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 THE NEW HIM^-^Q J|., 
 
 A COLLECTION (. FR:;\V 
 
 HYMNS 
 
 PUBLIC, SOCIAL, AND DOMESTIC 
 
 WORSHIP. 
 
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 Met r^oo . ^.r tii^ \ scop a I c\-NUVcl 
 
 Sing praises to God, sing praises.— Psalm xlvii. 6. 
 There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion 
 
 Milton 
 
 Naspillt, Qttnn. : 
 
 SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. 
 1881. 
 
Altered, according to Act or Coagress, In the year 1880, 
 
 By J. B. McFEREIN, Agent, 
 m the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
 
.PREFACE. 
 
 The General Conference of the M. E. Church, 
 South, of 1878, adopted the following Eesoiu- 
 tion: 
 
 Re&olve'}, That the Book Asent, with the approval 
 of the Book Editor, the Book Committee, and one of 
 the Bishops, be allowed to publish at pleasure, in the 
 interest of the General Conference, a small hymn or 
 song-book, suited to revival, prayer, and social meet- 
 ings. 
 
 Acting under this authority, the present work 
 has been prepared. 
 
 The peculiar taste of no particular person or 
 locality has been consulted in the otoissions, 
 abridgments, and additions, but the wants of 
 the entire Connection. 
 
 The arrangement in the standard "Hymn- 
 book," and the "Hymn and Tune-book," h;is 
 been preserved, as well as the most common 
 hymns and tunes in those works, so that it can 
 be used in connection with them. 
 
 The compiler of the tunes found it expedi- 
 ent to change the order of some of the hymns 
 in particular sections, in accommodation to the 
 tunes to wdiich they may be sung. 
 
 Great care has been taken in the abridg- 
 ment of hymns, so as not to injure their senti- 
 ment or poetical character. 
 
 An edition of the hymns without the tunes 
 has been issued for the accommodation of those 
 who may desire it. 
 
 The ligures in parentheses, at the head of 
 each hymn, refer to the notation in the standard 
 Hymn-book — "Z" refers to "Songs of Zion." 
 
 Publishing House of the M. E. Church, Soutti 
 ^'ashville, Tennessee, March 16, 1880. 
 
 (3) 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PART I.— PUBLIC WORSHIP. page 
 
 Sec. I. Being and Perfections of God. 5-18 
 
 11. Medication of Christ 18-39 
 
 III. Offices of the Holy Ghost 40-45 
 
 IV. Institutions of Christianity : — 
 
 1. The Church 45-52 
 
 2. The Ministry 52f-59 
 
 8. Baptism 59-61 
 
 4. The Lord's Supper 61-65 
 
 5. The Sabbath 66-69 
 
 V. The Gospel Call 69-83 
 
 VI. Penitential Exercises 83-99 
 
 VII. Christian Experience : — 
 
 - 1. Justification and the New 
 
 Birth _ 99-112 
 
 2. Entire Sanctification and 
 
 Perfect Love 112-121 
 
 3. Duties and Trials 121-155 
 
 VIII. Death and the Future State... 155-178 
 
 IX. Special Occasions: — 
 
 1. Missions 179-184 
 
 2. Bible 184,185 
 
 3. Erection of Churches.... 185-187 
 
 4. Education of Youth 187-189 
 
 5. The Seasons : 190-193 
 
 6. National Solemnities 193-195 
 
 7. On a Voyage 195 
 
 PART II.— SOCIAL WORSHIP. 
 
 Sec. L Communion of Saints 196-204 
 
 IL Prayer 205-210 
 
 PART III.— DOMESTIC WORSHIP. 
 
 Sec. L The Family 211-219 
 
 IL The Closet 219,220 
 
 Benedictions and Doxologies 221 
 
 Miscellany 222-235 
 
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HYMNS, 
 
 PAKT I. 
 
 For Public Worship. 
 
 SECTION I. 
 
 Being and Perfections of God. 
 
 1 C. M. (1) 
 
 The Trinity. 
 
 A THOUSAND oracles divine 
 Their common beams unite, 
 That sinners may with angels join 
 To worship God aright: 
 
 2 To praise a Trinity adored 
 By all the hosts above; 
 
 And one thrice holy God and Lord 
 Through endless ages love. 
 
