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THE SABBATH MOIl]>^.
Jn the quiet of your chamber,
In tlio early Sabbath dawn
Iliso and converse with your Maker
-Like singing-birds in the morn. '
We need not now, like Sainted Mary
In the grave-clothes seek our Lord -
You will find Him bright andean;.
Ho will answer you eacli word.
IVom His mansion up above us
He considers all our ways •
He requires no such work and fuss '
As man's making now-a-days, '
About rituals and crosses
And some other foolish'things ;
TisH,s sacraments he watches,
To His Sabbath Hay he clings.
Oh I watch then, ye men and maidens,
Tiy your actions in the light
God IS coming to His garden! '
To make all things pure and bright.
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INTEODUCTrON TO THE CHRISTIAN'S WED-
DING RING.
O let me sing a note of praise,
Lot ov'ry note through earth resound,
One that will make all voices raise
A strain to draw all nations round.
It must bo simple, sweet and pure,
i^'ach heart must play upon tho string,
Tho harmonies must be so sure
That earth will loud its praises ring.
Five tones this melody requires.
Four parts to be together sung,
A skilful leader full of fire,
With instruments in concert strung.
The words all drawn from Holy Writ,
That source from which all knowledge springs^
Without the hollow earthly wit
Which constantly around us rings.
Hear! oh ye kings, give oar princess !
Christian unity I sing.
Let our love, the heart's best incense,
All heathen minds to Jesus bring.
When we weed and rake our garden.
Cherish this sweet and lovely plant, —
Earth will be the lovely Eden
All our senses will enchant.
The curse Christ will from earth efface
When we in love God's truth embrace ;
Man's labor will some work achieve —
The Tree of Life will drop its seed.
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To Jler Royal Highness Victoria Adelaide
Jjouisa, Crown Princess of Prussia ,
Dear Christian Princess :
Mary
You who havG tasted all the happiness that is to be
found in the world in its present state, and havo also
in the death of your dear father boon made perfect
through suffering, will perhaps be prepared to look
forward with one of the humble subjects of Queen
Victoria to the time when the evil spirit will bo
banished from the earth, and man will bo restored to
that state of perfect happiness in which he was first
created ; but, before that time can arrive, woman must
put forth her energies for the reformation of the
world. It was woman's influence that induced man
to disobey, it must be woman's influence that will
make man obedient. God made light and goodness ;
man chooses darkness and evil. This world has been
and still is the battle-field of two great Spirits ; and,
from the creation of man, the Evil Spirit has always
succeeded in making woman a Wi'.uig instrument for
the accomplishmeni of his designs ; he has had power
to tempt her with the pleasures and vanities of the
world, but it must not be so now. When the seventh
angel sounded we are told " The four and twenty
elders which sat before God on their seats fell upon
their faces and worshipped God, saying, we give thee
thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast,
and art to come, because thou hast taken to thee thy
great power and hast reigned," Eev. xi, 16-1*7. When
God's Holy Spirit reigns the temptations of the
world will no longer prevail. From the sentence of
Adam wo learn that God requires perfect obedience.
After God had made known his will to Koah, respect-
ing the ark, we are told that he did according to all that
God commanded him. Gen. vi. 22. And to Moses God
said " what thing soever I command you observe to
doit, tliouHhallnotadd thoroto no. diminish from it. '
Deut. xii. 32. Christ taught Ilis diaciplos that no
divided Horvico would satisfy tho groat Father of
mankind." " Yo cannot sorvo God and Mammon,"
Matt. vi. 24, aro His own words. Tluis it is quite
phiin if wo wish the punishment of our sins to be
removed; if we desire our last enemy, death, to bo
destroyed, and sickness, pain and sorrow to be with-
drawn from the earth wo must give up all our crooked
ways, and adhere closely to the rules laid down and tho
example set by our Blessed Lord and Saviour in Goti's
holy word. Common sense and one's own consci3nco
tell us that the Bible has been written by men, not
angels, under the influence of God's Holy Spirit to
guide us to the paths of peace and holiness. All
Christians accept it as the word of God. It is an
inexhaustible mine, which has through the devices
of the evil one produced different kinds of ore. But
the Tree of Life, like the gold in tho mine, is there,
and will be found when Christians make a united
effort to dig, purify and circulate tho pure metal.
There is not a man, woman or child living who in
sight of a rich mine would not try and extract some
ore for tho benefit of his perishing body, yet many
pious souls are contented to take the Bible second-
hand, leaving the soul's nourishment in the hands
of the church or sect to which tho accident of birth
has attached them. They thus lose the privilege of
having direct intercourse with their Maker ; they fail
to make themselves known to God, and must bo in
danger of hearing Christ say ** verily T say unto you
I know you not. — " Matt. xxv. 12. Every individual
should search the Scriptures, day by day, for the
purpose of learning how to please God, which alone
can make us happy; Christ's commandment is *' Search
the Scriptures. — John v. 39. The disciples searched
them daily. — Actsxvii. 11, we learn in them that "God
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from his creatures. When Christians are united in
their mode of worship, they will make love tho groat
principle of their actions, instead of being wrapped
up in self and its surroundings. Wo must bring our
minds to see that the whole human race are all
children of one great Creator. We will then
realize the greatness of tho work of creation and
redemption, and we will look forward with faith to
the time when God will glorify the earth, yes, drive
from it evil and its consequences, of sickness, sorrow
and death, for could we but give up the little taste of
sin that our Father Adam gave us a relish for, this
world would become tho Paradise it was before the
Fall. The first sacred ordinance we are informed of
is matrimony ; it is true, it is not necessary to salva-
tion, but, if engaged in witi the basis of true love and
with the blessing of God, it is a sacrament, from the
abuse of which springs all the misery in the world.
Woman was created to be the comforter, com[)anion,
f'-'end of man. When two persons approach tho
altar with true love in their hearts, imploring God's
blessing on their union, breaking a wine glass and
spilling tho wine, or using a ring as an outward sign,
they perform a sacramental service, and Christ's
presence at the marriage feast must have been intend-
ed to show that it was a sacred service ; and by his
changing the water into wine, he endeavoured to
teach them what he afterwards told then, that " ihey
twain shall be one flesh." Death may part, but cannot
sever the tie^ and though the Devil has induced men
to make laws of divorce, no such laws are of any use,
for Christ has said " what therefore God hath joined
together, let not man put asunder. — " Mat. xix. 6.
Now it is engaged in lightly, with little knowledge
of each other's character, in fact without anything
solid for its basis. The female education is not
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practical; there is little or no preparation for the
Holoran service to be engaged in, but the outward
adorning of the body. Flirting is the device which
the Devil is using to destroy the pure actions of the
heart; even little children flirt in this age; the sim-
plicity of childhood is destroyed by it ; the habit from
practise becomes part of the nature. The married
woman must have beaux, one husband is v.oi enough ;
she in her youth has been deceived, she in turn
becomes a deceiver, and life is one constant scene of
acting. The holy and sacred feeling of love which
God planted in the heart of man, that mystic bond of
union, which enables us to anticipate each other'n
Avishes, to live as it were out of self in each other,
becoming day by day purer and holier, guiding each
other on tl:e road that leads to the Holy City that St.
John saw coming down out of Heaven. — Eev. xxi. 2 —
this love, like the cactus that blooms once in a
hundred years, is so seldom seen that when it appears
it is not ajipreciated, and dies out for want of culture.
It is the object of the evil sjiirit to make us believe
that happiness consists in outward appearances, to
possess riches, honor, and power he persuades us to
lie and deceive, slowly fettering on the chains which
bind US to the grave. Christian women, to break these
chains, destroy the works of the Devil, and arrest the
angel of Death, is a noble wori< ; I call you to
enlist in it ! The English language is the only one
that can boast of a word so expressive as the word
home ; every home should be a haven of rest, a place
of happiness, in which the Christian graces should
shine as stars in the firmament. When wives and
daughters make it the aim of their lives to make
home happy, the angel of peace will descend to the
earth, bringing with him happiness and plenty.
Then wine, which was intended to make glad the
heart of man, will no longer prove a mocker and
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perfect day." — Prov. iv. 18, and it is only by walking
in this path that wo can bocomo like the being Adam
was before he sinned. " At that day shall a man
look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to
the Holy One of Israel. And he shall not look to the
altars the work of his hands, neither shall respect
that which his fingers have made, either the groves or
the images." — Isaiah xvii. 7, 8. And Ezekiol, in his
36th chap., sees this desolate earth once more looking
"like the garden of Eden." In those days men will
realize that there are four temples, not four religions,
for the latter four will entwine themselves around the
parent vine, and the birds of the air will lodge in the
branches. Ist. All will then know Christ as the true
temple. 2nd. Every believer as a living temple. 3rd.
The gospel church as the mystical temple.— Eph .ii. 21.
4th. Heaven the everlasting temple. All will see the
necessity for public and private prayer, both of which
our Lord taught by example and precept. To public
prayer he alluded when he said, ** If two of you shall
agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall
ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is
in heaven, for where two or three are gathered
together in my name, there am I in the midst of •
them." — Matt, xviii. 19. These words, an eminent
Divine calls the " charters of public worship. In these
we seem to approach God as a society incorporated
by the royal charter of his Son, uniting in prayer
for the same wants and petitions."
The beautiful liturgy of the Episcopal Church is
suitable to the wants of all mankind, and it has the
advantage of a perfect agreement between minister
and people. There are times, no doubt, when extem-
pore prayer is a benefit, but in the House of God
minister and people are not agreed, unless both are
uttering the same words at the same time. No one
can know what the minister is going to say before
he utte
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he utters it. In the Romish mass the priest offers
the mass for the people and prays for them in an
imknown tongue, so they are not agreed. It thus
follows that, if we fall short in practise, wo have the
greater cause for humiliation because the privilege
both of the doctrine and discipline of prayer in which
priest and people are both agreed is what Christ
commands. But it is not sufficient that priest and
people utter the same words at the same time ; the
hearts of both must be lifted with the words, to the
throne of God ; we must try to feel a holy reverence
in Ilis temple for the great God who condescends to
allow us to worship in a house made with hands his
grout and glorious majest3^ Our first aim should bo
to realize that God is everywhere, in earth, and sky,
and sea, and though not now visibly present in the
temple, as he appeared in the Shekinah to the Jews,
still he clothed himself with a perfect human body
and dwelt among men, to show us that from child-
hood to manhood we may overcome evil with good,
and, though he has withdrawn his human body from
the earth, His Holy Spirit communes with our spirit
in the bread and wine at his own table, exactly in
the same way as it did in that glorious Sight in which
he spoke to man from off the mercy seat, " Take eat
this is my Body" "This is my blood of the New
Testament. — " Mark xiv. 22, 24. Eemark that Christ
does not say that he changes the bread and wine into
his body and blood, but that he inhabits it. His
Spirit is to be found in it by the use of a perfect
j faith, and the soul that has had the spirit of goodness
[planted in it through the waters of baptism, has
renewed and strenghtened these vows at the hands of
a bishop in confirmation, and is constantly fed, at
regular and stated periods, with the Holy Fire in the
bread and wine, will, through this perfect faith, daily
increase in holiness and in the knowledge of the Lord.
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Ezra says, that tbo TirHlintha " said unto tlicm that
thoy Hhould not cat of'iho mont holy thint?H till (hero
stood up a priest with Urim and with Thumniim. —
Ezra, ii. (13. This was something attached to the breast
plate l»y which the mind of God was made known to
the high priest when enquired of them in cases of
difficulty. Now Christ was that priest, ho both knew
and did the will of Ood ; therefore the time has corao
for us to eat of holy things as allowed by tho
Tirshutha. Spiritual life requires spiritual food to
sustain it. All creeds and all nations can aj,'reo to
supply their bodily vants; at the same market all
feed and dress their bodies with the richest and best,
at regular and stated intervals ; but alas I how divided
how careless, how unsettled, are the arrangements
for the nourishment of the soul — that soul which is
always progressing either in good or evil I It may
bo that it has throe progressive states, finding per-
fection only when found worthy to become an angel
in tho third heaven. The first state of trial, the
present, which is passing rapidly away. The second
the place to which our Lord descended when his Holy
Spirit left his perfect body, which groaned under the
separation, for it exclaimed, " My God my God why
hast thou forsaken me.- -Mat. xxvii.46. It is the body
that speaks,the soul and spirit travel to that unknown
land but are speechless, Christ went then to the place
where our spirits go when they leave the body.
It cannot be that they there enjoy the presence
of God ; for after Christ rose from the grave he told
Mary not to touch him for he had not yet ascended
to his Father, then he shewed himself " alive after his
passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them
forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to
tho kingdom of God." — Acts, i. 3 ; and this kingdom
will be the third and last place of trial, or perhaps
preparation would bo a better word, for the glory
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Lingdom
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which awaits us. Iwaiah says, men have not heard nor
porcoivod by tho oar, noithor hath tho oyo soon, O
God, boHJdos thoo, what ho hath prepared for him that
waitoth for Him. — " Isaiah Ixiv. 4. Tho throe first
chapters in the Bible shew what misery Adam
brought on the human race by listening to tho
buggestions of the Kvil Spirit. The three last chap-
tors in the Bible show what happiness ho will regain
whou ho follows tho guidance of tho Good Spirit.
Tho Evil Spirit does not give us even a few years of
perfect happiness in return for all our service. The
influence of the Good Spirit causes the Soul to do
gooil and great works which are always like tho oven
and regular ebbings of the tide returning to the
mind with pleasing and happy thoughts, bringing to
it peace and contentment, which spoaku of something
lasting, something groat to bo obtained from a loving
and heavenly Father. Earthly parents spoil thoir
children by over-indulgence, they fail in not toaching
them that this earth is yet a divided kingdom, and
that earthly desires are not always to be granted, the
consequences are that the pleasing of the body is the
ruling passion. Thus the body becomes unaccustom-
ed to any act of self denial and unprepared to deny
itself any fancied pleasure. Those who do sell their
souls for tho gratification of any evil passion have
but little enjoyment. Thus the drunkard finds plea-
sure in drinking, but how does he fool when he is
sober. The miser finds pleasure in his gold, how
does he feel when he loses it or leaves it. The sharper
finds pleasure in cheating you, if he gains but a few
dollars by the act, how does he feel when he thinks
of tho account of his stewardship which he must one
day give. The smuggler is delighted if by conceal-
ing some lace and gloves on his person ho can deeoive
the officer, by so doing he may deceive them, but
does he thus think to deceive his God, alas, no I —
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"All tliingH nro nnkod and opened unto the oyoH of him
wiih whom we have to do. "-- Ileb. iv. 13. But good-
ness though slandered, abused, and denpisod sues in
the distance the city that " 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." —
Rev. xxi. 23, and feeln the cross light that leads him
to the gates, those gates which Christ will ojjon to
those that approach the Father through him, for ho
has said " T nm the way, the truth and the life. The
wicked do not enjoy the company of the good, even
in the present state of tlio world, how can they hope
to enjoy a city " that there shall in no wise enter
into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever
worketh abomination or maketh a lie." — Rev. xxi.
2t. Christians are now like a house divided against
itself, our Lord warned us that such a house
cannot stand. If the great struggle of good and
evil is at hand, the Devil is preparing his spirits
to "go forth unto the kings of the earth and
of the whole world, to gather them to the battle
of that gi*eat day of God Almighty." — Rev. xvi.
14. And he gathered them to ^hat place called
in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. None can tell
where this place is or when this battle will be
fought, but we are told in the Bible that the result of
it is to be the complete overthrow of the power of the
evil Spirit ; he and all his works are to be destroyed
and withdrawn from this beautiful earth. "With this
end so clearly before us it esj)ecially behoves us to
try and cr ne to some united belief on the subject of ,]|
sacramental rites and ordinances. Some very pious
and clever persons believe that there are seven
sacraments, some say there are five, some allow there
may be three, our church teaches two only as gener-
ally necessary to salvation. The word sacrament is
not to be found in the Bible, but our souls must require
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food a.s well as our bodies to suBlain thom, and Christ,
both by procoi)t and oxami»lc, enforced the need of
certain means which wo niUHt use if wo wish to be
washed in his blood. Baptism and Christ's own sup-
per are as it were the principal of thoso, but God him-
aelf instituted Matrimony, it must, thoroforo bo a
sacrament. Confimation, it is true, was not actually
commanded by Christ, but then it was the custom in
the early church, and is as it were a part of Ba])tism
and 80 must partalco of its nature. It says in Acts viii.
16, 17, " Only they wore baptized in the name of
the Lord Jesus, then laid they their hands on them
and they received the Holy Ghost." Every ordi-
nance by which the soul receives spiritual food or life
from the Holy Spirit of God must bo ;.acramental,
for a sacrament is really spiritual food, for they are
the channels through which our spiritual life must
flow, and whon wo partake of them in God's own way
Christ will give us of tho living water which the poor
woman of Samaria had within her roach but failed
to acquire. At present wo are fulfilling faithfully
tho picture Christ described " five in one house
divided, throe against Iwo, and two against three." —
L'.t.ke xii. 52. All, whether Indians, Turks or Hot-
tentots, have immortal souls, but observe the etroct
of Bajitism on the soul. Even those who have planted
but not watered that seed with the other sacraments
are more civilized, they have at least made one ntep
in tho right road. Tho sun, moon and stars all give
us light, none can tell exactly which of those jiroduces
it because it is a thing that comes from God him.solf.
We see plainly that as the body is constituted it
needs tho light of all these as also tho sky to contain
them, and the air to convoy the light to us ; tho loss of
any one of them would seriously affect us. Thus
also is tho light of the soul transmitted to us. The
sun and moon, like Baptism and the Lord's supper,
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are absolutely necessary. The stars attending on the
moon, like Confirmation following Baptism. The sky
ro-^n'osonts Matrimony, the air ordination, for it is
through the priesthood that the sacramentn are
administered to us. This seems to prove plainly what I
stated at the beginning, that light and goodness come
from the good Spirit, darkness and wickednoiSH from
the evil Spirit, and as all God's works are regular and
united in their movements, so if we wish to please
him and to have him to reign over us we must become
One on these doctrinal points and " worship the father
in spirit and in truth." — John iv. 23. One can
hardly realize any one accepting the office of a priest
without feeling that the ordinance which fits him for
that office is a sacrament requiring both study and
close communion with God such as Moses and Aaron
enjoyed. It was Christ himself who first appeared
as a priest under the name of Melchizadec, then God
called Aaron to be a prophet, Ex. vii. 1, or as he is
afterwards called a priest ; his successors continued in
office till our Saviour came, they perhaps do still in the
Jewish church. Then came our Saviour in human
form, and though not visible he is still our great High
Priest ; but his chosen twelve apostles and seventy
disciples left their successors who from generation to
generation have filled, and do still fill the priestly
office inthe christian church. " The gates of hell have
not prevailed against" the three churches which St.
Peter ploTited and the branches which have sprung from
them. The commission that Christ gave them was, "Go
ye unto all the world and preach the Gospel to every
creature," Mark xvi. 15, and St. Matthew gives it, "Go
ye therefore and teach all nation8,bapti8ing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of tho Holy
Ghost." Fere their work is clearly set down to teach
and pre ch and baptize, had Christ given them power
to forgive sins it would have been mentioned here. It
palsy
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is true tliat St. John in his 20th chapter says that
Christ, after bestowing on the apostles the Holy
Ghost, said, "Whosoever sins ye remit they are
remitted unto tiiem and whosoever sins ye retain
they are retained." But had this been intended to
give them some extraordinary power of forgiving
sins he would surely have explained it also to Thomas,
for he was not with them, and did not believe that
Christ had risen; but Jesus convinced him of his want
of faith by shewing him the print of the nails and
the hole in his side, and Thomas exclaimed at once
" my Lord and my God," making Thomas, by his
public confession, an example of what Christ required,
viz., that we should, in the words of a public confession
such as is found in our prayer book, confess our sins
before God, and then the priest bas the power to give
a general absolution such as the one that follows it.
But the consequence of sin is death. That, no priest has
the power to destroy. The Jews believed that none
could forgive sins but God alone. — Mark ii. Y. Christ
tried to teach them that ho was divine and had the
poAver to drive away sin from the earth. As soon as
he desired the man sick of the palsy to rise, " He
arose, took the bed and went forth before them all." —
Mark ii. 12. And as soon as ho speaks the word
the christian church which is now shaking with the
palsy will unite and encircle the whole earth.
The body of Christ was made "perfect through
suffering." — Heb. ii. 10. Christians and Christianity
are undergoing a trial of affliction to fit them for
greater happiness than man has ever known. Every
thing worldly ends in death but the hope of the
christian is life, and the triumph of Christianity will
be the destruction of Death. The saints in heaven
are said to have come through much tribulation. —
Rev. vii. 14. They have encountered the evil Spirit
and conquered him. What they have done with the
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help of God's Holy Spirit wo can do. But wo never
wiP conquer death till wo destroy our idol and its
worship. Idolatry never flourished more among tho
Jews than it does now among christians. Go to our
christian meetings, what is the chief topic of conver-
sation ? It is money. A savage suddenly transported
from his wilds to one of our assemblies with the
power of understanding our language, would suppose
that money, not God's glory, was the chief end of man.
The evil Spirit now holds such sway over the hearts
of men that Y .. makes both ministers and people
believe that */ith money they can buy their soul's
salvation. Congregations say, we pay the money, wo
shall have for our minister the one wo choose.
These monied men that do him worship say this
minister must honor us, and in general they do.
In their eagerness to obtain the cursed thing, all
seem to forget that God has promised to give
what is needful to those that trust in him, and
he will both provide tho individual and tho church
that labors and trusts all its wants to him. They
need have no fears while they do their duty and what
their conscience tells them is right. God sometimes
tries christians sorely, demands all and every thing
that wo value to see of what our faith is made,
whether wo really believe that ho has tho power
which can make all things work together for our
good or whether our faith is a dead faith, trusting
only in human aids and human gifts. Wo are free
agents in the choice of gOod or evil, and though the
banner that waves around us sometimes conceals even
from ourselves the side on which we aro fighting, yet
tho "iiallest action of our lives serves some great and
allwiso purpose, and is gradually preparing us either
for an angel of light or of darkness. Christ has taught
us tho necessity of love and charity between all
christians, " By this shall all men know that ye are
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they all may be one, John xvii. 21, wiu yet, I
believe, restore sweet and holy communion between
all tlio christian churches. It is certain that such
love did exist in the early ages of the Church before
earthly ambition and unchristian feelings were
planted by tho evil Spirit. "We read that Peter was
accompanied by six brethren when he went to
Cornelius, Acts xi. 12, and when Paul departed
from Ephesus to go to Macedonia we are told tliat he
had with him, " Sopater of Berea, and of tho Thessa-
lonians Aristarchus and Secundus ; and Gaius of
Derbe, and Timotheus ; and of Asia, Tychicus and
Trophimus. — Acts xx. 4. In the three last verses of this
chapter we read that they prayed together and wept
very sore at parting from Paul, for they felt that they
should see his face no more. Then in the apostles'
time christians admitted to their commt't^iion those
who came from other countries, they contributed to
tho relief of distressed believers in all parts, and they
exchanged letteis and advice. " A bishop in those
days, quoted from early history, could give any mem-
ber of his church a letter which when presented
would admit him into all the privileges of christian
fellowship. We have in the epistle of St. Clement,
Bishop of Eome and the Roman church, addressed to
the Church of Corinth before the end of the first cen-
tury on occasion of a schism in the latter church, an
instance of fraternal intercourse and solicitude. And
in the following centuries, the epistle of Dyonisius,
Bishop of Corinth, to many churches in Pontus, ("rete,
and that of the Council of Antioch to all tho churches
are further examples of the same practice. We learn
that even in the second century, the Church of Rome
was remarkable for tho extent of its charities to the
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distressed and j^ersecuted christians in the East, and
Dyonisius of Alexandria, in the following century,
attests that the same truly christian conduct was still
in full exercise, and its benefits were felt even in the
remote regions of Arabia." 'Tis true that even in
St. Paul's time the Church of Corinth was full of par-
ties and divisions, for even Paul and Barnabas had a
sharp contention and separated. — Acts xv. 39. Though
they may have had different opinions on some sub-
jects they felt one common bond of interest in their
christian work. St. Paul exhorted them to remember
that Christ was not divided, and St. Judo says,
those '* who separate themselves are sensual, having
not the Spirit." — If we divide man's sojourn on
earth into periods, the first including the time which
elapsed from the creation to the deluge, we find that
men grew gradually worse and worse till God swept
him off the earth by a flood and then repeopled the
earth again through Noah and his three sons, four
men whose descendants soon forgot the great display
of power which the Almighty had shown by cover-
ing the earth with water, and filled with pride con-
ceived the idea of building the church or tower of
Babel. Then God, we are told, came down, and, by
confounding their language, scattered them over the
whole earth. Then follows the call of Abraham whose
descendants God made his peculiar care. God watched
over them, guarded them, guided them, and fed them
directly from heaven, and yet they failed to worship
him as he wished to be worshipped. Then Christ came
on ear.th as a Saviour, which is the fourth period.
" Ho came unto his own and his own received him
not." — John i. 11. The Jews were his own chosen
ones, but they were too proud to believe that God
could condescend to come on earth in the humble
manner in which Christ came ; and now if we are on
the eve of a fifth period let us not, like our fore-
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fathers, sink our ship on the rock of prido, but, uniting
in christian lovo and charity, may wo sail out into
the beautiful clear blue waters, and with strong faith
at the helm wo will yet lay hold on the Tree of Life.
But at present wo are all suffering from this disease.
The Jew cannot yet see that the world has been
redeemed. Christians do not believe that God will
soon glorify it. When the Holy Ghost descended
upon the apostles " they were all with one accord in
one place." — Acts ii. 1. So that they, at least, then
must have been united. Has not the Almighty yet
shown us enough of his power ? Why is it we cannot
see that ho is determined that we shall loarn to know
him through the eye of faith, such faith as will teach
us to foel that he can make man a perfect being,
that he can eject the poison of evil from his veins,
and drive sin irom this beautiful earth. In 1851,
when Prince Albert, your beloved earthly parent,
drew together all the nations of the earth for a
display of industry, did not man show tho greatness
of his intellect and tho wonderful power of the mind
that God has given him ; what would not that mind
produce when united in tho great Christian cause ?
Those whose privilege it was to feast their senses on
the beautiful structure, designated tho Crystal Palace
of Concord, in which the brotherhood of nations
was celebrated — who gazed on the various works of
art which filled up and decorated that earthly temj)!©
and greeted with acclamations of joy our beloved
Queen and her illustrious consort, for planning and
labouring to engage the intelligence and mechanical
genius of all nations — should consider what a far
greater work is waiting one great master-mind, the
united efforts of body and soul, to prepare the world
for the reign of Christ upon earth. Tho skilful
manner in which the Germans conducted their war
with Franco prove plainly that, if such a nation
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could bo induced to unite in promoting our great
eternal intorosts, and make a great effort for the
union of the Christian churches, the millennium would
begin to dawn on the earth, — that time when Christ
" shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired
in all them that believe.—" 2nd Thes. i. 10. Chris-
tians are now indeed a stumbling block through
their divisions. St. Paul's warning has been unheeded
" Take heed lost by any means this liberty of yours
become a stumbling block to them that are weak." —
Ist Cor. viii. 9. Christ, as prophesied by Isaiah, is the
stumbling stone, that they, the Jews, the builders,
have rejected, — " And he shall bo for a sanctuary ;
but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence
to both the houses of Israel." — Isa. viii. 14; and pause
and consider if our divisions arc a stumbling block
to the Jews. God has threatened to consume the
stumbling blocks with the wicked. — Zeph. i. 3, and in
in the 14th verse it says : " The great day of the
Lord is near and hasteth greatly." They are, there-
fore, to be destroyed before the reign of Christ; and
the 18th verse says, " neither their silver nor their
gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the
Lord's wrath I St. John was permitted to see in a
vision the marriage of the Lamb, the encircling of
the Christian Church with a marriage ring. — Rev.
xix. 7. We are told that Christ will then find five
wise virgins, and five foolish ones without oil in their
lamps. May the Christian Church soon begin to
trim her lamps for he comes and is near. " Blessed
and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection j
on such the second death hath no power, but they shall
bo priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign
with him a thousand years." It thus seems quite
plain that we are to look forward to two resurrec-
tions, one before the thousand years and one after ;
those who have the privilege of coming back to this
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earth with a glorified body will meet the Lord in the
air at the judgment day, for St. Paul says that " the
Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump
of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first. — 1st
Thes. iv. 16. Then the kingdoms of this world are
become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ,
and he shall reign for ever and ever." — Rev. xi. 15.
Councils and Synods have been the means of doing
much harm to the Christian Church. They have
raised uj) among ministers feelings of pride and
passion, making them wish for high-sounding names
and high positions, which has taken from them much
of that respect which the office requires, and given
the laity a power which they never should have had
in God's house.
ON SYNODS.
It gives me pain, indeed, to see
Synods making useless laws ;
They seem to meet to disagree,
Quibbling about little flaws.
Are not the rules God Moses gave.
And which Christ alone did teach,
Enough both priests and all to save ?
Hear and heed them I beseech.
Christ told us other laws were vain,
All tradition^. He forbid ;
But them he said we must maintain
And then walk as Moses did.
Mankind lives but to break these laws;
Generations come and go,
Feeding Death's ever open jaws —
Satan walking to and fro.
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Those Canons that our Synods make
Do not check him in the least ;
lie smiles as each new law is cast ;
On men's doctrines he does feast.
God should be a Bishop's only advisor, and from him
he will receive all that is necessary to advance him and
his flock in the paths of holiness, for Christ has said
"Lo, lam with you always." Let Bishops, Priests and
Deacons meet together at times for the breaking of |
bread with prayer and praise, and their hearts will be-
come more and more fitted for the reign of Christ. It is
possible that the seventh thousand year of the world
may be the Sabbath of the Lord, the rest for t.he|
righteous before they are caught uj) in the clouds to be j
ever with the Lord, for though God sees us and knows I
us, each and all, we will need some time to prepare us
to worship God in his heavenly temple. The Lord {
informed Moses, Ex. xix. 6, that this people should i
" Be unto him a kingdom of priests and an holy
nation." Daniel says, *' that the saints of the Most
High shall possess the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world." This seems to
infer that this world was intended to be the kingdom
of the righteous, yes, and they will yet obtain
possession of it.
Dear Christian Princess, I have addressed you in
this letter without the etiquette which is your due,
because I feel that in such a spiritual work there is I
no need of ceremony. I have drawn your attention
in this letter to the great points of contention among j
Christians ; but the key note on which all the har-
mony depends is the three-fold essence of our great!
Creator, which is truly a mystery, but still a right
knowledge of it is necessary to our salvation. Plato,
who lived 360 years before the Christian era, taught!
his disciples that there were three persons in the
Godhead, the Supreme Good, the mind and the soul.
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Christ'H divinity in his actions, had no contentions
on thi3 subject, but wore all united in its views,
for this was the principal feature that distinguished
them from the Jews of that time. The Greek Church,
whoso link is not yet broken, appears to have pre-
served this doctrine in its purest state, the Three all
eepial and co-eternal. Moses tells us we are made
after God's own image, and we are quite conscious of
having a body, mind, and soul, or spirit, for we feel
within us the power of thought, and also a sort of
electric communion with the Groat Being who directs
all our ways. You will see that I have, in the other
parts of the book, tried to make this, and all the
other points on which Christians contend, as plain
as verse can make them, and if through God's bless-
ing you, and the German people, can be induced to
take an interest in the work, I may hoj)e that it will
sow the seed of Christian unity whose first blossom
will be the conversion of the Jewish people to the
acknowledgment of Christ as the Messiah, who then
will return as King of kings and Lord of lords ;
when they will once more enjoy that sweet inter-
course with Jehovah which it was the privilege of
the Fathers to entertain. " And the Lord will create
upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion and upon
her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day, and the
shining of a flaming fire by night, for upon all the
glory shall be a defence, and there shall bo a Taber-
nacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat and
for a place of refuge." That you may bo one of those
of whom St. John writes as follows is the sincere wish
of the writer of this letter.
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Sovon promiflos our Lord has made
To those who ovorcomo,
And ov'ry word that He has said
Moat surely will bo done.
The tree that from man's sight was hid,
When he first disoboy'd,
Will in our gardens grow amid
The fruit that man betray'd.
The seoond death no pow'r shall have
On those His favor 'd ones,
Their bodies glorified shall live,
And wear the crown they've won.
