I come, my Jesus! hold me fast, Then, with the loudest of the throng, PSALM Ciii. Fifty years ago. "Oh! thou, my soul, bless God the Lord, "And all that in me is; "Be stirred up his holy name, "To magnify and bless." Bless, O my soul, the Lord thy God, Of all his gracious benefits, All thine iniquities, who doth Who doth redeem thy life, that thou Who, with abundance of good things, So, that even as the eagle's age God, righteous judgments executes For all oppressed ones; His way to Moses, he his acts Made known to Israel's song. The Lord our God is merciful, And he is gracious; Long-suffering, and slow to wrath; He will not chide continually; For as the heaven in its height As far as east is distant from Such pity as a father hath Unto his children dear, For he remembers we are dust, And he our frame well knows: Frail man! his days are like the grass, As flow'r in field he grows. For over it the wind doth pass, And it away is gone; And, of the place where once it was, It shall no more be known. But, unto them that do him fear, God's mercy never ends; And, to his children's children, still His righteousness extends. To such as keep his Covenant, And mindful are alway Of his most just commandements, The Lord prepared hath his throne In heaven firm to stand; And ev'ry thing that being hath, His kingdom doth command. O ye his angels that excel In strength, bless ye the Lord, O bless and magnify the Lord, O bless the Lord, all ye his works JOHN xiv. I will not leave you comfortless; I will come unto you; yet a little while and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know, that I am in the Father, and you in me, and I in you!!! Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me? He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father. How be it, when the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth. He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine; therefore said I, he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. John xvii. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also, which shall believe on me through their word: that they all may one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me; and the glory be which thou gavest me, I have given them, that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one: that the world may know that thou hast sent me; and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will, that they also whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 1 Cor. iii. 22. All are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's. Col. iii. 3. Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall we appear with him in glory. Col. ii. 9. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power. Eph. iv. 4. There is one body, and one spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling: one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and you all and unto every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ. in Gal. ii. 20. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. JOHN i. 20. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. And looking upon Jesus as he walked, John saith; Behold the Lamb of God. 1 COR. iii. 21. Therefore, let no man glory in man, for all things are yours: whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come: all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's!!! LAM. iii. 27. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth; he sitteth alone and keepeth silence; he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope; he giveth his cheek to them that smiteth him; he is filled with reproach. EZEK. XVI. 63. That thou mayst remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord. Amen. JOEL ii. 2. A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains. Therefore, also now, saith the Lord, turn ye unto me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning. Rend your heart and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. HOSEA ii. I will visit upon her the days of Baalim : she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord. I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will betroth thee unto me for ever: yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord. HOSEA xiii. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thine help. Chapter xiv. Return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by thy iniquities. Take with you words, and return to the Lord; say unto him, take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. Ashur shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more to the works of our hands, ye are our Gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely, for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as |