THE Son of God

Only begotten, and well-beloved, between
Men and His Father's justice interposed;
Put human nature on, His wrath sustained,
And in their name suffered, obeyed, and died;
Making His soul an offering for sin,
Just for unjust, and innocence for guilt.

POLLOK

ADVANCE, hopeless mortal, steeled in guilt,
Behold, and if thou canst, forbear to melt!
Shall Jesus die, thy freedom to regain,
And wilt thou drag the voluntary chain?
Wilt thou refuse thy kind assent to give,
When, dying, He looks down to bid thee live?
Perverse, wilt thou reject the proffered good,
Bought with His life, and streaming in His blood?
Whose virtue can thy deepest crimes efface,
Reheal thy nature, and confirm thy peace!
Can all the errors of thy life atone,
And raise thee from a rebel to a son.

LAMB of God! Our Priest and Pastor,

Who canst bid all evil cease,

Ever dear and holy Master,

Make our feeble love increase!

So that when we seek Thee, owning
That Thy wrath is our deserts,
Thou, blest Lord, at whose atonement

All iniquity departs,

Mayest speak forth from Thine enthronement,

To our rent and wearied hearts,

Sinner, go in peace!"

BOYSE.

C. D. MCLEOD.

Look humbly upward, see His will disclose
The forfeit first, and then the fine impose;
A mulct thy poverty could never pay,
Had not eternal wisdom found the way,

And with celestial wealth supplied thy store;

His justice makes the fine, His mercy quits the score.
See God descending in the human frame;

The offended suffering in the offender's name:

All thy misdeeds to Him imputed see,

And all His righteousness devolved on thee.

(See also REDEMPTION.)

DRYDEN.

AVARICE-COVETOUSNESS.

We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. I TIMOTHY, VI, 7.

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks, and feed thereof. JOB, XXIV, 2.

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. JOB, Xxiv, 3.

They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together. JOB, XXIV, 4.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! ISAIAH, V, 9.

Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. JAMES, v, 3.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. JAMES, v, 4.

The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night, until the morning LEVITICUS, Xix, 13.

Thou shalt not covet. ExoDUS, XX, 17.

His treasures fly to clog each fawning slave,
Yet grudge a stone to dignify his grave.
For this, low-thoughted craft his life employed;
For this, though wealthy, he no wealth enjoyed;
For this he griped the poor, and alms denied,
Unfriended lived, and unlamented died. SAVAGE.

WOE to the worldly men, whose covetous
Ambition labours to join house to house;

Lay field to field, till their enclosures edge
The plain, girdling a country with one hedge:
They leave no place unbought; no piece of earth
Which they will not engross; making a dearth
Of all inhabitants; until they stand
Unneighboured as unblest within the land.

BISHOP KING.

STARVE beside the chests, whose every corn
At the Last Day, shall in the Court of Heaven
Witness against thee.

SIR E. B. LYTTON.

O CURSED lust of gold! when for thy sake
The fool throws up his interest in both worlds;
First starved in this, then damned in that to come

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BLAIR

Gold! gold! in all ages the curse of mankind,
Thy fetters are forged for the soul and the mind:
The limbs may be free as the wings of a bird,
And the mind be the slave of a look or a word.
To gain thee, men barter eternity's crown,
Yield honour, affection, and lasting renown.

PARK BENJAMIN.

BUT should my destiny be quest of wealth,
Kind Heaven, oh! keep my tempted soul in health!
And should'st thou bless my toil with ample store,
Keep back the madness that would seek for more!
THOMAS WARD.

THE thirst for gold

Hath made men demons, till the heart that feels

The impulse of impartial love, nor kneels
In worship foul to Mammon, is contemned.

W. H. BURLEIGH.

AVARICE o'ershoots

Its destined mark; and with abundance cursed,
In wealth, the ills of poverty endures.

GEORGE BALLY.

Oh! life misspent-Oh! foulest waste of time!
No time has he his grovelling mind to store.
With history's truths, or philosophic lore.

No charms for him has God's all-blooming earth-
His only question this "What are they worth?"

Art, nature, wisdom, are no match for gain;
And even Religion bids him pause in vain.

THOMAS WARD.

If thou art rich, thou art poor;

For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.

SHAKSPEARE.

FOR of his wicked pelf his god he made,
And unto hell himself for money sold:

Accursed usury was all his trade,

And right and wrong alike in equal balance weighed.

SPENSER.

THE Miser comes, his heart to mammon sold-
His life, his hope, his god, his all is gold.
"To-morrow, and to-morrow," he will say;
"Soul, take thine ease, for thou hast many a day
Whose smiling dawns will make thee to rejoice.”
Hush! Hark the echoes of that awful voice!
Thou fool! This night yield up thy earthly trust!"
Gaze once again, his treasures are but dust!

B. D. WINSLow.

GOLD glitters most where virtue shines no more,
As stars from absent suns, have leave to shine.

YOUNG.

BAPTISM-JOHN BAPTIST.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. MATTHEW, XXViii, 19.

And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in Jordan.

And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the Heavens opened, and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon Him:

And there came a voice from Heaven, saying, Thou art My Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. MARK, i. 4.

One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism. EгHESIANS, ¡v. 5.

Buried with Him in Baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him, through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead. COLOSSIANS, ii. 12. The like figure whereunto, even Baptism doth now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God. I. PETER, iii, 21.

THE heir of Heaven, henceforth I dread not Death:

In Christ I live, in Christ I draw the breath
Of the true life. Let Sea and Earth and Sky
Wage war against me: on my front I show
The mighty Master's seal! In vain they try
To end my life, who can but end its woe.

COLERIDGE.

THEN who shall believe
Baptizing in the profluent stream, the sign
Of washing them from guilt of sin, to life
Pure, and in mind prepared, if so befal,
For death like that which the Redeemer died.

MILTON.

Now had the great Proclaimer, with a voice
More awful than the sound of trumpet, cried
Repentance, and Heaven's kingdom nigh at hand
To all baptized: to his great baptism flocked
With awe, the regions round, and with them came