They cry with simple voice and clear, For holy Priests and Matrons mild, He gives the frail and feeble tongue Thus in the Tabernacle shade At morn and eve young Samuel pray'd, To Eli thus dread words he spake : Ye hearts profane, with penance ache ;- Heaven's thunder from a child's meek tongue. PRAYER AT HOME AND IN CHURCH. "These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the Mother of Jesus, and with his brethren." WHERE are the homes of paschal mirth, The bowers where heavenly Joy may rest her wings on earth, And at her leisure gaze adoring Where out of sight the golden clouds are soaring Where may rejoicing Love retreat To frame a melody for His returning meet? Two homes we know of Love's resort, One in the upper room, one in the Temple court: Alike her presence, whom the awful blessing Lifted above all Adam's race : The royal Twelve are there in place; Women and duteous friends, awaiting His high grace. Two Homes for us His Love hath found, One by our quiet couch and one in holy ground. 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. 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, Then will I show thee speedily What burthen thou must bear for Me." "What wouldst Thou have me do, O Lord ?" Thine early vows, the hallow'd wave There stoop, there cleanse thee every hour: "What wouldst Thou have me do, O Lord ?" Rise, little child, and onward go, 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. 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 : |