"All scenes alike engaging prove To souls impress'd with sacred love! Where'er they dwell, they dwell in Thee; In heaven, in earth, or on the sea. "To me remains nor place nor time; My country is in every clime; I can be calm and free from care On any shore, since God is there. "While place we seek, or place we shun, The soul finds happiness in none; But, with a God to guide our way, 'Tis equal joy to go or stay. "Could I be cast where thou art not, That were indeed a dreadful lot; But regions none remote I call, Secure of finding God in all." "It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the dealings of God with their souls. It was Paul's accustomed manner, and that when tried for his life, even to open before his judges the manner of his conversion. He would think of that day and that hour in the which he did first meet with grace, for he found it support onto him. There was nothing to David like Goliath's sword. The very sight and remembrance of that did preach forth God's deliverance to him. Oh, the remembrance of my great sins, of my great temptations, and of my great fears for perishing for ever. They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of mercy and help—my great support from heaven, and the great grace that God extendeth to such a wretch as I."—John Bunyan. "O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar."—Verse 6.
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