If I am right, Thy grace impart
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, O teach my heart
To find that better way.

Save me alike from foolish pride
Or impious discontent,

At aught Thy wisdom has denied,
Or aught Thy goodness lent.

Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
The mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.

This day be bread and peace my lot,
All else beneath the sun
Thou knowest if best bestowed or not,
And let Thy will be done.

To Thee, whose temple is all space,
Whose altar earth, sea, skies,
One chorus let all beings raise,
All nature's incense rise.

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II.

GOD AND HIS MANIFESTATIONS.

I. IN HIMSELF.

II. IN NATURE.

III. IN THE HUMAN SOUL.

IV. IN THE HUMAN LIFE.

V. IN HUMANITY.

I. GOD IN HIMSELF.

HIS BEING.

273.

'ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL.'

10s M.

O THOU Eternal One! whose presence bright
All space doth occupy,
all motion guide,
Unchanged through time's all-devastating flight,
Thou only God! there is no God beside.

Being above all beings, Mighty One,

Whom none can comprehend and none explore,
Who fill'st existence with Thyself alone,
Being whom we call God, and know no more!

Thy laws the unmeasured universe surround,
Upheld by Thee, by Thee inspired with breath;
Thou the beginning with the end hast bound,
And beautifully mingled life with death.

FATHER! the effluence of Thy light divine,
Pervading worlds, hath reached my bosom too;
Yes; in my spirit doth Thy spirit shine,
As shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew.

O thought ineffable! O vision blest!
Though poor be our conceptions all, of Thee,
Yet shall Thy shadowed image fill our breast,
And waft its homage to the Deity.

274.

6 ABOVE ALL, THROUGH ALL.'

L. M.

UNCHANGEABLE, all-perfect Lord!
Essential life's unbounded Sea!

What lives and moves, lives by Thy word;
It lives, and moves, and is, from Thee.
Whate'er in earth or sea or sky

Or shuns or meets the wandering thought,
Escapes or strikes the searching eye,
By Thee was to existence brought.

High is Thy power above all height;
Whate'er Thy will decrees is done;
Thy wisdom, holiness, and might
Can by no finite mind be known.
What our dim eyes could never see
Is plain and naked in Thy sight;
What thickest darkness veils, to Thee
Shines clearly as the noonday light.

Thine, Lord, is holiness alone;
Justice and Truth before Thee stand;
Yet, nearer to Thy sacred throne,
Love ever dwells at Thy right hand.
And to Thy love and ceaseless care,
FATHER! this light, this breath, we owe;
And all we have, and all we are,

From Thee, great Source of Life! doth flow.