 3 Triumphant host ! tliey never cease 
 To laud and magnify 
 
 The Triune God of holiness, 
 Whose glory fills the sky : 
 
 4 Whose glory to this earth extends, 
 When God himself imparts, 
 
 And the whole Trinity descends 
 Into our faithful hearts. 
 
 . (5) 
 
b BEING AND PERFECTIONS 
 
 2 6,6,4,6,6,6,4. (8) 
 The Trinity. — Before Sermon. 
 
 COME, thou almighty King, 
 Help us thy name to sing, 
 Help us to praise! 
 Father all glorious, 
 O'er all victorious, 
 Come and reign over us, 
 Ancient of days. 
 
 2 Come, thou incarnate Word, 
 Gird on thy mighty sword, 
 
 Our prayer attend : 
 Come, and thy people bless, 
 And give thy word success : 
 Spirit of holiness, 
 
 On us descend ! 
 
 3 Come, holy Comforter, 
 Thy sacred witness bear 
 
 In this glad hour: 
 Thou who almighty art, 
 Now rule in every heart, 
 And ne'er from us depart, 
 
 Spirit of power ! 
 
 4 To the great One and Three 
 Eternal praises be 
 
 Hence — evermore ! 
 His sovereign majesty 
 May we in glory see. 
 And to eternity 
 
 Love and adore. 
 
 3 L. M. (21) 
 Divine 3Tajesty. 
 
 ETERNAL Power, whose high abode 
 Becomes the grandeur of a God : 
 Infinite lengths beyond the bounds 
 Where stars revolve their little rounds. 
 
OF GOD. / 
 
 2 Thee while the first archangel sings, 
 He hides his face behind his wings; 
 And ranks of shining thrones around 
 Fall worshiping, and spread the ground. 
 
 3 Lord, what shall earth and ashes do? 
 We would adore our Maker too! 
 I-'roni sin and dust to thee we cry, 
 Tlie Great, the Holy, and the High ! 
 
 4 Earth from afar hath heard thy fame, 
 And worms have learned to lisp thy name ; 
 But O ! the glories of thy mind 
 
 Leave all our soaring thoughts behind ! 
 
 5 God is in heaven, and men below : 
 Be short, our tunes ; our words, be few ! 
 A solemn reverence checks our songs, 
 And praise sits silent on our tongues. 
 
 S. M. (26) 
 
 All-sufficiency, 
 
 MY God, my life, my love. 
 To thee, to thee I call: 
 
 1 cannot live if thou remove, 
 For thou art all in all. 
 
 2 Thy shining grace can cheer 
 This dungeon where I dwell-: 
 
 'Tis paradise when thou art here — 
 If thou depart, 'tis hell. 
 
 3 To thee, and thee alone. 
 The angels owe their bliss : 
 
 They sit around thy gracious throne. 
 And dwell where Jesus is. 
 
 4 Thou art the sea of love, 
 Where all my pleasures roll : 
 
 The circle Avhere my passions move, 
 And center of my soul. 
 
8 BEING AND PEKFECTIONS 
 
 5 To tliee my spirits fly, 
 
 With infinite desire: 
 And yet how far from thee I lie ! 
 
 O Jesus, raise me higher ! 
 
 5 L.M. ■ (45) 
 Opening worship. 
 
 OTHOU, whom all thy saints adore, 
 We now with all thy saints agree. 
 And bow our inmost souls before 
 Thy glorious, awful majesty. 
 
 2 We come, great God, to seek thy face. 
 And for thy loving-kindness wait; 
 
 And O, how dreadful is this place ! 
 
 'Tis God's own house, 'tis heaven's gate. 
 
 3 Tremble our hearts to find thee nigh, 
 To thee our trembling hearts aspire ; 
 
 And lo ! we see descend from high 
 The pillar and the flame of fire. 
 
 4 Still let it on th' assembly stay. 
 And all the house with glory fill ; 
 
 To Canaan's bounds point out the way. 
 And lead us to thy holy hill. 
 
 6 L. M. (38) 
 
 The Father of mercies. 
 
 GOD of my life, whose gracious power 
 Through various deaths my soul hath led, 
 Or turned aside the fatal hour, 
 Or lifted up my sinking head: 
 
 2 In all my ways thy hand I own, 
 Thy ruling providence I see : 
 
 Assist me still my course to run, 
 And still direct my paths to thee. 
 
