By purest pleasures unbeguiled,
To idolize a wife or child;

Such wedded souls our God shall own
For faultless virgins round His throne.

Thus everywhere we find our suffering God,
And where He trod

May set our steps-the cross on Calvary,
Uplifted high,

Beams on the martyr host, a beacon light
In open fight.

To the still wrestlings of the lonely heart
He doth impart

The virtue of his midnight agony,

When none was nigh,

Save God and our good angel, to assuage
The tempest's rage.

Mortal! if life smile on thee, and thou find
All to thy mind,

Think who did once from heaven to hell descend,
Thee to befriend;

So shalt thou dare forego, at His dear call,
Thy best, thine all.

"O Father! not my will, but Thine be done!"

So spake the Son.

Be this our charm, mellowing

Of griefs and joys;

earth's ruder noise

That we may cling for ever to Thy breast,

In perfect rest.

"In everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God."-PHIL. iv., 6.

THE POWER OF PRAYER.

Lord, what a change within us one short hour
Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make,
What heavy burdens from our bosoms take,
What parched grounds refresh, as with a shower!
We kneel, and all around us seems to lower;
We rise, and all, the distant and the near,
Stands forth in sunny outline, brave and clear;
We kneel how weak, we rise how full of power!

Why therefore should we do ourselves this wrong
Or others that we are not always strong,
That we are ever overborne with care,

That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with

Thee.

ORD, support me all day long of this troublous life, until the shadows lengthen and the evening coines, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and my work is done. Then in Thy Mercy grant me a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last. Amen, Lord Jesus, Amen.

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"Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth,

and keep the door of my lips."

GRANT, O LORD, I beseech Thee,

this day, that I may speak nothing, and that there may be nothing in my manner of speaking, that shall be displeasing to Thee; through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. Amen.

N the Name of the FATHER, and of

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the Son, and of the HOLY GHOST, may I this day think every thought, speak every word, do every act, and bear every trial. Amen.

GLADNESS OF HEART.

Dear Lord, since Thou didst make the earth, Thou mad'st it not for grief, but mirth; Therefore will I be glad,

And let who will be sad.

For if I load my life with care,
What profits me the buxom air,

And what the sweet birds' choir
Or heaven's azure fire?

But if I cannot choose but weep,
Weeping I'll think I do but sleep,
Till thou shalt bid me wake
And triumph for thy sake.

Lord, as 'tis thine eternal state
With joy undimmed to contemplate

The world that thou hast wrought
As mirror for thy thought.

So every morning I would rise,
And offer thee for sacrifice

A spirit bright and clear

As the wide atmosphere.

For Lord, since all is well with thee,
It cannot well be ill with me.