The Sitting of Peter.
A FOLK-SONG.
"Behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that
he may sift you as i cheat." —St. Luke, xxu. 31.
In St. Luke's Gospel we are told
How Peter In the days of old
Was sifted;
And now, though ages intervene,
Sin Ih the same, while time and scene
Are shifted.
Satan desires us, great aDd small,
As wheat, to sift us, and we all
Are tempted;
Not one, however rich or great.
Is by his station or estate
Exempted.
No bouse so safely guarded Is
But he, by some device of his,
Can enter;
No heart hath armor so complete
But ho can pierce with arrows fleet
Its centre.
For all at last the cock will crow
Who hear the warning voice, but go
Unheeding,
Till thrice and more they have denied
The Man of Sorrows, erucifled
And bleeding.
One look of that pale, suffering fact-
Will make us feel tha deep disgrace
Of weakness;
We shall be sifted till the strength
Of self-conceit be changed at length
To meekness.
Wounds of the soul, though healed, will ache;
The reddening sears remain, and make
Confession;
Lost innocence returns no more
We are not what we were before
Transgression.
But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger,
And conscious still of the divine
Within them, lie on earth supine
No longer.
—ll. W. LONGFELLOW,
Christ is our sun! How striking the
figure! The suu's beams penetrate every
where. We live in them and by them,
and yet the sun is undiminished, perfect
; .n splendor and power, forever giving
out, yet never evhausted or spent. And
we receive of llim just in the measure of
our willingness to reeeive. Will we open
to eye and hand? He is here, ever the
saint, ever ottering himself as the Life of
life, ever giving himself away Are we
willing He should enter in, take possos
siou of us, aud dwell with us, guiding
every spiritual faculty, refaeshing, invig
orating, conforming us to his likeness?
This willingness is faith. We have not to
go after him. See Rom. 10: 0, etc He is
at hand. He waits, haw patiently! "lie
hold I stand at the door and knoch." "If
any man open." This receptivity is a
thing of degrees. The more we take, the
more we may have, the more capacity we
have. Infinite grace and loving kindness!
Grace upon grace, every faculty, every
atifection in us renewed. "New creatures
in Christ Jesus."— llishop Huntington.
Sittings.
Life is a flower, love is its honey.
Pleasure becomes an ill when it costs
regrets.— Bocheburr ic.
Beauty without modesty is like a flower 1
brokeu from its stem.
A small evil ought, not to be doue, even
for the sake of a great good.
That civility is best which excludes all
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