Heaven’s Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight--a naked, human _heart_. _Young._ The Almighty, from His throne, on earth surveys Naught greater than an honest, humble _heart_; An humble _heart_, His residence! pronounced His second seat, and rival to the skies. _Young._ Wash, Lord, and purify my _heart_, And make it clean in every part, And when ’tis clean, Lord, keep it too, For that is more than I can do. _Thomas Ellwood._ A temple of the Holy Ghost, and yet Oft lodging fiends; the dwelling-place of all The heavenly virtues--charity and truth, Humility, and holiness, and love-- And yet the common haunt of anger, pride, Hatred, revenge, and passions foul with lust; Allied to heaven, yet parleying oft with hell. _Pollok._ Consider well. The _heart_ is a deceiver, O, paltering with it, in some double sense, Thou’st shunned, perhaps, the word that would condemn thee, E’en while thy will was partner in the crime. _Schiller._ Thou too, my _heart_, whom He, and He alone, Who all things knows, can know, with love replete, Regenerate and pure, pour all thyself A living sacrifice before His throne! _Christopher Smart._ Walk in the light! and sin, abhorred, Shall ne’er defile again; The blood of Jesus Christ, the Lord, Shall cleanse from every stain. Walk in the light! and thou shalt find Thy _heart_ made truly His, Who dwells in cloudless light enshrined, In whom no darkness is. _Bernard Barton._ All our actions take Their hues from the complexion of the _heart_, As landscapes their variety from light. _William Thompson Bacon._ Would’st thou the life of souls discern? Nor human wisdom nor divine Helps thee by aught beside to learn; Love is life’s only sign. The spring of the regenerate _heart_, The pulse, the glow of every part, Is the true love of Christ our Lord, As man embraced, as God adored. _Keble._ HEAVEN--HEAVENS. The _heavens_ declare the glory of God.--Psalm xix. 1. All the host of _heaven_ shall be dissolved, and the _heavens_ shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.--Isaiah, xxxiv. 4. Lay up for yourselves treasures in _heaven_, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal; For where your treasure is there will your heart be also.--Matthew, vi. 20, 21.