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Readings from the Bible 
 
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 UNDER SUPERVISION OF 
 
 The Chicago Woman's Educational Union 
 
 MRS. ELIZABETH BLANCHARD COOK, President 
 MRS. FREDERICA HOGE STRASBURGER, Secretary 
 
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 1896 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 1. Origin. In a letter addressed to the Vice Presi- 
 dent of the Chicago Woman's Educational Union, Mrs. 
 E. Strasburger Miller, dated April 3, 1894, Prof. David 
 Swing proposed a committee, consisting of members of 
 the Jewish, Catholic and Protestant bodies, for compiling 
 a book of Bible Selections for Schools. This committee 
 was duly appointed by the Educational Union and their 
 card follows this introduction. 
 
 " The book," wrote Prof. Swing, " ought not to be 
 large. It should be read over and over until the selec- 
 tions should be memorized." The more familiar they 
 become, the more will they be loved. 
 
 2. Selections. Teachers are ever ready to welcome 
 helps that are of the highest character, and at the same 
 time economize research and study. Hence Bible selec- 
 tions, examined and approved by persons of different 
 faiths, commend themselves to instructors, as portions 
 selected by one individual could not do. 
 
 3. Unison. The reading or recitation of Bible verses 
 in unison, by a number of pupils, with practice, becomes 
 both instructive and inspiring. And children who are 
 too young to read, will repeat simple selections after 
 their teachers, with delight. 
 
 4. Version. The version recognized when appeals in 
 courts are made to the Bible, by English law (which is the 
 basis of United States law generally) is the version from 
 which these selections are taken, because the public school 
 is established pre-eminently for the state. But all leading 
 versions are regarded as having some points of superior- 
 ity, and as being, in substance, essentially the same. 
 
 Italics in the body of the selections do not represent 
 emphasis; they are used to indicate words supplied by 
 
Introduction. 
 
 translators in order better to express the meaning con- 
 tained in original manuscripts. 
 
 5. Grades. This book is somewhat graded in its 
 arrangement. The earlier selections being better 
 adapted for the lower grades of the grammar school. 
 
 Although pupils never grow too old for these first 
 selections, the latter part of the book is better suited to 
 more mature minds. 
 
 6. Acknowledgments. For the charming literary 
 and poetic form in which the selections are printed, we are 
 indebted to the suggestion of the Professor of English 
 Literature in the University Extension Department of the 
 University of Chicago. Other statements and acknowl- 
 edgments will be found in the "Sketch." But the ladies 
 of the Educational Union hereby publicly thank all who 
 have so generously encouraged and assisted them in this 
 work. They especially desire to make grateful acknowl- 
 edgments to the members of the Editorial Committee 
 who have so wisely and continuously used their varied 
 and valuable endowments for the good of our Public 
 Schools. 
 
 The Educational System of the United States has a 
 strong and broad foundation in religion, morality and 
 knowledge. Its early record is true to law, to the wel- 
 fare of the state, of society, of the individual. We must 
 protect and improve this system bequeathed us by our 
 ancestors. If we limit it to a narrow and exclusively 
 material or secular system of instruction, "the result will 
 be deterioration of the National type " and the loss of 
 finer and firmer qualities which make citizens well-bal- 
 anced and symmetrical in character. Personal purity 
 and unselfish conduct thrive in those who are " alive in 
 all their faculties." 
 
 In behalf of the Chicago Woman's Educational 
 Union, ELIZABETH B. COOK, President, 
 
 FREDERICA H. STRASBURGER, Secretary. 
 
STATEMENT FROM THE COMMITTEE PRO- 
 POSED BY PROFESSOR SWING. 
 
 At the request of the Chicago Woman's Educational 
 Union the undersigned, who were named by the late 
 Prof. Swing as members of a Committee on the pro- 
 posed Scripture Reader for Public Schools, take great 
 pleasure in expressing their hearty approval of the work 
 which has been accomplished in that behalf through the 
 efforts of the Union. While, when requested, we have 
 freely made suggestions to the officers of the Union, and 
 have been glad to afford them any assistance which 
 seemed to be in our power, we are happy to state that 
 there has been slight occasion for formal action on our 
 part as an Editorial Committee. We have all been 
 extremely careful not to put ourselves in the position of 
 assuming to act as authorized representatives of the 
 various religious bodies to which we belong. 
 
 It is, however, our privilege to say that the intel- 
 ligence, prudence and wise and painstaking zeal with 
 which the work involved has been pursued by the 
 Chicago Woman's Educational Union, under the faith- 
 ful and earnest leadership of its President, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 B. Cook, merits the highest praise. Never aggressive, 
 never thrusting their own religious convictions upon 
 others, but appealing with like candor and sincerity to rep- 
 resentatives of all the leading forms of faith in this coun- 
 try, this Woman's Union has made progress, and promises 
 to secure results far in advance of anything else in the 
 same direction hitherto achieved or attempted. This 
 book is, however, not merely the book of the Educa- 
 tional Union. It may be truly said that the City of 
 
6 
 
 Statement. 
 
 Chicago herself (acting by many representatives) is the 
 maker of this Scripture Reader. It belongs, indeed, to 
 the whole country, for eminent representatives of the 
 different churches in many parts of the Union have par- 
 ticipated in the work of its compilation. 
 
 We therefore respectfully commend it to the favor- 
 able consideration of those for whom it has been pre- 
 pared. 
 
 CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1896. 
 
 Signed, 
 
;RN! 
 
 SKETCH OF THE WORK CONNECTED WITH 
 THE PREPARATION OF READINGS FROM 
 THE BIBLE SELECTED FOR SCHOOLS. 
 
 About five years ago, Prof. David Swing, in a conversation 
 with officers of the Chicago Woman's Educational Union, said 
 that any one who would prepare a book of desirable Scripture 
 Selections for schools, would win undying glory. And as the 
 beauties of Biblical literature passed in review before his poetic 
 and philosophical mind, he repeated with fervor, words from 
 the Psalms and other parts of the Bible which had been to him 
 teacher, guide, inspiration and message. 
 
 Time passed on, and the Union, in a quiet way, continued its 
 work, collecting information relative to the proper scope of the 
 Public Schools. The World's Fair found the Woman s Union 
 represented in the Educational department of the Manufac- 
 tures' Building, where its committee met daily, throngs of the 
 learned and unlearned, the religious and the irreligious, the 
 rich and the poor, the citizens of our city and her neighbors 
 and friends residing in various parts of the United States or in 
 foreign countries. Nearly sixty thousand of these people left 
 their autographs as a guarantee of their appreciation of the 
 importance of the reading of the Bible in Schools, and multi- 
 tudes took our literature with them for perusal. 
 
 Educators went home to write of the importance ot develop- 
 ing the threefold nature of the child, and to reaffirm their 
 approval of the ordinance of 1787, that great charter of liberty 
 under which the schools of Chicago claim the right to be ; and 
 now from the North, South, East and West come suggestions 
 and helps for the proper instruction of school children in re- 
 ligion, morality and knowledge. 
 
 The World's Fair passed, the work of the Educational 
 Union and its constituency was epitomized by the hand of its 
 early friend, the illustrious President of the World's Congresses, 
 Hon. Charles C. Bonney, as follows: 
 
 "To THE EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITIES IN CHARGE OF THE 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOLS: 
 
 " The undersigned believe that they express a general convic- 
 tion of the intelligent and patriotic public when they say that there 
 
ii Readings from the Bible. 
 
 is an urgent need of better and more earnest instruction of the 
 rising generation in the fundamental principles of morals and 
 religion, which are indispensable to the well-being of society. 
 We also believe that all thoughtful and candid persons must 
 admit that there is a very great number of children in our 
 country who, if not instructed in those principles in the public 
 schools, will not, as a matter of fact, be instructed in them at 
 all. We must, therefore, choose between such instruction in 
 those schools or its absence during the formative period of the 
 character and conduct of the child. 
 
 It also appears to us that the experience of the last twenty- 
 five years, and the present state of the country, render the present 
 a very auspicious time for an endeavor to carry into effect, 
 more fully than has been done heretofore, the crowning provision 
 of the great ordinance of 1787, "that religion, morality and 
 knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happi- 
 ness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall for- 
 ever be encouraged." 
 
 There has been no failure to teach knowledge merely. What 
 we need is more efficient instruction in the fundamental prin- 
 ciples of character and conduct which are embraced in the gen- 
 eral terms of religion and morality. Religion, in the sense of 
 doctrines and creeds, belongs to the churches; but religion in 
 the sense of high character and good citizenship, also belongs 
 to a proper system of education. 
 
 We therefore propose that the question of proper instruction 
 in such fundamentals of religion and morality be entirely sep- 
 arated from all other questions relating to the system of public 
 schools; and that Catholics and Protestants, Jews and Gentiles, 
 in a word, all good citizens, unite in recommending that the 
 reading book, consisting of selections from the sacred Scrip- 
 tures in use in the schools of Toronto, Canada, with the ap- 
 proval of both the Catholic and Protestant churches, or sim- 
 ilar selections, be put in use in the public schools of this coun- 
 try without delay. 
 
 As the whole religious world united, without objection, in 
 the universal prayer to ' Our Father who art in Heaven,' dur- 
 ing the Worlu's Keligious Congresses of 1893, we believe that 
 all right-minded classes of the American people would now 
 agree on the daily reading in the public schools of suitable 
 selections from the sacred Scriptures, and the recitation of that 
 prayer, and the two great commandments on which hang all 
 the law and the prophets, thereby fixing in the minds of the 
 children the vital, spiritual principles on which good citizenship 
 and the future welfare of our country so largely depend." 
 
Sketch of the IVork. iii 
 
 This memorial has been widely approved as expressive of 
 popular sentiment. 
 
 The names of a few residents of Chicago who personally 
 endorse this petition are as follows : 
 
 Charles C. Bonney, President of the World's Congresses of 
 the Columbian Exposition. 
 
 Dr. Wm. R. Harper, President of the University of Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Simeon Gilbert, Assistant Editor, Times-Herald. 
 
 John B. Strasburger, Attorney, Ex-Superintendent of 
 Schools and Principal of High School, South Chicago. 
 
 Wm. Carey, Member, Constitutional Convention of 111. For- 
 merly U. S. District Attorney in Utah. 
 
 Z. S. Holbrook, Proprietor Bibliotheca Sacra. 
 
 Rev. Theodore N. Morrison, Rector of the Church of the 
 Epiphany. 
 
 Wm. A. Amberg, Ex-President Columbus Club. 
 
 Frances Healy, Ex-Instructor in Chicago Public Schools. 
 
 Susan Gale Cooke, Late Secretary, Woman's Department 
 Columbian Exposition. 
 
 Eliza Allen Starr, Artist and Philanthropist. 
 
 Jane Addams, Superintendent, Hull House. 
 
 Mrs. Henry Solomon. 
 
 Mrs. Henry L. Frank. 
 
 Mrs. Mary B. Little. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Edward P. Goodwin, Pastor, First Congrega- 
 tional Church. 
 
 Rev. Dr. J. Henry Barrows, Pastor, First Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 Prof. Samuel Ives Curtiss, Chicago Theological Seminary. 
 
 Prof. Graham Taylor, Chicago Theological Seminary. 
 
 Dr. John M. Coulter, President, Lake Forest University. 
 
 Hon. W. J. Onahan, Ex-Comptroller, City of Chicago. 
 
 Gen. Geo. W. Smith, Ex-President, Union League Club. 
 
 Dr. P. S. Henson, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Chicago. 
 
 Dr. Henry Wade Rogers, President, Northwestern Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 M. M. Mangasarian, President, Society for Ethical Culture. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Carlos Martyn, Late Pastor, Sixth Presbyterian 
 Church, Chicago. 
 
 Rt. Rev. Chas. Edward Cheney, Bishop, Grace Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas, Pastor, People's Church. 
 
 Rev. Dr. H. W. Bolton, Pastor, South Park Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church. 
 
iv Readings from the Bible. 
 
 E. Mandel. 
 
 C. M. Henderson. 
 
 John. V. Farwell, Jr. 
 
 Ezra A. Cook. 
 
 C. H. Case. 
 
 W. P. Rend. 
 
 Marshall Field. 
 
 Rev. Dr. J. L. Withrow, Pastor, Third Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Cordial letters approving the sentiments of the Memorial 
 have been receivedfrom Bishop Sam'l Fallows, quoted on p.iSg, 
 Dr. Paul Carus, Miss Frances E. Willard, and many others. 
 
 We number among the members of the Educational Union 
 the names of MesdamesC H. Case, J. B. Hobbs, Emily D. Smith, 
 Matilda B. Carse, and others of Chicago's foremost women. 
 
 Mrs. A. V. H. Wakeman writes: "In studying other religions 
 I have found that the core and essence of each and every one 
 of them is contained in our Scriptures." 
 
 In a clear, brief way, the Times-Herald of November 17, 
 1895, sketched the history of this book. We quote a few words: 
 "Eminent representatives of nearly all religious beliefs have 
 been giving their best thought to the compilation of a little vol- 
 ume of Scripture selections which would be appropriate for use 
 in the public schools of Chicago. Replying to the appeal of 
 the Chicago Woman's Educational Union, they have selected 
 passages from the Bible for such a book and, in addition, 
 have offered suggestions of great value bearing on its prep- 
 aration." 
 
 Adapted as the Bible is, to persons of all ages and climates 
 and languages, in every possible condition in which they could 
 be placed, prosperity, aaversity, health, sickness and tempta- 
 tion, childhood, youth, mature life and old age, for the family, 
 the church, society and civil government; it is evident that 
 some passages teach duties to country more directly than others 
 and hence are more appropriate for children in schools main- 
 tained by state funds, primarily for its benefit. 
 
 In compliance with the wise suggestion of a member of the 
 Chicago Board of Education, adopted by the Chicago Woman's 
 Educational Union, as stated by the Times-Herald quoted 
 above, the selections used in this book were furnished by 
 clergymen of different denominations. They were carefully 
 arranged in form of a trial book of selections, which, after being 
 approved by the Educational Union, was submitted to clergy- 
 men, educators, ethical teachers and leaders of the unchurched 
 masses for revision, and their suggestions have been considered 
 by the committee having this work in charge. The public will be 
 
Sketch of the IVork. 
 
 glad to read quotations from a few of the many persons and 
 publications which have come to our notice. 
 
 First. FROM NON-CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS AND THINKERS : 
 
 Dr. Paul Carus, with well trained brain and philanthropic 
 heart, gives to the unchurched masses wise counsel in regard 
 to the reading of Bible selections in schools. In the Monist, 
 July, 1894, he writes (editorially): 
 
 " In the interest of a strict impartiality toward all religions, 
 ordinances are in force in some of the United States which for- 
 bid the reading of the Bible in Public Schools. Can the inter- 
 diction of the most important collection of sacred literature 
 that exists be called liberty ? True, the idea is not to let the 
 children be impressed with any one of the various sectarian 
 interpretations of the Scriptures; but shall our young men and 
 women for that reason remain entirely ignorant of the contents 
 of the Bible ? The consequence is that in this country, where 
 the mass of people are unchurched more than fifty per cent, 
 have never read the Bible, and truly we might rather omit 
 Homer or banish Shakespeare, than the History of Israel, the 
 Psalms and the Gospels. I know the difficulty lies in the sec- 
 tarian spirit in which the various sects want the Bible read, and 
 its miracles literally believed, but why not let the churches 
 give their own interpretations in their Sunday schools, while the 
 public educational institutions simply give an exposition of 
 facts?" 
 
 Dr. M. M. Mangasarian, the beloved president of the Chi- 
 cago Society of Ethical Culture, writes : " I believe in resisting 
 with enthusiasm the secularization of the state. I believe in 
 making state and schools more religious, more ethical and 
 more sacred rather than more irreligious and secular : for the 
 education that leaves the soul asleep is a degradation." 
 
 Prof. Felix Adler, in his book, " Moral Instruction of Chil- 
 dren," p. 109, states that "The narrative of the Bible is fairly 
 saturated with the moral spirit. The moral issues are every- 
 where in the forefront. Duty, guilt and its punishment, the 
 conflict of conscience with inclination, are the leading themes. 
 The Hebrew people seem to have been endowed with what 
 may be called a 'Moral Genius,' and especially did they 
 emphasize the filial and fraternal duties to an extent hardly 
 equaled elsewhere. Now it is precisely these duties that must 
 be impressed on young children, and hence the biblical stories 
 present us with the very material we require. They cannot, in 
 this respect, be replaced. 
 
vi Readings from the Bible. 
 
 There is no other literature in the world that offers what is 
 equal to them in value for the particular object we have now in 
 view." 
 
 The views of Thos. H. Huxley, concerning the reading of 
 the Bible in the public schools, as found in his essay entitled 
 " School Boards, What They Can Do, and What They May 
 Do." (1870) are stated as follows: 
 
 " The boys and girls for whose education the school boards 
 have to provide, have not merely to discharge domestic duties, 
 but each of them is a member of a social and political organ- 
 ization, of great complexity and has, in future life to fit himself 
 into that organization, or be crushed by it. To this end it is 
 surely needful, not only that they should be made acquainted 
 with the elementary laws of conduct, but that their affections 
 should be trained, so as to love with all their hearts that con- 
 duct which tends to the attainment of the highest good for 
 themselves and their fellow men, and to hate with all their 
 hearts that opposite course of action which is fraught with evil. 
 I have always been strongly in favor of secular education, in 
 the sense of education without theology ; but I must confess I 
 have been no less seriously perplexed to know by what prac- 
 tical measures the religious feeling, which is the essential basis 
 of conduct, was to be kept up, in the present utterly chaotic 
 state of opinion on these matters, without the use of the Bible. 
 The Pagan moralists lack life and color, and even the noble 
 Stoic, Marcus Antonius, is too high and refined for the ordinary 
 child. Take the Bible as a whole, make the severest deduc- 
 tions which fair criticism can dictate for shortcomings and 
 positive errors; eliminate, as a sensible lay teacher would do, 
 if left to himself, all that it is not desirable for children to 
 occupy themselves with; and there still remains in this old 
 literature a vast residuum of moral beauty and grandeur. And 
 then consider the great historical fact that, for three centuries 
 this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and 
 noblest in English history; that it has become the natural Epic 
 of Britain, and is as familiar to the noble and simple, from 
 John-o'-Groat's House, to Land's End, as Dante and Tasso once 
 were to the Italians ; that it is written in the noblest and purest 
 English, and abounds in exquisite beauties of mere literary 
 form; and, finally, that it forbids the veriest hind, who never 
 left his village, to be ignorant of the existence of other coun- 
 tries and other civilizations, and of a ^reat past, stretching back 
 to the furthest limits of the oldest nations of the world. By the 
 study of what other book could children be so much humanized 
 and made to feel that each figure in that vast historical proces- 
 
Sketch of the Work. vii 
 
 sion fills, like themselves, but a momentary space in the inter- 
 val between two eternities; and earns the blessings or the curses 
 of all time, according to its effort to do good and hate evil, 
 even as they also are earning their payment for their work? 
 
 " On the whole, then, I am in favor of reading the Bible, 
 with such grammatical, geographical and historical explana- 
 tions by a lay teacher as may be needful, with rigid exclusion 
 of any further theological teaching than that contained in the 
 Bible itself. And in stating what this is, the teacher would do 
 well not to go beyond the precise words of the Bible. * 
 Some of the pleasantest recollections of my childhood are 
 connected with the voluntary study of an ancient Bible which 
 belonged to my grandmother. There were splendid pictures 
 in it, to be sure; but I recollect little or nothing about them, 
 save a portrait of a high priest in his vestments. What come 
 vividly back on my mind are remembrances of my delight in 
 the histories of Joseph and David, and my keen appreciation of 
 the chivalrous kindness of Abraham in dealing with Lot. Like 
 a sudden flash there returns back upon me my utter scorn of 
 the pettifogging meanness of Jacob, and my sympathetic grief 
 over the heart-broken lamentation of the cheated Esau. ' Hast 
 thou not a blessing forme also, O my father?' And I see as in 
 a cloud, pictures of the grand phantasmagoria of the Book of 
 Revelation." 
 
 Is there any perfectly honest and self-sacrificingly noble, 
 nullifidian patriot who cannot welcome the Bible into the pub- 
 lic schools on grounds expressed by one of these leaders of 
 thought? 
 
 Second. FROM EDUCATORS. 
 
 What opinion can be more valuable than that of an honest 
 instructor who has for many years and through varied experi- 
 ences maintained his position and proved his right to know 
 what young people need. 
 
 Sabra L. Sargent, Ferry Hall, writes : ''I have had sev- 
 eral years' experience as principal of public schools from which 
 the Bible was excluded. I have also held the same position in 
 schools where its use was allowed. I believe that the teacher 
 who looks upon development of character as the end of her work 
 feels deprived of her strongest force when the Bible is taken 
 from her. It is a sin against children to deprive them of the 
 greatest moral power of the world at that period of their lives 
 when they need it most." 
 
 Mrs. L. L. Flower, recent member Chicago Board of Educa- 
 tion, Trustee of Illinois State University, writes: "I hope the 
 
viii Readings from the Bible. 
 
 Readings from the Bible for schools will be adopted, not as a 
 general reading book, but as a short exercise for five minutes 
 each day, impressing the texts and principles on the pupils. 
 I am more and more convinced of the necessity of some more 
 moral and religious training for children. 
 
 "By religious I do not mean sectarian ; but the general reli- 
 gious truths we all accept. It is well enough to say 'parents 
 should teach religion.' So they should. But they don't, and 
 too many are ignorant and untrained themselves. The school 
 should supply, as far as possible, for the good of the common- 
 wealth, the ethical and moral training: the parents can't or 
 won't, so I trust your book will be a success." 
 
 Rt. Rev. John J. Keane, Rector of the Catholic University, 
 Washington, D. C.. writes in a personal letter to the President 
 of the Chicago Woman's Educational Union: "The Catholic 
 Church believes, as every intelligent Christian must, that reli- 
 gion must form an integral part in education and that the 
 school is one of the principal fields of education and that there- 
 fore, religion ought to tell in the school." 
 
 The Presidents of the great Chicago Universities write of the 
 book of selections as follows: President Wm. R. Harper of the 
 University of Chicago: ' It gives me pleasure to recommend 
 most heartily the publication of the book of Scripture Selec- 
 tions for use in Public Schools. I AM CONVINCED THAT EVERY 
 
 CAUSE HAS SOMETHING TO GAIN FROM ITS PUBLICATION, AND 
 
 NO CAUSE ANYTHING TO LOSE." (Capitals are the Editor's.) 
 
 President Henry Wade Rogers or the Northwestern Univer- 
 sity, at The Sunset Club, Chicago, December 20, '94, said: 
 "Speaking for myself, I cannot but deplore the fact that the 
 book which has shaped the laws, the civilization, the literature, 
 the music and the art of Europe and America, cannot be read 
 in the public schools of Chicago. The schools of the 
 state can and should show that respect for religion which is 
 implied in reading from the word of God." In a per- 
 
 sonal letter to the President of the Educational Union he 
 writes: " I most unreservedly endorse this work 
 believing that the principles of morality should be thus im- 
 pressed on the minds of our youth to their own good and the 
 good of the commonwealth. * I can see no possible 
 harm from the use of such a book, and I believe that all good 
 people should favor its introduction into our schools." 
 
 President John M. Coulter, Lake Forest University, writes : 
 "Your work has been admirably done, and any objection to the 
 use of such a book in the schools can only come from a vision 
 which is narrower than any denominational creed. It is of 
 
Sketch of the Work. ix 
 
 supreme importance that the noblest sentiments be constantly 
 brought to the attention of children, and to banish a book which 
 contains by far the greatest collection of them, is educational 
 stultification." 
 
 Prof. Richard G. Moulton, professor of English Literature 
 in the University Extension Department of the University of 
 Chicago has rendered valuable service in suggesting the style 
 which the selections should take for the largest results in the 
 schools. He writes: "With your aim I heartily sympathize." 
 
 Third. RELIGIOUS PEOPLE. 
 
 A. The Hebrews. 
 
 Rabbi K. Kohler writes: " I cannot but express my sympa- 
 thy with the movement. It offers to teachers a safe guide for 
 the opening exercises. It is broad, universal and elevating, 
 and will be much better than any indiscriminate selection from 
 the Bible by teachers." 
 
 Rabbi H. Percira Mendez and Rabbi M. Mielziner by con- 
 tributing to a similar work have indicated their approval of the 
 general plan of readings from the Bible for schools. 
 
 Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch expresses his appreciation of the 
 Bible in the following words : "I do not yield to its most de- 
 voted lover in reverance for the good book." 
 
 Rabbi A. Norden, Congregation of the North Side, writes: 
 " Moral and ethical training should alway accompany secular 
 education. I therefore favor the introduction of such a book 
 in our public schools, but the instruction must never be of a 
 denominational character." 
 
 Noble Jewish women also have given their approval of this 
 movement, and who in business circles, could be more repre- 
 sentative of the Hebrew people than Emanuel Mandel who 
 expressed himself as happy to serve this cause by signing the 
 memorial adding" Such reading will not hurt anyone." 
 
 B. Evangelical or Protestant Christianity hails this move- 
 ment and rejoices in the general approval of the Book of Scrip- 
 ture selections. 
 
 Dr. Edward P. Goodwin writes : " I have examined with 
 much interest the selections from the Bible prepared for use in 
 our public schools. I think them most excellent. Indeed I 
 do not see how anyone who feels interested in having our youth 
 established in habits of truth, purity, uprightness, unselfishness 
 and goodness, can possibly fail to see the value of such high 
 standards as these selections offer, continually set before the 
 mind and heart of those who are to shape and determine the 
 
Readings from the Bible. 
 
 future of our country. What our city and our land preemi- 
 nently needs is men and women of the type that such standards 
 go to make. And it ought not to be an objection to them but 
 on the contrary, a weighty reason for their approval that they 
 come to us with an authority that the originators of our free 
 institutions, as well as of oitr system of public education, held to 
 be divine. ' If we and our children will obey its 
 
 behests it will anchor us in those divine conditions of truth and 
 righteousness and virtue which are the supreme hope of a free 
 people." 
 
 Dr. Thos. C. Hall writes the Educational Union as follows : 
 "It has been a great pleasure for me to look through the 
 selections made from the Bible and intendea for the use of 
 public schools, should it be possible to secure such Bible read- 
 ings in them. It is difficult to see how anyone can object to the 
 reading of such selections as are here gathered together. It is 
 a melancholy reflection to think how much of the noblest liter- 
 ature the world has ever known should be a region left in mists 
 and darkness for hundreds of thousands because the Bible has 
 not been made familiar to them. And English literature rests 
 so largely upon it that without a competent knowledge of the 
 English Bible, Milton, Tennyson and Goldsmith are locks 
 without a key. Simply as a key to English literature, the Bible 
 ought to be studied in our public schools. No student of the 
 marvellous beauties of Arabic literature would dare undertake 
 the study of that literature without some competent knowledge 
 of the Koran, and surely if we set our students of Arabic liter- 
 ature to the study of the Koran there is much more reason that 
 students of English literature should know something of the 
 English Bible which has given to our modern language some 
 of its highest inspirations." 
 
 Rev. W. T. Meloy states that : " High education in matters 
 moral may be left to the church, but the state is bound to give 
 all its citizens a chance to learn the rudiments of morality. 
 * When we admit that the state should provide for 
 the morals of its citizens, and yet demand that the Bible the 
 text book on morality be removed from the public schools we 
 are illogical." 
 
 Bishop Samuel Fallows writes, voicing this general senti- 
 ment : " I have looked over with very great interest the selec- 
 tions which have been made from the Bible for use in public 
 schools. I can most heartily commend them as being judiciously 
 chosen, and in every way adapted to carry out the laudable 
 design of the Chicago Woman's Educational Association. I 
 look upon the effort made to put these selections in the schools 
 
Sketch of the Work. xi 
 
 as one of the most important movements of the day, and feel 
 more than delighted that such unanimity of opinion exists 
 regarding its value and benefit." 
 
 Dr. Josiah Strong, of New York, President Evangelical 
 Alliance, Drs. F. W. Gunsaulus, T. C. Hall, Theo. N. Morrison, 
 H. W. Thomas, Theo. F. Wright, J. N. Barrows, President C. 
 A. Blanchard and Prof. Herrick Johnson, have shown their 
 appreciation of the work by making selections for it, while 
 many others, such as Drs. J. L. Withrow and N. D. Hillis, have 
 urged its claims from the pulpit. 
 
