A Peculiar Experience.

"I ask'd the Lord that I might grow

In faith, and love, and every grace;

Might more of His salvation know,

And seek more earnestly His face.

"'Twas He who taught me thus to pray;

And He, I trust, has answer'd prayer,

But it has been in such a way

As almost drove me to despair.

"I hoped that in some favour'd hour