(PSALM 31:15)

My times are in Thy hand ! " 'Tis precious this to know, I'm under Thy protecting care as I journey here below. I am not left to fate and chance, to wander in a maze, But thine unfailing presence guides through all earth's tangled ways.

" My times are in Thy hand ! " Thou hast the oversight. Dark clouds may close my pathway in and seem to shut Thee out,

But thine unfading beams will pierce the heavy midnight gloom,

And on my upward pathway falls the light that leads me home.

"My times are in Thy hand!" "I'll guide thee with mine eye,' Is Thy sure promise to thine own who travel to the sky. I have no wisdom of my own, or strength for such a road ; The power and guiding must be thine till I reach Thy blest abode.

"My times are in Thy hand! " I dare not trust to sight, And conscience is a feeble guide which may not lead me right. Ten thousand devious paths there are which leave the narrow way, And every voice but thine alone would lead my soul astray.

"My times are in Thy hand ! " To men I cannot trust; They are but mortals like myself, they are but breath and From fathers great and wise, from sages of the past,[dust. From priest and parson I must turn and on Thyself be cast.

" My times are in Thy hand! "Thy book is my sure guide; It is my chart and compass too through time's dark surging tide.

It shows the dangerous rocks, the quicksands and the shoal; It steers me through the straits of life and feeds my hungry soul.

" My times are in Thy hand ! " I find my all in Thee. Both temporal and eternal things are portioned out to me. Thy goodness in profusion flows around me day by day, And tidal waves of blessing roll to bear me on my way.

" My times are in Thy hand!"I soon shall see Thy face, And praise Thee through eternal day for that unbounded grace

That led Thee from a world of light to this dark world of woe, That I might all Thy glory see, and joys unending know. C. C. Crowston