to thee, this day, even to thee. Prov. xxii. 11). 
 
 , in thee 
 ixli. 8. 
 ()U dwell 
 xxvii. 3. 
 
 I mind is 
 He shall 
 trustinj.^ 
 
 M'd, that 
 in d.ark- 
 name of 
 
 b xiii. 15. 
 be safe. 
 
 () my God, I trust in thee; let me never be ashamed, 
 let not mine enemies triumph, in thee, O Lord, do I 
 put my trust, let me never be put to confusion. Ps. 
 XXV. 2 ; Ixxi. 1. 
 
 Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord : he is their 
 help and their shield. As for (iod, hiv way is perfect ; 
 the wcjrd of the Lord is tried : he is a bucklei- to all 
 them that trust in him. Ps. cxv. 11:2 Sam. xxii. .'il. 
 
 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee, in God 
 I have put my trust ; I will not fear what Hesh can do 
 unto me. Ps. Ivi. 3, 4. 
 
 The Lord redeemeth the .soul of his servants ; and 
 none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. 
 Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Ps. 
 xxxiv. 22 ; ii. 12. 
 
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 and thou 
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 unt Zion, 
 sver. Ps. 
 
 Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust and not 
 be afraid : for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my 
 he also is become my salvation. Isa. xii. 2. 
 Trust ye in the Lord for ever ; for in the Lord Jeho- 
 
 isa. XX vi. 1. 
 
 song ; 
 
 vah is everlasting strength. 
 
 H. y. 
 
 Leave God to order all thy ways, 
 And trust in Hitn, whate'er betide; 
 
 Thou'lt find Him in the evil days 
 
 Thy all-sutficient strength and guide; 
 
 Who trusts in (iod's unchanging love, 
 Builds on the rock that none can move. 
 
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 Wliatsoover is T»t of faith is sin. Rom. xiv. 23. 
 
 When 1»<! (tlio Comforter) is come, he will reprove 
 the world of sin, . . . hecaust; th<;y helieved not on me. 
 Jolin xvi. 8, U. 
 
 To whom sware he that they shouUl not enter into 
 his rest, hut to tliem that l)eli(;v(»(l not? So we see that 
 they could not enter in because of unbelief. Heb. iii. 
 18, 1!). 
 
 They are a very froward generation, children in wiioni 
 is no faith. Tlu'y despised the pleasant land, they be- 
 lieved not his word. Deut. xxxii. 20: Ps. cvi. 24, 25. 
 
 Without faith it is impossible to please God : for he 
 that couKjth to God must believe that he is, and that he 
 is a rewarder of then' "^hat seek after him. ]Ieb. xi. 6. 
 
 JTow then shall they call on him in whcun they have 
 not believed ? He that belie veth not God hath made 
 him a liar ; because he hath not believed in the witness 
 that God hath borne concerning his Son. Rom. x. 14 : 
 1 John V. 10. 
 
 He that believeth not is condemned already, because 
 he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten 
 Son of God. John iii. 18. 
 
 He that believeth not the Son shall not see life ; but 
 the wrath of God abideth on him. But the fearful, 
 and unbelieving, . . . shall have their part in the lake 
 wliich burnetii with fire and brimstone, which is the 
 second death. John iii. 36 : Rev. xxi. 8. 
 
 • 
 
 sill of sins, to think that God can Ho ! 
 That He whose wonl suHtain.s the earth and sky, 
 Can ever let one word that He has spoken, 
 Or proniiHe sure that He lia.s made, be broken. 
 
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 Elisha's servant. — Ahis, my master, wliat shall wo 
 do .' '1 Kiii<^s vi. 15. 
 
 Elisha. -Fear not ; for they that be with us, are 
 more than they that be with them. 2 Rings vi. 10. 
 
 The children of Israel. — Because there were no 
 graves in Hgypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the 
 wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to 
 carry us f«>rth out of Egypt? E.\. xiv. 11. 
 
 Moses. — Fear ye not, stan l .^till, and .see the salva- 
 ti(m of the Lord, which he will show to you to-day : for 
 the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see 
 them again no more for ever. TIk; Lord shall fight for 
 you, and ye shall hold your peace. Ex, xiv. l.'J. 
 
 The spies. — We be not able to go up against the 
 people ; for they are stronger than we. There \\v. saw 
 the giants, the .sons of Anak, who come of the giants; 
 and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so 
 we were in their siglu, Num. xiii. .'U, 3.'J. 
 
 Caleb. — Let us go up at once, and possess it ', for wo 
 are well able to overcome it. Num. xiii. 30. 
 
 Saul. — Thou art not able to go against this Philis- 
 tine to fight w ith him : for thou art but a youth, an<l 
 he a man of war from his youth. I Ham. xvii. '.V,\. 
 
 David. — The L<ji'd that delivered me out of the paw 
 of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will 
 deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. I Sam. 
 xvii. 37. 
 
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 Though pri'ssetl liy every foe. 
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 Of any earthly woe. 
 
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 and a full rorrinl hi' (jinn thir of tjw Ijord (lod of Israel, miiler 
 ii'hose w.'iKjs thou art come, to trniit. Ruth ii. 11, 12. 
 
 Hide me under the shadow of thy wings. Ps. xvii. 8. 
 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his 
 wings slialt tliou trust. Ps. xci. 4. 
 
 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me : 
 for my soul trusteth in thee; yea, in the shadow of thy 
 v.'ings will 1 make my refuge, until these calamities be 
 overpast. Ps. Ivii. 1. 
 
 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, . . . how often would T 
 have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth 
 gather her brood under her wings, but ye would not. 
 Luke xiii. 34. 
 
 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God ! there- 
 fore the children of men put their trust under the 
 shadow of thy wings. I will trust in the covert of thy 
 wings. In the shor^ow of thy wings will I rejoice. Ps. 
 xxxvi. 7 ; Ixi. 4 ; Ixiii. 7. 
 
 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most 
 High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 
 The belo.ed of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; 
 and the Lord shall cover him all the day lonf-, and he 
 shall dwell between his shoulders. Ps. xci. 1 : Deut. 
 xxxiii. 12. 
 
 In (Jod I have found a retreat, 
 
 Where I can securely abide : 
 No refuge noi- rest so complete ; 
 
 And here I intend to reside. 
 
 what comfort it brings, as my soul sweetly sings ; 
 
 1 am safe from all danger while under His wings. 
 
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 Thene are they irhich arc. noint. amoiif/ thoriix ; nuch as hear tht 
 word, and the caren of this irorfd, and the denit/ulneux of rirhes, 
 anil the fust of other thhujn enterimj in, choke the irord, und it 
 becometh nnfrnitfiil. Mark iv. 18, 19. 
 
 Tsr<aol is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto 
 himself : according to the multitude of his fruit he halh 
 increased the altars ; according to the goodness of his 
 land they have made goodly images. Hosea x. 1. 
 
 What could have been done more to ray vineyard, 
 that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked 
 that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild 
 grapes] Therefore I say unto you. The kingdom of God 
 shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing 
 forth the fruits thereof. Isa. v. 4 : Matt. xxi. 43. 
 
 And (.Jesus) . . . was hungry : and seeing a fig tree 
 afar off, having leaves, he came, if haply he might find 
 anything thereon : and when he came to it, he found 
 nothing but leaves. Mark xi. 12, 13. 
 
 Jesus said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter 
 for ever. He also spake this parable : A certain man 
 had a fig tree planted in his vineyard ; and he came and 
 sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he to 
 the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these thrive years I 
 come seeking fruit on tliis fig tree, and find none : cut 
 it down : why cumbereth it the ground ? Every branch 
 in irip that l)eareth not fruit he takteh away : and 
 every branch that beareth fruit, he pruneth it, that it 
 brini/ forth more fruit. Every tree that bringeth 
 
 may 
 
 not forth g<»od fruit is hewn down, and cast into the 
 fire. Mark xi 14: Luke xiii. (5, 7: John xv. 2: Matt. 
 
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 " Nf/'hing Imt leaves?" No word or deed, 
 Th«- Hiifl t(( (heer, tlic limigry feed : 
 
 "The harvcj«t f>ast,'' no giitlicied slieaves ! 
 For hea\ ena garner nought but leaves ! 
 
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 Can two walk toijether except they he ai/reed'' Amos iii. 3. 
 
 It came to pass, wlien men began to multiply on the 
 face of the earth, and (laughters were born unto them, 
 that the sons of (Jod saw the daughters of men that 
 they were fair, and they took them wives of all that 
 they chose. And the earth was corrupt ])efore God, 
 and the eartii was filled with violence. (Jen. vi. 1, 2, il. 
 
 When the Lord . . . shall bring thee into the land, 
 whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many 
 nations before thee ; . . . thou shalt make no covenant 
 with them ; neither shalt thou make inarriages with 
 them ; . 
 after other gods. 
 
 for they will surely turn away your heart 
 
 Deut. vii. 1-4 : 1 Kings xi. 2, 
 
 The children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites ; 
 and they took their daughters to be their wives ; . . . 
 and served their gods. Judges iii. 5, 6. 
 
 Ye have trespassed, and married strange women, to 
 increase the guilt of Isrj^cl. Did not Solomon . . . sin 
 by these things? Among many nations was there no 
 king like him, beloved of his (ilod. . . . Yet even him 
 
 di<l strange women cause to sin. tor. 
 
 when 
 
 Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after 
 
 othe" gods. 
 
 Ezra X. 10 : Neh. xiii. 26 : 1 Kings xi. 4. 
 
 Ahab . . . took to wife Jezebel, the daughter of 
 Ethbaal, . . . and went and served Baal, and wor- 
 shipped him. There was none like unto Ahab, who did 
 .sell himself to do . . . evil in the sight of the Lord, 
 whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. I Kings xvi. 30, 31 ; 
 xxi, 25. See 2 Kings viii. IG, 18. Luke xiv. 20. 
 
 Be ye not unetjually yoked with unbelievers. 2 Cor. 
 vi. 14. 
 
