Translated from SPIEKER.

ETERNAL JUDGE, teach me, I beseech Thee,

to consider my ways and my doings. Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts; lead me in the right path, and purify my heart by the grace of Thy Holy Spirit. Teach me to discern that which is true, to love that which is good, to accomplish that which is pleasing unto Thee. Quicken and increase in me the power of conscience, and may I walk in the light of faith even unto the end. May I behold the brightness of Thy glory in the face of Jesus Christ, Thy only begotten Son. May He guide me into that truth which He taught; may He teach me to imitate that holy life which He lived; may He intercede for me with Thee, through that love wherewith He doth defend the children of men.

O Lord, they that walk uprightly before Thee shall enter into Thy peace, and they that hope in Thee shall never be ashamed, for Thy word remaineth true for evermore, and Thy faithfulness unto all generations. Hear me, O God, through the merits of Thy dear Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

E not afraid to pray,-to pray is right,

BE

Pray, if thou canst with hope, but ever pray;

Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay:

Pray in the darkness if there be no light.
Far is the time, remote from human sight,

When war and discord in the earth shall cease;
Yet every prayer for universal peace

Avails the blessed time to expedite.

Whate'er is good to wish, ask that of Heaven,
Though it be what thou canst not hope to see :
Pray to be perfect, though material leaven
Forbid the spirit so on earth to be.

But if for any wish thou dar'st not pray,
Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

KEBLE.

S there, on earth, a spirit frail,

IS

Who fears to take their word,

Scarce daring, through the twilight pale,
To think he sees the Lord?

With eyes too tremblingly awake

To bear with dimness for His sake?

Read and confess the hand divine

That drew thy likeness here so true in every line.

For all thy rankling doubts so sore,

Love thou thy Saviour still,

Him for thy Lord and God adore,

And ever do His will.

Though vexing thoughts may seem to last,
Let not thy soul be quite o'ercast ;—

Soon will He show thee all His wounds and say,
'Long have I known thy name,-know thou My
face alway.'

MRS. A. GATTY.

WHEN obedience and faith are made perfect, it

be given.

may be that knowledge and explanation shall

IF any man will do His will, he shall know of

the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether

I speak of Myself.

St. John vii. 17.

SEVENTEENTH DAY.

Conflicts of the Soul.

HEAR my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands. I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah. Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. Teach me to do thy will; for

thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

Ps. cxliii. 1-12.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; flesh the law of sin.

but with the

Rom. vii. 18-25.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken;