ter exposed to the taunts of the rabble, smitten, spit upon, "yet meek as a lamb, opening not his mouth:" nailed to the cross, naked, bleeding, and thirstytormented, lingering, and dying-yet praying for his murderers. Truly He was a "Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief." "He underwent more affliction, and had more contempt poured upon Him than ever was upon any of the sons of men; and yet he endured this with incredible patience and meekness, with the greatest evenness and constancy of mind, and with the most perfect submission and resignation of Himself to the will of God. If then He thus denied Himself, well may we, who have much less to deny, but much more cause and reason for it."* We are chastened for our own offences and for our own advantage; but he was scourged for the sins and for the benefit of others, and those his enemies. If then He bore so heavy, so dreadful, a Cross for us, shall we not be willing to bear the lighter one for Him, praying it may work in us what He would have to be in us. Surely love should prompt, and gratitude compel us to it.

Over some of us, indeed, the Lord seems to be ever wielding His rod; and sad is it, that we need so many or such lengthened trials, to mould us to His will, and to keep us in the right and true way. Yet so it is; and we may be assured, that less of care, more of health, less of adversity, more of this world's

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happiness, would not be good for us, or conducive to His glory, or it would be granted. And this should beget in us a spirit of lowliness and heart-searching, of passive obedience and readiness to lie as clay in the hands of the Great Potter, that in due time we may be moulded into "vessels of honour, meet for the Master's use." "Be ye perfect," is His injunction; and the appointed and most effectual means for the attainment of such an end, is suffering: but it is a suffering which shall "work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." If such be the intention and effects of the Cross, should we not, far from rebelling against it, rather welcome the hand that brings it, and willingly take it up and follow our Lord-esteeming it, moreover, an honour and a privilege to partake of His sufferings, and to have an opportunity of glorifying Him, by calmly trusting in Him amid life's stormy gales of sorrow and temptation and so buffeting the waves and steering the frail bark to its desired haven, that, in the exercise of our patience and the trial of our constancy, angels and men be constrained to acknowledge, that the conflict is carried on and the victory achieved in another name, and by other strength, than our own. By Thy grace, oh Lord! Thy people are what they are; and "not unto us, oh Lord! not unto us, but unto Thy name be the glory." May we then, in humble prayerful reliance upon that Holy Spirit, which "worketh in us both to will and to do," strive to "endure hardness as good soldiers," having in the

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Word a rich armory of Promise, whence we may arm our hearts against the multitude of sorrows. "Fear not I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel." "In the world ye shall have tribulation;" but "be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life."

"THY WILL BE DONE."

"Cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord: Behold as clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand."-JER. xviii. 6.

THE potter moulds the clay

And forms it for his use,

And shall the vessel dare

To question or refuse?

Shall man reply to God

(A thing of worms and dust), And say to Him who form❜dWhy hast Thou order'd thus?

God's by creative right,

By purchase of His Son,

And by the Spirit's might―

His sov'reign "will be done."

Though erring, sinful, frail,

Thou, Lord, in Thy dear Son,

Dost give me strength to say—
"Thy gracious will be done."

Though trying, painful, sad,

That will full often proves-
"A Father," saith Thy word,
"Rebuketh child he loves;"

"That all things work for good
To him who loves and serves;
And that thy promis'd strength,
For needful moulding nerves."

On that blest word I rest,

When trials darkly come;

And, in the heart's distress,

Cry, "Lord, Thy will be done."

CHRIST'S LEGACY.

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you."-JOHN xiv. 27.

OH! there is a Peace which the world cannot give, And yet may be tasted below;

For through the lov'd Saviour the gift we receive, If trusting and contrite and low.

The penitent's tear Jesus hastens to dry,
And whispers, "I'm mighty to save ;"

And if for His peace we still fervently sigh,
Not vainly the blessing we crave.

"Understanding it passeth :" oh! ask and receive, Nor limit the boon to above

A Peace which the world and its joys cannot give, The offspring of pardoning love.

Blest Spirit instruct us, our hearts form aright,
And teach us by grace so to live,

That feeding by faith on the Lord of all light,
We taste the sweet peace He can give.

"TIS THERE, "TIS THERE.

"I will give in mine house and within my walls an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off, and make them joyful in my house of prayer." -Is. lvi. 5, 7.

OH! not in gilded halls

Of stately pomp and splendour,
Where jewell'd daughters shine
In luxury and grandeur:
Amid their pomp and shew,

Not there I wish to go

Not there, not there.

Nor where the wild flow'rs wreathing

In bright and sunny spots,