 In every age and eveiy t^linio, 
 
 From Adani to the present time, 
 
 The wife has brought her hiisliand down, 
 
 Or l)een his strength, and joy, and crown. 
 
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 The word of the Lord came nnto Zerhartah, . . . vhen they 
 had Hfiit unto the house n/ (,'od Sfienzer and Rdjem-milech, and 
 their men, to pray hej'ore the Lord. Zech. vii. 1, "2. 
 
 The children of Moab, . . . and Anirnon, . . . came 
 a»i;ainst Jeho-shaphat to battle. And Jehoshaj)hat t'eaied, 
 and set himself to seek the Lord, and j)n)clainied a fast 
 throughout all Judah. And Judah gathered theinselv<>s 
 together, to ask help of the Lord. '1 Chroii. x.x. 1, 3, 4. 
 
 Then up(^)n Jaha/iel, . . . came the spirit of the Lord 
 in the midst of the congregation ; and he said, . . . 
 Thus saith the Lord, ... Be not afraid nor dismayed 
 by rea.son of this great multitude ; for the battle is not 
 yours, but (iods. . . . To-morrow ye go down against 
 them : for the Lord will b«> with you. '1 Chron. .\x. 14-17. 
 
 Sennacherib king of As.syria, . . . entered into Ju- 
 dah, . . to fi^ht against Jerusalem. And Hezekiah 
 the king, and Isaiah tin; piophet, . . . praved because 
 of this, and cried to heaven. '1 Chroii. xxxii. 1, '1, iH). 
 
 And the Loi-d sent an angel, and cut offal! the mighty 
 men of valor, and the leaders and captains in the camp 
 of the king of Assyria. 2 Chron. xxxii. 21. 
 
 Many people and strong nations shall come to seek 
 the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray befoie the 
 Lord. Zech. viii. 'I'l. 
 
 T '" inhabitants of one citv shall go to another, say- 
 ing, L« us go speedily t<> pray beforf the I.oid, and to 
 seek the Lord of hosts : I will go also. Yea, many peo- 
 ples and stromr nations shall come to se»'k the Loi'd of 
 hosts in Jerusalem, and to iiitreat the favor of the Lord. 
 Zech. viii. 21, Tl. 
 
 Bna|ht tliv presence when it l)reakelh, 
 
 Lcml, eta sotne ra|»t soul apait ; 
 But more blt-tHedJy it liwellctli. 
 
 When ia prayer luirt kindles heart : 
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 Fmu such aided lips liiat start. 
 
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 out ceaiiinj oj the rliiirrh unto tiod for him. Art'* \\\. 5. 
 
 Then Daniel, . . . made the thing known to . . . 
 his companion:-} : that they would desire mercies of the 
 (iod of heaven concerning this secret ; that ]3aniel and 
 his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise 
 men of Babylon. Daniel ii. 17, IS. 
 
 Then was the secret revc;aled unto Daniel in a night 
 vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Daniel 
 ii. 19. 
 
 These all continued with one accord in prayer and 
 supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of 
 Jesus, and with his brethren. Acts i. 14. 
 
 And suddenly there oame a sound from heaven as 
 of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house 
 where they weie sitting. And they were all filled with 
 the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, 
 as the Spirit gave them uttei'ance. Acts ii. 2, 4. 
 
 And being let go, they went to their own company, 
 aad reported all that the chief priests and elders had 
 sand unto them. And when they heard that, they lifted 
 up) their voice to (iod with one accord, and said, . . . 
 Now, Lord, behold their threatenings : and grant unto 
 thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy 
 word : . . . and that signs and wonders may be done 
 by tb*» naiiie of thy holy servant Jesus. Acts iv. 23, 
 24, 29, 30. 
 
 And when they had prayed, tlie place was shaken 
 where they were assembled together; and they were all 
 filled with the Holy (iiiost, and they spake the word of 
 Ood with boldness. Acts iv. 31. 
 
 What a mighty prayer love hringeth, 
 When true hem'tH together yearn ! 
 
 VN'liat a fragrant tire upspringeth, 
 When glad lips togetlier l)urn, 
 Sweet the incense lieavenward homo. 
 
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 A// th<' nsf of I,sra</ irarr, of oiw httirt, to mitkr Ihirid k-hi(/. 
 1 Chron. xii. 8S. 
 
 The multitude of them that believer! were of one 
 heart, and of one mind. Acts. iv. 32. 
 
 Now the God of patience and consolation j^rant you 
 to be like-minded one toward anoiher; . . . that ye 
 may with one mind and one mouth glorify God. Only 
 let your conversation be as it heconvjth the Gospel of 
 Christ, that whether T come and see you, or else be 
 absent, I may hear of your affaiis, that ye stand fast in 
 one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the faith 
 of the gospel. Rom. xv. 5, 6 : Pliil. i. 27. 
 
 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren 
 to dwell together in unity ! Tt is like the precious oint- 
 ment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even 
 Aaron's beard : that went down upon the skirts of his 
 garments ; as the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that 
 descended upon the mountains of Zion : for there the 
 Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. 
 Ps. cxxxiii. 1-3. 
 
 Now I beseecli you, brethren, by the name of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the sume thing, and 
 that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be 
 perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the 
 same judgment. If there be any consolation in Christ, 
 if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mer- 
 cies, fulfil ye my jo\', that ye may be like-minded, having 
 the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Finally, 
 brethren, be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, 
 live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be 
 with you. 1 Cor. i. 10 : Phil. ii. 1, 2 : 2 Cor. xiii. 11. 
 
 How swoet the fellowship of souls on earth, 
 Inspired with kindred hopes an<l kin<h'ed aims ; 
 
 Knitted by unity of heavenly hirth, 
 
 And fired alike with love's celestial flames : 
 
 Well do they thus commend the Saviour's love. 
 
 And prove their title clear to realms above. 
 
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 -1// ///fi pioph' (i»'(M(' as one. mau. So all the men of Israd 
 ii-fve ifttthercd (Ujitinut Iht ei/t/, knit foiftt/iar <«••* one man. Jnil</en 
 XX. 8, II. * 
 
 As we have many members in one body, and all 
 members have not the same ollice : so we, being many, 
 are one l)ody in Christ, and every one members one of 
 another, llom. xii. 4, f). 
 
 Now ye are the bofly of Christ, and members in 
 particular. 1 Cor. xii. 27. See P]ph. iv. 16. 
 
 As the body is one, and liath many members, and all 
 the members of that one body, being many, are one 
 body : so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all 
 baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, 
 whether we be bond or free ; and have been all made to 
 drink into one Spirit. 1 Cor. xii. 12, 13. 
 
 There is one body, and one Spiiit, even as ye are 
 called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, 
 one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above 
 all, and through all, and in you all. Holy Father keep 
 through thine own name those whom thou hast given 
 me, that they may be one even as we are one : . . . 
 that they all may be one ; as thou, Father, art in me, 
 and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the 
 world may believe that thou hast sent me. ... I in 
 them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in 
 one ; that the world may know that thou hast sent me, 
 and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Eph. iv. 
 4 6: John xvii. 11, 22, 23. 
 
 How blest the sacred tie that binds, 
 
 In sweet communion, kindred minds ! 
 How swift the heavenly course tiiey run, 
 
 Whose hearts, whose faith, whose hopes, are one ! 
 Nor shall the glowing flame expire, 
 
 When dimly burns frail nature's fire ; 
 Then shall they meet in realms above, 
 
 A heaven of joy, a heaven of love. 
 
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 Thi' Lord tipho/»fefh the r'njhtious, Ps. xxxvii. 17. 
 
 Uphold me accordinja; unto thy word, that T may 
 live ; and let nie not be ashamed of my hope. Ps. cxix. 
 110. 
 
 The steps of a ji^ood man are ordered by the Lord ; 
 and he delighteth in his way. Thouj^h he fall, he shall 
 not be utterly cast down : for the Lord upholdeth him 
 with his hand. Ps. xxxvii. 23, 24. 
 
 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation : and up- 
 hold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach trans- 
 gressors thy ways ; and sinners shall be converted unto 
 thee. Ps. li. 12, 13. 
 
 The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raisetli up all 
 those that be bowed down. Ps. cxlv. 14. 
 
 Hold thou me u}>, and I shall be safe : and T will 
 have respect unto thy statutes continually. Ps. cxix. 
 117. 
 
 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are 
 the everlasting arms. Deut. xxxiii. 27. 
 
 My boul followeth hard after thee : thy right hand 
 upholdeth me. When I said, My foot slippeth ; thy 
 mercy, O Lord, held me up Ps. Ixiii. 8 ; xciv. 18. 
 
 Fear thou not ; for I am with thee : be not dis- 
 mayed ; for I am thy God : I will strengthen thee ; yea, 
 I will help thee ; yea, I will uphold thee with the right 
 hand of my righteousness. Isa. xli. 10. 
 
 What though we fall, and hruised and wounded lie. 
 
 Our lips in dust ! 
 God's arm shall lift us up to victory ! 
 
 In Him we truat. 
 
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 hvholil the i(priif/it. /.sft. xxvi. 7 : /*•'<. xi. 17. 
 
 TIm; Ijord givetli wisdom : . . . h(! l.iyoth up sound 
 wisdom for the upri<j;ht : he is a shield to tliem tliat 
 walk uprightly. Prov. ii. (i, 7. 
 
 The Lord God is a sun and shi«!ld ; the Lord will 
 give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold 
 from them that walk uprightly. l*s. Ixxxiv, 11. 
 
 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me. Ps. 
 XXV. 21. 
 
 He tiiat walketh Uj rightly walketh surely. Whoso 
 walkrith uprightly shall he saved. Prov. x. 9 ; xxviii. 
 18. 
 
 The upright shall dw(»ll in the land. He that walk- 
 eth uprightly shall al)ide. Prov. ii. 21 : Ps. xv. 2. 
 
 The generation of the ui)right shall be blessed. Ps. 
 xii. 2. 
 
 He shall enter into peace : they shall rest in their 
 beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness. Isa. 
 Ivii. 2. 
 
