Eyes and heart are both sorely aching with grief at the sight of the sin, and selfishness, and sorrow, which are within and around me; but help me, dear Lord, to look up, enable me to “lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh mine help.” As travellers on the great mountains refrain from looking down the steep precipices, keeping their eyes fixed on the heights above lest a sudden vertigo should overcome them, so may I look unto the Lord with humble, steadfast gaze, and receive courage and strength to press onward and upward in the path he has marked out for me!2
