THE TWO WRITINGS. 



us from them by as broad a gulf as that which separates 

 the dead from the living. Christ has expressly taken 

 them upon Himself; and in His death and resurrection 

 we have the assurance that those who live unto Him 

 need fear no condemnation. Let us therefore take out 

 of the past what will help and not hinder us in the 

 future. Let the memorial of sins buried out of sight, 

 and separated from us by the river of God's pardoning 

 mercy, deepen our penitence in the newness of life to 

 which we have crossed over ; keep us more humble and 

 watchful, and enable us to magnify the mercy that has 

 forgiven much, in order that we may be stimulated to 

 love much. 



THE TWO WRITINGS. 



IN awful majesty, veiled in dark clouds, 

 'Mid roar of thunder, -lightning's vivid flash, 

 And earthquake shaking the eternal hills, 

 God wrote His law upon a granite stone, 

 Shaped from the rough, rude rock on Sinai's crest, 

 In letters which no change could weather out, 

 Which no soft moss could fill with tenderness, 

 Or lichen hoar subdue to mellow age. 

 Hard as the stone on which it was inscribed, 

 That law reigns throughout nature pitiless, 

 And says " The soul that sinneth it shall die ! " 

 But when God came to earth in lowly form, 

 Without a cloud to veil His face with awe, 

 Gentle and peaceful, as the morning light 



