1370. C. M.

1. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

2. How skillfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads her wax! And labors hard to store it well,

With the sweet food she makes.

3. In works of labor or of skill,

I would be busy, too,

For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.

4. In books, or work, or healthful play,
Let my first years be past,
That I may give for every day
Some good account at last.

1371. C. M.

WATTS.

1. WHATEVER brawls disturb the street,
There should be peace at home,
Where sisters dwell, and brothers meet,
Quarrels should never come.

2. Birds in their little nests agree,
And 't is a shameful sight

When children of one family

Fall out, and chide, and fight.

3. Hard names at first, and threatening words, That are but noisy breath,

May grow to clubs and naked swords,
To murder and to death.

4. The wise will make their anger cool,
At least before 't is night;

But in the bosom of a fool
It burns till morning light.

5. Pardon, O Lord, our childish rage,
Our little brawls remove,
That, as we grow to riper age,
Our hearts may be all love.

1372. C. M.

WATTS.

1. WHENE'ER I take my walks abroad,
How many poor I see;
What shall I render to my God
For all his gifts to me?

2. Not more than others I deserve,
Yet God hath given me more,
For I have food while others starve,
Or beg from door to door.

3. How many children in the street
Half naked I behold,

While I am clothed from head to feet,
And covered from the cold.

1. WHAT blessed examples do I find
Writ in the word of truth,
Of children that began to mind
Religion in their youth.

2. Jesus who reigns above the sky,
And keeps the world in awe,
Once was a child as young as I,
And kept his Father's law.

3. At twelve years old he talked with men-
The Jews in wonder stand,
Yet he obeyed his mother then,
And came at her command.

4. Children a sweet hosanna sung,

And blest their Saviour's name;
They gave him honor with their tongue,
While scribes and priests blaspheme.

5. Then why should I so long delay
What others learn so soon;

I would not pass another day,
Without this work begun.

1374. C. M.

WATTS.

1. WE miss thee in thy place at school,
And on thy homeward way,
Where violets by the reedy pool,
Peep out so shyly gay.

2. And many a tearful, longing look
In silence seeks thee yet,
Where, in its own familiar nook,
Thy fireside chair is set.

3. And oft, when little voices dim
Are feeling for the note

In chanted prayer, or psalm, or hymn,
And wav'ring wildly float-

4. Comes gushing o'er a sudden thought Of her who led the strain,

How oft, such music home she brought,
But ne'er shall bring again.

5. O say not so! the spring-tide air

Is fraught with whisperings sweet, Who knows, but heavenly carols there With ours may duly meet?

LYRA INNOCENTIUM.

ABASEMENT OF SELF.

Backslider, 413, 414, 416, 433, 443.
Blind to God's ways, 477.
Burdened with sin, 411, 484, 452,
456, 461, 470.
Chief of sinners, 405, 479.
Conceived in sin, 480.
Depravity revealed through tri-
al, 410.

Exhausted with sin conflicts, 456.
Fond of earthly toys, 472, 479.
Grace decays, 425.

Hard-hearted, 442, 469, 523.
Harassed with doubt, 456.
Heart-broken and friendless,479.
Hell-deserving, 330, 406, 435.
Lifeless without Christ, 483, 754.
Prostrate at Christ's feet, 400,
421, 432, 454, 457, 891.
Prostrate at cross, 409, 420, 663.
Prostrate at mercy-seat, 479, 812.
Proud and faithless, 444.
Repentant rebel, 406, 443, 469.
Shame for sin, 401.

Shrouded with p'tl. death, 407.
Sin-sick, 465, 480.

Holy Spirit grieved, 405.
Unfaithful, 405, 444,
Ungrateful, 432, 443, 444,469,1319.
Unsteadfast, 471.

Vile, 883, 432, 447, 457, 480.
Wanderer, 400, 403, 473, 812.
Weary with sin, 411, 434, 452, 456,
470.

Worthless, 383, 446.

Wetch, 421, 433.

Wretched, 395, 901.

ABBA, FATHER, 474, 581, 608, 636,

817, 863.

Christ the, 284, 447, 559.
AFFLICTIONS

Bewailed, 476, 1132, 1219.

Bings to Christ's feet, 789, 1184.
Cheerfulness in, 284, 527, 590, 617,
1177.

Faith in, 193, 543, 753.
Healed by Christ, 372, 543.
Lightened by God's love, 181, 651.
Prayer for escape from, 434, 827,
859.

