84 Assurance of Hope. diligent unto the full assurance of hope. I know that every believer may be filled with all joy and peace in believing so as to abound in hope. But what is my own state? Am I living in God's peace? Do I walk humbly and yet trustfully with God, knowing that I am accepted in the Beloved? Sweet are those lines : When I can read my title clear I bid farewell to every fear, But is this my state,―having a bright hope of the mansions in the skies? Can I read "my title" with loving confidence? David says, The Lord Is my light and my salvation. Paul says,-I am persuaded. We know. We are always confident. So also St. John, -We know that we have passed from death unto life. Blessed peace! What joy to have such strong faith! In this season of sickness, I will seek for more and more of trust in God's precious promises. Simply to believe His Word with the heart is to have peace. It is humility to trust; and to trust heartily is to enjoy the assurance of hope. Safe is every one, howsoever timid and tempted, who is on the Rock of Ages: but most happy are they who know that they are on the Rock. In assurance, they rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Through the love of God our Saviour Free and changeless is His favour; Precious is the blood that heal'd us, Strong the Hand stretch'd forth to shield us; All must be well! 86 Hymn. Though we pass through tribulation, All will be well! Ours is such a full salvation, All, all is well! Happy, still to God confiding; We expect a bright to-morrow, All will be well! Faith can sing through days of sorrow, On our Father's love relying, All must be well! Glory soon to be Revealed. Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.-1 COR. XIII. 12. Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit.-REV. IV. 1. This world I deem Of shadows, that are not what they seem; Giving dim surmise Of the sights that shall meet my waking eyes. And I shall see As in truth they be, The glories of heaven that encompass me; On the unveiled blaze, On the light-gilded throne of the Ancient of days. Prayer for Health. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah, the Son of Amos, came to him and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shall die and not live. Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord......And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears behold I will heal thee.-2 KINGS XX. 1-5. FROM this portion of God's Word I learn two very comforting truths : 1. Our heavenly Father, who knoweth our frame, is not angry with us, when all |