 3 Whither, O whither should I fly, 
 But to my loving Saviour's breast? 
 
OF GOD. » 
 
 Secure within thine arms to lie, 
 And safe beneath thy wings to rest. 
 
 4 I have no skill the snare to shun, 
 But tliou, O Christ, my wisdom art ! 
 
 I ever into ruin run. 
 
 But thou art greater than my heart. 
 
 5 Foolish, and impotent, and blind, 
 Lead me a way I have not known : 
 
 Bring me where I my heaven may find, 
 The heaven of loving thee alone. 
 
 7 CM. (29) 
 "Doing wonders." 
 
 FATHER, how wide thy glory shines ! 
 How high thy wonders rise! 
 Known through the earth by thousand si^us, 
 By thousands through the skies. 
 
 2 Those mighty orbs proclaim thy powei . 
 Their motions speak thy skill ; 
 
 And on the wings of every hour 
 We read thy patience still. 
 
 3 But when we view thy strange design 
 To save rebellious worms, 
 
 Where vengeance and compassion join 
 In their divinest forms, 
 
 4 Our thoughts are lost in reverent awe ; 
 We love, and Ave adore: 
 
 The first archangel never saw 
 So much of God before. 
 
 8 C. M. (35) 
 " Wonderfid in counsel" 
 
 '^OD moves in a mysterious way 
 
 His wonders to perform ; 
 He plants his footsteps in the sea, 
 And rides upon the storm. 
 
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■JO BEING AND PERFECTIONS 
 
 2 Deep in nnfatliomable mines 
 Of never-failing skill 
 
 He treasures up ids bright designs, 
 And works his sovereign will. 
 
 3 Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take: 
 The clouds ye so much dread 
 
 Are big with mercy, and shall break 
 In blessings on your head. 
 
 4 Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, 
 But trust him for his grace : 
 
 Behind a frowning providence 
 He hides a smiling face. 
 
 5 His purposes will ripen fast, 
 Unfolding every hour: 
 
 The bud may have a bitter taste, 
 But sweet will be the flower. 
 
 1 6 Blind unbelief is sure to err, 
 
 And scan his work in vain: 
 God is his own interpreter. 
 And he will make it plain. 
 
 9 C. M. (37) 
 
 Too wise to err — too good to he unhind. 
 
 SINCE all tlie varying scenes of time 
 God's watchful eye surveys, 
 O, who so wise to choose our lot, 
 Or to appoint our ways ! 
 
 2 Good when he gives — supremely good — 
 Nor less when he denies: 
 
 E'en crosses, from his sovereign hand. 
 Are blessings in disguise. 
 
 3 Why should we doubt a Father's love, 
 So constant and so kind? 
 
 To his unerring, gracious will 
 Be everv wish resigned. 
 
OF GOD. 11 
 
 10 L. M. (59) 
 
 Psalm c. 
 
 BEFORE Jehovah's Jiwful throne, 
 Ye nations bow with sacred joy: 
 Know that the Lord is God alone, 
 He can create, and he destroy. 
 
 2 His sovereign power, without our aid, 
 Made us of clay, and formed us men; 
 
 And when, like wandering sheep, we strayed, 
 lie brought us to his fold again. 
 
 3 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs, 
 High as the heavens our voices raise ; 
 
 And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, 
 Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise. 
 
 4 Wide as the world is thy command ; 
 Vast as eternity thy love ; 
 
 Firm as a rock thy truth must stand. 
 When rolling years shall ceiise to move. 
 
 11 L. M. (55) 
 Psalm xxxvi. 5-9. 
 
 HIGH in the heavens, eternal God, 
 Thy goodness in full glory shines ; 
 Thy truth shall break through every cloud 
 That veils and darkens thy designs. 
 
 2 Forever firm thy justice stands, 
 
 As mountains their foundations keep; 
 Wise are the wonders of thy hands. 
 Thy judgments are a mighty deep. 
 
 3 Thy providence is kind and large. 
 Both man and beast thy bounty share: 
 
 The wliole creation is thy charge. 
 But saints are thy peculiar care. 
 
12 BEING AND PERFECTIONS 
 
 4 My God! how excellent thy grace! 
 Whence all our hope and comfort springs: 
 
 The sons of Adam in distress 
 Fly to the shadow of thy wings. 
 
