QUIET in God, -the ever-present seal
Of faith unspoken,

Believing faces, infant lips, reveal

Its nameless token :

A gift bestowed upon the poor oppressed,
To kings forbidden;

Beneath the shadow of Thy wings to rest,
Securely hidden.

To bear for them the cross, as if for Thee,
Strengthen me ever!

Among Thy hidden ones O number me,
Now and forever!

A. E. CARTER.

WOULDST thou the life of souls discern?
Nor human wisdom nor divine

Helps thee by aught beside to learn;
Love is life's only sign.

The spring of the regenerate heart,
The pulse, the glow of every part,
Is the true love of Christ our Lord,
As man embraced, as God adored.

But he whose heart will bound to mark

The full bright bursts of summer morn, Loves too each little dewy spark

By leaf or floweret worn:

Cheap forms, and common hues, 't is true, Through the bright shower-drop meet his view;

The coloring may be of this earth;

The lustre comes of heavenly birth.

Even so who loves the Lord aright
No soul of man can worthless find;
All will be precious in his sight,

Since Christ on all hath shined;
But chiefly Christian souls; for they,
Though worn and soiled with sinful clay,
Are yet, to eyes that see them true,
All glistening with baptismal dew.

KEBLE.

"Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." PSALM CXix. 18.

BLESSED is the man whom eternal Truth teacheth, not by obscure figures and transient sounds, but by direct and full communication. The perceptions of our senses are narrow and dull, and our reasoning on those perceptions frequently misleads us. He whom the eternal Word condescendeth to teach is disengaged at once from the labyrinth of human opinions. For "of one word are all things"; and all things without voice or language speak Him alone: He is that divine principle which speaketh in our hearts, and without which there can be neither just apprehension nor rectitude of judgment.

O God, who art the truth, make me one with Thee in everlasting love! I am often weary of reading, and weary of hearing; in Thee alone is the sum of my desire! Let all teachers be silent, let the whole creation be dumb before Thee, and do Thou only speak unto my soul!

Thy ministers can pronounce the words, but cannot impart the spirit; they may entertain the fancy with the charms of eloquence; but if Thou art silent, they do not inflame the heart. They administer the letter, but Thou openest the sense; they utter the mystery, but Thou revealest its meaning; they point out the way of life, but Thou bestowest strength to walk in it; they water, but Thou givest the increase. Therefore do Thou, O Lord my God, Eternal Truth! speak to my soul! lest, being outwardly warmed, but not inwardly quickened, I die, and be found unfruitful.

"Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth." "Thou only hast the words of eternal life."

Love is my teacher. He can tell
The wonders that he learnt above;
No other master knows so well;

'Tis Love alone can tell of Love.

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Love is my master. When it breaks, —
The morning light, the rising ray,-
To Thee, O God! my spirit wakes,
And Love instructs it all the day.

And when the gleams of day retire,
And midnight spreads its dark control,
Love's secret whispers still inspire

Their holy lessons in the soul.

MADAME GUYON.