E'en while the body wastes, it thrives;
E'en while the body dies, it lives;

Heavenward it tends, from heaven bestowed, Its source is "hid with Christ in God."

3 If these dark hours, this suffering state,
That life divine invigorate;

If now God's Spirit work within,
Increasing faith, subduing sin,

Time thus employed is gained, not lost,
Though selfish hopes and schemes be crossed;
My plans, my wishes I resign;
"Father! Thy will be done, not mine!"

4 Oh! if as yet Thine eye in me
Has vainly sought some trace to see,
Of likeness to Thy Son, my Lord-
His image to my soul restored,
Now make these hours of lonely pain,
A means that likeness to attain,
Since even He, our Lord, our Head,
Was here by suffering perfected.

430.

"I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name: thou art mine."-ISA. 43:1.

SAV

AVIOUR! once to Thee presented,
At Thy footstool I was laid:
In life's bloom, my heart consented
To the vows my sponsors made;
Thine in infancy and youth,
Should I not have kept Thy truth?

2 Thine by right, as my Creator,

Who my two-fold life bestowed,
Saved by Thee, my Mediator,
Ransomed with Thy precious blood;
Thine by baptism's solemn vow,
Shall my heart forsake Thee now?

3 No! not far then shall I wander,

Thou hast stricken me to reclaim ; O'er the guilty past I ponder Overwhelmed with grief and shame; Still that Lord whose seal I wear, Pours for me the availing prayer.

4 Welcome the severest token,

That God "lets me not alone;"
Though His covenant I have broken,
He reclaims me as His own;
Saviour, now my soul restore,

Bid ''

me go and sin no more."

"And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not."-GEN. 23: 16.

AMI to this seclusion brought,

As wandering Jacob first was taught
In solitude and woe,

To look on things before unseen,
And, in the stilly night serene,
His Father's God to know?

2 Alone and weary as he laid,
A wond'rous ladder was displayed,
Reaching from earth to heaven;
Ascending and descending there,
Angels (who perhaps made him their care)
To his charmed sight was given.

3 He felt that God was in that place,
He learned to prize and seek His grace,
And there before Him vowed-
"That if, through all his future track,”
"He thither came, in safety back,"
"The Lord should be his God."

4 Like him, a wanderer I have been,
And waking, in this lonely scene,
I feel that God is here;

While, bright with supernatural ray,
Shines forth that "new and living way"
Which brings the sinner near.

5 Apart from man, in this still hour,
He, who might crush me by His power,
A covenant deigns to make;
And if, supplying all my need,
He to the end my steps will lead,
Him for my God I take.

6 If health once more He deign to give,
Then for His glory may I live,
May all to Him be given !

If not, while angels o'er me bend,
Those golden steps may I ascend,
Which lead the soul to heaven!

432.

"He openeth their ear to discipline."-Joв 34, 10.

YHAMBER of sickness! much to thee I owe,
Though dark thou be;

The lessons it imports me most to know,
I owe to thee!

A sacred seminary thou hast been,
I trust, to train me for a happier scene.

2 Chamber of sickness! suffering and alone,
My friends withdrawn,

The blessed beams of heavenly truth have shone

On me, forlorn,

With such a hallowed vividness and power, As ne'er was granted to a brighter hour.

3 Chamber of sickness! midst thy silence, oft A voice is heard,

Which, though it fall like dew on flowers, so soft,

Yet speaks each word

Into the aching heart's unseen recess,

With power no earthly accents could possess.

4 Chamber of sickness! in that bright abode, Where "there is no more pain,"

If, through the merits of my Saviour God,
A seat I gain,

This theme shall tune my golden harp's soft lays,

That in thy shelter passed my earthly days.

III. THE BELIEVER SUBMISSIVE AND RE

JOICING.

433.

LORD! I put my trust in Thee,
And on Thyself depend;
To Thee in every trouble flee,
My best, my only friend.

2 When all created streams are dried

Thy fullness is the same;
May I with this be satisfied,
And glory in Thy name.

3 Why should a soul a drop bemoan,
That has a fountain near;
A fountain that must ever run,
With waters sweet and clear?

4 No good in creatures can be found,
But all is found in Thee;

I must have all things and abound,
Since God is good to me.

C. M.

5 Oh! that I had but stronger faith,
To look within the veil;

To credit what my Saviour saith,
Whose word can never fail.

6 Now Lord, I would be Thine alone,
And wholly live to Thee;
But worthless still myself I own-
Thy worth is all my plea.

THE

HE moment comes, the only one
Of all my time to be foretold;

Though when, and where, and how, can none
Of all the race of man unfold.

2 That moment comes, when strength must fail, When, health and hope and comfort flown, I must go down into the vale

And shade of death, with Thee alone.

3 Then, when the unbodied spirit lands
Where flesh and blood have never trod,
And in the unveiled presence stands
Of Thee, my Saviour and my God,

4 Be mine eternal portion this,

Since Thou wert always here with me,
That I may view Thy face in bliss,
And be for evermore with Thee.

MONTGOMERY