With hidden manna God will feed,
A white stone will obtain,
This stone, bis passport, none shall read,
But him who it does name.
Nations shall be ruled by him,
Who, faithful to the end.
Controls and keeps himself from sin.
When Satan does contend.
He shall be cloth'd in raiment white,
His sins all wash'd away.
His new name Christ will bring to light
And glorify his clay.
A pillar in God's temple soon,
No more to be displac'd,
Three glorious names will on Him gleam.
When sin is all effac'd.
A throne is for such saints prepar'd
With Christ on earth to reign,
A palace free from pain or care.
Then love all hearts will chain.
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OUR FIRST TARENTS.
Adam and Eve a lesson toaoh,
To which attention I beseech ;
Reflect mankind, this happy pair
Were placed in Eden free of care.
The earth all drest in beauteous green
Blooming fruits around are seen ;
To work and keep, to taste and eat,
To be of living things the chief.
One little thing his God forbid —
The reason was from Adam hid —
God gave him all that ho did need,
And yet he stole the little seed.
Wech after week man steals the rest
God has chosen man's faith ta test ;
Sun, moon and stars their God obey
Move on and on from day to day.
But man spurns all his Maker's love,
And welcomes not the Heavenly Dove.
What more could man or woman want
Than God to tie the marriage knot ?
Adam and Eve did not this prize,
But thought to be like God's more wise ;
They tasted of the hidden fruit,
Which made them blind and deaf and mute.
If Eve had trusted in her God,
And bid the serpent fear nis rod,
Made Aua,m noble, wise and great,
How happy then the marriage state.
God's glory all around to cheer,
What need would they have had to fear,
Their bodies ne'er have turned to dust
Nor out of Paradise been thrust.
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Thunder and lightning novor hoard,
But nngoln Hinging liko tho birds,
Clouds no'or havo floated o'er tho sky
Nor toara bodow'd man's lovely eye.
Tho earth -would never then havo quak'd.
Nor firo bonoath have made hor shake,
Man's body novor known a pain,
Nor ever hid from God with shame.
Our infant days without a tear,
Nor ever cra«ilod in a bior.
Childhood's gay hopes, and happy Bong
Have cheor'd us all our lives along.
Our weekly rest and daily toil
Have girded man with virtue's coil,
Ho selfish then would not have been
Every Evo have boon a quoon.
Each to tho other would have brought
Holy love and heavenly thought,
God's glory boon their chief delight
And with him walked by day and night.
Our spirits, daily fed with grace,
Would ne'er havo sought another place,
No souls to Satan have been bound
To follow him ^Dr ever round.
But all our bodies, spirits, souls
Must pray the angol with live coals
Our lips to touch, our mouths to cleanse.
Ere Jesus to this oarth descends.
Now women, maidens seo how Eve
Herself and Adam did deceive I
'Tis time her children should awake
Some new and great endeavors make.
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To banish death fVom this our land
For wo aro now but bags of sand ;
Time wearing all and each away,
Our lifo is but a little day.
United all in one strong band,
Evil to crush on every hand ;
Never to flirt, deceive nor lie.
Then Death will take his wings and fly.
A little band I'll surely find
Who to God's rules themselves will bind,
Without regard to church and state,
Or thinking what's to be their fate ;
Will trust to God in each event,
And do each duty as its sent,
Each in the home whore God has placed,
No matter how those duties taste ;
The Sabbath in his temple spend
To pray him every blessing send.
The Tree of Life God then will give
And we eternally will live.
Two Spirits now our bodies hold,
For to evil we have been sold;
But Christ has bought us for his own,
Wash'd in his blood we shall be known.
When this kingdom Christ comes to claim
Satan himself to bind and chain,
Man will not then good people shun, —
They will his kings and priests become.
Hasten Oh Lord 1 this blessed time,
Send down some great some wondrous sign,
To cause thy people to unite
And worship thee with all their might I
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THE SECOND EVE.
The Blessed Yirgin now behold,
Her pictures always hung in gold,
Some do adore, some worship, them,
And artists make her their great gem.
But Oh ! how was it when on earth
Ere she to Jesus did give birth ?
"What shame and sorrow, sadness, woe,
Was her portion here below.
An angel had from heaven to come
To tell her husband fear to shun ;
The power of the Holy One
A perfect human body won.
No palace then was open'd wide
Where she her lovely babe (jould hide.
But in a manger he was laid —
A stable was her only shade.
'Tis plain she but a woman was,
Endow'd with wisdom for the cause ;
Eve's purest daughter good and chaste
Of all earth's trials here did taste.
She knew her Son was all divine.
She saw in him two natures shine ;
All round her she bid him obey —
Be sure you do what he does say.
She learnt to love him and to fear
May we like her his words revere
She never gave us any sign,
To make us think She was divine.
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Eve as a Spirit God did see
And then in fire appeared he
Surely God could as Jesus come
His work on earth himself have done.
THE SABBATH EYE.
How sweet and peaceful is the rest
Of the Christian's Sabbath eve,
Sweet foretaste of the holiness
Which will us soon from sin relieve.
Our pleasures then not mixed with pain,
All our sorrows turn'd to joy ;
Christians, then, in more than name,
Our souls in virtue will « mploy.
No thistles then will grcvr apace.
No thorns to pierce one's very heart j
The earth will thea begin to taste
The sweetness plann'd in God's great chart.
Truth then will shine in every place,
Faith will be our guiding star ;
God's glory glowing in each face,
And nothing to annoy or jar.
Beauty, then, the eye will behold.
And in virtue all will be drest.
Bright gems and pearls and wealth untold.
Will be shining on each breast.
Our eyes will never lose their sight.
No deafness will our ears offend,
Our hair be glossy, teeth be white
Our youthful days will never end.
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Then all will learn that " God is love,"
His wisdom all will then perceive,
The patience of the Holy Dove,
And mercy that could Christ receive.
As an atonement for man's sin,
The fallen angels to replace,
That when man heav'n enters in,
He may not like them lose his place.
How great the God that shows such love
To wilful, wicked, sinful men,
Who always watches from above,
And bids the angel take a pen.
And each and ev'ry holy act,
Down in the Book of Life he writes,
And promises to road these facts,
As soon as Satan takes his flight,
With all those who have worshij^'d him,
To the region now call'd hell.
There they will live with him in sin,
In torment there for ever dwell.
No Sabbath rest for such as these,
They will in that time be wit'idrawn.
But to return when Christ shall please.
To call them on the judgment morn.
Cbme then, beware, at once prepare
A rest is waiting for the blest,
A Sabbath eve of virtues rare,
With peace and love will all be drest.
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JEWISH ALTAR.
On the sanctuary where Jehovah dwelt
The guardian cherubims spread their wings,
'Mid golden flowers, trees and fruit man felt,
lie might have heard the very angels sing.
When first with God's glory the altar shone.
How wonderful man did not then obey.
And seek at once for his sins to atone,
Through the great High Priest in God's chosen way.
But nothing so strong as man's stubborn will,
With evil he delights to be guided,
It pleases him best to do what is ill.
And never yet in God has confided.
Aaron, the priest, made an idol of gold.
This image made Moses' anger wax hot.
The tables of stone he dropt from his hold,
Provok'd, his God's commands he forgot.
To man at first God spake them from above.
Then wrote them with his finger on the stone.
But, ever good, call'd Moses, and in love
Ho bid him write those words with him alone.
To keep these rules quite pure God gave some laws,
A schoolmaster, to draw us near to Christ
When man these rules does practise, then the jaws
Of death will close in this our paradise.
Christ kept these laws from childhood to the grave ;
He led a life obedient and kind ;
No longer let the devil make us slaves.
And with his sins our souls and bodies bind.
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To make us his in misery and woe,
To cheat us of our heritage and right,
To make us serve him here, and then below,
He hides from us God's glories pure and bright,
I let us then at once destroy his chains.
With patience wear the cross our father sends ;
With wisdom and with love it ^zas ordained.
To fit us all for joys that have no end.
For ear hath never heard nor eye hath seen,
The joy for those that taste the Tree of Life,
That city which St. John just had a gleam,
This kingdom where God's glory is the light.
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THE CREATOR.
The Mighty One and Great I AM,
The whole universe can span ;
He moves upon the vasty deep —
All the orbs in order keep.
God did Himself to mankind give
This great world in which we live,
With all its creatures, fruits, ana trees.
All on earth, in sky, and seas.
These, when God did for man provide.
With a woman by his side,
Were perfect, good, and blooming bright,
A grand and glorious sight.
With this Great Being they did walk,
And God then to them did talk,
They knew not what it was to fear.
When they His commands did hear.
His Providence still guards and guides,
Watches over man and child,
Thovigh sin now hides Him from our sight,
All do feel His power and might.
Fresh air surrounds us night and day, '
Sun and moon, with constant ray,
Causing the earth to reproduce
Food and fruits for mankind's use.
Trees with leaves of various hue.
Drops of rain and pearly dew,
The ebbing tide and gentle flow.
Hoary frost, and pure white snow.
The lightning which obe)rs His word,
Peals of thunder often heard,
The earth itself when it does quake,
Now with terror makes men shake.
The rapids with majestic roar,
Proud St. Lawrence, at our shore,
Whose waters join the river near.
Never mix, though through we steer.
Like good and evil in the world.
Both these banners are unfurl'd.
If men the former wish to be,
They must from the latter flee.
All that the universe contains
Proves that God Almighty reigns,
But above these, the link, the chain,
To make Holy once again.
Man, who in His own image made,
God, his Maker, disobey 'd,
Is so merciful, just and wise,
That we His commands should prize.
Unseen His Spirit dwells within,
Those who struggle against sin,
The everlasting arm sustains,
When Christ's blood runs through the veins.
O ! What a great and wondrous plan,
To restore lost fallen man.
Love, mercy, justice, in it shine.
Flowing down through Christ the vine.
OUR REDEMPTION.
When Hagar fled from Abram's house,
To the wilderness she stray 'd,
Then, first, was heard the angel's voice,
He pitied her and sav'd.
He gave her water from the well.
And rais'd her thoughts on high,
The trials all which her befel
Form'd a new and sacred tie.
When Abraham put forth his hand,
With the knife his son to slay,
Then next appear'd in this fair land,
The Angel Man, Christ our stay.
To him he spake the cheering words,
« In thy seed shall all be bless'd,"
Behold the ram caught by his horns,
This sacrifice was the test.
Of thy obedience, faith and love.
Thou fearest God, that now I know,
His voice then told him from above,
This faith will a good seed sow.
Giving the treasures of the heart.
Yielding up the dearest thing,
Will give our enemy a start.
And save us many a sting.
In crosslike form on Joseph's lads,
See Jacob's hands are stretched out,
Imploring from the one who had
Redeemed, blessings without count.
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When Israel their feast did hold,
In Gilgal, near Jericho,
Joshua did himself behold
This Angel as he did go.
Then on his face he quickly fell
And worshippM him as his Lord;
Holy the phice he did him tell :
Joshua obey'd His word.
To Manoah's wife this Angel came,
Very terrible his mien,
Did wondrous things, and in the flame,
He ascended from the scene.
When David fell in Satan's snare,
And disobey'd his God,
His eyes beheld this Angel there,
Staying the Avenging Rod.
He gently to Elijah spake,
When he found him sad and lone ;
The mountains rent, the earth did shake,
But he heard that soft sweet tone.
Thus we see in the days of old,
The Angel of His presence
Was the Guardian of His fold.
And love His very essence.
Nebuchadnezzar, in his rage.
Cast three Jews into the flames,
Good men, who were so very sage,
NntViinor could their honor Rtain.
This King a golden image made,
To which all were bid to bow.
These worshipp'd God alone, they said ;
That they loudly would avow.
The King drew near this furnace hot,
Unhurt these three men he sees ;
But with them is the Son of God,
Who from death and fire frees.
Not a hair of their head was sing'd,
Their clothes did not smell of fire ;
On them was not the slightest tinge
Of harm from this King's ire.
Thus will it be on earth with man,
When his ways are all upright ;
The Angel who was Christ the Lamb,
Will show his power and might.
Darius issued in his realm,
What he thought a firm decree,
That none for thirty days should own
Any God or King save he.
For if they did, they should be cast
At once into a lion's den.
When this statute royal was pass'd,
The King signed it with his pen.
Daniel, who feared God alone,
Went into his house, and prayed
Three times a day, as he was prone,
Before the decree was made.
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In the morn, the King rose in haste,
And went to the den to see
If this man, so wise and chaste,
Could really living be.
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The mouths of the lions were shut,
The Angel of God was there ;
So Daniel was taken up ;
His accusers in despair
Were cast with their children and wives
To the lions, who devour'd.
No Angel came to save their lives,
At once they felt their power.
Thus is it now, and so will be,
With all those who Christ disown,
Evil from earth can never flee.
Till this Angel Christ alone
Can make the Jewish people bend.
And in Him Messiah see ;
To Him the Branch they must attend,
And fall low upon the knee.
Then shall all his neighbour call.
Under the fig tree and vine ;
Man and earth as before the Fall,
Will labour and love entwine.
Redemption's work, so long begun,
Christ finished on the Cross ;
None but God's dear and only Son
Could have paid the price it cost
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But it is paid ; the work is done,
And Faith is the balance sheet ;
Christ's blood our Passover has woii^
For us grace and mercy meet.
A king and prophets all foretold
The events which Christ fulfilled ;
Of David's line we him behold,
And with lamb-like meekness filled.
His Mother was a Virgin fair,
In Bethlehem He was born; .
Of humble birth, with virtues rare,
Then the star of Jacob shone.
From Herod He was forc'd to hide,
For this star brought jealous fears ;
In Galilee he did reside,
Till an angel voice he hears.
Sorrow, trial and temptation,
Assail'd Him each day and hour ;
In every situation,
He show'd almighty power.
When oppress'd and afflicted.
His mouth he opened not ;
Of no sin was He convicted.
For His vesture they cast lots.
With the wicked He met His death.
In the rich man's tomb was laid ;
And is not this what Scripture saith ?
For a ransom should be paid.
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But now behold the victory :
Death has no power to keep,
We learn from Jesus' history,
That He rose as from a sleep.
With body changed and glorified,
His Disciples heard Him talk ;
In Him, man's nature deified,
Again on this earth did walk.
When Redemption's work was done,
A cloud hid Him from our sight ;
But when the time is fully come^
Chrl 's glory will be light.
O, may a blessing now descend
On this little work of love ;
May each Christian to it lend
The patience of the Dove.
Soon may Christians of all creeds
Unite their Faith together,
Planting the Truth without the weeds,
Living in Love for ever.
Theifl Death, the dreadful curse of ski,
Will not wear our flesh away ;
The power of the Serpent's sting,
Christ, our antidote, will stay.
THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Behold ! this earth all darkness reigns,
God's spirit moves and all is light :
It opqn'd out earth's richest veins,
And show'd our Maker's power and might.
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His word, with an electric charm,
Pierc'd through the gloom and brought forth light
Encircles earth and guards from harm,
Gave birth to Adam and his wife.
All happy in a garden, they,
With God's spirit, good and true,
Roam'd about from day to day.
And nothing dark nor evil knew,
Till Eve the Serpent's voice beguil'd,
To taste the tree that God forbid ;
This sin brought death to man and child,
And the Good Spirit from us hid.
Sin spread itself, till once again
The earth was altogether dark ;
For forty days a constant rain
Drown'd all but those within the ArL.
For ten long months and forty days,
Light never shed on earth a beam
Of its life-giving growth and rays,
For water cover'd every seam.
Then once again, for mankind's sake,
The Spirit caus'd the earth to yield ;
To Noah in the Ark God spake,
And fruitful soon was man and field.
God then a covenant made with man.
The token of it is a bow,
Which always does the heavens spaa ;
Lights, varied colors in a row.
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Thus when the earth baptised had been,
A sacramental sign God gave,
That Ught from earth He would not screen,
And man from evil He would save.
Then as a Priert the Spirit came ;
Bread and wine, our spiritual food,
With blessing He to Abram gave,
And told him that he always should
Possessor be of Heaven and earth ;
Now beasts, and birds, and fishes all.
Assist Him in His joy and mirih.
And are obedient to His call.
In a vision Abram did
With this Spirit again commune ;
Five beasts and birds he now him bid
Prepare, — holy ^a-i did consume.
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Five sacramental types behold.
Which it appears our God requires ;
Encircle these within the fold.
And earth will blaze with holy fire.
When this good man was ninety-nine,
To him this Spirit once more spake,
A covenant with thee for all time.
And to thy seed with thee I make.
Distinct from all or any race.
His seed their children circumcise.
The Angel Christ, who did displace
This token, with His blcod despise.
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Let all baptize when eight days old,
With Abram's faith let it be done,
His name he chang'd when he was told,
Thus Jews may Christ like yet become.
The Spirit once again appear'd
To Abraham, when in his tent,
And, when he look'd, three men stood near j
To these his body low he bent.
He seems to speak alone to one.
But food prepares for all the three ;
Perceive he stood till they were done.
And Sarah hears, but does not see.
His faith is strong, but hers is weak ;
Now comes the promise of a son ;
She laughs, but Abram always meek.
Trusts, and believes all will be done.
The three move on, the Spirit stays,
It often lingers with the pure ;
When true and just are all our ways,
His presence ever we'll secure.
The Spirit then made known to him,
Because he rul'd his household well.
That Sodom and Gomorrah's sins.
Sure destruction soon would tell.
Six times he to the Lord did plead,
" The righteous pray do not destroy,"
But O, in Holy Writ we read.
There were not ten without alloy.
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Not even ten good holy men
In those two cities could be found,
So fire and brimstone from Heaven, then
Burnt them and all upon the ground.
The Lord, He says, went on His way,
And Abrahan;. to his own place.
O may we all soon see the day
When He the earth again will grace.
'Tis true we feel His presence still,
But then we do not see His face.
When we do all His will fulfil,
All chang'd will be the human race.
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
Have the great God Almighty seen.
But of His name, Jehovah,
On this earth they had not a gleam.
To Moses He did reveal
This wonderful name with His law.
Their covenant with Him did seal.
Under this His new name Jah.
The prophet Ezekiel saw,
In vision, the Spirit of God ;
What He spake to him was law •
Through thorns and briars he trod.
The Spirit lifted him up
Above worldly pleasures and cares ;
Drink from this spiritual cup,
SaVd his soul from Satan's snares.
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Jews, like the fathers of old,
Do the great God Almighty know ;
In Christ they do not behold.
The one whose blood will save from woe.
This God's Spirit soon will prove;
Once more God will to men return ;
All Evil then he will remove.
And men will every idol burn.
His threefold essence none will doubt.
Then all to His name, Jah, will bow.
Mankind His praises loud will shout,
And in one Temple all will vow.
As Jesus* body knew no sin,
God's Spirit did on him descend.
And took up his abode within,
A voice the Spirit did attend.
When our Christ was glorified,
On Him a cloud of light did shine,
And the voice from Heaven cried,
" This beloved Son is mine 1"
When He all His work had done,
This cloud received Him out of sight ;
But the voice said, " He will come
Again in that bright cloud of lig^t I"
Wo should then at once prepare
To welcome Jesus back once more j
If we God's own armour wear,
God will Christ to us restore.
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He will then this kingdom claim,
Righteous thoughts and deeds prevail ;
Sickness, sorrow, death and pain,
Will not us then, as nov,', assail.
Love to God and love to men
Will in glorious beauty shine;
Holy actions, all will then
Improve that holy, happy time.
None then groaning under sin,
Will their Heavenly Father fear ;
Washed and purified within,
His voice mankind will long to hear.
THE COMMANDMENTS.
Our Father to mankind did give
Ten commandments wise and good,
When by these commands we live,
The tree of life will yield her food.
God in all hearts must reign supreme ;
Idols there must find no place.
No hoarded treasure seek to wean,
Or hide us from His face.
No likeness must engross our thoughts,
In the earth, air, sky or sea.
For God is jealous, and has taught
That man to Him must bend the knee.
God's name we must not take in vain ;
Oaths must not our lips defile,
And when we pray to His great name,
Nothing must our lips beguile.
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To ponder on God's wondrous love,
One day in seven we must rest,
And raise our thoughts to things above ;
God does thus obedience test.
God has earthly parents given,
All must honour and obey ;
Homes will be a type of heaven,
And prolonged will be our day.
When our God and earthly parents
Get from man what is their due.
Then the former five great talents
Will the other five renew.
All malice will be put away.
Anger, bitterness and strife,
Will not incite a hand to slay.
Shortening another's life.
No selfish habits will control,
Working out deceit and lies :
Drinking not then, inflame the soul.
Nor poisonous love the eyes.
Then, they that stole no more will steal ;
All our labour will be sweet,
None will envy, nor jealous feel.
Nor any desire to cheat.
False witnesses from earth will flee j
Evil speaking then will cease,
And man, just like the busy bee,
Do his daily work in peace.
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Each one happy in his home
Will not covet other's things,
But all, with one great mighty tone,
Praise to God the Father sing.
God's ten commands will then suffice ;
Man's laws will not find a place,
For we will than have done with vice,
And all will be wise and chaste.
A NEW PERIOD.
City of Bethlehem,
Christ's own House of Bread,
From whence came the leaven
That will raise the dead.
Awake from thy darkness.
Accept the true light ;
Thy houses now cheerless.
Will all then be bright.
This desert shall rejoice.
And bloom as the rose.
For Messiah's sweet voice
Sin's reign soon will close.
The ransom'd will return.
With joy on their heads,
The redeem'd will sojourn.
As prophets have said.
With God's glory around.
Thy mountains shall glow,
When all hallowed the ground,
A pure vine snail grow.
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In whose branches the birds
Shall sing with one song,
And the fruit of Christ's words
Be seen in the throng.
No more shall the curse
God's children oppress,
Neither mourner nor hearse
Their hearts shall distress.
Awake, then, this New-Year,
Arouse thee from sleep ;
Angel voices I hear,
Their vigils they keep.
Hark ! the Archangel's voice
Proclaims He is come,
The righteous rejoice,
A crown they have won.
Earth's sweet Sabbath rest.
Long life will restore;
Christ again as man's guest,
Will reign evermore.
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AN APPEAL TO
THE WORLD IN GENERAL.
The Citizens of the Dominion in Particular.
Many Poems like these
Are ready to print.
The Saints will God please,
If, after this hint,
They give freely their gold ;
Such truths to display,
God will blessings untold
Shower down day by day.
" The Christian's Wedding Ring,"
The name it will bear ;
For the Savicr our King,
It bids earth prepare.
It has search'd far and wide,
Its gilding to find.
But all lay it aside
As too good to bind.
" Write a novel or story,
That will sell," they say ;
Of our future glory,
" O no ! that won't pay."
For the body most men
Their energies spend.
But their souls now and then
Would like them to lend
A fair share of the wealth
It helps to provide.
For alas ! with great stealth,
Its wants are supplied.
Now, in this age of strikes,
Before it rebels.
Let this work see the light.
It evil dispels.
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God's own word is the mine
Producing this ore ;
With Christ's Spirit Divine
All thus may explore.
And produce finer gold,
New bej'.uties display,
Which will never grow old,
Nor ever decay.
NAPOLEON'S DEATH.
Another of the son's of men,
Who did earth's glories taste,]
The Emperor Napoleon,
Death stole away in haste.
'Midst scenes of woe, and joy, and mirth,
His three-score years and five
Have swiftly sped away on earth.
No longer will he strive
An earthly Empire here to guide,
Or countrymen control ;
The space that he and them divide,
Angels alone patrol.
The prize for which he strove — he won,
While in his prime — and lost,
Before his life on earth was done.
Was it worth the ^cost ?
Ambition, his besetting sin,
Caus'd him to wage a war ;
Amidst its roar and deaf ning din.
He was the one lost star.
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These worldly crowns at best are nought,
They yield no lasting joy ;
When the battle of life is fought,
Vain is the glittering toy.
But virtue's crown will never fade,
Nor will it dim with age,
For each one such a crown is made,
Strive for it and be sage.
THE FOUR PERIODS OF THE WORLD.
Four Periods the world has seen,
God's wonders each has shown ;
First mighty waters tried to wean
Man from his gods of stone.
The Patriarchal then begun,
Some good men then did shine ;
With might great Pharoah was undone,
And Israel mov'd in line.
The Levitical then burst forth,
Its rays from Sinai came ;
Gold images of greater worth
Man worshipped all the same.
This period clos'd with awful death
Of Christ, the Son of God ;
Man worships still his gods of earth,
And bends not to the rod.
This great High Priest from death did rise,
He taught men holy ways ;
His body our great sacrifice.
The dawn of brighter days.
This Period draws near its close,
Evil has had its day ;
God soon with goodness will descend,
Reanimate the clay.
Our spirits then will daily grow
More lovely, more divine ;
New graces then the soul will show,
And round the body twine.
THE DYING YEAR OF 1872.
The dying of another year
Brings round some memories dear,
Of many joys that now are dead,
Happy days which all have fled.
But still hope welcomes to our hearts,
New year with its open chart ;
And if new lines we try to trace.
Peace and joy will rill each face.
The year from us does quickly hide ;
One by one the minutes slide.
Has it left golden threads behind ?
All our future lives to bind.
Or will its deeds, the coming year.
Cause us many a groan and tear?
Have we been honest, just and true,
Given God what is His due ?
Have we smiled sweetly in our homes,
Mounted high on virtue's throne,
Been kind to all within our reach,
Acted well what Christ did teach ?
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These p^e the steps the Saints have trod,
Gems like these their feet have shod j
May we, untarnished, like them, see
The Reign of Christ in seventy-three.
Wishing you all a Happy New Year,
Light from God our hearts to cheer,
Love to cement the Christian Ring,
Altogether we will sing.
Alleluia.
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THE EVIL SPIRIT.
The Evil Spirit is the theme
I now before you set in verse ;
I wish to draw aside the screen,
And all his ways and works rehearse.
A Trinity of Evil see,
Now surrounding land and sea ;
St. John three unclean spirits saw
Coming from the dragon's jaw.
Like frogs, he says, they leapt about,
Croaking all their evil out ;
Working miracles, man to cleave,
Just as he did first with Eve.
What a deceiver he has been,
This Prince of the pow'r of the air ;
His only object, aim and scheme,
That man should all his ruin share.
Like Hght'ning he from Heaven fell.
Knowing he never could return ;
But would be closely shut in Hell,
For endless ages to sojourn.
While man, if he obey'd God's laws.
He saw would fill his vacant place.
And revel in all those great joys,
He lost when he did Heav'n disgrace.
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This must have fill'd his wicked heart
With envy, jealousy and hate,
And led him on to play the part
Which lur'd our parents to their fate.
Then, as a serpent, he appears
To a gentle trusting woman,
Filling her mind with doubts and fears,
As he leads her through the garden.
'* If that fine beauteous fruit you eat,
" God will not surely make you die ;
" As gods you will then take your seat,
" And good from evil with your eye
" Well opened, you will discern."
Instead of which, how many sin
On, day by day, with no concern,
For he has made all dark within ;
And death, the dreadful curse of man
And beast, for near six thousand years
The whole of this our earth doth span ;
While Satan walks around and leers,
Tempting each creature with his fruit,
Which all too eagerly do taste ;
His poison made each one to suit,
And all his energies to waste.
Job tells us of a certain day.
When many of our God's own sons,
Mov'd by a holy, heavenly ray.
Together to the Lord did come.
Among them Satan finds his way,
And to the Lord himself did talk.
" My servant Job, the Lord did say,
" In true and upright paths doth walk."
But Satan cunningly replies :
" An hedge about him thou hast made ;
" The reason why he me defies,
Thy blessings have him firmly staid."
Pow'r to Satan the Lord then gave,
His servant Job to try and tempt ;
Strong faith from Satan's wiles did save—
His love to God they did cement.
As Joshua the High Priest stands
Before the Angel of the Lord,
Satan resists at his right hand,
But disappears at Angel's word.
The filthy garments he had worn
Were then from Joshua taken ;
His head a mitre did adorn.
When Satan had him forsaken.
David by Satan was provok'd
To number up Israel's hosts,
By which God's anger he invok'd
And sev'nty thousand men he lost.
Thus David, Joshua and Job,
Have sin and Satan seen and known;
All Adam's children on this globe,
Have been by Satan made to groan.
Nothing but the Saviour's prayer
Sav'd Simon Peter from his lair ;
Three times he made him tell a lie,
For which he afterwards did sigh.
Jude says, the Devil did dispute.
And the Archangel did refute ;
Moses, for whom he did contend.
This Angel Michael did defend.
But Christ has bruis'd the Serpent's head,
And curb'd his great and wondrous power ;
When he returns to wake the dead,
His Angel chains him in that hour*
LUKE XIII. 32.
When Christ did on this earth appear,
The Devil first as man was seen ;
To tempt us he is always near —
Various is his shape and mien.
He dar'd our Lord himself to tempt ;
But foil'd, he plung'd with rage in men j
And women were not then exempt —
From Magdalene Christ cast out seven.
^ See how those devils knew our Lord,
And trembled when they saw His face;
They flew when He but spake the word —
The swine into the lake did chase.
The Devil still does men possess,
When evil passions do enthral ;
His idols seem to have a zest
And pow'r to make men hear his call.
Slyly he flatters and deceives.
Allures each one with some device ;
Inflates with pride or love of ease —
With golden rays he does entice.
Men blindly nibble at his fruit, <,
Although its poison well they know
His snares are laid each one to suit,
Causing his evil seed to grow.
To the twelve Christ gave the power
To check the growth of sin in man ;
From His throne He now does shower
Grace on the means of his great plan,
Which fills his sacraments with fire ;
Gives strength to bruise the tempter's arts ;
Preserves from Satan's rage and ire,
Rendering harmless all his darts.
Christ alone can extract the root
And take the sting of death away ;
When man does heed his Maker's suit,
Christ will proclaim eternal day.
THE TEMPTER'S ARTS.
How grievous is the love of gain,
When it does men's souls enchain ;
Cheating and grasping all they can,
Then the daily hourly plan.
To gain a little bit of land,
Many will soul and body strand ;
Pass restless days and sleepless nights,
Scheming plots for other's rights.
They will cause you both pain and toil,
If their arts you try to foil ;
Against them you cannot succeed,
Unless God does intercede.
One with another will combine,
To work out their dark design ;
In a great circle they will join
What they covet to purloin.
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To be thought rich in gold and land,
They will rob you underhand ;
Thus many a noble life is lost,
'And with evil passions tost.
Self, the sole object of each thought,
When their labour comes to nought :
The things of sight their value lose,
Too late virtue's paths to choose.
Despair drives on to darker deeds —
Fruit of all their evil seeds —
Worries the mind, wears flesh away,
Clothes with sorrow and decay.
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The love of gold absorbs all else,
Men seem to live to gather pence ;
Never content, their constant aim,
Is gold and silver heaps to gain.
Some make it in an honest way,
With steady aim from day to day ;
They gather coin, build mansions great,
That they may live in grand estate.
Some with sharp tricks and cheating ways,
Their friends and foes alike betray ;
Grow' very rich, and very proud,
And drive their horses with the crowd.
Some save and scrape, and live by stealth,
That men may bow to their great wealth ;
These ends attained, they pass away,
Are cut down as the new mown hay.
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Does it seem wisdom thus to live,
And all our energies to give ;
To gather what we cannot keep,
And sow where we so little reap ?
Gold is a useful thing, 'tis true j
All have a right to get their due ;
But if for it our minds we strain,
Then slyly Satan twines his chain ;
Malting us selfish, mean and vain,
The glory of this world our aim ;
The heart grows cold, the eye grows dim.
All from this great and grievous sin.
Even the monkey has more sense,
He prefers nuts to any pence ;
Darwin's theory must be wrong,
For man's improving is his song.
SABBATH BREAKING.
Am I robbing God or not.
If I use the Sabbath day
To work out my worldly plots.
Or to mingle with the gay ?
Six days work, one day of rest.
Is our Maker's own command ;
Man seems to think if s a jest.
And heeds not this wise demand.
Those we love, we try to please,
Gladly we devote to them
All our thoughts, our time, our ease,
Giving all to sinful men j
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While we steal our Maker's hours,
Just to take a little sail ;
To stroll in beauty's bowers,
Or write letters for the mail.
Some read novels all the day.
Visit all their friends around ;
Gather Idols made of clay,
With a false and hollow sound.
Softly down these paths men tread,
On the way to greater crimes j
Piisoners by Satan led,
>Villing captives to his wiles.
