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ARE thy toils and woes increasing? Are the Foe's attacks unceasing?

THE CROSS.

Look with Faith unclouded,
Gaze with eyes unshrouded,
On the Cross!

Dost thou fear that strictest trial?

Tremblest thou at Christ's denial?
Never rest without it,

Clasp thine arms about it,—
That dear Cross!

Diabolic legions press thee?

Thoughts and works of sin distress thee?
It shall chase all terror,

It shall right all error,—
That sweet Cross!

Draw'st thou nigh to Jordan's river?
Shouldst thou tremble? Need'st thou quiver?
No, if by it lying,-

No, if on it dying,

On the Cross!

Say, then, "Master, while I cherish
That sweet hope, I cannot perish!
After this life's story,
Give Thou me the glory

For the Cross!"

ST. METHODIUS.

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Он, blest were the accents of early creation,

When the Word of Jehovah came down from above,

In the clods of the earth to infuse animation,

And wake their cold atoms to life and to love!

GOD'S WORD.

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And mighty the tones which the firmament rended,
When on wheels of the thunder, and wings of the wind,
By lightning, and hail, and thick darkness attended,
He uttered on Sinai His laws to mankind.

And sweet was the voice of the First-Born of Heaven (Though poor His apparel, though earthly His form), Who said to the mourner, "Thy sins are forgiven !" "Be whole!" to the sick, and "Be still!" to the storm.

O Judge of the world, when, arrayed in Thy glory, Thy summons again shall be heard from on high, While nature stands trembling and naked before Thee, And waits on Thy sentence to live or to die;

When the Heaven shall fly fast from the sound of Thy thunder,

And the sun in Thy lightnings grow languid and pale, And the sea yield her dead, and the Tomb cleave asunder, In the hour of Thy terrors, let mercy prevail!

HEBER.

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HAST thou a charm to stay the morning star
In his steep course? So long he seems to pause
On thy bald awful head, O sovereign Blanc !
The Arve and Arveiron at thy base
Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form,
Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines,
How silently! Around thee and above
Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black,

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