127. I. 3. When He walked the fields, He drew For within His heart of love All the soul of man did move, 4. Fill us with Thy deep desire, With the Father's life : From the fret and strife. 5. Lord, be ours Thy power to keep In our meekness to be wise, To our God above. Stopford A. Brooke. The Childlike Heart. T fell upon a summer day, IT When Jesus walked in Galilee, Their children to His knee. 2. He took them in His arms, and laid To Me,” He gently said. 3. "Forbid them not; unless ye bear 8.8.8.6. 128. 4. Master, I fain would enter there; 5. Of innocence, and love, and trust, 6. All happy thoughts, and gentle ways, 7. And all the wisdom that is born 8. O happy thus to live and move; And sweet this world, where I shall find His good in all mankind. Stopford A. Brooke. The Revelation of God. I. THY home, O Lord, is everywhere, 2. Yet most in man, in highest man, In Him that made the cross a crown, Thy living image, Lord, I scan, And hail the heaven to earth brought down. L.M. 3. In Him who joined the poles of thought, Made sorrow joy, made Calvary shine, My meanness is to glory wrought, And earth is heaven, and man divine. 129. I. George Matheson. Christ in Galilee. AMID the din of earthly strife, Amid the busy crowd, The whispers of eternal life 2. I linger near Him in the throng, I feel my weary soul grow strong, 3. My vision swiftly fades away, And toil and duty sweeter seem While He abides with me: My heart is rested by my dream C.M.D. Henry W Hawkes. 130. 131. T. Of such is the Kingdom. We need Truth's tender lessons taught As only weakness can; God hath His small interpreters; The child must teach the man. 2. We wander wide through evil years, The child is freshest from His hands 3. Of such the kingdom !-Teach Thou us, To feel the deep significance Of these wise words of Thine! 4. The haughty eye shall seek in vain No cunning finds the key of heaven, 5. Alone to guilelessness and love The mind of pride is nothingness; The childlike heart is all. The Miracle of Love. C.M. J. G. Whittier. C.M. I. DEAR Friend! whose presence in the house, Whose gracious word benign, Could once, at Cana's wedding-feast, 2. Come, visit us, and when dull work Revive our souls, and make us see 3. Gay mirth shall deepen into joy, 4. The social talk, the evening fire, 5. For when self-seeking turns to love, 132. And water changed to wine. The Well of Life. 7. F. Clarke. I. When a poor outcast heard Thee there 2. Samaria's erring daughter found 3. And, Lord, to us, as weak as she, 4. In spirit, Lord, we've sat with Thee, Of life and peace, and heard Thee there C.M. |