Always craving something new,
Peace of mind they never know ;
Seldom any good pursue.
And God's blessings from them throw.
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THE SIN OF DRINKING.
Serpents of every kind are seen,
Winding through the forest glade ;
In search of prey their eyes do gleam,
Finding victims in its shade.
The Serpent lures with magic eye-
Courage flies beneath his gaze j
The victim tries in vain to fly.
Fascinated, there it stays.
Poison and death from him have sprung,
And in ev'ry mouth is found ;
Saliva to our lips has clung —
Death our bodies does surround.
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With light'ning dash the creature springs,
And at once does it enfold ;
Coils round and round ; and to it clings,
Till its jaws its body hold.
When Eve did with the Serpent talk,
Subtle he was, it is said ;
But then he on his feet did walk ;
Now, all ere 'tures do him dread. *
Our very blessings made a curse
That which should have cheered the heart,
Causing constant craving thirst —
Sowing vice of ev'ry sort.
Drink is the greatest curse of sin,
Few the habit can control ;
It makes all black and dark within—
Ruins body, mind and soul.
It is many a household's foe,
Wearing flesh and health away ;
Dragging souls down to endless woe j
Hiding from them Christ our stay.
Just like a little pebble thrown
In water, quiet and calm,
It iufiles and disturbs this stone,
All the circle that it can.
One seldom hears of any crime.
Where drink has not play'd its part ',
It seems to be the evil mine.
With veins pointing to the heart.
But Jesus, who was all Divine,
New life offers to those veins ;
Drink in faith His love in wine,
And thus shake off Satan's chains.
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FLIRTING.
Flirting is a fearful thing,
Leads to much sorrow and shame j
Hearts it does with sorrow wring,
It should some attention claim.
Little children now we see,
Whose hearts should be pure indeed,
Looking all around with glee,
For a little of this weed,
Which, when planted, grows apace,
Spoils that sweet and lovely bloom,
Which should shine on each young face,
Many virtues does entomb.
Then when these young people wed,
Flirting ways they cannot change j
They continue, without dread,
And each other's hearts estrange. '
Then the little daily strife
Wears till it creates a sore ;
Tarnishing the joys of life.
Gnawing out love's very core.
There can be no sadder sight
Than a home with hearts grown cold ;
Without love, its beacon light,
Serpents poison and enfold.
Just as one did Mother Eve,
With a little gentle sting ;
Each the other does deceive,
And to utter ruin bring.
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THE SIN OF LYING.
The devil's children must tell lies,
He always has a liar been
To speak the truth, they never try
He always from it tries to wean.
First disobey then tell a lie,
If you my wages wish to gain,
God surely will not make you die
He must have whisper'd unto Cain.
It does seem strange when Abel died,
That fear of man should fill Cain's mind
That with a lie he thought to hide
A deed of such a dreadful kind.
From the great God whose truth he saw
In his dead brother's form of clay,
Why was he not o'erwhelm'd with awe
Instead of fear that man would slay.
The devil held him in his grasp.
And gently from his God withdrew,
He slowly fasten'd on the mask
That hid from him the wise and true.
This is the way he marches round.
Filling the earth with lying seed,
And trying to maintain his ground
By urging men to wicked deeds.
CHURCH MUSIC.
Is it true that notes of praise
In our churches discords raise j
Evil does in there intrude,
Even there he tries to brood
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Why should we to Satan yield ?
Let us drive him froir* the field ;
Sift and see though he defies
And poor human nature tries.
Some no organ will allow, —
To this prejudice they bow ;
Some will not stand up to sing, —
Never tliink cf such a thing.
Young boy singers clad in white
Arc to some a great dolight.
Ladies some call to their aid,
But then they must now be paid.
Some make music the one thing,
People flock to hear them sing ;
Finish up with some new lay,
Just to make the people stay.
Organs are of ancient date,
For in man's primeval state
Harp and organ we are told,
Jubal could himself take hold.
And in Chronicles we read
"When King David saw the need
For the Ar!: to pitch a tent,
He for Priests and Levites sent.
That they might prepare to sing,
Praises to our God and King ;
They did Chenaniah choose,
Because he among the Jews
Was most skilful in the song.
And could best instruct the throng ;
David dress'd in linen white,
Singers, Levites a!l in sight.
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Priests did all their trumpets blow,
And the Word doth further show
They play'd cornets, cymbalf , harps.
Shouting forth with all their hearts ;
And in Nehemiah's day
Priests and Levites met to pray,
With singers, instruments and all,
^Vho upon the Lord did call.
Thus it seems that Jewish times
Brought fo. ih more united chimes ;
When to Christ Jews bend the knee,
Christians will their errors see.
THF TEMPTER'S FRIENDS.
Come, friends, the Summer is coming on fast,
The Wintor is now very nearly past ;
Let us pitch our tents, and arrange our ways,
Where ti.ere are no Holy Sabbath days.
Lachine, they say, is a very nice place,
Then to it we all must most surely haste ;
The rich and the poor are gathering there.
So it is plain we have no time to spare.
Our company must be very select,
Satan, our guide, we'll agree to elect ;
The seventh day in his amusements spend,
He will give us fun, and some money lend.
We will moor our boats on Saturday night,
And start in the mornifig, just at day-light ;
It would be just as well to get away
When people are looking the other way ;
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For when all the Church bells begin to ring ;
And these good Christians begin to sing,
We'll feel our bodies are stealing the rest,
Our souls would enjoy with relish and zest.
But now 'tis too late our ways to change.
Our habits are form'd, our plans arranged ;
Our spiritual eyes are firmly sealed,
Oar future Satan has well concealed.
THE LAST BATTLE.
Lucifer, who from Heaven fell,
And whose domain is now call'd Hell,
Would gladly wander over earth
And gather angels for his hearth.
Lucifer knows his time is short,
Thus he is luring every sort ;
Some with gold, and some with wine,
Some he drav/s with a steady line.
Lucifer, when he makes men sin,
Whispers, *' it is but a little thing ;
" Taste and try it, it is really sweet ;"
He soon persuades, and mankind eat.
Lucifer is cunning and sly ;
He never works, but he must lie ;
His greatest card, a pile of gold,
Draws foolish souls into his hold.
Lucifer's door is near at hand ;
Goodness will drive him from this land ;
Then death, our enemy, will flee.
And man will purely happy be.
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THE KINGDOM.
The question is on earth who reigns,
Who is it holds man's heart in chainSi
Who tempts us with his golden rays,
And tries to make us passion's slaves.
Look at the young and lovely babe,
Perfect by his Creator made.
How soon will anger spoil that face,
And rob it of its sweetest grace.
Before it speaks it disobeys,
And seems to crave for evil ways.
The tongue soon learns to tell a lie,
For which 'tis hard to make it sigh.
If Christ had not put on a curb,
Nothing would evil still disturb,
His good and noble early life
Has this kingdom fill'd with strife.
He told us that he brought a sword
That would us through sins' river ford.
And with the sword, Faith's golden chaia
This dreadful batile to maintain.
As long as man this conflict fights
Death will put him out of sight,
The hour of temptations come,
The voice will soon proclaim 'tis done.
The time of peace is drawing near.
Then we will nothing have to fear,
The former things will pass away,
And we will Christ all homage pay.
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THE VICTORY.
"ivil now sits in glory great,
Spreading round his tempting bait ;
Luring us with the things of sight,
To the realms of endless night.
Two spirits now for us contend,
And our wills' behests attend j
One will with holiness array,
The other leads our steps astray.
The good must trust, and watch and wait j
Their reward anticipate ;
For while this world is rul'd by sin,
They their glory cannot win.
Christ comes again with a reprieve,
When the Jews in him believe ;
Then as the King of David's line,
He will open out their mine.
Then earth will be Heaven below,
Time no lonp^er will us mow ;
Many purified then will be,
And made white that all shall see.
All hallowed then our Father's name,
Christ will this his Kingdom claim j
His will on earth will then be done
As in Heaven it is sung.
He will give us our daily Bread,
And the Blood which he has shed
Will furnish food for soul and mind
Of the best and rarest kind.
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Our trespasses God will forgive,
And will give us strength to live,
As Christ did walk so good and kind,
To each other's faults quite blind.
Temptations then will not assail ;
For our sight will pierce the vail
Of that dark desolated land,
Where evil dwells on ev'ry hand.
The wicked there will all have fled,
Captive then by Satan led ;
Banished for ever from the sight
Of God's presence pure and bright.
Satan having claimed his own,
And withdrawn them to his home ;
In glory on the mercy seat,
God will his good subjects meet.
With might and power then will shine
The wisdom of our God Divine j
Mankind will then his name adore,
Pray and praise him evermore.
DEATH.
Death now places his icy hand
On ev'ry creature in the land,
As people walk along the street,
Hearse or mourner they're sure to meet.
Why is it so ? My spirit asks.
The young, the old must wear his mark.
Must drive along the dusty street.
And furnish to the worms his meat.
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Nor cloister'd cell nor stately hall,
But what must answer to his call
The rich, the poor, the fool, the wise
Go to the grave yard, there he lies.
What is the reason, angel hear
Why must I part with all that's dear.
Why must I leave this lovely earth,
And make an end of all my mirth.
The angel whisper'd in my ear,
Man's idols make death tarry here,
Unite with faith and Christian love,
And soon will come the Holy Dove.
Who when he comes will clear the way,
Illumine all things with his ray.
Restore to us the life we lost,
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7n the year 1870, I offered you my congratulations on the
successful manner .which you accomplished the opening of the
Canal, which gives direct communication from the Mediterranean
to the Red Sea ; and the visit of the Empress of France, at that
time in all her glory, seems to have been the commencement of
direct intercourse between Turks and Christians, preparing the
way for the return of the Jews to Jerusalem — which event appears
to me to be very near at hand.
Since then, the Empress has been bereft of her husband and
driven from the country where she reigned supreme — teaching us
that we live in a time of wonderful changes. Indeed, the signs of
the times are such as to make all men prepare for the Second
coining of the Lord; and, if He is indeed coming with ten thousand
of His Saints, as prophesied by Enoch, the seventh from Adam, a'll
should use their talents to bring the world to one united Faith
and Practice. You and I agree in the fact that all the world is
descended from Noah, and the first good man who is mentioned
after the Flood is Abraham, from whom both you and I descend, —
for he had two sons, Isaac and Ishmael, both circumcised after the
law, (the Jews are the descendants of Isaac, the Mahomedans of
Ishmael). Christ was descended in a direct line from Isaac, and
we are baptised and by that means made his children, by adoption.
Now Abraham believed that a Sacrifice of Blood was needed,
and for that faith the Lord himself appeared to him twice and
promised him that, " In thee shall all the families of the earth be
blessed, (Genesis xii., 3,) " All the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him" (Genesis xviii., 18,) " and in thy seed shall a// the
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nations of the earth be blessed, (Genesis xxii., 18.) If Christ,
then, in whom we believe, was the Lord who appeared to our
Father Abraham three different times. He must have been the
child of promise, of whom Isaac was the Type.
Our natural birth does not make us Christians. We may be
born of Christian parents, in a Christian land ; but, unless baptised
of water and of the Spirit, we are neither of the nation or family
of Christ, nor is the seed of the Holy Spirit sown in our hearts.
Christ, then, in whom we believe, and whose children we are made
by baptism, was circumcised and fulfilled the law in every particu-
lar. Without the Divine nature of God he could not have done
this, for human nature, since the fall, has been unable to do any-
thing perfectly. Christ suffered death, in order that every creature
that breathed the breath of life might be set free from the bondage
of sin, and so fitted to appear before God, the Maker of the
world.
Thus, we see that Abraham believed in Christ before He
(Christ) came into the world ; we have the testimony of living
witnesses who saw Him, and the daily fulfilment of Prophecies
which he could not have understood ; for as God divided the Red
Sea on former days to allow the Jews to pass through on dry land,
so now he has allowed you to make a passage through the Red
Sea to the Holy Land, the place in which the Prophet Joel, hund-
reds of years ago, prophesied the descent of the Holy Spirit, and
where Micah says, (chap, iv., 6, 7,) ail the nations of the earth
will come to a knowledge of the truth.
" The Rabbins say, that when the lot was taken, a scarlet
fillet was bound on the Scape Goat's head, and after the High
Priest had confessed his and the people's sins over it, the fillet
became white ; this miracle ceased, according to them, forty years
before the destruction of Jerusalem, that is, exactly when Jesus
Christ was crucified."
Now. it may be that our blood was white before the Evil
Spirit's poison entered our veins, and this miracle may have been
intended to show that God will purify and make white again the
blood of those who spiritually partake of those Sacraments that
God has provided for the soul's nourishment. We know that Christ
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shed his blood drop by drop to make atonement for the sins of the
whole world, not for a few Christians or a few Jews, — not for one
sect or one church, — but for the sins of the whole world, to satisfy
Divine Justice and Mercy ; and when mankind begins to realize
this fact, the sole object of their lives will be to become pure, Holy
and Christ-like, and to make this earth a Heaven below.
But the Soul, like the body, must use the Blood to make it
pure, in the same way as the body requires to use water to make
it clean. Nothing but the use of water can keep the body in health ;
nothing but the use of Christ's Blood can cleanse and purify the
soul.
There are at present in the world numberless sects, but only
four religions ; Jews, Mahomedans, and Christians, who worship
the one holy and true God, and Heathens who worship Idols of»
wood or stone or false Gods ; all four of which seem represented
by Jewish offerings, which were first the offering of the hv.r':'*; of the
flock, a shadow of the Jewish Faith which, until Christ came,
always slew a lamb for their Passover. The offering of the first
fruits, which was Cain's offering, rejected of God, typifying the
Mahomedan. The Peace offering, which was a type of Christ
himself; for St. Paul, in Ephesians ii., 14, says: " Christ is our
Peace, he has broken down the wall of sin that hid us from
God. And the offering of the sin of ignorance, which repre-
sents the Heathen, who surely worship, in ignorance, Idols of
wood and stone. If this is the case, how truly did St. Paul say in
Hebrews x., i : "The Law having a shadow of good things to
come and not the very image of those things, can never, with those
sacrifices which they offered year by year continually, make the
comers thereunto perfect."
Before addressing you, I have devoted myself to the study of
the Prophet Mahomet and the English version of the Koran. The
Prophet appears before me with a tall and commanding figure,
strong in mind, earnest in purpose, and sincere in what he pro-
fessed and wrote, with great reverence for the Almighty God, but
wanting in the knowledge of God's threefold Essence as mani-
fested in the person of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Al-
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Take page 13 of 2nd Book, " The Angel Gabriel is said to have
caused the Koran to descend on his heait ;" now it is the Holy;
Spirit of God alone that puts every good thought in our hearts ;
the page 36 of 3rd Book says : " O Lord, thou shalt gather man-
kind together unto a day of resurrection : there is no doubt of it,
for God will not be contrary to his promise." Now, in Revelations
chap, i., 7, it says : " Behold, He cometh with clouds, and every
eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him, and all
kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him."
Then page 40, 41 speaks of "God," "the Angel," and the
"Word," the three distinct offices of Father, Son and Spirit
Then chapter 19, page 251, calls Jesus the Son of Mary, "the
Word of Truth,'' proving plainly Christ's divine and human nature.
It is a great mystery and hard to understand ; but the Devil is a
mystery, and his temptations quite beyond our comprehension, and
often so veiled that we scarcely see theiu till we have felt their
sting ; one thing is certain, it is his chief object to keep all
mankind from knowing God as a God of infinite Love, so great
that He condescended to live on earth, with man, and to die for
man, so that God's justice might be satisfied. If God, who made
the world and all mankind, breathed into man a spirit which shall
never die, could He not breathe into Christ's human body a Spirit
which should never sin. Then that body, not having been
polluted by sin, would be an Atonement for all the world, provided
they had faith strong enough to believe that Divine wrath was
satisfied ; but we must have a living Faith, not a trust in Fate or
Islem.
The beautiful plates, which appeared in the London papers,
of the splendid ceremony which attended the opening of the
Canal, on that memorable 17th November, 1870, afforded their
readers much pleasure ; but the sublime idea of having the work
Wessed by all religions was the dawn of a new period — and all
those vessels, with their various flags, sailing in one direction,
under one guide, a foreshadowing of the time when all will sail
under the Banner of the Cross, with one King, even Christ.
Then those canopies and gorgeous arrangements will again draw
together the Jew with the Crescent, beneath the Cross — around
which will twine that living vine, whose fruit will strengthen and
renew all that eut and drink, in faith, of that spiritual food, which>
though now lost to our natural sight, through sin, is still within the
reach of the faithful.
The writer hopes that these remarks will induce the Turks to
search the Scriptures, and see who was the true Prophet, Christ
or Mahomet. The latter, in his life, had many more followers than
Christ ; but after the lapse of so many years, which has been the
greatest benefit to mankind — Mahommadism, which was estab-
lished at the point of the sword, or the Christian one, which will
only shine forth in all its beauty when our swords are firmly fas-
tened in their sheaths ? j^That you, when Christ returns to reign for
a thousand years, may have your name written in the Book of
Life, is the sincere wish of the writer, who is a Christian Lady, of
the first city of the first Dominion in the world. — (Micah iv., 8.)
THE CHRISTIAN'S FAITH.
O ! Turkish maidens fair and bright,
Bring all your Crescents to the Hght ',
Try Mahomet's laws by Christ's commands,
And see with whom the glory stands.
The Koran's page in this our day,
Transmits a secondary ray ;
Its gems all borrow'd seem to be,
From God's word sent to you and me.
When Mahomet wrote that wondrous work,
Which chang'd the Heathen to a Turk,
The word of God was then fulfill'd.
And Abram's seed with truth instill'd.
But now God's spirit comes with pow'r ;
Make ready friends for that great hour,
When pain and sorrow, sickness, woe.
And all man's troubles here below
Will from this earth be swept away —
God will restore eternal day —
And diamonds, crowns and precious stones.
Will shine on those who fill the thrones.
THE CHRISTIAN'S LOVE.
Jewish maidens, far and near,
Come to God's messenger and hear
The wondrous tale the word reveals,
Of He who all our sorrow heals.
'Tis true. He died by Jewish bands ;
But Christians too have pierc'd his hands ;
Drawn blood and water from his side ;
Inflicted pangs of human pride.
The sacrifice that He has made ;
The thorns that on his brow were laid ;
Will draw sin's poison from our veins,
And cleanse our souls from all sin's stains.
O ! let me lift the veil that hides
The Saviour's virtues from your eyes.
O ! let me teach you that you must,
Like Him, be perfect, pure and just.
At once begin your lamps t-^ trim,
With holy fire and grace within ;
Come quickly to the marriage feast
Of Jewish, Turkish, Christian Priest.
THE CHRISTIAN'S CROSS.
For nearly nineteen hundred years
Christians have been shedding tears ;
Struggling, striving, meekly bearing
Scorns and slights ; yes, ever wearing
Satan's grievous heavy crosses.
And trying to maintain the loss
Of the One who came to teach them
How to live like Christian men.
For lorty long and weary days,
The Saviour, with evil ways
The Tempter tried tooveicome.
But there he found himself undone.
He calmly yielded up his life,
Pierc'd to the heart with all the strife ;
He hasten'd to the spirit land —
Such love is hard to understand.
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Again He trod this sinful ground,
And shed His glory all around,
For forty days, obedient, kind,
All virtue's graces left behind.
He rose above us out of sight,
But still he cheers our souls with light ;
The spark that lit the Heav'nly flame
Will forever our souls sustain.
Soon He will come in regal state,
With an array of angels great ;
No crosses then for us to bear —
Our crowns will meet us in the air.
Prepare then, all the bridegrooms tiear ;
Ten thousand saints will see and 1 «,^. . ;
The righteous then will hardly stand —
The wicked fall on every hand.
On hearing a sermon on the dyd Isaiah, ^rd verse :
" I HAVE TRODDEN THE WINEPRESS ALONE."
Christ has trodden alone
The wine press, to atone ;
. He bore the burden of sin,
And drew from it the sting.
His soul such sorrow knew,
That from its lips it drew ;
" This cup. Father, pass away,
" Thy will to do, I pray."
In drops he sweat his blood
To stop the fatal flood j
The agony was great,
Our race to reinstate.
Come then to this pure vine,
And drink his blood in wine ;
In bread His body take,
And sin will us forsake.
Our faith will then defeat
The tempter's arts we meet ;
The mercy seat will shine
Again with light divine.
The Jews, in days of yore,
The Temple purg'd with gore ;
Then birds and beasts supplied
The blood that justified.
Two goats the High Priest brought ;
And as he had been taught,
He lots for them did cast,
That one he might make fast,
A sin offering to make.
That God would not forsake ;
The other he cast away,
For Jewish sins to pay.
A scarlet fillet bound
The scape goat's head around ;
To white its color chang'd,
Till virtue Christ maintain'd
Now even Rabbins say,
This miracle that they
So long beheld did cea.»e,
When death did Christ release.
If once the blood was white,
And men both pure and bright,
When sin we learn to shun.
Again, as then, will run
The pure blood in our veins ;
Christ then will take the reins,
And fill with joy our hearts,
For Satan then departs.
When Faith and Works embrace.
And all our actions grace j
Then look ! behold the sign
Of the Millenium, Time.
All Idols forsaken,
New life will awaken ;
Both the body and soul
Christ will cleanse and make whole ;
For His woes paid the cost,
And the joys Adam lost
To this earth will return,
When God's truth we all learn.
THE WRECK OF THE ATLANTIC,
On Mars Island, isl April, 1873.
A ship well built as man can boast,
Has just founder'd on the coast
Of a rocky Island, — Mars by name,
Sad the nature of its fame.
Ten days had hardly pass'd away
Since with hearts both light and gay,
Almost a thousand souls embark'd
In this ship, this treach'rous ark.
When all on board are wrap't in sleep.
But the watch, who vigils keep ;
Just three o'clock, "All's well," they shout,
" Hark ! breakers ahead ! look out I "
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The vessel strikes against a rock,
And receives a fatal shock ;
The boilers burst, she over heels,
To the raging water yields.
Which draws her down beneath the wave,
Hundreds find a watery grave ;
Both men and women, girls and boys,
Hush'd are all their fears and joys.
These left their friends no parting word.
One loud shriek alone was heard ;
No Priest could make them then confess,
No religion them redress.
Alone their spirits all did soar.
To that unknown distant shore ;
Some to return with glory great.
Some to find the truth too late.
Some were sav'd by means of rope,
When almost bereft of hope ;
One by Ancients Priestly hand
Was in safety brought '.o land.
ThiF :aches us not to despair,
But to lift our hearts in prayer ;
To use the means God has ordain'd,
And then all will be regained.
THE ST. LAWRENCE,
As she appeared on the i<)th Aprils 1873.
River St. Lawrence in a shroud,
Is sleeping peacefully
Around her banks behold a crowd,
Awaiting anxiously.
To see her burst those icy bands,
They very fearfully
Cast their eyes on all low lands
While praying fervently.
That she will not their ground o'erflow
But gently, peacefully,
They wish her to awake and show
Quiet and gratefully.
That for her blessed time of rest,
Which they bore patiently,
She v;ill assume her very best,
Retiring modestly.
One might suggest a melting mood,
So that she carefully
Should change her death like attitude,
And come out joyously.
With dress of beaut'ous wavy blue,
Then all will lovingly
Pay her the homage that is due,
By sailing joyously.
And then with hearts both light and gay,
All will most thankfully
Enjoy the summer holiday,
Hailing her cheerfully.
All working with labour and skill
Quite industriously,
Tracing out the Creator's will,
Yes, harmoniously.
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A PRAYER.
Thy work is waiting, Father dear,
For means to send it forth,
O, send me some kind friend to cheer ;
One that will see its worth.
Some say, poor thing, how very sad,
To see such waste of time,
Such writi. ,g soon will make you tnaJj
Don't write another line.
Do help the work I gently plead
Its precepts all are true ;
I have not any time to read,
So 'tis in vain to sue.
Do be advised another says,
A cent you'll never make
For good books no one ever pays,
So no more trouble take.
Reform the world, another cries,
All very fine to talk,
Man now has grown so very wise,
In sin he likes to walk.
Still hope is lurking in my breast.
Some saint, I think, I'll find,
To say, O what a welcome giiest,
I'll store it in my mind.
Its precepts all are good and true,
Great and grand its aims.
Reject them not because they're new,
And teach one self to tame.
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Subdue one self, how great the thought,
Keep each passion down,
How Christ-like, just what Jesus taught,
No longer he will frown.
Once more I urge its claims, pray help
To spread its praise around,
I always said, and always felt
God's work in it resounds.
For no one could alone have trac'd
A book of such a kind,
Its pages with such beauties grac'd,
As you in it will find.
And though each person may have read
Its contents oft before.
Some soul may in it find the thread,
One temple to restore.
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TEUTH.
A stripling in the searcli of truth
To foreign lands did wend his way,
In musty books this charming youth
Thought he could find truth's holy ray
Of course no trace of truth he found,
So thought that in his head would place
Ancient learning morit profound,
Swoeten'd with pleasure to his taste.
The folly ploas'd his body well,
The learning fill'd his mind with pride ;
His spirit well he could not tell,
"Why he its food did always hide.
Years pass'd, and as he older grew,
Some change he thought it well to see ;
A little gold would make things new,
So daily work it then must be.
His idol gold at once became.
All search for truth he set aside ;
His heart he set on earthly gain.
And Satan soon became his guide.
Some years in piling gold he pass'd,
But there all trace of truth ho lost j
Now heaps of gold he has amass'd,
But Oh I to him how great the cost.
When ho reach'd the palace of truth,
No passport had he in his mind, ^ ^^
The angel asked him why in youth ^fe*
Ho had not gathered of this kind ?
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Ho said that truth was onco his aim,
But all is false and hollow here ;
The angel did to him exclaim,
Did not Chrint teach you how to steer.
Hod yod J our bible daily sought
For grace and strength to overcome
You would have learnt and others taught
How this glittering gem is won.
The man then paus'd quite sad, to think
He never there had thought to look,
For joys to fill that missing link,
The way of truth in God's own book.
A PRAYEB.
teach me, teach me, Lord, I pray,
How I can thy work array.
That it may draw the Jew to thee,
At thy cross to bond the knoe.
To make them fool thou hast boon here,
All our hearts with love to cheer ;
To teach them that thy pow'r so great
Chose to come in low estate.
The ovil one so well ensnares,
Hearts so fills with earthly caros.
That w^orks like mine they do not prize,
For it so the spirit tries.
But, if God's truth it does contain,
He my efforts will sustain.
And, in spite of all man's pride,
Will disperse it far and wide.
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Pray, Esau's sons, como chalT the wheat I
Draw Christ from his heavenly seat I
Search with me this precious mine,
And you will with glory shine.
Como humbly to the throne of grace,
"Worship him, who fills all space.
With faith and love, a small return
Which Christ left his throne to earn.
Pride is the Evil One's delight —
For it hides God from our sight ;
Like children, tr\' to lenm and trust
That God's plan is wise and just.
The veil must rise from off your eyes,
Before Jesus you can priae ;
And earth can never heaven become
Till yom' homage Christ has won.
Death draws us, now, with noiseless tread ;
Generations he has led
Through his great valley, dark and lone,
Breaking up man's earthly home.
Gloom and darkness, sorrow and woe,
Are found where his scythe doeh mow ;
He persecutes the human race —
Each in turn he does embrace.
The aged parent, child, and slave,
All descend into the grave ;
It matters little what your creed.
Each in turn that way proceed.
Then let me urge, yes, beg, entreat,
That my work you soon will greet
With a generous, welcome look.
Searching well through all the book.
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Then making trial of its truth,
By imparting it to youth ;
So that the glory it portrays
May be brought within our gaze.
SECOND PART.
Our lives are all a mystery,
From our childhood to old age ;
Each one would make a history,
And fill full many a page.
A warfare rages all through life,
Man's heart, the great prize, to gain,
'Tis evil causes all the strife,
And with sin our souls does chain.
God sends good angels us to guide.
Holy seed within to plant ;
The Devil watches, makes us slide,
And with evil does enchant.
King David was both pure and good,
When God's house he thought to build ;
He tasted of the tempter's food.
And with sin his soul he fiU'd.
"When Nathan, who the Lord did send
His servant to reprimand.
Convinced him he must amend.
And obey his God's command.
He shewed him how life's journey all
With great blessings God had crown'd
Whenever he on him had call'd
His enemies scattor'd round.
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And if that had been too little,
More for him ho would have done,
If he had kept each tittle
Of the law, like Christ His son.
Jeeus, in his warfare, conquer'd,
He the tempter did dethrone ;
His kingdom ho has enter'd,
And he soon will reign alone.
When the ( ' urch in now apparel.
For her spouse is really drest,
God will wean man from his idol,
And give earth her heav'nly rest.
King David's Son on earth will reign,
On Mount Zion's holy hill ;
Then sin God will with iron chain,
And his love in our hearts instill.
Hasten then, his throne is waiting,
The elect are all prepar'd,
delay not your repenting.
Or your souls will be ensnar'd.
THE FIEST TEMPLE.
The first Eve brought much sorrow to man,
Disarrang'd th' Almighty's plan ;
She did what she should not have done, —
The great web of evil spun.
She shut the windows of heaven,
She fill'd our hearts with leaven,
She put a vail over our eyes
Which our body petrifies.
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When sin and sinners did abound,
God with water hid tlte ground ;
God 02)oned his windows in wrath,
And cover'd the earth with froth.
One man, call'd Noah, God did spa70
As he did an ark prepare.
And seven others, for his sake.
He did with him in it take.
'Mid heaven and earth, this floating ark —
This one little, lonely bark
Held all, in love, that God could save
From a dreadful, watery grave.
For sin had so mankind disgrac'd,
That God them almost efFac'd.
Noah, alone, his God oboy'd,
So his family were sav'd.
Through jeers and taunts this ark was made ;
Ponder well and be afraid (
One man, one ark, the race presorv'd.
When from truth the rest had swerv'd.
That one did faithfully fulfil
In all things his Maker's will ;
The length, the breadth, the height, ho mado
By the rule God for him laid.
One door, one window did it grace.
And three stories found a place ;
Rooms in compartments did divide —
God did all its movements guide.
A little spark of light does gleam
From this little tiny thing —
Fit emblem of the temple, where
God hoars and answers prayer.
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Had Noah kopt tho ark well clos'd,
Doath had novor iutorpos'd,
For whilo within it thoy did rest,
Doath did nevor thorn molest.
But, when ho to tho earth rotarn'd,
The first sacrifice he burned
Show'd symptoms of an evil heart.
Which death's shadows did impart.
The fathers, each, and all, did raise
Altars, tho Lord God to praise ;
Like Abel thoy did sacrifice
Blood, whose incense reached tho skies.
But still, Doath did those fathers take
Across his mysterious lake ;
And ever since he has prevail'd,
And his woes on man entail'd.
When God to Moses had made known
How ho should for sin atono.
He built an altar 'neath a hill,
Blood upon and 'round did spill ;
Twelve pillars there did represent
Tho twelve tribes, who, penitent,
To God their offerings did bring,
Which from thankful hearts did spring.
For thoy did all, with one accord.
Promise to obey the Lord ;
The people did God's presence feel,
He his glory did rovoal.
A tabernacle, thou, we see,
Whore tho3e tribes did bend tho knee, —
A covering which God dosir'd,
And his holy things roquir'd.
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Ten curtains did to it pertain,
Which were parted jutit in twain,
With five on each side, so ontwin'd
That they were, it seems, design'd
To cover all the means of grace,
Center'd in this hallow'd place ;
Whose door God's glory did defend
When their worship did ascend.
Whenever man to God does pray
Satan in his cunning way
Inserts some little secret sin,
That some homage he may win.
Soon Israel's sons their pride betray-
For an earthly king they pray ;
To their request he did accede
After he with them did plead.
God as their king they did reject,
Saul he for them did select ;
Samuel did with oil anoint.
After God did him appoint.
But Saul did fail God's word to keep.
Sin did all his senses steep,
And God another king did name,
Bidding Samuel him proclaim.
David, the second Jewish King,
Did conceive a wondrous thing ;
To goodness ho his heart inclin'd,
The first temple he design'd.
And for it he did well prepare.
Silver, gold, and jewels, rare ;
But, it from building did refrain.
For he had so many slain.
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Tho tomplo, tlmt God's glory fiU'd,
Solomon, his son, did build ;
With beauteous wood and fino-hown stone,
This glorious tomplo shone.
