When I behold thy awful hand
My earthly hopes destroy,
In deep astonishment I stand,
And ask the reason why?

As through a glass, I dimly see
The wonders of thy love:
How little do I know of thee,
Or of the joys above!

'Tis but in part, I know thy will;
I bless thee for the sight:
When will thy love the rest reveal
In glory's clearer light?

With rapture shall I then survey
Thy providence and grace;
And spend an everlasting day

In wonder, love, and praise.

"Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith." -Heb. 12: 2.

"As the Hebrew when he prayed looked towards the temple where was the Mercy-seat and the peculiar presence of God, so ought we in all our prayers to God, to look to Christ in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."

Jesus! lover of my soul,

Let me to thy bosom fly,
While the billows near me roll-

While the tempest still is high.

Hide me, O my Saviour! hide,
Till the storm of life is past;
Safe into the haven guide;

Oh! receive my soul at last.

Other refuge have I none-
Hangs my helpless soul on thee!
Leave, ah! leave me not alone!
Still support and comfort me!

All my trust on thee is staid;

All my help from thee I bring; Cover my defenseless head

With the shadow of thy wing.

Thou, O Christ! art all I want;
More than All in thee I find:

Raise the fallen, cheer the faint,
Heal the sick, and lead the blind.

Just and holy is thy name,

I am all unrighteousness! Vile, and full of sin I am

Thou art full of truth and grace.

Plenteous grace with thee is found-
Grace to pardon all my sin;
Let the healing streams abound;
Let me feel them flow within.

Thou of life the fountain art,
Freely let me take of thee!
Spring thou up within my heart-
Rise to all eternity!

"When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee." - Isa. 43: 2.

"Abide with us; for it is towards evening, and the day is far spent."- Luke 24 : 29.

"The Christian, with whom every thing goes smoothly, and on whom every thing looks smilingly, knows comparatively but little of what God is, and what the sympathy of the Saviour, with those whose nature he assumed, and whose iniquity he bore."

"Abide with me," thou gracious Guide,

My lamp by night, my sun by day;
Thy gracious presence at my side
Bids every anxious fear away.

"Abide with me !" when lips beloved

Shall lisp on earth their sad farewell;
The best of friends is not removed,
If thou within my bosom dwell!

"Abide with me!" when sleepless laid

On sick-bed-weary-lone-distressed;
Blessed Saviour! let my throbbing head
Lie pillowed on thy peaceful breast.

"Abide with me!" when death is near,
To calm the waves of ebbing life;
Be nigh to wipe earth's closing tear,
And bear me from its ended strife.

"I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee."— Job 42: 5.

"When pain searcheth into the body or the spirit, we feel as if we had awoke up to know that we have learned nothing really until then. There is laid before us a mighty hand, from whose shadow we can not flee. Such are the effects wrought by sorrows, sickness, bodily pains, anxieties, and the like."

Then with my waking thoughts,
Bright with thy praise,

Out of my stony griefs

Bethels I will raise ;

So by my woes to be

Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!

Or if on joyful wing,
Cleaving the sky,

Sun, moon, and stars forgot,
Upward I fly,

Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to thee,

Nearer to thee!

"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." Heb. 12: 11.

"We are living stones built upon the great foundation laid in Zion for the heavenly temple. God uses affliction as his hammer and chisel in polishing us here; in patient love the Father gives stroke upon stroke."

O thou, whose mercy guides my way,

Though now it seem severe,
Forbid my unbelief to say

There is no mercy here.

Oh! grant me to desire the pain
That comes in kindness down,
More than the world's alluring gain
Succeeded by a frown.