 C. The Catholic Church. 
 
 While our beloved Prof. David Swing named a committee, 
 composed of Catholic, Jew, Protestant, the illustrious advocate 
 of good-will to man and a representative of the Educational 
 Union, to attend to the numerous and important minor questions 
 connected with this book, the scholarly Archbishop, P. A. 
 Feehan, named its real compiler when he said that " Chicago 
 had sufficient talent to prepare its own book of selections." 
 
 CHICAGO, in the person of many of its foremost clergymen, 
 assisted by editors and other professional men, also by its noble 
 and intellectually trained women, its Mayors, members of the 
 Board of Education and other officers, its business men and its 
 metropolitan press, is the real editor and director of this 
 enterprise. 
 
 The Catholic Church may well be pleased with the thought 
 of their Archbishop, which resulted in sending the Educational 
 Union forth to secure the results of the experience and wisdom 
 of Chicago for the public school children. Following his ex- 
 ample, Drs. Riordan, McGuire and other Chicago clergymen 
 contributed helpful words. Outside of our city, the interest 
 and courtesy of Monsignor Satolli has been a real source of 
 refreshment. He wrote, after examining the original volume, 
 to the president of the Educational Union as follows : "It gives 
 me sincere pleasure to see that day by day the persuasion is 
 spreading, that the education of the young without some 
 definite element of morality and religion must result in failure 
 so far as the real usefulness of education is concerned." 
 
 Cardinal Gibbons wrote from his Baltimore residence, 
 among other important statements, the following : " The men 
 and women of our day who are educated in our public schools 
 will, I am sure, be much better themselves and will also be 
 able to transmit to their children an inheritance of true virtue 
 and deep morality if at school they are brought to the knowl- 
 edge of Biblical facts and teachings." 
 
xii Readings from the Bible. 
 
 After the examination of this book Archbishop Ireland, of 
 St. Paul, said : " I sympathize with this movement in every 
 respect." 
 
 Want of space prevents our quoting from others whose 
 names occupy places of honor in the church, who rejoice to 
 endorse this movement. 
 
 Fourth. BUSINESS MEN. 
 
 Those giants in mercantile and industrial pursuits, whose 
 heads and hands grapple the practical questions of profit and 
 loss with magical success, also see the key to larger beneficial 
 results in our schools by the cordial use of this volume of 
 readings from the Bible. Among these grand men one may 
 recognize the names of Marshall Field, J. V. Farwell, Jr., C. H. 
 Case, William A. Amberg, W. P. Rend, C. M. Henderson, Z. S. 
 Holbrook, and others, no less distinguished. 
 
 Fifth. THE DAILY PAPERS. 
 
 Of the extremely valuable assistance of our Metropolitan 
 Press, what can be said? The papers speak for themselves. 
 In addition to their many recent utterances, in behalf of this 
 movement, notice the following quotations from their dignified 
 editorial columns concerning the memorial which is found on 
 pages i and 2. 
 
 " There is nothing in that prayer (the Lord's Prayer) that 
 cannot be made the aspiration of every soul that believes in 
 God and all children believe in God ; they cannot but believe 
 in him. Atheism is a warping of the soul that is not a disease 
 of childhood. And there is no aspiration of that prayer that 
 does not tend to the betterment of mind and body." 7 he Inter 
 Ocean. 
 
 "The petition declares, what few will now deny, that 'reli- 
 gion in the sense of doctrines and creeds belongs to the church; 
 but religion in the sense of high character and good citizenship 
 also belongs to a proper system of education. 1 The position is 
 so well taken that it disarms all except the most captious criti- 
 cism. * * ' There seems to be no good or valid reason 
 why the schools may not teach morals and religion without 
 trenching upon the domain of the churches or of sectarianism." 
 The Record. 
 
 'Such a memorial should carry great weight with it when 
 presented to the Board of Education for adoption, as it will be. 
 unquestionably in pursuance of the laudable purpose to free 
 the schools from dogma and to avoid trenching upon creeds 
 and offending religious denominations the school authorities 
 
Sketch of the IVork. xiii 
 
 have swung clear to the other extreme and have stripped the 
 process of education of everything that tends to inculcate hon- 
 esty, honor, morality, and the qualities of good citizenship, 
 which certainly are essentials of the highest purposes of educa- 
 tion. The Board of Education should give this memorial im- 
 mediate and favorable consideration when it is presented, 
 'thereby fixing in the minds of the children the vital, spiritual 
 principles on which good citizenship and the future welfare of 
 our country so largely depend.' There is no higher responsi- 
 bility resting upon Boards of Education and teachers than 
 that of making good citizens out of the rising generation. So 
 far as lies in their power, a praiseworthy work is being done in 
 the schools, looking to a higher standard of patriotic citizenship. 
 Now let us have something done for morality and high personal 
 character. This once accomplished, patriotism will follow of 
 necessity." The Tribune. 
 
 The Tribune has recently (February 16, 1896) sent out, edi- 
 torially, ardent words in commendation of this book. It states: 
 "Anything in the domain of religion which originated with Prof. 
 Swing, and has received the approval of men so widely differ- 
 ing in their creeds as the Rev. Dr. Barrows, Rabbi Felsenthal, 
 Cardinal Gibbons, and Mr. Mangasarian, must attract favorable 
 attention, not only in Chicago but throughout the Christian 
 world." 
 
 "The book is precisely what might have been expected from 
 a corps of editors of such learning, wisdom and experience. 
 They have without doubt produced a collection of Bible Read- 
 ings rich in morality and virtue and in the elements of all re- 
 ligion. * * It breathes everywhere the love of God and 
 the love of man. * Its literary merit also is so con- 
 spicuous it cannot fail to excite universal admiration." The 
 Tribune. 
 
 "While there will doubtless be opposition to the introduction 
 of the text-book of biblical excerpts into the public schools, 
 common candor impels the statement that it is difficult to dis- 
 cern upon what argument such antagonism could be based. 
 Surely a compilation of scriptural verses that embody the 
 highest moral precepts, free from any suggestion of dogma or 
 creed, collected by such men as Dr. J. H. Barrows, W. J. 
 Onahan and C. C. Bonney, and published in a neat little text- 
 book for short daily readings in the public schools, either indi- 
 vidually or in unison, could not be objectionable to Protestants, 
 Catholics, Jews, Buddhists or Agnostics." Times- Herald, Feb. 
 16, 1896. 
 
 "We cannot make men good by state laws or city ordinances. 
 
xiv Readings from the Bible. 
 
 All intelligent people recognize the need of moral training to 
 fix the idea of right and wrong in the youthful mind." 
 
 "The Bible furnishes the best ground-work for a perfect 
 scheme of ethics. Its teachings are the basis of law and order. 
 The laws that have been passed for the government of men 
 and for the protection of individual rights are imperfect and 
 inhuman unless they conform to the general spirit of the teach- 
 ings of Christ. " 
 
 "There is no tenable objection to the biblical text-book on 
 morals. Any teacher who would misuse its precepts or take 
 advantage of the book to instill any denominational dogmas 
 into the minds of the pupils is not worthy to teach in the public 
 schools." Times-Herald, February 16, 1896. 
 
 What more need be said? Yet testimonies come flooding in 
 upon us from many parts of the United States and from beyond 
 the sea; from the records of the past and from the electric flashes 
 of the present. 
 
 Pope Pius the VI in 1778 wrote commending the Arch- 
 bishop of Florence who had just issued a new translation of the 
 Scriptures: " You judge exceedingly well, that the faithful 
 should be excited to the reading of the Holy Scriptures, for 
 these are the most abundant sources which ought to be open to 
 every one, to draw from them purity of morals and of doctrine, 
 to eradicate errors which are so widely disseminated in these 
 corrupt times." 
 
 Dr. E. D. Morris writes: "The public school, if it is to 
 prove a blessing, must instruct its pupils in sound morals and 
 in religious truth as well as give shape and vigor to their intel- 
 lectual life. * * No teacher, no human system or culture 
 can for a moment compare with the Bible itself, without note 
 or comment, as a source and fount of religious knowledge and 
 of moral quickening. On a fair trial of public 
 opinion only a very small minority of the patrons of our school 
 system would be found to be seriously or conscientiously averse 
 to the right reading of this book in our schools. 
 The peace and comfort of our homes, the integrity and good 
 order of society, the maintenance of civil government, even the 
 preservation of our type of civilization, depend very largely 
 on the training of the young at school as well as at home, 
 in that one volume from which the best elements in our modern 
 life have so obviously flowed." 
 
 " Our Republic in its constitution and laws is of heavenly 
 origin. It was not borrowed from Greece or Rome. Where 
 we borrowed a ray from Greece or Rome, stars and suns were 
 borrowed from another source, the Bible." Dr. Lyman Beecher. 
 
Sketch of the Work. xv 
 
 " My hope for the perpetuity of our institutions has rested 
 upon Bible morality. It is an element on which free 
 government may be maintained through all time." Judge 
 McLean. 
 
 " The religion of the Bible is not a theory or system of 
 thought. It is a view of life." Bishop Spaulding. 
 
 "All great ages have been ages of belief." Emerson. 
 
 "What can be done with a people who are their own mas- 
 ters, if they are not submissive to Deity?" 
 
 " Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot." 
 De Tocqueville. 
 
 " Force without is despotism. Force within is religion." 
 Abbott. 
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
 TITLES AND REFERENCES. 
 
 SELECTION. PAGE. 
 
 I. The Two Great Commandments. Mark 12:30-31 17 
 
 II. Young Children Blessed. Mark 10:13-16 - 17 
 
 III. Morning and Evening Meditations. Psalm 3:5; 
 
 139:17, 18; 5:3, 4; 139:23,24; 4:8; 5:11 - - 18 
 
 IV. Rewards of Diligence. Prov. 10:4; 12:24; 21:5; 
 
 22:29; 28:19-20 - - 19 
 
 V. The Lord's Prayer. Matt. 6:9-13 - 20 
 
 VI. The Lord My Protector. Psalm 23 21 
 VII. Gems From Proverbs. Prov. 10:19; 10:21-23; 
 
 28:19-20; 12:19-22; 11:11, 12, 18; 11:1 21 
 
 VIII. A Contrast. Psalm i - 23 
 
 IX.. A Short Story. Eccl. 9:14, 15 23 
 
 X. Depart from Evil and do Good. Psalm 34:11-22 24 
 
 XI. Sentiments. Eccl. 11:6; 11:1-2; 11:7; 11:4; 9:18 25 
 
 XII. Proverbs. Prov. 22:1-6, 9, 10 25 
 
 XIII. A Patient, Forgiving, Generous Father. Luke 
 
 15:10-15, 17-24 26 
 
 XIV. Protection and Deliverance. Psalm 34:1-10 - 27 
 XV. Words of Cheer. Psalm 46:1-3; Isaiah 26:2-4; 
 
 41:10 28 
 
 XVI. Joyous Spring. Solomon's Song 2:11-13 - 29 
 XVII. Reward of Benevolence. Psalm 41:1-2; 131:1; 
 
 Isaiah 32:8 - 29 
 
 XVIII. Gratitude. Psalm 100 - 30 
 
 XIX. Man, God's Representative on Earth. Psalm 8 30 
 
 XX. The Ten Commandments. Ex. 20:3-17 - -31 
 
 XXL The King of Glory. Psalm 24:1-5, 7-10 33 
 
 XXII. Causes for Thanksgiving. Psalm 147:1, 3, 4, 5-9, 
 
 11-18 - - 33 
 
 ii 
 
12 Contents. 
 
 SELECTION. PAGE. 
 
 XXIII. The Blessed. Matt. 5:3-12 - 35 
 
 XXIV. Rewards of Obedience. Prov. 3:1-6 - 35 
 XXV. The Voice of the Lord. Psalm 29:1-5, 7, 8, 11 36 
 
 XXVI. Joseph's Dreams. Gen. 37:3-14 - 37 
 
 XXVII. Joseph in Trouble. Gen. 37:15-24. - 38 
 
 XXVIII. Joseph Sold into Slavery. Gen. 37:25-36 39 
 
 XXIX. Pharaoh's Dreams. Gen. 41:1-16 - - 40 
 
 XXX. The Interpretation of the Dreams. Gen. 
 
 41:17-36 - 42 
 
 XXXI. Joseph in Honor. Gen. 41:38-45 - 43 
 
 XXXII. The Famine in Egypt. Gen. 41:46-57 - 44 
 
 XXXIII. Joseph's Brethren Go to Egypt. Gen. 42:3-6, 
 
 8-9, 17-25 - 45 
 
 XXXIV. Joseph Makes Himself Known to his Breth- 
 
 ren. Gen. 43:1-2, 13-14, 16-17,27-28; 45:4, 
 
 9-11,25-28 - - 47 
 XXXV. Jacob and His Family Live in Egypt. Gen. 
 
 47:1, 5-6, 7-10; 50:1, 15-22 48 
 
 XXXVI. Heroic Aims, i Tim. 6: 6-12 - 50 
 XXX VI I. A Father's Instruction to His Son. Prov. 
 
 4:3-25- - 50 
 
 XXXVIII. Help the Poor Gladly. Deut. 15:7-8, 10, n 52 
 
 XXXIX. Humility. Luke 14:7-11 - 53 
 
 XL. The Righteous Man. Psalm 15. - 53 
 
 XLI. What Shall the Harvest Be? Gal. 6:7-9. - 54 
 
 XLII. Gracious Words. Isaiah 32:17; 54:10 - 54 
 
 XLIII. Justice. Psalm 9:7-10, 18 54 
 
 XLIV. A Hymn of Thanksgiving. Psalm 146 - 55 
 
 XLV. A Statesman's Supplication. I Kings 8:57,58 56 
 
 XLVI. Ancient Laws. Ex. 22:1-3, 22, 23, 25; 23:1-2, 
 
 23:7-9; Deut. 24:14, 15 - 56 
 
 XLVI I. Idle Words. Matt. 12:34-37. Psalm 119:163 57 
 
 XLV I II. Proverbs. Prov. 20:1, 3-7, 9-11 58 
 
 XLIX. Pure Religion. James 3:26, 27 - 59 
 
 L. Right Thoughts. Phil. 4:8 - -59 
 
 LI. Sin Results in Sorrow. Hosea 4:1-7 59 
 
 LI I. The New Law. Matt. 5:43-48 60 
 
Contents. 13 
 
 SELECTION. PAGE. 
 
 LIII. A Wakeful Protector. Psalm 121 60 
 
 LIV. Praise. Psalm 150; 113:3 - - 61 
 
 LV. The Great Commandment. Deut. 6:5-7 62 
 LVI. Solemn and Joyful Thoughts for the New 
 
 Year. Psalm 90:1, 2, 4, 9, 10, 12 ,14-17 - 62 
 LVII. Wonders of Nature. Job 36:26-28, 37:5-13, 
 
 14-16, 18, 22-23 - -63 
 
 LVIII. Proverbs. Prov. 27:1-12 - 65 
 LVIX. The Heavens Above and the Law Within. 
 
 Psalm 19:1-4, 6-19 - - 66 
 LX. Love's Faithfulness: Wisdom's Results. Prov. 
 
 3:n-35 67 
 
 LXI. Recognition of our Ruler. Psalm 65 69 
 LXII. The Sower, the Seed and the Earth. Matt. 
 
 13:3-9; 13:18-23 .... 70 
 LXIII. Laws of Righteousness. Lev. 19:30-37; Zech. 
 
 8:16-17 71 
 
 LXIV. Contrasts. Prov. 11:1-14 - 72 
 LXV. Confession and Contrition. Psalm 51:1-2, 
 
 10-17 - - 74 
 
 LXVI. The Source of Help. Jer. 17:5-11, 14 75 
 
 LXVII. The Call to Righteousness. Matt. 9:10-13 - 76 
 
 LXVIII. Proverbs. Prov. 15:1-16 - 76 
 
 LXIX. Practical Instruction. Prov. 15:17-33 - 78 
 
 LXX. Our Best Friend. Psalm 145 - * 79 
 
 LXXI. Faithfulness. The Story of Ruth I. Ruth 
 
 1:1-11, 14-18 - 80 
 LXXI I. Faithfulness. The Story of Ruth II. Ruth 
 
 1:22,2:1-12 - - 82 
 LXXIII. The Omnipotence and Omnipresence of God. 
 
 Psalm 139:1-12 - 84 
 
 LXXIV. The Two Houses. Matt. 7:24-27 - -85 
 
 LXXV. Secret Prayer. Matt. 6:5-8. - - 85 
 
 LXXVI. The Providence of God. Psalm 33:11-22 - 86 
 
 LXXVII. Eager Longings. Psalm 42:1-2, 8- n - 87 
 
 LXXVIII. The Mines. Job 28:1-11 - 87 
 
 LXXIX. The Value of Wisdom. Job. 28:12-28 - 88 
 
 LXXX. A Call to All in Need. Isaiah 55 89 
 
Contents. 
 
 SELECTION. PAGE. 
 
 LXXXI. A Glad Mission. Isaiah 61:1-2 91 
 
 LXXXII. Alms Giving. Matt. 6:1-4. - - 91 
 
 LXXXIII. The Good Samaritan. Luke 10:25-37 - 92 
 LXXXIV. Our Father's Mercy. Psalm 103:8-18; Eccl. 
 
 12:13; Psalm 111:10 - 93 
 
 LXXXV. Samuel's Integrity. I Sam. 12:1-5, 23-24 - 94 
 LXXXVI. Personal Responsibility. Ezek. 18:19-28, 
 
 30-32 - 95 
 
 LXXXVII. The Divine Ruler. Psalm 72:1-14 97 
 
 LXXXVIII. Fidelity Rewarded. Matt.25:i4-2o - 98 
 LXXXIX. A Song of Courage and Triumph. Psalm 
 
 27:1-6 - - 09 
 
 XC. A Supplication. Psalm 27:7-12 - 100 
 XCI. Prosperity the Reward of Obedience. Deut. 
 
 11:13-23 - 101 
 
 XCII. The Two Brothers. Gen. 4:2-12 102 
 
 XCIII. Cause of National Calamity. Jer. 5:21-31 - 103 
 
 XCIV. Works of Iniquity. Isaiah 59:1-4, 6-19 104 
 
 XCV. The Duties of Patriotism. Rom. 13:1-10 106 
 
 XCVI. A Glorious Future. Micah 4:1-7 108 
 
 XCVII. The Two Great Commandments. Matt. 
 
 22:37-40 - 109 
 XCVIII. The Source of Power, Wisdom and Joy. 
 
 Psalm 119:97-105 - - 109 
 
 XCIX. Wisdom's Call. Pro v. 8:1-36 - no 
 C. Good Resolutions for a Ruler. Psalm 
 
 101:1-7 - 113 
 
 CI. The Ideal Woman. Prov. 31:10-31 - 113 
 CII. Contemplation of Character and Law. 
 
 Psalm 119:1-13, 29-37 - 115 
 
 CIII. Faith, Rest, Peace. Psalm 37:3-11 - 117 
 CIV. From the Farewell of Moses. Deut. 30: 11-20, 
 
 31:6 - 118 
 CV. Honorable Conduct Required Under All 
 
 Circumstances. Matt. 24:42-51 - 119 
 CVI. The Lord's Portion is His People. Deut. 
 
 32:1-14 - 120 
 
Contents. 15 
 
 SELECTION. PAGE. 
 
 CVII. Glorious in Holiness. Rev. 4:8; Matt. 5:16; 
 Rev. 21:3-4; i Chron. 29:11; Ex. 15-11; 
 
 Isaiah 6:3 - - 121 
 
 CVIII. Righteous Laws. Lev. 19:3-4, 11-18 122 
 CIX. Peace and Blessing for the Upright. Psalm 
 
 112:1-7; Isaiah 33:15-16 - 123 
 
 CX. The God of Nature. Psalm 104 - 124 
 
 CXI. Rules of Conduct. Rom. 12:8-21 - 127 
 
 CXII. A Final Resort in Trouble. Psalm 142:1-7 128 
 
 CXIII. Proverbs. Prov. 14:23-34 - 129 
 
 CXI V. Yearnings for the Place of Worship. Psalm84 130 
 
 CXV. The Glory that shall be Hereafter. Isaiah 35 131 
 
 CXVI. The City of God. Isaiah 60:1-2, 17-22 - 132 
 
 CXVII. Works of Repentance. Luke 3:10-14 - 133 
 
 CXVIII. The Open Message. Isaiah 45:18-19; 48:16-18; 
 
 John 18:20 134 
 
 CXIX. Leviathan. Job 42 - - 134 
 CXX. The Shipwreck, and Rescue of Paul. Acts 
 
 27:9-20, 27-29, 39-4 137 
 CXXI. Grief Because of a False Friend. Psalm 
 
 55:6-8, 12-14, 16-22 - - 139 
 CXXII. They Shall Be My People. Jer. 31:28-34; 
 
 Matt. 7:7-11 140 
 CXXIII. Faithful Instructors; Repentance. Ezek. 
 
 3:18-21; 33:8, 19 - 142 
 CXXIV. Value of Hope. Psalm 31:24; Lam. 3:26; 
 
 Rom. 8:24-25 - - - 144 
 
 CXXV. Advice to an Entertainer. Luke 14:12-14 - 144 
 
 CXXVI. Trouble and Deliverance. Job 5:6-23, 26 - 145 
 CXXVII. Cease to do Evil: Learn to do Well. Isaiah 
 
 1:16-27 - 147 
 
 CXXVIII. The Parable of the Excuses. Luke 14:15-24 148 
 
 CXXIX. The Deliverer. Psalm 18:1-32, 35-36, 46 149 
 CXXX. The Bearer of Sorrow, Weakness and Sin. 
 
 Isaiah 53 152 
 CXXXI. The Voice in the Wilderness. Isaiah 40:3-8, 
 
 10-15, 17 - 153 
 
1 6 Contents. 
 
 SELECTION. PAGE. 
 
 CXXXII. The Holy One. Isaiah 40:21-31 154 
 CXXXIII. Reconciliation and Forgiveness. Matt. 18: 
 
 15-17,21-22 - - 156 
 CXXXIV. Personal and National Sin Brings Calamity. 
 
 Amos 5 7-15 - 156 
 
 CXXXV. Man Proposes; God Disposes. Luke 12:13-21 158 
 CXXXVI. Woe Follows Wickedness. Isaiah 10:1-3; 
 
 5:20-30; Matt. 11-20-24 - 159 
 CXXXVII. Sin and the Power that Removes It. Micah 
 
 6:6, 8-14; 7:8, 9, 18-19 - 161 
 CXXXVIII. The Tongue. James 3:2-12 162 
 CXXXIX. Peace or Strife. James 3:13-18 - - 163 
 CXL. A Lofty Ambition. I Kings 3:5-15 - 164 
 CXLI. Compassion and Ingratitude. Matt.i8:23"35 165 
 CXLII. Personal and National Virtue brings Pros- 
 perity. Jer. 7:5-7, 23; 9:23-24; 10:23-24 166 
 CXLIII. The Finite as Compared with the Infinite. 
 
 Job 9:2-12, 14-15, 1921,32-33; 11:7-9 - 167 
 
 CXLIV. In the Last Days. Mai. 3:1-5, 13-18 - 169 
 
 CXLV. Praying Without Meaning. Eccl. 5:1-5 179 
 CXLVI. Mysteries of Nature, I. Job 38:1-7, 12, 
 
 16-27, 31-41 171 
 CXLVII. Mysteries of Nature, II. Job 39:9-15, 19-22, 
 
 26, 30; 40:1-14; 42:1-6 173 
 
 CXLVIII. A Message to the Young. Eccl. 12:1-7 176 
 
 CXLIX. The Greatest Thing in the World. I Cor. 13 177 
 CL. Summary. Eccl. 12:8-14; Hab. 3:17, 18; 
 
 Num. 6:24-26; Jude 1:26 - 178 
 
(TJNI 
 
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 READINGS FROM THE BIBLE. 
 
 L 
 
 Great Commandments. 
 
 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 
 heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, 
 and with all thy strength : this is the first command- 
 ment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou 
 shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none 
 other commandment greater than these. 
 
 Mark 12: 3031. 
 
 II. 
 
 Young Children Blessed. 
 
 And they brought young children to him, that 
 he should touch them ; and his disciples rebuked 
 those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he 
 was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer 
 the little children to come unto me, and forbid 
 them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. 
 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive 
 the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not 
 enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, 
 put his hands upon them, and blessed them. 
 
 Mark 10: 13-16. 
 17 
 
1 8 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 III. 
 
 Morning and Evening Meditations. 
 
 I laid me down and slept ; I awaked ; 
 
 For the Lord sustained me. Pgalm 3 . 5 
 
 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O 
 
 God! 
 
 How great is the sum of them ! 
 If I should count them, they are more in number 
 
 than the sand : 
 When I awake, I am still with thee. 
 
 Psalm 139: 17, 18. 
 
 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord ; 
 In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, 
 And will look up, 
 
 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wicked- 
 ness : 
 Neither shall evil dwell with thee. Psalm 5 . 3 . 4 
 
 Search me, O God, and know my heart : 
 Try me, and know my thoughts : 
 And see if there be any wicked way in me : 
 And lead me in the way everlasting. 
 
 Psalm 139: 23-24. 
 
 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep. 
 For thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety. 
 
 Psalm 4 : 8. 
 
 Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice : 
 Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest 
 
 them : 
 Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. 
 
 Psalm 5:11. 
 
Rewards of Diligence. 1 9 
 
 IV. 
 
 Rewards of Diligence. 
 
 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand : 
 But the hand of the diligent maketh rich. 
 
 Prov. 10: 4. 
 
 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule : 
 But the slothful shall be under tribute. 
 
 Prov. 12: 24. 
 
 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteous- 
 ness ; 
 But of every one that is hasty only to want. 
 
 Prov. 21 : 5. 
 
 Seest thou a man diligent in his business ? 
 He shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand be- 
 fore mean men. Prov. 22: 29. 
 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread : 
 But he that followeth after vain persons shall have 
 
 poverty enough. 
 
 A faithful man shall abound with blessings : 
 But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be in- 
 nocent. Prov . 28- 19 . 20< 
 
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20 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 V. 
 
 The Lords Prayer. 
 
 Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy 
 
 name. 
 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as 
 
 it is in heaven. 
 
 Give us this day our daily bread. 
 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 
 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from 
 
 evil. Amen. Matt. 6: 9-13. 
 
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 Oar Father which art in beaveu, Hal - lowed be thy name: 
 
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 Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. 
 
 
 Give UB thia 
 
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 bread: 
 
 And forgive us onr debts, as we for - give our debtors. 
 
 And lead us oot in - to temp tation, 
 
 But do liv - er us from vil, A 
 
Gems from Proverbs. //. 2 1 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Lord My Protector. 
 
 The Lord is my Shepherd ; I shall not want. 
 
 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : 
 
 He leadeth me beside the still waters. 
 
 He restoreth my soul : 
 
 He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his 
 
 name's sake. 
 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow 
 
 of death, 
 
 I will fear no evil : 
 For thou art with me ; 
 Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 
 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of 
 
 mine enemies : 
 Thou anointest my head with oil : my cup runneth 
 
 over. 
 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the 
 
 days of my life : 
 And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. 
 
 Psalm 23. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Gems front Proverbs. 
 
 Hear the instruction of thy father, 
 
 And forsake not the law of thy mother. Prov I:8 
 
 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin : 
 But he that refraineth his lips is wise. Prov< I0: 19> 
 
22 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 The lips of the righteous feed many : 
 
 But fools die for want of wisdom. 
 
 The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, 
 
 And he addeth no sorrow with it. 
 
 // is as sport to a fool to do mischief : 
 
 But a man of understanding hath wisdom. 
 
 Prov. 10: 21-23. 
 
 Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, 
 
 Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. 
 
 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty ; 
 
 And he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a 
 
 ci ty- Prov. 16:24,32. 
 
 The lip of truth shall be established for ever : 
 But a lying tongue is but for a moment. 
 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil : 
 But to the counsellors of peace is joy. 
 There shall no evil happen to the just : 
 But the wicked shall be filled with mischief. 
 Lying lips are abomination to the Lord : 
 But they that deal truly are his delight. 
 
 Prov. 12: 19-22. 
 
 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted : 
 But it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. 
 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour : 
 But a man of understanding holdeth his peace. 
 The wicked worketh a deceitful work : 
 But to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure 
 reward. Prov . II: n . 12t l8 . 
 
 A false balance is abomination to the Lord : 
 But a just weight is his delight. Prov . ,. 
 
