3238. SUBMISSION. Declaration of SINCE 'tis Thy sentence I should part With the most precious treasure of my heart, I freely that and more resign, My heart itself, as its delight is Thine; My little all I give to Thee, Thou gav'st a greater gift, Thy Son, to me. Take all, great God, I will not grieve, Nor beg Thy angel to sheathe up his sword. 3239. SUBMISSION. Entire GOD's ways are not as our ways, His thoughts are not as ours; He wounds us sore with cruel thorns, where we have stoop'd for flowers; But oh! 'tis from the oft-pierced heart those precious drops distil, That many a life, else all unblest, with healing balm shall fill: Then teach us still to smile, O Lord! though sharp the stones may be, Remembering that they bring us near to Thee, dear Lord, to Thee! 3240. SUBMISSION. Example of CHRIST had His sorrows-so must thou, 3241. SUBMISSION. tested. WHEN, blooming with the strength and pride of youth, Crown'd with Health's chaplet, mind and heart aglow With strong desire to serve my Lord, to sow Broadcast about my path rich seeds of truth, And crush the evils which, with pois'nous tooth, Lurk'd, ready for the spring and fatal blow, Beside the paths where men walk'd to and fro, I said, 'I can be anything, in sooth, For Christ.' And now the dear Lord testeth me. Shorn of my strength by dread disease, I find I must be laid aside, while others bind The sheaves and sow the seed, content to be Nothing. Lord, I am in Thy hands. For Thee Nothing or anything I'll be,-resign'd.-Burr. 3242. SUCCESS: cannot be commanded. Success, the mark no mortal wit, 3243. SUCCESS: not essential to happiness. WHAT most of all to real happiness Then give, oh give the flower to those who pray it Doth tend, in this perplexing world of ours, so may be, Is this to think upon and recollect But I would choose to have the thorns, with Thee, What best we each have striven to perform, dear Lord, with Thee! Man judgeth man in ignorance, he seeth but in part; Our trust is in our Maker, God, Who searcheth every heart; Not that in which we have succeeded best. Success is sweet, but sweeter still the thought And every wrong and every woe, when put beneath Still hoping on, with courage high, for bliss, As stepping-stones may help us on to His high Yet hard the lesson, difficult the task— Then great the triumph-passing great the joy Of looking back upon the battle-field,- Lady Chatterton. 3244. SUCCESS: Nothing succeeds like suc cess.' VIRTUE without success Is a fair picture shown by an ill light; All own the chief when fortune owns the cause. Had I miscarried, I had been a villain; It is success that colours all in life: Now in frail bark, and on the storm-toss'd wave, 3246. SUFFERING. Appointment of SUFFERING is the work now sent; To my heavenly Father's will, 3247. SUFFERING. Fruits of Are cradled into poetry by wrong; Thou hast gain'd, in the furnace of affliction, selfknowledge, patience, and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner; Despise not the blessings of adversity nor the gain thou hast earn'd so hardly, And now thou hast drain'd the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.-Tupper. The hour of anguish passes by; The compensation of its pains. 3248. SUFFERING. Influence of SUFFERING curbs our wayward passions, Child-like tempers in us fashions, And our will to His subdues: Thus His hand, so soft and healing, Each disorder'd power and feeling, By a blessed change renews. Suffering keeps the thoughts compacted, That the soul be not distracted By the world's beguiling art; "Tis like some angelic warder Ever keeping sacred order In the chambers of the heart. Suffering tunes the heart's emotion And awakes a fond desire For the land where psalms are ringing, 3249. SUFFERING. Intense LIGHT sufferings give us leisure to complain; 3250. SUFFERING. Lesson for the Each suffering heart by hope most unbefriended, And every new brave smile our lips shall render When human pain's worst, weariest ways are trod, Adds one fresh plume to those white wings of splendour Wherewith we shall meet God !—E. J. L. T'oppose against mishap, but loss of life; Which is to fly, and not to conquer it.—Jonson. When affliction thunders o'er our roofs; That kills himself t' avoid misery, fears it, Fear, guilt, despair, and moon-struck frenzy, rush Fenton. Our time is set and fix'd; our days are told; Fool! I mean not That poor-soul'd piece of heroism, self-slaughter: Darley. Venture not rashly on an unknown being: Take heed How you do threaten Heaven by menacing Davenant. Death may be call'd in vain, and cannot come; When all the blandishments of life are gone, Our time is fix'd, and all our days are number'd; Is but a coward's trick: to run away If there be an hereafter, Blair. THE self-same sun that shines upon his court Then, higher, on the glittering sun I gazed, Whose beams were shaded by the leavie tree; Had I not better known (alas), the same had I. Thou as a bridegroom from thy chamber rushest, Thy swift annual and diurnal course, Thy daily straight and yearly oblique path, Thy pleasing fervour and thy scorching force, All mortals here the feeling knowledge hath. Thy presence makes it day, thy absence night; Quaternal seasons caused by thy might : Hail, creature, full of sweetness, beauty, and delight! Art thou so full of glory, that no eye Hath strength thy shining rayes once to behold? And is thy splendid throne erect so high As to approach it can no earthly mould? How full of glory then must thy Creator be, I marvel not, O Sun! that unto thee Southey. Blest power of sunshine! genial day! 3255. SUNDAY. Pre-eminence of the O DAY most calm, most bright, The fruit of this, the next world's bud, The indorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a Friend, and with His blood; The couch of time, care's balm and bay! The week were dark, but for thy light! Thy torch doth show the way. The other days and thou Make up one man; whose face thou art, Knocking at heaven with thy brow: The worky-days are the back part; The burthen of the week lies there, Making the whole to stoop and bow, Till thy release appear. Sundays the pillars are, On which heaven's palace archèd lies: They are the fruitful beds and borders Of God's rich garden: that is bare Which parts their ranks and orders. The Sundays of man's life, Threaded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope; Blessings are plentiful and rife, More plentiful than hope. This day my Saviour rose, And did enclose this light for His, That, as each beast his manger knows, Man might not of his fodder miss. Christ hath took in this piece of ground, And made a garden there for those Who want herbs for their wound. Thou art a day of mirth; And where the week-days trail on ground, Thy flight is higher, as thy birth; Oh let me take thee at the bound, Leaping with thee from seven to seven, Till that we both, being toss'd from earth, Fly hand in hand to heaven.-Herbert. 3256. SUNDAY. Similes of BRIGHT shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss, Heaven once a week; The next world's gladness prepossest in this; Eternity in time; the steps by which We climb above all ages; lamps that light Transplanted paradise; God's walking hour, The creature's jubilee; God's parle with dust; Heaven here: man on those hills of myrrh and flowers; Angels descending; the returns of trust; A gleam of glory after six days' showers! The Church's love-feasts; time's prerogative, Deducted from the whole; the combs and hive, The milky-way chalkt out with suns; a clue, That guides through erring hours; and in full story A taste of heaven on earth; the pledge and cue Of a full feast; and the out-courts of glory. Henry Vaughan. 3257. SUPERSTITION. ENGLAND a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Churchill. What a reasonless machine Can superstition make the reasoner man! Miller. 'Tis Christian science makes our day, Even where our Saviour's body lay; Beneath St Peter's cross-crown'd sway; 3258. SURRENDER. Entire PEACE has unveil'd her smiling face, Fell demon of our fears! The human soul, 3260. SYMPATHY. Beauty of No radiant pearl which crested fortune wears, 3261. SYMPATHY. Effects of |