HEALING. HEAL me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for Thou art my praise.-Jeremiah, xvii. 14. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.-Malachi, iv. 2. And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto Him a centurian, beseeching Him, And saying, Lord my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.-Matthew, viii. 5. 6. 7. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep-market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.John, v. 2, 3, 4. AROUND Bethesda's healing wave, Waiting to hear the rustling wing Among them there was one whose eye Another won the boon he sought; Which, with its healing waters, went; B. Barton. Oh! Thou who driest the mourner's tear, The friends who in our sunshine live, But Thou wilt heal the broken heart, Their fragrance from the wounded part, Dread Omnipotence alone, Can heal the wound He gave; Can point the brim-full, grief-worn eyes, Thus ever in the steps of grief, Are sown the precious seeds of joy; Each fount of Marah hath a leaf, Whose healing balm we may employ. Then, 'mid life's fitful, fleeting day, Look up! the sky is bright above! Kind voices cheer thee on thy way! Faint spirit! Trust the God of Love! Moore. Burns. Miss A. D. Woodbridge. Heal me, for my flesh is weak; Thou cam'st with healing on thy wings, Like one that some sweet message brings Of hope and comforting; Lyte. So with a power to heal the smart Egone. HEALTH. WHY art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.-Psalm xlii. 11. Pleasant words are as an honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.--Proverbs, xvi. 24. Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there; why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?--Jeremiah, viii. 22. I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord.--Jeremiah, xxx. 17. HEALTH, brightest visitant from heaven, For all the pride that wealth bestows, Whatever sweets we hope to find All flourish at thy smile divine; Bland, from Alciphron. Slow wand'ring on the margin of the deep, I breathe the cheering gale of health once more; And see the billows gently dash the steep, That rears its bold head on the sandy shore. Fresh looks the landscape with the dews of dawn; A bluish mist swims o'er the softened grove; The wanton deer bound lightly o'er the lawn, And ev'ry copse resounds with notes of love. The village-clocks proclaim the passing hour; The tall spires glitter to the early sun; The ploughman, whistling, quits his low-roofed bow'r, And now his peaceful labour is begun. Yet not this ocean, cheered with many a sail, Or from his bosom chase the clouds of care. The merry morn no rapture could impart, Nor converse sweet of friends his hours beguile; Yet oft we slight thy worth, O, blessed Health! What is life?-like a flower, with the bane in its bosom, To-day, full of promise, to-morrow it dies! And health like the dewdrop that hung on its blossom, How oft at the root of the flower that is rarest, Dr. W. Beattie. Green pastures and clear streams, Christ's flock enjoy beneath his beams, The mountain and the vale, Forest and field they range; The wounded and the weak He comforts, heals, and binds; The lost he came from heaven to seek, J. Montgomery. HEARING. HEAR thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.-I. Kings, viii. 30. They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.-Psalm lviii. 4, 5. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?-Psalm xciv. 9. Incline thine ear unto wisdom.-Proverbs, ii. 2. The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.-Proverbs, xv. 31. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.--Proverbs, xx. 12. Take heed what ye hear.--Mark, iv. 24. Take heed therefore how ye hear.--Luke, viii. 18. THIS is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill. As Thou hast touched our ears, and taught And haunt our hearts when we would pray, Keble. |