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ily were to be turned out into the snow. Dobyr kneeled down in the midst of his family. After prayer they sang: :

Commit thou all thy griefs

And ways into His hands.

As they came to the last verse, in German, of Part I.,
When Thou wouldst all our need supply,
Who, who shall stay Thy hand?"

there was a knock at the window close by where he knelt, and opening it Dobyr was met by a raven, one which his grandfather had tamed and set at liberty. In its bill was a ring, set with precious stones. This he took to his minister, who said at once that it belonged to the King Stanislaus, to whom he returned it, and related his story. The King sent for Dobyr, and besides rewarding him on the spot, built for him, next year, a new house, and stocked his cattle stalls from the royal domain. Over the house door, on an iron tablet, there is carved a raven with a ring in its beak, and underneath this address to Divine Providence:

Thou everywhere hast sway,

And all things serve Thy might;
Thy every act pure blessing is,
Thy path unsullied light.

50-FATHER, I KNOW THAT ALL MY LIFE.

MISS WARING, like Charlotte Elliott and Adelaide Procter, made notable contributions to the hymnody of Resignation. This hymn of Miss Waring's has helped myriads.

FATHER, I know that all

Is portioned out for me,

my

The changes that will surely come,
I do not fear to see;

life

I ask Thee for a present mind
Intent on pleasing Thee.

I ask Thee for a thoughtful love,
Through constant watching wise,
To meet the glad with joyful smiles,
And wipe the weeping eyes;
A heart at leisure from itself,
To soothe and sympathise.

I would not have the restless will
That hurries to and fro,

That seeks for some great thing to do,
Or secret thing to know;
I would be treated as a child,
And guided where I go.

Wherever in the world I am,
In whatsoe'er estate,
I have a fellowship with hearts
To keep and cultivate;

A work of lowly love to do

For Him on whom I wait.

I ask Thee for the daily strength,
To none that ask denied;
A mind to blend with outward life,
While keeping at Thy side:
Content to fill a little space,
If Thou be glorified.

Briers beset our every path,
Which call for patient care;
There is a cross in every lot,
A constant need for prayer:
But lowly hearts that lean on Thee
Are happy everywhere.

In service which Thy love appoints,
There are no bonds for me.
My secret heart is taught the truth
That makes Thy children free:
A life of self-renouncing love
Is one of liberty.

TUNE-" "LEBANON," FROM SPOHR.

A clergyman who has at last been compelled by the loss of his voice to abandon his living, writes me as follows:

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"This hymn has been a more definite help in stimulating the heart to considerate kindness and cheerful trust. A year ago my voice failed me, and the spring of 1895 found me seeking recovery in rest and change of air; but haunted with the fear that this loss of voice might be permanent, and that I might have to resign my living and give up my life's work, whilst yet almost in the vigour of life. This fear was verified, and I resigned my living last July. But, as usually happens, the actual trial was not so depressing as the fear of it." A lady in the West of England sends me this note on this hymn, and how it helped her :

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"This hymn was sung one Sunday when I had wandered into a strange place of worship-a Wesleyan chapel, I think. I was simply eaten up with ambition and the craving to know the secret things, and do the great ones of Life; and this hymn showed me The Better Way. I saw that it was good to be content, to fill a little space,' and in a sort of waking vision I saw that great things were not for me, but as someone (Dante, perhaps) has said: 'In God's will lies our place.' So you see my hymn was the overture to my little Act of Renunciation, and now I black stoves and dust rooms, and possess my soul in patience, and understand a little what the 'Peace that passeth understanding' may mean."

Another lady writes me: "This hymn came to me

when I was a girl of eighteen, and it has continued its power over me till now, over twenty years. It seems to me that ideal Christian service, for women, at all events, is a heart at leisure from itself to soothe and sympathise.' Many times these lines, turned into a prayer, have led me to get the better of the demon of selfishness."

51-THE 121st PSALM.

MR. CROCKETT places this psalm second only to the Twenty-third. It was one of the two psalms-the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth being the other that David Livingstone read on the morning of the day when he first quitted Scotland for the African mission-field. It was known as the Traveller's Psalm from the days of Bishop Hooper, who used it before setting out on a journey.

I

TO the hills will lift mine eyes,

from whence doth come mine aid.

My safety cometh from the Lord,
who heav'n and earth hath made.

Thy foot he'll not let slide, nor will
he slumber that thee keeps.

Behold, he that keeps Israel,
he slumbers not, nor sleeps.

The Lord thee keeps, the Lord thy shade
on thy right hand doth stay:

The moon by night thee shall not smite,
nor yet the sun by day.

The Lord shall keep thy soul; he shall
preserve thee from all ill.

Henceforth thy going out and in

God keep for ever will.

TUNE "SOLOMON," FROM HANDEL.

Mr. Marson notes that Edward, the Black Prince, chose the first clause of the second verse as the motto for the coins struck in England in 1362. In the United States Tate & Brady's paraphrase, beginning, “To Sion's Hill I lift my eyes," is the popular version.

VII.- Resignation.

52-LORD, IT BELONGS NOT TO MY CARE.

RICHARD BAXTER, the author of the "Saints' Everlasting Rest," had a tolerably troubled time-without much rest in it -on this side the grave. He was troubled by the Independents under Cromwell; by the Royalists after the Restoration, who ejected him; and by Judge Jeffreys, who bullied and abused him. But these were only of the outside and of the surface; within, the old saint had an everlasting rest of his own. The secret of this peace he expressed in the following hymn:

LORD

ORD, it belongs not to my care,
Whether I die or live;

To love and serve Thee is my share,
And this Thy grace must give.

If life be long I will be glad,

That I may long obey:

If short- yet why should I be sad
To soar to endless day?

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Christ leads me through no darker rooms

Than He went through before;

He that into God's kingdom comes,

Must enter by His door.

Come, Lord, when grace hath made me meet

Thy blessed face to see;

For if Thy work on earth be sweet,

What will Thy glory be?

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