And let the morrow rest In His beloved hand; His good is better than our best, If, trusting Him who faileth never, FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL. COMPELLED TO BEAR THE CROSS. MY Lord, if I had chosen And asked a cross of Thee I think unto its bearing I think of the Cyrenian That bore Thy cruel fate. From quiet country places The startled man was caught By that fierce human tumult I ponder what within him He bore, that unsought way. For I, O Lord, Thou seest A heavy cross I bear, Yet in its choice, or making, The spirit that aspires, The body that's a chain, This nature's not my choosing — This cross, I cannot see How bearing it I ever Can follow after Thee. Yet, "Tempted He as we are " ! Oh Lord, was Thy cross mine? Am I, like Simon, bearing A burden that is Thine? Thou must have looked on Simon - Till I shall see, I follow And bear Thy cross with Thee. Through which my feet are learning The path where Thou dost go. HARRIET WARE HALL. FROM "IN MEMORIAM." STRONG SON OF GOD. TRONG Son of God, immortal Love, STRONG Whom we, that have not seen Thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove! Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, Thou; Our wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them Thine. Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be ; We have but faith: we cannot know; Let knowledge grow from more to more, H1 XXXII. ER eyes are homes of silent prayer, Nor other thought her mind admits But, he was dead, and there he sits, And he that brought him back is there. Then one deep love doth supersede All subtle thought, all curious fears, Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers, XXXIII. THOU that after toil and storm Mayst seem to have reached a purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, Leave thou thy sister, when she prays, Her faith through form is pure as thine, See, thou that countest reason ripe XXXVI. HOUGH truths in manhood darkly join, THOU Deep-seated in our mystic frame, We yield all blessing to the name Of Him that made them current coin; |