THE PRINCE'S HONEYCOMB.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6261, 10 December 1881, Page 3

THE PRINCE'S HONEYCOMB.

Hi' MARGARET J. PRESTON". I was discomfited and sick and sad, liy reason of the way ; For Coil's exlianited store of promise hail linen overlooked 'hat day. And I was weak to faintness with the weight Of trials undergone; This way 1111.1 that I looked disconsolate, And blindly stumbled on. Within my hand I lieM the pilgrim's roil, lint in my hun-.-er-i;rief, Disusinz it. I li id forgotten Cod, 111 sudden unbelief. When all at orce, amid the jacureil ways, ThiYmifli v hich I panting clomb, I found right in my footpath, with amaze, A ilroi>i>inj; honeycomb. I asked not who had sent it : all I kne-.v Was that my need was sore. I dipped my roil, and from its sweetness drew ; 1) K-ai-ts that ye-irn, like princely Jonathan's. OVrmastered by the strife That sl.irvi.-s tho aims ami circumvents the plans Of all the loftier life - O souls tiiat staffer under doubt's eclipse, l.of, but some promise be The I'rinre's honeycomb unto yous lips— And how your eyes will see ! Use sin as it will use you ; spare it not, for it will not spare you ; it is your murderer and the murderer of the whole world. Use it, therefore, as a murderer should bo used ; kill it before it kills you ; and though :t brings you to the grave, as it did your Head, it shall not be able to keep you there. You love not death ; love not the cause o: death.—Baxter. The smalluoss of our gifts need not deter us from giving, for the Book does not tell us that as many as had plenty gave, but as many as were "willing-hearted, and every c>llo whoso hearts stirred her up and whose spirit made willing." It is that willinghoartcdness wo need most of all, that hcarcstirriug that will make us, not only willing, but anxious to give all that we have and all we arc to Him who hath loved us. Bishop Simpson aud Rev. Dr. Crooks, of New York, state that in (jormany the halls uf sceptical lecturers in theology arc almost deserted, while those of orthodox teachers arc thronged. Unbelief is rapidly losing ground all over the world ; the best brains of the world arc thinking along orthodox lines, and the most eloquent tongues and pens, as well as vastly the most numerous, are speaking and writing in harmony with the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,