SAYING PRAYERS. To say my prayers is not to pray, In prayer we speak to God above, To My infant lips were early taught But oh, if I am found to smile, Or think vain thoughts, the Lord will see, Then let me, when I kneel to pray, A SUNDAY HYMN. THIS is God's most holy day, Oh, 'tis pleasant now to go In our Saviour's house above.-Mrs. Parson. BABY. LITTLE brother, darling boy, When your smiling face I see. How I wish that you could speak, Pretty stories I would seek, All about the honey-bees, Shake your rattle-here it is- I will bring you other toys.-M. L. Duncan. THE ASS. Do see that poor Ass, how he hobbles along, Though once, I dare say, he was healthy and strong; Now he seems hardly able to keep on the road, And scarcely can carry that great heavy load. And that cruel man, how he serves the poor beast, And not make him carry a burden so great? And yet, after all, he is patient, you see, And his look seems to say, "Do have pity on me." THE SWEETEST STORY. I THINK, when I read that sweet story of old, How He called little children as lambs to His fold, I wish that His hand had been put on my head, And that I might have seen His kind look when He said, "Let the little ones come unto Me." Yet still to His footstool in prayer I may go, And if I thus earnestly seek Him below, In that beautiful place He is gone to prepare But thousands and thousands who wander and fall, I should like them to know there is room for them all, I long for that blessed and glorious time- Shall crowd to His arms and be blessed. Mrs. Luke. THANKFULNESS. WHENE'ER I take my walks abroad What should I render to my God, Not more than others I deserve, How many children in the street, While I am clothed from head to feet, And covered from the cold. While some poor wretches scarce can tell I have a home wherein to dwell, While others early learn to swear, And curse, and lie, and steal, Are these thy favours day by day, To me above the rest? Then let me love Thee more than they, GOD'S CARE OF US. FROM His high throne above the sky, I cannot see Him, but his eye Watts. |