In every country, now, we find
Temples of all sorts and kind ;
But none can, like the first one, show
Tho fire which in it did glow.
Nor does God's glory in them shine
As it did in former time ;
Some reason there must surely bo
Why these things wo cannot see.
We now no sacrifice do need,
Christ for all tho good does plead ;
But oh ! let all together pray
For a beam of thai lost ray.
But, alas I the Devil has made
The temple his grand arcade ;
He has made men believe, with pride,
There in priests they should confide.
Memorials of the human kind
In it, ev'rywhere, we find ;
God's glory these must much efface.
This is not their proper place.
Apostles, prophets, martyrs, saints
With great care the artist paints.
The house of God to beautify,
But they really testify
How sadlj we do magnify
Acts by which we glorify
The great and mighty King of kingsj
From whom ev'ry creature springs.
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Thus in each church ho finds a place
Where he does himself encase ;
This place ho must at once resign
When wo all our prayers entwine.
United, we will him defy,
And the Church will purify ;
^ Josus will then his people guide,
And his Church become his bride.
Malachi says, that when we pay
God his tithes, in his own way,
Heav'ns windows will open wide,
God will bless instead of chide.
LOT'S WIFE.
Remember, I pray,
That terrible day,
When Sodom, with flame,
Lit up all the plain.
Then, think of Lot's wife,
How she lost her life ;
She knew, well, the way,
But wish'd for delay.
One lingering look, —
Death her overtook ;
She God disoboy'd —
Her soul thus betray'd.
Her frame then became
A pillar of shame ;
Banished for ever —
One stroke did sever
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From friond and from foo,
To regions of woe ;
Take Wiarning by this I
For moments of bliss
Do not sacrifice
Your heavenly prize —
"With Zoar in sight
Had she been upright,
Her name with renown
Would be handed down j
Fly, then, to Zoar I
There is but one door.
If wo put away pride,
The Sj)irit will guide,
And give us the graco
Sin lost to the race.
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THE TADERNACLE WITH THE COURT AND CAMP.
A The Talierimcle, B The Lavcr. C The Altftr of burnt offering.
D The Court, E The Cloud of Glory.
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Dear Jewish Friends, —
Your boliovo that man was first tempted by
a woman under the influence of Jie serpent, who of
course, was the Evil Spirit. Wo Christians beliovo
that our Christ waa the Lamb slain from the foun-
dations of the world. The Lamb, typified in iHaac,
who died that wo might live, who took upon him our
nature and was born of a woman, conceived of tho
Holy Spirit. Would that God might enable me, a
more woman as I am, and one who has boon led
through the wilderness of this world by tlio special
providence of God for many years, through, I may
say, as strange triads and troubles as liave ever fallen
to the lot of a human being, to lift from your eyes
tho veil which hidoh from you a Saviour's love. My
object in WTiting is nr)t to open a controversy, but to
induce you to search the scriptures and see if Christ
has not fulfilled those prophecies which has, since
the days of your father Abram, led you to look for a
perfect human sacrifice for sin, so that Moses, in
whom you trust, shall not accuse you hereafter, for
Chrie^t said " Had ye believed Moses ye would have
belie\od me. — John v. 46. As soon as j^our i)eople
kneel to Christ in faith the reign of truth will da\vn
upon tho earth and Christ's spiritual reign begins.
As the Messiah Christ will then return, either per-
sonally or spiritually, to be our king, and reign over
you in Jerusalem, tho Holy City.
My subject, then, is —
" Christ, the Son of God."
Text — John 8, 14. " Though I boar record of my-
self yet my' record is true ; for I know whence I
came and whither I go."
A Unitarian tract before me, by W. G. Eliot, D.D.,
(written with the object of proving that Clirist was
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without the divine nature of God,) takes this same
text ; bij": in how different a light do I see it. None
but God could know whence He came or whither He
went. None of the inspired men of the Old Testa-
ment knew it, nor does any one living know it. God,
in His mercy, has sent us His Bible as a rule of life,
that wo might first learn to know His will, and then
practise it. All efforts to keep the law perfectly in
the host living creature must fall far short of what
God requires. Therefore, Christ appeared himsell
to your fathers in the form of a man, and then con-
descended to bo born of a pure virgin, fulfilling, in
every particular, the Prophecy of Isaiah, (Isaiah vii.
14) for God's justice required a sacrifice ; so the
second person in the blessed Trinity came in the person
of Jesus Christ to wash away our sins in His blood
to purify and prepare our bodies for the indwelling of
the Holy Spirit, and " by one offering he hath perfect-
ed forever them that are sanctified," (Hebrews x. 14.)
Though the Devil had the groat power to ruin the beau,
tiful creature that God had made, still the power that
made had the power to restore. The redemption of the
world is a work of wonderful love and mercy, so
complete that man can neither add anything to it nor
take anything from it. God now offers us greater
happiness and beauty than we lost, — giving us, how-
ever, the free will to choose whether we will have
for our Father God, who loves us, or the Devil, who
hates us. As Vte said to your fathers He now says
to us — ** Choose ye this day whom ye will se^'ve."
The Devil hates us because he once had all those
joys as his own which Christ has now pre2)ared for
us; he having lost them, does not choose
that we shall ev^r enjoy them. Christianity, thank
God, to those who have at times felt the power of the
Holy Trinity on the soul, is so far beyond all human
philosophy that none but those who have felt its
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power, fool that there are no wordg in which to
express it, but Christ's own words to Nicodomus —
" Ye must be born of water and of the Spirit," —
which must have been intended to teach the use of
baptism instead of circumcision, in this, obeying the
law, which obedience will lead you to believe the
Gospel, and see in Christ the Messiah for whom you
still look.
To sit at the feet of Jesus, to learn His will, as the
Unitarians do, from His human nature instead of His
divine, reminds me of a child going to a lesson of
any sort with the hope of learning that lesson by the
teacher merely reading it to him, — if it was music,
playing it ff r him, or a language, speaking it to him,
or drawing, sketching it for him. No faith to believe
that the teacher is a being, composed of body, mind,
and soul or spirit, — endowed with tho power of
imparting that knowledge and of fixing it as it were
on the mind or soul for ever.
xiow, this is a mystery. Can you explain it ? No.
Do you believe it 7 Yes. God is a spirit. God made
man, (we are told by Moses in Genesis,) after His own
image. If, then, you believe that you are made of
three parts — body, mind, and soul, why cannot you
boliove that God made us by His power, justified us by
His love, and in mercy sanctified us by His Holy
Spirit, so that by the action of all the Three in One
who made us, God's justice might bo appeased ?
The world is beginning to grow old ; time is hast-
ening us on to the end of all things. Would it not
be wise, instead of trying to find out whether the
world was built in six days or as many thousand
years — why God has not informed us more on this
subject and more on that — why this was not put in
the Old Testament and that left out of the New ? I
repeat it, would it not bo wiser to try to become more
humblo, loving Christians, striving to follow out tho
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God-liko graces of the Saviour, — looking at him as
he is, — the beautiful picture of what Adam was
before the fall, — as also, of God's revealed will to man,
which ho gave to Moses on the Mount on two tables
of stone ? If Christ were not God, why did He
come at all, and why as a child ? We knew our duty
from the law, and we have no more power now to
keep it perfectly than before Christ came. God's
justice required a perfect sacrifice for sin, to do away
with your many sacrifices and to reconcile us to him-
self, — to purify, to wash us from our sins. His
coming as a man , ^^.^d have been quite useless, for
we know that a person may be very moral without
being at all religious. Christ does not say you must
keep the law to the letter or you will never see the
Lord ; but it is said " without holiness no man shall
see the Lord." Our hearts tell us that of ourselves
we are not holy, then there was need of a sacrifice
and that a holy one. The angels are not perfect, or
Satan would not have fallen ; hence the reason why
Christ came and suifered, and ere he returns to reign
God's Holy Spirit will make us holy. That God's
ways arc mysterious none will deny ; but yet a
humble, l.usting Christian finds no diflSculty in
beli;/ ing /hat lu's been revealed, and looks forward
in hope t -iiw Ilia:) •;vhcn ovr "piritnal "'t,ut will be
restored, nl all will be made plain. The plan of
redemption to him is simple. It soothes all his
sorrows and drives away all his cares. The feeling
that his soul reposes in a Saviour's arms, and that in
His holiness he shall appear before his God, is to him
greater riches than all the glory and honor of the
world.
Pride, the cause of the Devil's own fall, is his prin-
cipal weapon, which he uses to draw souls from God,
There are so many varieties of pride, or, rather,
Satan tempts us by it in so many different ways, that
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we seldom know when it influences our actions. It
is pride that tempts a Unitarian to call himself a
Christian, when it would become him better to take
some Jewish name, or, if he could, to join the Jewish
Church. It would, I think be more consistent, for at
baptism the Christian has three privileges conferred
upon him : — 1st. He who was naturally estranged
from Christ is made a member of Him, — that is, a
member of that mystical body whereof Christ is the
head. (Ephesians ii. 12.) 2nd. He who was natu-
rally a child of wrath is now made a son of God by
adoptioQ through Christ, the Son of God by nature.
(Galatians iv. 5.) 3rd. Being a son of Gcd, he who
was naturally a child of perdition is now made an
heir of God and joint heir with Christ to a kingdom
of glory. Now, if a Unitarian does not believe this,
how can he be a Christian ? We do not take our
family name because we are obedient children. We
must be of the same nature, born into the same
fiimily. Then, how can we take the name of Christ
without having been baptized, which alone distin-
guishes us from Jews, Turks, and Infidels ? Our
keeping the law does not make us Jews ; nor can a
Unitarian become a Christian by leading a life more
like Christ than Christians do. Nothing can make a
man what hois not made by the form prescribed;
and I do not think that anything but being born a Jew
can make one a Jew, nor can any one be a Christian
unless baptized of water and the Spirit. Anything
else is a delusion of the Evil One to entrap their
souls. Nothing but divine power could have fulfilled,
as Christ did, all the ancient prophecies which are
contained in the Old Testament concerning the
Messiah. It required divine power to perform the
miracles which he did. Then, again, the holiness of
the doctrine which he prescribed, banishing idolatry,
superstition and vice out of the world, and teaching
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instead tho knowledge and worship of the true God,
the fulfilling of the law, and the practice of all
manner of virtues. He showed, also, His divine
power by His resurrection, for He remained on earth
forty days, eating and drinking with His disciples,
and apj)earing suddenly unto them when they neither
knew "whence He came or whither He went; " His
wonderful ascension into Heaven, by which He
finished the fulfilment of the prophecies regarding
himself which He delivered while on earth, of which
His disciples, once Jews themselves, were the living
witnesses.
Add to this the testimony of Josophus, who says —
(Book 18, chapter 3) — " that Jesus was a wise man,
if it bo lawful to call him a man, for He did wonder-
ful works : He taught men to receive the truth with
pleasure ; He drew over to Him many of the Jews.
He was Christ, and Pilate condemned Him to the
cross on the 3rd Ajoril. Those that loved Him did
not forsake Him,* for He aj)peared to them alive agjiin
the third day, April 5th, as the divine prophets had
foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful
things concerning Him."
You, yourselves, are a text to us. It is not an in
spired man that you expect. It is God himself; and
because Christ did not come with pomp and great
glory, you cannot believe Him to be the Messiah. He
often appeared to your fathers. They did not doubt
that it was He, and their faith was much stronger
than ours, for they believed in what had not then
happened. Now your people find it hard to believe
what has come to pass.
The fearful destruction of your temple, city, and
* He really should have said, " those he loved he did not forsake,
for he appeared to them alive again, the third day after his cruci-
fixtion^ and now having finished his work of Redemption, he must
will return to finish his work of Glorification whicn
and
begun, and when finished, man will bo a
living like Christ did while on earth."
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commonwealth by the Romans, which Christ foretold
you forty years before it took place (Luke xxi. 20) ;
your being scattered about upon the earth and remain-
ing as you are to this day, as prophecied by Ilcsea in
his 3rd chapter, without a king, without a high priest,
and without a temple, without a sacrifice, — for you
have had none since Christ came, — are living monu-
ments and witne88«^8 to the truth of these prophecies.
Then see, for three hundred years after Christ's as-
cension, the Holy Spirit gave the Apostles power to
preach the Gospel to all nations in their own language,
and to work miracles. These days are passed, but
Christ still assists the humble Christian in his efforts
to be good ; and no matter how often he fails, if he
only turns to Him in true penitence and prayer,
*' He is able to save them to the uttermost also
that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to
make intercession for them." (Hebrews vii. 25). But
if we will not hear Moses and the prophets, neither
will we be persuaded though one roae from the dead.
(Luke xvi.)
Some Unitarians ask the question, Are we disciples
of Christ or only first among equals ? The Gospel
teaches us to believe in Jesus, (the word Jesus means
a Saviour.) Why ? Because He is the Saviour of
mankind, (Acts iv, 12,) aud He is called Anointed
because called to three ofl&ces, that of Prophet, Priest,
and King. As a Prophet, Christ instructs His Church
outwardly by His Word, (Luke 4, 18,) and inwardly
by His Spirit (John xiv. 26. As a Priest, Ho recon-
ciles by His death on the cross, (1 Timothy 25,) as
also by His continual intercession to God for us ;
and as a King, He governs and protects His
people and Church (Ephesians ii. 22,) but has not
yet claimed his victory over death. To Christ,
also, may be applied the attributes which belong
to God, — Ist. The attribute of uachangableness.
for in John 8, 58, ho says, *' Before Abraham was, I
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am." 2iid. Tho attribute of Omnipresence, for He
told Ilis disciples that He would bo with them to the
end of tho world. His sovereignty I have already
proved.
If Christ had not boon divine, He could not have
told the woman of Samaria what she had done. Re-
member how tho disciples felt their hearts burning
within tliem when lie talked to them after His resur-
rection. Faith would bo of no value if the mystery
were not very great. "Wo cannot comprehend God
now, but wo can easily believe that He could take our
nature ou Him if He chose. All nations worship some
sort of a god. To worship the true God, then, does
not require much faith. The beauty of fiiith can
only be shown in the belief of God's wonderful love
and mercy in loving us so much who love him so
little, and in suffering for us so much agony. What
man could have borne the agony of all the sins of the
world, when the remorse of one sin will sometimes drive
a person to despair ? Then He contended, as it were,
with the Evil One and overcame. What man can do
this without having his soul stained with sin ? The Evil
One seems, as it were, to throw a veil for a time over
our eyes ; in fact, to make us believe that we are doing
right when wo are doing wrong — that we are saints
when we are greater sinners than those who have,
perh.aps, less pretensions ; and it is only by constant
prayer and the help of God's Holy Spirit that one is
able to struggle and tear oneself from his grasp. All
the inspired men in the Old Testament have fallen
under the power of Satan at one time or another.
Moses lost his temper several times ; he even slew an
Egyptian. Abraham's faith failed him before Abime-
leck. Isaac failed the same way. Jacob told a lie
and deceived his poor old father. David and Solomon
both sinned exceedingly before the Lord. So that
the fact of Christ being inspired would not have been
sufficient to have enabled Him to contend against the
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Evil Ono as IIo did, Christ showed dopondenco on God
in His human nature, which would not have been
complete without it. Christ came to set before us a
perfect example of Adam before the Fall, as also a
loving picture of God's will to man once given on
stone. IIo kept the law perfectly. Close your
eyes and look at Christ in thi.s way — the perfection
of all that is lovely and beautiful can give but a very
faint idea of His beauty. If the Christian combines
the faith of the Jew and the Unitarian, we prove
Christ to bo divine. The Jews, by their strong belief
that the Messiah must be God himself, with the veil
still over their eyes, fulfilling Christ's own prophecy
concerning them, and of which He warned them
(Matthew xiii. 13) ; then the Unitarian, by proving
that Christ fulfilled prophecies and obeyed the law to
the letter, proves Him to be the Messiah for whom
the Jews still look ; for, in offering Himself upon the
cross in the person of His Son, He proves himself to
be the Saviour of the world. These two faiths, then,
prove the doctrine of the Trinity. Indeed, it seems
plain that if Christ was not God no man will be saved ;
for, without the divine nature was complete in Christ,
no man will appear before God.
As soon as the Jew learns to know that the Messiah
has come, I believe he will put to shame the Chris-
tians of the present day, whose faith is certainly not
that of Abraham, nor their deeds those which St. Paul
taught. How plainly both Jew and Gentile, in their
unbelief, follow up Adam's great sin of pride ; both
are too proud to believe that God took upon Him the
nature of man, whom he made after His own image,
as if all things are not possible with God. If we
could once feel His love — a love so great that, when
enduring the most intense agony. He cried out,
" Father, forgive them, for they know not what they
do,"— so great that He ever liveth to make interces-
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sion for us, (Hebrews vii. 25) and so immenso that
through llim, St. John nays, " we have become the
sons of God," and yet wo are not changed in appear-
ance but in his first epistle, ho tells us " that we shall
see Him as He is when we are made like Him."
" I am the way, the truth and the life." It seema
to me that Christ has made the way clear. The Holy
Spirit plants the truth in our hearts, and God is the
life. Christ was circumcised to fulfil the law, and He
was baptized to set us an example of the sacrament
that Ho wished to introduce, which was to take the
place of circumcision in the Christian Church. " Go
ye and baptize all nations in the name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Ghost." The Father sends the
Son, and He imparts the Holy Spirit. All three per-
sons hero hold a personal office, and are all three mt de
equal. The baptism is to comprise all three, and then
follows the promise — " Lo, I am with you always,
even unto the end of the world." Yes, He is with us
to guide us and keep us from the Evil Spirit, whose
constant employment is to hinder us from doing good
and to induce us to do evil (Galatians v. 17; Romans
vii. 23). Some Gentiles say there is no Devil or Evil
Spirit; then how do they account for their evil
thoughts and actions ? If there is one, then ask your
self what would be most likely his first object. To
keep us from knowing God. He will try as he did
with Adam to persuade us that some one of his attri-
butes are superior to the other — either His mercy will
save us without the appointed means, or His love will
show itself in a different way from what He has told
us himself, or His justice did not require that He
should come himself, as He has done. These are the
wicked suggestions which he deludes us with. Are
they not the same as the one with which he tempted
Adam ? "Ye shall not surely die ;" but has that pre-
vented us from dying? Although Adam, like hia
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children, -'.vas foolish enough to believe him, still, has
it altered the sentence ? Does not every day, hour,
minute, and second testify to the truth of God and the
success of the Devil's works ?
Take an example of any good work, — wo will
say the biiildi ng of a church. Look at the way Solo-
mon's temple was built. Look at the offerings that
King Solomon brought to God before he commenced
to built it. Then see how the people answered to Solo-
mon's call in 1st Kings 6-9. Hiram says : — " I have
considered the things which thou sentest to mo for,
and I will do all thy desire ; my servants shall bring
down the timber from Lebanon to the sea." And all
he asks in return is food for his men. See the gold
that the Queen of Sheba brought. Now, look at the
way we build churches to the Lord. First, the Devil
tries to make the congregation who wish to build it
quarrel among themselves, by this means to prevent
it being built at all. Then, when the time has come
that God chooses the church shall bebuilt, he does all ho
can by his devices so to influence them and their work
as to make it a temple for God in name only, for one
man will give the land for the purpose of improving his
property; the money will be given by the people to
the praise of their own names ; the minister will get
it built to show what great power he has, and how he
rules his people ; and then there will be constant con-
tention among themselves. Is this, I ask, working
for God's glory or the praise of His holy name ?
But the day is at hand. The Jews in Jerusalem
will build again the temple of the Lord, — a temple, I
believe, which has had none so beautiful since the one
that King Solomon built, — and where both prayer
and praise will rise to the Triune God from the hearts
and souls of the worshippers. God grant that I may
live to see it, for this temple will begin to be built as
soon as the Jews can see that the Messiah has come
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indood, and that Josub Christ was tho Son of God,
who ciimo to earth in His human nature and offered
himself on tho cross for our salvation.
In Deuteronomy xxi. L,3, every one that is hanged
on a tree is cursed. In Galatians iii. 13, it says,
" Christ hatii redeemed us from the curse of the law."
The angel of tlio Lord, who spoke twice to Abraham
out of Heaven, was no other than Christ, who told
tho Jews himself^ in John viii. 56, that " your Father
Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and
was glad." Job, in xxxi. 31, said, '* Oh, ihat we had
of His flesh." Wo cannot be satisfied ; we have it
and will not take it. The Jews in Christ's day asked
(John vi. 52), How can this man give us His flesh to
eat? and Christ said, " my flesh is meat indeed, and
my blood is drink indeed." Although tho death of
many saints and righteous persons have testified to
the truth of those words, how many cannot be satis-
fied because they will not believe. Christians are
apt to think that because the Jewish nation actually
put our Lord to death that they are very wicked ;
but St. Paul says, in Hebrews, " for it is impossible
for those who were once enlightened and have tasted
of tho Heavenly gift, and were made partakers of
the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good "Word of
God and tho powers of the world to come, — if they
shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance
seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God
afresh, and put him to an open shame."
Jews and Gentiles both saw Him go into Heaven,
where He now sits at the right hand of God, there to
intercede and to accept from us our smallest and
most imperfect services done for His sake. All will
again see Him when He comes to judge the quick
and the dead; but before that time tho following
prophecies together with numberless others must bo
fulfilled. " For though Thy people Israel be as the
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sands of tho Bon, yet a remnant of them shall return."
Isaiah x. 22.
"Be Htill and know that I am God : I will be ex-
alted amon^ the Heathen, I will bo exalted in the
earth."— PHalni 46, 10.
" In his days shall the righteous flourish : and
nbundanco of peace so long as the moon enduroth." —
72. Ps. vii.
" It shall come to pass in tho last days, that tho
mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in
tho top of tho mountains and shall bo exalted above
tho hills ; and all nations shall flow unto it." — Isaiah
ii. 2.
" He will swallow up death in victory ; a. id tho
Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces : and
tho rebuke of his people shall he take away from off
all ilio earth : for the Lord hath spoken it." — Isaiah
XXV. 8.
If it is our Father's will that Esau's sons should
gather his wheat into his garner and collect tho
crumbs that are lying under his table, thus regaining
our lost birthright and breaking Jacob's yoke from
oif their nocks, let me beseech you to apply your-
selves at once to this, great, wondrous work. Search
well this book, and if it proves to you that Christ was
divine, ho must bo the Messiah for whom you still
look, and when your people acknowledge him as such
he will put on his glorious apparel and will come
from Edom with dyed garments from Bozrah, and
Isaiah's beautiful description of the milennium time
to be found in Ixv. chap. 17 and following verses will
be seen and enjoyed by those who have died, and those
who t^ien live in the faith of God's own beloved Son
of whom St. Paul says in Colossi ans i. 15 : " He is the
image of tho invisible God, the first born of every
creature, for by Him were all things created. He then
goes on to show that He reconciled us to God by His
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doath on tho cross, and also shows that b}' iris Holy
Spirit ovon those who are aliens and onomios will bo
brought to trust and boliovo in him.
Although tho subject to mo scorns oxhaustless, still,
I think I havo written enough to show that Christ
had, while on earth, the dignity, authority, and power
belonging to God ; and, thoroforo, that Ilis divine
nature was complete. That it is a great mystery
none can deny ; but that we must believe in it, if wo
ever wish to see God and dwcU with Him, is a fact
which Scripture clearly proves ; and if God, as God,
requires Ilis justice to be satisfied ; if, as Christ, IIo
has shown Ilis love and requires ours in return ; if,
as tho Holy Spirit, He is willing to come in mercy,
and only asks us to pray for His help, why cannot
we humble ourselves to see things as He chooses, —
be like little children, " humble, teachable, and mild,"
willing to loarn in the way God chooses for us, ovon
though it is not exactly tho way that will satisfy our
pride of intellect, or pride of any or every sort. We
know that " we now see through a glass darkly, but
then face to face." Now wo know in part, but then
shall wo know also as wo are known. There in evi-
dently Homothing kept back ; wo are not now intend-
ed to know everything. Now wo are to trust and
believe, so as to prepare us gradually to see and know
God as Ho is — tho Alpha and Omega — the beginning
and tho end — the first und the last.
" Blessed are they that do His commandments, that
they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may
enter in through tho gates into tho City, — that City
where there is no night, for the Lord God givoth them
light, and thoy shall reign for ever and ever."
Come, Jews, behold tho end draws near,
Tho world on thee doth wait.
As soon as you can see and hoar,
Christ and his church will mate.
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Ho loft his Fiitlior's tlirono above,
And loarnt our childish ways.
Ho showed us how to livo and lovo
Virtue's glorious ways.
These ways which draw us near to God,
Unito us link by link,
Will cause our foot to bo so shod
Nothing can make us sink.
The holy firo that Moses saw.
That on your altar shone,
Will purify all nature's laws;
And place Christ on his throne.
Instead of trying to unite
Death's citadel to storm — ,
Each takes a flint and strikes a light,
Which gives Death no alarm.
When Christians, with united hearts,
God's temple do embrace,
With torches full of fiery darts I
Death they from earth will chase.
Our sins to the cross are nailed ;
Jesus has piorc'd death's sting,
Christians hitherto have fail'd
To fasten on death's wings.
37Tn EZEKIEL.
I see with the prophet's eyes
The dry bones which he did see ;
All around earth's valley lies
A dead Christianity.
But the breath of God will soon
Each bone to his bone unite, —
Skin, sinews, and flesh, assume
Some great new power and might.
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" Como from the four winds, O Breath '
And awake these sleeping bones,
Snatch them from the arms of death,
And make them glittering stones.
Whose united, steady light.
Will unmask the pomps of earth,
And together burning bright,
Prove them to be nothing worth.
For such radiance will shine
From the tabernacle then,
That the riches of God's mine
Will attract all sorts of men.
Israel then will seek the fold,
Christ the Shepherd they will own ;
Again, as in the days of old,
God will as their King be known.
THE LOST TRIBES.
And have we really found the lost
Ton Tribes so often sought.
Are Briton's sons the mighty host,
The ones that Christ has taught.
If this is true the time draws nigh
For Esau's sons to wake,
To take the bands from off their eyes.
And Jacob's yoke to break.
Two names our Father Jacob bore,
Two nations thus have sprung,
The Britons and the Turks of yore
Must all from him have como.
Then Jewi3 at once the cross upraise,
The crescent then will wane,
When you Messiah learn to praise,
And bow at Jesus' name.
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You will your glory all attain,
The tribes will reunite,
God's ten commands will then regain
Their pure and long lost light.
When Esau's sons their birthright win
The Serpent's race is run.
Hearts then all purified from sin,
Will his devices shun.
PALESTINE.
See, look through space to Palestine,
While I now to you define
What now is seen in this fair land,
Desolate on ev'ry hand
Four belts this country now divide,
Mediterranean on its side ;
Fine foliage all around is seen,
Trees of many shades of green.
Moving along on Arab steed.
Mules behind with all your need ;
The tracts the animals have mado
Guide one through its lonely shade.
Our winter frosts, with ice and snow.
This fine country doth not know,
Yet it is very lonely, sad,
Natives wild and barely clad —
Live on the hills, and clefts of rock,
All they own, a little flock.
Though here once God's own people dwelt.
In the greatest temple knelt.
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Where Tyre's towers once soar'd on high
Fishers' nets are spread to dry ;
Woes, by Prophets long foretold,
The traveller can there behold.
Atheists you must cease to sneer,
And begin our God to fear,
For on this spot of hallow'd ground
Truth of God's own word is found.
Come, open out your temple-door,
The gospel to accept ;
The Spirit will his blessings pour
When Christ you do elect.
As King of kings, he stands and knocks,
0, pray him enter in ;
He is the great, the mighty rock.
Who can us save from sin.
A JEWISH MOTHER'S LAMENT.
A Jewish mother, lone and sad,
Sits mourning for her only son ;
A dire disease struck down the lad I
Just as he had great honors won.
In childhood he her rule obey'd,
In youth he all her will fulfiU'd ;
His mind with learning well array'd.
And ev'ry virtue there instill'd.
The Jews all lov'd this comely youth,
And many thought that ho might be
A leader, chosen for his truth.
To guide their people through the sea-
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Back to Jerusalem, the land
"Where once they dwelt in glory great,
With prophets, priests, on ev'ry hand.
And kings, who sat in regal state.
No, Jewish maidens ! Jewish sons,
The glory that your people craves
Can never dawn till Christ has won
From you belief he died to save.
As soon as this, with faith, you see,
Your ancient glory will return,
The Holy Land then soon w^ill be
The place to which you will sojourn.
All then will sec Christ's holy reign, —
He comes with sceptre to restore.
He comes to free the world from pain,
And ev'ry blessing on us pour.
Spiritual sight that Adam lost.
Will gently by us be regain'd ;
O, let not any earthly cost
Be valu'd till this end's atlain'd.
No mother then will have to sigh,
No husband part with his dear wife,
No father see his lov'd one die,
All will be love, and rest and life.
This time of bliss, this glorious time
Must be by you now brought to pass,
If you have come from Esau's line
Your slavish days will soon bo past.
Awake then, now attend my call,
Ev'ry tic from me I fling, —
Come rouse thee, Jewish people all,
And with mo you will gaily sing.
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That glorioTis temple you will build,
One great altar you will raise ;
All Satan's schemes to you will yield,
And all will echo Jesus' praise.
For he was God, the mighty God
As Prophet, Priest, he has been here j
But when he comes as King, our God,
Man will him love and never fear.
If I God's holy people lead
To kneel before the cross in truth,
Your Numa will with all his seed,
Enjoy again eternal youth.
GOD'S PKOYIDENCB.
What wondrous care our Father takes
Of all his faithful flock ;
He guides us when we sleep or wake.
And winds us likes a clock.
Through trials small and trials groat.
On ev'ry side beset,
He teaches us to work and wait
Till he his throne has set.
The seasons four in order come,
And with them cold and heat ;
Each day behold the beauteous sun.
With rays of light wo meet.
The moon with softer light to soothe,
The stars around to cheer,
The planets as they daily move —
All for mankind appear.
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The trees alone, in summer time,
Are clad in robes of groen,
In winter they their leaves do hide.
And gray and bare are seen.
And on the trees grow lovely fruit,
Quite perfect in their form,
Each one with scent or taste to suit,
Our garden to adorn.
Some good and useful sap do yield
To comfort and sustain ;
Their branches from the sun to shield,
And shelter from the rain.
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Oood people, like fine trees in bloom,
Enrich the very ground,
While dead and burnt ones cast a gloom
And sadness all around.
We cannot nature's works assist,
Nor can we understand,
Before our eyes there is a mist
Which covers sea and land.
This veil, which sin has caused to grow,
Which hides God from our eyes.
Is growing thicker, from the flow
Of self-deceit and lies.
THE CHRISTIAN'S HOPE,
Oreat Spirit of this mighty world,
Who Adam thy sweet voice has heard,
Send down to earth, thy regal chair ;
And roign o'er earth, sea, sky and air.
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Let Jew and Gentile, Turk and slave
Learn how thou dost redeem and save ;
And that thou soon will glorify
The humblest saint, though low he lie.
Yes? raise him from his dusky bed,
To join the choir by angels led,
To live a pure and holy life,
And make an end of all our strife.
Come holy spirit, come, oh I come,
Teach us all evil now to shun.
The power of gold at once destroy,
And give us joys without alloy.
Speak but the word, death's reign is o'er
Fresh blessings on thy children pour,
Sickness, pain and sorrow, all
Will flee before the angel's call.
The Tree of Life to us restore,
That we may live for evermore;
Feed us with its heavenly fruit ;
And blossoms sweet will from us shoot.
THE LOVE OF GOD.
The love of God, majestic theme,
In the elements is seen,
They are the germs from which do spring.
Every moving, living thing.
Man above all was made to show.
His great glory here below,
When sin, his beauty did deface.
Love restored to him his grace.
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And though man lives to disobey
His Creator, day by day,
Yet untold blessings him surround.
Treasures for him fill the ground.
For man, God keeps his garners full.
Yearly grains and fruits to cull,
But fresh supplies their places fill
When man does the ground well till.
In sleep his angels guard his bed
Righteous souls by him are fed,
Light cheers his spirit day by day,
On his sad and lonely way.
He sent his Son, his love to seal,
Satan's deadly wound to heal ;
Streams of blood for man he shed ;
His body laid among the dead.
He lives again to intercede,
And with God for man to plead,
That he would to the earth restore,
Life and joy for evermore.
GOD'S SPIRITUAL PEESENCE IN THE
BREAD AND WINE.
