His gentle furnace makes thee pure as true;
Thou must be melted ere thou'rt cast anew.

28.

HE showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious.

Rev. xxi. 10, 11.

Thy mystic wall is garnish'd
With amethyst unpriced:
The saints thy golden fabric,
Thy corner-stone is Christ.
Thou hast no shore, fair ocean!
Thou hast no time, bright day!
Dear fountain of refreshment
To pilgrims far away.

29.

St. Peter's Day.

AND the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter . . And Peter went out, and wept bitterly. St. Luke xxii. 61, 62.

He loves and weeps-but more than tears
Have seal'd Thy welcome and his love-

One look lives in him, and endears
Crosses and wrongs where'er he rove:

That gracious chiding look, Thy call
To win him to himself and Thee,
Sweet'ning the sorrow of his fall,
Which else were rued too bitterly.

30.

WHOSO looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. James i. 25.

Stoop down until you throughly see
Into Christ's law, that rules the free;
Take care you see and catch the whole,
Then cling to it with heart and soul,-
No hearer only, that forgets,

But one who straight to working sets:
Be such, and be (such work pursuing)
Blest in the deed and in the doing.

July.

1.

IF any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

2 Cor. v. 17.

Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be,
As more of heaven in each we see :
Some softening gleam of love and prayer
Shall dawn on every cross and care.

2.

MAN goeth forth unto his work and to
Ps. civ. 23.

his labour until the evening.

Grant, till the evening of this morn
My time may all so well be spent,
That when the twilight shall return
I may enjoy it with content,
And to Thy praise and honour say
That this hath proved a happy day.

3.

IT is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

1 Cor. iv. 3.

Lord, therefore make my heart upright,
Whate'er my deeds may seem,
And righteous rather in Thy sight
Than in the world's esteem.

And, if aught good appears to be

In any act of mine,

Let thankfulness be found in me,

And all the praise be Thine.

4.

PRAY that ye enter not into tempta

tion.

St. Luke xxii. 40.

Jesus! my Master, when I feel

The world's temptations round me steal;
When things of sense too much employ
My heart with their deceptive joy;
When things of faith too little move
My soul to thoughts and deeds of love;
I'll turn aside, and keep, with Thee,
Watch in that sad Gethsemane.

5.

BE ye therefore followers of God, as dear children. Eph. v. 1. I ask for nought but this dear grace— To hear Thy voice, and see Thy face: Dark tho' my path in life may prove, Thy smile of peace, Thy voice of love, If they my lamp and guide will be, Are all I need, in following Thee.

6.

MAKE to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. St. Luke xvi. 9. Why furnish with such care thy lodging of a night, And leave thy lasting home in such a naked plight?

7.

WHEN He giveth quietness, who then Job xxxiv. 29.

can make trouble?

First take heed to calm and still
All thy passions and thy will;
Great excitements stop or fly;
Nor ruffle that serenity