A Short Story. 23 
 
 VIII. 
 
 A Contrast. 
 
 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel 
 
 of the ungodly, 
 
 Nor standeth in the way of sinners, 
 Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 
 But his delight is in the law of the Lord ; 
 And in his law doth he meditate day and night. 
 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of 
 
 water, 
 
 That bringeth forth his fruit in his season : 
 His leaf also shall not wither ; 
 And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 
 The ungodly are not so : 
 
 But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 
 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, 
 Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 
 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous : 
 But the way of the ungodly shall perish. Psalm Ie 
 
 IX. 
 
 A Short Story. 
 
 There was a little city, and few men within it ; and 
 there came a great king against it, and besieged it, 
 and built great bulwarks against it. Now there was 
 found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom 
 delivered the city. Ecci. 9 : 14-15. 
 
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 x. 
 
 Depart from Evil and do Good. 
 
 Come, ye children, hearken unto me : 
 
 I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 
 
 What man is he that desireth life, 
 
 And loveth many days, that he may see good ? 
 
 Keep thy tongue from evil, 
 
 And thy lips from speaking guile. 
 
 Depart from evil, and do good ; 
 
 Seek peace, and pursue it, 
 
 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, 
 
 And his ears are open unto their cry. 
 
 The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, 
 
 To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 
 
 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, 
 
 And delivereth them out of all their troubles. 
 
 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken 
 
 heart ; 
 
 And saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. 
 Many are the afflictions of the righteous : 
 But the Lord delivereth him out of them all. 
 He keepeth all his bones : 
 Not one of them is broken. 
 Evil shall slay the wicked : 
 
 And they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. 
 The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants : 
 And none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. 
 
 Psalm 34: ii-22. 
 
Proverbs. 25 
 
 XL 
 
 Sentiments. 
 
 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening 
 withhold not thine hand : for thou knowest not 
 whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether 
 they both shall be alike good. Eccl II:6 
 
 Cast thy bread upon the waters : for thou shall 
 find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, and 
 also to eight ; for thou knowest not what evil shall 
 be upon the earth. Eccl> XI . x . 2< 
 
 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is 
 for the eyes to behold the sun : Eccl II:7 
 
 He that observeth the wind shall not sow ; and 
 he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. 
 
 Eccl. 11:4. 
 
 Wisdom is better than weapons of war : but one 
 sinner destroyeth much good. Eccl. 9:18. 
 
 XII. 
 
 Proverbs. 
 
 A good name is rather to be chosen than great 
 
 riches, 
 
 And loving favour rather than silver and gold. 
 The rich and poor meet together : 
 The Lord is the maker of them all. 
 A prudent man forseeth the evil, and hideth himself: 
 But the simple pass on, and are punished. 
 By humility and the fear of the Lord 
 Are riches, and honour, and life. 
 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward : 
 
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 He that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. 
 Train up a child in the way he should go : 
 And when he is old, he will not depart from it. 
 
 * * * # 
 
 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed ; 
 For he giveth of his bread to the poor. 
 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out ; 
 Yea, strife and reproach shall cease. 
 
 Prov. 22: 1-6, 9-10. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 A Patient, Forgiving, Generous Father. 
 
 I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the 
 angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. 
 
 And he said, A certain man had two sons : 
 
 And the younger of them said to his father, 
 Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to 
 me. And he divided unto them his living. 
 
 And not many days after the younger son gath- 
 ered all together, and took his journey into a far 
 country, and there wasted his substance with riotous 
 living. 
 
 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty 
 famine in that land ; and he began to be in want. 
 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that 
 country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 
 
 And when he came to himself, he said, How many 
 hired servants of my father's have bread enough and 
 to spare, and I perish with hunger ! I will arise and 
 go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I 
 
Protection and Deliverance. 2 7 
 
 have sinned against heaven, and before thee. And 
 am no more worthy to be called thy son : make me 
 as one of thy hired servants. 
 
 And he arose, and came to his father. But when 
 he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and 
 had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and 
 kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I 
 have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and 
 am no more worthy to be called thy son. 
 
 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth 
 the best robe, and put it on him ; and put a ring on 
 his hand, and shoes on his feet : and bring hither the 
 fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: 
 For this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was 
 lost, and is found. Luke 15 . 10 . l5f I7 . 24 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Protection and Deliverance. 
 
 I will bless the Lord at all times : 
 His praise shall continually be in my mouth. 
 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : 
 The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 
 
 magnify the Lord with me, 
 And let us exalt his name together. 
 
 1 sought the Lord, and he heard me, 
 And delivered me from all my fears. 
 They looked unto him, and were lightened: 
 And their faces were not ashamed. 
 
 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, 
 And saved him out of all his troubles. 
 
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 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them 
 
 that fear him, 
 And delivereth them. 
 O taste and see that the Lord is good : 
 Blessed is the man that trusteth in him.. 
 O fear the Lord, ye his saints : 
 For there is no want to them that fear him. 
 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger : 
 But they that seek the Lord shall not want any good 
 
 thing. Psalm 34:1-10. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Words of Cheer. 
 
 God is our refuge and strength, 
 A very present help in trouble. 
 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be 
 
 removed, 
 And though the mountains be carried into the midst 
 
 of the sea ; 
 
 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, 
 Though the mountains shake with the swelling 
 
 thereof Psa i m 46: ,. 3 . 
 
 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which 
 
 keepeth the truth may enter in. 
 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is 
 
 stayed onthee: 
 Because he trusteth in thee. 
 Trust ye in the Lord forever : 
 For in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. 
 
 Isaiah 26: 2-4. 
 
Reward of Benevolence. 2 9 
 
 Fear thou not ; for I am with thee : 
 Be not dismayed; for I am thy God : 
 I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; 
 Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my 
 righteousness. isaiah 4 i:io. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 Joyous Spring. 
 
 For, lo, the winter is past, 
 
 The rain is over and gone: 
 
 The flowers appear on the earth; 
 
 The time of the singing of birds is come, 
 
 And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land: 
 
 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, 
 
 And the vines with the tender grape give a good 
 
 Smell. Solomon's Song 2: 11-13. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Reward of Benevolence. 
 
 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: 
 The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. 
 The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; 
 And he shall be blessed upon the earth: 
 
 Psalm 41: 1-2. 
 
 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: 
 
 Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in 
 
 things too high for me. Psalm 13x: f . 
 
 The liberal deviseth liberal things; 
 And by liberal things shall he stand. 
 
 Isaiah 32: 8. 
 
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 XVIII. 
 Gratitude. 
 
 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. 
 
 Serve the Lord with gladness: 
 
 Come before his presence with singing. 
 
 Know ye that the Lord he is God: 
 
 It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; 
 
 We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 
 
 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, 
 
 And into his courts with praise: 
 
 Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. 
 
 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting: 
 
 And his truth endureth to all generations. 
 
 Psalm 100. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 Man, God's Representative on Earth. 
 
 O Lord our Lord, 
 
 How excellent is thy name in all the earth! 
 
 Who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 
 
 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou 
 
 ordained strength 
 Because of thine enemies, 
 
 That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 
 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy 
 fingers, 
 
The Ten Commandments. 31 
 
 The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 
 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? 
 And the son of man, that thou visitest him? 
 For thou hast made him a little lower than the 
 
 angels, 
 
 And hast crowned him with glory and honor. 
 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works 
 
 of thy hands: 
 
 Thou hast put all things under his feet: 
 All sheep and oxen, 
 Yea, and the beasts of the field; 
 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, 
 And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the 
 
 seas. 
 
 O Lord our Lord, 
 How excellent is thy name in all the earth! 
 
 Psalm 8. 
 
 XX. 
 
 The Ten Commandments. 
 
 1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 
 
 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven 
 image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven 
 above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in 
 the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow 
 down thyself to them, nor serve them : for I the 
 Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniq- 
 uity of the fathers upon the children unto the third 
 and fourth generation of them that hate me ; And 
 shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love 
 me, and keep my commandments. 
 
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 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord 
 thy God in vain : for the Lord will not hold him 
 guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 
 
 4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 
 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : 
 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy 
 God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor 
 thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy 
 maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is 
 within thy gates : For in six days the Lord made 
 heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is % 
 and rested the seventh day : wherefore the Lord 
 blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 
 
 5. Honour thy father and thy mother : that thy 
 days may be long upon the land which the Lord 
 thy God giveth thee. 
 
 6. Thou shalt not kill. 
 
 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 
 
 8. Thou shalt not steal. 
 
 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy 
 neighbour. 
 
 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's 
 house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, 
 nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, 
 nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. 
 
 Ex. 20 : 3-17. 
 
Causes for Thanksgiving. 33 
 
 XXI. 
 
 The King of Glory. 
 
 The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof : 
 
 The world, and they that dwell therein. 
 
 For he hath founded it upon the seas, 
 
 And established it upon the floods. 
 
 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? 
 
 Or who shall stand in his holy place ? 
 
 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart ; 
 
 Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, 
 
 Nor sworn deceitfully. 
 
 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, 
 
 And righteousness from the God of his salvation 
 
 Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; 
 
 And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors ; 
 
 And the King of glory shall come in. 
 
 Who is this King of glory ? The Lord strong and 
 
 mighty. 
 
 The Lord mighty in battle. 
 Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; 
 Even lift them up, ye everlasting doors ; 
 And the King of glory shall come in. 
 Who is this King of glory ? The Lord of hosts, 
 He is the King of glory. p S aim 24 :i-5, MO. 
 
 XXII. 
 
 Causes for Thanksgiving. 
 
 Praise ye the Lord : for it is good to sing praises 
 unto our God : for it is pleasant : and praise is 
 comely. 
 
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 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up 
 
 their wounds. 
 He telleth the number of the stars ; he calleth them 
 
 all by their names. 
 
 Great is our Lord, and of great power : his under- 
 standing is infinite. 
 The Lord lifteth up the meek : he casteth the 
 
 wicked down to the ground. 
 Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving : sing praise 
 
 upon the harp unto our God : 
 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepar- 
 
 eth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to 
 
 grow upon the mountains. 
 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young 
 
 ravens which cry. 
 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, 
 
 in those that hope in his mercy. 
 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem ; praise thy God, O 
 
 Zion. 
 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates ; he 
 
 hath blessed thy children within thee. 
 He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee 
 
 with the finest of the wheat. 
 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth ; his 
 
 word runneth very swiftly. 
 He giveth snow like wool : he scattereth the hoar 
 
 frost like ashes. 
 He casteth forth his ice like morsels : who can 
 
 stand before his cold ? 
 He sendeth out his word and melteth them : he 
 
 causeth his wind to blow and the waters flow. 
 
 Psalm 147: i, 3, 4, 5-9, 11-18 
 
Rewards of Obedience. 35 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 The Blessed. 
 
 Blessed are the poor in spirit : for theirs is the king- 
 dom of heaven. 
 
 Blessed are they that mourn : for they shall be 
 comforted. 
 
 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the 
 earth. 
 
 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after 
 righteousness : for they shall be filled. 
 
 Blessed are the merciful : for they shall obtain 
 mercy. 
 
 Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall see 
 God. 
 
 Blessed are the peacemakers : for they shall be 
 called the children of God. 
 
 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteous- 
 ness' sake : for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 
 
 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and per- 
 secute you, and shall say all manner of evil 
 against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and 
 be exceeding glad : for great is your reward in 
 heaven : for so persecuted they the prophets 
 which were before you. Matt 5 . 3 _ I2 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 Rewards of Obedience. 
 
 My son, forget not my law; 
 
 But let thine heart keep my commandments 
 
 For length of days, and long life, 
 
36 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 And peace, shall they add to thee. 
 
 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee : 
 
 Bind them about thy neck ; 
 
 Write them upon the table of thine heart : 
 
 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding 
 
 In the sight of God and man. 
 
 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart ; 
 
 And lean not unto thine own understanding. 
 
 In all thy ways acknowledge him, 
 
 And he shall direct thy paths. Prov 3 . j_ 6 
 
 XXV. 
 
 The Voice of the Lord. 
 
 Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, 
 
 Give unto the Lord glory and strength. 
 
 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name ; 
 
 Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. 
 
 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters : 
 
 The God of Glory thundereth : 
 
 The Lord is upon many waters. 
 
 The voice of the Lord is powerful ; 
 
 The voice of the Lord is full of majesty. 
 
 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars ; 
 
 Yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. 
 
 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire, 
 The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness. 
 
 The Lord will give strength unto his people ; 
 The Lord will bless his people with peace. 
 
 Psalm 29: 1-5, 7-8, n. 
 
Joseph 's Dreams. 3 7 
 
 XXVI. 
 Joseph 's Dreams. 
 
 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his child- 
 ren, because he was the son of his old age : and he 
 made him a coat of many colours. 
 
 And when his brethren saw that their father 
 loved him more than all his brethren, they hated 
 him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. 
 
 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his 
 brethren : and they hated him yet the more. And 
 he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream 
 which I have dreamed : for, behold, we were 
 binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, 
 and also stood upright ; and, behold, your sheaves 
 stood round about, and made obeisance to my 
 sheaf. And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou 
 indeed reign over us ? Or shalt thou indeed have 
 dominion over us? And they hated him yet the 
 more for his dreams, and for his words. 
 
 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it 
 his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a 
 dream more ; and, behold, the sun and the moon 
 and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. And 
 he told it to his father, and to his brethren : and his 
 father rebuked him, and said unto him. What is 
 this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and 
 thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow 
 down ourselves to thee to the earth? And his 
 brethren envied him ; but his father observed the 
 saying. 
 
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 And his brethren went to feed their father's 
 flock in Shechem. And Israel said unto Joseph, 
 Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? 
 come, and I will send thee unto them. And he 
 said to him, Here am I. And he said to him, Go, I 
 pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, 
 and well with the flocks ; and bring me word again. 
 So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he 
 came to Shechem. Gen 37: 3 . 14 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 Joseph in Trouble. 
 
 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he 
 was wandering in the field : and the man asked him, 
 saying, What seekest thou? 
 
 And he said, I seek my brethren : tell me, I pray 
 thee, where they feed their flocks. And the man 
 said, They are departed hence ; for I heard them 
 say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after 
 his brethren, and found them in Dothan. And 
 when they saw him afar off, even before he came 
 near unto them, they conspired against him to slay 
 him. 
 
 And they said one to another, Behold, this 
 dreamer cometh. Come now therefore, and let us 
 slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will 
 say, Some evil beast hath devoured him ; and we 
 shall see what will become of his dreams. 
 
 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out 
 of their hands ; and said, Let us not kill him. And 
 
Joseph Sold into Slavery. 39 
 
 Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him 
 into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no 
 hand upon him ; that he might rid him out of their 
 hands, to deliver him to his father again. 
 
 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come 
 unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph out of 
 his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him ; 
 And they took him, and cast him into a pit : and 
 the pit was empty, there was no water in it. 
 
 Gen. 37 : 15-24. 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 Joseph Sold Into Slavery. 
 
 And they sat down to eat bread : and they lifted 
 up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company 
 of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels 
 bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry 
 it down to Egypt. 
 
 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is 
 it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? 
 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and 
 let not our hand be upon him ; for he is our brother 
 and our flesh : and his brethren were content. 
 
 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen ; 
 and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, 
 and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces 
 of silver : and they brought Joseph into Egypt. 
 
 And Reuben returned unto the pit ; and, behold, 
 Joseph was not in the pit ; and he rent his clothes. 
 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The 
 child is not ; and I, whither shall I go? 
 
 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of 
 
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 the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood ; and 
 they sent the coat of many colours, and they 
 brought it to their father ; and said, This have we 
 found : know now whether it be thy son's coat or 
 no. And he knew it, and said, // is my son's coat ; 
 an evil beast hath devoured him ; Joseph is without 
 doubt rent in pieces. 
 
 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth 
 upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. 
 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to 
 comfort him ; but he refused to be comforted ; and 
 he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my 
 son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. 
 
 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto 
 Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's and captain of the 
 
 guard. Gen. 37: 25-36. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 Pharaoh 's Dreams. 
 
 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, 
 that Pharaoh dreamed : and, behold, he stood by the 
 river. And, behold, there came up out of the river 
 seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed ; and they 
 fed in a meadow. And, behold, seven other kine 
 came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and 
 leanfleshed ; and stood by the other kine upon the 
 brink of the river. And the ill favoured and lean- 
 fleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and 
 fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. 
 
 And he slept and dreamed the second time : and, 
 behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, 
 rank and good. And, behold, seven thin ears and 
 
Pharaoh's Dreams. 4 1 
 
 blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. 
 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank 
 and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it 
 was a dream. 
 
 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit 
 was troubled ; and he sent and called for all the 
 magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof : 
 and Pharaoh told them his dream ; but there was none 
 that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. 
 
 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, 
 I do remember my faults this day: Pharaoh was 
 wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the 
 captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief 
 baker : and we dreamed a dream in one night, I and 
 he ; we dreamed each man according to the inter- 
 pretation of his dream. 
 
 And there was there with us a young man, a He- 
 brew, servant to the captain of the guard ; and we 
 told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams ; to 
 each man according to his dream he did interpret. 
 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it 
 was ; me he restored unto mine office, and him he 
 hanged. 
 
 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they 
 brought him hastily out of the dungeon : and he 
 shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came 
 in unto Pharaoh. 
 
 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed 
 a dream, and there is none that can interpret it : and 
 I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand 
 a dream to interpret it. 
 
 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, // is not 
 in me : God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace. 
 
 Gen. 41 : 1-16. 
 
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 xxx. 
 
 The Interpretation of the Dreams. 
 
 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, be- 
 hold, I stood upon the bank of the river : and, be- 
 hold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat- 
 fleshed and well favoured ; and they fed in a meadow: 
 and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, 
 poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as 
 I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness : 
 and the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the 
 first seven fat kine : and when they had eaten them 
 up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; 
 but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. 
 So I awoke. 
 
 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears 
 came up in one stalk, full and good : and, behold, 
 seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east 
 wind, sprung up after them : and the thin ears de- 
 voured the seven good ears : and I told this unto the 
 magicians; but there was none that could declare it 
 to me. And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream 
 of Pharaoh is one : God hath shewed Pharaoh what 
 he is about to do. 
 
 The seven good kine are seven years ; and the 
 seven good ears are seven years : the dream is one. 
 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came 
 up after them are seven years ; and the seven empty 
 ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years 
 of famine. This is the thing which I have spoken 
 unto Pharaoh : What God is about to do he sheweth 
 unto Pharaoh. 
 
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 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty 
 throughout all the land of Egypt : and there shall 
 arise after them seven years of famine ; and all the 
 plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt ; and 
 the famine shall consume the land ; and the plenty 
 shall not be known in the land by reason of that 
 famine following ; for it shall be very grievous. And 
 for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice ; 
 it is because the thing is established by God, and 
 God will shortly bring it to pass. 
 
 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man dis- 
 creet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 
 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over 
 the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of 
 Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them 
 gather all the food of those good years that come, 
 and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let 
 them keep food in the cities. And that food shall 
 be for store to the land against the seven years of 
 famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that 
 the land perish not through the famine. Gen> 4I: I7 . 36> 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 Joseph in Honor. 
 
 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find 
 such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of 
 God is? 
 
 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as 
 God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so 
 discreet and wise as thou art: thou shalt be over my 
 house, and according unto thy word shall all my 
 
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 people be ruled : only in the throne will I be 
 greater than thou. 
 
 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set 
 thee over all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh 
 took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon 
 Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine 
 linen, and put a gold chain about his neck ; and he 
 made him to ride in the second chariot which he 
 had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : 
 and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. 
 
 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, 
 and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or 
 foot in all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh called 
 Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah ; and he gave him 
 to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest 
 of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of 
 
 Egypt. Gen. 41: 38-45. 
 
 XXXII. 
 
 The Famine in Egypt. 
 
 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood 
 before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went 
 out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went through- 
 out all the land of Egypt. And in the seven 
 plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. 
 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, 
 which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the 
 food in the cities : the food of the field, which was 
 round about every city, laid he up in the same. 
 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, 
 very much, until he left numbering; for it was 
 without number. 
 
Joseph's Brethren go to Egypt. 45 
 
 And unto Joseph were born two sons, before the 
 years of famine came : which Asenath the daughter 
 of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him. And 
 Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: 
 For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, 
 and all my father's house. And the name of the 
 second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me 
 to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. 
 
 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was 
 in the land of Egypt, were ended. And the seven 
 years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph 
 had said: and the dearth was in all lands ; but in all 
 the land of Egypt there was bread. And when all 
 the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to 
 Pharaoh for bread : and Pharaoh said unto all the 
 Egyptians, Go unto Joseph ; what he saith to you, do. 
 
 And the famine was over all the face of the 
 earth : and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and 
 sold unto the Egyptians ; and the famine waxed 
 sore in the land of Egypt. And all countries came 
 into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that 
 the famine was so sore in all lands. Gen 4I . 46 _ 57 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 Joseph's Brethren Go to Egypt. 
 
 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy 
 corn in Egypt. But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, 
 Jacob sent not with his brethren ; for he said, Lest 
 peradventure mischief befall him. 
 
 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and 
 he it was that sold to all the people of the land ; and 
 
46 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves 
 before him with their faces to the earth. 
 
 Gen. 42 : 2-6. 
 
 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew 
 not him. And Joseph remembered the dreams 
 which he dreamed of them. Gen. 42: 8-9. 
 
 And he put them all together into ward three 
 days. And Joseph said unto them the third day, 
 This do, and live ; for I fear God : if ye be true 
 men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house 
 of your prison : go ye, carry corn for the famine of 
 our houses : but bring your youngest brother unto 
 me ; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not 
 die. And they did so. 
 
 And they said one to another, We are verily 
 guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the 
 anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we 
 would not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon 
 us. And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not 
 unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child ; and 
 ye would not hear ? therefore behold, also his blood 
 is required. And they knew not that Joseph under- 
 stood them; for he spake unto them by an inter- 
 preter. And he turned himself about from them, and 
 wept ; and returned to them again, and communed 
 with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound 
 him before their eyes. Then Joseph commanded to 
 fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's 
 money into his sack, and to give them provision for 
 the way : and thus did he unto them. And they 
 laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence. 
 
 Gen. 42 : 17-25. 
 
Joseph Makes Himself Known. 47 
 
 xxxiv. 
 Joseph Makes Himself Known to his Brethren. 
 
 And the famine was sore in the land. And it 
 came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn 
 which they had brought out of Egypt, their father 
 said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. 
 
 Gen. 43: 1-2. 
 
 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto 
 the man : and God Almighty give you mercy before 
 the man, that he may send away your other brother, 
 and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am 
 bereaved. Gen. : 13-14. 
 
 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he 
 said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, 
 and slay, and make ready ; for these men shall dine 
 with me at noon. And the man did as Joseph 
 bade, and the man brought the men into Joseph's 
 
 house - Gen. 43: 16-17. 
 
 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is 
 your father well, the old man of whom ye spake ? 
 Is he yet alive ? And they answered, Thy servant 
 our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And 
 they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance. 
 
 Gen. 43: 27-28. 
 
 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to 
 me, I pray you. And they came near. And he 
 said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into 
 
 Egypt. Gen. 45: 4- 
 
 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto 
 him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me 
 
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 lord of all Egypt : come down unto me, tarry not : 
 and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and 
 thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, 
 and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy 
 herds, and all that thou hast. Gen 45 . 9 _ IO 
 
 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into 
 the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, and told 
 him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor 
 over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart 
 fainted, for he believed them not. And they told 
 him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto 
 them : and when he saw the wagons which Joseph 
 had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their 
 father revived. And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph 
 my son is yet alive : I will go and see him before 
 
 I di e - Gen. 45 : 25-28. 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 Jacob and His Family Live in Egypt. 
 
 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, 
 My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and 
 their herds, and all that they have, are come out of 
 the land of Canaan; and, behold, they arc in the land 
 
 Of Goshen. Gen. 47: i,5-6. 
 
 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy 
 father and thy brethren are come unto thee : The 
 land of Egypt is before thee ; in the best of the land 
 make thy father and brethren to dwell ; in the 
 land of Goshen let them dwell : and if thou knowest 
 any men of activity among them, then make them 
 rulers over my cattle. And Joseph brought in Jacob 
 
Jacob and His Family Live in Egypt. 49 
 
 his father, and set him before Pharaoh : and Jacob 
 blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How 
 old art thou ? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The 
 days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred 
 and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the 
 years of my life been, and have not attained unto 
 the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the 
 days of their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pha- 
 raoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 
 
 Gen. 47: 7-10. 
 
 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father 
 was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate 
 us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which 
 we did unto him. And they sent a messenger unto 
 Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he 
 died, saying, So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I 
 pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their 
 sin ; for they did unto thee evil : and now, we pray 
 thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God 
 of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake 
 unto him. And his brethren also went and fell 
 down before his face ; and they said, Behold, we be 
 thy servants. And Joseph said unto them, Fear not : 
 for am I in the place of God ? But as for you, ye 
 thought evil against me ; but God meant it unto 
 good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much 
 people alive. Now therefore fear ye not : I will 
 nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted 
 them, and spake kindly unto them. And Joseph 
 dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house : and 
 Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. 
 
 Gen. 50: i, 15-22. 
 
50 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 xxxvi. 
 
 Heroic Aims. 
 
 But godliness with contentment is great gain- 
 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is 
 certain we can carry nothing out. And having food 
 and raiment, let us be therewith content. But they 
 that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, 
 and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown 
 men in destruction and perdition. For the love of 
 money is the root of all evil : which while some 
 coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and 
 pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 
 
 But thou, O man of God, flee these things ; and 
 follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, 
 patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith, 
 lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also 
 called, and hast professed a good profession before 
 many witnesses. , Tim> 6: ^ 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 A Father s Instruction to His Son. 
 
 I was my father's son, 
 
 Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 
 He taught me also, and said unto me, 
 Let thine heart retain my words : 
 Keep my commandments, and live. 
 Get wisdom, get understanding : 
 Forget it not ; neither decline from the words of my 
 mouth. 
 
A Father's Instruction to his Son. 51 
 
 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee : 
 
 Love her, and she shall keep thee. 
 
 Wisdom is the principal thing ; therefore get wisdom : 
 
 And with all thy getting get understanding. 
 
 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee : 
 
 She shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost em- 
 brace her. 
 
 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace : 
 
 A crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. 
 
 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings ; 
 
 And the years of thy life shall be many. 
 
 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom ; 
 
 I have led thee in right paths. 
 
 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened ; 
 
 And when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. 
 
 Take fast hold of instruction ; let her not go : 
 
 Keep her ; for she is thy life. 
 
 Enter not into the path of the wicked, 
 
 And go not in the way of evil men. 
 
 Avoid it, pass not by it, 
 
 Turn from it, and pass away. 
 
 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; 
 
 And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause 
 some to fall. 
 
 For they eat the bread of wickedness, 
 
 And drink the wine of violence. 
 
 But the path of the just is as the shining light, 
 
 That shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 
 
 The way of the wicked is as darkness : 
 
 They know not at what they stumble. 
 
 My son, attend to my words ; 
 
 Incline thine ear unto my sayings. 
 
 Let them not depart from thine eyes ; 
 
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 Keep them in the midst of thine heart. 
 
 For they are life unto those that find them, 
 
 And health to all their flesh. 
 
 Keep thy heart with all diligence ; 
 
 For out of it are the issues of life. 
 
 Put away from thee a froward mouth, 
 
 And perverse lips put far from thee. 
 
 Let thine eyes look right on, 
 
 And let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 
 
 Ponder the path of thy feet, 
 
 And let all thy ways be established. 
 
 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left : 
 
 Remove thy foot from evil. Proverbs 4 : 3-25. 
 
 XXXVIII. 
 
 Help the Poor Gladly. 
 
 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy 
 brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which 
 the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not 
 harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy 
 poor brother: but thou shalt open thine hand wide 
 unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for 
 his need, in that which he wanteth. Thou shalt 
 surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved 
 when thou givest unto him : because that for this 
 thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy 
 works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. 
 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: 
 therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open 
 thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and 
 to thy needy, in thy land. Deut. 15-. 7-8.10-11. 
 
The Righteous Man. 53 
 
 xxxix. 
 
 Humility. 
 
