The listening soul makes Sinai still
Wherever we may be,

And in the vow, "Thy will be done!"
Lies all Gethsemane.

71.

W. C. Gannett.

Where is thy God?

1. WHERE is thy God, my soul?

Is He within thy heart;

Or ruler of a distant realm
In which thou hast no part?

2. Where is thy God, my soul?
Only in stars and sun;

Or have the holy words of truth
His light in every one?

3. Where is thy God, my soul?
Confined to Scripture's page;
Or does His Spirit check and guide
The spirit of each age?

4. O Ruler of the sky,

Rule Thou within my heart:
O great Adorner of the world,

Thy light of life impart.

5. Giver of holy words,

Bestow Thy holy power,

And aid me, whether work or thought

Engage the varying hour.

6. In Thee have I my help,

As all my fathers had;

I'll trust Thee when I'm sorrowful,
And serve Thee when I'm glad.

S.M.

T. T. Lynch.

72.

73.

I.

I. 6

The Inward Witness. 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6.

HERE is your God?' they say:

'WHE

Answer them, Lord most holy!

Reveal Thy secret way

Of visiting the lowly :

Not wrapped in moving cloud,
Or nightly-resting fire;
But veiled within the shroud
Of silent high desire.

2. Come not in flashing storm,
Or bursting frown of thunder:
Come in the viewless form

Of wakening love and wonder ;—
Of duty grown divine,

The restless spirit, still;
Of sorrows taught to shine,
As shadows of Thy will.

3. O God! the pure alone, —

E'en in their deep confessing,

Can see Thee as their own,

And find the perfect blessing:
Yet to each waiting soul
Speak in Thy still small voice,
Till broken love's made whole,
And saddened hearts rejoice.

James Martineau.

The All-embracing Love.

LOVE Divine, whose constant beam

Shines on the eyes that will not see,
And waits to bless us, while we dream
Thou leav'st us when we turn from Thee.

L.M.

2. All souls that struggle and aspire,
All hearts of prayer, by Thee are lit;
And, dim or clear, Thy tongues of fire
On dusky tribes and centuries sit.

3. Nor bounds, nor clime, nor creed Thou know'st ;
Wide as our need Thy favours fall;
The white wings of the Holy Ghost
Stoop, unseen, o'er the heads of all.

74.

7. G. Whittier.

I.

OUR

Our Father.

UR Father! while our hearts unlearn
The creeds that wrong Thy name,
Still let our hallowed altars burn

With faith's undying flame.

2. Not by the lightning-gleams of wrath
Our souls Thy face shall see;
The star of love must light the path
That leads to heaven and Thee.

3. Help us to read our Master's will
Through every darkening stain
That clouds His sacred image still,
And see Him once again,→

4. The brother Man, the pitying Friend,
Who weeps for human woes,

Whose pleading words of pardon blend
With cries of raging foes.

5. If 'mid the gathering storms of doubt
Our hearts grow faint and cold,
The strength we cannot do without
Thy love will not withhold.

C.M.

6. Our prayers accept; our sins forgive;
Our youthful zeal renew;

Shape for us holier lives to live,

And nobler work to do.

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

75.

I.

GOD

The Indwelling God.

OD of the earth, the sky, the sea!
Maker of all above, below!

Creation lives and moves in Thee,
Thy present life through all doth flow.

2. Thy love is in the sunshine's glow,
Thy life is in the quickening air ;

When lightnings flash and storm-winds blow,
There is Thy power; Thy law is there.

3. We feel Thy calm at evening's hour,
Thy grandeur in the march of night;
And, when the morning breaks in power,
We hear Thy word, "Let there be light!"

4. But higher far, and far more clear,

76.

Thee in man's spirit we behold:

Thine image and Thyself are there,
The indwelling God, proclaimed of old.

The All-surrounding Glory.

L.M.

S. Longfellow.

IOS.

1. FATHER, Thy wonders do not singly stand:

Nor far removed where feet have seldom

strayed,

Around us ever lies the enchanted land,..

In marvels rich to Thine own sons displayed.

2. In finding Thee are all Things round us found; In losing Thee are all things lost beside; Ears have we, but in vain sweet voices sound,

And to our eyes the vision is denied.

3. Open our eyes that we that world may see, Open our ears that we Thy voice may hear, And in the spirit-land may ever be,

And feel Thy presence with us always near.

77.

I.

UNE

The Silent Spirit.

'Jones Very.

C.M.

NHEARD the dews around me fall,

And heavenly influence shed ;

And silent on this earthly ball,

Celestial footsteps tread.

2. Night moves in silence round the pole,
The stars sing on unheard,
Their music pierces to the soul,

Yet borrows not a word.

3. Noiseless the morning flings its gold,
And still the evening's place;
And silently the earth is rolled
Amidst the vast of space.

4. In quietude Thy Spirit grows
In man from hour to hour;
In calm eternal onward flows
Thy all-redeeming power.

5. Lord, grant my soul to hear at length
Thy deep and silent voice :

To work in stillness, wait in strength,
With calmness to rejoice.