The Lord will give Strength to His People.

"The Lord will give strength unto His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace."

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TRENGTH for the day of conflict or of toil;

Peace in the weary hours of grief and pain; Through all the changes of life's "little while"

This word of promise shall unchanged remain.

His covenant stands, though mountains may depart : What would'st thou more, sad heart?

Will you be there ?

H. L. L.

EYOND this life of hopes and fears,
Beyond this world of grief and tears,
There is a region fair;

It knows no change and no decay,
No night, but one unending day:
Oh, say, will you be there?

Its glorious gates are closed to sin;
Nought that defiles can enter in
To mar its beauty rare;

Upon that bright eternal shore

Earth's bitter curse is known no more:

Oh, say, will you be there?

No drooping form, no tearful eye,
No hoary head, no weary sigh,

No pain, no grief, no care;

But joys which mortals may not know,
Like a calm river flow:

Oh, say, will you be there?

Our Saviour, once a mortal Child,
As mortal man, by man reviled,

There many crowns doth wear;

While thousands, thousands swell the strain
Of glory to the Lamb once slain :
Oh, say, will you be there?

Who shall be there? The lowly here;
All those who serve the Lord in fear,—
The world's proud mockery dare;

Who by the Holy Spirit led,

Rejoice the narrow path to tread :

These, these shall all be there.

Those who have learned at Jesus' cross

All earthly gain to count but loss,
So that His love they share,-

Who, gazing on the Crucified,

By faith can say, "For me He died: "
These, these shall all be there.

Will you be there? You shall, you must,
If hating sin, in Christ you trust,

Who did that place prepare.

Still doth His voice sound sweetly, "Come!
I am the Way: I'll lead you home.
With Me you will be there."

Conscience.

ET still there whispers the small voice within,
Heard through gain's silence and o'er glory's din:
Whatever creed be taught, or land be trod,

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

COLERIDGE.

SUBMIT yourself to God, and you shall find
God fights the battles of a will resigned.

KERR.

CHRIST was the Word, and spake it;
He took the bread and brake it:
And what the Word doth make it

That I believe, and take it.

Attributed to Queen Elizabeth, when examined as to her belief in the Real Presence in the Eucharist.

I SLEPT, and dreamt that life was beauty:
I woke, and found that life was duty.
Was then thy dream a shadowy lie?
Toil on, sad heart, courageously,
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
Noontide of life and truth to thee.

From the Arabic.

ITH conscious pride I view the band

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Of faithful friends that round me stand,
And joy to think that I alone

Can join these scattered gems in one,-
For they're a wreath of pearls, and I,
The silken cord on which they lie.

"An old Sermon with a new Text."

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Y wife contrived a fleecy thing

Her husband to infold;

For 'tis the pride of woman true

To cover from the cold :

My daughter made it a new text

For a sermon very old.

The child came trotting by her side,
Ready with bootless aid;
"Lily will make one for Papa,"

The tiny woman said.

Her mother gave the needful things,
And a knot upon the thread.

"The knot, mamma: it won't come through!

Mamma! mamma!" she cried:

Her mother cut away the knot

And she was satisfied,

Pulling the long thread through and through In fabricating pride.

Her mother told me this.

It gave

A glimpse of something more : Great meanings often hide themselves

With little words before;

And I brooded over this new text
Till the seed a sermon bore.

Nannie, to you, I preach it now,
A little sermon low :

Is it not thus a thousand times

As through the world we go? Do we not pull and fret and say,

Instead of," Yes, Lord,"—" No"?