 Mark the perfect nian, and behold the upright, for 
 the end of that man is peace. Ps. xxxvii. 37. 
 
 The upright shall dwell in thy presence. Ps. cxl. 13. 
 
 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly, 
 . . . shall dwell on high : his place of defence shall be 
 the munitions of rocks : brea<l shall be given him and 
 his waters shall be sure. Thine eyes shall see the king 
 in his beauty : they shall l)ehold the land that is very 
 far off. Isa. xxxiii. 15, 17. 
 
 How doth the upright like the ])€alni tree stand, 
 Giving health, wealth, and ])eauty to the land : 
 Loved of the Lord while !iei"e on earth they stay, 
 And called to glory when they pass away. 
 
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 T/ie Lord in t/oo<l iiufo thtiii that irait/or him, to fhr, .sow/ fhal 
 xtbketh him Lam, iii. 25. 
 
 I wait for i\w Ijord, my soul <lolli wait, an<l in Ins 
 word do I hope. My soul wailiHli for the; Lord more 
 than tlujy that watch for- the; morning' Ph. cxxx. T), (J. 
 
 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. There- 
 fore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto 
 you : . . . blessed are all they that wait for him, and 
 therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy 
 upon you. Ps. xxxvii. 7 : Isa. xxx. 18. 
 
 I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto 
 me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of 
 an horrible pit, out ot" the miry cla}', and set my feet 
 upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath 
 put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God : 
 many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. 
 Ps. xl. 1-3. 
 
 It is good that a man should both hope, and (juietly 
 wait for the salvation of the Lord. Tiam. iii. 20. 
 
 He will swallow up death in victory ; and the Lord 
 God will wipe away tears from off all faces. And it 
 shall l)e said in that day, Lo, this is our God : we have 
 waited for him ; . . . we will be glad and rejoice in his 
 salvation. For since the beginning of the world men 
 have not heard, nor perceived hy the ear-, neither hath 
 the eye seen, O Clod, beside thee, what he hath prepared 
 for iiitii that waiteth for him. Lsa. xxv. 8, 9 ; Ixiv. 4. 
 
 Blessed is the man that hear-eth me, watching dally 
 at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. They 
 shall not be ashamed that wait for me. Prov. viii. 34 : 
 Isa. xlix. 23. 
 
 Wait for ti e Lord, and tliough He tair}-, Wcxit, 
 Ten thousand suj)pliants throng His palace gate, 
 Nor yet one faileth audience to obtain, 
 None is foi-gotten, none can plead in vain. 
 
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 xxxvii, !). 
 
 Unto tlioc, O Lord, do T lift up my soul. O my 
 God, I tiust in thee ; lot mo not be ashamod. . . . Yea^ 
 let none that wait on thee be ashamt d. Ph. xxv. 1-3. 
 
 Wait on the Lord, and koop his way, and he shall 
 exalt thee to inherit the land. Ps. xxxvii. 34. 
 
 O my stren<^th, T will wait on thee. Ps. lix. 'J. 
 
 They that wait upon the I^ord shall rrtiow their 
 strength; they shall mount up with winLis as eagles; 
 thoy shall I'un and not be weary; and IImv shall walk, 
 and not faint. Isa. xl. 31. 
 
 My soul, wnlt thou only upon Gctd, for my expecta- 
 tion is from lu Ps. Ixii. 5. 
 
 Wait ui the Lord, and he shall save thee. Prov. 
 XX. '2-2. 
 
 Thou art theCiod <»f my .-.ahation ; on thoo do I wait 
 all the day. My soul waitoth only upon (Jod ; from him 
 Cometh my salvation. Ps xxv. 5 ; Ixii. 1. 
 
 Turn th(Mi to thy God : keep niorcy and judgment, 
 and wait on thy God continually. Hosoa xii. 6. 
 
 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of 
 their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the 
 hand of her mistress ; so our eyes wait upon the Lord 
 our < lod, until that he have niorcy upon us. Ps. 
 cxxiii. 2. 
 
 Wait on the Lord : be of good courage, and he shall 
 strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. Ps. 
 xxvii. 14. See Isa. li. 5. 
 
 Man's weakness, waiting upon God, 
 
 Its end can never miss, 
 For men on earth no work can do 
 
 More angel like than this. 
 
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 Josiah made a covenant l)(»f<tro t\w Lord, to walk 
 af(M' the Loi'd. And all the poopUi stotxl t<» tho 
 covenant. "J Kin<^s xviii. .i. 
 
 If the Lord bo (jlod, follow Iiini. IJe ye followers of 
 Cod, as dear cliihlron. 1 Kin^s xviii. 21 : Eph. v. 1. 
 
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 When Abrain was ninety years: old and nine, tho 
 
 said unto him, I am the Alinifflrv (Jod 
 
 walk before nie, and be thou perfect. And I \\,ll make 
 my covenant between mo and thee, ami will multiply 
 thee exceedingly. Gen xvii. 1. See xxiv. 40. 
 
 Jacob . . . blessed .Joseph, and said, God, before 
 whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, . . . 
 bless the lads ; . . . and let them grow into a multitude 
 in the midst of the earth. Gen. xlviii. 15, 10. 
 
 Solomon said. Thou hast shewed unto thy servant 
 David my father great mercy, according as he walked 
 before thee in truth, and in righteousness ; . . . and 
 thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is 
 this day. 1 Kings iii. 0. 
 
 The Lord said unto (Solonion), If thou wilt walk 
 before me as David thy father walked ; . . . then will T 
 establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, 
 1 Kings ix 3-5. 
 
 Enoch walked with God : and he was not ; for God 
 took him. Gen. v. 24. See vs. 22 ; vi. 0. 
 
 What doth the Lord retjuiro of thee, but to do justly, 
 and to love mercy, and to walk huml'ly with thy God. 
 Micah vi. 8. See Rev. iii. 4. 
 
 Walking with Thee, my (Jod, Saviour benign, 
 Daily confer on nie converse divine ; 
 E'en as a friend with friend, 
 Cheered to the journey's end, 
 Walking with Thee. 
 
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 T l)('h{'l(l, and, lo, a ^rcat multitude, which no man 
 could numlxM', of all iiations, and kindreds, and lu^oplc!, 
 and tongues, stood heforc tlu( throne, and hefore the 
 Laml), cU)thed with white rohes, and palms in their 
 hands ; and cried with a loud voice, saying. Salvation to 
 our (Jod which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the 
 Um\\). Rev. vii. I), 10. 
 
 Let thy garments he always white. I counsel tiuM? 
 to buy of nu! gold tried in the lirti, that thou mayest he 
 ricli ; and white raiment, that tiiou mayest be clothed, 
 and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear. 
 Eccl. ix. 8 : Rev. iii. 18. 
 
 What are these that ar(i ai'rayed in wliite robes 1 
 and whence came they? Rev. vii. l.'J. 
 
 These are they that came out of great tribulation, 
 and have washed their robes, and made tliem white in 
 the blood of the Lamb. Rev. vii. 14. 
 
 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him ; 
 for the marriage of tin; Lamb is come, and his wife hath 
 made herself ready. And to her was granted that she 
 should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white ; for 
 the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. Rev. xix. 
 
 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who have not 
 defiled their garments ; and they shall walk with me in 
 white, for they are worthy. Rev. iii. 4. 
 
 Clad ill robes of purest wliite, 
 
 Kaiisonied saints in glory stand, 
 Filled with rapturous delight 
 
 Never known on sea or land : 
 Singing songs of love and praise 
 
 To the Lamb, in sweetest lays, 
 
 Through unending blissful days. 
 
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 Jthoxhiiphat sniti/hf tin l.onl ii'iffi tif/ liis liKirt, 2 C'roii, xxii. U. 
 
 In every woik tlmt (ll)'/«*kiiili) iM-^^iiri in ihv H(irvico 
 of tlic house of <i(Hl, Hikd in tlic law, and in the coin- 
 niandnients to seek his (Jod, he did it with all his heart, 
 and |)ios]>eied. '2 Chron. xxxi. 21. 
 
 I Messed are they that ke<^|) his teHtinionii's, and tliat 
 seek him with the whoh- heart. Ilu^v also do no ini<|uity: 
 they walk in Ids ways. Ps e.xi.x. "J, .'5. 
 
 With my whole h«Nirt have [ soui;ht thee: let uw 
 not wander fiom thy comnruidmenls. l*s. cxix. 10. 
 
 If . . . thou shalt s«'ek tlu^ Lord thy (Jod, thou 
 slialt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and 
 with all thy soul. Deut. iv. '_'!». See I Kini^s xiv. S. 
 
 I (fntnsited thy favor with my wholes heart : . . . I 
 cried with my whoh* heart; luvir me, O L«ird : I will 
 keep thy statut(;s. Ps, cxix. 58, 14;'). 
 
 Then shall yi; call upon me, and ye shall <^o and pray 
 unto nxi, and 1 will hearkr!i unto y<)U. And ye shall 
 seek me and find me, wlum yo shall seaich for me with 
 all your heart. Jer. xxix. 12, l.'i. 
 
 Givo me understandiufjf, and I shall keep thy law ; 
 yea, I .shall observe it with my whoh^ heart. Ps. cxix. 
 .U. See '2 Chron. vi. 14. 
 
 What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to 
 fear the Lord thy Uod, to walk in all his ways, and to 
 love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy 
 heart and with all thy soul, to keep the connnandments 
 of the Lord, and his statutes, which I connnand thee 
 this day for thy good ? Deut. x. 12, l.'i. 
 
 Spirit Divine, !iiy soul iiispiru 
 With Thine own si'lf-consuniing file ; 
 That all my raiisoiiie<l power.s may he 
 A hvijig Hiu'i'itice for Tliee. 
 
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 Mi'^owe an& ©rpbane. 
 
 Cursed be he that perrerteth the jiidi/ment of the stranger, 
 fatherless, ami the iruloir. Dent, xxvii. 19. 
 
