. Gems from the sacred mine: or, Holy thoughts upon sacred subjects. .Leaving not a wreck may love above thee,I would bliss substantial find. If thou now so oft deceive me, When I may detect the cheat,Thou wouldst of all hopes bereave me,When on lifes last verge we meet;Never, never,False I more thy smilings greet. 223 Theres a world where all is pleasure,Which Times changes neer decay!There are blessings without measure,Pure as light, and glad as day!That desiring,Thus aspiring,I would breathe mj life away. 224 GEMS FROM THE SACRED MINE, THE FLIGHT INTO EG
. Gems from the sacred mine: or, Holy thoughts upon sacred subjects. .Leaving not a wreck may love above thee,I would bliss substantial find. If thou now so oft deceive me, When I may detect the cheat,Thou wouldst of all hopes bereave me,When on lifes last verge we meet;Never, never,False I more thy smilings greet. 223 Theres a world where all is pleasure,Which Times changes neer decay!There are blessings without measure,Pure as light, and glad as day!That desiring,Thus aspiring,I would breathe mj life away. 224 GEMS FROM THE SACRED MINE, THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. BY THE RIGHT REV. G. W. DOANE, BISHOP OF NEW JERSEY, Out of Egypt have I called my son. Maiden Mother^ meek and that cherub , through wild and weary thy feeble footsteps stray ? Herod seeks the loved ones life;Glitters now the murderers knife ;Ramah reeking lies and red;Rachel weeps her children dead. Maiden mother, meek and not for that cherub child:Through the Avild and weary way,Angel squadrons with thee ^ 3rrJfM^v. IT. Yar. D. THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. 225 Hear what God the Lord hath done: Out of Egypt called his son ;Nailed him to the atoning tree ;Given him there the victory. 226 GEMS FEOM THE SACRED MINE* ELIJAH AND HIS ANGEL VISITANT. BY THE REV. EDWARD C. JONES, A. M. The exercise of faith is ofteiij in the case ofthe believer, succeeded by a timid despondency,and the firmest moral prowess superseded bypuerile inaction. The Tishbite prophet is an aptillustration* Girt about with Truths etherealpanoply, he had administered a withering repri-mand to erring royalty itself^ proved the utterworthlessness of pagan idolatry, by a test atonce unique and convincing, and hastened thedestruction of the wily priests of Baal; whenhearing the threat of a wicked woman that hislife should pay the forfeit of his daring, he timor-ously shrinks from impending danger, isolateshimself from society, neglects for a time his in-cumbent o
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