Daily our bodies take their food.
And try to get it pure and good,
Few, very few, refuse their gold.
To buy the best that can be sold.
The earth in summer season yields
Grain, grass and fruits, in all her fields,
When Gcd withholds his bount'ous hand,
Famine spreads all around the land.
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Our souls from God must all be fed,
Or they will bo by Satan led ;
In faith, his presence we must see,
Or we can never happy bo.
No incense now that we can buy
Will draw God from his throne on high,
Pure and united faith and love
Will make our earth like heav'n above.
God, on the Jewish mercy seat.
In the Schekinah priest did meet
The sj)irit there made known to man,
In fire, the great Creator's plan.
Man fail'd to work out God's design.
And lost this wondrous, mystic sign.
To save us from the Father's wrath,
Christ shed his blood upon the cross. .
While on this earth, with man Christ walk'd,
And to his priests, he daily talk'd j
His holy presence left behind ,
To cheer the faint and cure the blind.
The body now, the spirit wears,
Is bread and wine the altar bears,
'Tis true, God's essence fills all space,
But there he feeds us with his grace.
When once man really can believe.
He does in Sacraments receive
The food his spirit does require.
Again will glow the Holy Fire.
We show our love when we obey,
Our faith, that Christ prepar'd the way,
Our hope, that he will soon descend j
And saints and angels him attend.
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He comos not now to blood and die,
But all bolow to glorify;
He comes to sit as king in state,
And make the lowly Christian great.
Man yet will live for ever.
His blood will always flow ;
Nothing us from Christ will sever
When earth is Heav'n below.
JOHN THE BAPTIST.
A righteous priest wo now behold,
A virtuous wife had he,
Zacharias his name we're told, —
One of Aaron's daughters she.
All the commands of God they kept.
His ordinances fulfill'd ;
They lov'd his righteous precepts, —
Truth in them was well instill'd.
Still a miracle they did need
To open their eye of faith,
And that God did to them concede
The narrative further saith.
This priest did at the altar burn
Incense in the holy place,
When suddenly he does discern.
On his right an angel's face.
Now full of dread he trembling stood,
For the angel to him spake,
And bade him trust, for soon he shoul
Of an earthly joy partake.
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Tho doarost wishes of his heart
Had reached the throne above ;
The father soon would do his part
And shower on hlDi his love.
His lonely hearth God soon would cheer,
For his wife would have a son
Who should be great in faith, but fear
Now struck Zacharias dumb —
And speechless, we are told, remain'd
Till all things had been perform'd,
Then were the things to him explain'd
That he so before had scorn'd.
When he in God's own temple bent
His child to circumcise,
The Holy Ghost, in quick descent.
Miraculous grace applies.
His name is John, his father wrote,
As tho angel had desir'd ;
In verse what follows, I do quote,
As the Spirit has inspir'd :
His tongue was loos'd in praises loud,
Good news from Heav'n to men,
Messiah comes to pierce sin's cloud,
And the stream of sin to stem.
This John was sent men to prepare
For the day spring from on high ;"
He did with moral courage dare
Sin's temptations to defy.
In raiment, made of camel's hair,
He all pride of life disclaim'd ;
The leathern girdle he did wear
All his other passions chain'd ;
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Locusts and honey were his meat —
Such tlio poorest could obtain,
To him as good as finest wlieat,
While ho did the Christ proclaim.
May we, like John, prepare the way,
Subduing ourselves with toil.
Presenting quite a bright array
Of lamps well tiU'd with oil.
All burning with a strong desire
To see the dear Bridegroc-m's face,
Who soon will come with holy fire.
And give to each saint a place.
THE CnURCn OF THE FUTURE.
Christian women of all creeds
Combine to draw out all the weeds
That Satan has so slyly sown,
And in the garb of goodness grown.
Each one believes his church is right,
And does not wish for other light,
But all our lights together thrown
Would make earth blaze from zone to zone.
The light of day shines all around,
The heavens with stars of light abound ;
Direct from God all light is sent,
To ev'ry one this light is lent.
A written word to man God gave,
Our souls to rescue from the grave ;
Christ's perfect body bore the cross.
That we might gain what Adam lost.
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Tho Spirit yot still strives with man,
With lovo bids all accept God's plan ;
And use all God's own precious ore,
Unmixed with any priestly lore.
Then in a circle lot us join,
And cast out all the worthless coin ;
Christ will to earth again return,
When we all evil learn to spurn.
When all our passions we restrain.
Now life will run through ev'ry vein ;
The glory of the Lord will shine,
Through this church to ev'ry clime.
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THE ORIGIN OF PUBLIC WORSHIP.
Tho first oblation, wo are told,
The Lord did from man receive
Caus'd Satan's naturo to enfold ;
Cain, like Eve, he did deceive
To sacrifice what he thought right ,
Not the thing Ihat God requir'd,
Then the Lord withdrew from sight ;
With rage, Satan, Cain inspir'd
His brother Abel, to destroy ;
Then the spectre death appears.
Ruining all man's earthly joys.
And filling his eyes with tears.
Enoch did walk with God, we hear,
So his body ne'er decay 'd ;
As he, his Maker did revere.
He in glory was array'd.
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Noah, whon fVom the ark, roleas'd,
Beast and bird did eacrifico, —
This is the next atoning feast.
And its incense piore'd the skies.
Hero the name altar first appears,
In the sacred Holy Book,
A word which Satan never hears
Without angry thought and look.
Both Abraham and Jacob too
Did to God stone altars raise,
Thiough life they goodness did pursue,
And the great Creator praise.
Then, after these, the Lord desir'd
Moses one of earth to make —
All three offerings, God requir'd ;
On this altar bid him stake.
A typo of Christ, whoso body pure.
Should for all the world atone ;
He is the altar, firm and sure,
That will soon, King Death dethrone.
God's sanctuary altars were
To a tabernacle chai.j^'d.
Which in Aaron, the high priest's care,
Moses saw, was well arrang'd.
On it God's glory did descend.
In a cloudy pillar round.
They worshipp'd, and did apprehend
God in prayer would there be found.
The altar was within it plac'd.
This the Lord did satisfy ;
The five things then the altar grac'd
Will us yet electrify.
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A t3q)e to us, each one must be,
Of our present means of grace ;
Christ changed them, that he might set free
Streams of love to Adam's race.
The ark, like any new-born babe.
Was made to contain God's word.
With that within it firmly stayed
Gold did it surmount and gird,
So that it seems to represent
The regenerating power
Of water, whei with good intent,
Baptism, the baoe does shower.
Then the table of shew- bread stands
For our spiritual food,
Which, at the altar, Christ commands.
To be eaten for our good.
The wine we take comes from the vine,
Whose essence in streams does flow.
With tendrils round each soul to twine,
This Shekinah's sight does show.
The incense, with its perfume sweet,
Like the fragrance of a home
Where love and duty joyful meet.
And discords are never knov q ;
Whose inmates have been join'd in one
By a holy, sacred rite ;
A blessing from above have won,
From their holiness of life.
A stately candlestick 1 seo,
Whose tapers are lost to sight,
An emblem of the church to "lo,
With its dim, flickering ligh .
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But God's spirit will yet renew,
Fresh oil he will soon employ,
To bring his precious gifts to view,
And the veil of sin destroy.
To draw a curse upon the good,
Balaam did seven altars raise ,
But God there told him, that ho should
Bless all those who sang his praise.
Baal, we know, had altars too,
Gideon did cast down one.
This the angel desir'd him do.
With ten men the work was done.
An emblem of God's ten pure laws,
Which will evil ways restrain,
And close forever death's wide jaws,
When our lives their truth sustain.
Then holy fire again will shine,
And upon our altars burn ;
God's beloved beauteous vine,
We will one and all discern.
Two things without the camp we find.
Which the Christian does not need,
For Christ has both these things combined-
He has died, and now does plead.
One altar now will satisfy,
No laver do we require ;
Our sacraments can purify,
And fill us with inward fire.
These were the outward forms, whereby
God signified to mankind
That his own Son should live and die,
Satan's web of sin to bind.
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But man himself must snap the chain,
He must bruise the serpent's heel ;
Till then, Christ always will refrain
From setting on sin his seal.
The priesthood which from Aaron camo,
And which God did sanctify,
A temple afterwards did frame —
The Great God did glorify.
The tabernacle mov'd around
This temple solid and staid,
With strong foundations underground.
Immoveable was made.
King Solomon this temple rear'd.
King David did it design,
When God in glory there appear'd
Holy fire did in it shine.
Mount Moriah, King David chose
This great temple's site to be,
For there his incense once arose,
Which caus'd pestilence to flee.
And where the brazen serpent stood
Until Hezekiah's reign, —
Which was a monument of good,
To destroy the serpent's pain.
Then Abraham's great oflforing
On this very spot was made.
His only son he here did bring,
But his sacrifice God stay'd.
This temple, rich with gems and gold.
Built of finest wood and stone.
By hearts who lavish'd wealth untold,
Yet for sin could not atone.
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Tte worship could not have been pure,
Some lingering idol shar'd ;
To make our earthly temple sure,
God to us L own Son spar'd,
That we might, like him, learn to live,
To love, worship and obey ;
Our hearts into his keeping give.
And trust him day by day.
Man's first great temple was destroy'd
By the pillage fire and swords,
"Which Babylonian's king emjiloy'd
To augment his strength and hoards.
The riches, and the labour, all
That King Solomon had spent.
Was doom'd, and, like a fallen star,
JS"one could tell the way it went.
Years passed this desolated place,
Nehemiah did revive ;
The city he by night did pace,
And by day with men did strive,
Till his groat faith and works, at length,
This tom])le did rebuild;
God bk' -od him, and gave him strength,
And with courage him instill'd.
The second temple ne'er obtain'd
The glory the first beheld ;
A veil had then God's light r.estraia'd,
And his holy fire withheld.
The taljles on which Moses wrote
The laws God to him made known,
God to another never spoke.
Nor again bid write on stone.
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TJrim and Thuramim, from whence came
Answers from the King Divine,
Which to the High Priest did proclaim
God's will by some unknown sign.
These with the gift of prophecy.
Which soon after pass'd away,
Do very clearly specify
A want of heavenly ray,
Which the first temple did pervade,
And its beauty much enhance ;
But mankind did so retrogade
These did not their souls entrance.
Prayer-houses,* Proseuchai call'd.
Spread around about this time ;
In fields and mountains there install 'd^
To Heaven their thoughts did climb.
In towns and cities synagogues
Were in use throughout the land,
And many were the demagogues
Which in them did reprimand.
When God in mercy sent his Son
Man to try and teach his will ;
But even this beloved one
Man has not restrain'd from ill.
• Synagogues were sometimes called prayer-houseg, yet there
were prayer-houses called Proseuchai, which differed from syna-
gogues in three respects : — 1st, They were used occassioually for
private devotions, ; 2nd, they bad walls, but were open to the sky ;
and, 3rd, they were built infields and r^ountains, while synagogues
were only built in towns and cities. It was perhaps in one of these
prayer-houses our Saviour spent his night in prayer.
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Though by his life he testified
His power and might divine, —
By death and resurrection tried
Satan's throne to undermine,
But still within men's hearts sin reigns, —
Earthly glories make men toil, —
Satan with gold his sway maintains,
And the Spirit's reign does foil.
So though the Church that Christ did plant
Fresh leaves has before us spread,
As formerly wo pray and chant,
And by Satan's wiles are led ;
For Christ's sacraments have not bloom'd,
Their flowers are not yet seen, —
For Satan and his reign are doom'd
AYhen Christ's blossoms here do gleam.
The shepherds did God's glory see
When the Virgin and her Babe,
"With faith and great humility.
In a common manger laid ;
For God's first prophecy to man
Then about to be reveal'd.
His wondrous, great redemption's plan,
Drew forth his wondrous shield.
Christ's triumph over evil deeds
Surely bruised the serpent's head.
And hifB example mankind leads
All in virtue's paths to tread.
Money-changers he did eject
From the temple, with a scourge,
And twelve apostles did select
These abuses all to purge.
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The keys of goodness in their hands,
Through St. Peter, he did place,
Himself the rock on which still stands
The Church that will free man's race.
When reunited, it does show
The power of destroying sin —
Then the latter house will glow
With sin's antidote within.
Fulfilling Haggai's prophecy,
Written many years ago, —
That God his house would glorify.
And Satan's power overthrow.
Many prophecies, we well know,
Our Saviour has explain'd.
The others he will to us show
When his precepts are maintain'd.
Write at once upon all hearts
God's commands that Moses wrote,
Christ said they made the two great charts
By which all must steer and float.
He their great beauty did portray.
All his life by them did guide,
He suffered for them day by day.
And to teach us them he died.
That all men might enjoy again
The happiness Adam lost.
Without the sorrow, woe and pain,
His sins all the race have cost.
Then let us fill our hearts with love.
For our God to reign supreme,
His Holy Spirit, like a dove.
Will then on each head be seen.
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His temple — one great blaze of light, —
Like a beacon will appear ;
Then Zion's hill will be a sight
That the human race will cheer.
A valley only did divide
Moriah from David's hill,
Majestically side by side,
They with awe our thoughts do fill.
Solomon did these hill unite,
His bridge did this valley span ;
May Christ's great love the Jews incite
To embrace redemption's plan.
For when the Jew and Christian join,
The mountains will together meet,
And Satan with his worthless coin
Be trodden underneath their feet.
Baal's altars do still retain
Upon this our earth a place,
Then the angel will exclaim.
Of Baal leave not a trace !
Pray, then, that all will soon grow wise,
Put from them every sin,
And use their energies and eyes,
Crowns of righteousness to win.
A PRAYER.
When to thy temple Lord we haste,
Make our thoughts both wise and chaste ;
O teach us when we bend our knees,
Thee alone to try and please.
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Let our spirits soar far above,
Draw thorn with the cords of k ve ;
Take Satan's poison from our veins,
With thy blood wash out the stains.
We lay our souls within thy arms,
Earthly grandeur's lost its charms.
The world seems hollow and untrue.
Quickly come and make things new.
How blind and deaf man has become
To the work that thou hast done;
Creation groan'd thou didst redeem.
From sin thou did'st try to wean.
Each one his idol tightly grasps.
Gladly does the devil's tasks.
With iron chains he binds their feet.
As each victim he does cheat.
The web of sin which he does weave
Causes ev'ry pulse to heave ,
The sweets that he man gives to taste,
Guides him to the grave with haste.
But in thy house there is a peace.
There earth's trials all do cease ;
Our hearts seem there to fill with love,
Cheer'd with voices from above.
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THIS SCROLL
IS ADDRKSSED BY TIIK AUTHORESS
TO ms HOLINESS
POPE PIUS THE NINTH
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Mat it please youii IIoliness.
Tho ffrout trials that you Imvo endured since j'ou
called together your Bishops to consult with you on
lioly thing's, and tho division which your calling
yourself inlallihlo has caused in your branch of the
Christian church, may, perhaps, have prepared your
mind to re-consider tho subject, I therefore again take
the liberty of bringing it before you with other sub-
jects of grave importance. For the Heathen will
never embrace the doctrines of Christianity while we
are a house divided against itself, but when together,
we put away Pride and search for Truth, we will bo-
come a light to lighten tlio Gentiles, and the glory of
the people of Israel. I beseech you, take God's
Holy "Word and see what it says about man's past,
present and future state. Let us carry back our
minds to that time when God, having prepared this
beautiful world, one lovely garden containing all that
the eye delights to behold, created and placed in it a
perfect man, pure and holy, a little lower than the
angels, Avho received one command from God Him-
self, not to eat the fruit of one tree in the garden. To
make him completely happy, Eve was given to bo
his comforter and companion. The Bible does not
Bay that God talked with Eve, but it does sayihat she
knew tho command ; the Borpont must linvo known
it alHO. Wliothor tho privilege of wooing, walking and
talking with God was enjoyed l>y Adam alone, we
cannot nay : or, whether man waa mado by Goavid
found himself unable to contend with the powers of
darkness without the Divine aid. Isaiah says, " But
they rebelled and vexed his Holy Spirit." " Where
is he that put his holy spirit within him ? " — Ixiii.
10, 11. These passages shew that God's Holy Spirit
is a person engaged in a warfare with the Evil Spirit.
Turning to the New Testament St. Luke tolls us xi.
13, " How much more shall your Heavenly Father
give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him." Ephes.
i. 13, " In whom also after that ye believed ye were
sealed with that Holy Spirit of Promise." Eph. iv.
30 warns us " Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God."
Ist Thes. iv. 8, " Who hath also given unto us his Holy
Spirit." These passages, three from the Old, and
four from ' e New Testament, prove the beautiful
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words of the crood, " tlio Godher.d of tlio Fatlier, of
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one, the glory
equal, the Majesty co-otornal."
God the Holy Ghost is speaking to man now in
■6re, wind, earthquakes, pestilence and war, implor-
ing them to worship and servo the great Creator and
to become temples fit for the habitation of tlie Holy
SjDirit. God the Father gave man ten command-
ments, and sent priests and prophets to teach men
how to keep them, but as these all failed to keep
them themselves, God sent his own Son to shew the
world, by a practical life, the beauty of holiness, and
by his death to ransom the souls of those who, through
the help of God's Holy Spirit, overcame the world.
God has made seven promises to those that over-
come the temptations of the Evil one in the world.
1. " To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the
Tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of
God."— Rev. ii. 7. The one that eats of that tree
will never die, for ' .re told in Gen. iii. 22, that
Adam was driven ou' ^tf Paradise to prevent him
from eating of this t' j.. which would enable him to
live for ever. 2nd. " He that overcometh shall not
be hurt of the second death." Ho who has the
privilege of living on this earth with a glorified body
when the Holy Spirit reigns as King will also rise to
glory when Christ comes as a jvidge. 3rd. " 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 no man know-
eth saving he that receiveth it." — Rev. ii. 17. 4th.
" He that overcometh and kcepeth my words unto
the end to him will I give power over the nations." —
Ibid. 26th verse. 5th. " He that overcometh the
same shall be 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
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his Angola. — Rov. iii. 5. 6th. " Flira that ovorcometh
will I mako a jiillar in the Templo of my God : and
ho shall go no more out : and I will write upon him
the name of my God and the name of the city of my
God, which \h Now Jerusalem, which cometh down
out of heaven from my God ; and I will write upon him
ray new name." — Rev. iii. 12. 7th. " Ilim that ovor-
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." — iii. 21 And besides all this the 21st Eev.,
7th verso, says, '* He that ovorcometh shall inherit
all things, and I will be his God and he shall be my
Son."
0, could man but recognize the blessings which are
in store for those that resist the Devil, and his
temptations, the state to which they would restore
the world, if there was one united effort to become
practically good, not as it is now, to be very careful
to keep one or two of the commandments because
man's laws would expose and punish them if they
break them, but to keep God's day holy out of love,
reverence and fear to the Great and Almi,<;hty God,
and then to act towards man after the example of
our blessed Saviour, would make this earth a heaven
below. God never gave commandments that man
had not the power to obey; with these commands
God gave man his Holy Spirit to keep him in the
path of peace and holiness. Baruch says in his
Epistle to Jeremy, vi. ch., 60 verse, that sun, moon,
and stars being bright and sent to do their offices are
obedient, and man alone defies and disobeys his Maker
and Creator.
Before giving these commandments God gave to
Abraham two sacraments, as means through which
spiritual life should be planted, and cherished as it
were in the heart of man; " and Melchizodech, king
of Salem, brought forth bread and wine : and he was
ivo to
rhich
as it
king
le was
the priest of tho most High God, and ho blossod
Abraham." — Gen. xiv. 18. St. Paul tolls um in llob.
vii. that this priest had three names, King of ilight-
eousness, King of Salem and King of Peace, thus
teaching Abraham that the God that made, would
redeem and glorify a people for himself, who after
living on this earth with a glorified body, will bocomo
Angels, filling tho place of those who had fallen from
their first estate. Throe chapters after we read of
the Lord appearing to Abraham and saying, " I am
tho Almighty God ; walk before me and be thou
perfect." Then God established his covenant of
circumcision with his faithful Abraham. Thii»=( wo
see the first thing God gave man after the flood was
two sacraments, renewing as it were, the seed of
goodness in the heart of man and preparing it for
the law which he afterwards gave by the hands of
his servant Moses.
Now lot us look at the practical way in which our
Saviour fulfilled the will of God. When eight days
of his life were accomplished Luke tolls us in ii. 21,
that he was circumcised, and his name Jesus given.
Matthew mentions the name, but seems to think it
unnecessary to speak of the act of circumcision,
thinking, perhaps, that none could doubt it, but gives
us instead two names, one for his divine nature, which
is Emanuel, or " God with us," and one for his human
nature, which is Jesus, by being circumcised after
the law and humbly submitting to all things necessary
to our salvation. He fulfilled tho prophec}'^ in Isaiah
xlii. 21, " He will magnify the law and make it
honorable." Could he have magnified it unless he
had submitted to it? No ; in being circumcised he
did magnify it. But as Christ took all our sins upon
him, and bore all our pains, so he instituted in place
of circumcision, baptism, which is as binding on the
Christian as circumcision was on the Jew. A Jew
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WiiH not a Jow unless he was circumcised. A Chris-
tian is not a Christian till he is baptized. No stran-
ger could keep the passover unless he had been
circunicisod — Ex. xii. 48 — so no Christian can go to
the Lord's table unless he has been ba])tized, for as
Boon as the Jews believed on Christ thoy were bap-
tized. John was circumcised before Christ, Luke i.
59. His baptism is not mentioned, but ho is called
the Baptist, which evidently means more than is
expressed. John seems to have expected that Christ's
Baptism would have had a much more powerful
effect, and been altogothor different from his; but
Christ, to make it plain to John that he was only
going to fulfil the law not to change it, submits at
once to John's Baptism, shewing us, by this act, how
necessary it was to salvation, and that the power
that he would give his ministers would enable them
to make men Christians, to enlist them, as it wore,
under his banner, just as circumcision made them
Jews. As a general rule Christians do not appreciate
because the;y do not know the great privilege of being
made a member of Christ, of having the seed of a
power plan tod within them which v/ill enable them
successfully to contend with the Spirit of Evil, which
daily attacks the souls of men.
To illustrate the subject,without making light of the
ordinance of baptism, suppose there was any way in
which people might become members of the Eoyal
Family ofEnglar.i, and so be made heirs of their
privileges if they strictly obeyed certain laws. How
eager all would bo to learn the way I no trouble would
be spared, no sacrifice thought too great to obtain it.
But because Christ's kingdom at present is spiritual,
and so not outwardly visible, our faith is cold and dead.
There is no doubt that the good rule of baptising chil-
dren when they are eight days old is the one the
Christian Church should begin to tiy and enforce,
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ritual,
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Iforce,
one who really believes in the ordinance and the
benofitH to be received thereby would not bo puined
by seeing children die without being enrolled among
Christ'rt lambs, and people would not be satinfiud to
live a great part of their lives, without availing them-
selves of 80 glorious a privilege. In Matt. xx. 23,
Christ seems to say to the mother of Zobodoo's chil-
dren, while on earth you may have the great privilege
of being baptized and partaking of my Holy Supper,
but when I come as King, I will place those on my
right hand who have lov3d and obeyed me, but of
that you can know nothing now. Matt. xix. 13 shows
that Christ blessed little children and put his hands
on thom. It was not needful that Christ should use
water, he could give the spirit without the water ;
but the water, like the Church, is the channel through
which his grace must flow. When Jesus was baptized
the Holy Spirit desoendod in a visible manner, and a
voice from heaven declared him to be the Son of God.
When we are baptized the Holy Spirit dos'^ends in an
invisible manner, soon only through the eye of faith.
Adam's first act was disobedience ; Christ's first act
was obedience. Every act of Christ's life shewed forth
the glory of God, and every act of men's lives is to
glorify themselves.
How simple the means that Christ employs for a
test of our faith ! the Spirit, the water, and the blood,
the throe parts of which man is made, thus teaching
us that wo must give ourselves to God, and live for
the glory of the One, who is our Creator, Redeemer
and Sanctifier. The work is his own, he will finish
it ; he will never leave man as he is, degraded by sin
and selfishness, but as soon as man puts forth his
energies to please and serve him, at the same time
trying to subdue himself, he will become one with
Christ, and the Holy Spirit will come in person and
will reign, then will be heard the great voice sayin^:^,
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" the Kingdoms of this world are become tlio King-
doms of our Lord and of his Christ. — Eov. xi. 15.. And
he shall reign forever and ever."
The Jews had a mercy seat, an altar of incense and
a table made of wood and covered with gold, on which
stood twelve cakes of bread with golden dishes and
spoons, but none but the Priests were allowed to eat of
it, Exodus XXV. Christ having shed his blood for all,
commands all to show their faith in him by eating of
this bread, " Take, eat, this is my body." It was no
longer to remain in the hands of the priests. The
twelve apostles wore to take it and dispense it to the
people together with the wine. " Drink ye all of it,
for this is my blood of the New Testament." The
Jews had been forbidden to touch blood by God him-
self, Gen. ix. 4, so that by this command alone he
shewed the Jews that Divine wrath was satisfied.
The Lamb was slain, the world was redeemed, now
priests and people had but to believe and to obey.
Then there was a candlestick made of pure gold, like
a pillar with three branches on each side, so that it
held one lamp on the top, and six lamps on the
branches, making altogether seven lights, Ex. xxv.
And in Eov. iv. it says, " There wore seven lamps of
fire burning before the throne, which are the seven
spirits of God." Besides these four things which be-
longed to the most Holy place, there was the altar of
burnt offerings, which was five cubits long, made of
wood, and overlaid with brass, with shovels, fii-e-pang
basins and other vessels belonging to it, Ex. xxvii. 1-5.
This Altar, like the table of shewbread, is now quite
useless. " He taketh away the first that he may estab-
lish the second." " By the which will we are sanctified
through the ofTeruig of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all." Ileb. x. ir, 10. Then there was the laver, a ves-
sel of brass conts-Nni/ig a larp;e quantity of water for
the priests to wash ihrir hands and feet in, when they
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•went to do service in the Tjibornaclo; those two
things were kept in the court of the Tabernacle in
the open sky. The waicr and burnt otforing repre.
sent to my mind the outward form or 'king signified
in the two principsJ sacraments which Christ orthiined
and the light which v;as within tlie Holy Phu o the
type of the inward and spiritual grace which is
poured out on those who partake of these sacraments
in faitii.
One tiling mankind would do well to consider : the
devil did not by his treacherj' to Adam and Evo suc-
ceed in destroying the spirit of man. The beautiful
body with which Adam was clothed received within it
n poison which caused its death, but the soul, if lost, is
lost through the pride and self-Avill of each individual,
for before he had time to linish his work, God said,
"I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
between thy seed and hor seed," intei'po.sjng, as it
were, God's Holy S])irit, in the heart of man, to be a
sword b3'^ which each creature has a power within
himself, a conscience which warns us when wo are
allowing any temptatiori to soil our spirit with an
impure thought or word or action. Woli might St.
Paul exclaim, " O the depth of the riches both of the
wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable
are his judgments and his ways past finding out," but
man must never forget, that though ne niay overcome
all the trials aiul temptations of the woi-ld he yet
needs to be washed in his Saviour's blood. And to
keep this alwaj's in our minds, God gave us another
sacrament, to nourish and cherish the seed of spiritual
life sown in the heart at baptism- By the careful and
constant use of this sacrament, goodness grows as it
were in the heart of man until he becomes a tree
planted by the rivers of waters that bringeth forth
his fruit in his season.— Psalm 1. And this tree, aftor
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it has llossomedhQYQ, will be translnted to another and
brighter sphere, never again to shed its leaves, but to
be arrayed infine linen, pure and white, for the fine
linen is the righteousnoss of the Saints. — Rev. xix. 6.
For the use of these sacraments and for the keep-
ing of the Law God gave man a Priesthood. Jethro
was the first human priest mentioned in Scripture,
but the term priest is first applied in Genesis xiv. 18.
to Melchizeclex King of Salem, who brought forth
bread and wine, and instituted spiritually the Lord's
Supper. The blessing of Abraham seems to have been a
type of our ordination service. St. Paul tells us in lleb.
vii. 3, that this priest was made like the Son of God,
that he had neither beginning of days nor end of life,
thus proving himself to be the Holy Spirit of God ;
he thus appeared spiritually to teach us that a holy
man with a good family was a blessing to mankind,
that such holy living made him fit to teach the world
that it is God's pleasure that the world should worship
him first, individually ; secondly, that divided into
families, they should worship him collectively ; and
thirdly, thi.t these families should form a church and
worship him in a body in spirit and in truth. Now,
let me implore you to try every doctrine of the faith
of your branch of the Christian Church by the Word
of God, and to induce the ether churches to do the
same, that all may become one candlestick, whoso
bright and powerful light will drd^v all ir^en unto it,
bringing them to the knowledge and love of the true
God, and the temple which was rent in twain at the
Savioui-'s death will be cemented by the cords of love.
Peace and holiness will dwell in every heai't, and this
world will become a Paradise such as Eden was when
Adam was placed in it to dress and keep it.
Let us examine and trace the genealogy of the
earthly Priesthood. The Priest of Midian, whose
name was lleuel, was thr son of Bashemath, the wife
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of Esau. — Gen. xxxvi. 10. Bashemath was ono of the
daughters of Heth, Gen. xxvii. 46, and Iloth, we
know, was the son of Canaan, x. 15. So the first
priest was descended from the Canaanites. The next
thing we know of the Priesthood is that the Levitea
were set apart for that oflSee. Levi had three sons,
Gershom, Kohath, and Merari ; Amrara wasKohath's
eldest son, and he married his father's sister, who was
the mother of Moses and Aaron, so that they were
Levites, and Moses married the daughter of Reuel,
the priest of Midian, who, I have shown you, was a
Canaanite. Aaron the High Priest married Elisheba,
whose genealogy is not given, except that she was the
daughter of Aminadab. — Ex. vi. 23. Aaron had four
sons, who were all priests ; two of these offered strange
fire before the Lord, and they were killed by fire
from Heaven, Lev. x. 2. These four priests are now
represented in the world by four religions, all of
whom have priests. Do none of them ofter strange
fire before the Lord ? it certainly belioves us to see
what sort of fire we are offering. Had it been a
purifying fire, the result would be such as God re-
quires. Instead of that, when we review the subject,
it is evident that God's first great design, which was
frustrated by the poison inserted by the devil, was
that man should live on this earth, and rule over
every living creature and thing which God created in
an innocent and happy state. Has this end yet been
attained? Has this earth yet become the kingdom
of our Lord ? Has God's promise to Abraham that
" all nations of the earth shall be blessed" yet boon
fulfilled ? if not, may we not hope that God's Holy
Spirit will fulfil all this ? I have shewn you that as
soon as the poison was inserted God gave man a con-
science to teach him >iow he could recover his happy
state. When men failed to listen to this still small
voice, the flood swept them away. Then the patriar-
u
chal age commenced, and with it, faith in the coming
Saviour ; the Jews were certainly God's chosen people,
but why ? because they alone, of all the dwellers upon
earth, knew the Lord. In the family of Abraham the
priesthood had its origin. AbraJiam, Isaac and Jacob
arc types, as it were, of the three orders of ministers ;
but in those days people worshipped the Sun, for wo
read of Joseph marrying Asenath, the daughter of
Potipherah, the priest of On, Gen. xli, 45, so that it
is clear that the reason why God loved the ews was
because in the midst of idolatry they loved and wor-
shipped him alone. Then God gave man a written
law which is called the beginning of the Lovitical age,
which had its beginning at Mount Sinai, and was en-
trusted to the High Priest, Priest and Levite ; and
which ended in the awful crucitixion and death of the
Son of God ; and we, having had the benefit of all
these privileges, now live under the dispensation of
Grace.
The redemption and glorification of this world was
the ground work of the Faith of all the Old Testament
SainN. Adam beheld it like a star over his dark
future. Abraham looked for a "city which hath
foundation whose builder aad maker is God." Job
says "yet in my flesh shall I see God," and looked
for the time when " His flesh shall be fresher than
a child, he shall return to the days of his youth."
David and the four great Prophets describe its future
glory. Our blessed Lord and his Apostles shewed by
their lives and doctrines the character of those which
would realize their fulfilment. How is it that though
nineteen centuries have nearly passed since the world
was redeemed, it has not yet become glorified ? It
must be the want of unity among Christians which
prevents mankind from having on the whole armour
of God, which alone enables him to fight with the
devil and prevail against him, which he can do, for
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Christ has said, '• If a man keep ray saj'ingn ho shall
never SCO death." "A little while and ye shall not see
me, and again a little while and yo shall see me."
