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September.

I.

I AM a stranger in the earth.

Ps. cxix. 19.

Ill fares the child of Heaven, who will not entertain On earth the stranger's grief, the exile's sense of pain.

2.

WIST ye not that I must be about My

Father's business?

St. Luke ii. 49.

To do our "Father's business" here,
In humble reverence and fear;

Meekly upon His will to wait,

In little things as well as great;

Contented in our lot to rest,

"Tis thus the Christian serves Him best.

3.

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HOU hast known my soul in adversi-
Ps. xxxi. 7.

ties.

Thou know'st our bitterness-our joys are Thine-
No stranger Thou to all our wand'rings wild :
Nor could we bear to think, how every line
Of us, Thy darken'd likeness and defiled,

Stands in full sunshine of Thy piercing eye,
But that Thou call'st us brethren: sweet repose
Is in that word-the Lord who dwells on high
Knows all, yet loves us better than He knows.

4.

WE which have believed do enter into

rest.

For all thy rankling doubts so sore,
Love thou thy Saviour still,

Him for thy Lord and God adore,

And ever do His will.

Heb. iv. 3.

Though vexing thoughts may seem to last,

Let not thy soul be quite o'ercast ;—

Soon will He show thee all His wounds, and say,

"Long have I known thy name-know thou My face alway."

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"HE work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. Isa. xxxii. 17.

A pebble, thrown into the mighty sea,
Sinks, and disturbs not its tranquillity:
No ocean, but a shallow pool, the man,
Whom every little wrong disquiet can.

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6.

OD is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have showed toward His Name, in that ye have ministered to the minister.

saints, and do

Heb. vi. 10.

So, as we walk our earthly round,
Still may the echo of that sound

Be in our memory stored :

"Christians! behold your happy state:
Christ is in these, who round you wait;
Make much of your dear Lord!"

7.

AST out first the beam out of thine

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own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye. St. Luke vi. 42.

Would I lead another right?

Lord, I first must walk with Thee;

Would I help another's sight?

Mine from blemish must be free.

8.

REDEEMING the time.

Eph. v. 16.

So should we live, that every hour
May die as dies the natural flower,-
A self-reviving thing of power;

That every thought and every deed
May hold within itself the seed
Of future good and future meed

Esteeming sorrow, whose employ
Is to develop, not destroy,
Far better than a barren joy.

9.

EXCEPT ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe." St. John iv. 48.

The simple trust, that can confide
All troubles to the Lord;
And ask for nothing else beside
The warrant of His Word:

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"HE redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head they shall obtain gladness and

joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee Isa. li. II.

away.

O then the glory and the bliss,

When all that pain'd or seem'd amiss
Shall melt with earth and sin away!
When saints beneath their Saviour's eye,
Fill'd with each other's company,

Shall spend in love th' eternal day!

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II.

Y son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of His correction. Prov. iii. II.

I know the cross is needful, and I know
In love, and not in wrath, Thou chastenest;
The sufferings Thy children undergo

But fit them sooner for eternal rest.

12.

WE walk by faith, not by sight.

2 Cor. v. 7.

Thy God hath said, 'Tis good for thee
To walk by faith and not by sight:

Take it on trust a little while;
Soon shalt thou read the mystery right
In the full sunshine of His smile.

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