178 | PROMOTION AND SURPRISES.

and be content with such things as ye have: for he
hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee”
(Heb. xiii. 5).

The last verse was designated in the well-worn
volume, by a distinct line drawn under it in red ink—
as Carl doubted not, by the beloved hand which was
now in the grave. Deeply did he revolve in his mind
those sacred words of promise, ICH WILL DICH NICHT
VERLASSEN NOCH VERSAUMEN. He called to mind also
the observation which Dr. Newman had made, and
which he found in his interleaved Greek Testament,
that the original is much more expressive, having five
negatives, which could be represented in English only
by some such language as this, “I will never, never
leave thee, and never, never, never forsake thee !”

Led thus from one thought to another, Carl remem-
bered his hymn-book, and closed the evening with sing-
ing those familiar lines, which he had first learned from
the voice of Matilda Mill,—

‘‘ In every condition, in sickness, in health,
In poverty’s vale, or abounding in wealth,
At home and abroad, on the land, on the sea,
As thy days shall demand, so thy succour shall be,

The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,

I will not, I cannot desert to his foes;

That soul, though all hell should endeavour to shake,
I'll never, no never, no NEVER forsake !”