" I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the
world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the
evil."
Observe that the serpent has appeared to man in
three forms, first as the serpent when he poisoned
VuO beautiful creature God made; then as Satan,
under which name he is said to have resisted David,
Job, and Joshua, and to stand at the right hand of
all who do wickedly. — Psalm cix. But it was as the
devil that he tempted oui* Saviour. It seems as if it
was then that he first came on earth as a man, and
though we are told that he is to leave the earth for a
time, that is, that he is to be chained, for in Ilev. xx.
it says that the serpent, the devil, and Satan, the
three in one, will be bound and cast into the bottom-
less pit for a thousand years. Yet the wickedness of
the world at present makes it evident that the temj)ter,
the accuser and the deceiver are still hero. — " As a
roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may
devour, 1st Peter v. 8, and will continue till the
Holy Spirit comes to reign on earth. Many times
in the Old Testament the people are said to bacrifice
to devils, Lev. xvii. 7 ; Deut. xxxii. 17 ; Psalm cvi. 37,
and in II Chronicles xi., 15, we are told that Jeroboam
oi*dained him Priests for the high places and for the
devils. Thus we see that every thing that God has
done for the salvation of man, the devii has done to
destroy him. God gave Priests, the devil did so too;
when Christ appeared spiritually, the devil did so
too; when Christ came as a man, the devil clothed
himself as a man and appeared on earth. But Christ
ascended up to heaven and desired his followers to
shev/ their faith by their works. The devil sets up
an idol, the world falls down and worships it. Man
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■was novor made to spend his whole life in the pursuit
of gold, and yet from youth to age the one thought
of men'c lives is how shall I make money ? "When
made, how invest it ; when invested, how shall I
spend it to the most advantage for this perishing
body. They hoard it, they worship it, it is the idol
of men's hearts. Like the image that Nebuchad-
nezzar set up, it must be shattered when the stone
becomes a great mountain, and fills the whole earth,
it will break it to pieces.
Let us look now into the ancient names in the
Bible for places set apart for the worship of God. In
Exodus XXV. 8, we are told God said to Moses, " Let
them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among
them according to all that I shew thee after the
pattern of the Tabernacle." Before this God seemed
to have made a place for himself, for in Ex. xv . 17,
" In the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for
thee to dwell in, in the sanctuary, O Lord, which thy
hands have established," and Hebrews viii. 2, says,
"A minister of the sanctuary and of the true taber-
nacle which the Lord pitched and not man." Joshua,
just before his death, wrote " in the book of the law of
God, and took a great stone and set it up there under
an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord," xxiv.
26. God promised Moses that " the tabernacle shall bo
sanctified by my glory. I will sanctify the taoer-
nacle of the congregation and the altar. I "Vf:.Vc ;
sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister U;
me in the Priest's oflUce." Samuel is the first that
calls the tabernacle a temple, Ist Saml. i. 9, so that,
with prophecy, the name temple seems to have
originated. But Solomon was the one chosen to
build a temple for the sanctuary, "Take heed now,
for the Lord hath chosen thee to build an house for
the Sanctuary, be strong and do it." — 1 Chronicles
xxviii. 10. The tabernacle was moveable ; the tem-
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IV i'.
pie was immoveable. But, when wo read of the
nineteen wicked kings that reigned over Israel, after
they were separated from Judah, and of the idols
they set up, we are not surprised that God allowed
the temple to be destroyed. Of the twenty kings
that reigned over Judah, a few were very religious,
some very wicked, and others of an indifferent and
mixed character, but so little effect had Solomon's
teaching had that in the fiftli year of Rehoboara'a
reign, Shishak, king of Egypt, plundered the temple
and the king's house,so soon was it necessary to punish
them for their idolatry, which sin seems to have
gradually increased among tham. Once, indeed, in
Hezekiah's reign, we read that many out of several
ti'ibes came to the Passover, so that " there was great
joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon, the
son of David, king of Israel, there was not the like
in Jerusalem." — 2 Chro. xxx. 26. Then the good king
Josiah repaired the temj^le and restored the worship
of God, and finding a book of the law of the Lord by
Moses, he rent his clothes to think how little the law
had been observed. — 2 Chron. xxxiv. 19. In Chap-
ter XXXV. 18, we are told the Passover that Josiah
kept in his reign was even better than king Solomon's,
because it was more in conformity to the rules
appointed by Moses. In the words of Scripture,
" yhere was no Passover like to that kept in Israel
,L2 the days of Samuel the prophet, neither did all
JS kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah
kept and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah
and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem." But sad, to say he met his death from
disobedience, he went to fight with the king of Israel
without the direction of God, and was slain.
Af'or his death, the Jews grew more and more
wicked till at last the king of Babylon burnt the
temj)le of the Lord, the palace of the king, and all
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the houKOs in Joriiealem, carrying away all the
vgssoIh of gold, silver and brass, that belonged to the
temple. Then, according to the prophecy of Jere-
miah, the land was, in some measure, desolate seventy
years. (Jer. xxv. 11, 12), until Cyrus, after he took
Babylon, gave them leave to rebuild the temple, and
restored the vessels of gold and silver to Sheshbazzar,
the Prince of Judah, to the number of five thousand
four hundred. Ezra i. 11. Thus fulfilling the pro-
phecy made by Isaiah above a hundred years before
that saith of Cyrus, " He is my shepherd and shall
perform all my pleasure, even saying to Jerusalem,
thou shalt be built; and to the temple, thy foundation
shall belaid."
When they commenced to build the second temple
we are told by Ezra " that some of the Jews offered
freely for the house of the Lord 61000 drams of gold,
5000 pounds of silver, and one hundred priestj' gar-
ments, Ezra ii. 69 ; but still they never expected to
build a temple in any way equal to Solomon's. There
were five things wanting to make it as perfect as
Solomon's : 1st, the tables of stone on which the law
was written, which were in the ark when it was
brought into his temple; 2nd the *Shckinah or
divine presence in a cloud of glory on the mercy
seat. 3rd, the Urim and Thummin, whence the
oracle came, or divine answers to their inquiries ; 4th,
the holy fire upon the altar, which came from heaven,
and 5th, the spirit of prophecy, for though Haggai,
• The ■word Shekinah means, as used in Jewish history, that
miraculous light or visible glory which was a symbol of the
Divine presence ; it comes from shaken, to inli The covering
of the Ark was called the Mercy Seat, because uod dwelt between
the Cherubs in a body of light, Ex. xxv. 22. I will commune with
thee from above the Mercy Seat, Lev. xvi. 2. For I will appear in
the cloud upon the Mercy Seat. We heard the voice of one speak-
to him from off the Mercy Seat, Nui^. vii. 89.
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^achariah, and Malachi lived while the second temple
was building, and propheciod after it was built, yet
on their death, the prophetic spirit ceased from
among them. After many hindrances, and twenty
years of toil, the Jews again worship])cd God in a
temple in Jerusalem; and then Nehenwah the Jew
built again the city of Jerusalem. St. Paul speaks
of the tabernacle and sanctuary as things past, and
tells us that the bodies of beasts for sacrifice were
biu-nt without the camp, but the blood was brought
into the sanctuary. Now, Jesus having shed his
blood for the sins of the whole woi-ld, there seems
no further need of a sanctuary ; the Holy Spirit now
reigns in every heart that is washed in Christ's blood.
But as the sanctuaries wore all attached to a temple,
so every Christian must be a living member of the
church or temple of God,if ho wishes to make his heart
a sanctuary for the Holy Sjiirit of God. Mo^>es took
the Tabernacle and put it without the camp, when he
came from the Mount and found the people guilty of
idolatry in making a golden calf. Exodus xxxiii. 7.
But when the great Tabernacle was finished it stood
within a large space of ground which was called the
Court of the Tabernacle. Exodus xxvii. 9.
The word synagogue occurs but once in the Old
Testament, that is in Psalm Ixxiv, where it says,
" They have burnt up all the synagogues in the
land." But Christ tells us he taught in the syna-
gogues, and in Acts xiii. we are told that Barnabas
and others did the same. The word Church first
occurs in Mat. xvi. 18, when Christ tells Peter " that
upon this rock will I build my Church, and the gates
of hell shall not prevail against it." Peter was of
60 impulsivo a nature that he may at different times
have sown the seeds of ail the three Churches, which
with their various branches are now spread all over
the earth. He erred greatly when he asked to bo
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allowed to build throe churches, so groat was the
fault that it brought a voice from Heaven, but the
voice did not say that he should not build three
churches, but only tried to convince hira that Christ
was divine and therefore far superior to Moses and
Elias. The Devil has divided ChristianH, but not
destroyed Christianity. Christ, by his almighty power,
foresaw the fierce warfare that the Devil would wage
against it ; how he would sow discord and oven hatred
among Christians ; how some would lean on Peter,
some on Paul and some on James, but the writer
believes that the Greek, Roman and Protestant
Churches (for all Protestant Churches that believe in
the Trinity are one body, though some of them may
have a diseased limb or joint out of i)lace, causing
them to bo irritable and divided) will yet be re-united
by the Holy Sjoiritof God, and then they will become
one in faith and practise. Then tabernacles, temples,
synagogues and churches will all send forth one united
song of prayer and praise, and the hearts of the
worshippers will be the sanctuary of our God.
Before concluding, let us look at the vestments
about which there has been so much discussion lately.
The common priests had a vest called an ephod and
some peculiar garments of fine linen, which they
used when they ministered in the tabernacle. — 1
Sam. xxii. 18. But Aaron's garments, we are told in
the Exodus xxxix., were of blue, purple and scarlet,
besides the fine linen, verses 1, 27, 41. Indeed the
High Priest's garments seem to consist oi" seven
things, viz: the ephod, breast plate, girdle of curious
work, robe of the ephod, the embroidered linen coat,
and the mitre, with the golden plate. — Exod. xxviii.
The ephod, which was worn by all the priests, was a
sort of short vest without sleeves, made of fine linen
with blue, purple and scarlet, interwoven with plates
and wires of gold — Exodus xxxix. 2, 3, and worn
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over evorytliing. The breast plato was made of tho
game work aw tho ophod, of a span square, with twelve
jewels sot in gold ranked in four rows of three each,
and fastened to the ophod. As God used to make his
will known to tho High Priest by tho Urim and
Thummim in the breast plato, this cannot bo neces-
sary now, when God has sent his Son to bo our High
Priest, *' For there is ono God and one Mediator
between God and man, tho man Christ Jesus." —
let Tim. ii. 5. But Christ loft apostles, disciples and
deacons to christianize the world ; so that, though tho
H'gh Priest's garments may bo dispensed with, there
is still need of a priestly garment, and as it is certain
that no black garment was over worn by a Jewish
priest, does not tho beautiful white robe seem tho most
appropriate, seeing that white is tho emblem of i)urity,
and that to be clothed in white is tho privilege of
those that overcome? — Rev. iii. "And to her was
granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen,
clean and white, for tho fino linen is tho righteousness
of tho Saints." — llov. xix. 8. St. Paul tells us that
Josus is tho High Priest over the house of God. —
Heb. X. 21. In Mark xiv. 49, Christ says, "T was
daily with you in the temple teaching." Christ's
example is suflSciont to prove tho necessity of wor-
shipping God in a temple made with hands, though
in Acts vii. 47 it says that " Solomon built him. an
house; howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in tem-
ples made with hands," which certainly means that,
though it is pleasing to God that he should be wor-
shipped in a church or temple, still that it Is in the
sanctuary of the heart where he wishes to dwell, and
the heart that loves his heavenly Father will seek
him in his holy temple like a faithful, loving child.
'' So shall hia walk be close with God,
" Calm and serene his frame,
'* "So purer light shall mark the road
" That leada him to the Lamb."
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And wlicn tlio time is como that tho efirth hIuiII Lo
glorified, ho will return and have hiw part in tho tirnt
rosurroetion. To live on this earth for a thousand
yearH without nickness, diHoano or death, is a privi-
lege only to 1)0 enjoyed hy thoHO who are C/hrist'H at
his coming. Those who have roHistod tho temptations
of tho J>evil through faith in Jesus ; those who have
been made perfect through Lutforing. — Epho.sians iv.
18.
It does not appear in Scripture that tho wicked
roceivj any glorilied body — they have no part in the
first resurrection. This body will bo the same as the
one in which Christ appeared to his disciples after ho
rose from tho dead, ho was then so changed that Mary
did not know him till he spoke to her, till ho called
hor by name •' Mary.'" Will he call us all by name?
Then, when tho disciples wore assembled with closed
doors, Christ appeared before them suddenly without
opening tho doors ; this he never did before his death,
and with this glorified body he ascended into Heaven :
" while they beheld he was taken up." — Acts. i. 9.
The voice said ho would como again, but whon ho
comes, it will be as king, to reign over his kingdom,
to reign supremo over tho hearts of all the dwellers
on tho earth. When Christ came before, it was as a
son under obedience. And at theend of all things he
will appear as judge, when all who have ever lived on
this earth, the wicked with their soil-stained garments,
and the righteous in their glorified bodies, will receive
their righteous sentence. Tho last enemy to bo des-
troyed is death, so that death can have no power over
these glorified bodies. Christ tells us in j\Iat. xxiii.
39, ** Ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say,
blessed is he that cometh in the name of tho Lord."
What a glorious time it will be to feel secured from
tho snares and temptations of the evil one, to fool
free from this constant warfare, to feel that wo are
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day by day boeoming holier ami bottor, moro fitted to
bo angols in Heaven, learning day by day to know
God, and to love him, and to feel that the time is ap-
proaching when we shall no longer boo through a
glass darkly, but faco to face, striving constantly to
make others happy instead of living for ourselves.
Money, theidol of the woj-Id, will then uo shattered ;
there will bo no such hoarding and gathering as there is
now ; each person will work so man}' hours a day, and
all will have a living faith that God will provide, for he
has said : " All tho earth is mine." — Ex. xix. 5. " All
tho earth shall bo filled with tho glory of the Lord."
Num. xiv. 21. " Tako therefore no thought for the
morrow; for tho morrow shall tako thought for tho
things of itself" — Mat. vi. 34. May all Christians
look at the signs of the times ; all things are teaching
us that a change is coming ; we know not how soon
we may hear the voice saying: "Praise our God, all
ye his servants, and ye that fear Him, both small and
groat ; and I heard as it were the voice of great mul-
titudes, and as the voice of many waters, and as tho
voice of mighty thundering, saying, Alk^luia : for tho
Lord God omriijotent reignoth." — Rev. xx. 5-6.
" Even so, come. Lord Jesus. The Grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen." Eov. xxii. 2.
Considering tho following worthy of notice, I insert
it hero : —
In reading a book the other day, I was struck with the following
remarks:— "As God was both the Jewish God and King, the
Tabernacle and the Temple may be considered not only as the
residence of their God, but also as the palace of their lung ; also
the Court of tlie Tabernacle was the Court of the Palace; the
Holy of Holies was the Presence Chamber, the Mercy Seat was his
throne. The Cherubs represented his attendants us God, and the
Priests were his Ministers of State as King; the Levites his Officers
dispersed through his Kingdom. The table of Show Bread, to-
gether with the sacrifices which were given to the Priest, repre-
sented the provision for his household."
And Josephus says, that the two parts of the Tabernacle which
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weie accessible to the Priests, denoted the Land and the Sea. But
the third part, which was for God alone, represented He£.Ten,
which is inaccessible to men. Tho twelve loaves on the Table
stood for our twelve months ; the seven lamps, the seven planets ;
the four vials, the four elements ; the plain linen, the earth, be-
cause flax grows in the earth. The purple signified the sea, because
that colour is dyed by the blood of a sea shell fish ; the blue, the
air ; the scarlet, fire ; the ephod shewed that God had made the
universe of four elements, and the gold related to the splendour
by which all are enlightened. Breast plate in the midd i of the
ephod resembled the earth, for that has the middle place in the
world. The two buttons on the priests' shoulder, stood for the sun
and moon.
Through this year that's just begun
Let us every Idol shun.
The Iloly Spirit comes to reign,
To wipe away all tears and pain.
May women in one bond unite
To crush the wrong and do the right.
Then men and angels soon will sing
Praise to God our Heavenly King.
When love in every household dwells
Then gaily ring the marriage bells ;
The sword will in its scabbard rust,
And all will in the Saviour trust.
The tree of life we then shall taste
No more our energies shall waste ;
Our goodness, truth and love alone
Will fit us then to fill a Throne.
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ADAM'S SIN.
*Tis sad to think of all tho crime
One act of eollish pleasure cost,
Spread vice around in every clime^
All man's spir'tual oyesiglit lost.
No longer innocent and pure, —
Thoy thought themselves from God to hide,
"With lame excuses tried to cure
The sin for which their God did chide.
Soon envy fill'd the human mind,
And caus'd a brother's blood to flow,
For angry passions Cain did blind,
And Abel died beneath his blow.
When Adam, Eve, and Cain first look'd
On sin's first fruits, sweet Abel's death,
Their limbs with horror must have shook,
The}' lost their sight and he his breath.
Hope still remains, with faith to guide.
Goodness may yet man's breath retain,
For God will not his children chi oj 2 S m p 2
tw a t^ ^ rt cj "■
raBt, I'rosont ninl Future miiHt bo myThomo,
Tliat Hiitn(> of tlu'lr c'irorn we muy rt'dct'in.
rwt, wlilch in ffoiic, novcr more to return,
I'rcwiit, ill \vlil(!h tni'ii and wi)in<)ii may learn
'J'Imt iiono arciuiie dC vour virtunud worth;
Bo, 111 future our tlioiifintw niiiMt Hoar above
To lllin, who llvcH in tiio rvgUnx of lovo;
And pray Him to hcikI down lioavciily poaoo,
To caiiKo all dlscordH and paHnions to coaHo;
To make jjoodiioHS triiinipli, and never yield
Till the tempter in driven from tho Held;
illn Rold may K'ltter, his pleasures may i)lea.'«',
Ills Hurroundi.ig wealth may fcive men some eiipo,
hut they know not the moment death may cull,
And Hca'tter tlieir idols and treamirert, all
liut the fuiih to UHO our wea. a, wliilv in hceitli,
To fflorily God, regardless of self.
Will sift Satan's schonief Ids stubble will
burn,
To his own dark region ho will return,
Fleeing from eailli in rage a;id despair
At the sight of C'lirist In UIh regal
clinir,—
For, when his spiritual reigns bo-
gins,
Tlio C'hristian his crown of
glory wins —
The trials aiv t sorrows of
earth will eiul—
Deceivers iuid liars to
hell descend.
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FUTURE.
Fed with holy food,
Strengthened from above ;
Daily doing good.
Labouring with love.
Singing songs of praise,
With a cheerful will,
AVorking day by day.
Shunning all that's ill,
Living like the just.
Generous and kind.
All around us must
Daily blessings find.
Never deceiving,
A foe or a friend.
Ever believing
Christ soon will descend.
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Ytii LUKE.
Into a city called Nnin •
ChriHt with much pooplo wont,
At tho ^iito ho boiiold, with pain,
A widow whoKo hoart was rout
"With an^nii.sh soro : her only boii
Was stretcli'd upon Im bior,
All joy for hor on earth was dono,—
When Jesus himself drew near.
Woop not, Christ to tho widow said,
Young man do thou now arise,
Tho dead sat up and s])ake, Christ led
Him to hor bolbro all eyes.
Lazarus, Jairus and this youth
Christ rais'd from death to life,
He taught us how to walk in truth,
And conquer in tho strife.
Christ said a little while must pass
Before he claim'd his Bride,
That time is passing, but alas I
Tho Bride does hor beauty hide.
Beneath a weight of pomp and show
Her sweet graces throe are lost.
She must bo humbled and brought low,
No matter how great tho cost.
When she has purified her faith,
Stript all her vain idols bare,
She will the great voice hear that saith
My tabernacle is there.
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2l8T JOHN, 23.
I will that thou shalt tarry
In space until I come,
Hasten. Lord, thy church to marry,
And all to fold in one.
Then all the saints and martyrs.
Who tarry, Lord, for thee ;
The voice of many waters.
To thee will bend the knee.
Christ comes not to a manger,
With friends a very few,
Nor as a weary stranger.
To ask what is his due :
On a White Horse him behold.
He the Faithful and true,
Many crowns of shining gold,
A name that no man knew.
A vesture dipped in blood.
Our God will bring to light.
With his armies like a flood.
In linen pure and white.
THE SHIELD OF FAITH.
This world is a great battle field,
Where Evil has triumphed long ;
Faith is now the Christian shield,
And Hope is his constant song.
The Faith that our Maker requires
Is a real and a living thing ;
It is yielding the heart's desire,
If it loads to any sin.
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'Tis the feeling that God knows best,
That his hand directs the way ;
It is laying our hearts to rest,
And doing his will each day.
Our Saviour, gentle and kind,
Taught us God's will must be done,
But we are so dreadfully blind.
His work we try to shun.
As soon as living Faith prevails,
The Battle draws to an end ;
The Devil never men assails,
When their armour does defend.
Through our Idols he now assaults
And then he our hearts surrounds.
Then pursuing he never hdlts,
Till he pierces and confounds.
cast then our dead Faith away,
Of time give God the tenth ;
Let Christ's example be our stay,
God's Spirit will give us strength.
PATIENCE.
Like Jonah we do fast and pray.
In God's own appointed way,
But oh how sadly we contend,
With the trials that he sends.
Our Father must know what is best.
He is right our Faith to test ;
If we could all our wishes gain.
What confusion would prevail.
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Then lot us be content and wise,
Daily blcHsings learn to prize,
Submissive wbon he takes away,
Looking for a brighter day.
The love that God to us has shown,
Ought to melt our hearts of stone.
Should teach us all events to trust
To the only Wise and Just.
If for God's laws we show much zeal
Bitter words men make us feel.
The world does not such understand,
They are mocked on ev'ry hand.
Daily wo must patient grow,
Though the waves of trouble flow ;
Endurance is a virtue great,
Loving we must watch and wait.
God will in time accept the meek,
They are those Christ came to seek ;
Every trial God does send,
Is intended to amend,
To purify and make us clean.
Raise our thoughts to things unseen ;
Prepare us for that glorious time,
When life will become divino.
MATTHEW vi. 24.
Two masters now men try to please,
This Christ said he could not do,
And yet man uses every nerve
His body's cravings to pursue.
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Each one has some besetting sin,
Which he needs to hold in check,
Or Satan will contrive to spin
A web that poor soul to wreck,
No ray of light can penetrate,
When the web he does complete ;
His angels guard so well the gate,
That it forms his winding sheet.
The heart that did unwind his skein,
Unravel all Satan's scheme,
Does well deserve Messiah's name,
For his work our souls redeem.
His daily life so perfect, pure,
Though temptations did assail ;
The lame, the blind and deaf did cure.
Yes, and over death prevail.
Hark ! the solemn funeral bell,
Of Christ the Saviour dear,
He died to rescue man from hell,
To n^ake him both see and hear
The mighty God who Adam knew,
When on earth he first was plac'd ;
And pardon for the sins to sue,
Of this race by sin disgrac'd.
But man for whom this work was done.
Still pursues his evil ways,
He will not tseifish pleasures shun —
Like Felix, waits future days.
The heavens shook, the earth did quake,
When Christ hung up on the cross,
The darkness made men's bodies shake,
Yea, their souls were tempest-tost.
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He travell'd to the spirit'd land,
And there set the captives free,
His followers, a little band.
Did his resurrection see.
They saw his body that was pierc'd,
With great agony and pain,
But oh I how soon their sorrow ceas'd,
When they heard his voice again.
Before them all ho did ascend
To his maniion in the skies,
His spirit will on all descend.
When his love alone we prize.
This world would be the land of life,
Perpetual youth would reign,
If all would try, and work, and strive,
To earn a christian name.
The flaming sword that guards the gate
Would guide us and give us light ;
The Seraphim that always wait.
Would restore the Tree of Life.
Nations all awake, arise.
Be virtuous in your youth ;
As soon as men are really wise,
They'll aim for eternal truth.
The curse will not then mar the scene,
Christ his ensign will display,
And his five sacraments will gleam,
With a bright electric ray,
Which will in time restore the sight.
That has from our spirits fled,
And will forever put to flight
All the misery and dread
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Which Adam brought upon the rac,
When ho tasted Satan's sweets,
Which still all eagerly embrace,
When he cunningly entreats.
\*^r '?f J'^' ^'^'« ^^^t« on earth.
In his old deceitful way
Giving a little shorMiv'd mirth
For their homage day by day.
But when our hearts we all prepare
For Christ's spiritual reign
Satan will not our souls ensni-e
Nor will death our bodies claim.
As Messiah Christ then will come
His victory to maintain,
And with the splendor of the sun,
Will apptar the righteous-slain.
THE CONSCIENCE.
O ho-v we long the voice to hear
Of the one our soul holds dear •
Do we thus welcome that still voice
Saying, good must be your choice. '
Every creature feels its power
Speaking in Temptation's hour
Beware, desist, it is a sin, '
Keep all pure and bright 'within.
In every age and every zone
All have heard its gentle tone.
Thus none can say they never knew
trod With man does ever sue.
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Some say, God does predestinute
And destruction is their fate ;
God has forechosen his elect,
They may well be circumspect.
But with a will as free as air.
Conscience whispering beware.
Thoughts such as these must be untrue,
This our God could never do.
Man daily does Christ crucify
When God's spirit they defy ;
Let altogether hear and heed,
And such thorns and thistles weed.
Then to God's will we all will bow,
And to keep his law will vow,
Images, idols, all must fall,
For his still small voice does call.
THE SABBATH DAY.
The Sabbath day, the Sabbath day,
A precious gifb to man ;
O that I could in this my lay.
All its glories fairly scan.
Six days of strife and contest great
Again have passed away,
O may we ere, it is too late,
Feel precious that great day.
'Twas by a Heavenly Father made,
For knowledge of him to gain.
Six days the earth in order laid,
The seventh his power sustain.
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Our earthly parents ask that we
Should learn to love and fear them •
We must very plainly see '
When God speaks we must hear him.
Six thousand years are nearly past
Since one day's rest he ordered,
Man will I fear until the last,
Be selfish, proud, disorder'd.
But when these past, the time of rest,
Which quickly is approaching,
Bursts forth with joy and with a zest,
For those whose lamps are burning.
How will those feel who all their share
Of time and rest have wasted ;
They cannot think that we will spare
Our oil, when we have tasted-—
The pleasures and the happiness
God for us has provided ;
Oh no I we then will love them less,
And care not where they're hided.
But oh I once more I pray that all
Will listen to their Maker,
At once, before the angels call.
Be one with their Creator.
For when he comes as King to reign
With glory o'er his Kingdom ;
This world he frees from ev'ry pain
Drives Death from this Dominion!
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THE MILLENNIUM.
The reign of Christ draws near,
Soon, soon he will appear,
He then will claim his Bride,
And for her wants provide.
The bridal robes prepare,
"With pure bright jewels rare,
Fine linen clean and white,
Bring forth for her to light.
Your voices tune to sing
Alleluia to the King,
With the saints and martyrs,
Voice of many waters ,
And mighty thunderings,
Then suddenly there springs
One startling song of praise.
Which earth to Heav'n will raise.
And being glorified
With love electrified.
Then spiritual light
Will shine for ever bright.
And under his own vine,
In that bright happy time,
Will each man with his wife,
Enjoy the things of life.
STRAY LEAVES
STRAY LEAVES.
To the memory of the Rev. Dean Bethune, who
was Eector of Montreal Cathedral for nearl/ ha^'a'
Worms of the earth, why so much pride?
In the grave yard side by side,
See kings and nobles and our dean
With the poor, the vile, the mean.'
This worthy priest has passed away,
And his body turned to clay,
His spirit soars in space alone.
In that place on earth unknown.
He is now waiting at the shore,
Christ, who is himself the door,
Drawing him to his blessed fold,
Saints and martyrs to behold.
He held for nearly three score years,
In this vale of woe and tears.
Office of deacon, priest and dean,
Always cheerful, calm, serene.
And when with Jesus he returns.
With the crown the christian earns,
Evil will not his course impede,
Nor his heart be made to bleed.
Archdeacons, rectors, canons, deans.
Great high-sounding names it seems,
-But I have searched but never found.
In the Bible any ground
For any of these mighty four,
Which are increasing by the score ;
Bishops, priests, and deacons though,
Wore to combat with the foe.
These our christian orders three,
Are as plain as plain can be,
The others great confusion make,
To their folly pray awake.
If for peace you all really sigh,
Let these foolish trifles die ;
Strive to be honest, just and true,
You will reap the honor due.
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RIVRS WHICH AFTER BEING USED AS A MONAS-
TER x, AND COURT HOUSE BECAME AN EPISCOPAL
CHURCH AND HAS LATELY BEEN MODERNIZED.
The oldest church in this our land
Surrounded by Three Rivers stands ;
Many histories it can toll,
For it has wrung their dying knell.
First jolly monks its niches fill'd.
And round it many acres till'd,
They, like their fathers, idols had,
Or still with bodias would be clad.
Their deeds of goodness or of sin
Have left no mark or trace within,
None these will know until the time
That Jesus' reign begins to shine.
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A time of war brought changes round,
And judges on its benches found
That they within those walls should hold
Judgment on sinners from the fold.
These also had their time and daj',
And like the monks have passed away ;
But Bome of them will soon return,
And with their fellows live and learn.
That had they lived as Jesus did,
They in the earth would not bo hid.
Then all our idols wo will burn,
And a Christian name will earn.
Again it saw another change,
The law the priests again derange.
And rob'd and mitred weekly sung,
Their voices high in praises rung. '
When it was curious and quaint,
Some persons thought it needed paint.
Forgetting what our Saviour taught, '
They old and new together wrought.
First they put God's commands aside,
Which should all congregations guide
Every altar they should grace.
This seems to be their proper place.
The Dove, the emblem of God's love,
Hovering o'er them from above.
Imparts to them no mystic sign,
They must replace with new design.
And gaudy figures now are seen
Where this symbol once did gleam.
Are figures in their proper place.
When they do the Altar grace ? '
The Dove each temple should adorn,
Without it we must ever mourn.
The one that from the Ark did soar,
May we soon to our Ark restore.
O Earth, earth, eftrth kt once attend,
Begin and all your ways amend ;
Jesus, David's righteous branch,
A perfect temple soon will launch.
The Spirit urges me to write,
To bid you walk as in his sight.
That when his work is well begun
You may not find yourselves undone.
Make one great purifying change,
Which will our errors all arrange.
Unite us all in Christ's great cause.
And teach us all to keep his laws.
Not one or two for fear of man.
Which before God is but a sham.
But sifting ev'ry thou^Lt and word,
Knowing God all has seen and heard.
Then the holy heavenly Dove
Will bind us with the cords of love.
Making us one in thought and deed,
One Baptism, and one holy creed.
THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.
Niagara, thou wonder !
With ever ceaseless roar.
Thy immeasurable water.
Whose great unfailing store
For centuries has steadily
Been pouring o'er these rocks.
Some escaping stealthily,
The mighty vortex mocks.
All quickly disappearing
Beneath a placid brow,
To the whirlpool receding,
Can any tell us how ?
None but the Great Creator,
To whom our thoughts must rise.
The one originator
Of earth, sea, air and skies.
This vast flowing cataract,
God in his wisdom made,
The builder, the architect.
Here has well portray 'd.
That eternal bliss or woe,
For man so long design'd,
Whither all do daily row
Each to his place assign'd.
See that lovely shade of green.
Beneath the rapid foam ;
Giving man a little gleam
Of a bright future home.
Then in chat beauteous spray,
We may easily discern
The bright glorified array.
That God's chosen ones will earn.
"When, as in the burning springs.
Fire from the waters blaze,
Oil. ^"st with healing in his wings,
Wi h love will all amaze.
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And beneath a bridal veil,
Our diiferences cease ;
The Messiah all will hail,
God's Spirit give us peace.
THE GREAT BOAT RACE ON THE KENEBE-
CASIS.
A boat race, 'tis a sight to see,
The St. John's against England free,
The men well trained for action.
With certain food and good tuition.
Their minds on it for months were bent,
Ev'ry energy on it spent.
Constant thought by night and by day.
To gain a victory they say.
Great crowds assemble on the wharf.
How eager all to see them off;
They start, and England shouts ahead,
When their champion drops his head.