 And he put forth a parable to those which were 
 bidden, when he marked how they chose out the 
 chief rooms ; saying unto them, 
 
 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, 
 sit not down in the highest room ; lest a more hon- 
 ourable man than thou be bidden of him ; and he 
 that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give 
 this man place ; and thou begin with shame to take 
 the lowest room. 
 
 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the 
 lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he 
 may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher : then shalt 
 thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at 
 meat with thee. 
 
 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased ; 
 and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. 
 
 Luke 14:7-11. 
 
 XL. 
 
 The Righteous Man. 
 
 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle ? 
 Who shall dwell in thy holy hill ? 
 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteous- 
 ness, 
 
 And speaketh the truth in his heart. 
 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, 
 Nor doeth evil to his neighbour, 
 Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. 
 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned ; 
 
54 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 But he honoureth them that fear the Lord. 
 
 He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. 
 
 He that putteth not out his money to usury, 
 
 Nor taketh reward against the innocent. 
 
 He that doeth these things shall never be moved. 
 
 Psalm 15. 
 
 XLI. 
 
 What Shall the Harvest Bef 
 
 Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for what- 
 soever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For 
 he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap 
 corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of 
 the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be 
 weary in well doing ; for in due season we shall 
 reap, if we faint not. Galt 6< 7 ^ 
 
 XLII. 
 
 Gracious Words. 
 
 And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; 
 and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assur- 
 ance for ever. Isaiah 32: 17. 
 
 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be 
 removed ; but my kindness shall not depart from 
 thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be 
 removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. 
 
 Isaiah 54: 10. 
 
 XLIII. 
 Justice. 
 
 The Lord shall endure for ever ; 
 
 He hath prepared his throne for judgment. 
 
A Hymn of Thanksgiving. 55 
 
 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, 
 
 He shall minister judgment to the people in upright- 
 ness. 
 
 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, 
 
 A refuge in times of trouble. 
 
 And they that know thy name will put their trust in 
 thee: 
 
 For thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. 
 
 The needy shall not always be forgotten : 
 
 The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever. 
 
 Psalm 9 : 7-10, 18. 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 A Hymn of Thanksgiving. 
 
 Praise ye the Lord. 
 
 Praise the Lord, O my soul. 
 
 While I live will I praise the Lord : 
 
 I will sing praises unto my God while I have any 
 
 being. 
 
 Put not your trust in princes, 
 Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 
 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth ; 
 In that very day his thoughts perish. 
 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, 
 Whose hope is in the Lord his God : 
 Which made heaven, and earth, 
 The sea, and all that therein is: 
 Which keepeth truth for ever : 
 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed : 
 Which giveth food to the hungry. 
 The Lord looseth the prisoners : 
 The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind : 
 The Lord raiseth them that are bowed down : 
 
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 The Lord loveth the righteous : 
 
 The Lord preserveth the strangers ; 
 
 He relieveth the fatherless and widow : 
 
 But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. 
 
 The Lord shall reign for ever, 
 
 Even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. 
 
 Praise ye the Lord. Psalm I46 . 
 
 XLV. 
 
 A Statesman s Supplication. 
 
 The Lord our God be with us, as he was with 
 our fathers : let him not leave us, nor forsake us : 
 that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in 
 all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and 
 his statutes, and his judgments, which he com- 
 manded our fathers. I8t Kinjfs 8 . 57.53. 
 
 XLVI. 
 
 Ancient Laws. 
 
 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, 
 or sell it ; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and 
 four sheep for a sheep. 
 
 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten 
 that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 
 
 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood 
 shed for him ; for he should make full restitution ; if 
 he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 
 
 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, 
 whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep ; he shall restore 
 double. 
 
 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be 
 eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in 
 
Idle IVords. 57 
 
 another man's field ; of the best of his own field, and 
 and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make 
 restitution. 
 
 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 
 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all 
 unto me, I will surely hear their cry. If thou lend 
 money to any of my people that is poor by thee, 
 thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt 
 thou lay upon him usury. EX. 22: 1-3, 22, 23, 25. 
 
 Thou shalt not raise a false report ; put not thine 
 hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 
 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. 
 
 Ex. 23, 1-2. 
 
 Keep thee far from a false matter ; and the inno- 
 cent and righteous slay thou not : for I will not 
 justify the wicked. And thou shalt take no gift : 
 for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the 
 words of the righteous. Also thou shalt not oppress 
 a stranger. Ex. 23: 7-9. 
 
 Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is 
 poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of 
 thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates : 
 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall 
 the sun go down upon it ; for he is poor, and setteth 
 his heart upon it : lest he cry against thee unto the 
 Lord, and it be sin unto thee. Deut> 24 . 14 . I5< 
 
 XLVII. 
 
 Idle Words. 
 
 How can ye, being evil, speak good things ? For 
 out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speak - 
 eth. A good man out of the good treasure of the 
 
5 8 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 heart bringeth forth good things : and an evil man 
 out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 
 
 But I say unto you, that every idle word that 
 men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in 
 the day of judgment. 
 
 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by 
 thy words thou shalt be condemned. Matt. 12: 34-37. 
 I hate and abhor lying: 
 But thy law do I love. Psalms , I9 . , 63 . 
 
 XLVIII. 
 
 Proverbs. 
 
 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : 
 
 And whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. 
 
 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: 
 
 But every fool will be meddling. 
 
 The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold. 
 
 Therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. 
 
 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water : 
 
 But a man of understanding will draw it out. 
 
 Most men will proclaim every one his own good- 
 ness : 
 
 But a faithful man who can find? 
 
 The just man walketh in his integrity: 
 
 His children are blessed after him. 
 
 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am 
 pure from my sin ? 
 
 Divers weights, and divers measures, 
 
 Both of them are alike abomination to the Lord. 
 
 Even a child is known by his doings, 
 
 Whether his work be pure, and whether */ be right. 
 
 Prov ao: i, 3-7, 9,11. 
 
Sin Results in Sorrow. 59 
 
 XLIX. 
 
 Pure Religion. 
 
 If any man among you seem to be religious, and 
 bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own 
 heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and 
 undefiled before God and the Father is this, To 
 visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, 
 and to keep himself unspotted from the world. 
 
 James 3: 26-27. 
 
 L. 
 
 Right Thoughts. 
 
 Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things 
 are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever 
 things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, what- 
 soever things are of good report ; if there be any 
 virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these 
 things. P hi i. 4 . 8 . 
 
 LI. 
 
 Sin Results in Sorrow. 
 
 The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabi- 
 tants of the land, because there is no truth, nor 
 mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. There- 
 fore shall the land mourn, and every one that 
 dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of 
 the field, and with the fowls of heaven ; yea, the 
 fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. 
 
 Hosea 4:1-7. 
 
 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that 
 trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him 
 
 about. Psalm 32:10 
 
60 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 LII. 
 
 The New Law. 
 
 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt 
 love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I 
 say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that 
 curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray 
 for them which despitefully use you, and persecute 
 you ; that ye may be the children of your Father 
 which is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise 
 on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on 
 the just and on the unjust. 
 
 For if ye love them which love you, what reward 
 have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And 
 if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more 
 than others? do not even the publicans so? 
 
 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father 
 which is in heaven is perfect. Matt. 5:43-48. 
 
 LIII. 
 
 A Wakeful Protector. 
 
 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, 
 From whence cometh my help. 
 My help cometh from the Lord, 
 Which made heaven and earth. 
 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved 
 He that keepeth thee will not slumber. 
 Behold, he that keepeth Israel 
 Shall neither slumber or sleep. 
 
Praise. 6 1 
 
 The Lord is thy keeper : 
 
 The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand 
 
 The sun shall not smite thee by day, 
 
 Nor the moon by night. 
 
 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil : 
 
 He shall preserve thy soul. 
 
 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy 
 
 coming in 
 From this time forth, and even for evermore. 
 
 Psalm 121. 
 
 LIV. 
 
 Praise. 
 
 Praise ye the Lord. 
 
 Praise God in his sanctuary : 
 
 Praise him in the firmament of his power. 
 
 Praise him for his mighty acts: 
 
 Praise him according to his excellent greatness. 
 
 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: 
 
 Praise him with the psaltery and harp. 
 
 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: 
 
 Praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 
 
 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: 
 
 Praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 
 
 Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. 
 
 Praise ye the Lord. Psalm 150. 
 
 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of 
 
 the same 
 The Lord's name is to be praised. Psalm ,, 3: 3 
 
62 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 LV. 
 
 The Great Commandment. 
 
 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all 
 thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy 
 might. And these words, which I command thee 
 this day, shall be in thine heart : and thou shalt 
 teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt 
 talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and 
 when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest 
 down, and when thou risest up. Deut.6:$-7. 
 
 LVI. 
 
 Solemn and Joyful Thoughts for the New Year. 
 
 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place 
 
 In all generations. 
 
 Before the mountains were brought forth, 
 
 Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, 
 
 Even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God. 
 
 For a thousand years in thy sight 
 Are but as yesterday when it is past. 
 And as a watch in the night. 
 
 We spend our years as a tale that is told. 
 
 The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; 
 
 And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, 
 
 Yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; 
 
 For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 
 
Wonders of Nature. 63 
 
 So teach us to number our days, 
 
 That we may apply our hearts urito wisdom. 
 
 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; 
 
 That we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 
 
 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou 
 
 hast afflicted us, 
 
 And the years wherein we have seen evil. 
 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, 
 And thy glory unto their children. 
 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: 
 And establish thou the work of our hands upon us ; 
 Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. 
 
 Psalm 90 : i, a, 4t 9. 10, 12, 14-17 
 
 LVII. 
 
 Wonders of Nature. 
 
 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, 
 
 Neither can the number of his years be searched out. 
 
 For he maketh small the drops of water : 
 
 They pour down rain according to the vapour thereof ; 
 
 Which the clouds do drop 
 
 And distil upon man abundantly. j ob 36: 2b .^ 
 
 God thundereth marvellously with his voice ; 
 
 Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. 
 
 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth ; 
 
 Likewise to the small rain. 
 
 And to the great rain of his strength. 
 
 He sealeth up the hand of every man ; 
 
 That all men may know his work. 
 
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 Then the beasts go into dens, 
 
 And remain in their places. 
 
 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind : 
 
 And cold out of the north. 
 
 By the breath of God frost is given : 
 
 And the breadth of the waters is straitened. 
 
 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud : 
 
 He scattereth his bright cloud : 
 
 And it is turned round about by his counsels : 
 
 That they may do whatsoever he commandeth them 
 
 Upon the face of the world in the earth. 
 
 He causeth it to come, 
 
 Whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy. 
 
 Consider the wondrous works of God. 
 
 Dost thou know when God disposed them, 
 
 And caused the light of his cloud to shine ? 
 
 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, 
 
 The wondrous works of him which is perfect in 
 
 knowledge ? 
 
 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, 
 Which is strong, and as a molten looking-glass ? 
 Fair weather cometh out of the north : 
 With God is terrible majesty. 
 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out : 
 He is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in 
 
 plenty of justice. Job 37: S . I3> 14 . l6i l8i 22 _ 23 . 
 
Proverbs. 65 
 
 LVIII. 
 
 Proverbs. 
 
 Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; 
 
 For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 
 
 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own 
 
 mouth ; 
 
 A stranger, and not thine own lips. 
 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; 
 But a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. 
 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous ; 
 But who is able to stand before envy? 
 Open rebuke is better than secret love. 
 Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; 
 But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. 
 The full soul loatheth a honeycomb ; 
 But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. 
 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, 
 So is a man that wandereth from his place. 
 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart : 
 So doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty 
 
 counsel. 
 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake 
 
 not ; 
 Neither go into thy brother's house in the day of 
 
 thy calamity: 
 For better is a neighbour that is near than a brother 
 
 far off. 
 
 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, 
 That I may answer him that reproacheth me. 
 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, ?K/hideth himself ; 
 But the simple pass on, and are punished. 
 
 Prov. 27: i-ia. 
 
 
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 LIX. 
 
 The Heavens Above and the Law Within. 
 
 The heavens declare the glory of God ; 
 
 And the firmament sheweth his handywork. 
 
 Day unto day uttereth speech, 
 
 And night unto night sheweth knowledge. 
 
 There is no speech nor language, where their voice 
 
 is not heard. 
 
 Their line is gone out through all the earth, 
 And their words to the end of the world. 
 In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun. 
 
 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, 
 And his circuit unto the ends of it : 
 And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. 
 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul : 
 The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the 
 
 simple. 
 
 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: 
 The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlighten- 
 ing the eyes. 
 
 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever : 
 The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous 
 
 altogether. 
 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than 
 
 much fine gold : 
 
 Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 
 Moreover by them is thy servant warned : 
 And in keeping of them there is great reward. 
 Who can understand his errors ? 
 
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 Cleanse thou me from secret faults. 
 
 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; 
 
 Let them not have dominion over me : then shall I 
 be upright, 
 
 And I shall be innocent from the great transgres- 
 sion. 
 
 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of 
 my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, 
 
 O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. 
 
 Psalm 19: 1-4, 6-19. 
 
 LX. 
 
 Loves Faithfulness; Wisdom s Results. 
 
 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord ; 
 
 Neither be weary of his correction : 
 
 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth ; 
 
 Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. 
 
 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, 
 
 And the man that getteth understanding : 
 
 For the merchandise of it is better than the mer- 
 chandise of silver, 
 
 And the gain thereof than fine gold. 
 
 She is more precious than rubies : 
 
 And all the things thou canst desire are not to be 
 compared unto her. 
 
 Length of days is in her right hand ; 
 
 And in her left hand riches and honour. 
 
 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, 
 
 And all her paths are peace. 
 
 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her : 
 
 And happy is every one that retaineth her. 
 
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 The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth ; 
 
 By understanding hath he established the heavens. 
 
 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, 
 
 And the clouds drop down the dew. 
 
 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes : 
 
 Keep sound wisdom and discretion : 
 
 So shall they be life unto thy soul, 
 
 And grace to thy neck. 
 
 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, 
 
 And thy foot shall not stumble. 
 
 When thou liest down thou shalt not be afraid ; 
 
 Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be 
 
 sweet. 
 
 Be not afraid of sudden fear, 
 Neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it 
 
 cometh. 
 
 For the Lord shall be thy confidence, 
 And shall keep thy foot from being taken. 
 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, 
 When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. 
 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, 
 And to-morrow I will give ; 
 When thou hast it by thee. 
 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, 
 Seeing he dwelleth securely by thee. 
 Strive not with a man without cause, 
 If he have done thee no harm. 
 Envy thou not the oppressor, 
 And choose none of his ways. 
 For the froward is abomination to the Lord : 
 But his secret is with the righteous. 
 The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked : 
 But he blesseth the habitation of the just. 
 
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 Surely he scorneth the scorners : 
 
 But he giveth grace unto the lowly. 
 
 The wise shall inherit glory : 
 
 But shame shall be the promotion of fools. 
 
 Prov. 3: -35 
 
 LXI. 
 
 Recognition of our Ruler. 
 
 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion : 
 
 And unto thee shall the vow be performed. 
 
 O thou that heareth prayer, 
 
 Unto thee shall all flesh come. 
 
 Iniquities prevail against me : 
 
 As for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. 
 
 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest 
 
 to approach unto thee, 
 That he may dwell in thy courts : 
 We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, 
 Even of thy holy temple. 
 
 #p terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, 
 O God of our salvation ; 
 
 Who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, 
 And of them that are afar off upon the sea : 
 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains ; 
 Being girded with power : 
 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of 
 
 their waves, 
 
 And the tumult of the people. 
 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid 
 
 at thy tokens : 
 Thou maketh the outgoings of the morning and 
 
 evening to rejoice. 
 
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 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it : 
 
 Thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which 
 is full of water : 
 
 Thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so pro- 
 vided for it. 
 
 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: 
 
 Thou settlest the furrows thereof: 
 
 Thou makest it soft with showers : 
 
 Thou blessest the springing thereof. 
 
 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; 
 
 And thy paths drop fatness. 
 
 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : 
 
 And the little hills rejoice on every side. 
 
 The pastures are clothed with flocks ; 
 
 The valleys also are covered over with corn ; 
 
 They shout for joy, they also sing. p sa im65. 
 
 LXII. 
 
 The Sower, the Seed, and the Earth. 
 
 Behold, a sower went forth to sow; and when he 
 sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls 
 came and devoured them up : some fell upon stony 
 places, where they had not much earth : and forth- 
 with they sprung up, because they had no deepness 
 of earth : and when the sun was up, they were 
 scorched ; and because they had no root, they with- 
 ered away. 
 
 And some fell among thorns ; and the thorns 
 sprung up, and choked them: but other fell into 
 
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 good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hun- 
 dredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold, 
 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. 
 
 Matt. 13: 3-9. 
 
 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. 
 
 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, 
 and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked 
 one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his 
 heart. This is he which received seed by the way 
 side. 
 
 But he that received the seed into stony places, 
 the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with 
 joy receiveth it ; yet hath he not root in himself, but 
 dureth for a while : for when tribulation or persecu- 
 tion ariseth because of the word, by and by he is 
 offended. 
 
 He also that received seed among the thorns is 
 he that heareth the word ; and the care of this world, 
 and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and 
 he becometh unfruitful. 
 
 But he that received seed into the good ground 
 is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; 
 which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a 
 hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 
 
 Matt. 13: 18-23. 
 
 LXIII. 
 
 Laws of Righteousness. 
 
 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my 
 sanctuary : I am the Lord. 
 
 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, 
 
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 neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them : 
 I am the Lord, your God. 
 
 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and 
 honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : 
 I am the Lord. 
 
 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, 
 ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth 
 with you shall be unto you as one born among you, 
 and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were 
 strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your 
 God. 
 
 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in 
 meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, 
 just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye 
 have : I am the Lord your God, which brought you 
 out of the land of Egypt. Therefore shall ye 
 observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and 
 do them : I am the Lord. Lev. 19: 30-37. 
 
 These are the things that ye shall do ; Speak ye 
 every man the truth to his neighbour ; execute the 
 judgment of truth and peace in your gates : and let 
 none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his 
 neighbour ; and love no false oath : for all these are 
 things that I hate, saith the Lord. Zech 8: l6 . J7t 
 
 LXIV. 
 
 Contrasts. 
 
 A false balance is abomination to the Lord 
 
 But a just weight is his delight. 
 
 When pride cometh, then cometh shame : 
 
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 But with the lowly is wisdom. 
 
 The integrity of the upright shall guide them : 
 
 But the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy 
 
 them. 
 
 Riches profit not in the day of wrath : 
 But righteousness delivereth from death. 
 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way ; 
 But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. 
 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: 
 But transgressors shall be taken in their own 
 
 naughtiness. 
 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall 
 
 perish : 
 
 And the hope of unjust men perisheth. 
 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, 
 And the wicked cometh in his stead. 
 A hypocrite with his mouth destroy eth his neighbour: 
 But through knowledge shall the just be delivered. 
 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city re- 
 
 joiceth : 
 
 And when the wicked perish, there is shouting. 
 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted : 
 But it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. 
 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: 
 But a man of understanding holdeth his peace. 
 A talebearer revealeth secrets : 
 But he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the 
 
 matter. 
 
 Where no counsel w, the people fall : 
 But in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. 
 
 Prov. ii : 1-14. 
 
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 LXV. 
 
 Confession and Contrition. 
 
 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lov- 
 ing kindness : 
 
 According unto the multitude of thy tender mercies 
 blot out my transgressions. 
 
 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, 
 
 And cleanse me from my sin. 
 
 Create in me a clean heart, O God ; 
 
 And renew a right spirit within me. 
 
 Cast me not away from thy presence ; 
 
 And take not thy Holy Spirit from me. 
 
 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ; 
 
 And uphold me with thy free Spirit. 
 
 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways ; 
 
 And sinners shall be converted unto thee. 
 
 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God 
 
 of my salvation : 
 
 And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 
 O Lord, open thou my lips ; 
 And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. 
 For thou desirest not sacrifice ; else would I give it: 
 Thou delightest not in burnt offering. 
 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit : 
 A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not 
 
 despise. Psalm 51: 1-2, 10-17. 
 
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 LXVI. 
 
 The Source of Help. 
 
 Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that 
 trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and 
 whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall 
 be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see 
 when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched 
 places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not 
 inhabited. 
 
 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and 
 whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree 
 planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her 
 roots by the river, and shall not see when heat com- 
 eth, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be 
 careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease 
 from yielding fruit. 
 
 The heart is deceitful above all things, and des- 
 perately wicked : who can know it ? 
 
 I the Lord search the heart, / try the reins, even 
 to give every man according to his ways, and 
 according to the fruit of his doings. 
 
 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth 
 them not ; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, 
 shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his 
 end shall be a fool. 
 
 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed ; save 
 me, and I shall be saved : for thou art my praise. 
 
 Jer. 17: 5-n, 14. 
 
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 LXVII. 
 
 The Call to Righteousness. 
 
 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the 
 house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and 
 sat down with him and his disciples. 
 
 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto 
 his disciples, Why eateth your master with publicans 
 and sinners ? 
 
 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, 
 They that be whole need not a physician, but they 
 that are sick. But go ye and learn what that mean- 
 eth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am 
 not come to call the righteous, but sinners to 
 repentance. Matt. 9:10-13. 
 
 LXVIII. 
 
 Proverbs. 
 
 A soft answer turneth away wrath : 
 
 But grievous words stir up anger. 
 
 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright : 
 
 But the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. 
 
 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, 
 
 Beholding the evil and the good. 
 
 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life : 
 
 But perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. 
 
 A fool despiseth his father's instruction : 
 
 But he that regardeth reproof is prudent. 
 
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 In the house of the righteous is much treasure : 
 
 But in the revenues of the wicked is trouble. 
 
 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge : 
 
 But the heart of the foolish doeth not so. 
 
 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the 
 
 Lord: 
 
 But the prayer of the upright is his delight. 
 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the 
 
 Lord : 
 
 But he loveth him that followeth after righteous- 
 ness. 
 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the 
 
 way: 
 
 And he that hateth reproof shall die. 
 Hell and destruction are before the Lord : 
 How much more then the hearts of the children of 
 
 men? 
 
 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him : 
 Neither will he go unto the wise. 
 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance : 
 But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. 
 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh 
 
 knowledge : 
 
 But the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. 
 All the days of the afflicted are evil : 
 But he that is of a merry heart hath a continual 
 
 feast. 
 
 Better is little with the fear of the Lord, 
 Than great treasure and trouble therewith. 
 
 Prov. 15 : 1-16. 
 
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 LXIX. 
 
 Practical Instruction. 
 
 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, 
 Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. 
 A wrathful man stirreth up strife : 
 But he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. 
 The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns : 
 But the way of the righteous is made plain. 
 A wise son maketh a glad father : 
 But a foolish man despiseth his mother. 
 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom : 
 But a man of understanding walketh uprightly. 
 Without counsel purposes are disappointed : 
 But in the multitude of counselors they are estab- 
 lished. 
 
 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth : 
 And a word spoken in due season, how good is it! 
 The way of life is above to the wise, 
 That he may depart from hell beneath. 
 The Lord will destroy the house of the proud : 
 But he will establish the border of the widow. 
 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to 
 
 the Lord: 
 
 But the words of the pure are pleasant words. 
 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house ; 
 But he that hateth gifts shall live. 
 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer : 
 But the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil 
 things. 
 
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 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart : 
 
 And a good report maketh the bones fat. 
 
 The ear that heareth the reproof of life 
 
 Abideth among the wise. 
 
 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul : 
 
 But he that heareth reproof getteth understanding. 
 
 The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom ; 
 
 And before honour is humility. Prov . I5 . ,7.28, 30, 33 . 
 
 LXX. 
 
 Our Best Friend. 
 
 I will extol thee, my God, O King ; 
 
 And I will bless thy name for ever and ever. 
 
 Every day will I bless thee ; 
 
 And I will praise thy name for ever and ever. 
 
 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised ; 
 
 And his greatness is unsearchable. 
 
 One generation shall praise thy works to another, 
 
 And shall declare thy mighty acts. 
 
 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, 
 
 And of thy wondrous works. 
 
 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: 
 
 And I will declare thy greatness. 
 
 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy 
 
 great goodness, 
 
 And shall sing of thy righteousness. 
 The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion ; 
 Slow to anger, and of great mercy. 
 The Lord is good to all : 
 
 And his tender mercies are over all his works. 
 All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord ; 
 
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 And thy saints shall bless thee. 
 
 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, 
 
 And talk of thy power ; 
 
 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, 
 
 And the glorious majesty of his kingdom. 
 
 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 
 
 And thy dominion endureth throughout all genera- 
 tions. 
 
 The Lord upholdeth all that fall, 
 
 And raiseth up all those that be bowed down. 
 
 The eyes of all wait upon thee ; 
 
 And thou givest them their meat in due season. 
 
 Thou openest thine hand, 
 
 And satisfiest the desire of every living thing. 
 
 The Lord is righteous in all his ways, 
 
 And holy in all his works. 
 
 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, 
 
 To all that call upon him in truth. 
 
 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him : 
 
 He also will hear their cry, and will save them. 
 
 The Lord preserveth all them that love him : 
 
 But all the wicked will he destroy. 
 
 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord : 
 
 And let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and 
 ever. p sa i m 145. 
 
 LXXI. 
 
 Faithfulness. 
 
 THE STORY OF RUTH 1. 
 
 Now it came to pass in the days when the 
 judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. 
 
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 And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to 
 sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, 
 and his two sons. And the name of the man was 
 Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the 
 name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephra- 
 thites of Beth-lehem-judah. Ana they came into 
 the country of Moab, and continued there. 
 
 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died ; and she 
 was left, and her two sons. And they took them 
 wives of the women of Moab ; the name of the one 
 was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth : and 
 they dwelt there about ten years. And Mahlon 
 and Chilion died also both of them ; and the woman 
 was left of her two sons and her husband. 
 
 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that 
 she might return from the country of Moab: for 
 she had heard in the country of Moab how that the 
 Lord had visited his people in giving them bread. 
 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where 
 she was, and her two daughters in law with her ; and 
 they went on the way to return unto the land of 
 Judah. 
 
 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, 
 Go, return each to her mother's house: the Lord 
 deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the 
 dead, and with me. The Lord grant you that ye 
 may find rest, each of you in the house of her hus- 
 band. Then she kissed them ; and they lifted up 
 their voice and wept. And they said unto her, 
 Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. 
 
 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters : 
 why will ye go with me ? And Orpah kissed her 
 mother in law ; but Ruth clave unto her. And she 
 
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 said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her 
 people, and unto her gods : return thou after thy 
 sister in law. And Ruth said, Entreat me not to 
 leave thee, or to return from following after thee: 
 for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou 
 lodgest, I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, 
 and thy God my God : Where thou diest, will I die, 
 and there will I be buried : the Lord do so to me, 
 and more also, if aught but death part thee and me. 
 When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to 
 go with her, then she left speaking unto her. 
 
 Ruth i: i -ix, 14-18. 
 
 LXXII. 
 
 Faithfulness. 
 
 THE STORY OF RUTH. II. 
 
 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her 
 daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the 
 country of Moab : and they came to Beth-lehem in 
 the beginning of barley harvest. 
 
 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a 
 mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech ; 
 and his name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabitess 
 said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and 
 glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall 
 find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daugh- 
 ter. And she went, and came, and gleaned in the 
 field after the reapers : and her hap was to light on 
 a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of 
 the kindred of Elimelech. 
 
 And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and 
 
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 said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you. And 
 they answered him, The Lord bless thee. Then said 
 Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, 
 Whose damsel is this ? And the servant that was 
 set over the reapers answered and said, It is the 
 Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out 
 of the country of Moab : and she said, I pray you, 
 let me glean and gather after the reapers among the 
 sheaves : so she came, and hath continued even from 
 the morning until now, that she tarried a little in 
 the house. Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou 
 not, my daughter ? Go not to glean in another field, 
 neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my 
 maidens. 
 
 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to 
 the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found 
 grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowl- 
 edge of me, seeing I am a stranger ? And Boaz 
 answered and said unto her, It hath fully been 
 shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother 
 in law since the death of thine husband ; and how 
 thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the 
 land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people 
 which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord 
 recompense thy work, and a full reward be given 
 thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings 
 thou art come to trust. Ruth I:22) 2: ,. 8f I0 . J2 . 
 
 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my 
 fortress, my God ; in Him will I trust. 
 
 Psalm QI :2. 
 
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 LXXIII. 
 
 The Omnipotence and Omnipresence of God. 
 
