THE FOUNTAIN OPENED. "In that day there shall be a tountain opened to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness."-Zechariah, xiii. 1. FROM Zion's holy mountain Its purifying waters, The house of David know, And Salem's sons and daughters, There wash'd, are white as snow. From sin and from uncleanness The blind and deaf, there drinking, The dumb, who seek in sadness Breaking each chain asunder, Hath caus'd the dead to live! "Whence flows this tide of healing, That does such wond'rous things? Oh haste, its source revealing, Sinner, thy prayer is granted, GOD CHALLENGETH THE PROOF OF HIS GOODNESS. Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."-Malachi, iii. 10. THUS, though to many a doubtful ear, And such, to many a faultering will, Are there not, gracious Lord, whom thou But disobedience, like a blight, Hath made us dwarfish in thy sight, And robb'd thee of thy promis'd fruit. And hence of word, of deed, of thought, We to thy house no tithes have brought, "Till, keeping back thy just demand, We dwell as in a thirsty land. Yet e'en from us, so far, aloof, Thy goodness deigns to challenge proof; Still thou art calling for thine own, Only to make Thy bounty shown. Your tithes into my storehouse bring, Confess me as your Priest and King; The riches of my grace shall prove Heav'n's windows I will open wide, Such was the challenge from on high, A REFLECTION. OH! were I borne in spirit to the time Which now the progress of my task hath won; Came to atone for folly, sin, and crime, Who, plac'd on such ideal eminence, But many a thoughtful glance must round him cast? Viewing, as with an eye of faith intense, Now the more shadowy glories of the past, Then, turning from them, trembling, to survey |