SOWN in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.

I COR. xv. 42.

THE flowers all tell to thee a sacred mystic story,
How moistened earthy dust can wear celestial glory.
On thousand stems is found the love inscription graven :
"How beautiful is earth, when it can image heaven!"

RUCKERT.

WE humbly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from

the death of sin into the life of righteousness, that when we shall depart this life, we may rest in him, thy well beloved Son Jesus Christ. Amen.

ALL his saints are in thy hand.

DEUT. xxxiii. 3.

AROUND each pure domestic shrine
Bright flowers of Eden bloom and twine,
Our hearths are altars all:

The prayers of hungry souls and poor,
Like armed angels at the door,
Our unseen foes appal.

KEBLE.

GRANT thy servants, O Lord, to be set on fire with thy Spirit, strengthened with thy power, illuminated by thy splendor, filled with thy grace, and to go forward by thine aid. Give them, O God, a right faith, perfect love, true humility: we ask it for our Saviour's sake. Amen.

FEAR ye not therefore; ye are of more value

than many sparrows.

MATT. X. 31.

COMMIT thou all thy ways,
And all thy grief and care,
To him whom heaven obeys,
Whose love is everywhere:
For air, and clouds, and wind,
He findeth pathways meet;
Shall he not also find

The pathway for thy feet?

PAUL GERHARDT.

WE entreat thy mercy with our whole hearts, dear

Lord, that as thou defendest us against things adverse to the body, so thou wilt set us free from the enemies of the soul, and as thou grantest us to rejoice in outward tranquillity, so vouchsafe to us thy inward peace, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

YEA, though I walk through the valley of the

shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort PSALM Xxiii. 4.

me.

THERE is an hour when I must part
With all I hold most dear;

And life, with its best hopes, will then
As nothingness appear.

O Saviour, then, in all my need,

Be near, be near to me;

And let my soul in steadfast faith,

Find life and heaven in thee!

ANDREW REED.

JESUS, my Maker and Redeemer, set thy passion, cross, and death between thy judgment and my soul. I give myself wholly unto thee; cast me not away: I come to thee. Deal mercifully with me, according to thy will, and bid my spirit be taken to thee in peace: for thine own Name's sake. Amen.

REJOICE with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

ROM. xii. 15.

IF thou art blessed,

Then let the sunshine of thy gladness rest
On the dark edges of each cloud that lies
Black in thy brother's skies.

If thou art sad,

Still be thou in thy brother's gladness glad.

E. H.

Do thou, O Master, look upon us in thy tender love,

and show forth towards us, and those for whom we pray, thy rich mercies and compassions, and to thee, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, all glory be ascribed, for ever and ever. Amen.