The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
(Psalm 29: 3)
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"HE IS PRECIOUS"

MY song shall be of Jesus,
Whose mercy has no end;
My praise shall be of Jesus,
The sinner's dying Friend,

He keeps alive in famine,
And Priestly succour sends ;
O precious is my Jesus,
Who loves, "unto the end!"

Precious the blood that washeth
My guilty sins away;
Precious His sweet forgiveness
When I have gone astray.

Precious the hope of heaven
When all the training's done;
Ah! then through grace I'll see Him,
My LORD, my God, my Sun!

October 6th, 1927. H. P,

THE POINT I LONG TO KNOW.

What is the point you long to know ?
Methinks I hear you say, "Tis this-
I want to know I'm born of God,
An heir of everlasting bliss.

"I want to know Christ died for me,
I want to feel the seals within:
I want to know Christ's precious blood
Was shed to wash away my sin.

"I want to feel more love to God,
I want more liberty in prayer;
But when I look within my heart,
It almost drives me to despair.

"I want a mind more firmly fix'd
On Him, my everlasting Head ;
I want to feel my soul alive,
And not so barren and so dead.

"I want more faith, a stronger faith—
I want to feel its power within ;
I want to feel more love to God;
I want to feel less love to sin.

"I want to live above the world,
And count it all but trash and toys :
I want sweet tokens of God's grace ;
Some foretaste of eternal joys.

"I want—I know not what I want!
I want that real, special good ;
Yet all my wants are summed up here :-
I want—I feel I want my God."

Is this the point you long to know ?
The dead can neither feel nor see:
It is the slave that's bound in chains
That knows the worth of liberty.

So where a want like this is found,
I think I may be bold to say—
That God has fix'd within your heart
What hell can never take away.

However small your grace appears,
There's plenty in your living Head.
These wants you feel, my Christian friend,
Were never found among the dead.

If this is what you long to know,
The point is settled in my view :
For if you want to love your God,
It proves that first He has loved you.

DANIEL HERBERT.