Real Blessings, 743, 790, 871.
Remember Carist's agony in,281.
Trust Christ in, 741, 744, 745.
See DESPAIR, DESPONDENCY,
SORROW and TRIALS,

AGE,

AGED

See OLD AGE.

Invited to Christ 851.

Invited to sanctuary, 51.

AGED CHRISTIAN,

Faith of 1237.

Joy of 1235.

Praise of, 1238.

AGONY OF CHRIST

On Calvary, 232, 233, 235, 237,
233, 241, 247, 257, 318, 392, 412.
In Gethsemane, 225, 239, 246, 247,
250, 347, 896, 412.
AID. See ASSISTANCE.
ALL

Atonement for, 307, 819, 322, 329,
34), 365, 368, 369, 392.
Give to Christ, 1055.

Invited to praise Christ, 200, 208,

213, 216, 217.

Is well, 1172.

Sacrificed for Christ, 878, 879.
ALL IN ALL. See CHRIST.
ALL-SUFFICIENCY

Of Christ, 258, 846, 426, 480, 531,
634.
ALIENATION FROM CHRIST,

See ESTRANGEMENT.
ALMSGIVING, 1043, 1046, 1047.
AMAZING

Grace, 110, 554, 570, 636.

ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

Grouped, 495, 1032.

Praised, 163, 166, 170, 178, 179.
ATTRIBUTES

Of Christ exalted, 644.

Of Christ grouped, 202, 212, 218,
399, 607.

Of Holy Spirit, 289.
AUTHOR

of Liberty, God, 1004.
AUTUMN,

Emblem of Death, 1173, 1334.
Gratitude in, 1328.
Sabbath of the year, 1334.

AWAKE,

Christian Soldier, 982, 992.
Daughter of Zion, 726.
My soul, 519, 526, 545, 564.
To praise of Christ, 632.

To praise for loving-kind., 545.
For salvation, 575.

To praise for redemption, 207.
To praise God in morning, 1298.
To heavenly prize, 564.

To Sabbath morning praise, 65.
AWAKENING

From the Lord desired, 534, 624,
883.
BACKSLIDER

Confessing, 413, 414, 431, 478, 650.
Penitent and returning, 403, 413,
414, 667, 893.

Praying for restoration, 416,
433, 443.

BANDS

Of love, 1039, 1264.

BANISHEL ONES,

See ESTRANGEMENT.
BANISHMENT FROM CHRIST
Unendurable, 630, 1211.
BANQUET

Of Love, 1264, 1346.
BAPTISM,

Chants at, 932, 933, 934.

Christ's love for children, 928.
Dedication of child, 924, 932, 933.
Early piety, 926, 927.
Prayer for the lambs, 925.
BARRENNESS,

Spiritual, 407, 425, 483, 754.
BARTIMEUS, 448, 649.
BEARING SHAME

For Christ, 404, 415, 566, 567.

BLIND,

Christ gives sight to, 448, 649.
BLINDNESS

Deplored, 407, 477.
BLISS

Of heaven.

See HEAVEN.
BLOOD OF CHRIST

Cleansing, 306, 346, 398, 480, 573,
634.

Efficacy of 398, 634.
Essential, 346, 407, 480.
Fountain of, 573.

Precious, 387, 899, 426, 663.
A ransom, 355, 387, 426.
Security of, 355, 399, 409.
BOASTING

Excluded,

864, 867.

543.

Charms of, 960.

Not Sinai, 1057.

BIBLE

See ABASEMENT.

Of perfections, love is, 710.
One in Christ with, 718.

Of life, 111.
BORN

In sin, 480.
Of God.

BOSOM

See NEW CONVERT.

Of Christ, 647.

Of God, home of the soul, 1265.
Of Jesus, a refuge, 771, 887.
Prayer for rest in, 1829.
Rest upon in heaven, 1266.
Sin, 693.

BOUNDLESS

Love of Christ, 233, 281, 541.
Majesty of God, 105.

Prayer, 686.

Public worship, 1-73.
Sons of God, 864.

BLESSINGS

Of Sabbath, 11, 12.

Of God, 81, 113, 182, 1351.

Bow

Of Promise, 776.

BOWING

At Jesus' feet, 400, 1154.
Before God, 787, 1815.
See PROSTRATE.

The sinner's road, 310.
BROKENNESS

Of heart.

See CONTRITION.