Hasten, sinner! to return, Stay not for to-morrow's sun; Hasten, sinner! to be blest! Lest perdition thee arrest, Ere the morrow is begun. THE ADVANTAGES OF EARLY RELIGION. HAPPY the child whose early years Who hates the sinner's path, and fears When we devote our youth to God, A flow'r when offer'd in the bud, 'Tis easier work if we begin To fear the Lord betimes; While sinners that grow old in sin, "Twill save us from a thousand snares Grace will preserve our following years, And make our virtue strong. To thee, Almighty God, to thee 'Twill please us to look back, and see Let the sweet work of pray'r and praise CONFIDENCE IN GOD. AUTHOR of good! to thee I turn; With bread sufficient to the day And feed the soul, that moves my clay, O let thy fear within me dwell, Do thou my erring feet secure ; And keep me upright, just, and pure, In act, in word, and will. Not to my wish, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts apply; Unask'd, what good thou knowest, grant; PRAISE TO GODIN PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. PRAISE to God, immortal praise, Should the fig-tree's blasted shoot "WHY YIELD TO GRIEF "Twas when the seas with hideous roar. A little bark assail'd, And potent fear, with awful power, Save one, the Captain's darling child, "Why sporting thus ?" a seaman cried, "When sorrows overwhelm ?" “Why yield to grief," the boy replied--"My Father's at the helm ?" THE CREATION. HAST thou beheld the glorious sun And when he beam'd his noontide ray ? Say did'st thou e'er attentive view Rise in the east a beauteous show? When darkness has o'erspread the skies, Hast thou e'er wander'd o'er the plain, Hast thou e'er trod the sandy shore, Hast thou beheld the lightning stream Through night's dark gloom with sudden gleam, While the bellowing thunders' sound Roll'd rattling through the heav'ns profound? THE GLORY OF THE CREATOR. THE spacious firmament on high, With all the blue etherial sky, And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame, |