quired frequent abbreviation. Thus, in selecting from the works of Wordsworth, and the great author of "The Christian Year," she has sometimes taken a single thought or picture detached from the context, having to make her choice between this course and the omission of some of the holiest and loveliest lines in English sacred song. Once or twice only she has altered a word, or transposed a line for the sake of connection, or changed into modern language the obsolete expressions of some very old writer. The Compiler cannot close her task without the prayer that this volume may in some measure tend to make Sunday a pleasant day to children. May it help to teach them to praise God the Father, Son, and Spirit; to contemplate life and death and their own hearts as Christians should; to understand the spirit of the Bible; and through this fair creation to look up to Him who is its Creator. C. F. ALEXANDER. Prayer is the burthen of a sigh, The upward glancing of the eye, Prayer is the simplest form of speech Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice Returning from his ways, While angels in their songs rejoice, Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, His watchword at the gates of death; The saints, in prayer, appear as one Nor prayer is made by man alone, O Thou, by whom we come to God! 7. Montgomery II PSALM CXLVIII 'OME, O come! with sacred lays, the Almighty's praise; Hither, bring in true consent, Heart, and voice, and instrument. With the harp and viol meet : Let such things as do not live, Come, ye sons of human race, That our holy hymn may be From the earth's vast hollow womb So shall He from Heaven's high tower There our voices we will rear And enforce the fiends that dwell Then, O come! with sacred lays, |