"We saw as angels see; through loss and sinnings."

"For him that overcometh are

The new name written on the stone,

The raiment white, the crown, the throne,

And I will give him the Morning Star!"

"In the midst of much failure, have the heart to begin again."

"Of our vices we can frame

A ladder, if we will but tread

Beneath our feet each deed of shame."

SONGS IN TEMPTATION.

"Lives in the darkness show
Their whiteness best."

IN the throng

Of evils that assail us, there are none

That yield their strength to Virtue's struggling arm
With such munificent reward of power

As great temptations. We may win by toil
Endurance; saintly fortitude by pain;

By sickness, patience; faith and trust by fear;
But the great stimulus that spurs to life,
And crowds to generous development
Each chastened power and passion of the soul,
Is the temptation of the soul to sin,
Resisted, and reconquered, evermore.

J. G. HOLLAND.

G'

IVE strength when'er our strength must fail;

Give strength the flesh to curb;

Give strength when craft and sin prevail,
To weaken and disturb.

The world doth lay her snares

To catch us unawares :

Give strength to sweep them all away ;
So in our utmost need,

And when death comes indeed,

Thy strength shall be our perfect stay.

MARPERGER.

WHA

HAT though we grope and stumble in the way,
The thorny way by which our feet are led?

Still strive to walk uprightly, and to lay

Foundation firm for other feet to tread.

LAURA B. BOYCE.

I

Do not know the deadly depths within,
Where lurk my heart's capacities of wrong,
I cannot fathom what I might have been,
Abandoned to myself to drift along
The seething floods, whose cruel undertow
Clutches unwary souls, had not the hand
Of the strong Swimmer, buffeting the flow
Of death, upheld my life and drawn to land.

I only know that from my fatal self

One who is strong preserved me! and I owe My rescuing to Him, who treads the shelf

Where sea meets shore along this treacherous

coast,

To watch the overbold, who dare the woe

Of waters, lest their powers give up the ghost.

M. WOOLSEY STRYKER.

T15 keep Thy laws, mine own wrong will

~HIS shall please Thee, if devoutly trying

denying,

I watch mine heart, lest sin again enchain it,
And from Thee tear it.

But since I have not strength to flee temptation,

To crucify each sinful inclination,

O! let Thy grace and strength provide me,

And gently guide me.

JOHANN HEERMAN, 1630.

M

Y heart grows strong,

Whene'er I feel Thy love, Most High,
Doth compass me around;

But would I have Thee for my shield,
No more to sin my soul must yield,
But in Thy ways be found;
Thou God wilt ever walk with me,

If I turn not aside from Thee.

DUKE OF BRUNSWICK, 1667.

ΝΕ

EATH some shadow oft I wait,

Like blind Bartimeus at the gate;
Assured that when my Lord draws nigh,
Sin, doubt and darkness all shall fly :
Hence to His cross I cling the more,
Whene'er these shadows touch my door.

JOHN ORDRONAUX, from “ Shadows of the Tempted."

G

REAT truths are greatly won; not found by

chance,

Nor wafted on the breath of summer dreams; But grasped in the great struggle of the soul, Hard buffeted with adverse wind and stream.

In the dark day of conflict, fear and grief,

When the strong hand of God, put forth in might, Plows up the subsoil of the stagnant heart

And brings the imprisoned truth-seed to the light. HORATIUS BONAR.