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"When first the Saviour wakened me,
And showed me why He died,
He pointed o'er life's narrow sea,
And said, 'To yonder side.'
"'I am the ark where Noah dwelt,
And heard the deluge roar--
No soul can perish that has left
My res--To yonder shore.'
"Peaceful and calm the tide of life
When first I sailed with Thee;
My sins forgiven, no inward strife,
My breast a glassy sea.
"But soon the storm of passion raves;
My soul is tempest tossed;
Corruptions rise, like angry waves--
'Help, Master, I am lost!'
"'Peace, peace, be still, thou raging breast:
My fulness is for thee'--
The Saviour speaks, and all is rest,
Like the waves of Galilee.
"And now I feel His holy eye
Upbraids my heart of pride--
'Why raise this unbelieving cry?
I said, To yonder side.'"
McCHEYNE.
THE THIRD DAY.
THE EARTH BENEATH.
"_He hangeth the earth upon nothing._"--JOB xxvi. 7.
"_The pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon
them._"--1 SAM. ii. 8.
"_As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it
were fire. The stones of it are the place of sapphires; and it hath dust of
gold._"--JOB xxviii. 5, 6.
Have you ever noticed that some words have two meanings, both their own,
but giving us very different thoughts about the things of which they speak,
according to the way in which we use them?
It is so with our earth.
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