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 Thou, thyself, as the Truth, the Word made flesh, didst descend from heaven to teach, to bless, and to save thy people from their sins; hence, "thy Word is a lamp unto their feet, and a light unto their path." (ver. 105.)

O may our highest love—the mountain of the mind—be ever fixed on Thee; and may the hills, our subordinate affections, exercise charity and love to all; so shall the perceptive powers of our understandings put forth, as trees of the Lord's planting, their blossoms and flowers of wisdom: then shall we experience the joy and gladness of the regenerate state; we shall realize the divine promise thou hast made to us—"Ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands." (Isa. lv. 12.) Teach us, O Lord, to love thy Word, and to look through its letter to its spirit af life? Come, Lord Jesus, in the clouds of heaven—the literal truths of thy Word—and light up in our longing souls thy power and thy glory.

UR blessed Lord, in giving his divine precepts for our salvation, says (Matt. xxii. 37, 39, 40), The first and great commandment is, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind; and the second