so EITTLE ANN, [30 “Begone, unbelief! my Saviour is near, “ And, for my relief, will shortly appear; “ By prayer let me wrestle, and he will perform : “ With Christ in the vessel, I smile at the storm. “ Though dark be my way, since lie is my guide, “ ’Tis mine to obey, ’tis His to provide: “ Though cisterns be broken, and creatures all fail, “ The word he has spoken shall surely prevail. “ His love, in time past, forbids me to think “ He’ll leave me at last in trouble to sink; “ Each sweet Ebenezer I have in review, “ Confirms his good pleasure to help me quite thro’. “ Determin’d to save, he watch’d o’er my path, “ When, Satan’s blind slave, I sported with death; “ And can he have taught me to trust in his name, “ And thus far have brought me, to put me to shame ? “ Why should I complain of want or distress, “ Temptation, or pain ?—he told me no less; “ The heirs of salvation I know, from his word, “ Through much tribulation must follow their Lord. “ How bitter that cup no heart can conceive, “Which he drank quite up, that sinners might live; “ His way was much rougher and darker than mine, “ Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine ? “ Since all that I meet shall work for my good, “ The bitter is sweet, the med’cine is food ; “ Though painful at present,‘twill cease before long, “ And then, oh, how pleasant the conqueror’s song.” As my friend Aspasio’s domestic concerns called him away, he was now obliged to bring this first conference to a speedier termination than he otherwise would have done. Before he left her room, he infov^x
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