No. 83.]

[Saturday.

THE SPRING AND THE DEW (concluded.)

SWEET is the opening Flower

Which just begins to bloom, Which ev'ry day and ev'ry hour, Fresh beauties will assume.

But sweeter that young heart,
Where faith and love, and peace,
Blossom and Bloom in ev'ry part,
With sweet and varied grace.

O may Life's early Spring,
And Morning, ere they flee,
Youth's Dew, and its fair Blossoming,
Be giv'n, my God, to thee.

No. 84.] THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. [Sunday.
TH' Almighty form'd the world in six days' space,
And gave each element its proper place;
He bid the earth display its coat of green,
Where nature's beauties are profusely seen;
He gave us air to breath, bid winds to blow,
And lucid waters through their channels flow;
Confin'd to order far beneath the ground,
In chains each fiery particle he bound;
On the seventh day he gave himself to rest,
Then keep the sabbath, and be for ever blest.

No. 85.]

THE SABBATH.

[Monday.

Be sure always to observe the sabbath when you have an opportunity.

When you cannot attend public worship, retire at the hours you used to attend the House of God, and employ the two hours of each service in prayer and reading the scriptures.

Judge Hale observes, that he found the business of the week prosper, as he had observed the sabbath.'

No. 86.]

THE RETURN OF SPRING.

The Sun has now a warmer glow,

Cast o'er each wood and mountain;

The milder gales already flow,

From this perennial fountain.

The Earth now feels th' influence mild,
Of soft refreshing showers;

And gladly shews in pastures wild,
Its earliest-sweetest flowers,

[Tuesday.

The Birds, with warbling throats, to Heav'n
Their annual tribute bringing;

They use their pow'rs, thus kindly giv'n,
In gratitude and singing.

The Herds and Flocks, that range the fields,

In various ways addressing,

An instinct praise to him, who yields

All good beyond expressing.

Let Man forth-tell his maker's praise,
His throne of love surrounding!
His heart to heaven daily raise,
In gratitude abounding.

No. 87.]

THE UNIVERSE.

[Wednesday.

WHO gave the sun his noon-day light?
Who taught the moon to shine by night?
Whose hands the sheet of heaven unroll'd,
All set with stars like drops of gold?

Who gave the winds their course to know?
The ocean tides to ebb and flow?
And day and night preserve their bounds?
And changing seasons know their rounds?

Could man conceive the vast design?
Could he the grand machine combine?
Stretch his weak hands from pole to pole?
And bid them on their centre roll?

No. 88]

THE UNIVERSE (continued.)

[Thursday.

COULD man with all his skill compose,
The humblest blade of grass that grows?
Or at his will ordain to be,

The smallest insect that we see?

'Twas GOD who gave creation birth,
Who form'd this wond'rous globe of earth:
And breathed throughout the mighty whole,
The likeness of a living soul.

Bow then to God, Oh all that live!
To God eternal praises give!

Who fashion'd by his mighty hand,
Sun, Moon, and Stars, and Sea and Land.

How long, sometimes, a day appears!
And weeks how long are they!
Months move as slow as if the years

Would never pass away.

But month and years are passing by
And soon must all be gone;

For day by day, as minutes fly,
Eternity comes on.

[Friday.

Days, Months, and years must have an end,
Eternity has none !

"Twill always have as long to spend,

As when it first begun!

Great God! an infant cannot tell,
How such a thing can be:

I only pray that I may dwell
That long, long time with thee.

No. 90.]

A MINUTE.

[Saturday.

"Time, if well spent, and improved as it goes,
Will render life pleasant, and peaceful its close,"

A minute, how soon it has flown!
And yet how important it is!
God calls every moment his own,
For all our existence is His.

Why should we a minute despise
Because it so quickly is o'er?
We know that it rapidly flies,

And therefore should prize it the more.

'Tis easy to squander our years, In idleness, folly and strife,

But, oh! no repentance or tears,

Can bring back one moment of life!