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.

F 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.

[AN goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

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Ps. civ. 23.

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.

I

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

I 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 temptation.

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

E ye therefore followers of God, as dear children.

Eph. v. I.

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.

AKE to yourselves friends of the

M mammon of unrighteousness; that,

when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations." Luke xvi. 9.

Why furnish with such care thy lodging of a night, And leave thy lasting home in such a naked plight?

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7.

HEN He giveth quietness, who then
can make trouble? Job xxxiv. 29.

First take heed to calm and still
All thy passions and thy will;

Great excitements stop or fly;
Nor ruffle that serenity

Which only keeps the spirit free,
Life's hid path to search and see.

8.

THE

'HE ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

I Pet. iii. 4.

The fair wild honey-suckle flower
Seemeth of her to speak,

Who clings to home, her sheltering bower,

With loving heart and meek;

Careless for self, but full of care,
That home be ever sweet and fair.

9.

TH

HE Comforter, which is the Holy
Ghost.

St. John xiv. 26.

In the hour of my distress,
When temptations me oppress,
And when I my sins confess,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

O

IO.

WE no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth

another hath fulfilled the law.

Rom. xiii. 8.

Owe no man aught save love, but that esteem a debt Which thou must ever pay, well pleased to owe it yet.