By faith in him, we all may see In realms of light above, Through streams of blood on Calvary, A joyful immortality;-- The purchase price was love. THE LILIES _Consider the lilies._--Luke 2:27. Emblems of Christ our Lord, Roses and lilies fair, These flowers in His word, His glory seem to share. The lilies of the field, Sweet teachers of the soul, Which will their lessons yield Long as the seasons roll, They neither toil nor spin, Exist without a care, And yet no earthly king can win A garb so chaste and rare. Frozen, they burst to life, To nature's minstrelsy-- A resurrection type Of immortality. TELL PETER _And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself._--John 18:25. Peter, it was not outward cold But inward chill thy bosom froze, Made thee deny with falsehood bold Thy Lord and Master to his foes. When we find cheer at Satan's fires The world is there to work us harm, To deaden all our pure desires With its deceitful lure and charm. Peter, the voice of chanticleer Fulfilled what Christ had prophesied; And oh, that pitying look sincere From him whom thou hadst just denied! Thy burst of penitential grief! Heaven those tears did surely send. Tears give the burdened heart relief; Dry anguish may its tendrils rend. Sin soon will crucify our Lord, Thy sin, and all the world's beside. He gave himself, the Living Word, Our shelter from God's wrath to hide. Had all the seraphs pens to write Such love upon the boundless sky, Angelic powers could not indite Its greatness while the ages fly. The hour is hastening. God has willed That Christ should through his own decree Abolish death and have fulfilled Our blood-bought immortality. And when the awful tomb he rent, When freed from every earthly thrall, "Tell Peter" was the message sent; "Tell Peter"--'tis love's tender call. Peter was martyr to his faith; His rock, God's son whom he denied; This faith the key that unlocks death To realms where joy and peace abide. "Tell Peter!" Honey drops of love, Awaking all the choirs of heaven! "Tell Peter"--angels from above Shout, "Hear, O earth, and be forgiven!" THE SLEET Regal the earth seems with diamonds today, Gemming all nature in blazing array; A picture more fairy-like never could be Than this wonderful icicle filigree. A crystallized world! What a marvelous sight, Gorgeous and grand in the March sunlight! The frost-king magician has changed the spring showers To turquois and topaz and sapphire bowers. And what is the lesson we learn from the sleet, As toiling life's road with wearying feet, Upward we strive, but failing so oft In the struggles that bear us aright and aloft?