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'Mid alternate cold and heat,
Through life's journey,
Still await our wandering feet!
Lessons, hard to be adopted,

We must learn before we die,
And Amen! be oft repeated,
With the tear and with the sigh,
To prepare us

For the glorious world on high!
Can we see our friends desert us,
For religion's cause alone;
Can we, if possessions vanish,
Still our Father's goodness own?
Looking forward

Where afflictions are unknown?

Can we, if disease invade us,
Pain or languor overtake,
Say, Amen! and with the faithful,
Heaven alone our refuge make?
Brought the nearer,

As our comforts us forsake.

If the hopes our hearts have cherish'd,
Brighter than the summer's day,
God, in his unerring wisdom,

Good as wise, should take away;
Could our spirits

Then, Amen! devoutly say?

And, when death at length approaches, (Whose precursors pass'd before,)

Are we then prepared to utter

The Amen! and God adore?
Ever willing

What He wills, and nothing more?

DIVINE WORSHIP.

"Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?"-ISAIAH lx.

O LORD, we to thy Temple come,
Like birds that seek their distant home;
And as young martlets clustering cling

Round sacred fanes in nests of clay,
Before to brighter climes they wing

Themselves in hope and joy away;
So we now gather, and repair
Gladly unto Thy house of prayer,
To plume our pinions for the flight
That brings us to thy realms of light;

Yet while we linger, we would fain
Some glimpses of thy glory see,

Across the wide unbounded main Of fathomless eternity.

But, O Thou great INSCRUTABLE,
What mortal can thy glory tell?
How shall we raise the mystic veil

That shrouds in thickest gloom tny face;

How dare to bid JEHOVAH hail,

Within his high and holy place;

When the lawgiver trembling stood

In darkness as the Lord passed by,*
Shrinking within the mighty flood
Of glory and of Majesty?

With mortal powers-with mortal eyes,
We cannot scan thy mysteries:

Exodus xxxiii. 22.

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Vain is thy search, Philosophy,

Science and Art are helpless all; They seek in vain thy face to see,

They rise-but rise again to fall; Though eagle-like they soar, to gaze On thy perfections in their blaze, And fain would scan thy works and ways.

O! Mind-Imagination-Thought

Reason-Reflection-all are nought,
Whenever drawn beneath the bright
Refulgent focus of thy light;
Like diamonds to the Chemist's ray
Exposed, they quickly pass away;
And Nature, though she opens wide

Her fair and comprehensive book,
Before the stars of heaven in pride,

And seems immortal in her look,When showing how thy glory reigns,

Thy bounty gives, thy wisdom guides, Thy never-failing power sustains,

And everlasting care provides; She can but bring us to the verge

Of thy full Love's immensity, And blenches like the quailing surge Amid the shallows of that sea, When daring to explore the deep

Unsearchable and holy things,

Reserved alone for those that leap

Heavenwards upon salvation's wings.*

SAVIOUR OF MEN, INCARNATE WORD, Through Thee alone, our GOD we see; †

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And hail JEHOVAH as our LORD
Incorporate and ONE with THEE:
O! thus we enter pure and free*
The Holy of all Holies now,
And there behold the mystery

Of Godliness all clear and bright,
Revealed unto the sinner's sight;
There glorified, our spirits bow
Amid that blaze of love and light,
The Holy sacrament before,

And in an ecstasy divine,
Redeemed and holy would adore

At Mercy's all-embracing shrine;
And in the mystic "bread and wine,"
Received in Faith, would on thee feed
In word, in works, in truth, in deed,
And feel and know that we are thine!

Within the "Temple of the mind"
The "Holy Ghost" is now enshrined;
Its faculties are strength in Him,
Who dwells beneath the cherubim
Of love and truth, that sweetly kiss
Each other as his witnesses;
For soul the "Ark of promise" is,
Hope's rainbow bark of our Salvation,
Above a sunken world revealed,

A birthright deed for every nation,

When by the Saviour signed and sealed.

For this, O let us raise the voice

Of praise, and in our praise rejoice.
Within us HIS good spirit dwelling,
Redemption's love is ever telling ;

Heb. 1x.; St. John vii. 32.

† 1 Cor. iii.

And spreading onwards far and wide,
An ever full and flowing tide;
Swelling from faithful heart to heart,
Throughout the universe of feeling,
Pervading every secret part

Of human nature, cleansing, healing;
Till, like the clear refined gold,
All purified by heavenly grace,

Its placid brilliance well can hold
In brightness its REDEEMER's face,
And we can in our hearts confess
Thee as the LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

O Lord our God, then let us bend

Steadfast in faith before thee now, Thy wings of love in peace extend, When at thy altar sinking low; And like fond flowers rejoicing in

The glory of the summer's SUN,

We'll lift our heads from earth and sin,
To Thee, the "HIGH and HOLY ONE."
And Thou wilt be our living stream,

Our fountain in the desert springing,

Our constant and increasing beam,

New joy and hope each moment bringing, Our shading gourd, our mighty tower, Our rock, our fortress, and our trust; That, leaning on thy righteous power, We may not centre all in dust; But like those feeble plants, that draw Nutrition from some goodly tree, So will we fix our roots in thee, Our breath the pure and vital air

Of constant praise and earnest prayer,

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