XII. DIVINE GUIDANCE, TEACHING, AND
PROTECTION.

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.-PSALM XXXII. 8.

For without me ye can do nothing.-JOHN xv. 5.

This God is our God for ever and ever; He will be onr Guide even unto death.-PSALM xlviii. 14.

Gen. xxiv. 27-xxviii. 15, 20, 21-xxxix. 2, 3, 20-23-Exod. iv. 10-12-ix. 4, 7, 26-xi. 7—xii. 23-xiii. 21, 22-xv. 13 xxxiii. 13-16-Levit. xxvi. 6, 12-Num. vi. 23-27-Deut. xxxi. 6, 8-xxxii. 10-12—xxxiii. 3, 12—Josh. i. 9—Judges xiii. 8, 9— xviii. 5, 6-1 Sam. ii. 9-vii. 2-xvii. 33, 37, 50-2 Sam. xxii. 29, 30-1 Kings viii. 57, 58-xvii. 3-6, 16-1 Chron. iv. 102 Chron. i. 10-xv. 2-Ezra viii. 31-Neh. ix 19-23--xiii. 31Job vi. 24-xiii. 23-xxxii. 8-xxxiii. 33-xxxiv. 29, 32--xxxvi. 5, 7-10, 22--xxxvii. 19—Psalm iv. 6, 8--v. 8, 12—x. 17—xvi. 5, 7, 11--xvii. 8--xxii. 19–xxiii. 1-4-xxv. 4, 5, 8, 9, 12—xxvii. 9-11-xxxii. 7. 8--xxxiv. 7--xxxvi. 7, 9--xxxvii. 23-25, 28– xliii. 3--xlviii. 14—li. 11, 15—lv. 22—lvi. 13—lxi. 2-4--lxiii. 8 -lxviii. 35-lxxi. 18, 19—lxxiii. 2, 22-24-lxxvii. 20-lxxviii. 52-54, 72-lxxxiv. 11-lxxxv. 13-lxxxvi. 11-lxxxvii. 7—— lxxxix. 15, 26, 46-xci. 9-11-xciv. 12, 17, 18-civ. 29-cvi. 13 -cxix. 5, 10, 18, 26, 27, 32-37, 66, 73, 80, 88, 102, 116, 117, 124, 125, 133, 135, 144, 169, 171, 173, 176-cxxi. 2-8-cxxv. 2-cxxvii. 1,2-cxxxix. 24-cxl. 13-cxli. 3, 4-cxlii. 3-5-cxliii. 8-10-cxlv. 14-Prov. i. 23, 33—ii. 6-10—iii. 6, 23-26—iv. 11, 12—viii. 20—

x. 3-xv. 19, 25—xvi. 1, 9, 33-xx. 12, 24-xxi. 1-Eccles. ii. 26-viii. 7, 16—Cant. i. 4—ii. 3, 4, 14-Isaiah ii. 3—xxvi. 3— xxvii. 2, 3-xxviii. 9, 10, 26-xxix. 24-xxx. 21-xl. 29-xli. 10, 13-xlii. 16, 18—xliii. 1-3, 19,—xlv. 13—xlvi. 4—xlviii. 17, 21xlix. 9-11-1. 4, 5—li. 4—liv. 13—lviii. 11—lxiii. 9, 11-13-Jer. i. 6-9—ii. 12, 13—x. 23—xiv. 8, 9—xxiv. 7—xxxi. 19, 33—xxxii. 33, 38-41-xxxv. 17-xlii. 2, 3-xlix. 11-Ezek. xi. 19, 20—— xxxvi. 27-Dan. ii. 21, 23-iii. 20-28—vi. 16-27—x. 17-19-Hos. xi. 3, 4-Mic. vi. 8-Hab. iii. 19-Hag. ii. 4, 5.

