My rising and my resting hours, My thoughts before they are my own, Within thy circling power I stand, O may these thoughts possess my breast, Early Piety. "Solomon my son is young and tender. And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind; for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandest all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever." 1 Chron. c. 28. In the soft season of thy youth, 66 Ere age arrives and trembling waits Remember thy Creator God; Let him thy powers employ ; O seek the Lord betimes, and choose He will defend and guide thy course, Of blest eternity. Obedience. My yoke is easy, and my burthen is light."---Matt. c. 11 "Tis good to bear the Saviour's yoke, To take our daily cross; Humbly to bend beneath the stroke That shakes away our dross. "Tis good to bear the Saviour's yoke, To put our sins away. With contrite hearts and spirits broke To live from day to day. 'Tis good by times to bear the yoke, "Tis good to bear his yoke in youth, Early to bow to heavenly truth, On thee, blest Lord, for strength we call; And keep us ever thine. Duty of Children to Parents. "Children obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. Honour thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise."---Eph. vi. 1, 2. To honour those who gave us birth, To cheer their age, and feel their worth, And own'd by every grateful mind. Trace then the tender scenes of old, Yield back to sight the mother's breast, Survey her toil, her anxious care, Nor hold from mem'ry's glad review, When press'd by sickness, pain, or grief, Our dearest wish they held their own; God of our life, each parent guard, Love to God and our Neighbour. NOEL "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him."---1 John iv. Thus saith the first, the great command, "Let all thy inward powers unite "To love thy Maker, and thy God, "With heart, and soul, and strength, and might. n; "Then shall thy neighbour next in place This is the sense that Moses spoke ; But Oh! how base our passions are ! Charity. "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three ; but the greatest of these is charity."---Cor. xiii. 13. Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews, Were I inspir'd to preach, and tell T |