September 30

1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul 2 While I live will I praise the LORD; I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish 5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God; 6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed; which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners: 8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down; the LORD loveth the righteous: 9 The LORD presereth the strangers; he reliereth the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. 10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.

"This Psalm gives in brief the Gospel of Confidence. It inculcates the elements of Faith, Hope and Thanksgiving."—Martin Geier.

"George Carpenter, the Bavarian martyr, being desired by some godly brethren that when he was burning in the fire he would give them some sign of his constancy, answered: 'Let this be a sure sign unto you of my faith and perseverance in the truth, that so long as I am able to hold open my mouth, or to whisper, I will never cease to praise God and to profess His truth;' the which also he did, saith mine author; and so did many other martyrs besides."—John Trapp.

Mr. John Janeway on his death-bed cried out thus: "Come, help me with praises, yet all is too little. Come, help me, all ye mighty and glorious angels, who are so well skilled in the heavenly work of praise! Praise Him, all ye creatures upon earth; let everything that hath being help me to praise God. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise is now my work, and I shall be engaged in this sweet work now and for ever. Bring the Bible; turn to David's Psalms, and let us sing a psalm of praise. Come, let us lift up our voices in the praises of the Most High. I will sing with you as long as my breath doth last, and when I have none I shall do it better."

Closet Promise.—For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end.—Heb. ii. 14.

So to the soul that knows Thy love, O Parest, There is a temple peaceful evermore; And all the cabbies of it's angry voices Dies in hushed stillness at its sacred door

Far, far away the noise of passion diets, And loving thoughts rise ever peacefully; And no rude storm, how fierce yester it flesh, Discurbs the soul, that rests, O Lord in Thee. —Harriet Beecher, S. 1000.