SATURDAY MORNING.

"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind."-GENESIS i. 24-30.

My soul! to trace thy Maker's hand
In all creation's round,

And see the wond'rous frame He planned,
With its perfections crowned;
This hath been thy sweet duty past,
But this day's gift was best, as last.

The blossomed herb, the fruitful tree,
The sun and spangled sky,
The deep, with all its treasury,
The air, for them who fly;

These all were made, one beauteous plan,
And then a lord was given them-man.

O God! most merciful and just,
As Thou at first did breathe

Thy spirit o'er the fashioned dust,
Still may our souls receive

That

breath of life" derived from Thee,

Our hope and sustenance to be.

Dominion o'er created things,

A spirit like to thine,

Thought, that within unbidden springs; These were the gifts divine Wherewith thy creature was arrayed,

In God's eternal likeness made.

And unto him the herb and tree,
The goodliest of each race,
Were given-for he alone was free
His earthly home to grace;
Heir of the fruitful earth he stood,

That earth so perfect, fair, and good.

And not of this sweet earth alone

Was he proclaimed the heir;

The eternal heaven, his Maker's throne
On high, 'twas his to share; (11)
'Twas his, with one condition tied:
He broke the sole command-and died.

Died from the earth, and passed away
Into the silent grave;

Then crumbled back the form of clay
His bounteous Maker gave;

But, like a brand from burning caught,
His spirit from the tomb was brought.

The soul—that part that thinks, and wills,
And hopes-can never die:
Though sin the fading body kills,
The soul eternally

Shall live with God, if in his name

That never-ceasing life we claim.

Oh, though a child whose thoughts are weak,

I can this boon implore,
And humbly that Redeemer seek,

Who quits his own no more:
He is the life, the truth, the way,

He hears me whilst to Him I pray.

SUNDAY MORNING.

"And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work."-GENESIS ii. 2.

HAIL, Sabbath day! by God ordained,
When His almighty word

Blessed the young world his love had framed,
Whilst man and angels heard,

Deep peace o'er all creation lay,
"God rested on the seventh day."

The fulness of repose came down
On wave, and plain, and tree,

And man's awakened tongue made known
The praise of Deity :

Thus having called him from the clay,

God rested on the seventh day.