Go, to the world return, nor fear to cast In joy to find it after many days. The work be thine, the fruit thy children's part: Choose to believe, not see : sight tempts the heart From sober walking in true Gospel ways. b Eccles. xi. 1. TENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. And when He was come near, He beheld the city, and wept over it. St. Luke xix. 41. WHY doth my Saviour weep Shows it not fair from yonder steep, Mark well his holy pains: "Tis not in pride or scorn, That Israel's King with sorrow stains His own triumphal morn. It is not that his soul Is wandering sadly on, In thought how soon in death's dark goal Who now are shouting round Hosanna to their chief; No thought like this in Him is found, Or doth He feel the Cross Already in his heart, The pain, the shame, the scorn, the loss? Feel even his God depart? No: though He knew full well The grief that then shall beThe grief that angels cannot tellOur God in agony. It is not thus He mourns ; Such might be Martyr's tears, When his last lingering look he turns On human hopes and fears; But hero ne'er or saint The secret load might know, With which his Spirit waxeth faint; "If thou hadst known, even thou, "At least in this thy day, "The message of thy peace! but now ""Tis pass'd for aye away: "Now foes shall trench thee round, "And lay thee even with earth, “And dash thy children to the ground, "Thy glory and thy mirth." And doth the Saviour weep Because we will not let Him keep Ye hearts, that love the Lord, If at this sight ye burn, See that in thought, in deed, in word, ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive yards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and meu servants, and maid servants! 2 Kings v. 26. Is this a time to plant and build, Is this a time for moonlight dreams While souls are wandering far and wide, |