 O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. 
 
 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising ; 
 
 Thou understandest my thought afar off. 
 
 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, 
 
 And art acquainted with all my ways. 
 
 For there is not a word in my tongue, 
 
 But, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. 
 
 Thou hast beset me behind and before, 
 
 And laid thine hand upon me. 
 
 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me ; 
 
 It is high, I cannot attain unto it. 
 
 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit ? 
 
 Or whither shall I flee from thy presence ? 
 
 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there ; 
 
 If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 
 
 If I take the wings of the morning, 
 
 And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ; 
 
 Even there shall thy hand lead me, 
 
 And thy right hand shall hold me. 
 
 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me ; 
 
 Even the night shall be light about me. 
 
 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee ; 
 
 But the night shineth as the day : 
 
 The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. 
 
 Psalm 139: 1-12. 
 
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 LXXIV. 
 
 The Two Houses. 
 
 Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and 
 doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which 
 built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, 
 and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat 
 upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded 
 upon a rock. 
 
 And every one that heareth these sayings of 
 mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a 
 foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : 
 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and 
 the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it 
 fell : and great was the fall of it. 
 
 Matt. 7: 24-27. 
 
 LXXV. 
 
 Secret Prayer. 
 
 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the 
 hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in 
 the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, 
 that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto 
 you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou 
 prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast 
 shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret ; 
 and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward 
 thee openly. 
 
 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as 
 the heathen do: for they think that they shall be 
 heard for their much speaking. Be not ye there- 
 
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 fore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what 
 things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 
 
 Matt 6: S-8. 
 
 LXXVI. 
 
 The Providence of God. 
 
 The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, 
 The thoughts of his heart to all generations. 
 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord ; 
 And the people whom he hath chosen for his own 
 
 inheritance. 
 
 The Lord looketh from heaven; 
 He beholdeth all the sons of men. 
 From the place of his habitation 
 He looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. 
 He fashioneth their hearts alike ; 
 He considereth all their works. 
 
 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host : 
 A mighty man is not delivered by much strength. 
 A horse is a vain thing for safety: 
 Neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. 
 Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear 
 
 him, 
 
 Upon them that hope in his mercy; 
 To deliver their soul from death, 
 And to keep them alive in famine. 
 Our soul waiteth for the Lord : 
 He is our help and our shield. 
 For our heart shall rejoice in him, 
 Because we have trusted in his holy name. 
 Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, 
 According as we hope in thee. Psahn 33. 
 
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 LXXVII. 
 Eager Longings. 
 
 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, 
 So panteth my soul after thee, O God. 
 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : 
 When shall I come and appear before God ? 
 
 Yet the Lord will command his loving-kindness in 
 the daytime, 
 
 And in the night his song shall be with me, 
 
 And my prayer unto the God of my life. 
 
 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou for- 
 gotten me ? 
 
 Why go I mourning because of the oppression of 
 the enemy ? 
 
 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach 
 me; 
 
 While they say daily unto me, Where is thy God ? 
 
 Why art thou cast down, O my soul ? 
 
 And why art thou disquieted within me ? 
 
 Hope thou in God : for I shall yet praise him, 
 
 Who is the health of my countenance, and my God. 
 
 Psalm 42: x-2, 8-u. 
 
 LXXVIII. 
 
 The Mines. 
 
 Surely there is a vein for the silver, 
 And a place for gold where they fine it. 
 Iron is taken out of the earth, 
 And brass is molten out 0/the stone. 
 He setteth an end to darkness, 
 
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 And searcheth out all perfection : 
 
 The stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. 
 
 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant ; 
 
 Even the waters forgotten of the foot : 
 
 They are dried up, they are gone away from men. 
 
 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: 
 
 And under it is turned up as it were fire. 
 
 The stones of it are the place of sapphires : 
 
 And it hath dust of gold. 
 
 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, 
 
 And which the vulture's eye hath not seen : 
 
 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, 
 
 Nor the fierce lion passed by it. 
 
 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock ; 
 
 He overturneth the mountains by the roots. 
 
 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks ; 
 
 And his eye seeth every precious thing. 
 
 He bindeth the floods from overflowing ; 
 
 And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. 
 
 Job 28:1-11. 
 
 LXXIX. 
 
 The Value of Wisdom. 
 
 But where shall wisdom be found ? 
 
 And where is the place of understanding? 
 
 Man knoweth not the price thereof; 
 
 Neither is it found in the land of the living. 
 
 The depth saith, It is not in me : 
 
 And the sea saith, // is not with me. 
 
 It cannot be gotten for gold, 
 
 Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. 
 
 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, 
 
 With the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 
 
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 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it. 
 
 And the exchange of it shall nofbe for jewels of fine 
 
 gold. 
 
 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls : 
 For the price of wisdom is above rubies. 
 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it; 
 Neither shall it be valued with pure gold. 
 Whence then cometh wisdom? 
 And where is the place of understanding ? 
 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, 
 And kept close from the fowls of the air. 
 Destruction and death say, 
 
 We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. 
 God understandeth the way thereof, 
 And he knoweth the place thereof. 
 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, 
 And seeth under the whole heaven ; 
 To make the weight for the winds ; 
 And he weigheth the waters by measure. 
 When he made a decree for the rain, 
 And a way for the lightning of the thunder; 
 Then did he see it, and declare it ; 
 He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. 
 And unto man he said, 
 
 Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; 
 And to depart from evil is understanding. j ob 28:12-28. 
 
 LXXX. 
 
 A Call to All in Need. 
 
 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the 
 waters, and he that hath no money ; come ye, buy, 
 
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 and eat ; yea, come, buy wine and milk without 
 money and without* price. 
 
 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is 
 not bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth 
 not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that 
 which is good, and let your soul delight itself in 
 fatness. 
 
 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and 
 your soul shall live ; and I will make an everlasting 
 covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 
 
 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the 
 people, a leader and commander to the people. 
 
 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou know- 
 est not, and nations that knew not thee shall run 
 unto thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the 
 Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. 
 
 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye 
 upon him while he is near : let the wicked forsake 
 his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts : and 
 let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy 
 upon him ; and to our God, for he will abundantly 
 pardon. 
 
 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither 
 are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as 
 the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my 
 ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than 
 your thoughts. 
 
 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from 
 heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth 
 the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that 
 it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the 
 eater : So shall my word be that goeth forth out 
 of my mouth : it shall not return unto me void, but 
 
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 it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall 
 prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 
 
 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth 
 with peace : the mountains and the hills shall break 
 forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the 
 field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn 
 shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier 
 shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the 
 Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall 
 not be cut off. Isaiah 55 . 
 
 LXXXI. 
 
 A Glad Mission. 
 
 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because 
 the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings 
 unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the 
 brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, 
 and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; 
 to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and 
 the day of vengeance of our God ; to comfort all 
 that mourn. Isaiah 61:1-2. 
 
 LXXXII. 
 
 Alms Giving. 
 
 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, 
 to be seen of them : otherwise ye have no reward of 
 your Father which is in heaven. 
 
 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not 
 sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in 
 the synagogues and in the streets, that they may 
 
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 have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They 
 have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let 
 not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth : 
 that thine alms may be in secret : and thy Father 
 which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee 
 openly. Matt. 6:1-4. 
 
 LXXXIII. 
 
 The Good Samaritan. 
 
 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and 
 tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to 
 inherit eternal life ? 
 
 He said unto him, What is written in the law? 
 how readest thou ? 
 
 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord 
 thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, 
 and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; 
 and thy neighbour as thyself. 
 
 And he said unto him, thou hast answered right : 
 this do, and thou shalt live. 
 
 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, 
 And who is my neighbour ? 
 
 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went 
 down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among 
 thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and 
 wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. 
 And by chance there came down a certain priest 
 that way ; and when he saw him, he passed by on 
 the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was 
 at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by 
 on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he 
 journeyed, came where he was ; and when he saw 
 
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 him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, 
 and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, 
 and set him on his own beast, and brought him to 
 an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow 
 when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave 
 them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of 
 him : and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I 
 come again, I will repay thee. 
 
 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was 
 neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves ? 
 
 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. 
 Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise. 
 
 Luke 10 : 25-37. 
 
 LXXXIV. 
 
 Our Father s Mercy. 
 
 The Lord is merciful and gracious, 
 
 Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. 
 
 He will not always chide : 
 
 Neither will he keep his anger for ever. 
 
 He hath not dealt with us after our sins ; 
 
 Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 
 
 For as the heaven is high above the earth, 
 
 So great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 
 
 As far as the east is from the west, 
 
 So far hath he removed our transgressions from us. 
 
 Like as a father pitieth his children, 
 
 So the Lord pitieth them that fear him. 
 
 For he knoweth our frame ; 
 
 He remembereth that we are dust. 
 
 As for man, his days are as grass : 
 
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 As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 
 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; 
 And the place thereof shall know it no more. 
 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to 
 
 everlasting upon them that fear him, 
 And his righteousness unto children's children ; 
 To such as keep his covenant, 
 And to those that remember his commandments to 
 
 do them. 
 
 The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; 
 And his kingdom ruleth over all. 
 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, 
 That do his commandments, hearkening unto the 
 
 voice of his word. 
 Bless ye the Lord, a\\ ye his hosts; 
 Ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. 
 Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his 
 
 dominion: 
 Bless the Lord, O my soul. Psalm I03:8 . 22 . 
 
 LXXXV. 
 
 Samuel's Integrity 
 
 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have 
 hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto 
 me, and have made a king over you. And now, 
 behold, the king walketh before you : and I am old 
 and grayheaded ; and, behold, my sons are with you : 
 and I have walked before you from my childhood 
 unto this day. Behold, here I am: witness against 
 me before the LORD, and before his anointed : whose 
 ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken ? or 
 whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? 
 
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 or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind 
 mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. 
 
 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor 
 oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any 
 man's hand. And he said unto them, The LORD is 
 witness against you, and his anointed is witness this 
 day, that ye have not found aught in my hand. 
 And they answered, He is witness. 
 
 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin 
 against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you : but I 
 will teach you the good and the right way : Only 
 fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your 
 heart : for consider how great things he hath done 
 for you. , Sam> I2: ,. 5> 23f 24 . 
 
 LXXXVI. 
 
 Personal Responsibility. 
 
 When the son hath done that which is lawful and 
 right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done 
 them, he shall surely live. The soul that sinneth, it 
 shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the 
 father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of 
 the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be 
 upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall 
 be upon him. 
 
 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that 
 he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do 
 that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, 
 he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath 
 committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: 
 in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 
 
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 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should 
 die ? saith the Lord God : and not that he should 
 return from his ways, and live ? 
 
 But when the righteous turneth away from his 
 righteousness and committeth iniquity, and doeth 
 according to all the abominations that the wicked 
 man doeth, shall he live ? All his righteousness 
 that he hath done shall not be mentioned : in his 
 trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that 
 he hath sinned, in them shall he die. 
 
 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. 
 Hear now, O house of Israel ; is not my way equal ? 
 are not your ways unequal ? 
 
 When a righteous man turneth away from his 
 righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth 
 in them ; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he 
 die. Again, when the wicked man turneth away 
 from his wickedness that he hath committed, and 
 doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save 
 his soul alive. Because he considereth, and turneth 
 away from all his transgressions that he hath com- 
 mitted, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 
 
 Repent, and turn yourselves from all your trans- 
 gressions ; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast 
 away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye 
 have transgressed ; and make you a new heart and 
 a new spirit : for why will ye die, O house of Israel ? 
 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that 
 dieth, saith the Lord God : wherefore turn yourselves, 
 and live ye. Ezek . l8: 19 . 28 , 30-32. 
 
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 LXXXVII. 
 
 The Divine Ruler. 
 
 Give the king thy judgments, O God. 
 
 And thy righteousness unto the king's son. 
 
 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, 
 
 And thy poor with judgment. 
 
 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, 
 
 And the little hills, by righteousness. 
 
 He shall judge the poor of the people, 
 
 He shall save the children of the needy, 
 
 And shall break in pieces the oppressor. 
 
 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon 
 
 endure, 
 
 Throughout all generations. 
 
 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: 
 As showers that water the earth. 
 In his days shall the righteous flourish ; 
 And abundance of peace so long as the moon en- 
 
 dureth. 
 
 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, 
 And from the river unto the ends of the earth. 
 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before 
 
 him ; 
 
 And his enemies shall lick the dust. 
 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring 
 
 presents : 
 
 The Kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. 
 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him : 
 All nations shall serve him. 
 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth ; 
 
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 The poor also, and him that hath no helper. 
 
 He shall spare the poor and needy, 
 
 And shall save the souls of the needy. 
 
 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: 
 
 And precious shall their blood be in his sight, 
 
 Psalm 72: 1-14. 
 
 LXXXVIII. 
 
 Fidelity Rewarded. 
 
 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling 
 into a far country, who called his own servants, and 
 delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he 
 gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; 
 to every man according to his several ability ; and 
 straightway took his journey. 
 
 Then he that had received the five talents went 
 and traded with the same, and made them other five 
 talents. And likewise he that had received two, he 
 also gained other two. But he that had received 
 one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's 
 money. 
 
 After a long time the lord of those servants 
 cometh, and reckoneth with them. 
 
 And so he that had received five talents came 
 and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou 
 deliveredst unto me five talents : behold, I have 
 gained beside them five talents more. His lord said 
 unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: 
 thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make 
 thee ruler over many things : enter thou into the 
 joy of thy lord. 
 
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 He also that had received two talents came and 
 said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents : 
 behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. 
 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faith- 
 ful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few 
 things, I will make thee ruler over many things : 
 enter thou into the joy of thy lord. 
 
 Then he which had received the one talent came 
 and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard 
 man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and 
 gathering where thou hast not strewed: And I was 
 afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: 
 lo, there thou hast that is thine. 
 
 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou 
 wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I 
 reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have 
 not strewed : thou oughtest therefore to have put 
 my money to the exchangers, and then at my 
 coming I should have received mine own with 
 usury. Take therefore the talent from him, and 
 give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto 
 every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have 
 abundance: but from him that hath not shall be 
 taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye 
 the unprofitable servant into outer darkness : there 
 shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 
 
 Matt. 25: 14-20. 
 
 LXXXIX. 
 
 A Song" of Courage and Triumph. 
 
 The Lord is my light and my salvation ; 
 Whom shall I fear ? 
 
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 The Lord is the strength of my Life ; 
 
 Of whom shall I be afraid ? 
 
 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, 
 
 came upon me to eat up my flesh, 
 They stumbled and fell. 
 Though a host should encamp against me, 
 My heart shall not fear ; 
 Though war should rise against me, 
 In this will I be confident. 
 One thing have I desired of the Lord, 
 That will I seek after ; 
 That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the 
 
 days of my life, 
 
 To behold the beauty of the Lord, 
 And to inquire in his temple. 
 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his 
 
 pavilion : 
 
 In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me ; 
 He shall set me up upon a rock. 
 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine 
 
 enemies round about me ; 
 
 Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy ; 
 I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord. 
 
 Psalm 27: 1-6. 
 
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 A Supplication. 
 
 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice : 
 
 Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 
 
 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face ; 
 
 My heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek, 
 
 Hide not thy face far from me; 
 
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 Put not thy servant away in anger : 
 
 Thou hast been my help ; leave me not, 
 
 Neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. 
 
 When my father and my mother forsake me, 
 
 Then the Lord will take me up. 
 
 Teach me thy way, O Lord, 
 
 And lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. 
 
 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies : 
 
 For false witnesses are risen up against me, 
 
 And such as breathe out cruelty. Psalm 27: 7 _ I2 
 
 XCI. 
 
 Prosperity the Reward of Obedience. 
 
 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken 
 diligently unto my commandments which I com- 
 mand you this day, to love the LORD your God, 
 and to serve him with all your heart and with all 
 your soul, that I will give you the rain of your land 
 in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, 
 that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, 
 and thine oil. And I will send grass in thy fields 
 for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. 
 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not 
 deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, 
 and worship them ; and then the LORD'S wrath be 
 kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that 
 there be no rain, and that the land yield not her 
 fruit ; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good 
 land which the LORD giveth you. Therefore shall 
 ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your 
 
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 soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that 
 they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 
 
 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking 
 of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when 
 thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and 
 when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them 
 upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy 
 gates : That your days may be multiplied, and the 
 days of your children, in the land which the LORD 
 sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of 
 heaven upon the earth. For if ye shall diligently 
 keep all these commandments which I command 
 you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk 
 in all his ways, and to cleave unto him : Then will 
 the LORD drive out all these nations from before 
 you, and ye shall possess greater nations and 
 mightier than yourselves. Deutf . , 3 . 23 . 
 
 XCII. 
 
 The Two Brothers. 
 
 Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller 
 of the ground. 
 
 And in process of time it came to pass, that 
 Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering 
 unto the Lord, and Abel, he also brought of the 
 firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And 
 the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : 
 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not 
 respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his coun- 
 tenance fell. 
 
 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou 
 wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou 
 
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 doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou 
 doest not well, sin lieth at the door : and unto thee 
 shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. 
 
 And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it 
 came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain 
 rose up against Abel, his brother, and slew him. 
 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy 
 brother? And he said, I know not : Am I my 
 brother's keeper? 
 
 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of 
 thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. 
 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which 
 hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's 
 blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the 
 ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her 
 strength ; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be 
 in the earth. Gen. 4:2-12. 
 
 XCIII. 
 
 Cause of National Calamity. 
 
 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without 
 understanding ; which have eyes, and see not ; which 
 have ears, and hear not : 
 
 Fear ye not me ? saith the Lord : will ye not 
 tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand 
 for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that 
 it cannot pass it : and though the waves thereof toss 
 themselves, yet can they not prevail ; though they 
 roar, yet can they not pass over it ? 
 
 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious 
 heart ; they are revolted and gone. 
 
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 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear 
 the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former 
 and the latter, in his season : he reserveth unto us 
 the appointed weeks of the harvest. 
 
 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and 
 your sins have withholden good things from you. 
 
 For among my people are found wicked men: 
 they lay wait, as he that setteth snares ; they set a 
 trap, they catch men. 
 
 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full 
 of deceit: therefore they are become great, and 
 waxen rich. 
 
 They are waxen fat, they shine : yea, they over- 
 pass the deeds of the wicked : they judge not the 
 cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper ; 
 and the right of the needy do they not judge. 
 
 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord : 
 shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as 
 this? 
 
 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in 
 the land ; 
 
 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests 
 bear rule by their means ; and my people love to have 
 it so : and what will ye do in the end thereof ? 
 
 Jer.5:2i-3i. 
 
 XCIV. 
 
 Works of Iniquity. 
 
 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it 
 cannot save ; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot 
 hear : but your iniquities have separated between 
 you and your God, and your sins have hid his face 
 
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 from you, that he will not hear. For your hands are 
 defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; 
 your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath mut- 
 tered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor 
 any pleadeth for truth : they trust in vanity, and 
 speak lies ; 
 
 Their works are works of iniquity, and the act of 
 violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, 
 and they make haste to shed innocent blood : their 
 thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and 
 destruction are in their paths. The way of peace 
 they know not; and there is no judgment in their 
 goings : they have made them crooked paths ; who- 
 soever goeth therein shall not know peace. 
 
 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth 
 justice overtake us : we wait for light, but behold 
 obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 
 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope 
 as if we had no eyes : we stumble at noonday as in 
 the night ; we are in desolate places as dead men. 
 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves : 
 we look for judgment, but there is none ; for salva- 
 tion, but it is far off from us. For our transgressions 
 are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify 
 against us : for our transgressions are with us ; and 
 as for our iniquities, we know them ; in transgressing 
 and lying against the Lord, and departing away 
 from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, con- 
 ceiving and uttering from the heart words of false- 
 hood. And judgment is turned away backward, and 
 justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the 
 street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth : 
 
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 and he tJiat departeth from evil maketh himself a 
 prey: And the Lord saw it, and it displeased him 
 that there was no judgment. 
 
 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered 
 that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm 
 brought salvation unto him ; and his righteousness, 
 it sustained him. For he put on righteousness as 
 a breast-plate, and a helmet of salvation upon his 
 head ; and he put on the garments of vengeance 
 for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. 
 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, 
 fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies ; 
 to the islands he will repay recompense. 
 
 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the 
 west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When 
 the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of 
 the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. 
 
 Isaiah 59: 1-4, 6-19. 
 
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 The Duties of Patriotism. 
 
 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. 
 For there is no power but of God : the powers that 
 be are ordained of God. 
 
 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resist- 
 eth the ordinance of God: 
 
 > 
 
 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to 
 the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the 
 power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have 
 praise of the same : 
 
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 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. 
 But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he 
 beareth not the sword in vain : for he is the minister 
 of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that 
 doeth evil. 
 
 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only 
 for wrath, but also for conscience' sake. 
 
 For, for this cause pay ye tribute also : for they 
 are God's ministers, attending continually upon this 
 very thing. 
 
 Render therefore to all their dues : tribute to 
 whom tribute is due ; custom to whom custom;. fear 
 to whom fear ; honour to whom honour. 
 
 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: 
 for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 
 
 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou 
 shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not 
 bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if 
 there be any other commandment, it is briefly com- 
 prehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love 
 thy neighbor as thyself. 
 
 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore 
 love is the fulfilling of the law. 
 
 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high 
 time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation 
 nearer than when we believed. 
 
 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us 
 therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us 
 put on the armour of light. Rom . I3 . wo< 
 
 0NIVEHSITT 
 
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 xcvi. 
 
 A Glorious Future. 
 
 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that 
 the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be es- 
 tablished in the top of the mountains, and it shall 
 be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow 
 unto it. 
 
 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, 
 and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and 
 to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach 
 us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for 
 the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the 
 Lord from Jerusalem. 
 
 And he shall judge among many people, and 
 rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat 
 their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into 
 pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword 
 against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 
 
 But they shall sit every man under his vine and 
 under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: 
 for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. 
 
 In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her 
 that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, 
 and her that I have afflicted; and I will make her 
 that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off 
 a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign over them 
 in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. 
 
 Micah 4:14, 6-7. 
 
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 xcvu. 
 
 The Two Great Commandments. 
 
 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 
 heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy 
 mind. 
 
 This is the first and great commandment. 
 And the second is like unto it, 
 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 
 On these two commandments hang all the law 
 and the prophets. Matt 22: 37-40. 
 
 XCVIII. 
 
 The Source of Power, Wisdom and Joy. 
 
 how love I thy law ! 
 
 It is my meditation all the day. 
 
 Thou through thy commandments hast made me 
 
 wiser than mine enemies : 
 For they are ever with me. 
 
 1 have more understanding than all my teachers : 
 For thy testimonies are my meditation. 
 
 I understand more than the ancients, 
 Because I keep thy precepts. 
 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, 
 That I might keep thy word. 
 
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 I have not departed from thy judgments : 
 
 For thou hast taught me. 
 
 How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! 
 
 Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. 
 
 Through thy precepts I get understanding 
 
 Therefore I hate every false way. 
 
 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, 
 
 And a light unto my path. Psa i m 
 
 XCIX. 
 
 Wisdom s Call. 
 
 Doth not wisdom cry? 
 
 And understanding put forth her voice ? 
 
 She standeth in the top of high places, 
 
 By the way in the places of the paths. 
 
 She crieth at the gates, 
 
 At the entry of the city, 
 
 At the coming in at the doors : 
 
 Unto you, O men, I call ; 
 
 And my voice is to the sons of man. 
 
 O ye simple, understand wisdom : 
 
 And, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. 
 
 Hear ; for I will speak of excellent things ; 
 
 And the opening of my lips shall be right things. 
 
 For my mouth shall speak truth ; 
 
 And wickedness is an abomination to my lips. 
 
 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness ; 
 
 There is nothing froward or perverse in them. 
 
 They are all plain to him that understandeth, 
 
IVisdonfs Call. \ \ i 
 
 And right to them that find knowledge. 
 
 Receive my instruction, and not silver ; 
 
 And knowledge rather than choice gold. 
 
 For wisdom is better than rubies ; 
 
 And all the things that may be desired are not to be 
 compared to it. 
 
 I wisdom dwell with prudence, 
 
 And find out knowledge of witty inventions. 
 
 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil : 
 
 Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, 
 
 And the froward mouth, do I hate. 
 
 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom ; 
 
 I ant understanding; I have strength. 
 
 By me kings reign, 
 
 And princes decree justice. 
 
 By me princes rule, and nobles, 
 
 Even all the judges of the earth. 
 
 I love them that love me ; 
 
 And those that seek me early shall find me. 
 
 Riches and honour are with me ; 
 
 Yea, durable riches and righteousness. 
 
 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold ; 
 
 And my revenue than choice silver. 
 
 I lead in the way of righteousness, 
 
 In the midst of the paths of judgment : 
 
 That I may cause those that love me to inherit sub- 
 stance ; 
 
 And I will fill their treasures. 
 
 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, 
 
 Before his works of old. 
 
 I was set up from everlasting, 
 
 From the beginning, or ever the earth was. 
 
 When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; 
 
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 When there were no fountains abounding with water. 
 
 Before the mountains were settled, 
 
 Before the hills was I brought forth : 
 
 While as yet he had not made the earth, 
 
 Nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of 
 
 the world. 
 
 When he prepared the heavens, I was there : 
 When he set a compass upon the face of the depth : 
 When he established the clouds above : 
 When he strengthened the fountains of the deep : 
 When he gave to the sea his decree, 
 That the waters should not pass his commandment : 
 When he appointed the foundations of the earth : 
 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: 
 And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before 
 
 him ; 
 
 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; 
 And my delights were with the sons of men. 
 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children : 
 For blessed are they that keep my ways. 
 Hear instruction, and be wise, 
 And refuse it not. 
 Blessed is the man that heareth me, 
 Watching daily at my gates, 
 Waiting at the posts of my doors. 
 For whoso findeth me findeth life, 
 And shall obtain favour of the Lord. 
 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own 
 
 soul : 
 All they that hate me love death. Prov . 8: ,. 36 . 
 
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 c. 
 
 Good Resolutions for A Ruler. 
 
 I will sing of mercy and judgment: 
 
 Unto thee, O Lord, will I sing. 
 
 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. 
 
 O, when wilt thou come unto me? 
 
 I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. 
 
 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: 
 
 I hate the work of them that turn aside; 
 
 // shall not cleave to me. 
 
 A f reward heart shall depart from me: 
 
 I will not know a wicked person. 
 
 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I 
 
 cut off: 
 Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will 
 
 not I suffer. 
 
 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, 
 That they may dwell with me: 
 
 He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. 
 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my 
 
 house: 
 He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. 
 
 Psalm 101: 1-7. 
 
 CI. 
 
 The Ideal Woman. 
 
 Who can find a virtuous woman? 
 For her price is far above rubies. 
 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, 
 
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 So that he shall have no need of spoil. 
 
 She will do him good and not evil 
 
 All the days of her life. 
 
 She seeketh wool, and flax, 
 
 And worketh willingly with her hands. 
 
 She is like the merchants' ships; 
 
 She bringeth her food from afar. 
 
 She riseth also while it is yet night, 
 
 And giveth meat to her household, 
 
 And a portion to her maidens. 
 
 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: 
 
 With the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. 
 
 She girdeth her loins with strength, 
 
 And strengtheneth her arms. 
 
 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: 
 
 Her candle goeth not out by night. 
 
 She layeth her hands to the spindle, 
 
 And her hands hold the distaff. 
 
 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; 
 
 Yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. 
 
 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: 
 
 For all her household are clothed with scarlet. 
 
 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; 
 
 Her clothing is silk and purple. 
 
 Her husband is known in the gates, 
 
 When he sitteth among the elders of the land. 
 
 She maketh fine linen and selleth it; 
 
 And delivereth girdles unto the merchant. 
 
 Strength and honour are her clothing; 
 
 And she shall rejoice in time to come. 
 
 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; 
 
 And in her tongue is the law of kindness. 
 
 She looketh well to the ways of her household, 
 
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 And eateth not the bread of idleness. 
 
 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; 
 
 Her husband also, and he praiseth her. 
 
 Many daughters have done virtuously, 
 
 But thou excellest them all. 
 
 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: 
 
 But a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be 
 
 praised. 
 
 Give her of the fruit of her hands; 
 And let her own works praise her in the gates. 
 
 Prov. 31: 10-31. 
 
 CII. 
 
