...attendants, proceeded to the baptistery, the choir singing all the way the forty- second psalm : As the hart panteth. after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, 0 God, and so on. This ended at the porch of the first chapel, where his holiness sat down. Then the...

...in the days of old has left this record of the spirit and manner in which he sought : — " Like as the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come, and appear before God !" But...

...things. It is but the utterance of all souls in their best moments which is expressed when we read, " As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, 0 God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?" Again...

...languishing graces of the Christian revive, and he is ready to exclaim with the saints of old, " As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God! Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound ; they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy...

...psalmist, when he speaks concerning the ardency of his affections to God, he says, Psal. 42. 1. " as the hart panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God : my soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?" These...

...Gives the soul an appetite for the bread and water of life, and for the righteousness of faith. " As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." Divine life gives the soul motion ; it moves in heart and mind toward God, as the poor prodigal...

...the dwellings of Jacob." We sometimes are able to adopt the 'language of the Psalmist, and say, *' As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, Q God ;" and it is a happy frame, too, when we can say it: and yet never were any so desirous of meetVOL....

...water is : To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in thy sanctuary." Ixiii. 1, 2. " As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, () God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God ; when shall I come and appear before God i"...

...in competition with i 3 them! Thou art the source and centre of all my wishes and desires; even as the hart panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God! Oh! when shall I appear in thy presence? When, when shall that blessed time come, that I shall...

...the blessed St. Francis, often repeating his last words, " O! my B 2 God, my desire is to thee. As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God! Yes, mine eyes shall behold thee, and not another; my heart and my flesh rejoice before the living...