JANUARY 20--21. ZECHARIAH ix. 13. When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. MATTHEW iv. 18-19. And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he said unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. Jesus! obedient to thy call, Thy messenger to be; Of earthly joy no more possest, JANUARY 22-23. ISAIAH lxi. 4. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me: because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. MATTHEW iv. 23. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease among the people. CAMERON. On Christ the spirit largely pour'd, Wisdom and might, and zeal and love, He comes the prisoners to release The gates of brass before him burst, He comes, the broken heart to bind, And with the treasures of his grace JANUARY 24-26. ISAIAH xlii. 21. The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake; he will magnify the law and make it honourable. MATTHEW v. 17, 18, 44. For Think not that I am come to destroy the law, and the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled, &c. But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. H. FRY. Be this thy care! In duty's hallowed round, With watchful steps to tread; Nor seek to give her sphere a wider bond, So shall thy heart, with purposed aim and true, Shalt thou obey the Lord's most gracious will! JANUARY 26-27. ISAIAH viii. 16. Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. MATTHEW viii. 10-11. And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. R. M. B. Is the voice which comes from heaven To the poor the word is given- To the world the truth is hidden; But the humble, poor in spirit, Shall its mystic treasures see: Would'st thou heaven's rich stores inherit, Seek from this world to be free. JANUARY 28-29. GENESIS XXxi. 40. Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night: and my sleep departed from mine eyes. MATTHEW viii. 20. Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests: but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head. C. FRY. He was a man of sorrows-he Who loved and saved us thus: And shall the world that frowned on him, No! we must follow in the path Where he we love had none. |