JESUS PASSETH BY.

HOU passest by-Thy awful step I

hear;

Thou passest by thy five dread
wounds I see;

Thou passest by Thy saving cross I clasp
With penitential tears of agony.

Until Thy mercy streams into my soul;

I am sin-laden; lift the burden off,

For Thou alone canst heal and make me whole.

Renew my spirit with unswerving faith,

While pondering on the path Thy saints have trod;

With hope and courage nerve this feeble frame To follow Thee, thou ever-present God.

Thou passest by- I pray to be illumed

With grace and light; so shall the darkness flee:

And these dim eyes, O Thou ascended Lord, In rapture recognize and gaze on Thee.

THE ANSWER.

HE merry world did, on a day,
With his trainbands and mates agree

To meet together where I lay,

And all in sport to jeer at me.

First, Beauty crept into a rose,

Which, when I plucked not, Sir, said she, Tell me, I pray, whose hands are those? But Thou shalt answer, Lord, for me.

Then Money came; and, chinking still,
What tune is this, poor man? said he;
I heard in music you had skill;

But Thou shalt answer, Lord, for me.

Then came brave Glory puffing by,
In silks that whistled, who but he?
He scarce allowed me half an eye;
But Thou shalt answer, Lord, for me.

Then came quick Wit and Conversation,
And he would needs a comfort be;
And, to be short, make an oration;
But Thou shalt answer, Lord, for me.

Yet when the hour of Thy design

To answer these fine things shall come, Speak not at large; say, I am Thine;

And then they have their answer home.

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CHRIST'S WORD, "ABIDE."

ERPETUAL peace flows from that word,

A fountain by our Lord supplied;

The twelve who followed Him, how oft they heard

Their Teacher say, Abide!

It hangsa bough of promises,

Thick blossoming on every side;

"I will not leave you comfortless," He says, "If ye in me Abide.”

Lord, let my heart be wholly Thine;
I would not with the world divide;
E'en as the branch abideth in the vine,
Would I in thee Abide.

"Abide in me, and I in you."

Would I to Thee were so allied!

Then would be one who now, alas! are two: When shall I thus Abide ?