5.

The Holy Night.

Lo! in the silent night a child to God is born,
And all is brought again that e'er was lost or lorn.
Could but thy soul, O man, become a silent night,
God would be born in thee and set all things aright.

6.

The Difference.

Ye know God but as lord, hence LORD his name with ye, I feel him but as love, and LOVE, his name with me.

7.

The seasons of the soul.

Sin is Soul's Winterfrost; Repentance is the Spring; Summer the mercy state, Autumn good works will bring.

8.

How far from here to Heaven?

How far from here to Heaven? Not very far, my friend, A single hearty step will all thy journey end.

9.

Christ must be born in thee.

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born,
If he's not born in Thee, thy soul is still forlorn.

10.

The outward profiteth not.

The cross on Golgotha will never save thy soul,

The cross in thine own heart alone can make thee whole.

11.

Rise thyself from the dead!

Christ rose not from the dead, Christ still is in the grave, If Thou, for whom he died, art still of sin the slave.

12.

Heaven within thee.

Hold there! where runnest thou? Know Heaven is in thee. Seekst thou for God elsewhere, his face thou 'lt never see.

13.

The only want's in thee.

Ah would thy heart but be a manger for the birth,
God would once more become a child upon this earth.

14.

See God in Thyself.

Pray thee, how looks my God? Go and thyself behold;
Who sees himself in God, sees God's own very mould.

15.

The soul God's image.

God's very image lies upon the soul imprest,
Happy who wears such coin, in purest linen drest.

16.

The heart encloses God.

Immeasurable is the Highest-who but knows it?
And yet a human heart can perfectly enclose it.

The seasons of the day.

In Heaven is the day, in Hell below, the night;
'Tis twilight here on Earth: consider this aright!

19.

The loveliest tone.

In all Eternity, no tone can be so sweet

As where man's heart with God in unison doth beat.

20.

Magnet and Steel.

God is a magnet strong, my heart, it is the steel,
'T will always turn to him, if once his touch it feel.

21.

The swiftest.

Love is the swiftest thing; it of itself can fly

Up to the highest Heaven, in the twinkling of an eye.

22. The Rose.

The beauteous rose which here thine outward eye doth see, Hath blossomed thus in God, from all Eternity.

23.

God in me and around me.

To Deity am I the cask which it doth fill,

And it is my deep sea that doth surround me still.

24.

Love's transubstantiation.

Whate'er thou lovest, man, that too become thou must:
God if thou lovest God; Dust- if thou lovest dust.

25.

Time immemorial.

You ask how long it is since God himself begot?
Ah me! so very long, himself remembers not.

26.

The greatest riddle.

I know not what I am, I am not what I know,
A thing and not a thing, a point, and circle too.

27.

There is no Death.

I don't believe in Death. If hour by hour I die, 'Tis hour by hour to gain a better life thereby.

28.

How to become immortal.

Become substantial, man, for when the world shall die,
All accident shall pass, but substance will abie.

29.

"The well is deep."-John, IV., 11.

Why shouldst thou cry for drink? The fountain is in thee Which, so thou stopp'st it not, will flow eternally.

30.

Alas! why can we not?

Why can we not, we men, as birds do in the wood,

Mingle our voices too

a happy brotherhood?

31.

Love is not to be defined.

One only thing I love, yet know not what it is,
And that I know it not, makes it the greater bliss.

32.

The Holy of Holies.

No holier sanctuary on earth has ever been

Than in body chaste, a soul that 's void of sin.

33.

Quiet Love is strongest Love.

Love is like wine. When young, 't will boil and overflow;
The older it will grow the milder will it grow.

34.

The best preachers.

What is a sinless state? No priest can ever teach thee
What, eloquently dumb, the pious flowers will preach thee.

35.

Humble and free.

From lowly daisies learn, O men! how ye may be
Both good and beautiful, humble in heart and free.

36.

The rich Poor.

The old man swims in gold, yet talks of poverty.
He speaks but what is true, no poorer wretch than he.

37.

The most effectual prayer.

The sleep of his Beloved, much more with God will do,
Than when the wicked wake and pray the whole night through.

38.

There lives no Sinner.

There lives no sinner. "How? Is not this man a sinner?" A sinner he may be, but he lives not, as sinner.

39.

To Theologians.

Within this span of time, God's name ye will unfold,
Which in Eternities can never quite be told.

40.

Divine passiveness.

Go out- God will go in; die thou and let him live,
Be not, and he will be; wait, and he 'll all things give.

41.

Self-will the fall of man.

If Christ had self-will left, though he be blest of all,
Believe me, Christ himself would fall in Adam's fall.

42. Blessedness.

The soul that's truly blest, knows not of selfishness:
She is one light with God, with God one Blessedness.

43.

Without a why.

The rose knows of no why. It blows because it bloweth,
And careless of itself, to all its beauties showeth.

44.

"The best part."

To work is good enough, still better is to pray,

The best

to love thy God, and not a word to say.

45.

God is a blessed stillness.

We pray "On earth, in heaven, O Lord be done thy will,”
And yet God has no will, but is forever still.

46.

Man transformed to God. Before I was a Me, in God then was I God, As soon as I shall die I shall again be God.

If thou diest without God-though Christ gained Heaven for thee, Thy life will be a Hell, wherever thou may'st be.

48.

God alone is great.

Nothing is great but God; Even Heaven's boundless hall
Is for a God-full soul much, O how much! too small.

49.

The finest sight.

Fair is Aurora, fair, but still a soul's more fair,

When after a long night the sun, God, riseth there.