Thanks to the human heart by which we live ;
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears;
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

BEHOLD what manner of love the Father hath

bestowed upon us, that we should be called

children of God.

I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

TEED it is we raise our eyes

NEED

Up from earth towards the skies;
Thinking of the souls that rest
In the mansions of the blest;
Lest we faint in our distress,
Through exceeding heaviness.

Thee in them, O Lord most high,
Them in Thee we glorify:

Noble athletes, that went home

Through the sea of martyrdom;

And the saints, through toil and shame
Brave confessors of thy name.

Glory, Lord, to Thee alone,
Who hast glorified thine own;
For their zeal, their truth, their sighs,
Prayerful hearts and tearful eyes,
Faithful lips and fearless breast,
Love and beauty, toils and rest!

Let their praises, heavenly King,
Let the blessed hymn they sing,
Some, though faintest, echo gain
In our own poor broken strain;
Till one day shall join all powers
In one anthem, — theirs and ours.

JOHN MASON NEALE.

OR all the saints, who from their labors rest,

confessed,

Thy name, O God, shall be forever blessed.

Thou wast their Rock, their Fortress, and their

Might;

Their Strength and Shield in all the well-fought fight; Thou, in the darkness, still the Light of light.

O blest Communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine.

WILLIAM WALSHAM How.

OMETIME and Somewhere shall we walk

SOMET

Clear of earth in high places;

Sometime and somewhere shall we talk

With our hearts in our faces;

And see all the meaning writ clear,
The depth and the sweetness,
Apart from this doubt and this fear,
This sad incompleteness.

NORA PERRY.

WHAT is excellent,

As God lives, is permanent;

Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain ;
Heart's love will meet thee again.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost

one.

JESUS.

THE FAMILY ON EARTH AND IN

HEAVEN.