I hear Thy voice; Thou bidd'st me quit My Paradise-I bless and do submit.

I will not murmur at Thy word,

Nor beg Thy angel to sheath up his sword.

JULY 24.

J. NORRIS.

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"My soul is even as a weaned child."-Ps.

cxxxi. 2.

Act but the infant's gentle part,
Give up to love thy willing heart,

No fondest parent's melting breast

Yearns like thy God's to make thee blest.
Taught its dear mother soon to know,
The tenderest babe its love can show ;
Bid thy unfaithful fear retire,—
This task no labour will require.

Thy heavenly Father, good and kind,
Wants but to have his child resign'd;
Wants but thy yielded heart,-no more—
With His large gifts of grace to store.
Thy gentle Father, best of friends,
To thee nor loss nor harm intends;
Though tost on a tempestuous main,
No wreck thy vessel shall sustain.

On His sure, faithful arm divine,
Firm let thy fastening trust recline;
Sweet light shall from the tranquil skies,
Like a fair dawn, before thee rise.
Come, backward soul, to God resign!
Peace, His best blessing, shall be thine;
Boldly reclining on His care,

Cast all thy burdens only there.

JULY 25.

"Thou shalt make them drink of the rivers of thy pleasures."-Ps. xxxvi. 8.

God gave much peace on earth-much holy joy;
Opened fountains of perennial spring, whence flowed
Abundant happiness to all who wished

To drink. Not perfect bliss; that dwells with us,
Beneath the eyelids of the Eternal One,
And sits at his right hand alone, but such
As well deserved the name,-abundant joy;
Pleasures on which the memory of saints
Of highest glory still delights to dwell.

Pollok's "Course of Time."

JULY 26.

"Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth?"Jer. iii. 4.

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Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand."-Ps. xx. 6.

Now in thy youth beseech of Him

Who giveth, upbraiding not,

That His light in thy heart become not dim,
And His love be unforgot;

And thy God in the darkest of days will be
Greenness, and beauty, and strength to thee.

BERNARD BARTON.

JULY 27.

"I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit."-Isa. lvii. 15.

The loveliest flowers the closest cling to earth,

And they first feel the sun; so violets blue,

And the soft star-like primrose, drenched with

dew,

The happiest of Spring's happy, fragrant birth.

To gentlest touches, sweetest tones reply;

And Humbleness, with her low-breathed voice, Can steal o'er man's proud heart, and win his choice

From earth to heaven, with mightier witchery,
Than eloquence or wisdom e'er could own.

Bloom on then, in your shade, contented bloom, Sweet flowers, nor deem yourselves to all unknown. Heaven knows you, by whose gale and dews ye thrive ;

They know, who one day for their alter'd doom Shall thank you, taught by you to abase themselves and live! Poems and Pictures.

JULY 28.

"He giveth his angels charge concerning thee." -Ps. xci. 11.

What a vast field of added enchantment opens before the eyes of Christian meditation, when the lonely muser, on whose soul the cleansing "blood of Jesus" hath been "sprinkled," connects the minutest gratification of sense, and sight, and sound, with a direct purpose on the part of his reconciled Father, and now applied by the pure, and impalpable agency

of "spirits sent to minister unto him as an heir of salvation!" To him all place is a temple-all time an altar-all solitude a society."

MONTGOMERY.

JULY 29.

“He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake."-Ps. xxiii. 3.

So far as you see the path of duty clear, pray for grace that you may be firm, and faithful, and not shrink from it. Leave consequences with the Lord; the cause is not more yours than His. He knows where you are, and what you are to meet with, and He will care for you.

NEWTON.

JULY 30.

"Whether we wake or sleep, we shall live togegether with him."—1 Thess. v. 10.

I know not whether our names will be immortal; I am sure our friendships will; for names stand only upon the surface of the earth, while friendships are