Known by good fruits, faith's genuine test,
Impartial, upright, and sincere;

If such in thee be manifest,

The wisdom from above is near.

Such is its influence o'er the heart,
Thus is its presence ever known;
But only God can these impart,
And all their glory is his own.

Hast thou by grace this wisdom won?
Watch o'er thy thoughts, thy words, thy ways;

And, in the Spirit, through his Son,

Give God the honour and the praise.

THE TRANSITORY AND THE ENDURING.

"For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever."-1 Peter, i. 24, 25.

ALL flesh is but as grass!

Man's glory, like the flower of grass, must fade,

When clouds shall o'er it

pass,

And veil its transient loveliness in shade.

Does this apply alone

To these material tenements of clay?

Alas! its truth is shown

In gifts and graces perishing as they.

Power, knowledge, fame, and wealth,
Are, in themselves, as insecure and frail
As comeliness, or health,

Which ere the morrow stern disease may quail.

Then boast not, worm of earth! Even those gifts and graces of the mind, Which claim a loftier birth

Than unto grosser matter seems assign'd.

The power of thought, of feeling, Fancy, imagination,-trust them not; Howe'er to pride appealing,

All these may, with thy memory, be forgot.

If such thy glory are,

God can o'erthrow them in their zenith's pride,
And will their beauty mar,

Except His grace their use has sanctified!

His holy word, alone,

Remains unchang'd, and ever shall endure;
Himself the Corner-Stone

On which that hope is rear'd, which standeth sure,

THE LAST DAY.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."-2 Peter, iii. 10.

WHETHER this solemn day may come,
Ere time to us shall be no more,

To man all oracles are dumb,

Nor need we ignorance deplore.

Enough for us to know and feel,

When we our fleeting years have past, A day must come-our lot to seal,

A day, an hour-to us THE LAST!

When outward heaven, and outward earth,

We must forego, with things of time;

And death must be the awful birth

Of an eternity sublime.

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Prepare us, Lord, to meet that day,
Which, soon or late, we all must greet;
When we thy summons must obey,
And stand before thy judgment-seat.

So purify our hearts from sin,

That we may seek, nor seek in vain,
For brighter heavens, new earth-wherein
Thy glorious righteousness shall reign.

Where sun nor moon shall more display
Vicissitude of day or night,

But Thou wilt be our endless day,
The Lamb our everlasting light.

WALKING IN THE LIGHT.

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another; and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”—1 John, i. 7.

WALK in the light! So shalt thou know

That fellowship of love,

His Spirit only can bestow,

Who reigns in light above.