5. And dearer than all things I know Is childlike faith to me, That makes the darkest way I go F. L. Hosmer. 30. I. Filial Fear and Love. MY God! how wonderful Thou art, Thy majesty how bright! How beautiful Thy mercy-seat, In depths of burning light! 2. How dread are Thine eternal years, By prostrate spirits, day and night, 3. How beautiful, how beautiful, 4. O how I fear Thee, living God! With deepest, tenderest fears ; And worship Thee with trembling hope, 5. Yet may I love Thee, too, O Lord, For Thou hast stooped to ask of me 6. No earthly father loves like Thee, Bears and forbears as Thou hast done, C.M. 31. 7. Father of Jesus, love's Reward, Prostrate before Thy throne to lie, F. W. Faber. The Beneficence of God. I. GOD! Thy power is wonderful, Thy wisdom, with its deep on deep, 2. Thy justice is the gladdest thing Thy tenderness so meek, it wins 3. Yet more than all, and ever more, 4. There's not a craving in the mind 5. All things that have been, all that are, ë Kept faithful, or redeemed,— 6. All these may draw upon Thy power, And still outflows Thy silent sea, C. M. 7. O little heart of mine! shall pain When all this God is all for thee, i NA 32. F. W. Faber. I. Go God in the Soul. O not, my soul, in search of Him, I Or heights of upper air. A 2. For not in far-off realms of spaces In every heart it findeth place 3) ydT 3. Thought answereth alone to thought, 4. And if the vision come to thee And with His glory shine!DA 5. Thou shalt not want for company, MA The indwelling God will go with theê 6. O gift of gifts, O grace of grace, DMA è To make thy heart His dwelling-place см. 7. Then go not thou in search of Him, Wait thou within the silence dim, FL. Hosmer. 33. I. The Sense of God. NAME, all other names above, What art Thou not to me? Now I have learned to trust Thy love 2. Thrice blessèd be the holy souls 3. And sweet it is to tread the ground But sweeter far, when Thou art found, The soul's own sense of God. 4. The thought of Thee all sorrow calms, His crosses turn to triumph-palms Who finds in God his all. :1 C.M. I.C Love, Light, Life. LOVE of love! as deep and free T As the all-absolving sea, Hear us, while we lift to Thee Holy chant and psalm. 2. Light of lights! with morning shine, Breathe on us her balm. 3. Light of lights! when falls the even 4. Life of life, our Saviour be; Bear the glorious palm. G. Rorison. 35. I. Love in all. 1. THOU Lord art Love-though dimly now Thy glorious name we trace, It gleams through all Thy works below, 2. Thy thoughts are Love-and Jesus is His Love lights up the vast abyss Of the Eternal Mind. 3. Thy ways are Love-though they transcend They wind through darkness to their end 4. Thy chastisements are Love-more deep. And by a sweet compulsion keep C.M. |