For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him.

If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

They that fear thee, shall be great with thee in all things.

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? Thou wilt cause my light to shine: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.

For by thee have I run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

When I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.

Blessed are all they that love thee, and that rejoice in thy peace.

To him that giveth me wisdom, will I give glory.

Neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,

From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold;
Peace on the earth, good-will to men,
From heaven's all-gracious King;
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

Still through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurled;
And still their heavenly music floats
O'er all the weary world:
Above its sad and lonely plains

They bend on hovering wing,
And ever o'er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.

O ye, beneath life's crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way

With painful steps and slow!
Look now, for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing:
Oh, rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing.

For lo, the days are hastening on,
By prophets seen of old,
When with the ever-circling years,

Shall come the time foretold,

When the new heaven and earth shall own The Prince of Peace their King,

And the whole world send back the song Which now the angels sing.-SEARS

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another.

I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of them that bring glad tidings of good things!

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

It is not reason that we should leave the word of God. For he is our peace.

The hour cometh, and now is, when the true wor shippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

For in him we live, and move, and have our being. For we are also his offspring.

By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovedst, might

"RECOVERED PARADISE"

"BY ONE MAN'S FIRM OBEDIENCE FULLY TRIED"

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Arranged from

"PARADISE REGAINED"

JOHN MILTON

ET us be glad of this, and all our fears
Lay on His providence; He will not fail.”
-HIS DISCIPLES

Thus thou hast seen one world begin and end,
And Man as from a second stock proceed.-MILTON

"The World shall burn, and from her ashes spring New Heaven and Earth, wherein the just shall dwell, And, after all their tribulations long

See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds,

With Joy and Love triumph'ng, and fair Truth."

-THE ETERNAL FATHER

I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung

By one man's disobedience lost, now sing
Recovered Paradise to all mankind,

By one Man's firm obedience fully tried

Through all temptation, and the Tempter foiled

In all his wiles, defeated and repulsed,

And Eden raised in the waste Wilderness.

Thou Spirit, who led'st this glorious Eremite

Into the desert, his victorious field

Against the spiritual foe, and brought'st him thence
By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire,

As thou art wont, my prompted song, else mute,
And bear through highth or depth of Nature's bounds,
With prosperous wing full summed, to tell of deeds
Above heroic, though in secret done,

And unrecorded left through many an age:
Worthy to have not remained so long unsung.

know that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth men, but thy word preserveth them that believe in thee.

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh;

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might,