 Woe unto them that decree uniighteous decrees, 
 . . . that widows may be their prey, and that tliey may 
 rob the fatherless. Isa. x. 1. 2. 
 
 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saving, . . . Op- 
 press not tlie widow, nor tlie fatherless. . . . Ye sliall 
 not afHict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict 
 them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will 
 surely hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and 
 I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be 
 widows, and your children fatherless. Zech. vii. 9, 10 : 
 Ex. xxii. 22-24. 
 
 If I h.'ive withheld from the poor their desire, or 
 have caused the eyes of the widow to fail ; or have eaten 
 ray morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten 
 thereof : . . . if T have lifted up my hand against the 
 fatherless when I saw my help in the gate : let mine 
 arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be 
 }>roken from the bone. When the ear heard me, then 
 it bless^ed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave wit- 
 ness to me : because 1 delivered the poor that cried, and 
 the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The 
 blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : 
 and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was 
 eves to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father 
 to the poor ; and the cause that I knew not I searc! ed 
 out. Job xxxi. lG-22 ; xxix H-IG. 
 
 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the 
 Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in 
 their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the 
 world. James i. 27. 
 
 Blest they, Uke Job, the Christly friend of old, 
 Who cause tlie witlow's heart for joy to sing : 
 
 While wants and woes that to them are not told, 
 They seek to find, and i)elp and succor bring. 
 
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 Thf klni/f si'rraiif': saii/ inifo (he liii'j, B< hold, fliif si rranl-i 
 arn rtady fo do n'lmfson r my lord the kiiuj xhnll ajtiioiiif. 2 .sVt/H. 
 XV. 15. 
 
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 Zebulun and Nfiplithali were a people tliat jeoparded 
 t'aeir lives unto the death in the high place.s of the field. 
 Judges V. 18. 
 
 Aly heart is toward t]w govc'iMiors of Tsiael, that 
 offered themselves willingly among tlie people. I Mess ye 
 the Lord, .fudges v. 9. See vs. '2. 
 
 All the women whose heart stirred them up in 
 wisdom spun goat's hair. And Moses called . . . every 
 wise-hearted man, . . . even every one whose heait 
 stirred him up to come unto the work to do it. . . . 
 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of 
 the sanctuary, came , . . . and tliey spake unto Moses, 
 saying, The people bring much more than enough for the 
 service of tlie work. . . . And Mo.ses gav«; command- 
 ment, saying, f^et neither man nor woman make any 
 more work for the ofl'ering of the sanctuary. . . . For 
 ^^ he stuff they had was sufficient for all the work, . . . 
 and too much. . . . And Moses blessed them. Kx. 
 XXXV. 2G ; xxxvi. '2-7 ; xxxix. 43. 
 
 Servants, be obedient to them that are youi* mast(»rs, 
 ... in singleness of your heart as unto Christ : . . . 
 as the servants of Christ, doing the will of (Jod from 
 the heart. And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as to 
 the Lord, and not unto men ; knowing that of the Lord 
 ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance : for ye 
 serve the Lord Christ. Kph. vi. 5, G : Col. iii. "23, 24. 
 
 The willing women wrought with care, 
 Oil fringes, lace, and curtains fair, 
 Of wool, and goats', and camels' hair. 
 And so (lid men of greatest skill 
 Woi'k with a ready heart and ■.»ill, 
 In silver, gold, and jewtds rare : — 
 And we like them would labor still. 
 
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 Wini in a marker, sfroiKj drink m rni/iii</: and who-^oenr U 
 durcini/ tlifrt'hi/ is iiof iri'.si'. I^rar. xx. 1. 
 
 Jiet'fiuse lie traiis<,'re.sseth by wine, lie is a proud 
 man, neither keepeth at lionic, who enlargeth his desire 
 as hell, and is .is death, and cannot he satistied. Hal), ii. i"). 
 
 Woe unto th(ini that are niii^'hty to drink wine, and 
 men of strength to mingle sti'ong drink. Woe unto 
 them that rise up early in the morning that they may 
 follow strong drink, that continue until night till wine 
 intlame them. And the harp and the lute, the tablet 
 and the pipe, and wine art; in their feasts : but they 
 regard not the woi'k of the Lord, neither have they 
 considered the operation of his hands. Isa. v. 11, 12. 
 
 Who hath woe 1 who hath sorrow 1 who hath con- 
 tentions ? who hath babbling ? who hath wounds with- 
 out cause ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that 
 go to se(^k mixed wine. Prov. xxiii. 2'.), 30. 
 
 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when 
 it giveth his color '\\\ the cup, when it inoveth itself 
 aright. At the last it bitt'th like a seipent, and stingeth 
 like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, 
 and thine heart shall utter froward things. Yea, thou 
 shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or 
 . . . upon the top of tli(! mast. They have stricken mo, 
 thou shalt say, and T was not hurt; they have beaten 
 me, and I felt it not ; when shall I awake I I will seek 
 it yet again. Prov. xxiii. 29-35. 
 
 thou invisible sj)irit of wine ! if thou hast no name to bo 
 known l)y, let us call thcu devil. 
 
 O (jod ! tiiat men ..hould \n\i an enemy into their mouths to 
 steal away their brains ! 
 
 That we shouhl, witli joy, pleasmce, revel, and applause, trans- 
 form ourselves into beasts ! . . , 
 
 To be now a sensible man, bj'-and-by a fool, and presently a 
 beast I 
 
 O strange I — Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredi- 
 ent is of the devil. 
 
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 A lilslinp must lit' li/nnif'fiss, ns flu steirard of God ; not ifireii 
 to iriiif. Tit IIS i. 7. 
 
 When either man or woman shall separate them- 
 selves to vow a vow of aNazarite, to sepaivite themselves 
 unto the Lord : he shall separate himself from wine and 
 sti-on*,' <lrink. Num. vi. 2, 3. 
 
 The an<^el of the Loid appeared unto Manoah, and 
 said unto her, IJehoh], thoii slialt cojiceive, an<l Ix'ar a 
 son. Now therefore beware, an<l drink not wine nor 
 .strong drink : . . . tor the child sliall he a Na/arite unto 
 (Jod from the womb. Judges xiii. 3-13. 
 
 The priest and the prophet have erred through strong 
 diink, they aie swallowed up of wine, ti:ey ai(» out of the 
 way through strong drink ; they err in vision, th<!y 
 stumble in judgment. Isa. xxviii. 7. 
 
 The Lord spake unto Aaron, saying. Do not drink 
 wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, 
 when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest 
 ye die : it shall be a statute for ever throughout your 
 generations : that ye may put difference betwec^n holy 
 and unholy, and between unclean and clean ; and that 
 ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which 
 the Lord hath spoken unto them, by the hand of Moses. 
 Lev. X. 8-n. 
 
 (John) shall be great in the siglit of the Lord, and 
 shall drink neither wine nor strong drink ; and he shall 
 be filled with the Holy Uhost, even from his mothei''s 
 womb. Luke i. 15. 
 
 Be not drunk with wine, v/herein is excess ; Imt be 
 filled with the Spirit. Eph. v. 18. 
 
 O ye to whom the Lord has given 
 The work of loading souls to heaven, 
 Touch not tiie cup that dims the eyes 
 For seeing clearly to the skies. 
 
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 Wisdom j*s ln'ttff than streiKjth. Wisdom is licffcr than trenpoiix 
 of war. Ervl. ix. 10, IS. See vii. 11). /Voc xxi. 22. 
 
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 Whei'e shall wisdom be found 1 and where is the 
 place of un(lerstandin<; '] Man knoweth ncjt the j)rice 
 thereof ; neither is it foun<l in tlm Innd of the living. 
 The depth saith, It is not in ine ; and the sea saith, It is 
 not with nie. It cinnot be gotten for gold, neither shall 
 silver be weighed for the price thereof. It cannot be 
 valued with the gold of ( 'hir, with the precious onyx, 
 or the sapphire. The gol and the crystal cannot ecjual 
 it ; and the exchange of i' hall not be for jewels of tine 
 gold. No mention shall be ma<le of coral, or of pearls : 
 for the price of wisdom is above rubies. The topaz of 
 Ethiopia shall not equal it. neither shall it be valued 
 with pui"e gold. Wh'!nce then cometh wisdtmi '] and 
 where is the ph'ice of understanding. Job xxviii. l"J-20. 
 
 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth 
 the place thereof. J^ehold, the fe, f the Lord, that is 
 wisdcmi ; and to <lepart from evil is u.Klerstanding. The 
 fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom : and the 
 knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Job xxviii. 
 2:J, 2S : Prov. ix. 10. 
 
 God giveth undei-standing unto the wise, and know- 
 Icidge to them that know understanding. Dan. i'. 20, 21. 
 
 The Lord giveth wisdom. 
 
 wisdom for the righteous. 
 
 He layeth 
 Prov. ii. C, 7. 
 
 up sound 
 
 Christ ... is made unto us wisdom. 1 Cor. i. .30. 
 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and 
 Col ii. ;i. 
 
 knowledge. 
 
 Wisfloin liatli treafiures gi'eater fur 
 
 Than east or west luifold ; 
 And her rewai'<ls more precious are 
 
 Than all their stores of gold. 
 
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 W^tHdom is hr/ore him that hath nnderMamlhKj. Proi\ xvii. 24. 
 
 A mail's wisdom maketh his face to sliine. Eccl. 
 viii. 1. 
 
 Happy is tho man that flndetli wisdom, and the man 
 that getteth understanding. For tho merchandise of it 
 is better thun tlie merchamhse of silver, and the gain 
 thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies : 
 and all the things thou canst d(»sire are not to be cotn- 
 [>ar(>d unto her. Length of days is in her right hand ; 
 in her left hand are riches and hoiior. Her ways are 
 ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She 
 is a tree of life to th.em that lay hold upon her : and 
 happy is every one that retaineth her. Prov. iii. I.'5-IS. 
 
 He that getteth wisdom loveth his )wn soul. 
 Wisdom giveth life to them that have it. i^'.ov. xix. 8 : 
 Eccl. vii. 12. 
 
