Grant us thy truth to make us free, One holy light, one heavenly flame! Dr. O. W. Holmes. 1860. OF THE INCOMPARABLE TREASURE OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. H ERE is the spring where waters flowe, Here is the tree where trueth doth grow, To lead our lives therein; Here is the Judge that ftints the ftrife, Where men's devices faille; Here is the bread that feedes the life Come to our eares from hence; The fortress of our faith is here, Then be not like the hogge that hath And takes more pleasure in the trough, And wallowing in the mire; Reade not this booke in any case Read not but firft defire God's grace To vnderstand thereby; Pray still in faith with this respect, That knowledge may bring this effect Then happie thou in all thy life, From Barker's Bible. 1594. THE ONE CHURCH. I OUTSIDE THE CHURCH. STAND without here in the porch, I hear the bell's melodious din, I hear the organ peal within, I hear the prayer with words that scorch With threatenings of the laft account. Reach me but as our dear Lord's prayer, And as the Sermon on the Mount. Muft it be Calvin, and not Christ? I know that yonder Pharisee I only stand and beat my breast, Not to one church alone, but seven, The voice prophetic spake from heaven: For him that overcometh are The new names written on the stone, Ah! to how many Faith has been For whom no Man of Sorrows died, For others a diviner creed Not as a vulture, but a dove, The Holy Ghoft came from above. H. W. Longfellow. 1863. FICUS RELIGIOSA. HE Banyan of the Indian ifle ΤΗ Spreads deeply down its maffive root, And so the Church of Jesus Chrift, Has sent its fheltering arms abroad; As low it bends to bless the earth, Long as the world itself fhall last, The sacred Banyan ftill fhall spread, |