O Love, How Cheering Is Thy Ray
March 12.
The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
the Lord make His face shine upon thee,
and be gracious unto thee:
the Lord lift up His countenance upon thee,
and give thee peace.
NUMBERS 6, verses 24 to 26.
O Love, how cheering is Thy ray!
All pain before Thy presence flies;
Care, anguish, sorrow, melt away,
Where'er Thy healing beams arise.
O Father, nothing may I see,
Nothing desire, or seek, but Thee.
P. GERHARDT.
There is a faith in God, and a clear perception
of His will and designs, and providence,
and glory, which gives to its possessor a
confidence and patience and sweet composure,
under every varied and troubling aspect of
events, such as no man can realize who has
not felt its influences in his own heart. There
is a communion with God, in which the soul
feels the presence of the unseen One, in the
profound depths of its being, with avivid
distinctness and a holy reverence, such as
no words can describe.There is a state of
union with God, I do not say often reached,
yet it has been attained in this world, in
which all the past and present and future
seem reconciled, and eternity is won and
enjoyed; and God and man, earth and heaven,
with all their mysteries, are apprehended
in truth as they lie in the mind of the Infinite.
SAMUEL D. ROBBINS.
The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
the Lord make His face shine upon thee,
and be gracious unto thee:
the Lord lift up His countenance upon thee,
and give thee peace.
NUMBERS 6, verses 24 to 26.
O Love, how cheering is Thy ray!
All pain before Thy presence flies;
Care, anguish, sorrow, melt away,
Where'er Thy healing beams arise.
O Father, nothing may I see,
Nothing desire, or seek, but Thee.
P. GERHARDT.
There is a faith in God, and a clear perception
of His will and designs, and providence,
and glory, which gives to its possessor a
confidence and patience and sweet composure,
under every varied and troubling aspect of
events, such as no man can realize who has
not felt its influences in his own heart. There
is a communion with God, in which the soul
feels the presence of the unseen One, in the
profound depths of its being, with avivid
distinctness and a holy reverence, such as
no words can describe.There is a state of
union with God, I do not say often reached,
yet it has been attained in this world, in
which all the past and present and future
seem reconciled, and eternity is won and
enjoyed; and God and man, earth and heaven,
with all their mysteries, are apprehended
in truth as they lie in the mind of the Infinite.
SAMUEL D. ROBBINS.
