submission unless he is called to endure the chastening of the Lord? or the grace of resignation, unless he is required to surrender some of the objects of his affection and endearment? He often prays, 'thy will be done on earth as in heaven,' and his prayers are answered by these dispensations of Providence, which give him an opportunity to do it, or endure it.

Afflictions are often employed to moderate our attachment to earth; and towards the period of our departure, they sometimes set in with greater violence to wean our affections entirely from it. There are some who may repeat with great propriety the following verse

'Lord, what a wretched land is this,

That yields us no supply;

No cheering fruit, no wholesome trees,

No streams of living joy ;'

and we can easily believe, that if they are anticipating the bliss of immortality they require no extra dispensation to induce them to long for its possession. But there are others who may with equal propriety quote the language of the Psalmist,' the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.' They abound in wealth; occupy the high places of distinction; and have all things richly to enjoy ; and though they look forward to a superior state of honour

and felicity in the heavenly world, yet it often requires the agency of affliction to loosen and untie the cords that bind them to earth. Hence there is a necessity that they should be in heaviness through manifold tribulations at sundry times, that they may listen with more devout attention to the voice of the Lord, speaking to them from the cloud, 'arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest, because it is polluted.' And when the hour of release comes, and they are just entering into rest, if permitted to record their testimony to the divine dispensation towards them, they will say, Not one trial too many, not one too severe. 'For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.' 'For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.'

SACRED LYRICS.

I.

I GIVE THEE ALL.

I GIVE thee all, I can no more,
Though poor the offering be;
A broken spirit's all the store
That sin has left to me.

My trembling lip but half reveals The prayer my heart would tell: But throes my panting bosom feels Thy spirit sees full well.

Deep in despair my spirit lies,

And sinking clings to thee:

A contrite heart wilt thou despise, Nor stretch one hand to me?

Then take my heart, I can no more,
Though poor the offering be;

At thy command, my only store,
O Lord! I give to thee.

II.

THE HARP OF JUDAH.

Air.-Gramachree.

O HARP! that once in Judah's hall,
In sweet inspiring strain,
Entranced the fiery soul of Saul,
And soothed a monarch's pain;

How oft, when o'er my earthly joys
Runs ruin's ruthless stream,
I welcome thy consoling voice,
Thy heaven-directing theme.

Though gone the hand that waked thee first,

Though closed thy minstrel's eye;

And those who caught thy early burst

Of glory are not nigh:

Of thee no string is broken yet;
Thy deep and holy tone

Can make me every care forget,
And dream of heaven alone.

O harp! if Judah's shepherd flung
Such charms around his theme,
When o'er time's distant scenes he hung
In dim prophetic dream;

What now thy spell if David's hand
Once more could wake thy strains,-
And tell to every listening land,

'The Lord Immanuel reigns?'

PHILADELPHIA.

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