Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, Let us descend now, therefore, from this top Let her with thee partake what thou hast heard- He ended, and they both descend the hill. Lay sleeping ran before, but found her waked; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here; without thee here to stay I carry hence: though all by me is lost, Such favour I unworthy am voutsafed, By me the Promised Seed shall all restore." In either hand the hastening Angel caught The earth is utterly broken down. Fear is on every side. H that thou hadst but listened to my commandments! then would have been as a river thy peace, and thy prosperity as the waves of the sea. All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. And yet for all this you did not believe the Lord your God, Who went before you in the way. But his hand is stretched out still. THE SHIELD OF THY HELP Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. WHA HAT shall we do, that we may work the works of Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions? Oh that I knew where I might find him! When shall I arise, and the night be gone? What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in darkness, and see not the light of heaven? Lord, that our eyes may be opened. We have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing. Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. IN "THE WORLD'S WILDERNESS" THEY SHALL BE ALL TAUGHT OF GOD.-The Christ Oh fall! From what high state of bliss into what woe! Oh how unlike the place from whence they fell!-MILTON God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. Nevertheless, through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it. -WISDOM OF SOLOMON Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee. But fools despise wisdom and instruction. A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction.-SOLOMON Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. Plough up your fallow ground, that ye may not sow among thorns. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. If a man love me, he will keep my words. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings. Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.-THE WORD OF GOD A "TAKE HEED THEREFORE HOW YE HEAR" SOWER went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: |