From the World of Sin and Noise and Hurry I Withdraw

See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh.

HEBREWS 12, verse 25.


From the world of sin and noise
And hurry I withdraw;
For the small and inward voice
I wait with humble awe;
Silent am I now and still,
Dare not in Thy presence move;
To my waiting soul reveal
The secret of Thy love.

Charles WESLEY.


When therefore the smallest instinct or desire
of thy heart calleth thee towards God,
and a newness of life, give it time and leave to speak;
and Take care thou refuse not Him that speaketh.
Be retired, silent, passive,
and humbly attentive to this
new risen light within thee.

William LAW.


It is hardly to be wondered at that he should lose
the finer consciousness of higher powers
and deeper feelings, not from any behavior in itself
wrong, but from the hurry, noise, and tumult
in the streets of life, that, penetrating too deep
into the house of life, dazed and stupefied the silent
and lonely watcher in the chamber of conscience,
far apart. He had no time
to think or feel.

G. MACDONALD.