3. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies; 5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. 6. The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. 7. He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. 8. The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. 9. He will not always chide; neither will he keep anger for ever. his 10. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 11. For, as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 12. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. 13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. 14. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. 15. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. 17. But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; 18. To such as keep his covenant, and to those who remember his commandments to do them. 19. The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. 20. Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, harkening unto the voice of his word. 21. Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. 22. Bless the LORD, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul. LESSON LXXXVII. sweet-ly hu-mil-i-ty meek-ly cloth-ing gent-ly high-est deep-est low-est near-est fair-est bright-est HUMILITY. THE 1. THE bird that soars on highest wing 2. When Mary chose the better part, She meekly sat at Jesus' feet; And Lydia's gently-opened heart ad-o-ra-tion Was made for God's own temple meet. 3. The saint who wears heaven's brightest crown In deepest adoration bends; The weight of glory bows him down Then most when most his soul ascends. LESSON LXXXVIII. talk sing-er choose sol-dier choice hea-then lis-ten moth-er com-pa-ny ex-am-ple Pres-i-dent CHOOSING JESUS. DID you ever hear a party of little children talk ing the famous men and women they had read about in their story-books? Let us go and join such a little company and listen awhile. See how earnest they look! How interested they are in the people they are talking about! 2. "I know who my man is," says Charlie. "It's George Washington. I should like to grow up just like him, and help make a great nation, and command its armies, and be chosen President, and be called, as he used to be, the Father of his Country." 3. "I'd rather be Nelson," says Harry, "and sail out on the sea, and have a big fleet, and conquer all the other ships I met." Willie says, "I like John Howard best. He was a kind man, that used to go about to comfort the poor and the prisoners; and I mean to do just so too, when I get to be a man." 4. "That was the way Florence Nightingale did," chimes in little Lucy; "for she used to tend the sick and wounded soldiers, away out there where the Russians and English and French were fighting so dreadfully. I wish I could be like her; and I mean to be when I grow up." 5. Little Mary takes Jenny Lind for her choice, and means to be a great singer. Hattie chooses Harriet Newell, for whom she was named. She would like to be a missionary, and go away across the seas, as she did, to teach the heathen. And so they all have their different examples, and want to grow up like them. 6. Have they ever seen these famous people? No; never. Not one of them all ever saw Washington, or Nelson, or John Howard, or Florence Nightingale, or Jenny Lind, or Harriet Newell. But they have read about them, and know who they were, and which of them they like best; and so they can choose them for their examples, and try to grow up like them. 7. Can you not choose Jesus in the same way? You never saw him, but you have read about him. You know who he was, and who his mother was, and where he lived, and what he did, and how he died, and what a good, loving, tender man he was, and how he lived on earth for the very purpose of being a guide to you and me and all who follow him. 8. It would be a great deal better choice to take him for a pattern than those others the other children chose; and can you not say to them, "My choice shall be Jesus; I want to follow him. I do not care to be famous, like Washington and the rest; but I do want to become like Jesus, and live such a good life as he did. 9. "I wish I could be free from sin, as he was. I wish I could go about doing good, as he did. I want to love him, and be sure that he loves me. "I long to be like Jesus, Meek, loving, lowly, mild; LESSON LXXXIX. rain vil-lage graze dis-trust night climb-ing MUNGO PARK'S STORY. THE HE great traveler, Mungo Park, who was employed to explore Central Africa, met with many dangers and difficulties. His wants were often supplied, and his distresses relieved, by the kindness and pity of the negroes. One instance of this he relates, as follows: 2. "Being at Sego, the capital of the kingdom of Bambarra, on the River Niger, I wished to pass over to that part of the town in which the King lived. The people who crossed the river carried word to the King that a white man was coming to see him. 3. "He immediately sent one of his chief men to say that he could not possibly see me until he knew |