 Contemplation of Character and Law. 
 
 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, 
 Who walk in the law of the Lord. 
 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, 
 And that seek him with the whole heart. 
 They also do no iniquity: 
 They walk in his ways. 
 Thou hast commanded us 
 To keep thy precepts diligently. 
 
 that my ways were directed 
 To keep thy statutes! 
 
 Then shall I not be ashamed, 
 
 When I have respect unto all thy commandments. 
 
 1 will praise thee with uprightness of heart, 
 When I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. 
 I will keep thy statutes: 
 
 O forsake me not utterly. 
 
 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ? 
 
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 By taking heed thereto according to thy word. 
 With my whole heart have I sought thee: 
 
 let me not wander from thy commandments. 
 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, 
 
 That I might not sin against thee. 
 Blessed art thou, O Lord: 
 Teach me thy statutes. 
 With my lips have I declared 
 All the judgments of thy mouth. 
 
 Remove from me the way of lying: 
 And grant me thy law graciously. 
 
 1 have chosen the way of truth: 
 Thy judgments have I laid before me. 
 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: 
 
 Lord, put me not to shame. 
 
 1 will run the way of thy commandments, 
 When thou shalt enlarge my heart. 
 Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; 
 And I shall keep it unto the end. 
 
 Give me understanding, 
 
 And I shall keep thy law; 
 
 Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. 
 
 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; 
 
 For therein do I delight. 
 
 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, 
 
 And not to covetousness. 
 
 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; 
 
 And quicken thou me in thy way. 
 
 Psalm 119: 1-13, 29-37. 
 
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 cm. 
 
 Faith, Rest, Peace. 
 
 Trust in the Lord and do good; 
 
 So shalt thou dwell in the land, 
 
 And verily thou shalt be fed. 
 
 Delight thyself also in the Lord; 
 
 And he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 
 
 Commit thy way unto the Lord; 
 
 Trust also in him; 
 
 And he shall bring it to pass. 
 
 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the 
 
 light, and thy judgment as the noonday. 
 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: 
 Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in 
 
 his way, 
 Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to 
 
 pass. 
 
 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: 
 Fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 
 For evil doers shall be cut off: 
 But those that wait upon the Lord, 
 They shall inherit the earth. 
 
 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall notfo: 
 Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it 
 
 shall not be. 
 
 But the meek shall inherit the earth; 
 And shall delight themselves in the abundance of 
 
 Peace. Psalm 37: 3-- 
 
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 civ. 
 
 From The Farewell of Moses. 
 
 For this commandment which I command thee 
 this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it 
 far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldst say, 
 Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto 
 us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it 
 beyond the sea, that thou shouldst say, Who shall 
 go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we 
 may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh 
 unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou 
 mayest do it. 
 
 See, I have set before thee this day life and 
 good, and death and evil; in that I command thee 
 this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his 
 ways, and to keep his commandments, and his 
 statutes, and his judgments, that thou mayest live 
 and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless 
 thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 
 
 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt 
 not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship 
 other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you 
 this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye 
 shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither 
 thou passeth over Jordan to go to possess it. 
 
 I call heaven and earth to record this day against 
 you, that I have set before you life and death, bless- 
 ing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both 
 thou and thy seed may live: that thou mayest love 
 the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his 
 
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 voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he 
 is thy life, and the length of thy days. 
 
 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor 
 be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is 
 that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor 
 forsake thee. Deut . 3o: ,1-20, 31= 6. 
 
 CV. 
 
 Honorable Conduct Required Under all Cir- 
 cumstances. 
 
 Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour 
 your Lord doth come. 
 
 But know this, that if the goodman of the house 
 had known in what watch the thief would come, he 
 would have watched, and would not have suffered 
 his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also 
 ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son 
 of man cometh. 
 
 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom 
 his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give 
 them meat in due season? 
 
 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he 
 cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, 
 That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. 
 
 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, 
 my lord delayeth his coming: and shall begin to 
 smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with 
 the drunken; the lord of that servant shall come in 
 
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 a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour 
 that he is not aware of. And shall cut him asunder, 
 and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: 
 there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 
 
 Matt. 24:42-51. 
 
 CVI. 
 
 "The Lord's Portion is His People" 
 
 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak ; 
 
 And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 
 
 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, 
 
 My speech shall distil as the dew, 
 
 As the small rain upon the tender herb, 
 
 And as the showers upon the grass : 
 
 Because I will publish the name of the Lord : 
 
 Ascribe ye greatness unto our God. 
 
 He is the Rock, his work is perfect : 
 
 For all his ways are judgment : 
 
 A God of truth and without iniquity, 
 
 Just and right is he. 
 
 They have corrupted themselves, 
 
 Their spot is not the spot of his children : 
 
 They are a perverse and crooked generation. 
 
 Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and 
 
 unwise ? 
 
 Is not he thy father that hath bought thee ? 
 Hath he not made thee, and established thee ? 
 Remember the days of old, 
 Consider the years of many generations ? 
 Ask thy father, and he will shew thee ; 
 Thy elders, and they will tell thee. 
 
Glorious in Holiness. 1 2 1 
 
 When the Most High divided to the nations their 
 
 inheritance, 
 
 When he separated the sons of Adam, 
 He set the bounds of the people according to the 
 
 number of the children of Israel. 
 For the Lord's portion is his people : 
 Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 
 He found him in a desert land, 
 And in the waste howling wilderness ; 
 He led him about, 
 He instructed him, 
 He kept him as the apple of his eye. 
 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, 
 Fluttereth over her young, 
 Spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, 
 Beareth them on her wings : 
 So the Lord alone did lead him, 
 And there was no strange god with him. 
 
 Deut. 32: 1-12. 
 
 CVII. 
 
 Glorious in Holiness. 
 
 Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which 
 was, and is, and is to come. Rev. 4 :8. 
 
 Let your light so shine before men, that they 
 may see your good works, and glorify your Father 
 which is in heaven. Matt> 5:l6 
 
 Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and 
 he will dwell with them, and they shall be his peo- 
 
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 pie, and God himself shall be with them, and be 
 their God. 
 
 And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
 eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither 
 sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more 
 pain: for the former things are passed away. 
 
 Rev. 21:3, 4. 
 
 Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, 
 and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: 
 for all that is in the heaven and the earth is thine \ 
 thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted 
 as head above all. , Chron . 29:II 
 
 Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the 
 whole earth is full of his glory. Isaia h 6:3. 
 
 Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? 
 who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in 
 praises, doing wonders? EX. 15:11. 
 
 CVIII. 
 
 Righteous Laws. 
 
 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his 
 father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your 
 God. 
 
 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves 
 molten gods: I am the Lord your God. 
 
 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither 
 lie one to another. 
 
 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, 
 
Peace and Blessing for the Upright. 1 2 3 
 
 neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I 
 am the Lord. 
 
 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither 
 rob him, the wages of him that is hired shall not 
 abide with thee all night until the morning. 
 
 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumb- 
 ling block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: 
 I am the Lord. 
 
 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; 
 thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor 
 honour the person of the mighty: but in righteous- 
 ness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. 
 
 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer 
 among thy people. 
 
 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart; 
 thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not 
 suffer sin upon him. 
 
 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge 
 against the children of thy people, but thou shalt 
 love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord. 
 
 Lev. 19: 3-4, 11-18. 
 
 CIX. 
 
 Peace and Blessing for the Upright. 
 
 Praise ye the Lord. 
 
 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, 
 
 That delighteth greatly in his commandments. 
 
 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: 
 
 The generation of the upright shall be blessed. 
 
 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: 
 
 And his righteousness endureth for ever. 
 
 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: 
 
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 He is gracious and full of compassion, and righteous. 
 
 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: 
 
 He will guide his affairs with discretion. 
 
 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: 
 
 The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. 
 
 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: 
 
 His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. 
 
 Psalm 112 : 1-7. 
 
 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh up- 
 rightly: he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, 
 that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that 
 stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shut- 
 teth his eyes from seeing evil: he shall dwell on high; 
 his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks, 
 bread shall be given him; and his waters shall be sure: 
 
 Isaiah 33: 15-16. 
 
 ex. 
 
 The God of Nature. 
 
 Bless the Lord, O my soul. 
 
 O Lord my God, thou art very great; 
 
 Thou art clothed with honour and majesty: 
 
 Who coverest thyself "with light as with a garment: 
 
 Who stretcheth out the heavens like a curtain: 
 
 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: 
 
 Who maketh the clouds his chariot: 
 
 Who walketh upon the wings of the wind: 
 
 Who maketh his angels spirits; 
 
 His ministers a flaming fire: 
 
 Who laid the foundations of the earth, 
 
 That it should not be removed for ever. 
 
The God of Natiire. 1 2 5 
 
 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: 
 
 The waters stood above the mountains. 
 
 At thy rebuke they fled; 
 
 At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. 
 
 They go up by the mountains ; 
 
 They go down by the valleys 
 
 Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. 
 
 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; 
 
 That they turn not again to cover the earth. 
 
 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, 
 
 Which run among the hills. 
 
 They give drink to every beast of the field : 
 
 The wild asses quench their thirst. 
 
 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their 
 
 , habitation, 
 
 Which sing among the branches. 
 He watereth the hills from his chambers : 
 The earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. 
 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, 
 And herb for the service of man : 
 That he may bring forth food out of the earth ; 
 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, 
 And oil to make his face to shine, 
 And bread which strengtheneth man's heart. 
 The trees of the Lord are full of sap: 
 The cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted ; 
 Where the birds make their nests : 
 As for the stork, the fir trees are her house. 
 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats ; 
 And the rocks for the conies. 
 He appointed the moon for seasons : 
 The sun knoweth his going down. 
 Thou makest darkness, and it is night : 
 
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 Wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. 
 
 The young lions roar after their prey, 
 
 And seek their meat from God. 
 
 The sun ariseth, 
 
 They gather themselves together, 
 
 And lay them down in their dens. 
 
 Man goeth forth unto his work 
 
 And to his labour until the evening. 
 
 O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! 
 
 In wisdom hast thou made them all : 
 
 The earth is full of thy riches. 
 
 So is this great and wide sea, 
 
 Wherein are things creeping innumerable, 
 
 Both small and great beasts. 
 
 There go the ships : 
 
 There is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play 
 
 therein. 
 
 These wait all upon thee ; 
 
 That thou mayest give them their meat in due season. 
 That thou givest them they gather : 
 Thou openest thine hand, 
 They are filled with good. 
 Thou hidest thy face, 
 They are troubled : 
 Thou takest away their breath, 
 They die, and return to their dust. 
 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, 
 They are created : 
 
 And thou renewest the face of the earth. 
 The glory of the Lord shall endure forever : 
 The Lord shall rejoice in his works. 
 He looketh on the earth, 
 And it trembleth : 
 
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 He toucheth the hills, 
 
 And they smoke. 
 
 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : 
 
 I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 
 
 My meditation of him shall be sweet ; 
 
 I will be glad in the Lord. 
 
 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, 
 
 And let the wicked be no more. 
 
 Bless thou the Lord, O my soul. 
 
 Praise ye the Lord. Psa i m 104< 
 
 CXI. 
 
 Rules of Conduct. 
 
 He that giveth, let hint do it with simplicity; he 
 that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, 
 with cheerfulness. 
 
 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that 
 which is evil; cleave to that which is good. 
 
 Be kindly affectioned one to another with broth- 
 erly love; in honour preferring one another; 
 
 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serv- 
 ing the Lord; 
 
 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continu- 
 ing instant in prayer; 
 
 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to 
 hospitality. 
 
 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse 
 not. 
 
 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with 
 them that weep. 
 
 Be of the same mind one towards another. Mind 
 
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 not high things, but condescend to men of low 
 estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. 
 
 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide 
 things honest in the sight of all men. 
 
 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live 
 peaceably with all men. 
 
 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather 
 give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance 
 is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. 
 
 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he 
 thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt 
 heap coals of fire on his head. 
 
 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with 
 
 Romans 12: 8-21. 
 
 CXII. 
 
 A Final Resort in Trouble. 
 
 I cried unto the Lord with my voice ; 
 
 With my voice unto the Lord did I make my suppli- 
 cation. 
 
 I poured out my complaint before him ; 
 
 I shewed before him my trouble. 
 
 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, 
 
 Then thou knewest my path. 
 
 In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid 
 a snare for me. 
 
 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, 
 
 But there was no man that would know me : 
 
 Refuge failed me ; 
 
 No man cared for my soul. 
 
 I cried unto thee, O Lord : 
 
Proverbs. 129 
 
 I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the 
 
 land of the living. 
 Attend unto my cry ; 
 For I am brought very low : 
 Deliver me from my persecutors ; 
 For they are stronger than I. 
 Bring my soul out of prison, 
 That I may praise thy name : 
 The righteous shall compass me about ; 
 For thou shalt deal bountifully with me. 
 
 Psalm 142 : 1-7. 
 
 CXIII. 
 
 Proverbs. 
 
 In all labor there is profit : 
 
 But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. 
 
 The crown of the wise is their riches : 
 
 But the foolishness of fools is folly. 
 
 A true witness delivereth souls : 
 
 But a deceitful witness speaketh lies. 
 
 In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence : 
 
 And his children shall have a place of refuge. 
 
 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, 
 
 To depart from the snares of death. 
 
 In the multitude of people is the king's honour : 
 
 But in the want of people is the destruction of the 
 
 prince. 
 
 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding : 
 But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. 
 A sound heart is the life of the flesh : 
 But envy the rottenness of the bones. 
 
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 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: 
 
 But he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. 
 
 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness : 
 
 But the righteous hath hope in his death. 
 
 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath under- 
 standing : 
 
 But that which is in the midst of fools is made 
 known. 
 
 Righteousness exalteth a nation : 
 
 But sin is a reproach to any people. 
 
 Prov. 14:23-34. 
 
 CXIV. 
 
 Yearnings for the Place of Worship. 
 
 How amiable are thy tabernacles, 
 
 O Lord of hosts ! 
 
 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of 
 
 the Lord : 
 
 My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. 
 Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, 
 And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may 
 
 lay her young, 
 Even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and 
 
 my God. 
 
 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house : 
 They will be still praising thee. 
 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee : 
 In whose heart are the ways of them. 
 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a 
 
 well; 
 The rain also filleth the pools. 
 
The Glory that shall be Hereafter. 1 3 1 
 
 They go from strength to strength, 
 
 Every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 
 
 Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer : 
 Give ear, O God of Jacob. 
 
 Behold, O God our shield, 
 
 And look upon the face of thine anointed. 
 
 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. 
 
 1 had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, 
 Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 
 
 For the Lord God is a sun and shield : 
 
 The Lord will give grace and glory : 
 
 No good thing will he withhold from them that walk 
 
 uprightly. 
 O Lord of hosts, 
 Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. 
 
 Psalm 84. 
 
 cxv. 
 
 The Glory that shall be Hereafter. 
 
 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be 
 glad for them ; and the desert shall rejoice, and 
 blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, 
 and rejoice even with joy and singing : the glory of 
 Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of 
 Carmel and Sharon ; they shall see the glory of the 
 Lord, and the excellency of our God. 
 
 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the 
 feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful 
 heart, Be strong, fear not : behold, your God will 
 come with vengeance, even God with a recompense ; 
 he will come and save you. 
 
 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and 
 
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 the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall 
 the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the 
 dumb sing : for in the wilderness shall waters break 
 out, and streams in the desert. And the parched 
 ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land 
 springs of water : in the habitation of dragons, 
 where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. 
 
 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it 
 shall be called The way of holiness ; the unclean 
 shall not pass over it ; but it shall be for those : the 
 wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. 
 
 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast 
 shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there ; but 
 the redeemed shall walk there: And the ransomed of 
 the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs 
 and everlasting joy upon their heads : they shall 
 obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing 
 shall flee away. 
 
 CXVI. 
 
 The City of God. 
 
 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory 
 of the Lord is risen upon thee. 
 
 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, 
 and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall 
 arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 
 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will 
 bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: 
 I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exact- 
 ors righteousness. 
 
 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, 
 
Works of Repentance. 1 3 3 
 
 wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou 
 shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. 
 
 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; 
 neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto 
 thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting 
 light; and thy God thy glory. 
 
 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall 
 thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be 
 thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourn- 
 ing shall be ended. 
 
 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall 
 inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, 
 the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. 
 
 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small 
 one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his 
 
 time. Isaiah 60: 1-2, 17-22.. 
 
 CXVII. 
 
 Works of Repentance. 
 
 And the people asked him, saying, What shall 
 we do then ? 
 
 He answereth and saith unto them, He that 
 hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath 
 none ; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise. 
 
 Then came also publicans .... 
 
 And he said unto them, Exact no more than 
 that which is appointed you. 
 
 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, 
 saying, And what shall we do ? And he said unto 
 them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any 
 falsely ; and be content with your wages. 
 
 Luke 8: 10-14. 
 
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 CXVIII. 
 
 The Open Message. 
 
 The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, 
 and of his doctrine. 
 
 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; 
 I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, 
 whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I 
 said nothing. John 18:19-20 
 
 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; 
 God himself that formed the earth and made it; 
 he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he 
 formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there 
 is none else. 
 
 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of 
 the earth. Isaiah 4 $: 18-19. 
 
 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not 
 spoken in secret from the beginning. 
 
 Thus saith the Lord, .thy Redeemer, the Holy 
 One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teach- 
 eth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that 
 thou shouldest go. 
 
 O that thou hadst hearkened to my command- 
 ments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy 
 righteousness as the waves of the sea. 
 
 Isaiah 48: 16-18. 
 
 CXIX. 
 
 Leviathan. 
 
 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? 
 
 Or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? 
 
 Canst thou put a hook into his nose? 
 
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 Or bore his jaw through with a thorn? 
 
 Will he make many supplications unto thee? 
 
 Will he speak soft words unto thee? 
 
 Will he make a covenant with thee? 
 
 Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? 
 
 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? 
 
 Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? 
 
 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? 
 
 Shall they part him among the merchants? 
 
 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? 
 
 Or his head with fish spears? 
 
 Lay thine hand upon him, 
 
 Remember the battle, do no more. 
 
 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: 
 
 Shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? 
 
 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: 
 
 Who then is able to stand before me? 
 
 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? 
 
 Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. 
 
 I will not conceal his parts, 
 
 Nor his power, nor his comely proportion. 
 
 Who can discover the face of his garment? 
 
 Or who can come to him with his double bridle? 
 
 Who can open the doors of his face? 
 
 His teeth are terrible round about. 
 
 His scales are his pride, 
 
 Shut up together as with a close seal. 
 
 One is so near to another, 
 
 That no air can come between them. 
 
 They are joined one to another, 
 
 They stick together, that they cannot be sundered. 
 
 By his neesings a light doth shine, 
 
 And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. 
 
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 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, 
 
 And sparks of fire leap out. 
 
 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, 
 
 As out of a seething pot or caldron. 
 
 His breath kindleth coals, 
 
 And a flame goeth out of his mouth. 
 
 In his neck remaineth strength, 
 
 And sorrow is turned into joy before him. 
 
 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: 
 
 They are firm in themselves; 
 
 They cannot be moved. 
 
 His heart is as firm as a stone; 
 
 Yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. 
 
 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid; 
 
 By reason of breakings they purify themselves. 
 
 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: 
 
 The spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. 
 
 He esteemeth iron as straw, 
 
 And brass as rotten wood. 
 
 The arrow cannot make him flee: 
 
 Sling stones are turned with him into stubble. 
 
 Darts are counted as stubble: 
 
 He laugheth at the shaking of a spear. 
 
 Sharp stones are under him: 
 
 He spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. 
 
 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: 
 
 He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. 
 
 He maketh a path to shine after him; 
 
 One would think the deep to be hoary. 
 
 Upon earth there is not his like, 
 
 Who is made without fear. 
 
 He beholdeth all high things: 
 
 He is a king over all the children of pride. 
 
 Job 42. 
 
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 cxx. 
 
 The Shipwreck and Rescue of Paul. 
 
 Now when much time was spent, and when sail- 
 ing was now dangerous, because the fast was now 
 already past, Paul admonished them, and said unto 
 them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with 
 hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and 
 ship, but also of our lives. 
 
 Nevertheless the centurion believed the master 
 and the owner of the ship, more than those things 
 which were spoken by Paul. 
 
 And because the haven was not commodious to 
 winter in, the more part advised to depart thence 
 also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, 
 and there to winter; which is a haven of Crete, and 
 lieth toward the southwest and northwest. 
 
 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing 
 that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, 
 they sailed close by Crete. But not long after there 
 arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Eurocly- 
 don. And when the ship was caught, and could not 
 bear up into the wind, we let her drive. 
 
 And running under a certain island which is 
 called Clauda, we had much work to come by the 
 boat: which when they had taken up, they used 
 helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they 
 should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so 
 were driven. 
 
 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, 
 the next day they lightened the ship : and the third 
 
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 day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of 
 the ship. 
 
 And when neither sun nor stars in many days 
 appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope 
 that we should be saved was then taken away. 
 
 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we 
 were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight 
 the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some 
 country; and sounded, and found it twenty fathoms; 
 and when they had gone a little further, they 
 sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms. Then 
 fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they 
 cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for 
 the day. 
 
 And when it was day, they knew not the land; 
 but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, 
 into the which they were minded, if it were possi- 
 ble, to thrust in the ship. And when they had taken 
 up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the 
 sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the 
 mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore. 
 
 And falling into a place where two seas met, they 
 ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, 
 and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was 
 broken with the violence of the waves. 
 
 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the pris- 
 oners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. 
 
 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept 
 them from their purpose; and commanded that they 
 which could swim should cast themselves first into the 
 
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 sea, and get to land; and the rest, some on boards, 
 and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it 
 came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land. 
 
 Acts 27: 9-20, 27-29 and 39-44. 
 
 CXXI. 
 
 Grief Because of a False Friend. 
 
 Oh that I had wings like a dove ! 
 
 For then would I fly away and be at rest. 
 
 Lo, then would I wander far off, 
 
 And remain in the wilderness. 
 
 I would hasten my escape 
 
 From the windy storm and tempest. 
 
 For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; 
 
 Then I could have borne it: 
 
 Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify 
 
 himself against me; 
 
 Then I would have hid myself from him : 
 But it was thou, 
 A man mine equal, 
 My guide, and mine acquaintance. 
 We took sweet counsel together, 
 And walked unto the house of God in company 
 
 As for me, I will call upon God ; 
 And the LORD shall save me. 
 Evening, and morning, 
 And at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud : 
 And he shall hear my voice. 
 
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 He hath delivered my soul in peace 
 
 From the battle that was against me : 
 
 For there were many with me. 
 
 God shall hear, and afflict them, 
 
 Even he that abideth of old. 
 
 Because they have no changes, 
 
 Therefore they fear not God. 
 
 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at 
 
 peace with him : 
 He hath broken his covenant. 
 
 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, 
 But war was in his heart : 
 His words were softer than oil, 
 Yet were they drawn swords. 
 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, 
 And he shall sustain thee : 
 He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. 
 
 Psalm 55: 6-8, 12-14, 16-22. 
 
 CXXII. 
 
 "They Shall be My People." 
 
 And it shall come to pass, iliat like as I have 
 watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, 
 and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict ; 
 so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant; 
 saith the LORD. 
 
 In those days they shall say no more: The 
 fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's 
 teeth are set on edge. 
 
 But every one shall die for his own iniquity : 
 
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 every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall 
 be set on edge. 
 
 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I 
 will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, 
 and with the house of Judah : hot according to the 
 covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day 
 that I took them by the hand to bring them out 
 of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they 
 break, although I was a husband unto them, saith 
 the LORD : but this shall be the covenant that I will 
 make with the house of Israel ; After those days, 
 saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward 
 parts, and write it in their hearts ; and will be their 
 God, and they shall be my people. 
 
 And they shall teach no more every man his 
 neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know 
 the LORD : for they shall all know me, from the 
 least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the 
 LORD : for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will 
 remember their sin no more. jer. 31:28-34. 
 
 Ask, and it shall be given you ; seek, and ye 
 shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you : 
 For every one that asketh receiveth ; and he that 
 seeketh findeth ; and to him that knocketh it shall 
 be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if 
 his son ask bread ,will he give him a stone ? Or if 
 he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent ? If ye 
 then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto 
 your children, how much more shall your Father 
 which is in keaven give good things to them that 
 ask him? Mat. 77-11. 
 
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 CXXIII. 
 Faithful Instructors. Repentance. 
 
 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely 
 die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest 
 to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his 
 life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; 
 but his blood will I require at thine hand. 
 
 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not 
 from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he 
 shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy 
 soul. 
 
 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from 
 his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a 
 stumbling block before him, he shall die: because 
 thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his 
 sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall 
 not be remembered; but his blood will I require at 
 thine hand. 
 
 Nevertheless, if thou warn the righteous man, 
 that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he 
 shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou 
 hast delivered thy soul. Ezek 3 . , 8 . 2I 
 
 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, 
 thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn 
 the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die 
 in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine 
 hand. 
 
 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way 
 to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he 
 
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 shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy 
 soul. 
 
 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the 
 house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our trans- 
 gressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away 
 in them, how should we then live? Say unto them, 
 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in 
 the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn 
 from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your 
 evil way; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 
 
 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the chil- 
 dren of thy people, The righteousness of the right- 
 eous shall not deliver him in the day of his trans- 
 gression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he 
 shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth 
 from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be 
 able to live for his righteousness in the day that he 
 sinneth. 
 
 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall 
 surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and 
 commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be 
 remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath com- 
 mitted, he shall die for it. 
 
 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt 
 surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that 
 which is lawful and right; if the wicked restore the 
 pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the 
 statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he 
 shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his sins 
 that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto 
 him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he 
 shall surely live. 
 
 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of 
 
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 the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is 
 not equal. 
 
 When the righteous turneth from his righteous- 
 ness, and committed iniquity, he shall even die 
 thereby. 
 
 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and 
 do that which is lawful and right, he shall live 
 thereby. Ezek. 33=8-19. 
 
 CXXIV. 
 
 Value of Hope. 
 
 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your 
 
 heart, 
 All ye that hope in the Lord. Psalm 31 . 24 
 
 // is good that a man should both hope and 
 quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. 
 
 Lam. 3: 26. 
 
 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen 
 is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet 
 hope for? 
 
 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we 
 with patience wait for it. Romans 8: 24 . 25 . 
 
 cxxv. 
 
 Advice to an Entertainer. 
 
 Then said he also to him that bade him, When 
 thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy 
 friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsman, nor 
 thy rich neighbours ; lest they also bid thee again, 
 and a recompense be made thee. 
 
Trouble and Deliverance. 145 
 
 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the 
 maimed, the lame, the blind : And thou shalt be 
 blessed ; for they cannot recompense thee : for thou 
 shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. 
 
 Luke 14: 12-14. 
 
 CXXVI. 
 
 Trouble and Deliverance. 
 
 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, 
 
 Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground, 
 
 Yet man is born unto trouble, 
 
 As the sparks fly upward. 
 
 I would seek unto God, 
 
 And unto God would I commit my cause : 
 
 Which doeth great things and unsearchable ; 
 
 Marvellous things without number : 
 
 Who giveth rain upon the earth, 
 
 And sendeth waters upon the fields : 
 
 To set up on high those that be low ; 
 
 That those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 
 
 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, 
 
 So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. 
 
 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness : 
 
 And the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. 
 
 They meet with darkness in the daytime, 
 
 And grope in the noonday as in the night. 
 
 But he saveth the poor from the sword, 
 
 From their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. 
 
 So the poor hath hope, 
 
 And iniquity stoppeth her mouth. 
 
 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth : 
 
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 Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the 
 
 Almighty : 
 
 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up : 
 He woundeth, and his hands make whole. 
 He shall deliver thee in six troubles : 
 Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. 
 In famine he shall redeem thee from death : 
 And in war from the power of the sword. 
 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue ; 
 Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it 
 
 cometh. 
 
 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh : 
 Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the 
 
 earth. 
 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the 
 
 field: 
 And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with 
 
 thee. 
 
 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, 
 Like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. 
 
 Job 5: 6-23, 26. 
 
 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, 
 where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where 
 thieves break through and steal: 
 
 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, 
 where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and 
 where thieves do not break through nor steal: 
 
 For where your treasure is, there will your heart 
 be also. Matt. 6:19-21. 
 
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 CXXVII. 
 
