Two Homes for us His Love hath found,

One by our quiet couch and one in holy ground.
There in due season meekly kneeling

Learn we our lesson ere His last revealing.
The Mother of our Lord is there,

And Saints are breathing hallow'd air,

Living and dead, to waft on high our feeble prayer.

And with His Mother and His Saints

He watches by, who loves the prayer that never faints. Avaunt, ill thoughts and thoughts of folly! Where christen'd infants sport, that floor is holy : Holier the station where they bow,

Adoring Him with daily vow,

Till He with ampler grace their youthful hearts

endow.

4.

SELF-EXAMINATION.

"And he, trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do."

"WHAT wouldst thou have me do, O Lord ?"
Darkling he spoke and lowly laid,
With all his heart he spake the word,
The awful Voice mild answer made :
"Go, seek one out who thee may bring

Where healing, holy waters spring,

Then will I show thee speedily

What burthen thou must bear for Me."

"What wouldst thou have me do, O Lord ?”

Each morn and eve we seem to say, And He gives back no doubtful word : "Remember, little child, all day,

Thine early vows, the hallow'd wave
Where JESUS first His blessing gave:

There stoop, there cleanse thee every hour :

Christ's Laver hath refreshing power."

"What wouldst Thou have me do, O Lord ?"
Rise, little child, and onward go,
Where Saints are met with one accord
The praises of high God to show.
In meekness learn their prayer and song,
Do as they do, and thou ere long
Shalt see the wonders they behold

In heavenly books and creeds of old.

"What wouldst Thou have me do, O Lord ?" So whispering, Saul with prostrate brow The persecuted One adored,

So breathed his earliest Christian vow.

Stern the reply :—to fast alone,

And in the darkness make his moan.
Thrice set and rose the weary day,

Ere with the Christians he might pray.

"What wouldst Thou have me do, O Lord ?"

Think, little child; thy conscience try, Rebellious deed and idle word,

And selfish thought and envious eye :

Hast thou no mark of these? and yet
Full in thy sight His Law was set.
O, if He joy'd the Cross to bear,
With patience take thy little share.

5.

CONFESSION.

"And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden."

DIDST thou not hear how soft the day-wind sighed,
How from afar that sweeping breath it drew,
Waved the light rustling branches far and wide,
Then died away, then rose and moaned anew?

Sure if aright our morning prayers were said,

We in those tones the Almighty's unseen walk Shall hear, nor vainly shun the Presence dread, Which comes in mercy with our souls to talk.

“Where art thou, child of earth?" He seems to say,

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'Why hide so deep from Love's all-seeing eye ?”— "I heard and feared, for I have sinned to-day."

"What? know'st thou not the Almighty One was by?