CUMBERED WITH MUCH SERVING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6811, 15 September 1883, Page 3 (Supplement)

CUMBERED WITH MUCH SERVING.

t. hrist never asks of us such busy labour As leaves no time far roating at 11 is feet; The waiting attitudeof expectation He ofttimeis counts a service most complete, ile, somtltimes wants our rapt attention,. That He some sweetest, secret rti:iy impart; 'Tis al\Vays in the time of deepest silence That heart finds deepest fellowship with heart. We aometltoea wonder why onr Lord has placed us Within a space so. narrow, so obscure. That nothing we call work can find an entrance ; '.There's only room to suffer—to endure. Wei J, God loves patience; souls that dwell in stillness, Doing the little things or i-eatincr quiet, May just as perfectly fulfil their ini-istoDt, Be just as useful in the father'* s.ijht, As tlioy who grapple with some giant evil, Clearing a part that every eye may sea ; Our Saviour carfes for cheerful acquiescence, Bother than for a busy ministry^ And yet Ue does lo#e service, where 'ti* given Jiy grateful love that clothes itself in deed ; But work that's done beneath the scourge of duty, Be sure to such He gives but little he^dt. Then seek to please Him, whatsoe'er He bids thee; Whether to do, to suffer, to lie still! 'Twill matter little by what path He led us, If in it all We Sought to "do His wilK