Know that, like birds, and streams, and

flowers,

The life that moves you is divine; Nor time, nor space, nor human powers, Your God-like spirit can confine.

God of the granite and the rose !

Soul of the sparrow and the bee!

The mighty tide of being flows,

Through all thy creatures, back to thee.

Thus round and round the circle runs,
A mighty sea without a shore;
While men and angels, stars and suns,
Unite to praise thee evermore.

ELIZABETH DOTEN WILLARD

Which alone stretcheth out the heavens,
And treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

Which maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
And the chambers of the south.

JOB ix. 8, 9.

The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,

And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great original proclaim;

The unwearied sun, from day to day,

Doth his Creator's power display,

And publishes to every land

The work of an Almighty hand.

Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the listening earth

Repeats the story of her birth;

Whilst all the stars which round her burn,

And all the planets in their turn,

Confirm the tidings as they roll,

And spread the truth from pole to pole.

What though, in solemn silence, all
Move round this dark terrestrial ball?
What though no real voice nor sound
Amidst their radiant orbs be found?
In Reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
Forever singing, as they shine,

"The hand that made us is divine!"

JOSEPH ADDISON

I

FEEL the eternal verities all about me and the spirit of the living God moving upon the faculties of my soul.

J. H. Foy

To us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all

things, and we unto Him.

I COR. viii. 6.

One thought I have, my ample creed,

So deep it is and broad,

And equal to my every need,—

It is the thought of God.

Each morn unfolds some fresh surprise,

I feast at Life's full board;

And rising in my inner skies

Shines forth the thought of God.

At night my gladness is my prayer;
I drop my daily load,

And every care is pillowed there
Upon the thought of God.

How

FREDERICK L. HOSMER

OW dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God, peopling the lonely place, effacing the scars of our mistakes and disappointments! . . . It inspires in man an infallible trust. He has not the conviction, but the sight, that the best is the true, and may in that thought easily dismiss all particular uncertainties and fears, and adjourn to the sure revelation of time the solution of his private riddles. He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being. But if he would know what the great God speaketh, he must go into his closet and shut the door, as Jesus said. . . . He that finds God a sweet enveloping thought to him never counts his company. When I sit in that presence, who shall dare to come in?

EMERSON

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

PSALM Xxiii. 1.

I report as a man may of God's work-
All's love, yet all's law!

ROBERT BROWNING

HE Eternal shepherds us by incorporating

THE

into our organisms the mental and moral faculties. . . . It is the ground plan of this universe that human beings should become a providence to themselves; that the Eternal Power works within and through their own faculties by natural law; that thus it provides and cares for them, while all around them, as well as within them, are the mighty forces on which they are to draw for sustenance and benefit. Whether the sustenance and benefit will be found in individual cases depends on the measure of adjustment to these great world-forces. That the welfare is found in the experience of mankind at large there can be no question. For this process of adjustment of finite life, through finite perception and effort, to the infinite resources and forces that pervade and surround it, is the school of education for the human race from savagery to civilization, and to all the power, prosperity, happiness, and well-being which an enlightened and moral civilization implies. And all the time, while mankind are staggering under the difficulties which confront them, in presence of the very enemies of their prosperity and peace, this infinite bounty of natural resource is offered, awaiting and soliciting man's adjusting effort to partake of it. WILLIAM J. POTTER

The eternal God is thy dwelling place,
And underneath are the everlasting arms.
DEUT. xxxiii. 27.

Pilgrim of Earth, who art journeying to heaven
Heir of eternal life! child of the day!
Cared for, watched over, beloved and forgiven,
Be not discouraged because of the way.

ANONYMOUS

We will not weep; for God is standing by us,
And tears will blind us to the blessed sight;
We will not doubt;-if darkness still doth try us,
Our souls have promise of serenest light.

We will not faint; - if heavy burdens bind us,
They press no harder than our souls can bear,
The thorniest way is lying still behind us,
We shall be braver for the past despair.

O, not in doubt shall be our journey's ending!
Sin with its fears shall leave us at the last;
All its best hopes in glad fulfilment blending,
Life shall be with us when the Death is past.

WILLIAM H. HURLBUT

O me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery, into something that no mortal eye has yet seen, no intelligence declared.

E. H. CHAPIN