LOVE TO GOD. "THUS shalt thou love the Almighty Lord- "With all thy HEART"-no idol thing, Though close around the heart it twine, Its interposing shade must fling, To darken that pure love of thine. "With all thy MIND”—each varied power, And thoughts that glance behind, before, "With SOUL and STRENGTH"-thy days of ease, Thou Power Supreme, in whom we move, And strength to serve thee, while they may. SABBATH HYMN. WHEN, as returns this solemn day, From marble domes and gilded spires Vain, sinful man!-Creation's Lord SABBATH DAYS; 66 MODERNIZED FROM SON-DAYES," IN VAUGHAN'S SILEX SCINTILLANS." 66 TYPES of eternal rest-fair buds of bliss, In heavenly flowers unfolding week by weekThe next world's gladness imaged forth in this— Days of whose worth the Christian's heart can speak! Eternity in Time-the steps by which We climb to future ages-lamps that light Wakeners of prayer in man-his resting bowers Days fix'd by God for intercourse with dust, A gleam of glory after six days' showers. A milky-way mark'd out through skies else drear, Foretastes of heaven on earth-pledges of joy THE SPIRITUAL LAW. DEUT. XXX. 11-14. SAY not the law divine Is hidden from thee, or afar removed; If there its glorious light were sought and loved. Soar not on high, Nor ask who thence shall bring it down to earth; That vaulted sky Hath no such star, didst thou but know its worth. Nor launch thy bark In search thereof upon a shoreless sea Which has no ark, No dove to bring this olive-branch to thee. Then do not roam In search of that which wandering cannot win; At home! at home! That word is placed, thy mouth, thy heart within. O! seek it there, Turn to its teachings with devoted will; And in the power of faith this law fulfil. THE HAPPINESS OF THE GODLY. BLESSED state! and happy he Thine, O Lord! the power and praise Thou must first prepare the ground, When the seedling from its bed Showers from thee must bid it thrive, Whose, then, when a tree up-grown, MORNING HYMN. THESE are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Thus wondrous fair! Thyself how wondrous then! In these thy lowest works: yet these declare Him first, him last, him midst, and without end! |