And though at times, impetuous with emotion,
And anguish long suppressed,

The swelling heart heaves, moaning like the ocean,
That cannot be at rest,—

We will be patient, and assuage the feeling

We may not wholly stay;

By silence sanctifying, not concealing,

The grief that must have way.

"THE BOW IN THE CLOUD."

HEN, deaf to every warning given,
Man braved the patient power of Heaven,
Great in His anger, God arose,

Deluged the world and drowned His foes.

Vengeance, that called for this just doom,
Retired to make sweet mercy room:
God, of His wrath repenting, swore
A flood should drown the earth no more.

That future ages this might know,
He placed in heaven His radiant bow;
The sign, till time itself shall fail,
That waters shall no more prevail.

This bow, that beams with vivid light,
Presents a sign to Christian sight,

That God has sworn-who dares condemn ?

He will no more be wrath with them.

The First and Second Adam.

Thus, the believer, when he views

The rainbow in its various hues,

May say,

"Those lively colours shine To show that heaven is surely mine."

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THE FIRST AND SECOND ADAM.

HEN Adam by transgression fell, And, conscious, fled his Maker's face, Linked in clandestine league with hell, He ruined all his future race. The seeds of evil once brought in, Increased, and filled the world with sin.

But, lo! the Second Adam came,

The serpent's subtle head to bruise: He cancels his malicious claim,

And disappoints his devilish views; Ransoms poor prisoners with His blood, And brings the sinner back to God.

To understand these terms aright,

This grand distinction should be known ; Though all are sinners in God's sight,

There are but few so in their own. To such as these our Lord was sent ; They're only sinners who repent.

What comfort can a Saviour bring

To those who never felt their woe? A sinner is a sacred thing;

The Holy Ghost has made him so. New life from Him we must receive Before for sin we rightly grieve.

This faithful saying let us own,—
Well worthy 'tis to be believed,—
That Christ into the world came down,
That sinners might by Him be saved.
Sinners are high in His esteem,
And sinners highly value Him.

"COME UNTO ME AND REST."

HEARD the voice of Jesus say,
"Come unto Me and rest;

Lay down, thou weary one, lay down
Thy head upon My breast."

I came to Jesus as I was,

Weary, and worn, and sad;
I found in Him a resting-place,
And He has made me glad.

I heard the voice of Jesus say, "Behold, I freely give

The living water, thirsty one;

Stoop down and drink, and live."

Resurgam.

I came to Jesus, and I drank

Of that life-giving stream;

My thirst was quenched, my soul revived,
And now I live in Him.

I heard the voice of Jesus say,
"I am this dark world's light;
Look unto Me, thy morn shall rise,
And all thy day be bright."
I looked to Jesus, and I found
In Him my star, my sun,
And in that light of life I'll walk
Till travelling days are done.

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RESURGAM.

HEN autumn's deepening shadows fall
On mountain and on lea,

And nature's fading tints recall

The thought, "How frail are we!"—

When sinks the soul 'mid doubts and fears,
And terrors of the tomb,

And pensive Memory sheds her tears

O'er forms laid in its gloom ;

When all things round us of decay
And desolation tell,

And the soul shrinks in haste away

From scenes we loved too well,

O how consoling then to know,

Whatever griefs prevail,

There is a God who brightens woe,

And soothes the mourner's wail!

A God who once man's image bore,
And bowed to man's estate,
Man's faded glory to restore,
His bliss to renovate ;-

A Saviour who, 'mid change and chance,
. Is changeless and the same,
Regards each trembling suppliant's glance,
And calls Him by His name.

Then let the clouds and tempests lower,
The wild winds fiercely rave;

Let Death put forth his vaunted power,
And lay us in the grave:

Nor cloud nor tempest, death nor hell,
Need Faith triumphant dread;
Immanuel shall her fears dispel,

And raise her from the dead.