God shall be thy sure defence.

Thee, though winds and waves be swelling,

God, thine hope, shall bear through all,

Plague shall not come nigh thy dwelling,

Thee no evil shall befall.

J. Montgomery.

PHILOSOPHY.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.—Colossians, ii. 8.

Philosophy consists not