2 A span is all that we can boast,— In all his flower and prime. 3 See the vain race of mortals move, They rage and strive, desire and love, 4 Some walk in honour's gaudy show; They toil for heirs, they know not who, 5 What should I wish or wait for, then, 6 Now I resign my earthly hope, I give my mortal interest up, દર 313. L. P. M. Watts. Speak, Lord! for thy servant heareth." 1 Teach me, my God, to do thy will, And to thy sceptre humbly bow; Speak, Lord! thy servant heareth now. 2 Renew thine image, Lord! in me: Lowly and gentle may I be; And ever watching unto prayer: No anger may'st thou ever find, But faith, and heaven-born peace be there. 3 A patient, a victorious mind, That life, and all things cast behind, 314. L. P. M. From the German. The Blessings of the good Man. Ps. cxii. A heavenly, an immortal crown. The sweet remembrance of the just, When dying nature sleeps in dust. His conscience bears his courage up: The soul that's filled with virtue's light, Shines brightest in affliction's night, And sees in darkness beams of hope. Tate, alt'd. 315. c. M. The Way of the Righteous and of the Wicked. Ps. i. 1 THAT man, in life wherever placed, Has happiness in store, Who walks not in the wicked's way, 2 Nor from the seat of scornful pride Still walks before his God. 3 That man shall flourish like the trees 4 But he whose blossom buds in guilt And, like the rootless stubble, tossed 5 For God, that God the good adore, 316. c. M. + Burns, alt'd Prospect of the universal Spread of Spiritual Blessings. 1 THE Common Parent, Lord of all, Who sits enthroned above, With perfect wisdom rules the world, 2 Soon may his name, from shore to shore, 3 The day will come, the happy day,- When light, and truth, and grace divine, 4 God will diffuse the blessings round, Shall see, adore, and fear. 317. L. M. Watts, alt'd. The weeping Seed-Time, and joyful Harvest. Ps. cxxvi. 5, 6 1 THE darkened sky-how thick it lowers! Troubled with storms, and big with showers; No cheerful gleam of light appears, But nature pours forth all her tears. 2 Yet let the sons of grace revive; 3 The seeds of ecstacy unknown, 4 In secret foldings they contain Unnumbered ears of golden grain ; 5 Then shall the trembling mourner come, And find his sheaves, and bear them home; The voice, long broke with sighs, shall sing, Till heaven with hallelujahs ring. 318. L. M. The universal Providence of God. Doddridge. 1 THE earth, and all the heavenly frame, 3 Nor to the human race alone 4 Not ev❜n a sparrow yields its breath, 319. c. M. Gibbons. Approaching Death and Judgment. Heb. x. 24, 25. 1 THE day approaches, O my soul! The great decisive day, Which, from the verge of mortal life, |