"Now, saith the Lord, turn ye even unto Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."-Joel ii. 12.

Y precepts taught of ages past,

BY

Oh let us keep in truth the fast,
Which, year by year, in order meet
Of forty days is made complete.
More sparing therefore let us make
The words we speak, the food we take;
Deny ourselves in mirth and sleep,
In stricter watch our senses keep.

In prayer together let us fall,
And cry for mercy, one and all;
And weep before the Judge, and say,
Oh, turn from us Thy wrath away.

July 15.

"Obey my voice, and I will be your God."

Jer. vii. 23.

ABSORB my will in Thine: support and bear

Onward in loving arms Thy timid child;

Thy Spirit's voice dispels all doubt, all fear
And quells the passions erst so fierce and wild.
Thou art mine all, since that Thy Son is mine;
Oh let Thy Spirit work with power in me.
With strong desire 1 thirst, I pant for Thee,
Oh joy, whene'er Thy glories round me shine!
Gottfried Arnold.

"O come, let us worship and fall down, let us
kneel before the Lord our maker."
Ps. xcv. 6.

IN the gladness of His worship,
I will seek my joy to-day:

It is then I learn the fulness

Of the grace for which I pray;
When the word of life is given
Like the Saviour's voice from Heaven.

Let the day's sweet hours be ended
Prayerfully as they're begun;
And Thy blessing, Lord, be granted,
Till earth's days and weeks are done,
That, at last, Thy servant may
Keep eternal Sabbath day.

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July 17.

"O fear the Lord, ye His saints."

Ps. xxxiv. 9.

WHEN the last trumpet shall call forth the

Out of their graves to rise, and meet their Judge!
And each immortal spirit-re-arrayed

In its once mortal vesture-shall return,
The good to Heaven;-the wicked to the land
Where everlasting death shall be their doom;
Oh, e'er the dawning of that dreadful day,
Confess your sins to God, and be forgiven!
From Filicaja.