"ASK ON."
(1 Kings ii. 20; John xiv. 13.)
I hear "a voice from heaven"—
I hear my Sovereign say—
"Ask on" (He speaks to me);
"I will not say thee nay."
I would not doubt His word,
For truth in Him abides;
I would not doubt His power;
In Him the Godhead hides.
And since I know He gave
Himself, Himself, to move
Jehovah's curse from me,
I would not doubt His love.
And so I'll breathe my wish
To Christ, my King, to-day;
And rest me on His word—
"I will not say thee nay."
Isa.
"IS NOT A MAN BETTER THAN AN EGG?"
"Bacon! bacon! bacon! always bacon! Why don't we have eggs sometimes, like we used to?" was the discontented question of a little boy, one morning, as he surveyed a rasher of bacon on his plate.
"May you never get anything worse to eat, my boy, than this nice streaky bacon," remarked his father, looking up from his newspaper.
"Little boys should eat what is put before them, and be thankful that they have food to eat," observed a severe-looking maiden aunt.
"Ralph is not very well to-day," said his sister Nellie, in a low tone. "His appetite has not been so good lately as it used to be. He never seems to get on with bacon; and there have been very few eggs brought in for some time. Do you think the fowls have left off laying, papa?"