SHILOH FORETOLD.

"The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.”—Genesis, xlix. 10.

"TWAS thus, with clear prophetic eye
The dying patriarch from afar
Beheld in Bethlehem's cloudless sky
The rising of the eastern star.

That Star has risen; its light has shone
From Calvary's consecrated hill,
Eternal God! thy power alone

Its promis'd glory can fulfil.

Thou gatherest, none can scatter wide;
Thou scatterest, from thy fold we stray;

Thy Spirit to that fold must guide,
Thy Son the Light, the Life, the Way!

The kingly sceptre, regal crown

From Judah's outward tribe have past,

Each relique of his old renown

Low at Immanuel's footstool cast.

From ancient Israel's race and name
Their early honours far have flown;
Lord! magnify thy Shiloh's name,
O Father! glorify thine own.

Till through thy grace from shore to shore
Thy kingdom spread,—from sea to sea;
And to thy Son for evermore

The gathering of the people be.

THE INFANT MOSES FOUND.

"And when she had opened it (the ark) she saw the child: and behold the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children."-Exodus, ii. 6.

VAIN the fond attempt of man
God's supreme decrees to scan,
Or estimate his ways;
What now is we darkly see,
But what shall hereafter be

Mocks our feeble gaze.

Levi's daughter scarce could think, When beside the river's brink

O'er the ark she mourn'd,

How that child in manhood's hour Should with more than kingly power Be honour'd and adorn'd.

Pharaoh's daughter little knew,
When, relenting at the view,
She interfer'd to save,

He whose sorrows thus could plead
Egypt's glory soon would lead

To ocean's yawning grave.

God! to thine omniscient eye Things to come, and things gone by

Are as present shown; In their origin, and end,

All unto thy glory tend,

And make thy goodness known.

Teach us, then, in Thee to trust,
Wise and mighty, good and just;
That living faith bestow

Which, in moments dark or bright,
Knows that all thou dost is right,

And seeks no more to know.

THE HOLINESS OF THE DIVINE PRESENCE.

“And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground."-Exodus, iii. 5.

FEARFUL in holiness wert Thou,
O God! on Horeb's height;
Well might thy servant Moses bow,
And worship at the sight.

Well might he, at such high behest,
With feet unshod draw nigh,
When thus thy presence was confest
In awful majesty.

And what thou wast on Horeb's brow,
Or Sinai's cloud-capt hill,

Thou yet remain'st:-thy presence now

O God! is holy still.

Though not to outward sense reveal'd,
As then to Moses shown,

Nor now in human guise conceal'd

As once on Calvary known :—

Yet through the Spirit of thy Son,
The influence of thy grace,

Thou art not far from every one
Who seeks to know thy face.

Thy gospel light hath shown us where
Thy temple, Lord, should be;
Grant us to feel thy presence there,
To feel, and worship thee.

To bow before thee in the heart
With love and awe profound,
As knowing where-soe'er Thou art,
We stand on holy ground.

ISRAEL HUMBLED YET HOPEFUL.

"And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped."Exodus, iv. 31.

ISRAEL, humbled, could believe,
Moses' message could receive;
Faith was given to feel that God
Look'd upon the path they trod;