"Thy people fhall be willing in the day of thy power. PSALM CX. 3. AVIOUR! though my rebellious will SAVIOUR Has been, by thy bleft power, renewed; Yet in its secret workings ftill How much remains to be subdued! Oft I recall, with grief and shame, How many years their course had run I wished a flowery path to tread, And thought 't would safely lead to heaven; A lonely room, a suffering bed, These for my training-place were given. Long I refifted, mourned, complained, Thy purpose, Lord, unchanged remained, Year after year I turned away, But marred was every scheme I planned; Still the same lesson, day by day, Was placed before me, by thy hand. At length thy patient, wondrous love, Then was I taught by thee to say, Health, comfort, usefulness, or rest. "Be my whole life in suffering spent, But let me be in suffering thine; Still, O my Lord, I am content, Thou now haft made thy pleasure mine." Charlotte Elliott. "We have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."— HEB. X. 36. A ND is there nothing to be done, While here, on this fick bed, I lie? Should I thus weary to be gone, Thus think, 't were better far to die? Alas! that very thought declares How much remains unhallowed still; And if His work of grace in me To lie for years on this fick bed. For then my faith would be so strong, Full many a sufferer there has seen Such proofs of His transcendent worth, O then, my Saviour! be no more Far from me in my hour of need; Thou canft the fainting soul restore, And make the feeble strong indeed. O, grant me now that will refigned, That patient, weaned, obedient heart, That loving, peaceful, heavenly mind, Thy Spirit can alone impart. Let me not languish e'en for home, Charlotte Elliott. AS body when the soul has fled, As barren trees, decayed and dead, One cup of healing oil and wine, In true and heaven-born faith we trace Kind deeds of peace and love betray Drummond. 1585 – 1649. BRINGING OUR SHEAVES WITH US. THE HE time for toil is past, and night is come, The laft and saddeft of the harvest eves; Worn out with labor long and wearisome, Drooping and faint the reapers haften home, Each laden with his fheaves. Last of the laborers, thy feet I gain, Lord of the harvest! and my spirit grieves That I am burdened not so much with grain, As with a heaviness of heart and brain ; Mafter, behold my fheaves! Few, light, and worthless, yet their trifling weight Through all my frame a weary aching leaves; For long I ftruggled with my hapless fate, Full well I know I have more tares than wheat, Brambles and flowers, dry stalks, and withered leaves; Wherefore I blush and weep, as at thy feet I kneel down reverently, and repeat, Master, behold my fheaves! |