HYMN. BY SIR HENRY WOTTON. RISE, O my soul, with thy desires to heaven, And let vain thoughts no more thy thoughts abuse; But down in darkness ever let them lie, So live thy better,-let thy worse thoughts die. And thou, my soul, inspired with holy flame, On which thy Saviour and thy sin did die. To thee, O Jesus, I direct my eyes, To thee my hands, to thee my humble knees, To thee my heart shall offer sacrifice, To thee my thoughts, who my thoughts only sees : To thee myself, myself and all I give, To thee I die, to thee I only live. THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE. BY SIR HENRY WOTTON. How happy is he born and taught, Whose passions not his masters are, Of public fame, or private breath: Who hath his life from rumours freed, Who God doth late and early pray And entertains the harmless day This man is freed from servile hands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. COME, HOLY SPIRIT, COME.* (For the Spanish Chant.) COME, Holy Spirit, come, Make this cold heart thine home; Through heaven pealing. Come, like a ray of light Come, Holy Spirit, come, Where healing waters flow, Still let me pleasures know From "Songs from the Parsonage." TRUE PHILANTHROPY. BY THE REV. C. WESLEY. "God shall enlarge Japheth."-Gen. ix. 27. And grasping all thy gifts in Thee. Roche, Printer, 25, Hoxton-square, London. WE this month furnish our readers with what we believe they will acknowledge to be a beautiful (and, at the same time, it is a very correct) representation of a stately mansion in the north of England, accompanied by some general notices of the building itself, with which our esteemed correspondent has favoured us. By means of these notices the building will be viewed with interest on account of its historical associations, Its present occupation suggests some useful reflections. Our ancestors did much by the sword; but already, and happily, the sword is yielding to the pen: and let education be rightly conducted, and they who come forth from Hylton Castle, and similar establishments, will contribute more to the advancement of society than the valiant Knights of a former age, They "that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits." Hylton Castle is an ancient baronial mansion, and was the seat of the noble family whose name it bears from 1072 to 1746, when John, the last male heir, devised his estates to his nephew, Sir Richard Musgrave, Bart., of Hayton Castle. It is still a venerable pile, pleasantly situated on the northern bank of the Wear, in the county of Durham. Its present form is that of an oblong square, the central part of which is VOL. VII. Second Series. P |