OCTOBER 2-3. PSALM XXXvi. 6. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth. JOHN i. 3. All things were made by Him; and without him was not anything made that was made. ΚΝΟΧ. From the throne of the Highest the mandate came forth, The word of Omnipotent God; And the elements fashion'd, his footstool the earth, And the heavens his holy abode. And his spirit mov'd over the fathomless flood Of waters that fretted in darkness around; Until, at his bidding, their turbulent mood Was hush'd to a calm, and obedient they stood Where he fixed their perpetual bound. OCTOBER 4-5. PSALM XXVii. 1. The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life: of whom shall I be afraid? JOHN i. 4. In him was life: and the life was the light of men. MORE. Since first thy word awoke my heart, ་ Like him, whose fetters dropped away, OCTOBER 6-7. ISAIAH xlix. 6. I will also give Thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation unto the end of the earth. JOHN i. 9. That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. TOPLADY. Light of the Gentiles, thee I hail : Thy office is to enlighten man, And point him to the heavenly prize, The hidden things of God t' explain, And chase the darkness from our eyes. Show me I have the better part, The treasure hid with Christ in God; Give me a perfect peace of heart, And pardon through my Saviour's blood. OCTOBER 8--9. ISAIAH liii. 3. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. JOHN i. 10. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. COWPE R. Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me, Ah! were I buffeted all day, [upon; Mock'd, crown'd with thorns, and spit I yet should have no right to say, Let me not angrily declare, No pain was ever sharp like mine, But rather weep-remembering thine. OCTOBER 10-11. PSALM lxix 8. I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. JOHN i. 11. He came unto his own, and his own received him not KELLY. Oh, why do I wish to be gone? Do I long from the danger to flee? O Lord, let me think of the day, And put the base wish far away, Nor less my perverseness forgive, That when ease and prosperity come, Thy servant is willing to live, And his exile prefers to his home. G |