The young gentleman played on their flutes under the window of each Lady after they had retired and this was the compliment Sarah paid them PARAPHRASE.[63] Guide me oh Thou great Jehovah, Pilgrim thro’ this barren land, I am weak, but thou art mighty, Hold me by thy powerful hand, Bread of Heaven, Bread of Heaven, Feed me till I want no more. · · · · · Guide our troops oh great Jehovah, Save this sinful war worn land, We are weak, but thou art mighty, Save us by thy powerful hand, King of Heaven, King of Heaven, Save us, and we ask no more. Shield our fathers in the strife Guard our brothers we implore, Give them victory, freedom, life, Drive out all foes, from this shore, King of Heaven, King of Heaven, Dry our tears, and hear our prayer. THE MISSES LEWIS’ DIARY—EXTRACTS FROM COMMONPLACE BOOK. 1820. JANE LEWIS—HER JOURNAL. Continuation of Journal for the summer of 1820. Sunday morning Mr. Beecher preached from Gen. 7th Chap. 1st & 5th, “And the Lord said unto Noah, come thou, and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.” “And Noah did according unto all the Lord commanded.” In about 15 years God looked upon the earth, and saw there was great wickedness, and he said “The heart of man is evil continually, every imagination of man’s heart was evil” and he said “I will destroy man whom I have created, from the face of the earth, both man & beast & the creeping things & the fowls of the air for it repenteth me that I have made them” but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord and he said unto Noah, make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shall thou have made in the ark & shall pitch it within & without with pitch.” As the ark saved Noah, so will Christ save all who trust in him. Noah by faith prepared him an ark to save him from destruction, so also may Christians prepare the souls of their children from the bonds of Satan, It has pleased God to prescribe duties to parents & it has also pleased him to save those who believe on him. At the appointed time when all needful preparations had been made Noah was directed to enter with all his family: into the ark: because the Lord had “seen him righteous before him in that generation” the apostle says that he “became heir of the righteousness which is by faith, The same principle which induced him to believe, on the testimony of God, & contrary to all human probability, that the deluge would come at the appointed season, led him also, on the same testimony, to expect the