Relume our hearts with heavenly light, To God all holiness belongs; His arm upholds us every hour; He is our God, and He our friend, His angels for our watch doth send, THE ORPHAN. ["Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me." Jer. xlix. 11.] Он, that I had a home Oh, once it was not so, But o'er our cot the trees Our gloomy time of woe. How pleasant was the sight, But they are dead and gone, Have passed our pleasant lands, Our cot and its green trees, And I am left alone. And whither shall I go? Oh, God! to Thee I cry ; To Thee I lift mine eye; FAR IN THE LONELY WOODS. FAR in the lonely woods, Where wild flowers scent the air, 'Tis sweet to hear at eve The missionary's prayer. The Indian households come, And oft unwonted tears Bedew their softened eye. How joyful is the sound! In their rude tents before, They heard no praying voice; Far in the lonely woods, Where wild flowers scent the air, 'Tis sweet to hear at eve The missionary's prayer. EARTHLY OBJECTS UNSATISFYING. WHENE'ER the sun, with vernal ray, They now are there; and now are gone; If then our pleasures here below, Although we think we hold them sure, Are like the dews and mountain snow, And will not, cannot long endure; Why should they trouble thus our mind? THE BEST FRIENDSHIP. Ir clouds arise and storms appear, Blest Saviour! Let it be my lot, To tread with Thee this round of being; Thy love and mercy alter not, When every sunbeam friend is fleeing. Oh, be it thine to guide my soul Along the wave of life's dark ocean; And nought I'll fear, when billows roll, Thy love shall be my polar light, And whether weal or woe betide me, Through raging storm and shadowy night, THE DEPARTING CHRISTIAN. I. ON earth when the journey allotted us closes, Oh, who in this lone world would wish to delay ? Oh, who would not flee from the ties that endear us, And bind us most close to the things here below, To the land, where pollution can never come near us, And bliss is disturbed by no moments of woe? II. Then joy to the soul, that is ripe for ascending, OMNIPRESENCE OF THE DEITY. WHO bids the billow heave its breast, |