and turmoil of this world, to be at rest.--J. H. NEWMAN (1837).

Weep not for the dead, neither bemoan him.-JER. 22: 10.

Toll for the dead

Who, living, tread

Earth's sinful ways, hard-hearted;

But a bright chime,

Ye bells of time,

Ring out for Christ's departed.

J. S. B. MONSell.

How, then, doth the apostle say, “They rest not day or night"? There is an unrest of pain, and there is a rest not of joy. It is the sweetest rest to rest and not to rest. For what is it but an unceasing, unwearying, unwearied rest, a river of joy which flows on in one peaceful fulness of bliss, without bound and without end? God giveth to the blessed, in their measure, to be like himself. Here, to continue on in anything has weariness; because here is not our rest. There, upheld by God, the blessed behold the Eternal Truth without toil of thought; they, in spiritual bodies, move swiftly as the lightning without weariness; they love God above all things, with everlasting love, and all besides

with undivided love. They, in their degree, like him, love none the less because they love the others more. They love with a full undistracted soul, as God loves, at once, all whom he loves. with the fulness of his infinite love.

E. B. PUSEY.

Oh how blest are ye whose toils are ended! Who, through death, have unto God ascended! Ye have arisen

From the cares which keep us still in prison!

We are still as in a dungeon living,

Still oppressed with sorrow and misgiving;
Our undertakings

Are but toils and troubles and heart-breakings.
Ye meanwhile are in your chambers sleeping,
Quiet, and set free from all our weeping;
No cross nor trial

Hinders your enjoyment with denial.

Christ hath wiped away your tears for ever; Ye have that for which we still endeavor;

To you are chanted

Songs which yet no mortal ear have haunted.

Ah, who would not then depart with gladness To inherit heaven for earthly sadness?

Who here would languish

Longer in bewailing and in anguish?

Come, O Christ, and loose the chains that bind

us,

Lead us forth, and cast this world behind us; With thee, the Anointed,

Finds the soul its rest and joy appointed.

LONGFELLOW, A TRANSLATION.

Those heavenly habitations where the souls of them that sleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and felicity.

VISITATION OF THE SICK.

CHAPTER XII.

66 WITH CHRIST."

Having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. Phil. 1:23.

In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be also." John 14:2, 3.

And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps. . . . These are they which follow the Lamb withersoever he goeth. Rev. 14:2, 4.

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord (for we walk by faith, not by sight); we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. 2 Cor. 5:6-8, Revised Version.

THE saints of God! their conflict past
And life's long battle won at last,

No more they need the shield or sword,
They cast them down before their Lord: