But I ask Thee for a present mind I ask Thee for a thoughtful love, I would not have the restless will I would be treated like a child Wherever in the world I am, I have a fellowship with hearts And a work of lowly love to do For the Lord on whom I wait. So I ask Thee for the daily strength And a mind to blend with outward life While keeping at Thy side, Content to fill a little space, If Thou be glorified. And if some things I do not ask In my cup of blessing be, I would have my spirit filled the more And careful less to serve Thee much, There are briers besetting every path And a need for earnest prayer ; In a service which Thy love appoints For my secret heart is taught the truth From the "LYRA ANGLICANA.' ΟΙ H, weary in the morning, When soft the dewdrops fall, And weary at the noontide, When God's sun shines on all; H And weary at the nightfall, Oh, weary of the turmoil, The striving, and the care, Which we of earth must bear ; And wearier with heart-sorrows Than with the weight of Yet like a ray of sunlight, years. The Word shines through the gloom, And after winter's darkness Comes spring in fresher bloom; And after vainly searching, We find a resting meet; For rest, and hope, and glory God never sends a sorrow Till o'er the troubled waters His voice said, 'Peace, be still!' We will go forth and conquer, The lowliest station near Him And after victory, rest— E. M. SEWEll. UNLOVING words are meant to make us gentle, and delays teach patience, and care teaches faith, and press of business makes us look out for minutes to give to God, and disappointment is a special messenger to summon our thoughts to heaven. Now TWELFTH DAY. Sickness. a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judea again. His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again? Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there |