Matt. x. 19, 20—xi. 25-30-xii. 42—xiii. 16, 17—xvi. 17—xix. 11-Mark ii. 13—iv. 24—ix. 7-xvi. 17, 18-Luke i. 78, 79—iv. 16-22-xii. 6, 7, 11, 12—xxi. 14, 15—xxiv. 45-John i. 18—iii. 27-vi. 44, 45, 63-ix. 39-x. 4—xiv. 26-xv. 5—xvi. 13, 14— xvii. 11, 12, 25-xviii. 9-Acts ii. 28-vi. 8, 10-xii. 6, 7, 11— xvi. 14-xvii. 27, 28-xviii. 24, 25-xxii. 14-xxvii. 18-25, 34, 44-xxviii. 3, 5--Rom. viii. 14, 26-xv. 33-xvi. 25-27-1 Cor. i. 5-ii. 9-13-iv. 4—x. 13—-2 Cor. i. 21-iii. 3—Gal. i. 11, 12 -v. 18-Eph. i. 16-20-iii. 3-iv. 17, 18, 20, 21-v. 14-Phil. i. 3, 6-ii. 13-iv. 7, 9, 11-13-Col. i. 9-1 Thes. iii. 11-13-iv. 9 -2 Thes, ii. 16, 17-iii. 3, 5, 16-1 Tim. i. 12-2 Tim. i. 7—ii. 7-iii. 14, 16-iv. 18-Heb. viii. 10-xiii. 5, 20, 21-Jas. i. 17— 1 Pet. i. 5-2 Pet. i. 21-1 John ii. 27-v. 20—Jude 24, 25—Rev. iii. 10-vii. 15-17-xxi. 3.

But see! a light divides the gloom,

I hear a soothing voice:
Behold thy God!-thy bliss-thy home!
I am the way! Rejoice!

Thy Saviour thy unchanging Friend,
Shall teach and guide thee to the end.

EAST.

Yield to the Lord with simple heart
All that thou hast, and all thou art;
Renounce all strength, but strength divine,
And peace shall be for ever thine;
Behold the paths the saints have trod,
The paths which led them home to God!

MAD. GUION.

Saviour, I dwell in awful night,
Until Thou in my heart appear;
Arise, propitious sun, and light
An everlasting morning there:
Thy presence casts the shadows by :
If Thou withdraw, how dark am I!

O Lord, how should Thy servant see,
Unless Thou give me seeing eyes!
Well may I fall if out of Thee!

If out of Thee, how should I rise?

I wander wide without Thy aid,

And lose my way in midnight shade.

O let my prayer acceptance find,
And bring the mighty blessing down;
Eyesight impart, for I am blind;
And seal me Thine adopted son.
A fallen, helpless, creature take,
And heir of Thy salvation make.

TOPLADY.

G

How sweetly flow'd the Gospel's sound
From lips of gentleness and grace,
When list'ning thousands gather'd round,
And joy and reverence fill'd the place.

From heaven He came of heaven He spoke, To heaven He led His followers' way; Dark clouds of gloomy night He broke, Unveiling an immortal day.

"Come, wanderers, to my Father's home,
Come, all ye weary ones, and rest!"
Yes! sacred Teacher, we will come-
Obey Thee,-love Thee, and be blest!

Decay, then, tenements of dust!

Pillars of earthly pride, decay!

A noble mansion waits the just,
And Jesus has prepared the way.

BOWRING,

Thou art the Way-and he who sighs
Amid this starless waste of woe,

To find a pathway to the skies,

A light from heaven's eternal glow,

By Thee must come, Thou gate of love,

Through which the saints undoubting trod;

Till faith discovers, like the dove,

An ark, a resting place in God.

Thou art the Truth-whose steady day

Shines on through earthly blight and bloom,

The pure, the everlasting ray.

The lamp that shines e'en in the tomb ;
The light, that out of darkness springs,
And guideth those that blindly go;
The word, whose precious radiance flings
Its lustre upon all below.

Thou art the Life-the blessed Well,
With living waters gushing o'er,

Which those who drink shall ever dwell
Where sin and thirst are known no more;

Thou art the mystic pillar given,

Our lamp by night, our light by day;
Thou art the sacred bread from heaven ;-
Thou art the Life-the Truth-the Way.

ANON.

MINISTRY OF ANGELS.

And is there care in heaven? and is there love
In heavenly spirits to these creatures base,
That may compassion of their evils move?
There is; else much more wretched were the case
Of men than beasts. But oh, the exceeding grace
Of highest God! that loves His creatures so,
And all His works with mercy doth embrace,
That blessed angels He sends to and fro,

To serve to wicked man-
-to serve His wicked foe.

How oft do they their silver bowers leave,
To come to succour us, that succour want!