King Eternal! O prepare By thy Spirit's influence here, King Immortal! through thy Son Give us faith in Him, that we Over death may victors be; And, accepted for His sake, 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, Lord of lords! and King of kings! If, when he from earth shall sever, 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, 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, Nor rest seduce to slothful ease; Soldier of Christ, if thou wouldst be From time's encumb'ring things; Be earth's enthralments fear'd, abhorr'd; 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! This is the purity, whose power, 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, Does purity adorn with grace The happy infant's smiling face? It does,—and cold their hearts must prove, 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. |