The just shall live by his faith.

HABAK. ii. 4.

THE restless world that seeks its pleasure In things which feel the blight of death, Knows not the one eternal treasure,

The life of them who live by faith. O wax ye never faint and weary, Though long the vision seem to tarry, In prayer abide the appointed day; Watch, and the cloud shall roll away.

The proud may build his nest securely,

The thirst of gain unquenched may be, The reveller may live impurely,

The people toil for vanity;

Yet grows and works the grace of Heaven, A seed unmarked, or quickening leaven. Wait on thy watch-tower, wait, and see How all these things shall ended be.

When ill-won glory turns to shame,

When drunkards drain the cup of woe, O'er earth, the knowledge of His name, As waters o'er the deep, shall flow. Then the sure vision, few would heed, Though plain, that he who runs might read, Shall be for truth by sinners known,

"The just shall live by faith alone."

First Lesson. Morning.

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord

as the waters cover the sea.

HABAK. ii. 14.

Twenty-second

Sunday after Trinity.

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

2 TIM. iv. 6.

ENOUGH, O Paul, enough; and now
A crown in Heaven awaits thy brow,
Thy earthly toils are nearly done,
Thy heavenly prize is all but won;
Long tossed by ills, on land and sea,
The shore is all but gained by thee.

Long time, 'mid stonings, rods, and chains,
Watchings, and cares, and dying pains,
Thee Christ upon His Cross doth hold,

In daily dyings now grown old;
He bids thee now, no more remain,
And unto thee, to die is gain.

Love's tender bowels yearning strong,
They for whom thou didst toil so long
In travailings of second birth,

Thy children, hold thee still to earth;
The time for thy release is come,
And ready is thy heavenly home.

When, 'mid the twelve thy throne is set,
And we shall be for judgment met;
May we, whom from the dead of night
God calls in thee to see His light,
For ever with the Angelic host,
Sing Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Epistle.

I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

2 TIM. iv. 7.

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We all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

ISA. lxiv. 6.

SEE, the leaves around us falling,
Dry and withered, to the ground;
Thus to thoughtless mortals calling,
With a sad and solemn sound:-

"Sons of Adam, (once in Eden,
Where like us he blighted fell,)
Hear the lesson we are reading;
Mark the awful truth we tell:

"Youths, on length of days presuming,
Who the paths of pleasure tread,
View us, late in beauty blooming,
Numbered now among the dead.