The race of life for him is done,
And what has all his hard work won,
Another man jumps in the boat,
And soon they are again afloat.
A little shock men have receiv'd,
Still evil will them all deceive,
It never strikes them something 's wrong
With all that vast and motley throng.
Death no more arrows here would shoot
If man would hear his Maker's suit,
Keep all his passions in control.
And train and gently feed the soul.
A boat race it should be a sight
In which all men might take delight,
Were it once stript of all the vice
Which now men think so very nice.
The idol now that makes men sin
Is bright without and black within ;
It gives them jDleasure for a day,
And guides them on their downward way
For Renforth this time's life is o'er,
Four doctors cannot him restore,
Nor priestly lore nor human skill,
Can change the great Creator's will.
God speaks, he sends this cross to move
Mankind to worship him in love.
In active sports men may delight
If they but keep their God in sight.
THE BOSTON JUBILEE OF 1872.
Great country, England's daughter
Hail thy time of jubilee,
Gather'd from ev'ry quarter,
All nations sing with thee.
Joy and peace you well combine.
Discords thus will pass away,
Love to man in this does shine.
You have reason to be gay.
Open'd well with praise to God,
Psalm of old, sweet voices sing,
Instruments, with one accord,
Make the very timbers ring.
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One angelic voice is heard,
Whose Bweet notes all hearts entrance,
This fine German singing bird,
Gives to higher joys a glance.
English, Prussian, German, French,
Four great bands with yours unite,
Sounds and din of war thus quench,
Is a grand and beauteous sight.
Pilgrim fathers would rejoice
If they hoard these peaceful strains,
Thousands singing with one voice.
Proves that Satan's kingdom wanes.
ON KING'S CHAPEL, THE OLDEST CHURCH
IN BOSTON, BUILT FOR AN EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH
NOW USED AS A UNITARLA.N.
A fine old church in Boston stands,
Built the three in One to Praise.
The form they still hold in their hands,
It now wrong belief conveys.
The Evil one has made this change,
Taught men to doubt God's power ;
He tries his worship to derange,
And makes himself their tower.
Men who in God's own image made,
Body, mind an 1 soul possess,
Ought to tremble and be afraid,
Their Creator to address.
Without the aid of God the Son
And the Spirit for their guest ;
The great I am, the Three in One,
Bids us build in Christ our nest.
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To those who feel he is Divine
A Rock that no storm can shako ; ^
But sand that flies before the wind,
If we from him this power take.
O that my verse could penetrate,
Could pierce like a two-edged sword,
The worshippers who sit in state
Where Satan is thus ador'd.
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WRITTEN ON HEARINa OP THE GREAT FIRE IN
CHICAGO IN 1871.
This planet bright and blooming made,
With sin is covered with a shade ;
Evil has made for it a pall
Which hangs about it since the Fall.
This blight which causes life to cease.
Which all our hopes from us does fleece.
Is draping all the earth in cloud
For Fire and Sword are flying round.
The Evil Spirit war has waged,
And like a Lion he has raged
To see his glory on the wane.
His idols broken like a pane.
In ten years time a city sprung,
The theme of all and every tongue ;
Money was there so quickly coined
That some were thought to have purloined.
So prosperous they had become
That evil they forgot to shun ;
Their joy has all been turned to woe,
New seed they must begin to sow.
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Men toil and strive with pain and tears
To gather gold for future years,
And in an hour this precious hoard
Is swept away from off the boai*d.
For Fire — that diref\il, dreadful, scourge,
Has rais'd a loud and dismal dirge ;
Their gourds have all been swept away,
And prov'd themselves but worthless clay.
Oh ! that I could men's spirits raise,
Prepare them for those brighter days,
That mighty reign of Christ on earth
When all will have a second birth.
ON THE WISCONSIN FIEES IN 1871.
A fire, behold it blazes bright,
It is a grand imposing sight,
To see tall and towering trees
Lighting skies and neighboring seas.
Serpent- like it coils round and round,
And trails itself along the ground,
Destroying all within its reach,
The course of sin it does us teach.
Scores of men in a barn did hide,
But on and on the fire did glide.
Their groans and moans it heeded not,
Nothing but ashes marks the plot.
All things now have a mournful air,
Hearts seem all so opprest with care,
These trials are uniting lands.
For see them with extended hands.
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England like a good old mother
Sends gold guineas to her daughter ;
Canada, a loving sislor,
Sends her salve to heal the blister.
The other states their lavish wealth
Send to restore their sister's health,
This is the way to sheath the swords,
To scatter round our heaps and hoards.
Such great love is a sight to see.
Distrust and onvy soon will flee,
Christian work begins to dawn,
Soon we will hear the angel's horn.
What a glorious sound to those
Who on Messiah's love repose,
Twehe gates of pearl will them enclose,
The Tree of Life God will disclose.
ON THE OCCASION OF NINE PEOPLE BEING
POISONED, TROM DRINKING STOLEN WINE, AND
DYING IN HERMINE STREET, MONTREAL.
Sad and tragic are the scenes
We daily see and hear ;
Very short-liv'd are the dreams
Of bliss in sin's career.
See those poor benighted souls,
Who drank that stolen wine.
Which within like burning coals
Of poison soon gave sign.
What is the end of their joy,
Their nights of noisy mirth,
Their own idol did destroy
Yes, swept them from the earth.
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For at this, their last carouse,
Their greedy appetite
The Lord's angel did arouse,
Quite suddenly to smite.
Both young and old with horror
Felt poison in their veins.
And then upon the morrow
Death seven of them claims.
Some days pass and other two
Were cold and lifeless clay,
Others all their life will rue
Sin's poisonous decay.
The Tempter With drink did lea 1
Them to both lie and steal,
0, that with me all agreed
On sin to plant their heel.
By setting his snares aside,
Examining their worth,
Then God's spirit will us guide,
Regenerating the earth.
Producing much purer wheat.
Unsullied by a tare,
Satan then will cease to reap,
For we will all beware.
Then, fabtening on the shield
Of faith and love entwin'd.
Sin's fiery darts must yield,
For God's truth will us bind.
And with unity and peace,
God's praises will resound,
And our bodies then will cease
To moulder in the ground.
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AN ADDEESS TO THE FREBJilASONS.
Freemasons, I implore your aid
Satan's kingdom to invade ;
God wil] restore the tree of life
When we sheath the sword of strife.
For near six thousand years, with pride
Sin has turn'd mankind aside,
With malicious cunning art.
From the great Creator's chart.
A glorious army let us make
To defeat this wily snake ;
Then wo shall find the narrow way
Leading to eternal day.
Once plant the seed I wish to sow,
Man will bid adieu to woe,
And Adam's sons will then regain
What was lost by sin and shame.
When Eve and Adam sins did chase
Them from Eden in disgrace ;
Your craft for truth have always wrought,
I for years, for it have sought.
It is the thing that we must find,
It must floui-ish in each mind ;
Instead of sparkling now and then,
It must be the one great gem
Lighting the features of each face,
With a new and beaut'ous grace ;
The eyes must brighten with its beams,
And send forth its holy gleams.
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This is the sacred, mystic tic
For which now we all do sigh :
Not Masonic Fraternity,
But pure Christianity.
A Brotherhood we then shall see,
With a thirty-fourth degree ;
Joining its members link to link,
Ere their shatter'd ark does sink.
These will worship the great / Am,
And work out his wondrous plan,
Not as our many creeds require ;
But with one great blaze of fire.
Extracting truth from each and all,
They will to their minds recall
The promises to Abram made,
When he such strong faith displayed,-
As to offer his dearest son,
Type of God's own precious one ;
Who left the great Jehovah's throne,
That for sin he might atone.
This mighty, wondrous sacrifice
Some completely mystifies.
They cannot, will not comprehend
That their God did condescend
The evil spirit's scheme to foil,
From his grasp to snatch the spoil ;
My work has with the Spirit's aid,
Satan's scheming well portray'd.
Written in plain and simple form,
Of all classic learning shorn,
It aims to influence the heart.
Tracing for it virtue's chart.
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"When it is altogothor bound,
Its truth will the Jews astound ;
God's work in it they will perceive,
And on Christ they will believe.
The Builder of the Universe
Then will ease us of the curse ;
Our grand and grac'ous architect
Will sin from the earth eject.
Around the cross we then shall see
Christians, Jews and Turks all three ;
The heathen seeing such unite.
Will enquire about the light.
To Jesus they will bend the knee,
His love then from sin will free ;
By encircling this church, the vine,
We advance this happy time.
In Christ, we trace the rock or "ir^e
Which in the first temple shown,
The latter house will this reveal,
When with truth and words wo seal.
The oldest symbol that science knows,
The triangle will disclose ;
The five mysterious means of grace,
God has offer'd to the race,
And which in fellowship will bind
God with all the human kind ;
When they of them in faith partake.
And their sins do all forsake.
Though but a small, five-pointed star,
It may end tiie Christian war ;
Then perfect health we shall enjoy,
The *Pentalpha well employ.
• The Triple Temple is called in Masonry The Pentalpha and is
the Symbol of Health.
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The broken square will then unite.
Darkness will give place to light,
Beauty and wisdom fh)ra above,
Will combine with strength and love;.
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To make man perfect and upright,
One in whom God can delight,
He will not then, as now decay.
Nor to Satan homage pay.
The throe in one, the groat / Ain,
Will restore to earth an i man
The calm and peaceftil, holy days.
On which Adam once did gaze.
A leaf from Palestine, quite green,
In your hands last year was seen ;
The Brotherhood this did elate.
For from thence they emanate.
My leaves more pleasure will convey,
They more lasting joys display ;
And when thoir precepts fill each soul,
Christ will come and make us whole.
For his Spirit my hand does guide,
And his work it is to chide ;
Of sin, he said he would convince
Both the peasant and the prince.
It was an Eve, the poison gave,
That made Adam Satan's slave ;
Another Eve now bids you wake,
And his chains forever break.
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A CHILD'S POEM.
A little maid with golden hair
Said, read me now another,
A poem such as you have there,
For me and for my brother.
Now just like two pretty flowei's,
That once in a garden grew,
You gather from gentle showers,
A sunnier brighter hue.
That is, if in your daily course
You your various duties do.
By drawing from a heav'nly source,
Strength to make you good and true,
Rise ev'ry morning ju.^t at six,
And call your little brother.
Your clothes bo sure you neatly fix,
Then pray and help your mother.
Then, 'ere you do your breakfast take,
Read verses in the Bible,
You scarce will feel a pain or ache
Unless self is your idol.
Then set yourself a little task.
Go then and do it brightly ;
Speak kindly, and then gently ask,
To bear your trials lightly.
Before each meal ask God to bless
The food he has provided,
God loves those little children best
Who by his hand are guided.
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When the clock strikes ono quickly run,
And seat yourselves at table,
At dinner time just stop your fun,
That is it* you are able.
For if like angels we would live,
And fit ourselves for glory,
We must our thoughts put through a seive.
And daily grow more holy.
We must not let our bodies have
Each wish, fancy or desire,
Or they will use up all our love,
And our souli drop in the mire.
Whatever now your habits are,
Each day they will grow stronger,
To make them good and regular,
Our days will grow much longer.
TO MY NEPHEWS AND NIECES.
It seems to me I have nephews four,
And of little nieces just two more.
Now it really is my earnest wish,
That they to me should attentive list.
Begin at once good habits to make.
To conquer yourselves some measures take ;
If your bodies are your onlv care,
Satan is sure your poor souls to suare.
First, they will ask that they shall be drest
In the very finest, very best.
No matter how it is to be got,
The contest may yet grow very Iiot.
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Ev'ry one at you of course must stare
To see the fine things you have to wear,
But then if they really look, what gain,
What benefit, will it save you pain.
The body gets lazy when it's so fine,
For work or reading cannot find time ;
Idleness opens the door to sin,
Whose web you will then begin to spin.
Of eating and drinking next beware,
For they often do mankind ensnare,
Every thing's good that God has given.
If but in moderation taken.
But appetite must be held in cheek,
Or it your bodies and souls will wreck,
As also your tongues bo sure to tame,
Or you cannot earn a christ'an name.
Never be tempted to risk a cent,
On cards or games for amusement meant.
Innocent though in themselves they are,
When play'd for money they leave a scar.
Lotteries too are dangerous things.
Like fortune-telling they have their stings j
In those crooked and slippery ways,
Satan his flocks and his herds does graze.
Remember there is a wondrous mine.
Whose precious ore will your thoughts refine.
One that contains the purest of gold,
Which will yield pleasures and joys untold.
If daily this treasure you explore
And draw from its vast exhaustloss store,
The wisdom that God has hidden there,
To teach ns which God bis Son did spare.
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When our lives reflect its glorious rays,
Gay, happy and bright will be our days ;
New joys will over our senses steal,
Which Christ himself will to us reveal.
ON PHILATELY.
WRITTEN FOR A. E. M.
A book of stamps indeed
For which a prize you sue,
All will at once concede
That such is but your due.
To gather trifling things
Requires much toil and c^re,
But labor's fairy wings
Will hearts for truth prepare.
If those stamps could relate
The sorrow, joy and pain,
The changes of estate,
The merchandize and gain.
The learning and the lore,
Both poesy and prose.
Which they from shore to shore
Did one and all expose,
With wonder in our eyes
We would scan their design.
And learn that little ties
All nations do combine.
'Great Britain, loyal, true,
Her sovereign displays.
Most christian countries too
Thus emulate her ways.
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Some add to this a crown,
While others have a shield,
Their coat of arms around,
These stamps with pride are seal'd.
With numerals some place
Tn shielded disk their arms,
With color change their face,
Thus much enhance their charms.
An eagle, horse, and ram,
The lion, unicorn,
Two bears erect like man.
Various stamps do form.
A star on a bull's head
Above a five and four,
With crown and eagle wed.
And horn peace to restore.
A crown on eagle see,
Laui'el does it entwine ;
The wings are open, free,
This is a chaste design.
A castle on a rock —
A stamp of weight indeed ;
We only need to knock
They will answer with speed.
Tiara and cross keys
With some stars in a frame-
Many bend on their knees
When these things we do nam 3.
The Mahommedans seem
To use things without life.
The moon we see there gleam
With her reflected light.
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The dragon in Shangai
His figuro does expose^
Pray, tell the reason why,
If any body knows.
There among the heathen
He moves along in peace,
But the Jew and Christian
Will make his rule to cease.
St. George and this creature
On Eussian stamps behold,
But a brighter picture
Beneath them does enfold —
For a sundial lays
All ready down below,
To send forth some new rays,
Which will pierce this our foe.
Egypt shows her learning.
With geometric line ;
PjTamids reminding
Of that confusing time.
When God the race dispersed
To all and every clime,
And when they first conversed
By magic and by sign.
An orange tree appears,
Three post horns on its face —
All our hopes and our fears
On this stamp we do place.
For when all in good tune
Together they do blow,
Man and earth will assume
Its mantle free from woe.
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The stamp of truth will then
On ev'ry face be seen,
Man's paradise again,
All glorifi'd will gleam.
ANSWEE WRITTEN ON HEARING THAT HE LOST THB PRIZE.
I grieve for you my little friend,
As I see you did not gain
The prize for which you did contend,
Though it seems you had a claim.'
The reason why you lost the stamps
Eeally now seems very plain,
Philately more from us demands
Than your poem did contain.
It fail'd to notice places where
The various stamps were sold
To speak of those so very rare
Which we here and there behold.
But ignorance we here may plead :
Both the Smith and Co.'s, you see
Of Bath and Bristol fame indeed
Were unknown to you and me.
Much money it appears is coin'd
By selling a spur'ous kind.
Which from these firms has -nuch purloind
Four circles do them define. '
Concentric ones which postmen all
Aflix on the false design.
So each and all both great and small
May easily learn the sign.
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But oh there is a greater prize
For which, when the Jews do aim,
We shall like gods become more wise,
For Christ in our hearts will reign.
Our worship now is counterfeit,
Four circles do it enclose ;
Satan the human race does cheat,
With his stamps all full of woes.
The stamp of truth he has effac'd
With his crooked ways and means ;
God's image with them is disgrac'd,
So King death his harvest gleams
Help me to bring Qod's truth to light.
You are sui'e to win a prize —
One that will daily grow more bright
And more lovely in youi* eyes.
A crown you also will obtain,
One that with this prize is sent.
O follow Christ in more than name,
And truth, hope and love cement.
ON THE DEATH OF KELLY, WHO LOST HIS
LIFE FROM FALLING FROM A NEW FIRE ESCAPE.
These great days of invention,
Do claim some attention,
For to benefit mankind,
To all danger men seem blind.
Kelly thus his life has lost.
Others with him felt its cost ;
An escape made life to save,
Prov'd his pathway to the grave.
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This steady, promising youth
Ascended on it, forsooth,
To prove that now human skill,
High in air can mount at will. '
Science making labor light
Most undoubtedly is right,
For the rich some daily task,
Soon will be forced to grasp.'
Labor now is scarce and dear.
Useful things our hearts do cheer
While all reckless, daring plans, '
Surely some arrest demands.
Sudden deaths and accidents
Are such every day events.
That all heedlessly do say.
Well, we all must die some day.
Yet the&e changes, new and great.
Speak of some transition state j
Labor soon the world will rule,
For this we ourselves must school.
Money's power begins to wane.
Honest labor is to reign,
Lwelling each beneath his vine
Love and duty will entwine. *
Grain, the other ruling power
Which we now call money's t^wer,
VViIl Itself so much extend,
And will labor so befriend,'
That a penny then will buy
More than pounds can now supply-.
St. John did this to us reveal,
When the angel broke the sc'al.
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Soon oarth'« Sabbath is to dawn,
Hail, with me, its beauteous morn;
Lot each one at once prcvpare,
There is little time to spare.
So your lamps make haste and trim,
Quickly banish ov'ry sin,
When within us Christ does reign,
We will all have done with pain.
LINES WRITTEN ON BOARD THE STEAMER
AS SHE LEFT QUEBEC WHARF, SEPT., 18*73.
Sitting on a boat at the wharf
Just as she's steaming to be off,
Levi ferry coming to port,
^Glides in beneath the stately Fort.
:Ship8 dotting all the coast around,
A man of War in centre found ;
Row boats passing beneath our bows,
Steam whistles making their great rows.
Three River shoots at first ahead,
The mai'ket boats in turn have fled ;
'The mail boat follows in their wake
Rearing us all across the Lake.
Man and his works in constant stir —
■Some wrapt in silk and some in fur.
Each with some selfish end to gain
Unwinding death's strong iron chain.
But round us all those hills and plains
Their quiet grandeur still maintains;
Nothing can move, ror can we reach,
tBut yet they us a lesson teach :
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That strong and mighty is the Power
Ihat gu.dos us every day and hour,
Whose silent watch by day and night
Keeps every creature here in sight
All are now working out his will,
His great designs we all fulfil ;
Our actions well predestinate '
The joys or woes that each await.
Each has the power some good to do
But some will Evil still pursue
Christ soon will all our ways amend
ihen we will not our God offend.
ANINCIDE.\TOF^E 15th KOY., 1873.
A story I to-day was told,
When some aid I did implore
By one who did withhold his go'ld
For my work he did deplore. '
^'Jf '""''' '^'"^^^ "" ^^«^<^ of" time, ■ ' ■
Which no good would ever do
Its object christians to combine '
Desirable, it is trr3. '
But still a wild and foolish scheme,
Ihe breach very much too wide:
Why have you chosen such a theme ?
-t'ray set all such views aside.
For has not each a church to teach
And the Bible for their guide, '
To such for any one to preach.
Shows a great amount of pride.
So that we cannot tolerate.
Nor in any way assist,
Your powers you much overrate,
Pray at once I say, desist.
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Monks, priests and friars all have failed
Christianity to blond ;
These Satan's kingdom have assailed,
So you cannot gain your end.
The tale he did to me relate
I will briefly here repeat,
For then it was I did checkmate.
But he did not own defeat.
A preacher once of great renown
Many conquests did achieve,
His fame was sounded through the town,
Such a concourse did believe.
While really all the work was done
By a friar on his knees,
His prayer the hearts of all had won —
It is prayer that God does please.
This gives me hope at once, I said,
I see how I can succeed ;
My work will yet the churches wed,
If all at Christ's throne will plead .
Then carefully peruse its leaves,
"When together they are bound,
You may find withs to bind the sheaves
That now are scattered round.
And oh ! do they not need to mate
Is God's truth their glitt'ring pearl ,
In our glorious future state,
It will radiantly unfurl,
And shine upon each breast and face,
So that all we do or say
Will leave a holy, heavenly trace,
Pointing to eternal day.
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Then Jews awake, my armour try,
For you I have it propar'd ;
No longer ask the reason why,
(^od to man his own Son spar'd.
IN MEMORIAM OF SIR GEORGE OAETXEE.
What moui-nful pageant do I see,
Marching with such measur'd pace ?-
^. body brought across the sea
To find its last resting-place.
Sir Georoe Cartier is his name,
And a Statesman he has been ';
Proudly he wore the crown of fam'e—
Even kneeling to his Queen.
Why such pomp and ceremony ?—
It will never make amend
For grievous want of harmony
Which hastened on his end.
Soldiers, Citizens and Priests,
Drestout with such care and skill
Take warning by this scene so ?m?el
Guard, guide, and control your will.
A dazzling sight the Church was made,
With Its Catafalque so great ;
But he who on it has been laid
Cares no more for earthly state !
Those tapers, with their waning hVht
Eemind us of earth's short day '
Why prize so much the things of sight ? ^
They but chase our souls away I
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A Car, both elegant and grand j
Now recoives this box of clay ;
In front his coat of arms does stand.
And violet wreaths array.
The beauteous shamrock, thistle, rose,
Together on it entwine;
But mother earth does now enclose
To the tomb you did consign
This Senator you so respect,
For his cheerful, honest way,
Who first did droop through your neglect.
Upon that last voting day 1
All creeds together now unite,
For whate'er the flesh desires ;
But every spiritual light
Is still mix'd with earthly fires.
Or sin would not our peace destroy —
Our bodies steal away —
Nor poison all our earthly joy.
With its sickness and decay.
Let prejudice be cast aside.
At once Christians combine,
To part with all that earthly pride
Which mars God's great design I
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A PEAYER.
Dear Father help, ray spirit break,
In solitude it often aches ;
Nothing can make men see or know,
No matter what I to them show.
That Christ must come as king to reign^
To banish sickness, death and pain,
Jew and Christian find it hard
To walk like Christ in virtue's garb.
Knowledge has taught them nature's law*
Must keep feeding Death's groat jaws.
The earth would not mankind contain,
Unless Death did his part sustain.
This is the way they speak or think ;
All seem to join in one great link.
Alone on earth I really stand.
Assailed by strife on every hand.
But surely thou, who madest man —
Who the whole universe did span —
Can make the earth our Paradise,,
And banish all and ev'ry vice.
Our senseless idols all can change.
Cur lifeless images derange ;
Can give our spirits endless life.
And make an end of all our strife,
Unite us then with holy love ;
Our Faith awaken from above ;
Fit us to serve and worbhip thee.
The great and Mighty One and Three.
The mind of man with study great
Knows little of his great estate ;
How few can all the birds define.
And class them in their native clime.
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Then look at ev'ry tree and flower
Changing their color day and hour,
Their names are legion ; in each zone,
How many various kinds are known.
But, like the rainbow in the sky.
Their lovely hues live but to die ;
And none can really comprehend
The light that does them all transcend.
O make the human mind expand,
Thy mysteries to understand,
Give us the wisdom we require,
And feed us with electric fire.
2nd part.
Then teach me, teach me Lord, I pray,
How 1 can thy work array,
That it may draw the Jew to thee.
At thy cross to bend the knee.
To make them feel thou hast been here
All our hearts with love to cheer,
To teach them that thy power so great
Chose to come in low estate.
The Evil one so well ensnares,
Eeri'tp so fills with earthly cares,
That words like mine they do not prize,
For its truths their spirit tries.
But if God's truth it does con'.a i
He my efforts will sustain,
And, in spite or all men's pride.
Will disperse it far and wide.
Pray, Esau's sons, come chafl' the wheat,
Draw Christ from his Heav'nly seat.
Search with me his precious mine,
And with glory earth will shine.
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Come humbly to the throne of grace,
Worship him who fills all space
With faith and love, a small return
Which Christ left his throne to earn.
Pride is the Evil one's delight,
For it dims our spirit's sight ;
Like children try to learn and trust
That God's plan is wise and just.
The veil must rise from off youi* eyes
Before Jesus you can prize,
And earth can never Heaven become
Till your homage Christ has won.
Then let me urge, yes, beg, entreat,
That your people all will greet
The treasures dug from God's own mine,
Which within this volume shine.
Then making trial of its truth.
By imparting it to youth,
So that the glory it portrays
I* -ay be brougx^c within our gaze.
For when we act and think aright,
New joys will our souls delight.
And with the countless angel throng
We will mingle heart and song.
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THE ROUND CHURCH.
THE ROUND CHURCH.
^hen I walk around this lovely city
And see the churches so new and s; grand,
I cannot help thinking 'tis a pity '
That Christians are a divided band.
When to Sinai's plains all mankind repair'd
To buikf r.'"" ""\r ''"^"'^^ '""'y ^^^^-t^in'd ;
To build a tower they their bricks prepar'd,
Whose top should reach heav'n, bufood rostrain'd.
The Lord descended and scatter'd men round,
" '^^'^ ^'^"Suage and changed their
But the Evil Spirit has always found
JNew works, new schemes for his enemy man. >
To the Jewish altar in glory God came,
And gently and kindly bid him obey,
His own way he chose, his will would not tame, •
Year past after year, obey would not they.
Then Prophets He sent His will to declare,
Priests He desired His work to fulfil •
His Son, next He spared a way to prepare,
He suffered, He died, man disobeys still.
This beautiful world in six days he made,
i^it place for angels till Satan appeared,
A plan of Redemption for us God laid,
A Temple quite round He'll cause to be reared.
Whose praises and prayers to God will ascend
United in heart, in soul and in mind •
A ray from God's throne will on it descend
And comfort and rest the world will there find r^
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Then Oh, once again, man united will bo,
The spirit of goodness comes to restore ;
Yes, when he comes he will make evil flee,
Encircle the Temple with graces three.
When it is built and man worships in Love,
"When his Faith in his works shine all round,
The Lord will descend, will come from above.
And then every thing good will abound.
JEWS AND CHRISTIANS.
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As perhajis our first pure Holy Catholic Church
may be a round one, I have thought it well to embel-
lish my book with a plate of St. Sepulchre's Round
Church, Cambridge, which is one of the four round
Churches still remaining in the Kingdom of Great
Britain. This one at Little Maplestead in Essex was
dedicated to St. John of Jerusalem and given to the
Templars by Juliana wife of William, Son of Anderlin,
steward to Henry II. It was customary during the
Crusades to build Parish Churches in honor of the
Holy Sepulchre, hence the origin of its name, and
the parish in which it was built was called the Jewry :
this arose from the foolish ide? that it was once a Jew-
ish Synagogue and that the Jews lived there. It is
supposed to have been erected in the reign of Henry
Ist, between the first and second Crusades, and to be
the oldest church of its form in England. As this date
is but a very few years after the order of Templars, it
was probably not built by them, but it might after-
wards have got into their possession by gift ; and when
the order was dissolved in the year 1.313 the advow-
fion was given to the priory of Barnwell, at which
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time it has been supposed the tower was raised a story
higher for the reception of bells — the chancel being
then added and dedicated to St. Andrew the Patron of
Barnwell Priory. The circular part of the church
is 41 feet in diameter. The writer is indebted to a
friend for the sketch of the church and its history^
and has placed it in this book with the hope that
round churches fed by five streams of Sacramental
Grace from our Saviour's wounds, with doors well
closed against Satan's devices, will like beacon lights
draw all men unto them, and that the knowledge they
will impart will make each household a place from
which will ascend daily offerings of prayer and praise
so that God will be worshipped in the hearts and homes
of his people as also in his house with a pure and
hearty devotion. The labor of years, which has been
a work of love, the writer now submits to your earn-
est consideration, sincerely believing that God will
remove the curse of sin when we all together fulfil
his righteous will, for he has so said in the following
and numerous other passages, " Be still and know
that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathen,
I will be exalted on the earth." — Psalm 46.
In his days shall the righteous flourish : and abun-
dance of peace so long as the moon endureth." — Psalm
Ixxii. 7.
It shall come to pass in the last days that the
mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in
the mountains, Jind shall be exalted above the hills,
and all nations shall flow unto it. — Isaiah 2,
He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord
God will wipe away tears from off all faces, and the
rebuke of his people shall he take away from off the
earth, for the Lord hath spoken it. — Isaiah 25.
THE BIBLE
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THE BIBLE.
This book containing all rxod'.s will
His gift from hoaven to man • '
The evil spirit has, and still '
Declares to be a sham
Givn your proof, the atheist cries
That it from God did come •
For ev'ry church and sect no; tries
To call Itself the one
Thaf knows and understands God's word
Ihat can its truths portray; '
Each one the voice of God has' heard
And claims Christ for his stay. '
The Jew believes the first five books
And trusts the prophets too; - '
But in the Gospel never looks,'
For Christ they never knew'.
A stumbling block we are to them
With our divided views; '
O, that the labour of my pen
- Would christianize the Jews.
For they will all of us unite,
God they both love and fear-
ill w-IM ""'"T"^''^^' ^'^^''■^^ ^i^h might,
All will be plain and clear. '
Then atheists and heathens, all
Will learn to know the Lord •
The scales from off their eyes 41 fan,
i-iiey II say he was the word
Who faithfully fulfilled the hiw,
And taught uh how to live,
Who, the iiiHpired ])ropIie(H huw,
And (Jod to ojirth did give.
Tho great love that our God has shown ,
Will then strike sinners dumh^
God's word will then on earth bo known,
And all will hail God's Son.
Tho first throe chapters shew how sin
Brought death on all mankind,
Tho last throe teach us that our kin,
The Tree of Life will find.
When God does in his temple reign,
In every heart supreme ;
Our bodies freed from death and pain.
All glorified will gleam.
Now let us scan its books to see
What our God's design can be,
In condescending to impart
To his creatures, any chart.
GENESIS.
Genesis, the first streak of light
That Moses, God's scribe did write;
Informs us of our origin.
And our loss of life through sin.
Six days of labour God proclaimed,
Adam's work he then ordained ;
God bid him Eden dress and keep,
Ere he laid him down to sleep.
And told him to keep the Sabbath day
In a blessed, holy way ;
To worship Him, the Holy One,
Who the thread of life has spun.
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To their own land Jews will return
"When they one and all discern
That Christ was the Messiah true,
Who will man and earth renew.
When they accept the sacrifice,
The life, death and blood of Christ ;
As the substitute which was slain,
Man to save from future pain.
He for mankind does intercede,
For our future welfare plead ;
His spirit tries to hold a check,
And with virtues us to deck.
This people such great love obtained-
Through the faith Abram sustained;.
When told to sacrifice his child,
He at once agreed, complied.
He did not ask the reason why
His dear son, so young must die ?
But took the knife at once to slay,
When the angel bid him stay.
That gentle son we must revere.
Who without a doubt or fear.
When Abram took him up on high.
Did at once prepare to die.
The sacrifice before prepar'd,
Suddenly to them appear'd j
The angel to the altar led
The ram, which they slew instead.
Abraham in this scene did see
Christ upon th' accursed tree;
Then ho rejoic'd to sea the day
That taught him the heav'nly way.
^ut yet again, ho mourns and sighs,
His dear wife before hira dies ;
Land he buys from the sons of Heth,
That she may repose in death.
There liv d but Isaac of his race,
To fulfil the law of grace ;
Through him he knew, God did decree,
Man from sin to set quite free.
The blessings jH'omis'd to his seed, "
He did now believe indeed-
-So Isaac's wife must be procur'd
His descendants here secur'd.
His servant quickly forth he sent,
To his kinsmen's house he went;
A wife for Isaac to secure,
One who was both good and pure.
•I^ebekah met him at the well.
She ran home his tale to tell,
And shew the presents lie had brought
To deck her, the bride he sought.
The hand of God in this they saw,
-And with them, his will was law •
■So at once they gave consent,
.And Eebekah forthwith went
To meet the one she was to wed,
■Straight was she to Isaac led ;
The servant told what ho had done,
4She the love of Isaac won.
To Sarah's tent he took his bride.
In her place she did preside,
-Spreading around a lustrous light,
Xike a good and faith ul wife.
