"Oh, why stand ye gazing? etc.,
Oh, ye men of Galilee?
"Don't you see Him now ascending! etc.,
There to plead for you and me.
"By-and-by we'll go to meet Him, etc.,
Where pleasures never fade."
While the incomparably superior lyrics of Wesley and Watts were generally sung in the public service of the Sabbath, when the preacher gave out the hymns from the book; yet these simpler and ruder strains were the greater favourites at the revival meeting. By these the godly forefather's of Methodism in Canada nourished their souls and enbraved their spirits for the heroic work in which they were engaged, of consecrating the virgin wilderness to God.
CHAPTER XVII.
HEART TRIALS.
"Well, Kate," said Zenas, as he and his sister rode homeward through the solemn moonlight and starlight, "You have burned your boats and broken down the bridge. There is no going back."
"I hope not, Zenas," she replied, "but I feel very much the need of going forward. I have only made the first step yet."
"Well, you've started on the right line, anyhow. It was a plucky thing to do. I did not think it was in you. You are naturally so shy. I wish I could do the same myself, but I haven't the courage."
"Don't think of yourself, Zenas, nor of your comrades; but of the loving Saviour who died for you and longs to save you."