ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. For even Christ pleased not himself.

1 Chronicles xxviii. 10.-Be strong and do it. 2 Timothy ii. 3.-Thou, therefore, endure hardness, as a good soldier of Christ.

2 Timothy iii. 12, 14.-Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learnt, knowing of whom thou hast learnt them.

HYMN.

"Cannot do it?" Say not so;
All are weak, full well I know,—
But if
you will seek the Lord,
He will needful strength afford:
Teach you how to conquer sin,
Purify your heart within.
your Father's help rely :

On

Trust and try-trust and try.

"Cannot do it?" Scorn the thought; You can do whate'er you ought—

Ever duty's call obey

Strive to walk in Wisdom's way;

Let the coward, if he will,
Use the timid "cannot" still.

On yourself and God rely :

Trust and try-trust and try.

You mutter that temptation

Is too strong;

You would do right, yet are forced

To do wrong;

Now I tell you, your sin's current
You must stay,

As wherever there's a will

There's a way.

Nay, never shake your head, nor

Turn aside;

Hard though it seem, it will be easier

When you've tried;

And I know the truth is spoken,

When I say

That wherever there's a will

There's a way.

Do not say you cannot do it,
For you can;

Up! a battle is before you—
Play the man!

You ought to win the victory,
And you may,

For wherever there's a will

There's a way.

Not, however, in your own strength
Can you win;

But if God help, in the battle

With your sin,—

Then, indeed, with joyful triumph,

Shall you say,

"Now I know, where there's a will There's a way!"

Bulfinch.

Oh! not alone on the mount of prayer
Must the Christian serve his God,
But the burden of daily life must bear

And tread where his Saviour trod.

FROM SIR T. N. TALFOURD'S "ION."

And daily duties paid

Hardly at first, at length will bring repose
To the sad mind that studies to perform them.

LESSON XXV.

THE BLESSEDNESS OF HIS SERVICE.

Follen's Sermon, "Arise, and be Doing," and the 8th and 9th Sermons in the same volume.-The Spring Morning: "Agathos."

THE next morning Bertha and Walter breakfasted alone. The walk to Peter's cottage had been too much for their mother, who was not well, and she was too poorly when morning came to leave her bed. Bertha felt that their unfaithfulness was the cause of this, and she was sad and thoughtful. Her mother saw where her thoughts still were, and, taking her hand affectionately in her's, as she stood beside the bed, said "I was thinking in the night, my child, that we had spoken only about the pain and difficulty that it sometimes is, to give up our selfish desires for duty's sake; we said nothing about the blessedness of it, but you will find that every pain endured for duty's sake brings a pleasure with it, which, when once tasted, you never would ex