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Beholding, while he suffer'd on,
The healing virtue giv'n-and gone.

No pow'r had he; no friendly aid
To him its timely succour brought;
But, while his coming he delay'd,
Another won the boon he sought ;-
Until the Saviour's love was shown,
Which heal'd him by a word alone!

Had they who watch'd and waited there,
Been conscious who was passing by,
With what unceasing, anxious care
Would they have sought his pitying eye;
And crav'd, with fervency of soul,
His sov'reign pow'r to make them whole.

But habit and tradition sway'd
Their minds to trust to sense alone;
They only sought the angel's aid,
While in their presence stood, unknown,
A greater, mightier far, than he,
With pow'r from ev'ry pain to free.

Bethesda's pool has lost its pow'r!
No angel, by his glad descent,
Dispenses that diviner dow'r
Which with its healing waters went :
But he whose word surpassed its wave,
Is still omnipotent to save.

BARTIMEUS RESTORED TO SIGHT.

GRAHAME.

Thy faith hath made thee whole; so JESUS
spake,

And straight the blind BEHELD THE FACE
OF GOD.

THE DUMB CURED.

GRAHAME.

His eyes uplifted, and his hands close clasped,

The dumb man, with a supplicating look,
Turned as the Lord passed by: JESUS be-
held,

And on him bent a pitying look, and spake :
His moving lips are by the suppliant seen,
And the last accents of the healing sentence
Ring in that ear which never heard before.
Prostrate the man restor'd falls to the earth,
And uses first the gift, the gift sublime
Of speech, in giving thanks to Him whose
voice

Was never uttered, but in doing good.

HEALING OF THE DEMONIAC.

ΑΝΟΝ.

THEY know the Almighty's power, Who, waken'd by the rushing midnight shower,

Watch for the fitful breeze,
To howl and chafe amid the bending trees;
Watch for the still white gleam,
To bathe the landscape in a fiery stream,
Touching the tremulous eye with sense of
of light

BLIND, poor, and helpless BARTIMEUS sat,
Listening the foot of the wayfaring man,
Still hoping that the next, and still the next,
Would put an alms into his trembling hand,
He thinks he hears the coming breeze faint Too rapid and too pure for all but angel-sight.

rustle

Among the sycamores; it is the tread

Of thousand steps; it is the hum of tongues
Innumerable but when the sightless man
Heard that the Nazarene was passing by,
He cried, and said, "JESUS, thou son of
David,

Have mercy upon me!" and, when rebuked
He cried the more,
"have mercy upon me!"

They know the Almighty's love,
Who, when the whirlwinds rock the top-

most grove,

Stand in the shade, and hear
The tumult with a deep exulting fear;
How in their fiercest sway,

Curb'd by some power unseen, they die

away,

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JESUS WALKS ON THE SEA, AND
CALMS THE STORM.

GRAHAME.

LOUD blew the storm of night; the thwarting surge

And quits his hold; the voyagers, appall'd,
Shrink from the fancied Spirit of the Flood:
But when the voice of Jesus with the storm
Soft mingled, It is I, be not afraid :
Fear fled, and joy lightened from eye to eye.
Up he ascends, and from the rolling side,

Dash'd, boiling on the labouring bark: dis- Surveys the tumult of the sea and sky

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WHEN through the torn sail the wild tempest is streaming,
When o'er the dark wave the red lightning is gleaming,
Nor hope lends a ray, the poor seaman to cherish,
We fly to our Maker: "Save, Lord! or we perish."

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The Jews upon the Saviour gaze, And even malice owns his power.

JESUS RAISING LAZARUS.

BERGUER.

THE sepulchre was gaping wide, Its closing stone was roll'd aside,

No trace of what he was before
The metamorphos'd body wore ;
But like the first form'd of mankind,
Ere his full heart might utterance find,
Complete in sense, and limb, and motion,
Absorb'd he stood in rapt devotion,
While through each uncollapsing vein,
The rushing life-streams burst again.

All turn'd to Christ; but Him, with eye Serenely lifted to the sky,

Symbol nor sign of outward power,

And shuddering crowds press'd round to win Distinguished in that holy hour:

A sight of the foul scene within.

The charnel-steam, too strong to bear,
Ascended on the healthful air,
And groaning deep for him who slept,
E'en Christ stood at the grave, and wept.

He wept but His was not the tear
Of human grief on human bier
That gushes, trustless of to-morrow,
In unassuaged excess of sorrow.
And yet he wept; tho' there he stood,
In power's unquestion'd plenitude.
While every sacred drop that fell,
Was life to death, and death to hell.

But closer now, and closer grew
The press of the surrounding crew,
Who deem'd he came to mourn, not save,
As he stoop'd o'er the dead man's grave,
And gazed with self-communing air
For a short space in silence there.

Nearer he stoop'd, and yet more near: Hark! heard ye not like trumpet clear, His life-shout in that mouldering ear? Forth sent the tomb its bidden birth, For He who called was God on earth!

Not faster answers to the flash
Of Heaven, the illuminated ash,
Than following that resistless word,
The dead sprang forth before his Lord,
Bound hand and foot with funeral clothes,
In life, in breathing life he rose,
And cast amid the astonish'd crowd,
From his freed limbs the loosen'd shroud!

Health's crimson light o'erspread his face, His eye was fire, his step was grace;

His hand yet on the marble rested,
Where late the revelling worm was rife,
And awe-struck multitudes attested
The RESURRECTION and the LIFE!

MIRACLES OF CHRIST.

ANON.

JESUS, and didst thou condescend,
When veil'd in human clay,
To heal the sick, the lame, the blind,
And drive disease away?

Didst thou regard the beggar's cry,
And give the blind to see?
Jesus, thou Son of David, hear;
Have mercy, too, on me!

And didst thou pity mortal wo,

And sight and health restore? Pity, O Lord, and save my soul,

Which needs thy mercy more!

And didst thou save a trembling frame
When sinking in the wave?

I perish, Lord! oh save my soul!
For thou alone canst save.

THE TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST.

S. WESLEY, SEN.

TABOR, the place to prove his mission true, Where heaven and earth must have an interview:

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