King Eternal! O prepare
Us eternity to share :

By thy Spirit's influence here,
Keep us in thy holy fear,
That, hereafter, ours may be
Bless'd eternity with Thee.

King Immortal! through thy Son
Immortality is won:

Give us faith in Him, that we

Over death may victors be;

And, accepted for His sake,
May to endless life awake.

King Invisible! supply

Sight unto that inward eye,

Which should look on 66

things unseen,"

But by sin hath darken'd been;

Thou canst cause the blind to see,
Ope that eye to look on Thee.

Lord of lords! and King of kings!
Heaven's high vault with praises rings;
Should not man on earth proclaim
Honour, glory, to Thy name,

If, when he from earth shall sever,
These he would ascribe for ever?

A CHRISTIAN'S DEVOTedness.

"No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." -2 Timothy, ii. 4.

HE who would win a warrior's fame,
Must shun, with ever watchful aim,
Entangling things of life;

His couch the earth, heaven's arching dome

His airy tent, his only home

The field of martial strife.

Unwearied by the battle's toil,
Uncumber'd by the battle's spoil,
No dangers must affright;

Nor rest seduce to slothful ease;
Intent alone his Chief to please,
Who call'd him forth to fight.

Soldier of Christ, if thou wouldst be
Worthy that epithet, stand free

From time's encumb'ring things;

Be earth's enthralments fear'd, abhorr'd;
Knowing thy Leader is the Lord,
Thy Chief the King of kings.

Still use, as not abusing, all

Which fetters worldlings by its thrall;With fame, with power, with pelf, With joy or grief, with hope or fear, · Whose origin and end are here, Entangle not thyself.

These close enough will round thee cling, Without thy tight'ning every string

Which binds them to thy heart:Despise them not! this thankless were, But, while partaking them, prepare From each and all to part.

CHRISTIAN PURITY.

"Unto the pure all things are pure.”—Titus, i. 15.

Он, for that purity of heart!
The gospel only can impart
To those who gratefully receive
Its teachings, and its word believe.

This is the purity, whose power,
In dark temptation's trying hour,
Can still unchangeably endure,
And pure itself, make all things pure.

Stainless

appears

the mountain's snow,

Transparent seems the brook below;

Taintless the opening flower,-the dew Which gems it-as unsullied too.

But rains soon dim the mountain hoar,
The troubled stream runs clear no more,
The flow'ret in the dust is soil'd,
The dew-drop by the sun despoil'd.

Does purity adorn with grace

The happy infant's smiling face?

It does,—and cold their hearts must prove,
Who look not on such face with love.

Yet mountain snows, and chrystal streams, And flowers which ope to morn's bright beams, And dew-drops-which those sun-beams dry, Are types of nature's purity.

While that which God alone can give,

Life's shifting changes shall outlive,

And give" the pure in heart," through grace,

To see their Maker face to face.