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WILT Thou not visit me?

The plant beside me feels thy gentle dew:
Each blade of grass I see,

From thy deep earth its quickening moisture drew.

Wilt Thou not visit me?

Thy morning calls on me with cheering tone;

And every hill and tree

Lend but one voice,

- the voice of thee alone.

Come! for I need thy love

More than the flower the dew, or grass the rain ; Come like thy holy dove,

And let me in thy sight rejoice to live again.

Yes, Thou wilt visit me:

Nor plant nor tree thine eye delights so well,
As when, from sin set free,

Man's spirit comes with thine in peace to dwell.

13.-C.M.

1 ANOTHER hand is beckoning us,

Another call is given;

And glows once more with angel steps
The path that leads to heaven.

2 Oh! half we deemed she needed not
The changing of her sphere

To give to heaven a shining one,
Who walked an angel here.

2 Like a sunbeam, through our dwelling
Shone thy presence bright and calm :
Thou didst add a zest to pleasure;
To our sorrows thou wert balm.

3 Yet, while mourning, O our lost one! Come no visions of despair:

Seated on thy tomb, Faith's angel

Saith thou art not, art not there.

4 Where, then, art thou? with the Saviour, Blest, for ever blest, to be;

'Mid the sinless little children,

Who have heard his "Come to me."

5 Passed the shades of Death's dark valley,
Thou art leaning on his breast,
Where the wicked may not enter,
And the weary are at rest.

6 Plead that, in a Father's mercy,
All our sins may be forgiven:
Angel! plead that thou mayst greet us,
Ransomed, at the gates of heaven.

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1 THY will be done! In devious way The hurrying stream of life may run ; Yet still our grateful hearts shall say, 66 Thy will be done!"

2 Thy will be done! If o'er us shine
A gladdening and a prosperous sun,
This prayer shall make it more divine:
"Thy will be done!"

3 Thy will be done! Though shrouded o'er Our path with gloom, one comfort, one,

Is ours,

to breathe, while we adore, "Thy will be done!"

BOWRING.

COVENANT.

THIS CHURCH was gathered, Aug. 27, 1630, under the following Covenant:

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in obedience to his holy will and divine ordinance,

We, whose names are hereunder written, being by His most wise and good providence brought together into this part of America, in the Bay of Massachusetts; and desirous to unite ourselves into one Congregation or Church under the Lord Jesus Christ, our head, in such sort as becometh all those whom he hath redeemed and sanctified to himself, - do hereby solemnly and religiously (as in his most holy presence) promise and bind ourselves to walk in all our ways according to the rule of the gospel, and in all sincere conformity to his holy ordinances, and in mutual love and respect each to other, so near as God shall give us grace.