IT IS I: BE NOT AFRAID." LOUD was the wind, and wild the tide ; The Lord came to their help, and cried, ""Tis I be not afraid." Who walks the waves in wondrous guise, By Nature's laws unstaid? ""Tis I," a well known voice replies; ""Tis I be not afraid." : He mounts the deck: down lulls the sea; The tempest is allayed ; The prostrate crew adore; and He Exclaims, "Be not afraid." Thus, when the storm of life is high, Come, when no other help is nigh, And say, "Be not afraid." Speak, and my griefs no more are heard; Speak, and my fears are laid; Speak, and my soul shall bless the word, ""Tis I be not afraid." When on the bed of death I lie, And stretch my hands for aid, Stand Thou before my glazing eye, Before Thy judgment-seat above Oh, cheer me with a word of love ""Tis I be not afraid." Worlds may around to wreck be driven, If then I hear it said, By Him who rules through earth and heaven, ""Tis I: be not afraid." INSCRIPTION ON A MONUMENT ΤΟ S-P-S-. WHAT shall we write on this memorial stone? Thy merits? Thou didst rest on Christ's alone. Our sorrows? Thou wouldst chide the selfish tear. Our love? Alas, it needs no record here. Praise to thy God and ours? His truth and love Are sung in nobler strains by thee above. What wouldst thou have us write?-A voice is heard, Write, for each reader write, a warning word. "Bid him look well before him, and within ; "Talk to his heedless heart of death and sin; "And if at these he tremble, bid him flee "To Christ, and find Him all in all, like me." THE PRAYER-ANSWERING GOD. I STAND in a world where there's nothing my own, Where the lightest event is beyond my control; But to Him that is Ruler supreme and alone I gladly resign, for I know Him, the whole. How pleasant, 'mid changes and chances unthought, On His wisdom and love to disburthen our care; And to know, that the God who disposes our lot Is a God that will hear and will answer our prayer! There are those that I love, far away from me now, And roaming through danger by shore and by sea; And what were my feelings, my Father, if Thou Wert less than Almighty for them and for me? |