 "Cease to do Evil: Learn to do Well.' 
 
 Wash ye, make you clean; put away the evil of 
 your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do 
 evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the 
 oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 
 
 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the 
 Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be 
 as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, 
 they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obe- 
 dient, ye shall eat the good of the land: but if ye 
 refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the 
 sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 
 
 Isaiah i: 16-20. 
 
 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let 
 him labor, working with his hands the thing which 
 is good, that he may have to give to him that need- 
 eth. 
 
 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your 
 mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, 
 that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 
 
 Eph. 4:28, 29. 
 
 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works 
 of darkness, but rather reprove them. Eph 5 . IT 
 
 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and 
 clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, 
 with all malice 
 
 And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, 
 forgiving one another. Eph ^ 
 
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 But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long- 
 suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. 
 
 Meekness, temperance : against such there is no 
 
 law. Gal. 5: 22-23. 
 
 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the Scripture, 
 Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well : 
 
 Jas. 2:8. 
 
 CXXVIII. 
 
 The Parable of the Excuses. 
 
 And when one of them that sat at meat with 
 him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is 
 he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 
 
 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a 
 great supper, and bade many; and sent his servant 
 at supper time to say to them that were bidden, 
 Come; for all things are now ready. 
 
 And they all with one consent began to make ex- 
 cuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a 
 piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I 
 pray thee have me excused. And another said, I 
 have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove 
 them: I pray thee have me excused. .... 
 
 So that servant came, and showed his lord these 
 things. Then the master of the house being angry 
 said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets 
 and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, 
 and the maimed, and the halt and the blind. 
 
 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou 
 hast commanded, and yet there is room. 
 
 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into 
 
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 the highways and hedges, and compel them to come 
 in, that my house may be filled. For I say unto 
 you, That none of those men which were bidden 
 shall taste of my supper. Luke , 4 . 15 _2 4- 
 
 CXXIX. 
 
 The Deliverer. 
 
 I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. 
 
 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my de- 
 liverer; 
 
 My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; 
 
 My buckler, and the horn of my salvation and my 
 high tower. 
 
 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: 
 
 So shall I be saved from mine enemies. 
 
 The sorrows of death compassed me, 
 
 And the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 
 
 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: 
 
 The snares of death prevented me. 
 
 In my distress I called upon the Lord, 
 
 And cried unto my God: 
 
 He heard my voice out of his temple, 
 
 And my cry came before him, even into his ears. 
 
 Then the earth shook and trembled; 
 
 The foundations also of the hills moved 
 
 And were shaken, because he was wroth. 
 
 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, 
 
 And fire out of his mouth devoured: 
 
 Coals were kindled by it. 
 
 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: 
 
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 And darkness was under his feet. 
 
 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: 
 
 Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. 
 
 He made darkness his secret place; 
 
 His pavilion round about him were dark waters and 
 thick clouds of the skies. 
 
 At the brightness that was before him his thick 
 clouds passed, 
 
 Hail stones and coals of fire. 
 
 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, 
 
 And the Highest gave his voice; 
 
 Hail stones and coals of fire. 
 
 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; 
 
 And he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. 
 
 Then the channels of waters were seen, 
 
 And the foundations of the world were discovered 
 
 At thy rebuke, O Lord, 
 
 At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. 
 
 He sent from above, he took me, 
 
 He drew me out of many waters. 
 
 He delivered me from my strong enemy, 
 
 And from them which hated me: 
 
 For they were too strong for me. 
 
 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: 
 
 But the Lord was my stay. 
 
 He brought me forth also into a large place; 
 
 He delivered me, because he delighted in me. 
 
 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteous- 
 ness; 
 
 According to the cleanness of my hands hath he 
 recompensed me. 
 
 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, 
 
 And have not wickedly departed from my God. 
 
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 For all his judgments were before me, 
 
 And I did not put away his statutes from me. 
 
 I was also upright before him, 
 
 And I kept myself from mine iniquity. 
 
 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me accord- 
 ing to my righteousness, 
 
 According to the cleanness of my hands in his eye- 
 sight. 
 
 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; 
 
 With an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; 
 
 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; 
 
 And with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. 
 
 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; 
 
 But wilt bring down high looks. 
 
 For thou wilt light my candle: 
 
 The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. 
 
 For by thee I have run through a troop; 
 
 And by my God have I leaped over a wall. 
 
 As for God his way is perfect: 
 
 The word of the Lord is tried: 
 
 He is a buckler to all those that trust in him. 
 
 For who is God save the Lord? 
 
 Or who is a rock save our God? 
 
 // is God that girdeth me with strength, 
 
 And maketh my way perfect. 
 
 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: 
 
 And thy right hand hath holden me up, 
 
 And thy gentleness hath made me great. 
 
 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, 
 
 That my feet did not slip. 
 
 The Lord liveth; and blessed be my Rock; 
 
 And let the God of my salvation be exalted. 
 
 Psalm 18 : 1-32, 35-36, 46. 
 
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 cxxx. 
 
 The Bearer of Sorrow, Weakness and Sin. 
 
 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the 
 arm of the Lord revealed? for he shall grow up be- 
 fore him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry 
 ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when 
 we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should 
 desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; 
 a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we 
 hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, 
 and we esteemed him not. 
 
 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our 
 sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of 
 God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our 
 transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the 
 chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with 
 his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have 
 gone astray; we have turned every one to his own 
 way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of 
 us all. 
 
 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he 
 opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to 
 the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is 
 dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken 
 from prison and from judgment: and who shall de- 
 clare his generation? for he was cut off out of the 
 land of the living: for the transgression of my peo- 
 ple was he stricken. And he made his grave with 
 the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because 
 he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in 
 his mouth. 
 
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 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath 
 put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an 
 offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall pro- 
 long his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall 
 prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of 
 his soul, a?id shall be satisfied: by his knowledge 
 shall my righteous servant justify many; for he 
 shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide 
 him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the 
 spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out 
 his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the 
 transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and 
 made intercession for the transgressors. 
 
 Isaiah 53. 
 
 CXXXI. 
 
 The Voice in the Wilderness. 
 
 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, 
 Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in 
 the desert a highway for our God. Every valley 
 shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall 
 be made low : and the crooked shall be made 
 straight, and the rough places plain : and the glory 
 of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see 
 //together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 
 
 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I 
 cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness 
 thereof is as the flower of the field : the grass 
 withereth, the flower fadeth ; because the spirit of 
 the Lord bloweth upon it : surely the people is 
 grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; 
 but the word of our God shall stand forever. 
 
 Isaiah 40 : 3-8. 
 
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 Behold, the Lord God will come with strong 
 hand, and his arm shall rule for him : behold, his 
 reward is with him, and his work before him. He 
 shall feed his flock like a shepherd : he shall gather 
 the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his 
 bosom. 
 
 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of 
 his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and 
 comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, 
 and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills 
 in a balance? Who hath directed the Spirit of the 
 Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? 
 
 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed 
 him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and 
 taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way 
 of understanding ? 
 
 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, 
 and are counted as the small dust of the balance : 
 behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 
 All nations before him are as nothing ; and they 
 are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. 
 
 Isaiah 40 : 1015, 17. 
 
 CXXXII. 
 
 The Holy One. 
 
 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it 
 not been told you from the beginning? have ye not 
 understood from the foundations of the earth? 
 
 // is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, 
 and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; 
 that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and 
 
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 spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : that 
 bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the 
 judges of the earth as vanity. 
 
 Yea, they shall not be planted ; yea, they shall 
 not be sown ; yea, their stock shall not take root in 
 the earth : and he shall also blow upon them, and 
 they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them 
 away as stubble. 
 
 To whom then will you liken me, or shall I be 
 equal? saith the Holy One. 
 
 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath 
 created these things, that bringeth out their host by 
 number : he calleth them all by names by the great- 
 ness of his might, for that he is strong in power ; not 
 one faileth. 
 
 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O 
 Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judg- 
 ment is passed over from my God? 
 
 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that 
 the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the 
 ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? 
 there is no searching of his understanding. 
 
 He giveth power to the faint ; and to them that 
 have no might he increaseth strength. Even the 
 youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men 
 shall utterly fall : but they that wait upon the Lord 
 shall renew their strength ; they shall mount up 
 with wings as eagles ; they shall run, and not be 
 weary ; and they shall walk, and not faint. 
 
 Isaiah 40 : 21-31. 
 
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 CXXXIII. 
 
 Reconciliation and Forgiveness. 
 
 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against 
 thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him 
 alone : if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy 
 brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with 
 thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or 
 three witnesses every word may be established. And 
 if he shall neglect to hear them, tell *V unto the church: 
 but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto 
 thee as a heathen man and a publican 
 
 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how 
 oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive 
 him? till seven times? 
 
 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until 
 seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. 
 
 Matt. 18: 15-17, 21-22. 
 
 If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; 
 and if he repent, forgive him. Luke 17:3. 
 
 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye 
 which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit 
 of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be 
 tempted. Gal. 6-. i. 
 
 CXXXIV. 
 
 Personal and National Sin Brings Calamity. 
 
 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave 
 off righteousness in the earth, seek him that maketh 
 the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow 
 
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 of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark 
 with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, 
 and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: 
 the Lord is his name : that strengthened the 
 spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall 
 come against the fortress. 
 
 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and 
 they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. 
 
 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the 
 poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye 
 have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not 
 dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, 
 but ye shall not drink wine of them. For I know 
 your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: 
 they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn 
 aside the poor in the gate from their right. There- 
 fore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for 
 it is an evil time. 
 
 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and 
 so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as 
 ye have spoken. 
 
 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish 
 judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God 
 of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Jo- 
 seph. 
 
 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; 
 for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. But let 
 judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as 
 a mighty stream. Amos 5:7 . I5< 23 , 24 . 
 
 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, 
 went unto the chief priests, 
 
 And said unto them, What shall ye give me, and 
 
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 I will deliver him unto you? And they convenanted 
 with him for thirty pieces of silver. 
 
 And from that time he sought opportunity to 
 betray him. Mat. *: 14-16. 
 
 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he 
 saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and 
 brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief 
 priests and elders, 
 
 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the 
 innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? 
 see thou to that. 
 
 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the 
 temple, and departed, and went and hanged him- 
 
 Matt. 27: 3-5- 
 
 CXXXV. 
 
 Man Proposes; God Disposes. 
 
 And one of the company said unto him, Master, 
 speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance 
 with me. 
 
 And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge 
 or a divider over you? 
 
 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware 
 of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in 
 the abundance of the things which he possesseth. 
 
 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The 
 ground of a certain rich man brought forth plenti- 
 fully: and he thought within himself, saying, What 
 shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow 
 my fruits? 
 
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 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my 
 barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all 
 my fruits and my goods. 
 
 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much 
 goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, 
 drink, and be merry. 
 
 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy 
 soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall 
 those things be, which thou hast provided? 
 
 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and 
 is not rich toward God. Luke 12: 13-21. 
 
 CXXXVI. 
 
 Woe Follows Wickedness. 
 
 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, 
 and that write grievousness which they have pre- 
 scribed: to turn aside the needy from judgment, 
 and to take away the right from the poor of my 
 people, that widows may be their prey, and that 
 they may rob the fatherless! 
 
 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, 
 and in the desolation which shall come from far? to 
 whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave 
 
 your glory? Isaiah 10: 1-3. 
 
 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good 
 evil; that put darkness for light, and light for dark- 
 ness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 
 
 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, 
 and prudent in their own sight! 
 
 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, 
 
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 and men of strength to mingle strong drink : which 
 justify the wicked for reward, and take away the 
 righteousness of the righteous from him! 
 
 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and 
 the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be 
 as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: 
 because they have cast away the law of the Lord of 
 hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of 
 
 Israel. Isaiah 5: 20-30. 
 
 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most 
 of his mighty works were done, because they re- 
 pented not: 
 
 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Beth- 
 saida ! for if the mighty works, which were done in 
 you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would 
 have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 
 
 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable 
 for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than for 
 you. 
 
 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto 
 heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the 
 mighty works, which have been done in thee, had 
 been done in Sodom, it would have remained until 
 this day. 
 
 But I say unto you, That it shall be more toler- 
 able for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, 
 than for thee. Matt. 11:20-24. 
 
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 CXXXVII. 
 
 Sin and the Power that Removes it. 
 
 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and 
 bow myself before the high God? 
 
 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good ; and 
 what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, 
 and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy 
 God? 
 
 The Lord's voice crieth unto the city. 
 
 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the 
 house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is 
 abominable? 
 
 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, 
 and with the bag of deceitful weights? 
 
 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, 
 and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and 
 their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 
 
 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting 
 thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. 
 
 Micah 6: 6, 8-14, 
 
 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy ; when I 
 fall, I shall arise ; when I sit in darkness, the Lord 
 shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indigna- 
 tion of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, 
 until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for 
 me : he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall 
 behold his righteousness. 
 
 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth 
 
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 iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the 
 remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger 
 for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will 
 turn again, he will have compassion upon us ; he will 
 subdue our iniquities ; and thou wilt cast all their 
 sins into the depths of the sea. Micah 7 :8-9, 18-19. 
 
 CXXXVIII. 
 
 The Tongue. 
 
 For in many things we offend all. If any man 
 offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and 
 able also to bridle the whole body. 
 
 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that 
 they may obey us; and we turn about their whole 
 body. 
 
 Behold also the ships, which though they be so 
 great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they 
 turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever 
 the governor listeth. Even so the tongue is a little 
 member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how 
 great a matter a little fire kindleth! 
 
 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so 
 is the tongue among our members, that it defileth 
 the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of 
 nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind 
 of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of 
 things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of 
 mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an 
 unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless 
 we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we 
 
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 men, which are made after the similitude of God. 
 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and 
 cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so 
 to be. 
 
 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place 
 sweet water and bitter? 
 
 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? 
 either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield 
 salt water and fresh. James3:2-i2. 
 
 CXXXIX. 
 
 Peace or Strife. 
 
 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge 
 among you? let him shew out of a good conversa- 
 tion his works with meekness of wisdom. 
 
 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your 
 hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This 
 wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, 
 sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, 
 there is confusion and every evil work. 
 
 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, 
 then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full 
 of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and 
 without hypocrisy. 
 
 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace 
 of them that make peace. James3:i3-i8. 
 
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 CXL. 
 
 A Lofty Ambition. 
 
 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a 
 dream by night : and God said, Ask what I shall 
 give thee. 
 
 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy 
 servant David my father great mercy, according as 
 he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, 
 and in uprightness of heart with thee ; and thou hast 
 kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast 
 given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 
 
 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy 
 servant king instead of David my father : and I am 
 but a little child : I know not how to go out or come 
 in. And thy servant is in the midst of thy people 
 which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot 
 be numbered nor counted for multitude. Give there- 
 fore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy 
 people, that I may discern between good and bad : 
 for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? 
 
 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon 
 had asked this thing. And God said unto him, 
 Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not 
 asked for thyself long life ; neither hast asked riches 
 for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies ; 
 but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern 
 judgment; behold, I have done according to thy 
 word : lo, I have given thee a wise and an under- 
 standing heart; so that there was none like thee 
 before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like 
 
Compassion and Ingratitude. 1 6 5 
 
 unto thee. And I have also given thee that which 
 thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour : so 
 that there shall not be any among the kings like 
 unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my 
 ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, 
 as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen 
 thy days. 
 
 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a 
 dream. i Kings 3: 5-15- 
 
 CXLI. 
 
 Compassion and Ingratitude. 
 
 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened 
 unto a certain king, which would take account of 
 his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, 
 one was brought unto him, which owed him ten 
 thousand talents. But forasmuch as he had not to 
 pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his 
 wife, and children, and all that he had, and pay- 
 ment to be made. 
 
 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped 
 him, saying, Lord, have patience with me and I will 
 pay thee all. Then the lord of that servant was 
 moved with compassion, and loosed, him, and for- 
 gave him the debt. 
 
 But the same servant went out, and found one of 
 his fellow servants, which owed him a hundred 
 pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by 
 the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. 
 
 And his fellow servant fell down at his feet, and 
 
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 besought him, saying, Have patience with me and 
 I will pay thee all. 
 
 And he would not: but went and cast him into 
 prison, till he should pay the debt. 
 
 So when his fellow servants saw what was done, 
 they were very sorry, and came and told unto their 
 lord all that was done. 
 
 Then his lord, after he had called him, said unto 
 him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that 
 debt, because thou desiredst me: shouldest not thou 
 also have had compassion on thy fellow servant, 
 even as I had pity on thee? 
 
 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to 
 his tormentors, till he should pay all that was due 
 unto him. 
 
 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also 
 unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every 
 one his brother their trespasses. Matt. 18:23-35. 
 
 CXLII. 
 
 Personal and National Virtue Brings Prosperity. 
 
 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your 
 doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between 
 a man and his neighbour; if ye oppress not the 
 stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed 
 not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after 
 other gods to your hurt; then will I cause you to 
 dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your 
 fathers, for ever and ever. j er . 7.5-7, 23. 
 
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 Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye 
 shall be my people; and walk ye in all the ways that 
 I have commanded you, that it may be well unto 
 you. 
 
 Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory 
 in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in 
 his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: 
 but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he 
 understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord 
 which exercise loving kindness, judgment, and 
 righteousness, in the earth; for in these things I de- 
 light, saith the Lord. jer. 9:23-24. 
 
 // is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. 
 
 O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in 
 thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. 
 
 Jer. 10:23-24. 
 
 CXLIII. 
 
 The Finite as Compared with the Infinite. 
 
 How should man be just with God? 
 
 If he will contend with him, 
 
 He cannot answer him one of a thousand. 
 
 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength; 
 
 Who hath hardened himself against him, and hath 
 
 prospered? 
 
 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not; 
 Which overturneth them in his anger; 
 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, 
 And the pillars thereof tremble; 
 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; 
 
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 And sealeth up the stars; 
 
 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, 
 
 And treadeth upon the waves of the sea; 
 
 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades, 
 
 And the chambers of the south; 
 
 Which doeth great things past rinding out; 
 
 Yea, and wonders without number. 
 
 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: 
 
 He passeth on also, but I perceive him not. 
 
 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? 
 
 Who will say unto him, What doest thou? 
 
 How much less shall I answer him, 
 
 And choose out my words to reason with him? 
 
 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not 
 
 answer, 
 But I would make supplication to my judge. 
 
 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong; 
 
 And if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? 
 
 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn 
 me: 
 
 If I say I am perfect, it shall also prove me per- 
 verse. 
 
 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: 
 
 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer 
 
 him, 
 
 And we should come together in judgment. 
 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, 
 That might lay his hand upon us both. 
 
 job 9; 2-12, 14-15,19-21, 32.33- 
 
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 Canst thou by searching find out God ? 
 
 Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 
 
 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? 
 
 Deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 
 
 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, 
 
 And broader than the sea. job 11:7-9. 
 
 CXLIV. 
 
 In the Last Days. 
 
 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall 
 prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye 
 seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the 
 messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in : 
 behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. 
 
 But who may abide the day of his coming? and 
 who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a 
 refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap : and he shall sit 
 as a refiner and purifier of silver : and he shall purify 
 the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and 
 silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offer- 
 ing in righteousness. 
 
 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem 
 be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and 
 as in former years. 
 
 And I will come near to you to judgment : and 
 I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and 
 against the adulterers, and against false swearers, 
 and against those that oppress the hireling in his 
 wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn 
 aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, 
 saith the Lord of hosts. Mai. 3:1-5. 
 
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 Your words have been stout against me, saith the 
 Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much 
 against thee? 
 
 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God : and what 
 profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that 
 we have walked mournfully before the Lord of 
 hosts? 
 
 And now we call the proud happy ; yea, they 
 that work wickedness are set up ; yea, they that 
 tempt God are even delivered. 
 
 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one 
 to another : and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, 
 and a book of remembrance was written before him 
 for them that feared the Lord, and that thought 
 upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the 
 Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my 
 jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his 
 own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, 
 and discern between the righteous and the wicked, 
 between him that serveth God and him that serveth 
 him not. Mai. 3: 13-18. 
 
 CXLV. 
 
 Praying Without Meaning. 
 
 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of 
 God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the 
 sacrifice of fools : for they consider not that they do 
 evil. 
 
 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine 
 heart be hasty to utter any thing before God : for 
 
Mysteries of Nature. /. 1 7 < 
 
 God is in heaven, and them upon earth : therefore 
 let thy words be few. For a dream cometh through 
 the multitude of business : and a fool's voice is 
 known by multitude of words. 
 
 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to 
 pay it ; for he hath no pleasure in fools : pay that 
 which thou hast vowed. 
 
 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than 
 that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 
 
 Eccl.5:i-5. 
 
 CXLVI. 
 
 Mysteries of Nature. /. 
 
 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, 
 
 and said, 
 
 Who is this that darkeneth counsel 
 By words without knowledge? 
 Gird up now thy loins like a man; 
 For I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. 
 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the 
 
 earth? 
 
 Declare, if thou hast understanding. 
 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou know- 
 
 est? 
 
 Or who hath stretched the line upon it? 
 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? 
 Or who laid the corner stone thereof? 
 When the morning stars sang together, 
 And all the sons of God shouted for joy? 
 
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 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; 
 And caused the dayspring to know his place; 
 
 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? 
 Or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 
 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? 
 Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of 
 
 death? 
 
 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? 
 Declare if thou knowest it all. 
 Where is the way where light dwelleth? 
 And as for darkness, where is the place thereof, 
 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, 
 And that thou shouldest know the paths to the 
 
 house thereof? 
 
 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? 
 Or because the number of thy days is great? 
 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? 
 Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, 
 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, 
 Against the day of battle and war? 
 By what way is the light parted, 
 Which scattereth the east wind upon the earth? 
 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing 
 
 of waters, 
 
 Or a way for the lightning of thunder; 
 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; 
 On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 
 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground: 
 And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring 
 
 forth? 
 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, 
 
Mysteries of Nature. //. 1 73 
 
 Or loose the bands of Orion? 
 
 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? 
 
 Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? 
 
 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? 
 
 Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? 
 
 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, 
 
 That abundance of waters may cover thee? 
 
 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, 
 
 And say unto thee, Here we are? 
 
 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? 
 
 Or who hath given understanding to the heart? 
 
 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? 
 
 Or who can stay the bottles of heaven, 
 
 When the dust groweth into hardness, 
 
 And the clods cleave fast together? 
 
 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? 
 
 Or fill the appetite of the young lions, 
 
 When they couch in their dens, 
 
 And abide in the covert to lie in wait? 
 
 Who provideth for the raven his food? 
 
 When his young ones cry unto God, 
 
 They wander for lack of meat. Job #. I<7 12 , l6 . 27 , 3I . 4I . 
 
 CXLVII. 
 
 Mysteries of Nature. 77. 
 
 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, 
 Or abide by thy crib? 
 
 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the 
 furrow ? 
 
1 74 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 Or will he harrow the valleys after thee? 
 
 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? 
 
 Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? 
 
 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy 
 
 seed, 
 
 And gather it into thy barn? 
 
 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? 
 Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? 
 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, 
 And warmeth them in the dust, 
 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, 
 Or that the wild beast may break them. 
 
 Hast thou given the horse strength? 
 
 Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? 
 
 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? 
 
 The glory of his nostrils is terrible. 
 
 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his 
 
 strength: 
 
 He goeth on to meet the armed men. 
 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; 
 Neither turneth he back from the sword. 
 
 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, 
 
 And stretch her wings toward the south? 
 
 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, 
 
 And make her nest on high? 
 
 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, 
 
 Upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. 
 
 From thence she seeketh the prey, 
 
 And her eyes behold afar off. 
 
 Her young ones also suck up blood: 
 
 And where the slain are, there is she? 
 
 Job y): 9-15, 19-21,26-30. 
 
Mysteries of Nature. 77. 1 75 
 
 Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said, 
 
 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct 
 
 him? 
 
 He that reproveth God, let him answer it. 
 Then Job answered the Lord, and said, 
 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? 
 I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. 
 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: 
 Yea, twice; but I will proceed no further. 
 
 Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the 
 whirlwind and said, 
 Gird up thy loins now like a man: 
 I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 
 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? 
 Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be 
 
 righteous? 
 
 Hast thou an arm like God? 
 Or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? 
 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; 
 And array thyself with glory and beauty. 
 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: 
 And behold every one that is proud, and abase him. 
 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; 
 And tread down the wicked in their place. 
 Hide them in the dust together; 
 And bind their faces in secret. 
 Then will I also confess unto thee 
 That thine own right hand can save thee. 
 
 Job 40: 1-14. 
 
 Then Job answered the Lord, and said, 
 I know that thou canst do every thing, 
 And that no thought can be withholden from thee. 
 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? 
 
1 76 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 Therefore have I uttered that I understood not; 
 Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 
 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: 
 I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 
 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but 
 
 now mine eye seeth thee: 
 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and 
 
 ashes. job 42: 1-6. 
 
 CXLVIII. 
 
 A Message to the Young. 
 
 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy 
 youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years 
 draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure 
 in them; while the sun, or the light, or the moon, 
 or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return 
 after the rain: in the day when the keepers of the 
 house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow 
 themselves, and the grinders cease because they are 
 few, and those that look out of the windows be 
 darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the 
 streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and 
 he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the 
 daughters of music shall be brought low; also when 
 they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears 
 shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flour- 
 ish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and 
 desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long 
 home, and the mourners go about the streets: or 
 ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl 
 
The Greatest Thing in the IVorld. 177 
 
 be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, 
 or the wheel broken at the cistern. 
 
 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: 
 and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. 
 
 Eccl. 12: 1-7. 
 
 CXLIX. 
 
 The Greatest Thing in the World. 
 
 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of 
 angels and have not charity, I am become as sound- 
 ing brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have 
 the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, 
 and all knowledge ; and though I have all faith, so 
 that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, 
 I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods 
 to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be 
 burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 
 
 Charity suffereth long, and is kind ; charity en- 
 vieth not ; chanty vaunteth not itself, is not puffed 
 up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not 
 her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil ; 
 rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth ; 
 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all 
 things, endureth all things. 
 
 Charity never faileth : but whether there be proph- 
 ecies they shall fail ; whether there be tongues, they 
 shall cease ; whether there be knowledge, it shall 
 vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy 
 in part. But when that which is perfect is come, 
 then that which is in part shall be done away. 
 
178 Readings from the Bible. 
 
 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I under- 
 stood as a child, I thought as a child : but when I 
 became a man I put away childish things. 
 
 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but 
 then face to face : now I know in part ; but then 
 shall I know even as also I am known. 
 
 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three ; 
 but the greatest of these is charity. x Cor . 13. 
 
 CL. 
 
 Summary. 
 
 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter : 
 Fear God, and keep his commandments ; for this is 
 the whole duty of man. 
 
 For God shall bring every work into judgment, 
 with every secret thing, whether it be good, or 
 whether it be evil. Ecc i. 12= 8-14. 
 
