I know that my Redeemer’s hand Will be outstretched to save, If _dangers_ meet me on the land, Or on the stormy wave. And wheresoe’er my feet may go, Though perilous the road, My soul assured will keep, and know That there His feet have trod. _Egone._ DARKNESS. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and _darkness_ was upon the face of the deep.--Genesis, i. 1, 2. Thou makest _darkness_, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.--Psalm civ. 20. The people which sat in _darkness_ saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.--Matthew, iv. 16. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer _darkness_: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.--Matthew, viii. 12. He here with us to be Forsook the courts of everlasting day, And chose with us a _darksome_ house of mortal clay. _Milton._ When joy no longer soothes or cheers, And even the hope that threw A moment’s sparkle o’er our tears Is dimm’d and vanish’d too! O who would bear life’s stormy doom, Did not thy wing of love Come brightly wafting through the gloom One peace-branch from above! Then sorrow touched by thee grows bright With more than rapture’s ray, As _darkness_ shows us worlds of light We never saw by day. _Moore._ ’Tis gone, that bright and orbed blaze, Fast fading from our wistful gaze; Yon mantling cloud has hid from sight The last faint pulse of quivering light. In _darkness_ and in weariness The traveller on his way must press, No gleam to watch on tree or tower, Whiling away the lonesome hour. Thou Framer of the light and _dark_, Steer through the tempest thine own ark: Amid the howling wintry sea We are in port if we have Thee. _Keble._ DAVID. _David_, the son of Jesse, the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel.--II. Samuel, xxiii. 1. He chose _David_ also his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds: From following the ewes great with young, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.--Psalm lxxviii. 70, 71. I have found _David_ my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him.--Psalm lxxxix. 20. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant _David_.--Luke, i. 68, 69. For _David_ speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face.--Acts, ii. 25.