Beauties of sacred literature .. . Though from human eyes conceald,In the path the Saviour trod, View his character reveald ;As you see it there displayd To the sons of grief or shame,Though in glory now arrayd, Jesus Christ is still the same. See his eye with holy fire Flashing on the bold in sin ;Hear his words of dreadful ire To the soul defild within;Endless wrath — remorse — and gloom - Agony — and quenchless declares shall be their doom; Jesus Christ is still the same. 28 BEAUTIES OF SACRED LITERATURE. See him in his gentle love, Drying contrite sinners them to jo
Beauties of sacred literature .. . Though from human eyes conceald,In the path the Saviour trod, View his character reveald ;As you see it there displayd To the sons of grief or shame,Though in glory now arrayd, Jesus Christ is still the same. See his eye with holy fire Flashing on the bold in sin ;Hear his words of dreadful ire To the soul defild within;Endless wrath — remorse — and gloom - Agony — and quenchless declares shall be their doom; Jesus Christ is still the same. 28 BEAUTIES OF SACRED LITERATURE. See him in his gentle love, Drying contrite sinners them to joys above, Hope inspiring — hushing fears;See him cheering — blessing all, Who as humble suppliants came;None in vain for mercy call, Jesus Christ is still the same. See him ever guarding those. Who, in truth, in him an arm to crush their foes. With a love that cannot die ;Though the world grow cold or strange. Through all sorrow, toil, or shame,He will never — never change — Jesus Christ is still the ^^vedV T r ?-iiev.^ DANIEL IN THE LIONS DEN. BY REV. M. A. DE WOLF HOWE. What majesty is in the form and demeanor ofthis undaunted hero ! There is not one muscle thatshrinks, nor one nerve that quivers on his lordlyframe. His entire nature is in concert with histriumphant spirit. He is a picture of true heroism,where the soul is so great in its confidence, that itprecludes the timid suggestions of reason, andendows even the flesh with an unflinching hardi-hood. See how erect he stands ! His knees do nottremble, or smite one against another. He does notrecede with involuntary horror, as the savage beastsgather to his feet. He does not even watch them,as their fiery eye-balls glare upon him fi:om theblack recesses of their den. He does not try thepower of the human eye, to keep in aw^e thefierceness of the most insatiate among those lowercreatures over which God once gave man is no expression of command, no trace of 3* 30 BEAUTIES
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