I REPORT, as a man may of God's work - all 's love, yet all's law! Now I lay down the judgeship he lent me. Each faculty tasked To perceive him, has gained an abyss, when a dewdrop was asked. Have I knowledge? confounded it shrivels at wisdom laid bare. Have I forethought? how purblind, how blank, to the Infinite care! Do I task any faculty highest to image success? I but open my eyes, less, · and perfection, no more and no In the kind I imagined, full-fronts me, and God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod. And thus looking within and around me, I ever renew (With that stoop of the soul which in bending upraises it too) The submission of man's nothing-perfect to God's AllComplete, As by each new obeisance in spirit, I climb to his feet. ROBERT BROWNING. WHEN ye glorify the Lord, exalt Him as much as ye can; for even yet He will far exceed : and when ye exalt Him, put forth all your strength and be not weary, for ye can never go far enough : there are yet greater things than these be, for we have seen but a few of His works. All the works of the Lord are good, so that a man cannot say, This is worse than that; for in time they shall all be well approved. Therefore praise ye the Lord with the whole heart. Bless the name of the Lord. ECCLESIASTICUS. WHEN ye pray, say, Father. JESUS. Blessed be God, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. - 2 COR. i. 3, 4. |