(IV.) FEAR OF DEATH.

["For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better." Phil. i. 23.]

THE body perishes, but not the mind;

The outward man decays, but that within

Shall grow more pure and bright, like gold refined,
Rebuilt in strength, and separate from sin.
E'en now I feel the purifying flame,

A fire from heaven is kindling in my heart,
Diffusing greater joy than words can name,
And pouring light through all the mental part.
That fire shall burn long after the sad hour,
When death shall bring the body to the grave;
Increasing in its brightness and its power,
Long as eternal ages roll their wave.

Why should we tremble, then, and fear to die;

Death but unbinds the soul, and frees us for the sky.

(v.) THE POWER OF GOD IN CREATION.

["Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am He; I am the first; I also am the last. Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned out the Heavens." Isaiah xlviii. 12, 13.]

THE boundless heavens, oh Lord, are made by Thee,
And Thou hast made the stars that through them gleam,
And Thou, the silver moon with placid beam;
They all proclaim Thy power and majesty.

And Thou hast made the earth and all its fountains,
The fountains, where the wild beast slakes its throat;
The myriads of birds, with vernal note,
Cheering the forests waving on the mountains.

And thou hast made the sea and all therein,

Its caverned solitudes and rocky shore,

Its heaving waves and everlasting roar,

Its fishes and its huge Leviathan.

Great God! The everlasting God art Thou;

Before Thee let all hearts with humble reverence bow

(VI.) THE SABBATH.

["Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, thy God." Exod. xx. 8, 9, 10.]

OUR nation's glory is her Sabbath's light,
The day of quiet, purity, and rest.
Her children then in holy acts unite,

The world forgotten, worldly cares repressed.

This is the day," of all the week the best,"
"of

The source of private bliss and public power:
May praises, poured from the believing breast,
And humble suplications fill each hour.
And in our day of woe, our trying time,
The Sabbath's God shall lend a listening ear,
And coming swift upon the clouds sublime,
For our protection and defence appear.
He is the friend and helper of the cause

Of those who venerate and keep his holy laws.

(VII.) NECESSITY OF DIVINE ILLUMINATION.

["But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Cor. ii. 14.]

Он, send one ray into my sightless ball,
Transmit one beam into my darkened heart!
On Thee, Almighty God, on Thee I call,
Incline thy listening ear, thine aid impart !
In vain the natural sun his beams doth yield,
In vain the moon illumes the fields of air;
The eye-sight of my soul is quenched and sealed,
And what is other light, if shades are there!
Beyond the sun and moon I lift my gaze,

Where round thy throne a purer light is spread,
Where seraphs fill their urns from that bright blaze,
And angels' souls with holy fires are fed.

Oh, send from that pure fount one quickening ray,

And change these inward shades to bright and glorious day.

(VIII.) RESTORATION TO THE DIVINE IMAGE.

["We are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." 2 Cor. iii. 18.]

UPON the morning flower the dew's small drop,
So small as scarcely to arrest the eye,

Receives the rays from all of heaven's wide cope,
And images the bright and boundless sky.

And thus the heart, when 't is renewed by grace,
Recalled from error, purified, erect,

Receives the image of Jehovah's face,

And though a drop, the Godhead doth reflect.

It hath new light, new truth, new purity,

A rectitude unknown in former time,
A love, that in its arms of charity
Encircles every land and every clime;

Submission, and in God a humble trust,

And quickened life to all, that's pure and kind and just.