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The promised heir did not appear,
Till he reached his throe-score year,
Robokah then had two twin boys.
Thus did God complete their joys.
The Lord had to Eebekah said,
When her mind was full of dread.
Two sons will soon delight your ejos,
From whom nations will arise.
Two nations from them must have sprung,.
For God's word is surely done ;
A yoke the younger Avas to twine,
Eound the elder for a time.
Esau the elder soon became
The great hunter of the plain,
While Jacob dwelt within his tent,
Sodding pottage was his bent.
One day when Esau home returned.
Hunger sore within him burned,
For this red pottago he did sell
His birthright to hill and delh
This son ut forty years of age.
Did two heathen wives engage,
Causing his parente grief of mind —
Thus his future yoke did bind.
For his mother it did estrange.
So the plan she did arrange.
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In view of much greater fame.
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For multiply God said ho Hhould,
And tliG ground on which ho stood,
Ho gavo to Abram and his seed.
It should all be theirs indeed.
Of stones a pillar ho did pile,
Streaming down upon them oil j
A drink ottering ho then did pour
Out of his abundant store.
Then God his servant Jacob tries,
Hacliel his beloved dies,
But though his wife from him is torn.
Unto him a son is born.
Thus death and life we seo combined,
And to each a place assigned,
Just as Christ's body for us died,
That we should be justified.
Sending his spirit life to give,
That hereafter we may live,
Like Jesus pure and without guile,
Free from all that can defile.
When this spiritual reign begins,
We will vanquish Satan's sins;
Decay and death will not then spoil,
All our labour and our toil.
PART THE SECOND,
The sacred writer further states,
That Jacob again migrates
With his great and mighty band
To Hebron, his father's land.
Then Isaac old and full of days,
The sad debt of nature pays,
Esau and Jacob him inter
In his father's sepulchre.
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Tho biotliers now do Roparato,
BocuiiHo they aro ho rich and u;vcnt.
That Ihoy oamiot to^^cthor dwell,
So they part and say iiirowoll.
In Edom Enaii Hpread liis tont,
When from Canaan'.s land he wont,
Oroat didvOH and princes from him Bpn^gr
And PrloHt llcul wa,s his son.
Ho was the first who bore tho name.
This Priest of iMidian's plain,
His seven dauirhters, we aro told,
Brought the sheep into the fold.
One of them Moses' heart did win,
When ]ie fled from Egypt's King,
So Zipporah forthwith ho wed.
And a shepherd's life he led.
But Jacob dwelt in Canaan's- land.
With twelve sons at hie right hand ;
Joseph and Benjamin he lov'd.
All the other sons above.
These were his own dear Rachel's sons,
They were his most chorish'd ones.
For Joseph a fine coat was made.
With colours of every shade.
His brethren then did jealous grow,
Soon they did their envy show ;
He dreams two dreams which seem to prore
He above them yet should move.
These did arouse their pride and hate,
They said he should not be great ;
Reign over them, he never should^
Thus together they did brood.
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Whilo feeding of their fu(hor«' flocks,
Sfttaii whinporing tliuH kiiocli.s,
When })oor young Joseph does appear,
Sent by Iwraelho drawn near.
Togctlier they agree to slay
A boa.st devoiir'd we will Hay,
But Keubon said, Thou Hhalt not kill,
His blood wc must never spill.
Into a pit they had him cast,
When some Ishmalitos wont past ;
Thoy decided it would bo well.
To these people him to sell.
Then twenty silver pieces thoy
For him did agreo to pay,
And with them to Egyptian ground
Joseph as a slave was bound.
To Potiphar these traders sold
Tliis young man again for gold.
His overseer ho then became,
Till his wife did falsely blame.
Then into prison he was thrust.
But as he was wise and just,
The keeper put into liis care.
The |)risoner8 and their fare.
Two servants did the King offend.
To this prison he did send.
It seems, the captain of the guard
Assigned both to Joseph's ward.
Now each of these men had a dream ;
They were sighing for a gleam
Of "what it did to them portend,
Fearing it foretold their end,
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When Josoph h,:A\irhi tlioir mornin^^ meal,
And their nicaning did reveal
For ho was spiritunll^' wise,
Beeauso he God'n hiWH did prize.
The hill lor in hin dream did noo
A great vino with branches three,
Which hiids and blo.sHotn.s did j)roduce,
And tine grapos for Pharoah'« uyo.
King Pharoah's cup he did behold,
And in hisovvn hand did hold;
He pici,o'd the grapo.s into the cup,
■ Then to Pharoah gave it up.
The meaning Joseph did hini give,
Was that he again Hhould live
In King Pharoah'w mansion great,
Three days would him reinstate.
Then, when with thee all things go well,
My sad story you can toll ;
In ju'ison 1 should not remain,
For no crime my soul does stain.
But stolen from my Hebrew home,
I am in this land alone ;
With no one here to plead for me,
Or to try to set me free.
The baker then his dream relates.
In the hope some good awaits ;
Such as Joseph had just foretold.
The king's butler should be told.
Upon my head three baskets white,
With bake meats above in sight;
While birds did eat (hem from my head.
Though for Pharoah they were spread.
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In throe days thou fihalt ceaso to bo,
Hanging then upon a tree ;
The birds shall peck thy flesh away,
This is what thy dream doth say.
And each of these men met the f'ato
Joseph said did them await ;
To celebrate the king's birthday,
Life and death they did portray.
The prison gates did open wide,
And they came out side by side ;
The baker to bo hang'd was sent,
Joyful forth the other went
To dwell again in Pharoah's hall,
And .0 answer to his call ;
Joseph's I'ciease he never sought.
On him he did cast no thought.
Till at the end of two full years,
In dream to the king appears
Seven fat-flosh'd and fiil!-favor'd kine,
Which in meadow did recline.
When seven ill-favor'd and quite lean
Soon appear upon the scene ;
The fat, the lean ones food supplies^
They devour before his eyes.
Another dream his senses chain,
For he wakes and sleeps again ;
Seven rank and good ears of corn.
To one stalk seem hanging on.
When seven thin and blasted ears
Suddenly to him appears ;
These, the good ones do soon devour.
For like evil, they had pow'r.
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In the morn the king sat in state,
With magicians wise and great ;
In vain he did to them appeal,
They could not his dreams reveal.
Then the butler recall'd to mind
Joseph once to him so kind,
And to the king he did repeat
Where he did with Joseph meet.
And how truly he did explain
Dreams which gave his servants pain ;
The king for Joseph fortliwith sent.
To interpret what was meant
By his two dreams, none could define,
Though he felt they were a sign ;
Which some great trouble did portend,
And to which he should attend.
At once from prison he did call
This man, wise above them all ■
In haste he does himself array,
And to Pharoah wend his way.
His dreams to him he now does state
His uneasiness was great ;
You can interpret tliem they say.
Quickly do so then I pray
With help from the God I fear.
I will make it plain and clear ;
For we can nothing truly know
But what God does to us show.
The kine and corn are both the same.
The one meaning will explain :
The kine so good that you did see.
Seven plentiful years to be.
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The lean and blasted are to show
Seven years when nought phall grow ;
A' fifth part of the plenty ears,
You must gather, it appears.
That for the famine long and sore,
You may have an ample store ;
To carry out this enterprise,
Find a man discreet and wise,
And place him over Egypt's land,
All the corn at his command,
With officers who shall provide,
And a fifth part set aside.
That when the seven good years are past,
Your corn may he made to last
Till those seven sad years are fled,
Which all now have cause to dread.
So Joseph rose to glory great
Second only in estate
To Pharoah Egypt's Mighty King
To him all the corn they bring.
And to Joseph the king did say,
All to thee shall homage pay ;
My signet-ring I give to thee,
Thou shalt my great ruler be.
Array'd in beauteous linen white
With pure golden chain in sight,
Thou shalt in a chariot ride,
A priest's daughter for your bride.
For God's spirit in you does shine,
Wisdom round you does entwine ;
As you have waru'd, so you will save
From a sad, untimeiy grave.
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While Joseph gather'd up the corn,
Unto him two sons were born •
Ephraim and Manasseh nam'd,
He chief ruler was proolaim'd.
To Pharoah all the people ran
When the years of dearth began ;
He did to Joseph them oommend^
Bidding them to him attend.
For he would in this orisis guide.
His storehouses open wide j
Tor corn enough thej did oontair,
All his people to maintain.
This famine spread itself around,
Hard and sterile was the ground •
Egypt alone had corn in store,
Thanks to Joseph and his lore.
So Joseph's brethren thither went,
By their father Jacob sent,
That they might corn for him procure,
For much want they did endure.
These ten who Joseph had betray'd
See this ruler well array'd •
But never dream he is the one
That their sin should bid them shun.
To him they throw themselves prostrate .
And their wants at once relate ;
He sees in them his treaoh'roua foes
They the cause of all liia woes. *
He says with anger in his eyes,
Well I know that you are spies ;
Our barren fields you come to see,
That, I tell you must not bo.
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Then they quickly to him rejily,
No I we do not come to spy,
We are twelve sons of one man, true,
All of whom are here but two.
The j'oungest we did lea\e at home,
One is not, to this we own ;
Till I have proof of what you say,
Here you must in prison stay.
Three days in ward they did remain
Ere their object they did gain ;
Then corn in plenty Joseph sends,
Treating these his foes, as friends.
3ut Simeon he does retain.
Causing them much grief and pain ;
Till they return, and with them bring
Their young brother Benjamin.
Each finds his money in his sack.
When to Canaan they got back ;
'This fills their mind with awe and fear.
When to Jacob they draw near.
They to their father do return,
Telling him of their sojourn ;
He mourns and says, you me bereave.
Why do thus my children leave.
Joseph gone, Simeon away,
Benjamin he wants, you say;
He is my very dearest one,
No, you cannot have this son.
Then Eeuben to his father prays.
But he heeds not what he says ;
He offers his two sons in trust.
For to Egypt go he must.
The subject was again resum'd,
When their corn was all consumU
Jacob said go again and buy
Corn for us before we die.
So Judah spake to him and said,
Egypt's ruler we much dread ;
He said when you return for coi-n,
Bring mo back thy youngest born,
That I may feel that you are true,
And a shepherd's life pursue—
Ho seem'd to think that we were spies.
And that all we said were lies.
I will be surety for the lad ;
To want food is very sad,
On me for ever be the blame,
If you do not him reclaim.
Consent at last the father gave,
Saying, him from danger save.
The grave my body will receive,
If of him you me bereave.
Then laden well with fruits and spice.
And of other things the choice.
With double money in their hand,
Off they start corn to demand.
And when to Joseph they appear'd,
That great man they so much fear'd.
Seeing again his brother dear.
Scarcely could restrain a tear.
Together we shall dine to-day,
He to them at once did say ;
To Joseph's house they then were led
When they had their asses fed.
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They forthwith to the steward spake,
For with dread they now did shake,
Douhle money pray now receive,
To our Backa our gold did cleave.
But he quickly to them replied :
God your sacks with gold supplied,
Here is Simeon you left behind,
Keep the ti-easure you did find.
As soon as Joseph home did come,
On their knees themselves they flung ;
Thus bowing down they did fulfil
Dreams which envy did instil.
Your" father, is his health still good,
An old man I understood ?
They reply, he is yet alive,
And this is his youngest child.
When to Benjamin he drew near.
His own mother's son so dear,
With love his heart did overflow,
So a blessing did bestow.
To hide the tears upon his cheek,
He did then his chamber seek ;
But for a time he must restrain.
Even though it gave him pain.
Bidding his servants sot on bread.
He retum'd to see them fed ;
Each according to his birthright,
Sat around his board in sight.
He messes from before him sent,
Each one according to descent ;
But to the youngest, dearest one,
Five times greater was the sum.
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Then Joseph bid his steward put
In the youngest's sack his cup,
And in the others what they paid
On the top shouM there be laid.
They early rose and sped away,
Almost at the dawn of day,
But Joseph's steward them o'ertook,
For his cup to search and look.
He did them all accuse and say,
Why take Joseph's cup away,
The one with which he does divine.
And from which he takes his wine.
This accusation they deny,
Then they all do him defy.
And beg that he will call to mind,
Gold they in their sacks did find.
And which they did to him return.
Aught to steal they all would spurn,
In any sack should it be found,
To my Lord we will be bound.
And he must die who did it steal,
His life such an act should seal.
The sacks are search'd, their hearts must bum,
Benjamin awaits his turn.
Lo ! in his sack the cup they find,
Fear and sorrow fill their mind.
When Joseph's house they all do reach,
Bowing down they him beseech.
Joseph then met them, it does say,
8aying, in decided way.
What deed is this that you have done.
Now I claim this youngest son.
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As my Bervant he shall remain^
The rest I will not detain.
Knew you not that T could divino,
"When you took that cup of mine.
Then Judah said, keep me I pray,
This youth must not, cannot stay ;
Our father's heart will surely break,.
If his home he does forsake.
I am the surety for the lad.
He one brother only had,
Who from his home has stray'd away,
I for him am bound to stay.
Then let me to your mind recall.
That you told us, one and all,
To bring this youth when we did come.
Or you all of us would shun.
My father the old man will die
If you do not hear my cry ;
In mercy this from you I crave.
Save, oh I save him, from the grave.
This pleading was not all in vain,
Joseph could no more refrain ;
He bid his servants from him go,
While he made his brothers know
He was the one that they had sold
Into Egypt's land for gold ;
That the trials he had endur'd
Peace and plenty had secur'd.
He to his brethren then did say :
Come quite near to me I pray,
I am Joseph whom ye did sell,
Grieve not for now all is well.
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God sent me here corn to provide,
Through the famine all to guide ;
To preserva life in this fair land,
God has plac'd me in command.
My father, go and bring with haste,
See that you no time do waste ;
Tell him that Joseph bids him come,
Egypt's lord is his own son.
To bring his children, flocks and herds,
Say that these are JosejDh's words.
In Goshen he must come and dwell,
I will there maintain him well.
All my glory to him relate,
In this kingdom I am great :
He with his brothers then did weep.
Kissing each upon the cheek.
Their cruelty he thus forgave,
And Christlike their lives did save.
We see in him the type of One,
Who for us has borne the sum.
Of God's great wrath to guilty man,
And when all accept his plan,
He leaves his mansions in the sky,
Man and earth to glorify.
A greater Joseph far than he,
In Thee, Saviour, I see ;
Thou hast plenty of corn m store,
Come and open out the door.
The famine now begins to dawn,
Sell to Esau's sons thy corn ;
Thy Church in glory they'll array,
Though they once did thee betray.
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Thy doctrine thoy will all entwine,
When they know thou art Divine;
Thy Christian virtues all display,
And to thee such homage pay.
That heathen nations far and near,
In thy Temple will appear,
And spread thy sacred holy feast
In the countries of the East.
Thy cup containing purest wine,
Brawn from thee the living vino,
Will cleanse and purify our souls —
To our lips be as live coals.
The Temple which was rent in twain,
When our sins Christ did sustain,
Will be cemented well with love,
And the Spirit, like the dove,
Will on" the altar spread his wings
Like the former Cherubims,
And God's own great and wondrous light,
Will again appear in sight.
The'farao of Joseph's brethren sped,
And new lustre on him shed ;
Then Pharoah unto him did say,
Wagons send for them I pray.
Your father and his household all,
Young^and old, the great and small,
Must come and dwell in Egypt's Land,
All the best they can command.
Asses laden with corn and bread,
As the King to him had said,
With many other things as good.
He to Jacob sent for food.
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Changes of raiment did present
To his brethren ore they went,
Five changes to the youngest one,
And a very handsome sum.
To Canaan they did wend their way,
And to Jacob they did say :
Joseph thy son is yet alive,
And in Egypt he does thrive,
As Governor he rules the land.
This he could not understand,
He seemed to fear they did deceive.
His heart could not this believe.
But when they told him Joseph's words.
Bidding him, with flocks and herds,
To Goshen, go and there to dwell,
Truth he knew they did him toll.
His spirit in him did revive,
Hearing Joseph was alive ;
See him he must before he dies.
So to him at once he flies.
As he his journey does pursue,
He stops to give God his due ;
His offerings reach his throne above,
And he answers him in love.
Fear not, he says, go on your way,
I will guard and be thy stay ;
A nation great shall spring from thee,
Joseph you again shall see.
He and seventy of his seed
On this journey did proceed,
At Goshen Joseph did him meet.
And upon his neck did weep.
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Then to Phnroah he did explain,
That they all from Canaan came,
As shepherds they had always been,
Their flocks they had brought to glean.
Egyptians scorn'd a shepherd's life,
So, perhaps in dread of strife.
In Goshen they did all remain,
Spreading round o'er all the plain.
Five of his brethren he did bring.
And present unto the King,
His father also Joseph brought,
And E^ing Pharoah's favor sought.
What his your age, the King did say,
Jacob tell rae now I pray ?
Six score and ten years I have seen.
Few and evil they have been.
King Pharoah then did Jacob bless.
Joseph gave him to possess
The best of land inEamases,
Where his mind would be at ease.
And with the very best of fare,
Nourish'd all his kin with care ;
Though the famine was very sore,
Never failing was their store.
Money and cattle, herds and lands,
Egyptians placed in Joseph's hands,
For he alone had corn for sale —
Without corn death must prevail.
When the sad seven years were past
He foretold the dearth should last.
They sought him that they might procure
Seed that would good crops ensure.
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Thon Joseph to them all did saj,
For seed I buy you to-day,
A fifth of tho corn you agroo,
Pharoah's shall in future be.
The people with one voice declare
He had kept them from despair,
Yes, he had saved a nation's lives
Through his wondrous enterprise.
At once this scheme they all embrace
Thus he bought up all tho race,
A fifth from them he should obtain
As a right the king would claim.
In Egypt's land here, it appears,
Jacob lived for seventeen years
Then feeling that the time drovv nigh
That he must prepare to die.
He called for Joseph to consent
That his body should be sent
To his father's burying place,
There to rest with his own race,
That altogether they might rise
To obtain their Heav'nly prize.
Yes, Abram, Isaac, Jacob all,
There will hear the angel's call.
The angel that Jews now reject,
Is the one they may expect;
When ho returns his own to free,
Their Messiah they will see.
The Spirit now my pen employs
To remind you of the joys
That God will on his people pour.
When the time of trial's o'er.
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Then all, with cheerful heart and voice,
That have made God's Truth their choice
Shall meet the Saviour in the air,
With the angels bright and fair.
Seven score and seven was Jacob's age
When he vanished from earth's stage ;
He grew infirm, his eyo grew dim,
Ere he paid the debt of sin.
When on his deathbed he was laid,
He to his son Joseph said :
The blessings God bestowed on me
I now give to thine and thee.
Some pages of Scripture show
That on him ho did bestow
The land where God to him appoar'd,
When through virtue's paths ho steer'd.
Joshua says that Joseph's land
Bethel's altar did command ;
St. John describes to us Jacob's well,
Near Sychar in Joseph's dell.
'Tie plain, what Jacob most did prize
He did give at his demise
To Joseph, with the prophecy
That his seed should occupy
It, at some far off distant time,
Thus fulfilling God's design,
That Abram's seed should reinstate
Christ on earth in glory great.
He now his other sons does call,
To tell them what shall befall
Each of their Tribes in future days,
Just according to their ways.
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Eeuben, thou ray power and might,
Parted with what was thy right,
By falling into Satan's snare,
"Which he for thoo did prepare.
Simeon and Levi's cruelty
Caused a sad atrocity —
In their anger they did betray,
Yes, and afterwards did slay.
These through the earth shall bo dispersed
For their anger they were cursed ; '
Like Reuben, sin did in them dwell,
So they never can excel.
To Judah all the rest must bend,
On him they must all attend.
For Shiloh from him should appear,
Gathering from far and wear.
Those whose garments in blood washed white.
Will appear to claim their right ;
To enjoy pure and happy days,
Learning more of wisdom's ways.
Our Shiloh has from Judah sprung
Jesus from that Tribe did come, '
All these his own did him disown,
Still he is to them unknown.
God's sceptre they do still maintain,
And to Moses' laws lay claim ;
When they in Christ thoir Shiloh see
Earth will a pure Eden be. ' .
Zebulon shall a haven be,
Bordering upon the sea,
Issacher, like a couching ass,
Must pay tribute as a class. '
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Dan was crafty and serpentlike,
From the roar would always strike ;
A warlike troop from Gad should spring,
Which to order he should bring.
i\sher shall of the best partake,
lioyal dainties he shall make.
Swift as a hind is Naphtali,
"With good words his way will ply.
How sorely Joseph thou wert tried,
But with strength thou wert supplied ;
Thy father's blessing did jjrevail,
When temptation did assail.
Thou art really a goodly tree,
Very fruitful shalt thou be ;
Many great blessings shall descend,
And around thy paths attend.
Benjamin thou wilt seize thy prey,
Like a wolf at peep of day ;
At night the spoil you will divide
With the members of your tribe.
And with these blessings Jacob said.
Bury me when I ar.i dead,
Within the cave in Abram's field,
Then his lifo to God did yield.
Joseph his father did embrace, "
Shedding tears upon his face ;
The brothers must have all withdrawn,
He alone is there to mourn.
The body now must be embalmed.
And so when his sorrow calmed.
The physician he desires
To arrange as it requires.
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Forty day8 did his moarningla8t;
Then wo read when these were past
■ ^^^^^^^^^ fro- the King demand
lime to go to Canaan's land,
His father's body to inter
In the very sepulchre
Where Abraham and Isaac lie,
Which these ancestors did buy.
Then Pharoah gave them leave to go
He had sworn it must be so •
His servants, elders he did send
With his own they him attend '
This long and mournful cavalcade
Seven days at Atab stayed
Ere they proceeded on their way
Jacob's mandate to obey. '
Their work performed, they all return
And in Egypt they sojourn;
But Joseph's brethren are in dread
As their father now is dead,
That Joseph will their sin repay
So they send to beg and pray
That he will not their sins recall
-But forgive them one and all. '
Joseph sweetly to them replies,
iV ith tears flowing from his eyes
To save much people was I sent. '
God wrought good from ill intent.
Be comforted and never fear
You and yours to me are dear •
I will nourish them and thee'
From this sin I set you free. '
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In course of time Joseph expir'd
Like his father he desir'd
That to Canaan he be convey'd
In his father's tomb be laid.
EXODUS.
That generation passed away,
Pharoah nature's debt did pay^
So fruitful had Israel become
That Egypt they overruui
Another king now did arise
Who this people did despise,
Of Joseph he did nothing know,.
So he them oppressed with woe.
• Their sons he bid the midwives kill
But they feared to do such ill ;
So still this people multiplied
God the midwives well supplied.
Pharoah seeing they disobey'd,
Had this charge upon them laid,
That infant sons should all be drown'd
This race did too much abound.
Then the deliverer was born,
One that Israel did adorn,
His parents, both of Levi's tribe,
For his first three months did hide.
And in an ark of rushes made,
On the river left the babe,
"With sister standing by to see
What the infant's fate should be.
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Pharoah's daughter came down to bathe,
And this infant she did save.
The sister asked her should she find
One the child to take and mind.
To this the princess did agree,.
And its mother she did see,
Promising wages her to pay,-—
She the babe did take away.
Moses she said should be his name,.
And when older did reclaim.
When to the palace he was sent
Well he knew his real descent.
His brethren's burdens made him groan
When they were to him made known'-
He one of Egypt's sons did smite '*
And from Egypt took his flight.
Por Pharoah sought this man to slay
So in Midian, hid away,
A peaceful life did Moses lead,
Por he Jethro's sheep did feed.
And leading through the desert side
He to Horeb did them guide
There he beheld a bush in flame,
ISIot consuming it was plain.
He turned to see the reason why
God said Moses " Here am I "
This is my holy mercy seat.
Take thy shoes from off thy feet.
And Moses trembling, greatly feared
louble portion of each kind j
That a holy, heavenly ray
Might pervade the Sabbath-day.
Our souls on that day should commune
With our God, the great Triune,
Who all his wonders will disclose
When we on him do repose.
For God does still for man produce.
All things needful for his use,
Though now scattered far and wide
Earth does food for all provide.
But like the Israelites of old,
We our worship still withhold ;
Our various idols intervene.
And God's glory from us screen.
Again this people Moses chide.
He does to his God confide.
If water he does not supply,
They will stone him till he die.
To God he lifts his heart in prayer
Asking him his life to spare.
To Moses God at once accedes.
Hears and answers when he pleads.
The Rock of Horob bids him smite,
With his rod he does it strike.
Fresh water then from it did flow,
Thus God's power he did show.
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A type of Christ the smitten Eock,
"Who, when all around did mock,
Did streams of living water yield,
Which sin hitherto has sealed.
Amalek now appears in sigh^
Prepared with Israel to fight ;
Moses in Joshua confides j
O'er their army he presides.
Go forth and fight, is his command,
While I stand with rod in hand.
With Hur and Aaron on the hill.
You our enemies will kill.
When Mosea hands he upward held,
Joshua with sword expelled,
But when he weary let them down.
Fortune on them seem'd to frown.
So Hur and Aaron lent their aid,
And his hands they fii'mly staid,
This union caused them to prevail
Over him who did assail.
And when our Christian Churches thred
All entwine into a tree.
Our prayers will reach Jehovah's throne.
And produce the missing stone.
Whose light will us electrify,
Men and earth quite purify ;
The banner then which waves around
Will Great Amalek confound.
Christian Pilgrims you must now awake.
And begin at once together to rake.
Thorns, briars and weeds, now hid from our g&ze.
Will soon be expos'd by God's holy ray.
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A broken cistern no water can hold,
Such is the state of the Christian fold,
Its truths are all scattered here and there.
Every one claiming an equal share.
The devil has done his best to divide
The Christian Churches on every side,
But the Church of God must united be,
And from Satan's devices set quite fre<3.
There's a hand that moves, a mysterious hand,
Who sprinkles his seed in every land,
Who chooses a humble servant, 'tis true,
To purify, alter and make things new.
That servant is ready and willing both
To suffer, work, and has plighted her troth
To spend the energies God has given
To bind the Church with the cords of Heaven.
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THE KEY TO THE
'l^oBtiTO*^ Sietoteg
ADDRESSED TO EVERY BISHOP, PRIEST AND DEACON
IN ALL AND EVERY BRANCH OF THE CHRISTIAN
OHUROH.
It is clearly to be seen by the great calamities of
the whole world at present, that our Christianity has
failed to satisfy the great and mighty King of kings,
80 in support of the one great idea sot forth in the
book just published called " The Christian's Wedding
Ring, an epitome of practical Christianity, thf.t St.
Peter has planted the seeds of three churches instead
of one, as claimed by one branch of these three
churches, and that all the various creeds and sects
have sprung from these seeds which divisions are the
cause of all our sorrows, — in proof of this assertion, I
beg to call your attention to the following facts,
neither David, Solomon, nor Nehemiah, ever asked
to boiallowed to build a temple to Moses, though they
must have known more of his acts of goodness than
St. Peter could have known. Yet St. Peter asked to
be allowed to build three Tabernacles, which request
brought 'a voice from Heaven .showing how hateful
Buch a thought was to the Almighty, still, as this voice
did not forbid his doing so, the present state of the
Church appears to favor this fact as being the true state
of the case.
It may be that when the Devil saw that Christ had
chosen St. Peter to be the founder of the Christian
Church for the honor of God, that he sowed this
wicked thought in his heart, which now' bears such
abundant fruit in the world by separating and dividing
the particles of God's truth. The voice tried to teach
St. Peter that Christ alone was Divine, Moses and
Elias appearing showed that He was the Messiah for
whom they had prepared the waj', and that they were
living and waiting with other righteous departed
spirits till God hati fulfilled His work of redemption
and glorification. For this reason, though Christians
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through those Churches have assailed Satan's king-
dom and snatched many souls from his grasp, still
Christianity has not yet had the power to dethrone
Satan, for his arts and wiles still engross the thoughts
of the greatest part of mankind. Study with me the
case. St. Peter was the lirst called, he was named
Peter by Christ Himself, which moans a stone, which
stone has boon broken in pieces by his (Peter's) yield-
ing to the arts of the Tempter.
Throe timos Christ told him to feed His sheep, fore-
seeing no doubt that by his vacillating character ho
would plant three distinct chui'ches whose branches
would be many and great.
That Christ placed him above the other Apostles,
none can deny ho is everywhere mentioned first.
Then Christ gave him the keys which must mean
something. As God gave Solomon wisdom to build
the first Jewish Temple, so God gave Peter power to
build a Chi'istian Church to spread the seeds of truth
which Christ had planted, but, alas ! the Devil tempted
Peter to deny Christ thrice, and the fruits of these
throe denials are at present clearly to be seen in the
Christian Church, for all the three roo*,8 with their
branches deny Christ's spiritual presence in His Sacra-
ments as taught b}^ Himself, and foreshadowed by
Abraham. In each Church various indeed are the
opinions on Sacramental grace. If our spirits are to
be revived they must come in communion with the
Groat S])irit who gave them being through His own
appointed means. The Jews were required to keep
five things upon their altar in one of which God
manifested His presence to His people. Five moans
ot grace should now be within the CMiristian's grasp,
but two things only should adorn our altars in both
of which Christ told us His spirit should be found.
When about to remove His visible i^resence from the
earth He commanded bread and wine to be received
by us in i-emenibranco of His death and sufi'erings,
and said that it would be the body that He should
assume for communion with man, and whoji we all
perform this service in the way that God requires,
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the apparent contradiction among the Apostles. St.
.Tames teaches that <' Faith if it liath not works is
dead," while St. Paul, although he sj)eMks of baptism
and many other things which certainly come under
the head of works as necessary, yet generally puts
most stress on faith. In the 2nd of Galatians it is
evident that Peter and Paul had a discussion on the
subject, so this controversy must have began then,
and there, these various seeds were sown. Common
sense will tell us faith must rank first, for without
it none will work, but it is plain that both are needed,
each must be assigned a certain place. Salvation is a
free gift, it was given to Abraham for showing his
faith in his works. How can we please God, but by
following his example. Christ's death has done away
with the necessity' of animal sacrifice He has redeemed
the whole human race ; but it has not done away with
the necessity of obedience, for Hislife was an example
of perfect obedience. Like the maid that bid Nnamen
go to Elisha the Prophet to be cured of his leprosy,
I beseech all mankind to accept the five means of
grace in God's own appointed way, sim})le though it
be, which Christ has provided in His Church to cure
us of the leprosy of sin, then we may hope that
God's spirit will give us of the water of life freely,
for convinced of sin with prayer and praise we will
thus purify and prepare our hearts for the reign of
Christ. One thing Jews and Christians have failed
to notice that all the writers of the Bible were sinful
men inspired at the time they wrote or did any extra-
ordinary work for God, but not really inspired men.
Christ alone was inspired. He alone was Divine. In
His several appearances to Jew and (Miristian He
taught men by voice and actions, but not b}^ writing.
He has always employed others to write of Him, so
that, as Joel prophesied that God would " pour out
His vspirit on all flesh " in the latter days, it cannot
be wron. id quake, the rocks were torn,
A perfect sacrifice did shine.
Two deaths God has prepar<^'l for man :
The body first, and then the soul;
This is our great Creator's plan —
Man over death has no control.
God in his wrath volcanoes made,
Which yet may all the earth consume,
Beneath the world's foundation laid.
The serpent's poison feeds the fume.
These often cause the earth to quake,
And towns and villages destroy;
Yet man will not his sins forsake,
Nor yet his energies employ —
Isaiah Iv. 3.
fiVIatt. xxvii, 40.
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Earth's millenium to display-
But Jeremiah does declare
That when wo seek the good old way
'' Rest for our souls " vve shall find there. *
The grave and hell are never full
But still their time draws nigh'to close •
The gates of death, when angels pull
The church Christ's glories will disclose.
J^ow it is broken like the stones
That God did write his laws upon
United then its various tones
Will pour forth one angelic song.
Then gems from God's own precious ore
Will glitter o'er earth, air and sea,
And man, as once in days of yore
Will really, purely happy be.
A second Eden then will shine,
Love's palace then each home will be
V^irtue's flowers will there entwine
Into a three-fold perfect tree. ' - '
Thus the authoress of the Christian's Weddiup-Rin.
i-s tried to make plain the mysteries of her ook in
order to try and draw the attention of manki d toVt^
contents, so that together wo may find the good old
paths from which it is evident all have strayed
4i;.
^eremiah vu 16,
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CHRISTIAN'S WEDDING EING.
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