If the viewing of a picture could thus mould a life and move a pen to write so beautifully and with such perfect consecration, is it not important that we should carefully choose the pictures we view and the hymns we sing? Church art as well as evangelical hymnody are worthy of more thoughtful study than is ordinarily accorded them.

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MORNING HYMNS

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poor de mistra cuin. After looking steadily at it for a ** de colóned, "Oh, of the appearance of this earthly to se romanceful and our kering, how much more sal i : ennap tuned at naght of the unspeakable glory of

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auty had all the keenness of a pres o who, in his greatest health and con ciousness that his lie was hid a Christ in God. Is there any wonder that out of tas decory pious heart and this petic mind of a soul hat loved nature and let it teach of the God whom he i supremely there should have been born a hymn which at once a call to service, a praver for gudance and blessing and a hymn of praise to the divine Creator, a real doxcrony to the Triune God? All this we find in von Canitz' hymn.

SEELE DU MUSST MUNTER WERDEN

Come, my soul, thou must be waking;
Now is breaking

O'er the earth another day;

Come to Him who made the splendor,
See thou render

All thy feeble strength can pay.

Gladly hail the sun returning;
Ready burning

Be the incense of thy powers;
For the night is safely ended;
God hath tended

With His care thy helpless hours.

Pray that He may prosper ever
Each endeavor,

When the aim is good and true;
But that He may ever thwart thee,
And convert thee,

When thou evil wouldst pursue.

Only God's free gift abuse not,
Light refuse not,

But His Spirit's voice obey;

Thou with Him shalt dwell, beholding
Light enfolding

All things in unclouded day.

Glory, honor, exaltation,

Adoration,

Be to the Eternal One;

To the Father, Son and Spirit,
Laud and merit,

While unending ages run.

In the translation which we have given above this hymn was published in England in 1838. It has been growing in