 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither 
 shall fruit be in the vines ; the labour of the olive 
 shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the 
 flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be 
 no herds in the stalls : yet I will rejoice in the Lord, 
 I will joy in the God of my salvation. Hab 3 . 17 . l8 
 
 The Lord bless thee, and keep thee : the Lord 
 make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious 
 unto thee : the Lord lift up his countenance upon 
 thee, and give thee peace. Num . 6: 
 
Summary. 179 
 
 Now unto him that is able to keep you from fall- 
 ing, and to present you faultless before the presence 
 of his glory with exceeding joy, 
 
 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and 
 majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. 
 Amen. Jude i: ^ 
 
TOPICAL INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Age, The Golden, CXV, Is. 35 . . i 3I 
 
 Almsgiving, XII, Prov. 22:9-10 26 
 
 Aspirations, Noble, XXIII, Matt. 5:6 35 
 
 Benevolence, XVII, Ps. 41:1-2; 15.32:8 29 
 
 Bible, Influence of the, XCVIII, Ps. 119:97-105 109-110 
 
 Blessed, The, XXIII, Matt. 5:3-12, 35 
 
 XCIX, Prov. 8:32-31 - 112 
 
 Blessing, XIV, Psalm 34:10 28 
 
 Brothers, The Two, XCII, Gen. 4:2-12 - 102-103 
 
 Calamity, National, XC, Jer. 5:21-31 103-104 
 
 Children, Instruction of, XC, Deut. 11:19 - i 2 
 
 Children Blessed, II, Mark 10:13-16 17 
 
 Character, CII, Ps. 119: 1-13; 29-37 - - 115-116 
 Choice, Solomon's Sleeping and Waking, CXL, ist 
 
 Kings 3:5-15 . 164-165 
 
 Clouds, XI, Eccl. 11:4 25 
 
 Comforter, The, LXXXI, Is. 61 : 1-2 91 
 
 Commandments, XX, Ex. 20:3-17; 31-32 
 
 XCV, Rom. 13:9 - 107 
 Commandments, The Two Great, XCVII, Matt. 22:37- 
 
 40 109 
 
 Compassion, CXLI, Matt. 18:23-35 165-166 
 Conclusion, CL, Eccl. 12:8-14; Hab. 3:17-18; Num. 6:24- 
 
 26;Jude 1-26 - - 179 
 
 Confession, Contrition, LXV, Psalm 51:1-2, 10-17 - 74 
 
 Confidence in God, XLIII, Psalm 146 - 54-55 
 
 Contentment, XXXVI, ist Timothy 6:6-8 - 50 
 
 Contrition, X, Psalm 34:18 24 
 
 180 
 
Topical Index. 181 
 
 Covetousness, XX, Ex. 20:17 - 32 
 
 Covetousness Disappointing, CXXXV, Luke 12:13 21 158-159 
 Creator, Remembrance of, CXLVIII, Eccl. 12:1-7 176-177 
 
 Debts, XCV, Rom. 13:8 - 107 
 
 Deceit, VII, Prov. 12:20; ii :i8 22 
 
 Defender, The Great, LXXXIX, Psalm 27:1-3 - - 99-100 
 
 Delight in God's Law, VIII, Psalm i :2 23 
 
 Deliverance from Trouble, CXXVI, Job 5:6-23, 26 145-146 
 
 for the Poor, LXXXVII, Psalm 72:12-14 97- 98 
 
 Diligence, IV, Prov. 10:4: 12:24; 2O: 5? 22:29 19 
 
 Dreams, Joseph's, XXVI, Gen. 37:3-14 - - 37- 38 
 
 Pharaoh's, XXIX, Gen. 41 :i-i6 - - 40- 41 
 
 Interpretation of, Gen. 41:17-36 - 42- 43 
 
 Encouragement, XV, Ps. 46:1-3, Is. 26:2-4541:10 - 28- 29 
 
 CXXXVII, Micah 6:6, 8-14; 758-9,18 161-162 
 
 Evening, III, Psalm 4:8 18 
 
 XI, Eccl. ii :6 25 
 
 Evil, X, Psalm 34:11-22 - 24 
 
 to be put away, CXXVII, Is. 1:16-20, Eph. 4:28- 
 
 29, 31; Eph. 5:11; Gal. 5:22-23; Jas. 2:8 - 147-148 
 
 Excuses, Unworthy, CXXVIII, Luke 14:15-24 - 148-149 
 
 Failure, VIII, Psalm 1 14-6 - . 23 
 
 Faith, CIII, Psalm 37:3-11 - 117 
 
 Faithfulness Story of Ruth, LXXI, LXXII; Ruth 
 
 1:1-11 14-18, 23; Ruth 2:1-8, 11-12 80- 83 
 
 Famine in Egypt, XXXII, Gen. 41:46-57 - 44- 45 
 Father, A Compassionate, XIII, Luke 15:10-15, 17-24 - 26-27 
 
 Fear, XII, Prov. 22:1-6, 9-10 25-26 
 
 XIV, Psalm 34:7-8 - 28 
 
 Feast for the Poor, CXXV, Luke 14:12-14 - - 144-145 
 
 Fidelity Rewarded, LXXXVIII, Matt. 25:14-23 - 98-99 
 Finite Compared with Infinite, CXLIII, Job 9:2-12, 
 
 14-15, 19-21, 32, 33; 11:7-9 - 167-169 
 
 Forerunner, The Lord's, CXXXI, Is. 40:3-8 - 153 
 
182 
 
 Topical Index. 
 
 Forgiveness, CXXXIII, Matt. 18:21-22; Luke 17:13; 
 
 Gal. 6:1 
 Future, A Glorious, XCVI, Micah 4:1-4, 6-7 
 
 156 
 108 
 
 25 
 
 to 
 
 Generosity, XI, Eccl. ii : 1,2 
 
 God, The Deliverer, CXXIX, Ps. 18:1-32, 35, 36, 46 149-151 
 
 His Glory, XIX, Ps. 8: i, 3, 9 - 
 
 His Grace, LXII, Isaiah 32: 17 
 
 His Justice, CXXIII, Ezek. 33: 8-19 
 
 His Law in the Heart, CXXII, Jer. 31:28-31 
 
 In Nature, CX, Psalm 104 
 
 His Power, CXXXI, Is. 40:10-15, 17 
 
 Will sustain the Disappointed who Look 
 Him, CXXI, Psalms 55, 6-8, 12, 14, 16-22 
 Godliness, XXXIV, I Tim. 6: 6-12. 
 Good, X, Psalm 34: 11-22 .... 
 
 Gratitude, XVII, Psalm 100 
 
 LXXXV, ist Sam. 12:24 - 
 
 Harshness Rebuked, II, Mark 10:13-16 - 
 
 Healer, A, XXII, Psalm 147:3 
 
 Help from God, LXVI, Jer. 17:5-11, 14 - 
 
 Holiness of God, CVIII, Rev. 4:8, Is. 6:3, Ex. 15:11 
 
 Holy One, The, CXXXII, Is. 40:21-31 - 
 
 Honor to Parents, VII, Prov. i :8 
 
 to Children, II, Mark 10:16 
 
 Hope, CXXIV, Psalm 31 :24, Lam. 3:26, Rom. 8:24-25 
 Humility, XII, Prov. 22:4 
 
 XXXIX, Luke 14:7-11 
 XVII, Psalm 131:1 
 
 Ice, XXII, Psalm 147:17 
 
 Idols Prohibited, XX, Ex. 20:3, 4, 5, 6 - 
 
 Industry, IV, Prov. 28:19 
 
 Ingratitude, CXLI, Matt. 18:23-35 
 
 Iniquity, XCVI, Is. 59:1-4, 6-19 
 
 Injustice, VII, Prov. 1 1 :i - 
 
 Integrity, Samuel's, LXXXV, ist Sam'l 12:1-5 
 
 30-31 
 
 54 
 
 142-144 
 
 140-141 
 
 124-127 
 
 154 
 
 139-14 
 So 
 24 
 30 
 95 
 
 17 
 34 
 
 75 
 
 I2I-I22 
 
 154-155 
 
 21 
 
 17 
 
 I 44 
 
 2 5 
 
 53 
 29 
 
 34 
 3i 
 '9 
 
 165-166 
 104-106 
 
 22 
 
 94-95 
 
Topical Index. 183 
 
 Joseph in Trouble, XXVII, Gen. 37:15-24 - 38- 39 
 
 Sold Into Slavery, XXVIII, Gen. 37:25-36 37- 40 
 
 Dreams of, XXVI, Gen. 37:3-14 - 37- 38 
 
 Interpretation of, XXX, Gen. 41:17-36 - 42- 43 
 
 in Honor, XXXI, Gen. 41 :38-45 - 43- 44 
 
 Brethren of, XXXIII, Gen. 42:2-6, 8-9, 17-25 45- 46 
 Makes Himself Known to His Brethren, 
 XXXIV, Gen. 43:1-2, 13-14, 16-17, 27-28; 
 
 45:4,9-10, 25-28 - 47- 48 
 Family of, XXXV, Gen. 47:4, 5-6,7-10; 50:1, 
 
 15-22 48- 49 
 
 Joy, III, Psalm 5:11 - 18 
 
 Hymn of, VI, Ps. 23 21 
 
 LXXX, Is. 55:12-15 - 80 
 
 Justice, VII, Prov. 11:1 22 
 
 XLIII, Psalm 9:7-10, 18 - 55 
 
 Kindness, XVII, Ps. 41:1-2; Isaiah 32:8 - 29 
 
 LXXXIII, Luke 10:29-37 - - 92- 93 
 
 King of Glory, XXI. Ps. 24:1-5, 7-10 33 
 
 Labor, XX, Ex. 20:9 32 
 
 Last Days, CXLIV, Mai. 3:1-5, 13-18 - - 169-170 
 
 Law, CII, Ps. 119:1-13, 29-37 115-116 
 Laws, Ancient, XLVI, Ex. 22:1-3, 22, 23, 25; Ex. 
 
 20:1-2, 7-9; Deut. 24:14-15 - 56- 57 
 
 Righteous, LXIII, Lev. 19:30-37; Zech. 8:16-17 70-71 
 
 Righteous, CVIII, ,Lev. 19:3-4, 11-18 - 122-123 
 
 The New, LII, Matt. 5:43 -48 60 
 
 Leviathan, CXIX, Job 41 - 134-136 
 
 Liberality, XI, Eccl. 11:1-2 25 
 
 Life, XII, Prov. 22:4 - 26 
 
 A Vision of, LVI, Psalm 90:1-2, 4, 9, 10 - 62 
 
 Light, XI, Eccl. 11:7 - 25 
 
 Lord, A Call From, LXXX, Is 55:1-11 - 89 
 
 The, Our Leader, CVI, Deut. 32:1-12 - 120-121 
 
184 Topical Index. 
 
 Love, CXLIX, I Cor. 13 - 177-178 
 
 The Great Commandments, I, Mark 12:30-31 17 
 
 The Great Commandments, LV, Deut. 6:5-7 62 
 The Great Commandments, LXXXIII, Luke 
 
 10:27-28 - 92 
 
 XCV, Rom. 13:10 107 
 
 LII, Matt. 5:43-48 - 60 
 
 Lying, VII, Prov. 12:19-22 - 22 
 
 Man, His Noble Position, XIV, Psalm 8 - 30-31 
 Meditation, Morning and Evening, III, Psalm 3:5; 
 
 I39>i7. *8, 23, 24; 5:3, 4, ii ; 4:8 - 18 
 
 Merciful, The, XXIII, Matt. 5:7 - 35 
 
 Mercy, LXXXIV, Psalm 103:8-18 - 93-94 
 
 Message, of John, CXVII, Luke 3:10-14 - 133 
 of God, CXVIII, John 18:19-20, Is. 45:18; 
 
 15.48:16-18 - 134 
 
 Mines, The, LXXVIII, Job 28:1 n - 87-88 
 
 Mischief, VII, Prov. 10:23; 12:21 - 22 
 Moses, Farewell of, CIV, Deut. 30:11-20; 31 :6 - 118-119 
 
 Mourning, XXIII, Matt. 5:4 - 35 
 
 Murder, XX, Ex. 20:13 - 32 
 
 Name, A Good, XII, Prov. 22:1 25 
 
 Nature, LVII, Job 36:26-28; 37'5-i3, H' 16 . 18, 22, 23 63-64 
 
 LIX, Psalm 19:9-19 - 66-67 
 
 LXI, Psalm 65:8-13 - 69-70 
 
 Mysteries of, CXLVI, Job 38:1-7, 12, 16, 41; 
 
 39'9- I 5 19-22, 26-30; 40:1-14; 42:1-6 171-176 
 
 Neighbor, Who is My, LXXXIII, Luke 10:29-37 - 92-93 
 
 Night, III, Ps. 4:8 18 
 
 Obedience, to God, XX, Ex. 20:6:1 32 
 
 to Parents, XX, Ex. 20:12 32 
 
 Rewards of, XXIV, Prov. 3:1-6 - - 35-36 
 
 Reward of, XC, Deut. 11:13-15 101 
 Value of, Illustrated, LXXIV, Matt. 
 
 7^4-27 85 
 
Topical Index. 
 
 185 
 
 Omnipresence of God, LXXIII, Psalm 139:1-12 84 
 
 Patriotism, Duties of, XCV, Rom, 13:1-10 - - 106-107 
 
 Peace, X Psalm, 34:14 24 
 
 XCVI, Micah 4 : 3 - - 108 
 
 cm, PS. 37:3-" JI 7 
 
 Peacemakers, XXIII, Matt. 5:9 - 35 
 
 Perpetuity, National, CIV, Deut. 30:11-20; 31:6 - 118-119 
 
 Persecution, Conduct in, XXIII, Matt. 5:10, n, 12 - 35 
 
 Pharaoh, Dreams of, XXIX, Gen. 41:1-16 - - 40-41 
 
 Poor, XII, Prov. 22:2 25 
 
 XIV, Psalm 34:1-10 - 27- 28 
 
 Help Gladly, XXXVIII, Deut. 15:7-8, io-n 52 
 
 Praise, XXV, Psalm 29:1-5; 7-8, n - 36 
 
 LI V, Psalm 150; 113:3 - 61 
 
 To God, LXX, Psalm 145 - .79-80 
 
 LXXXIV, Psalm 103:20-22 94 
 
 Prayer, The Lord's, V, Matt. 6:9-13 20 
 
 LVI, Psalm 90:12, 14-17 - 62- 63 
 
 XC, Ps. 27:7-12 loo-ioi 
 
 Encouragement to, CXXII, Matt. 7:7-11 141 
 
 Sincere, CXLV, Eccl. 5:1-5 - - 170-171 
 
 Prosperity, Personal, VIII, Psalm 1 13 23 
 
 XCI, Deut. 11:13-15 101-102 
 
 Protection and Deliverance, XIV, Ps. 34:1-10 - - 27- 28 
 
 Protector, The, LIII, Psalm 121 - 60- 61 
 
 Proverbs, VII, Prov. 1:8; 10:19; 10:21-23; 16:24,32; 
 
 12:19-22; ii :T, 18, 24, 26 - - 21- 22 
 
 XII, Prov. 22:1-6, 9-10 - 25- 26 
 
 XLVIII, P rov. 20:1, 3-7, 9-io 58 
 
 LVIII, Prov. 27:1-12 65 
 
 LX, Prov. 3:11-35 - 67- 69 
 
 LXIV, Prov. 11:1-14 - 72- 73 
 
 LXVIII, Prov. 15:1-16 - 76-77 
 
 LXIX, Prov. 15:17-28, 30, 33 - 78- 79 
 
 CXIII, Prov. 14:23-34 - 129-130 
 
 Providence, LXXVI, Ps. 33:11-22 ... 86 
 
1 86 Topical Index. 
 
 Prudence, XI, Eccl. ii :6 - 25 
 
 XII, Prov. 22:3 - 26 
 
 Punishment, XII, Prov. 22:3 26 
 
 Purity, XXI, Psalm 24; 3, 4, 5 33 
 
 Rashness, IV, Prov. 21 :5 - 19 
 
 Reaping, XLI, Gal. 6:7-9 54 
 
 Reconciliation, CXXXIII, Matt. 18:15-17 - 156 
 
 Repentance, XIII, Luke 15:10, 15, 16, 24 - 26-27 
 
 LXXXVI, Ezek. 18:30-32 96 
 
 Resolutions for a Ruler, C, Ps. 101 :i-7 113 
 
 Responsibility, Personal, LXXXVI, Ezek. 18:19-28 - 95-96 
 
 Rest, CIII, Ps. 37:3-11 - H7 
 
 Reverence, XX, Ex. 20:7 - 32 
 
 Reward, VII, Prov. 11:18 22 
 
 Rich, XII, Prov. 22:2 25 
 
 Riches, VII, Prov. 10:22 22 
 
 XII, Prov. 22:4 - 25 
 
 Righteousness, The Call to, LXVII, Matt. 9:10-13 - 76 
 
 Rule, Our, LXI, Ps. 65 - - 69-70 
 
 Ruler, The Divine, LXXXVII, Ps. 72:1-11 - 97 
 
 Resolutions fora, C, 101:1-7 - 113 
 
 Rules of Conduct, CXI, Rom. 12:8-21 - 117-118 
 
 Ruth, LXXI, Ruth 1:1-11, 14-18 - 80-82 
 
 LXXII, Ruth, 1:22, 2:1-8, 10-12 82-83 
 
 Sabbath, XX, Ex. 20:8, 10 - 32 
 
 Scornful, XII, Prov. 22:10 - 26 
 
 Shepherd, The Lord My, VI, Psalm 23 - 21 
 Shipwreck and Rescue of Paul, CXX, Acts 27:9-20, 
 
 27-29. 39-44 137-139 
 
 Sin, LI, Hosea, 4:1,3, Psalm 32:10 - 59 
 
 brings Calamity, CXXXIV, Amos 5:7-15, 24; 
 
 Matt. 26:14-16-, Matt. 27:3-5 - I5 6 ~i5 s 
 
 Singing, XVIII, Psalm 100:2 - 3 
 
 Slackness, IV, Prov. 10:4 19 
 
 Slothfulness, IV, Prov. 12:24 19 
 
Topical Index. 1 8 7 
 
 Snares, XII, Prov. 22:5 25 
 
 Snow, XXII, Psalm 147:16 - - 34 
 
 Son, The Prodigal, XIII, Luke 15:10-15, 17-24 26-27 
 
 Sower, Parable of the, LXII, Matt. 13:3-9, 18-23 - 70-71 
 
 Spring, XVI, Sol. Song 2:11-13 29 
 
 Stability, XL, Psalm 15 - - 53-54 
 
 Stars, XXII, Psalm 147:4 34 
 
 Stealing, XX, Ex. 20:15 - - 3 2 
 
 XLVI, Ex. 22:1-3 - 56.57 
 
 Success, VIII, Psalm i 23 
 
 Sufferer, The Holy and Victorious, CXXX, Is. 53 - 152-153 
 
 Superiority of Man, XIX, Psalm 8:3-8 - - 30-31 
 
 Supplication, III, Ps. 39' 2 3 2 4 18 
 
 X, Ps. 34:15 24 
 
 of a Statesman's, XLV, ist Kings, 8:57, 58 56 
 
 XC, Psalm 27:7-12 - IOO-TOI 
 
 Support of Law and Prophecy, XCVII, Matt. 22:37-40 109 
 
 Thanksgiving, Causes for, XXII, Ps. 147:1,3, 4,5-9, 
 
 "18 - 33-34 
 
 A Hymn of, XLIV, Psalm 146 55-56 
 
 Thoughts, Right, L, Phil. 4:8 - 59 
 
 Tongue, X, Psalm 34:3 24 
 
 CXXXVIII, Jas. 3:2-12 - 162-163 
 
 Unfaithfulness Punished, LXXXVIII, Matt. 25:2430 98-99 
 
 Virtue and True Knowledge bring Blessing, CXLII, 
 
 Jer. 9:23-24; 10:23-24 - 166-167 
 
 Voice of the Lord, The, XXV, Ps. 29:1-5, 7-8, n 36 
 
 Watchfulness, CV, Matt. 24:42-51 - - 119-120 
 
 Wicked, VIII, Ps. i : 4 -6 - 23 
 
 XXXVII, Prov. 4:14, 17, 19 51 
 
 Wind, XI, Eccl. 11:4 25 
 
1 88 Topical Index. 
 
 Wisdom, A Story of, IX, Eccl. 9:14, 15 23 
 
 Worth of, XXXVII, Prov. 4:5, 9, n, 13 - 50-51 
 
 Value of, LXXIX, Job 28:12-19 88-89 
 
 What is it? LXXIX, Job 29:20-28 89 
 
 XCIX, Prov. 8 - 110-112 
 
 CXXXIX.Jas. 3:13-18 - - 163 
 
 Woman, The Ideal, CI, Prov. 31 :io-3i - 113-115 
 
 Words, XLVII, Matt. 12:34-37, Ps. 119:163 57~58 
 
 Worship in God's House, LXXXIX, Ps. 27:4-6 - 100 
 
INDEX OF TEXTS. 
 
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 37: 3-14 ' 
 
 37 
 
 32: 
 
 I-I2 
 
 120 
 
 37: 15-24 
 
 38 
 
 
 RUTH. 
 
 
 
 39 
 
 
 
 
 41: i 16 
 
 40 
 
 i: 
 
 i-n, 14-18 
 
 81 
 
 41: 17-36 - 
 
 42 
 
 i: 
 
 22 - 
 
 82 
 
 41: 38-45 
 
 43 
 
 2: 
 
 1-8,10-12 - 
 
 82 
 
 41: 46-57 - 
 
 44 
 
 
 
 
 42: 2-6, 8-9, 17-25 
 
 45 
 
 
 I. SAMUEL. 
 
 
 43: 1-2, 13-14. 16-17, 
 27-28 - 
 
 47 
 
 12: 
 
 i-5, 23-24 - 
 
 94-95 
 
 45: 4,9-10,25-28- 
 47: J 5'6, 7' 10 
 
 47 
 48 
 
 
 I. KINGS. 
 
 
 50: 1, 15-22 
 
 49 
 
 8: 
 
 57-58 - - - 
 
 8 
 
 EXODUS. 
 
 
 
 
 
 15: ii 
 
 122 
 
 
 I. CHRONICLE. 
 
 
 20: 3-17 
 
 3 1 
 
 29: 
 
 ii 
 
 122 
 
 22: 1-5, 22-23, 25 - 
 
 56 
 
 
 
 
 23: 1-2, 7-9 - 
 
 57 
 
 
 JOB. 
 
 
 
 
 5: 
 
 6-23, 26 - 
 
 I 4 6 
 
 LEVITICUS. 
 
 
 9: 
 
 2-12, 14-15, 19-21, 
 
 
 19: 3, 4, n-iS - 
 
 122 
 
 
 32-33 
 
 I6 7 
 
 19: 30-37 
 
 72 
 
 n: 
 
 7-9 - 
 
 l6 9 
 
 
 
 28: 
 
 i-n -.-...- 
 
 o7 
 
 NUMBERS. 
 6: 24-26 - 
 
 1 7 8 
 
 28: 
 36: 
 
 37: 
 
 12-28 - 
 26-28 
 5-13, 14-16, 1 8, 
 
 63 
 
 DEUTERONOMY. 
 
 
 38: 
 
 22-23 - 
 
 1-7, 12, 16-27, 31-41 
 
 6 4 
 171 
 
 6: 5-7 
 
 62 
 
 39: 
 
 9-15, 19-22, 26-30 - 
 
 173 
 
 n: 13-23 ' 
 
 IOI 
 
 40: 
 
 I-I4 - 
 
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 15: 7-8, 10-11 
 
 52 
 
 41: 
 
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 24: 14-15 - 
 
 57 
 
 42: 
 
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 176 
 
 [89 
 
190 
 
 Index of Texts. 
 
 
 PSALMS. 
 
 
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 145: 
 
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 3: 
 
 
 
 146: 
 
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 4: 
 
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 18 
 
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 1,3,4.5-9, "-IS 
 
 33 
 
 5: 
 
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 18 
 
 zso: 
 
 
 61 
 
 
 ii 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 
 9: 
 
 7-10 ,18 - 
 
 54 
 
 
 PROVERBS. 
 
 
 *5: 
 
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 23 
 
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 I-IO - 
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 29 
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 19 
 
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 T T "> 
 
 
 ECCLESIASTES. 
 
 
 zoz. 
 Z03: 
 
 1-7 ... 
 
 8-22 
 
 1 1 6 
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 1 5 
 
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 9: 
 
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 1-13, 29-37 
 
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Index of Texts. 
 
 191 
 
 ISAIAH. 
 
 
 MICAH. 
 
 
 i: 16-20 
 5: 20-30 - 
 
 159 
 
 A: 1-4,6-7 - 
 6: 6, 8-14 
 
 108 
 161 
 
 6: 3 - 
 
 122 
 
 7: 8-9, 18-19 
 
 162 
 
 
 J 59 
 
 
 
 26: 2-4 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 32: 8 - - - 
 
 29 
 
 HABAKKUK. 
 
 
 32: 17 - 
 
 54 
 
 
 
 33: 15-16 - 
 
 123 
 
 3: 17-18 - 
 
 178 
 
 35: 
 
 I 3 I 
 
 
 
 40: 3-8, 10-15, 17 
 
 153 
 
 ZECHARIAH. 
 
 
 40: 21-31 
 41: 10 
 
 154 
 29 
 
 8: 16,17 - - 
 
 72 
 
 45: 18, 19 
 
 
 
 
 48: 16-18 - 
 
 134 
 
 MALACHI. 
 
 
 53: 
 
 54: 10 
 
 152 
 
 54 
 
 3: 1-5, 13-18 - 
 
 169 
 
 55: 
 
 89 
 
 
 
 59: 1-4,6-19 - 
 
 104 
 
 MATTHEW. 
 
 
 60: I, 2, 17-22 
 
 132 
 
 5: 3-12 
 
 35 
 
 61; 1-2 ... 
 
 9 1 
 
 5: 16 - - - 
 
 121 
 
 JEREMIAH. 
 
 
 5: 43-48 - - - 
 6: 1-4 - 
 
 60 
 91 
 
 5: 21-31 
 
 103 
 
 6: 5-8 
 
 86 
 
 7: 5-7, 23 
 
 1 66 
 
 6: 9-13 - 
 
 20 
 
 9: 23-24 
 
 if 7 
 
 6: 19-21 
 
 I 4 6 
 
 10: 23-24 - 
 
 167 
 
 7: 7-n - 
 
 141 
 
 17: 5-n, 14 
 
 75 
 
 7: 24-27 
 
 85 
 
 31: 28-34 - - - 
 
 140 
 
 9: 10-13 - 
 
 7 6 
 
 
 
 n: 20-24 
 
 160 
 
 LAMENTATIONS. 
 
 
 12: 34-37 - 
 
 57 
 
 3: 26 - - - - 
 
 144 
 
 13: 3-9 18-23 
 18: 15-17, 21-22 
 
 70 
 
 EZEKIEL. 
 3: 18-21 - 
 18: 19-28, 30-32 
 33: 8-9 ... 
 
 142 
 
 95 
 142 
 
 18: 23-35 
 22: 37-40 - 
 24: 42-51 
 25: 14-20 - 
 26: 14-16 
 
 109 
 119 
 98 
 
 HOSEA. 
 
 
 27: 3-5 ' ' 
 
 158 
 
 4: l > 3 
 
 59 
 
 
 
 
 
 MARK. 
 
 
 AMOS. 
 
 
 10: 13-16 - 
 
 17 
 
 5: 7-15,23,24 
 
 156 
 
 12: 30-31 
 
 *7 
 
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 Index of Texts. 
 
 
 T TT V T? 
 
 
 
 
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 Li\J Jvr/. 
 
 
 
 
 T 5 6 
 
 3: 
 
 10-14 - 
 
 133 
 
 
 7-9 - 
 
 54 
 
 io : 
 
 25-37 
 
 93 
 
 
 
 
 12: 
 
 13-21 - 
 
 159 
 
 
 EPHESIANS. 
 
 
 M: 
 
 7-11 
 
 53 
 
 T A A 
 
 4: 
 
 28, 29, 31 
 
 H7 
 
 14. 
 
 12-14 - 
 
 144 
 
 5: 
 
 11-12 - 
 
 147 
 
 14: 
 
 15-24 
 
 148 
 
 
 
 
 IS: 
 
 17: 
 
 10-15, 17-24 
 3 .... 
 
 26 
 156 
 
 
 I. TIMOTHY. 
 
 
 
 
 
 6: 
 
 6-12 
 
 50 
 
 
 JOHN. 
 
 
 
 
 
 18: 
 
 19-20 - 
 
 134 
 
 
 PHILEMON. 
 
 
 
 
 
 4: 
 
 8 ... 
 
 59 
 
 
 ACTS. 
 
 
 
 
 
 27: 
 
 9-20, 27-29, 39-44 - 
 
 137 
 
 
 JAMES. 
 
 
 
 
 
 2: 
 
 8 - 
 
 148 
 
 
 ROMANS. 
 
 
 3: 
 
 2-12 - 
 
 162 
 
 8: 
 
 24-25 - 
 
 144 
 
 
 I3-I8 
 
 163 
 
 12: 
 
 8-21 - - 
 
 127 
 
 3: 
 
 26-27 - 
 
 59 
 
 n: 
 
 I-IO - 
 
 106 
 
 
 
 
 *o* 
 
 
 
 
 JUDE. 
 
 
 
 I. CORINTHIANS. 
 
 
 
 
 T nc\ 
 
 
 
 
 i . 
 
 
 179 
 
 J-. 
 
 . 
 
 177 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 REVELATION. 
 
 
 
 GALATIANS. 
 
 
 4: 
 
 8 ... 
 
 121 
 
 5: 
 
 22-23 - 
 
 148 
 
 21 : 
 
 3,4 
 
 121 
 
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