The Comforter ... whom I will send unto you from the Father.

ST. JOHN xv, 26.

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now

Love consummate

what Love began ! The King who veiled in flesh His

Deity,

The King self-offered on the Altar-Tree, The King who made His lowly grave with manBy birth, death, burial, bore the sinner's banHath ta'en again His glory, not alone! Man sits with God upon th' eternal throne, And man for man makes good th' eternal plan. O Crowned Love, who now with love canst crown The children of Thy kingdom, from Thy Heaven Now canst Thou shower Thy royal largesse down On Thine elect—love of the mystic Seven.* Not orphaned ! in that Love they are at one With Thine, () Father, and with Thine, O Son.

They were all filled with the Holy Ghost.-Acts ii. 4.

:

HE still trees stir, the old waste places

sing, When winter dies : tender, yet strong

as love, The winds of God the barren woodland move To bud and bloom and music, quickening Sad silence into joy. So did the King Upon the ghostly fields of sleep and death Send forth the Promise and the Hope. God's

Breath Passed o'er the wintry world, and it was Spring ! He moved upon the deep, and it was light: He moved within the waste, and there was song : The Church, so blind before, received her sight: The dumb were eloquent, the weak were strong : To waiting weary hearts the tidings flew, “This is our God Who maketh all things new!”

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come,

Rev. iv. 8.

ong have we fared on the appointed ways,

From Bethlehem to Olivet, and now
Out of the Upper Chamber to the brow
Of the great Seaward Hill we wend

and gaze.

Oh, dim our vision through this earthly haze !
Yet looking toward the illimitable sea
We cry, “ O God, Thou art ! 0 ONE-IN-THREE
O THREE-IN-ONE, Thou art! Ancient of Days.”
Beneath our feet the solemn waters roar,
Beyond our sight they touch eternal Heaven,
Theirs is the oracle of Thunders* seven
Across a deep that rolls without a shore :
And we can only cry,

“ O ONE-IN-THREE, O THREE-IN-ONE, Thou art ! We worship THEE.”

. Rev. x. 3.

God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and

God in him. ... And this commandment have we from Him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

1 St. John iv. 16, 21.

OVE is the light of every night and day
Without us and within. It shines with-

out,
For over us is God, and round about

With ever warming and enlightening ray
Of His dear grace He shines. By the sure Yea
Of Promise in the dismal shades of doubt
He holds a lamp of love that goes not out,
Though the night winds blow loud along our way.
So must it be within ; within must burn
Responsive-streaming from us far and near,
O’er all our brethren-making sweet return-
Love's sunshine, to illumine and to cheer.
This is God's will : the divine simple plan :
Man, whom God loves, must love his fellow-man.

And the servant said, Lord, it is done as Thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

St. LUKE xiv. 22.

HE feast is ready and the Lord is there,
And long and far His free and gracious

call
Hath bidden the many to His banquet-hall;

But, lo, their hearts are sold to other care, And none have come for whom He did prepare. Pride, business, pleasure, hold in common thrall Far from His grace the foolish hearts of all. And now His voice is sounding otherwhere. Yet there is room ! though poor, and halt, and

blind Have ta'en the place of Pharisee and priest, And beyond hope their happy portion find Together sitting at the glorious feast, Still sounds His call, and still He waits within, Till every alien soul is gathered in.