The Lord shall preserve thy going out and they
coming in from this time forth, and even for
evermore. -- Ps cxxxi.8

Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all
generations. -- Ps xc. I

WITH grateful hearts the past we own;
the future, all to us unknown,
We to Thy guardian care commit,
And peaceful leave before Thy feet.

P. Doddridge

WE are like to Him with whom there is no past
ir future, with whom a day is as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day, when we do our
work in the great present, leaving both past and future
to Him to whom they are ever present, and fearing
nothing, because He is in our future as much as He
is in our past, as much as, and far more than we
can feel Him to be, in our present. Partakers thus of
the divine nature, resting in that prefect All-in-all in
whom our nature is eternal too, we walk without fear,
full of hope and courage and strength to do His will,
waiting for the endless good which He is always
giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.

G. Macdonald