I know these bloffoms, clustering heavily With evening dew upon their folded leaves, Can claim no value nor utility; Therefore fhall fragrancy and beauty be The glory of my fheaves. So do I gather ftrength and hope anew, Atlantic Monthly. GOD. I WHO BY SEARCHING CAN FIND OUT GOD? CANNOT find Thee! Still on reftless pinion My spirit beats the void where Thou doft dwell; I wander lost through all Thy vast dominion, And shrink beneath Thy Light ineffable. I cannot find Thee! Even when most adoring Beyond these bounds of thought, my thought, upsoaring, Yet high above the limits of my seeing, And folded far within the inmoft heart, And deep below the deeps of conscious being, I cannot lose Thee! Still in Thee abiding, The End is clear, how wide so e'er I roam ; The Law that holds the worlds my steps is guiding, Eliza Scudder. "I will put my trust in him.". - HEB. ii. 13. IVE to the winds thy fears G ; Hope, and be undismayed; God hears thy fighs, and counts thy tears; God fhall lift up thy head. Through waves, through clouds and storms, He gently clears thy way; Wait thou his time, so fhall the night He everywhere hath rule, And all things serve his might; His every act pure bleffing is, When He makes bare his arm, What fhall his work withstand? When He his people's cause defends, Leave to his sovereign sway To choose and to command: With wonder filled, thou then shalt own How wise, how ftrong his hand. Thou comprehend'ft him not; Thou seeft our weakness, Lord, Let us, in life or death, Boldly thy truth declare; And publish, with our latest breath, Moravian. THE HE Lord is King! lift up thy voice, O earth, and all ye heavens, rejoice! From world to world the joy shall ring, The Lord Omnipotent is King. The Lord is King! who then shall dare The Lord is King! Child of the dust, He reigns! ye saints, exalt your strains; The Man of Love, the crucified. Come, make your wants, your burdens known, And angel bands are waiting there His meffages of love to bear. O, when His wisdom can mistake, may Alike pervaded by His eye, All parts of His dominion lie; This world of ours, and worlds unseen, And then the boundary between. One Lord, one empire, all secures ; He reigns, and life and death are yours: Through earth and heaven one song fhall ring, Jofiah Conder. 1856. |