 Riches and honor are with me ; yea, durable riches 
 and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold ; yon, 
 than fine geld ; and my revenue than choice silver. For 
 whoso findeth me findetli life, and shall obtain favor of 
 the Lord. Prov. iv. 18, 10, 35. 
 
 How mucli. better it is to get wisdom than gold ! and 
 to get understandiiig rather to be chosen than silver. 
 For wisdom is better than rubies, atid all the things that 
 may be desired are not to be compared to it. Prov. xvi. 
 IG; viii. 11. 
 
 Wisdom is the principal thin«.'; therefore get wisdom: 
 and with all thy getting >i;<r, understanding. If any 
 man lack wisdom, let him Tl/.-c of Ood, who giveth to all 
 men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given 
 him. Prov. iv. 7 : James i. o. 
 
 How happy is the one who hcai's 
 
 Instruction's waiiiing voice ; 
 An<l who celestial wisdom makes 
 
 Hiseaily, only choice. 
 
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 JeMiiH was horn ill /{tth/i/nin of Jiidia. Matt. ii. ]. 
 
 Behold, a vir^jin shall conceive, and bear a son, and 
 shall call his nanu; Innnanucl. Isa. vii. 14. 
 
 She shall hrinj^ t'oith a son, and thou shalt cull his 
 name Jesus : for he shall save his peoph; from their sins. 
 Matt. i. 21. 
 
 ITnto us a child is liorn, unto us a son is given ; and 
 the goNernment shall Ix'i upon iiis siiouldcrs : and his 
 name shall he called Wondeiful, Counsellor, The iMi<j;hty 
 (jod, The Kverlastin;,' Father, The I'rince of Peace 
 I.sa. ix. (*). 
 
 And the an<^{^l said unto (the she|)herds) ; Fear not : 
 for, Ixihold, I 1 riiiL'; you <^ood tidings of great joy, which 
 shall he to all peopI(». Kor unto you is horn this day in 
 the city of I>j'vid a Savioui*, which is Chiist the Lord. 
 Luke ii. 10, 11. 
 
 When the fulness of the time was come, (lod sent 
 forth his Son, niiuie of a woman, made under the law, to 
 redeem them that wei-e under the law, that we might 
 receive the; adoptioii of son,-j. For what the law could 
 not do, in that it was weak through the tlesh, (Jod send- 
 ing his own son in tlm likeness of sinful tlesh, and for 
 sin, c(mdemned sin in the Hesh : that the righteousness 
 of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after 
 the flesh, but after the Spirit. Gal. iv. 4 : Rom. viii. 3, 4. 
 
 As the children are partakers of Hesh and blood, he 
 also himself likewise took part of the same ; that through 
 death he might destioy liim that hath the pow<M' of 
 death, that is, the devil ; and deliver them who through 
 fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 
 Heb. ii. 14, IT). 
 
 A(kl to your biilliance, all y(^ stars of night, 
 Sing as ye fly, ye rapturous ho.st.s of light ; 
 Earthwird He comes, the he.st beloved on high, 
 As man to live, for sinful man to <lie. 
 
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 -•1 trite iritncMfi ile/irerefh suiifs. Pror. xiv. i.*). 
 
 A faithful witness will not lie. Out of the mouth 
 of two or three witiu^sses every word shall he estab- 
 lished. Prov. xiv. 5: 2 Cor. xiii. 1. 
 
 Ye are my witnesses, saith the Loid, and my s(!r- 
 vants whom I have chosen, that ye may know and 
 believe me, and understand, that I am he; ... there- 
 fore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord. Isa. xliii. 
 10-12. 
 
 This Jesus hath (iod raised up, whereof we all a,"e 
 witnesses. Acts ii. '.V2. See iv. 20; v. 'M)-'6'2. 
 
 When the Comforter is come, whom 1 will send 
 unto you from the FatiK>r, Iw shuW testify of me : and 
 ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with 
 me from the beginning. John xv. 26, 27. 
 
 And with great power gaNC the apostlo.% witness of 
 the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ : and great 
 grace wa» upon them all. Acts i\', 3.'i. See x. 40, 41 ; 
 xiii. 30, .'U. 
 
 Then opened he their understanding, that they might 
 understand the scri[)tur(s, and said unto them, Thus it 
 is written, and thus it behoved Chiist to suller, and to 
 rise from the dead tlu! thiid day : and that repentance 
 and remission of sins should be preached in his name 
 among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are 
 witnesses of these things. But ye shall receive pow(a* 
 when tin; Holy (ihost is come upon you ; and ye shall 
 be witnesses unto me, both in .Jerusalem an«l in Judea, 
 and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the 
 earth Luke xxiv. 45-48 : xVcts i. 8. See 1 John i. 1-3. 
 Phil. ii. 14-16. 
 
 Blessed Spiiii, of the Saviour 
 To my soul 'I'liy witness bear ; 
 
 That I may Mitii glowing ardor, 
 To mankind His love declare. 
 
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 Thr /joril i/irtth the irnrd ; ami a ijrtat comjinny of iromv.u 
 jtnh/ish //iH ijfnd fl<(in'js. /'.s. Ixviii. 11. 
 
 The anji^(!l answered and said unto the women, Fear 
 not ye : for I know that ye seek Jesus wlio was crucified. 
 He is not here ; for he is risen, even as he said. Come, 
 see the phice wlien; the liord hiy. And j^o (juickly, and 
 
 tell his disciples, lie is risen from tlie (h'ad And 
 
 they departed (|iiiikly from thc! tomb with f«'ar and 
 great joy, and ran to l)rin,<^ hl.s diHciple.s word. Matt, 
 xxviii. f) 8. 
 
 L't'iiain women idso of our comp/uiy mad(! us aston- 
 ished, which w(M(' early at tli«! sepuiclire ; and when tliey 
 found not his hody, they (rame, siiyinj;, that tliey haci 
 also seen a vision of angels, which said that Ik; was alive. 
 And certain of them that were with us went to the 
 sepulchre, and found it even as the women had said. 
 Luke xxiv. 22-24. 
 
 These all continued with one accord in prayer, and 
 supplication witli iiie women, and Mary the mother of 
 .lesus, and with the brethren. And when the day of 
 Pentecost was fully coine, they were all together in one 
 place. . . . And they were all filled with the Holy 
 Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the 
 Spirit gave them utterance. Acts i. 14 ; ii. 1, 4. 
 
 And Peter said : . . . This is that which was spoken, 
 by the prophet Joel ; It shall come to pass in the last days, 
 saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh : 
 and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. . . . 
 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour 
 out in those days of my Spirit ; and they shall prophesy. 
 Actsii. 14-18. 
 
 " The Lord doth give the word," and far and fleet, 
 The women carry it with willing feet : 
 Not in the high broad ways where walketh fame, 
 But in earth's lowly haunts they tell His name. 
 
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 i}fani/ ironun . . . follou'nl ./(nix /mm QaliltA, mtiiiHto'linj 
 unto him. Muff, xxvii. 5r>, 50. Srr xxvi. (i-l.'J. 
 
 All tho widows stood by (Peter) weepinjj;, and show- 
 ing the coats and j^arnients which (Dorcas) had made, 
 while she was with them. Arts ix. 3U. 
 
 T will . . . that women adorn thems(!lves in modest 
 apparel ; not with braided hair, and gold, or pearls, or 
 costly raiment ; but (which becomcth women [)rofessing 
 godliness) with good works. 1 Tim. li. 8, 9. 
 
 A woman that fear.lh the Kord she shall be praiseu. 
 
 t (jtfttifnond unO/ you Ph(ebe our sister, a servant of 
 the cliurc// at (.'enchrea : tl//if ye receive her in the Lord, 
 as l/<'<'//(n"th saints, and th/it ye assist her in whatsoever 
 she hath n«M'd of you : for ahf hath been a succorer of 
 many, and of myself also. And t entreat thee also, true 
 yoke-fellow, help those wr>men who labored with me in 
 the g(jspel, with Clement also, and with other my 
 fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life 
 Horn. xvi. 1,2: Phil. iv. .3. 
 
 " Who can find a virtuous woman ? 
 
 For liLT price cx'juods rulties " and ^'o!(l. 
 " The neart of her husltatul can trust her," 
 
 With its treasures unsealed and untc^ld. 
 Sheopeneth her mouth with wisdom ; 
 
 In her tongiio is the sweet law of love ; 
 She looks to the ways of her household ; 
 
 And she fears the Lord all things above. 
 Then " give her the fruit of her doings," 
 
 Let her praises her virtues recall ; 
 '• For many have done virtuously, 
 
 But thou truly excellest them all." 
 
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 y/ir pothi'H^ and (hffn: flint ilinlf (inioiiij /i/niifutioiix (iml hi ihji i, 
 , . . ilii'vll ii'ifh thv. kiinj fur hi» n'm-k. I dhnm. iv. 'J.'i 
 
 I lis work is lionunihlo and ^'loiious. Ps. cxi. li. 
 To ov(!ry man liis work. Mark xiii. 'M. 
 
 W(! must work th<; woi-ks of him that sent mo whih; 
 it is (hiy ; tlie niyht cometh whoti no man can work. 
 John *x. 4. 
 
 Son, go work to-day in my vineyard. \V'hatsoev(!r 
 thy hand lindoth to do, «lo it with thy might : for there? 
 is no work, nor d<!vic(!, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in 
 the grave, wliitlier tliou goest. Matt. xxi. 2«S : Kcch 
 ix. 10. 
 
 My Fjithor worketh hitheito, and 1 work. My meat 
 is to do tlu; w ill of him that sent me, and to finish his 
 work. John iv. M : v. 17. 
 
 Now our Lord Jesus Clirist liimself, and («od, oven 
 our Father, . . . comfort your hearts, and stai)lish tiiem 
 in every good work and word. 2 Thess. ii. HI, 17. 
 
 I have glorified thee on the earth, I have finished tlie 
 work which thou gavest me to do. John xvii. 4. 
 
 Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in 
 the work of the Lord, forasiimch as ye know that your 
 labor is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Cor. xv. 58. 
 
