Looking unto Jesus.”

Looking unto Jesus.-HEB. xii. 2.

Whom having not seen, ye love.-1 PET. i. 8. Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.-ST. JOHN XX. 29.

I am with you alway.—ST. MATT. xxviii. 20. Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty.—Isa. xxxiii. 17.

Jesus, take away my sadness;
Tell me I am loved by Thee:
Fill my heart with holy gladness;
Whisper now sweet words to me.

Lord, my frame is faint and weary,
And I feel too weak to pray;

But Thine arms are still around me,

And Thou art my only stay.

Hymn.

Help me, Lord, to bear in patience
What Thy love sees good for me;
Sanctify my tribulation,—

Let it bring me nearer Thee.

May my thoughts be full of heaven,
Less of earth, and earthly love;
Loving Thee, Lord, more than ever,
Waiting for my rest above.

May I realize with sweetness
All the promises in Thee;
Enter more into the fulness

Of what Thou canst be to me.

Be Thou very near and precious;
Make me happier, Lord, in Thee.
Soon shall I awake in glory:

Oh what happiness for me!

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The Jewels of the King of Kings.

My Jewels.-MAL. iii. 17.

THE promise of God is, that His saints shall be as the stones of a crown: yea, shall shine in the Royal diadem! calls them His jewels!

The LORD

What a price has been paid for the saints! The Son of God purchased them with His own blood! Are they not valuable in His sight? How precious are they whom JEHOVAH calls His jewels! Bought with what a price!

But the saints are likened unto jewels also because our souls need cleansing. A diamond seems a mere pebble before the jeweller's hands give shape and smoothness: skill and patient toil so transform it, that

every one takes pleasure in its beauty and brightness. Likewise is it with our souls. Divine grace removes defects, and beautifies: the sharp edge of pain, directed by the hand of Infinite love, makes perfect. No longer rough and unsightly, but beautiful and glorious, the precious workmanship of God is fit for the Royal diadem, in which it will shine throughout eternity,-reflecting allgloriously the majesty of the King of kings.

In this dull stone, so poor, and bare
Of shape or lustre, patient care
Will find for thee a jewel rare:

But first must skilful hands essay,
With fire and flint, to clear away
The film, which hides its fire from day.

This rough dull stone? It is thy heart,
Which must be cleansed by sorrow's art-
Ere it will shine, a jewel meet

To lay before thy Saviour's feet.

Submission.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because Thou didst it.-PSALM Xxxix. 9.

The will of the Lord be done.-Acts xxi. 14.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.-2 COR. i. 3.

SUBMISSION is the yielding our own will to the will of God. And this yielding is not of despair, not of anger or sullenness, but of child-like trust.

Faith realizes the Sovereignty of God. Faith looks above second causes, and strives ever to see the Providence that shapes our ends. In the cloudy and dark day the guiding Wisdom cannot perhaps be traced, but still the child of God believes that he is being guided. And so godliness always