TO ADVERSITY Hail, chastening friend Adversity! 'Tis thine The mental ore to temper and refine, To cast in virtue's mould the yielding heart, And honor's polish to the mind impart.

Wisdom in sable garb arrayed, Immersed in rapturous thought profound, And Melancholy, silent maid With leaden eye, that loves the ground, Still on thy solemn steps attend; Warm Charity, the genial friend, With Justice, to herself severe, And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear, Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread goddess, lay thy chastening hand!

Under this conviction, the congregation were called on by the Governor and the elders to set apart a day for special humiliation and prayer, in order to entreat the Lord to remove from them his chastening hand, and to 'send a gracious rain upon His inheritance.'

So I silently stole from the depths of despair, And slunk from dark destiny's chastening rod,

Perhaps I slip easily into this train of remarks, for it is my peculiar office to speak of that chastening with which a gracious Providence visits men on this earth, and by which He prepares them for heaven hereafter; and what is true of individuals in a state of adversity, is true of nations when clothed in sorrow.

"Let the fortunes of the world pass away, or change as they will, his chastening love outliveth time!" The Signor Grimaldi, for, though the elected of Genoa, such was in truth the family name of the Doge, turned his vacant gaze for an instant on the Augustine, but it soon reverted to the forms and faces of Maso and Sigismund, who still stood before him, filling his thoughts even more than his sight.

And from the temper manifested by the Mexican Government he had repeatedly assured us that no favorable change could be expected until the United States should "give striking evidence of their will and power to protect their citizens," and that "severe chastening is the only earthly remedy for our grievances."

Cats only exist, I think, for the chastening of man.

Alice here for chastening and justice!

According to him, the following text is wrong: "My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord.

The sublime and the ridiculous ever elbow so closely in this life and jostled so continuously in those stormy hours of How Landor's chastening.

When you are sick, send for him, tell him that you are resigned to the Lord's will; that you will kiss the chastening rod; that you will take the cup, and drink it, because your Father gives it.

In an hour his boasting was at an end, and, reduced by the chastening judgment of the Almighty to the level of the brute creation, he was compelled to learn that "those who walk in pride the King of heaven is able to abase."

It is right for them to go through fire and through water, that He may bring them out into a healthy placeright to endure chastening, that they may be partakers of His holinessright to have the sentence of death in themselves, that they may trust in the living God, and that His strength may be perfect in their weakness.

The chastening, The admiral, The salutation.

The chastening, The admiral, The salutation.

I feel Thee near to me, be near to my dear family; and, while thus Thou art chastening us, O sanctify the rod.

Perhaps they have done some good in chastening each other and chastening their owner.

Perhaps they have done some good in chastening each other and chastening their owner.

Besides, it has a mighty chastening and stimulating effect on the star to know that if she balks there's a sweet young thing in reserve who's able and eager to go the distance.

The chastening rod Blossoms with love; the furnace heat Grows cool beneath His blessed feet Whose form is as the Son of God!

2. To make all fear and tremble before this great and holy God, who is terrible in his judgments, even when they come from a Father's hand that is not pursuing in pure anger and wrath, but chastening in love.

"If it is His will that I too should feel His chastening rod, it will find me though I should never leave my home; my trust is in Him.

Oh, my beloved brethren, let us go home, and in our closets thank God that His chastening hand appears about to be removed from us, and so beseech Him to enlighten our eyes to look on death, and so to give us that faith, which alone can make us whole, and give us peace, that we may say with the venerable Simeon, 'Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.'

"My child," he said, "chastening is the very token of pardon, and therein may you find peace, and see the right course.