 Unto thee, Lord, belongeth mercy, for thou ren- 
 derest to every man according to his work. Ps. Ixii. 12. 
 
 Be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack : for 
 your work shall be rewarded. 1 will give unto each of 
 you according to your works. 2 Chron. xv. 7 : Rev. ii. 
 23. 
 
 To the work ! To the work ! We are servants of God, 
 Let us follow the path that our MiTster hath trod ; 
 With the halm of His counsel our strength to renew, 
 Let us do with our might what our hands find to do. 
 
 F. J. Crosby. 
 
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 Till! T<?k(»iU^s n^pjiiit'd ; l)ut thrir iiohhvs jmt not tlu'ir 
 nt^cks to tlio work of their Lojd. Nrli iii. 5. 
 
 (^^ursod he he that doeth tli(i work of the Loid iiegli- 
 •(('iitly. .lei". xlviii. Id. 
 
 Uehold, thy servants ari* ready to do wliatsoever my 
 lord th(! kin*,' may appoint. \1 Sam. xv. 1.'). 
 
 H(i strong all ye peopl<» of the land, suith the Lord, 
 and work : for I am with voii, saith f'lr Lord of hosts. 
 And (iod is ahle to make; ail grace ahound toward you ; 
 that ye, having all sullieieney in all things, may abound 
 to every good work. Hag. ii. 1 : "J Cor. ix. S. 
 
 They said. Let us rise up and huild ; so they strength- 
 ened tljeir iiands for this good wi/rk. And all tlu; wall 
 was joined togetlu^r unto tlie half ther«;of : for tin; peoples 
 had a mind to work. Neh. ii. IS ; iv. (J. 
 
 The workmen wrought, and tin; work was perfected 
 by them, and they set th<diouse of (Jod in his state, and 
 strengthened it. And . . . they delivered the money 
 that was brought into the house of the Lord, . . . and 
 they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house 
 of the Lord, to repair and amend tht; hou.se. And the 
 men did the work faithfully. '2 ('hron. xxiv. l.{; xxxiv. 
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 Work in thu oarly mor'ning, 
 
 Work tlir'ough the ;.;lowiiij,' noon ; 
 
 VV^ork till tlie .sliadcs of evening, 
 (Jatlier all too soon. 
 
 Work with a will while life i.s giverr, 
 
 And then for- ie.st go home to Inaveii. 
 
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 /e^ </tr7?i praise the name of the Lord. Ph. 
 
 The witnessss laid <lown their garineiits at the feet of 
 a young man whose name was Saul. And they stoned 
 Stephen. And Saul was consenting unto his death. As 
 for Saul, lie made havoc of the church ; — breathing 
 out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of 
 the Lord. Acts vii. 58, 59 ; viii. 1, 3 ; ix. 1. 
 
 Run, speak to this young man : — for he is a chosen 
 vessel unto me. to bear my name before the Gentiles, 
 and kings, and the children of Israel, for I will shew him 
 how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. 
 Zech. ii. 4 : Acts ix. 15, 16. 
 
 Benhadad, king of Syria, gathered all his hosts to- 
 gether ; . . . and he went up and beseiged Samaria. 
 And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab, king of 
 Israel, saying. Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen this 
 great multitude 1 Behold I will deliver it this day into 
 thine hand. . . . And Ahab said. By whcm 1 And he 
 said, Thus saith the Lord, by the youn^ men of the 
 princes of the provinces. And the your g men of the 
 princes of the provinces went out first ; . . . and they 
 slew every one his man ; and the Syrians fled ; and 
 Israel pursued them. And the king of Israel went out, 
 and smote the horses and chariots, and .slew the Syrians 
 with a great slaughter. 1 Kings xx. 1, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21. 
 
 The glory of young men is their strength. I have 
 written unto you young men, because ye are strong, and 
 the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome 
 the evil one. Prov. xx. 29 : I John ii. 14. 
 
 Young men God summons to the front, 
 To brave the battle's bannered biunt ; 
 The world expects yoiing men to win. 
 In battling witli the powers of sin : 
 The Church looks for her sons to bring 
 Fresli trophies for their conqiiering King. 
 
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 Beeurancc. 
 
 I know not what may be my lot, 
 
 In palace grand or lowly cot ; 
 
 But humble though mj/ home may be, 
 
 The King of Glory dwells with me. 
 Chorus.~Yov I know whom I have believed, 
 And am persuaded that He is able 
 To keep that which I've commited 
 Unto him against that day. 
 
 I know not what may be my pain, 
 My grief, my loss, my joy, or gain : 
 But having Him my soul hath claimed. 
 The Christ of God, -' I'm not ashamed." 
 Cho. — •' For I know whom," etc. 
 
 I know not what fond friend may go, 
 And leave me, or become my foe : 
 But having found the Friend I need. 
 He'll ever be my Friend indeed. 
 
 Cho. — " For I know whom," etc. 
 
 I know not what the way may be, 
 The time or place He'll come for me : 
 But little need I fear or care 
 How life may close, or when, or where. 
 Cho. — «' For I know whom," etc. 
 
 I know not on what blissful shore. 
 May be ray dwelling evermore : 
 What sights may answer life's long dream. 
 What service sweet, or joys supreme. 
 CAo. — But "I know whom,' etc. 
 
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 " Dai'id made if fhe chief irork to ijirt thanks ntito the Lord.'''' 
 
 Give thanks to (rod all people of all climes ; 
 (iive thanks to Him in all things, at all times ; 
 Give thanks with heart and tongue, in prose and rhyme ; 
 Give thanks in language simple and sublime. 
 
 Give thaniwS in childhood's gladsome, sunny hours ; 
 Give thiuiks in youth's maturer, fuller [)o\vers : 
 Givu i:liank>: when life supplies the best it can ; 
 Give thanks when age is running out its span. 
 
 Give thanks in health and sickness, loss and gain ; 
 Give thanks in want and wealth, in ease and pain ; 
 Give thanks when love and friendship cheer and bless ; 
 Give thanks when hatred harms thee none the less. 
 
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 Give thanks to God for what He is, the One 
 For ever blessed Father, Spirit, Son : 
 Give thanks for what He causes thee to know 
 Of all the good His mercy doth bestow. 
 
 Give thanks for what of us He doth require, 
 And that to do, He gives us the desire. 
 Give thanks for longings that within us rise, 
 And hope to realize them in the skies. 
 
 Give thanks for cloud and sunshine, joy and tears ; 
 Give thanks for glowing hope-!, and gloomy fears ; 
 Give thanks that what He takes, and what survives. 
 Weave golden threads of worth into our lives. 
 
 Give thanks that what sight faileth to perceive, 
 Fiith to God's loving care, can calmly leave : 
 And since He cannot but do all things best, 
 Give thanks for what He does, and trust the rest. 
 
 VV. H. P. 
 
375 
 
 irvives. 
 
 What vision bright o'er Judali's phiins appears 1 
 What rapturous songs salute the shepherds' ears ? 
 Angels with news from heaven to earth ch-aw near ;— 
 Tidings the world has waited long to hear. 
 
 Tidings of grace to those by sin undone, 
 Freely bestowed through God's incarnate Son : 
 Mercy ant." gra^e, unbounded and unbought, 
 To guilty rebels, undeserved, unsought. 
 
 Mercy, which sinless angels could not know ; 
 Or which to those that sinned God did not show : 
 Mercy, to bear which aenions would have flown, 
 If to their race such mercy had been shown. 
 
 Mercy, which must have thrilled the wonderin.r skies. 
 As it unfolded to angelic eyes ; '' 
 
 Filling those beings with such strange delight, 
 A.S tuned their tongues, and winged their earthward flight. 
 
 Those heavenly notes above Judea's plains. 
 Inspired the shepherds with their joyous strains, 
 To spread abroad the tidings far and near. 
 That love divine had tabernacled here. 
 
 Those tidings heralded by angels there. 
 Have round the world re-echoed everywheie ; 
 That God's own Son had left His throne on high, 
 Becoming man, for sinful man to die. 
 
 Oh, message blest, well may we bear thee on 
 To every tribe and land beneath the sun ; 
 Till lightning-footed, thou hast coursed thy way, 
 And hastened on the world's millenial day. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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 Eager, and blind, the world would know, 
 What charms in our *' Beloved " we tind ; 
 
 What beauties in His features glow ; 
 What matchless grace of form or mind : 
 
 What music in His voice we hear. 
 
 That He, than others is more dear. 
 
 We've seen the landscapes bloom afresh, 
 Leaping from death's relaxing hand ; 
 
 We've seen them clad in varied dress, 
 From vernal bud to wintry band. 
 
 Th3 fields adorned with flowerets bright. 
 The meadows decked in living green, 
 
 The stars dance through the azure night. 
 The moon float through the lifts of sheen ; 
 
 The morning scatter pearls of light. 
 And tinge with gold the eastern sky ; 
 
 The heavens entrance the raptured sight. 
 And earth charm the admiring eye : 
 
 But not the fairest flowers that grow, 
 Nor charms of earth, or sea, or sky. 
 
 Nor evening tints, nor morning's glow, 
 With " Sharon's lovely rose " can vie. 
 
 The bow may span the clouded arch, 
 
 Pencilled with bright and beauteous hues ; 
 
 The sun through fields of ether march, 
 Sparkle earth's myriad diamond dews ; 
 
 These may inspire the raptured ken. 
 These may arouse the soul in part, 
 
 But O, for burning words to pen 
 
 His beauties, who has thrilled the heart. 
 
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 Nature's are tame, iiicliKlini,' thou;^'li 
 
 All charms to eiu; toucli, taste, and eye, 
 
 To " My Beloved," " whom to know, 
 Is life," love, bliss, that never die. 
 
 The flowers wa've nourished bloom and fade, 
 And friend i we've loved with ashes blend ; 
 
 P'adeless, " tl :e lily of the glade," 
 Deathless, v)ur ever-living "Friend." 
 
 Ye mountains stoop, nor stay His speed, 
 Who Cometh leaping o'er your height. 
 
