"THE preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth."-ECCLES. xii. 10. to "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning, understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings."-PROV. i. 5, 6. "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer."-Ps. xix. 14. MEDITATIONS. * CHAPTER III. VER. 1.-" By night on my bed I sought Him whom my soul loveth: I sought Him, but I found Him not." STARS! that make beautiful the gloomy night As the bright Shekinah to tribes of old, Oh! were ye each an eye intelligent To search and scan, from your exalted sphere, Banish'd from some (b) by anguish or by (c) care, (a) Ps. xix. 1. (b) Deut. xxviii. 67; Job vii. 3, 4. (c) Eccles. ii. 23; v. 12. C page; The studious (d) vigil and the thought-fill'd And (f) mirth be shorten'd, and the (g) jocund laugh ; Which rends the widow'd bosom; or the mind Where lies, or lives, one dearer than itself— Dreaded by others, (h) lest" with sleep should come How wouldst thou gaze on those unresting ones Night hath no consciousness; nor yonder stars And made by One who fainteth not nor errs; The Mighty-the Omniscient-to whose eye (n) Ps. cxxxix. 2, 3; Job xii. 22; xxxiv. Ps. cxxxix. 12. (q) Ps. lxxvii. 7—10. (0) Heb. iv. 13. (r) Hosea v. 15. (t) Ps. xxx. 7; lxxxviii. 14; Isa. xlv. 15. (u) Ps. cxlii. 3; cxlv. 18, 19. (w) Matt. xv. 24; Mark vii. 27. 22; Dan. ii. 22; (v) Ps. xviii. 6. |