We kneel how weak, we rise how full of power!

stream

wrong,

Or others, that we are not always strong;
That we are ever overborne with care;
That we should ever weak or heartless be,
Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer,
And joy, and strength, and courage are with
Thee?
TRENCH.

The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains. WHITTIER.

Prayer is the Christian's vital breath,
The Christian's native air,
His watchword at the gates of death-
He enters heaven by prayer.

MONTGOMERY.

Child, amid the flowers at play,
While the red light fades away;
Mother, with thine earnest eye
Ever following silently;
Father, by the breeze of eve
Called thy harvest-work to leave;
Pray! ere yet the dark hours be,
Lift the heart and bend the knee!
MRS. HEMANS.

Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try;

Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high.

MONTGOMERY.

In desert wilds, in midnight gloom;
In grateful joy, in trying pain;
In laughing youth, or nigh the tomb;
O when is prayer unheard or vain?
ELIZA COOK.

hold a truce;

The present we fling from us like the rind
Of some sweet future, which we after find
Bitter to taste, or bind that in with fears
And water it beforehand with our tears;
Meanwhile the joy whereby we ought to live,
Neglected, or unheeded, disappears.

Wiser it were to welcome and make ours Whate'er of good, though small, the present brings.

TRENCH.

To-day is so like yesterday, it cheats; We take the lying sister for the same.

Fool! all thy yesterdays are past;

YOUNG.

To-morrow thou wilt never find; To-day is hastening to eternity; "This night thy soul shall be required of thee." MONTGOMERY.

[See also DELAY — OPPORTUNITY.]

PRIDE.

He that is proud eats up himself.