HALF HOURS WITH THE BEST POETS. GOD EXCELLENT IN LOVE. BAILEY. GOD is great in love ; Infinite in his nature, power, and grace; O! it is the truth transcendant over all When thus to one poor spirit He gives His hand, He seems to impart his own unboundedness Of bliss. We seem to be hardly worth destroying, As though all were his equal. POWER AND BENEVOLENCE. BERNARD BARTON God is not great because omnipotent! But because power in him is understood And felt and proved to be benevolent, And wise and holy-thus it ever should! For what He wills we know is pure and good, |