 Swifter than winged l)ird, or stoed, 
 Or viewless air, or arrowy light. 
 
 His breath the hoary fields of snow, 
 Dissolves to myriad, murmuring rills ; 
 
 His steps, like dancing sunbeams glow. 
 As " He comes skipping o'er the hills." 
 
 The fairest blossom has some speck, 
 Nor faultless leaf on faultless trees ; 
 
 The Sun itself reveals a fleck. 
 
 And shadows flit o'er sunn'est seas ; 
 
 But " white and ruddy," spotlessly, 
 And " altogether lovely " He. 
 
 The starry worlds that gleaming press, 
 And round their dazzling centres run, 
 
 Are but the outer, meaner dress. 
 
 Of Him whose glance lights up the sun. 
 
 He speaks, and night's fair mj^riads (Jance, 
 While beauty trails the glittering sky ; 
 
 Lightnings are shariows of His glance. 
 And suns the curtains of His eye. 
 
 The sweetest strains the ear can greet. 
 Are like hoarse waves i'^)on the shore. 
 
 Compared with Him whose 'lips most sweet," 
 Wake the soul's music evermore. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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 fIDp Saviour. 
 
 Doar Saviour, may I call Tlu^o mine? 
 
 My hope, my friend, my <fui(le? 
 Perish in ruins all that would 
 
 With Thee my heart divide. 
 
 jMy Saviour's pard'nin^ voice I'd hear. 
 
 His saving power adore ; 
 And have His love and zeal inspire 
 
 My own, yet more and more. 
 
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 Who boi'e the cross for me ; 
 And who, in shameful aj^ony, 
 
 Expired upon the tree. 
 
 My Saviour's lowly mind I'd liave. 
 
 Ambitious thou<ijhts at rest ; 
 And walking in His heav'nly ways, 
 Be with His presence blest. 
 
 My Saviour's arm I'd lean upon. 
 
 His power alone I'd prove ; 
 And knowing only His sweet will, 
 
 I'd prompt to duty move. 
 
 My Saviour's loving words I'd hear, 
 His >vondrous works I'd trace; 
 
 Till called to dwell for ever near. 
 And gaze upon His face, 
 
 W. II. I'. 
 
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 IRcpcntancc. 
 
 Though Thy cliildren from Thee stray, 
 Into sin's forbidden way ; 
 Yet if they repentant he, 
 Thou wilt show tliem leniency. 
 
 Though Thy children wayward prove, 
 And abuse Thy tender love ; 
 Yet if they i-epentant cry, 
 Thou wilt mercy not deny. 
 
 Though Thy childien from Thee turn, 
 And Thine anger toward them burn ; 
 Yet if tliey repentance show, 
 Thou wilt cease to be tlieir foe. 
 
 Though Thy children sin again, 
 Thou wilt not Thy wrath retain ; 
 But if they repentant call. 
 Thou wilt freely pardon all. 
 
 Though Thy children pain Thy heart, 
 And Thy rod hath made them smart ; 
 If repentant they confess, 
 Thou wilt pardon, heal, and bless. 
 
 Though Thy children wander far, 
 As the most eccentric star, 
 Yet repentant seek Thy face, 
 Thou wilt them with love embrace. 
 
 VV. H. P. 
 
380 
 
 Zbc (5raciou0 6\\CQt; 
 
 OR, JESUS IN TIIK IIOMK. 
 
 How hijt?hly liononul, and how richly hlost, 
 Must l)e that homo whore Jesus is a (iuest; 
 How Httle need it covet aught beside, 
 H He but deign within it to abide. 
 
 How blest the day in Mamre's favored tent, 
 When heaven's messengers to it were sent ; 
 Grand hopes were Abram's ere those guests depart, 
 And strange delight filled Sarah's bounding heart. 
 
 But sweeter rapture Nazareth's home did thrill, 
 And deeper joy did Mary's bosom fill, 
 When He, whom heaven adored as Son and Guest, 
 Made that glad home of all on earth most l)lest. 
 
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 A wondrous joy pervaded Bethany's home, 
 Whenever its most welcome Guest would come : 
 But O, what sorrow gathered day by day, 
 When He, the most desired, remained away. 
 
 "Hadst Thou been here," the sobbing sisters cried, 
 " Your friend, our brother Lazarus, had not died ; " 
 When, lo, the sympathizing "Jesus wept," 
 And cried, " Come forth ! " and he came forth that slept. 
 
 Sad was the home of Jairus, where was laid 
 The marble form of that young, beauteous maid, 
 Till Jesus came, and saying, " Maid, arise ! " 
 Gave joy for tears to gladly wondering eyes. 
 
In Cana's home, when failed the needed wine, 
 "The conscious water owned " His power divine ; 
 And gladness grew t<j wonder, when 'twas h^arned 
 That Jesus water into wine had turned. 
 
 Once at the home of Zacclicus, on th(^ road 
 Tiirough Jericho, Jesus awhih; ahode ; 
 And henceforth, lo, that home of grinding greed 
 Noted l>ecame for kind and generous deed. 
 
 Thus home«? of grief, with gladness Jesus filled ; 
 In homes of hatred. He His love distilled ; 
 In homes of guilt, He full forgiveness irave 
 And only, ever came to bless and save. 
 
 To lighten toil He came, and lessen care ; 
 Breathing His gracious Spirit everywhere : 
 Making each heart more generous and kind. 
 Stirring to nobler aims each sordid mind. 
 
 Nor from the Homes that want Him will He stay, 
 Whatever sins or sickness bar His way : 
 He comes to minister, to help, relieve ; 
 Glad oidy if the needy will receive. 
 
 Weary, He asks for shelter and for rest. 
 But gives to those He asks from far the best. 
 Hungry, He asks a crust, then He provides, 
 And with the givers a rich feast divides. 
 
 He asks a cup of water for His thirst, 
 Then gives a " well of living water '' first. 
 O Jesus, come, and be our constant Guest, 
 And home with Thee will be supremely blest. 
 
 VV. H. P. 
 
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 lic!iu!fith the Mount, deiindiH of (hirkiii'SH ivigii, 
 Kxiiltin<i in their lu'iuf (k-stnictivu hour; 
 
 L<»viii>,' imd l(tvt'<l (»m!s vvritho in <^i'ii'f iind pain, 
 HolplcHH iiliku ugfiinHt tliuir torturinj^ powor. 
 
 T^pon t.lio Mount, fur otlior ncones hcffill ; 
 
 The lowl^ FriiMul of men ontnliineH tin; huu ; 
 HtulcH and duatli Imvo yielded to His cull, 
 
 And (lod from heaven has owned Him as Mis Son. 
 
 () Mount .sublime, aglow with radiance rai'e, 
 
 (ilimjise of the land where all is brij^ht and fair; 
 
 Where Jesus is the cloudless sun and soul, 
 And reigns with love's unlimited control. 
 
 Here shines that [n'omised day's transplendent light, 
 While yet below |)revail the shades of night; 
 
 Hero reigns earth's King with inidisputed sway, 
 While all l)eneath in Satan's empire lay. 
 
 Here Jesus shows His Ciodhead, ere concealed, 
 Aiul stands in glorious majesty revealed; 
 
 Fidtils His jn'omise to His fcdlowers spoken, 
 And of His coming kingdom gives a token. 
 
 Here Mosee fr<»m his grave <m Nelx* stands. 
 Pledge of the dead arising in all lands : 
 
 That when Christ comes in „'lory from the skies, 
 Th(»He who have slei)t in Him shall wake and rise. 
 
 Elijah, too, who without dying rose, 
 
 Eluding all his mortal feai's and foes, 
 Appears in glory with the Lord, to show 
 
 That when He conies, His people thus shall go. 
 
 O favored heralds of that rapturous day, 
 
 For which the saints with longing watch and pray; 
 
 O foretlash blest, thou bright prophetic gleam. 
 The King sliall yet fulhl that glorious dream. 
 
 W. H. P. 
 
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 Awake 
 
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 Believing on the Son 
 
 IJest Kolie - 
 
 TiishopH 
 
 Blessed to (iive 
 
 Blood 
 
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 Boin of (iod 
 Born of the Spirit 
 Bi-evitv of Life - 
 Brotheily Love - 
 Brotherly Love - 
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 Calling Upon the Loi 
 Chastening 
 Children - 
 Child Piety 
 Chosen 
 
 Christians, Lights 
 Christ in You - 
 Christ's Second Conii 
 Christ's Second Conii 
 Christ Supreme 
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 (^ries to (J<(d Answered 
 
 (-ries to(Jod Uniinswerec 
 
 (-ries to (iod L'iiansvere( 
 
 ( 'ross Healing - 
 
 Dav of Judgment 
 
 Death 
 
 Death of the Kighteons 
 
 Delighting in the Lord - 
 
 Denviiig Chi-ist - 
 
 Dew - - . . 
 
