Labour and Wait. "Learn to labour and to wait."-LONGFELLOW. LEARN to labour-easier part, Of the truth so sweetly sung, Busy hands make lightsome heart, To nerve the harassed soul by anguish wrung. Learn to labour-not for pelf, Which the sordid mind may please, Not to foster love of self, Making man a starveling elf, Or else the pampered son of aimless ease. Learn to labour-go abroad, 'Mid the busy haunts of men, Kindness brings its own reward; Every service well conferred, Shall come in better blessings back again. Learn to labour-Nature shows In each charm that decks her face, In the perfume of the rose, Or the zephyr as it blows, 'Mid all her rich variety of grace, That, among profusion's range, Labour still produces change, Procures the greatest good at little cost. LABOUR AND WAIT. Learn to labour-in His name, Who thy noblest powers may claim, And seek to vindicate His holy name. Learn to wait-attainment high, With the angels hovering nigh, To bear thee to the mansions of the blest. Learn to wait-a loved one see, Suffering on his bed of pain, Pray for him in his agony, That he, from sin's vile thraldom free, May bless the gracious hand that burst his chain. Learn to wait-God's ways are deep, Oft His paths we cannot trace, But in sight the cross we'll keep, And humbly sow, though others reap, 'Till He, we trust, shall manifest His face. Learn to wait though life seem long, And all the quiet of the peaceful tomb. 403 DEEP humility is a strong bulwark and as we enter into it, we find safety and true exaltation. JOHN WOOLMAN. Che Men of Old. WELL speed thy mission, bold Iconoclast! If, with dry eye, and cold, unloving heart, God's witnesses; the voices of His will, Heard in the slow march of the centuries still! Such were the men at whose rebuking frown, Dark with God's wrath, the tyrant's knee went down The vassal's freedom and the poor man's due. In Heaven's sweet peace!) forbade, of old, the sale he replied And coining from the Abbey's golden hoard The captive's freedom, answered to the prayer Or threat of those whose fierce zeal for the Lord Stifled their love of man-"An earthen dish |