Could we bear from one another What He daily bears from us? Yet this glorious Friend and Brother Loves us though we treat Him thus ! Though for good we render ill, He accounts us brethren still. Oh! for grace our hearts to soften; Teach us, Lord, at length to love; We, alas! forget too often What a friend we have above: But, when home our souls are brought, We will love Thee as we ought. THY JUDGMENTS ARE LIKE THE GREAT DELP." IN every object here I see Something, O Lord, that leads to Thee: In every object here I see Something, my heart, that points at thee: Hard as the rocks that bound the strand, Unfruitful as the barren sand, Deep and deceitful as the ocean, And, like the tides, in constant motion. 66 WAIT THOU ONLY UPON GOD." WAIT! O my soul, thy Maker's will; He in the thickest darkness dwells, Performs his work,-the cause conceals! But though His methods are unknown, Judgment and truth support His throne. Wait! then, my soul, submissive wait, Trust in a wise and gracious God. HE BEHELD THE CITY, AND WEPT OVER IT." DID Christ o'er sinners weep? And shall our cheeks be dry? Let floods of penitential grief Burst forth from every eye. The Son of God in tears! He wept that we might weep; And there's no weeping there. "YE ARE COME UNTO MOUNT ZION," &c. YE angels who stand round the throne, In rapturous songs make Him known, So happy, so noble, so good; Ye saints who stand nearer than they, grave, He snatched you from hell and the |