THE HEAVENLY HELPER.


What strange lessons I am every day learning! Thank God for them. They
are very unpleasant to human nature, but they are leading me to place
less confidence in earthly love and more in heavenly. I have leaned
too much upon an arm of flesh, and it is right I should suffer for it.
Sweet Saviour, fold me in thine arms; comfort me with thy love; and as
soon as thou seest best let me go and live with thee forever.


All earthly hopes have passed away,
Stay with me, O my Saviour, stay:
Thy blessed smile is all the light
That breaks upon my dismal night.

I cling to thee--thou must not go;
Oh, let me tell thee every woe
And whisper in thy ready ear
What other friends would frown to hear.

Distressed in body and in mind,
Diseased and wretched, poor and blind,
I only care to see thy face,--
I only sigh for thy embrace.

I droop, I faint beneath the rod,