 Divine (Juidance 
 
 Divine Healing - 
 
 Divine; Prayer - 
 
 Divisions - 
 
 Doing anil 'l'ea( 
 
 Doing Cod's Will 
 
 Doing (Jood 
 
 Dreams 
 
 Drunkenness 
 
 Early Piety 
 
 Kdectual Prayei- 
 
 Kiid of All Things - 
 
 Kn<luring - 
 
 Knvy 
 
 Krror of Heart - 
 
 Established 
 
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 Faith 
 
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 Faith l)v Hearing 
 
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 God Witii Us - 
 
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 God With Us - 
 
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 Forsaking (Jod - 
 
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 Help in Ti'ouble 
 
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 Foundations 
 
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 Hiding Place 
 
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 Freedom - 
 
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 Holiness - 
 
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 Freewill Offerings 
 
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 Honor 
 
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 Fruit 
 
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 Hope 
 
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 Fruit — Good 
 
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 Hope 
 
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 Hope 
 
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 (living to the Lord - 
 
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 Household Religion - 
 
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 Giving to the Poor - 
 
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 God - - - - 
 
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 (Jod Avengeth - 
 
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 God is (Jracious 
 
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 In Christ - 
 
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 (Jod is Light 
 
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 Influence — Evil 
 
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 God's ('are for the Poor 
 
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 Influence — Good 
 
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 God's (])are for Widows 
 
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 Influence — Good 
 
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 (Uod's Coming Sway - 
 
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 In His Name 
 
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 God Sees - 
 
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 God's Furnace - 
 
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 Jesus Christ, Creator 
 
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 God's (Joodness 
 
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 God's Greatness 
 
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 God's House 
 
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 Jesus Christ Worshipped 
 
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 Go<l's House 
 
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 Jesus E(jual with God 
 
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 God's House Forsaken 
 
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 Jesus is (Jod 
 
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 (Jod's Mercy 
 
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 Jesus is King • 
 
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 God's Power 
 
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 Jesus is Priest - 
 
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 God's Power 
 
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 God's Presence - 
 
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 God's Will Best 
 
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 God's Word in the Heart 
 
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 God's Word Precious 
 
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 - 240 
 
 Law - - - - 
 
 - 191 
 
 Pra^'er 
 
 - 241 
 
 Le<l ... - 
 
 - 192 
 
 Prayer Desired - 
 
 - 242 
 
 Life .... 
 
 - 193 
 
 Prayer God's Delight 
 
 - 243 
 
 Life .... 
 
 - 19t 
 
 Prayers Answere<l 
 
 - 244 
 
 Light 
 
 - 19r> 
 
 Prayers of the Righteous 
 
 - 245 
 
 Like Ootl - 
 
 - 19«) 
 
 Praying for Ministers 
 
 - 240 
 
 Like tliat Loved 
 
 - 197 
 
 Preaching - 
 
 - 247 
 
 Living Waters - 
 
 - 198 
 
 Preserved - 
 
 . 248 
 
 I^ng Life - 
 
 - 199 
 
 Preserved - 
 
 - 249 
 
 Love - • - - 
 
 - 200 
 
 Pride 
 
 - 250 
 
 Love of Ctod 
 
 - 201 
 
 Promises - 
 
 251 
 
 Love the Greatest (Ji'ace 
 
 - 202 
 
 Promotion 
 
 - 252 
 
 Love to <iod 
 
 - 203 
 
 Prosperity 
 
 - 253 
 
 Lying 
 
 - 204 
 
 Prosperity 
 
 - 254 
 
 Lying 
 
 - 205 
 
 Provided For 
 
 - 255 
 
 Man's Ways 
 
 - 200 
 
 Provided For - 
 
 - 256 
 
 Marriage - 
 
 - 207 
 
 Purified 
 
 - 257 
 
 Married— H'lsband - 
 
 - 208 
 
 Putting Away Kvil - 
 
 - 258 
 
 Married — Wife - 
 
 - 209 
 
 Putting Away Sin 
 
 - 259 
 
 Meekness - 
 
 - 210 
 
 Rain - - - - 
 
 - 260 
 
 Mingled 
 
 - 211 
 
 Rebuke 
 
 - 261 
 
 M issions-rForeign 
 
 - 212 
 
 Redeemed - 
 
 ■ 262 
 
 Missions—Home 
 
 - 213 
 
 Redeemed - 
 
 - 263 
 
 Ministerial Support - 
 
 - 214 
 
 Refuge 
 
 - 264 
 
 Ministry - 
 
 - 215 
 
 Rejoicing - 
 
 - 265 
 
 Mothers - 
 
 - 210 
 
 Rejoicing - 
 
 - 266 
 
 Monrners Comforted - 
 
 - 217 
 
 Religion — Personal - 
 
 - 267 
 
 Near God - 
 
 ■- 218 
 
 Repentance 
 
 - 268 
 
 Nearness of God 
 
 - 219 
 
 Repentance 
 
 - 269 
 
 New Heavens - 
 
 - 220 
 
 Hest .... 
 
 - 270 
 
 Not Forsaken - 
 
 - 221 
 
 Rest - - - - 
 
 - 271 
 
 Ohedience - 
 
 222 
 
 Resurrection 
 
 - 272 
 
 Obedience to Parents 
 
 - 223 
 
 Resurrection 
 
 - 273 
 
 Old Age - 
 
 - 224 
 
 Returning 
 
 - 274 
 
 Old Men - 
 
 - 22") 
 
 Revival 
 
 - 275 
 
 On the Sea 
 
 - 220 
 
 Reward 
 
 - 276 
 
 Overcoming 
 
 - 227 
 
 Rewanl 
 
 - 277 
 
 Pardon 
 
 - 228 
 
 Riches a Hlc^sing - - 
 
 - 278 
 
 Parents 
 
 - 229 
 
 Riches a Snare - 
 
 - 279 
 
 Patience - 
 
 - 230 
 
 Riches Uncertain 
 
 - 280 
 
 Peace 
 
 - 231 
 
 Hunning a Race 
 
 - 281 
 
 Peace 
 
 - 232 
 
 Sabbath - 
 
 - 282 
 
 Peace Making - 
 
 - 233 
 
 Salvation - 
 
 - 283 
 
 Peace Universal 
 
 - 234 
 
 Sanctitiecl - 
 
 - 284 
 
 Persecuted 
 
 - 23.'> 
 
 Satan— the Devil 
 
 - 285 
 
 Pleasing God 
 
 - 236 
 
 Satan Doomed - 
 
 - 286 
 
 Pleasing God 
 
 , 237 
 
 Satisfied - • • 
 
 . 287 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 
 
 I'AOK 
 
 I'AOK 
 
 Seed of the Upright - 
 
 - 288 
 
 The Righteous and VN'icki 
 
 •d 331 
 
 Seeing God 
 
 - 289 
 
 The River - 
 
 - 332 
 
 Seeing God's Beauty - 
 
 - 290 
 
 The Rock - 
 
 - 333 
 
 Seeing the Invisible - 
 
 - 291 
 
 The Saviour 
 
 - 334 
 
 Seeking God 
 
 - 292 
 
 riie Tongue 
 
 - 335 
 
 Separation 
 
 - 293 
 
 The Word of Life 
 
 - 336 
 
 Separation 
 
 - 294 
 
 The Word of Power - 
 
 - 337 
 
 Serving God 
 
 - 295 
 
 Tithes 
 
 - 338 
 
 Serving God 
 
 - 296 
 
 Tried 
 
 - 339 
 
 Serving Others - 
 
 - 297 
 
 Tried 
 
 - 340 
 
 Sheep 
 
 - 298 
 
 Trusting God - 
 
 - 341 
 
 Shej)herds - 
 
 - 299 
 
 Trusting < Jod - 
 
 - 342 
 
 Sliowers • 
 
 - 300 
 
 Trusting the Lord 
 
 - 343 
 
 Sin - - - - 
 
 - 301 
 
 Unbelief - - - 
 
 - 344 
 
 Sin Universal - 
 
 - 302 
 
 Unbelief rf ?'.sm.s Faith 
 
 - 345 
 
 Singers 
 
 - 303 
 
 Under His Wings 
 
 - 346 
 
 Singers 
 
 - 304 
 
 Unfruitful 
 
 - 347 
 
 Singing - 
 
 - 305 
 
 Unholy Alliances 
 
 - 348 
 
 Singing 
 
 - 300 
 
 United Prayer - 
 
 - 349 
 
 Sons of (iiod 
 
 - 307 
 
 United I'rayer - 
 
 - 350 
 
 SoiTowful Yet Rejoicing - 308 
 
 Unity 
 
 - 351 
 
 Sowing and Reaping - 
 
 - 309 
 
 Unity 
 
 - 352 
 
 Spirit of Wisdom 
 
 - 310 
 
 Upheld - 
 
 - 353 
 
 Steadfastness - 
 
 - 311 
 
 Uprightness 
 
 - 354 
 
 Stewardship 
 
 - 312 
 
 Waiting for (»od 
 
 - 355 
 
 Strength - 
 
 - 313 
 
 Waiting Upon (iod - 
 
 - 356 
 
 Strength - 
 
 - 314 
 
 Walking After (iod - 
 
 - 357 
 
 Strife 
 
 - 315 
 
 White Raiment 
 
 - 358 
 
 Talking With (Jod - 
 
 - 316 
 
 Whole-Hearted 
 
 - 359 
 
 Talking With God - 
 
 - 317 
 
 Widows and Orphans 
 
 - 360 
 
 Testimony 
 
 - 318 
 
 Vf'illing Service 
 
 - 361 
 
 Temptation 
 
 - 319 
 
 Wine 
 
 - 362 
 
 Thanksgiving - 
 
 - 320 
 
 Wine Forbidden - - 
 
 - 363 
 
 Thanksgiving - 
 
 - 321 
 
 Wisdom - 
 
 - 364 
 
 The Goodness of God 
 
 - 322 
 
 Wisdom - 
 
 - 365 
 
 The (iood Shepherd - 
 
 - 323 
 
 Wisdom Incarnate - 
 
 - 366 
 
 The Holy Spirit 
 
 - 324 
 
 Witnessing 
 
 - 367 
 
 The Human Heart - 
 
 - 325 
 
 Women Witnessing - 
 
 - 368 
 
 The Lord— A King - 
 
 - 326 
 
 Women Working 
 
 - 369 
 
 The Lord's Suppi-r - 
 
 - 327 
 
 Work 
 
 - 370 
 
 The Natural Man 
 
 - 328 
 
 Work - . 
 
 - 371 
 
 The Rich and Pooi 
 
 • 329 
 
 Young Men 
 
 - 372 
 
 The Righteous - 
 
 - 330 
 
 
 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 
 Assurance- 
 
 - 373 
 
 My Saviour 
 
 - 378 1 
 
 ' . ive Thanks 
 
 - 374 
 
 Repentance 
 
 - 379 
 
 (ilad Tidings 
 
 - 375 
 
 The Gracious (iuest - 
 
 - 380 
 
 «' My Beloved" 
 
 . 376 
 
 The Transfiguration ■ 
 
 - 382 , 
 
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 I'AOK 
 
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