Each day returning to begin
With Thee, my God, in prayer.

With Thee amid the crowd
That throngs the busy mart,
To hear Thy voice, 'mid clamor loud,
Speak softly to my heart.

With Thee when day is done,
And evening calms the mind;
The setting, as the rising, sun
With Thee my heart would find.

With Thee when darkness brings
The signal of repose,
Calm in the shadow of Thy wings
Mine eyelids I would close.

With Thee, in Thee, by faith
Abiding I would be;
By day, by night, in life, in death,
I would be still with Thee.
--_James Drummond Burns_.

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[Illustration]
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
By William Holman Hunt (1827-1910)

The original of this famous picture is owned by Keble College,
Oxford, and is hung in a small room adjoining the chapel.

"The legend beneath it is the beautiful verse--'Behold I stand at the
door and knock. If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will
come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.' REV. iii.
26. On the left-hand side of the picture is seen this door of the
human soul. It is fast barred; its bars and nails are rusty; it is
knitted and bound to its stanchions by creeping tendrils of ivy,
shewing that it has never been opened. A bat hovers about it; its
threshold is overgrown with brambles, nettles, and fruitless
corn,--the wild grass, 'whereof the mower filleth not his hand, nor
he that bindeth the sheaves his bosom.' Christ approaches it in the
night-time,--Christ, in his everlasting offices, of Prophet, Priest,
and King. He wears the white robe, representing the power of the
Spirit upon him; the jeweled robe and breastplate, representing the
sacerdotal investiture; the rayed crown of gold, inwoven with the
crown of thorns; not dead thorns, but now bearing soft leaves, for
the healing of the nations.

"Now, when Christ enters any human heart, he bears with him a
twofold light: first, the light of conscience, which displays past
sin, and afterwards the light of peace, the hope of salvation. The
lantern, carried in Christ's left hand, is this light of conscience.
Its fire is red and fierce; it falls only on the closed door, on the
weeds which encumber it, and on an apple shaken from one of the
trees of the orchard, thus marking that the entire awakening of
the conscience is not merely to committed, but to