 5 Life, like a fountain, rich and free, 
 Springs from the presence of the Lord ; 
 
 And in thy light our souls shall see 
 The glories promised in thy word. 
 
 12 C. M. (40) 
 Exodus xxxiv. 5, 6. 
 
 GKEAT God ! to me the sight afford 
 To him of old allowed ; 
 And let my faith behold its Lord, 
 Descending in a cloud ! 
 
 2 The Lord, the mighty God, thou art, 
 But let me rather prove 
 
 That name inspoken to my heart, 
 That fav'rite name of Love. 
 
 3 Merciful God, thyself proclaim 
 In this polluted breast: 
 
 Mercy is thy distinguished name, 
 And suits the sinner best. 
 
 4 Our mis'ry doth for pity call, 
 Our sin implores thy grace; 
 
 And thou art merciful to all 
 Our lost, apostate race. 
 
 13 C. M. (41) 
 Exodus xxxiv. 6, 7. 
 
 THY ceaseless, unexhausted love, 
 Unmerited and free, 
 Delights our evil to remove, 
 And help our misery. 
 

 
 OF GOD. 13 
 
 2 Thou waitest to be gracious still, 
 Thou dost with sinners bear, 
 
 That, saved, Ave may tliy goodness feel. 
 And all thy grace declare. 
 
 3 Thy goodness and thy truth to me, 
 To every soul, abound : 
 
 A vast unfathomable sea. 
 
 Where all our thoughts are drowned. 
 
 4 Its streams the whole creation reach, 
 So plenteous is the store ; 
 
 Enough for all, enough for each, 
 Enough forevermore. 
 
 14 S. M. (60) 
 
 Psahn ciii. 1-7. 
 BLESS the Lord, my soul! 
 Let all within me join. 
 And aid my tongue to bless his name, 
 Whose favors are divine. 
 
 2 O bless the Lord, my soul ! 
 Nor let his mercies lie 
 
 Forgotten in unthankfulness. 
 And without praises die. 
 
 3 'T is he forgives thy sins ; 
 'Tis he relieves thy pain; 
 
 'T is he who heals thy sicknesses, 
 And makes thee young again. 
 
 4 He crowns thy life with love. 
 When ransomed from the grave : 
 
 He, who redeemed my soul from hell. 
 Hath sovereign power to save. 
 
 15 S. M. (61) 
 Psalm ciii. 8-12. 
 
 Y soul, repeat His praise. 
 Whose mercies are so great; 
 
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14 BEING AND PERFECTIONS 1 
 
 Whose anger is so slow to rise, 
 So ready to abate. 
 
 2 God will not always chide ; 
 And when his strokes are felt, 
 
 His strokes are fewer than our crimes, 
 And lighter than our guilt. 
 
 3 High as the heavens are raised 
 Above the ground we tread, 
 
 So far the riches of his grace 
 Our highest thoughts exceed. 
 
 4 His power subdues our sins ; 
 And his forgiving love, 
 
 Far as the east is from the west, 
 Doth all our guilt remove. 
 
 16 S. M. (57) 
 
 Psalm xcv. Opening worship. 
 
 COME, sound his praise abroad, 
 And hymns of glory sing: 
 Jehovah is tlie sovereign God, 
 The universal King. 
 
 2 He formed the deeps unknown, 
 He gave the seas their bound ; 
 
 The watery worlds are all his own. 
 And all the solid ground. 
 
 3 Come, worship at his throne ; 
 Come, bow before the Lord: 
 
 We are his work, and not our own, 
 He formed us by his word. 
 
 4 To-day attend his voice. 
 Nor dare provoke his rod : 
 
 Come, like the people of his choice, 
 And own vour gracious God. 
 
OF GOD. 1^ 
 
 17 S. M. (50) 
 
 Psalm xix. Before morning sermon. 
 
 BEHOLD the morning sun 
 Begins his glorious Avay ; 
 His beams through all the nations run, 
 And life and light convey. 
 
 2 But where the gospel comes, 
 It spreads diviner light; 
 
 It calls dead sinners from their tombs, 
 And gives the blind their sight. 
 
 3 How perfect is thy word ! 
 And all thy judgments just: 
 
 Forever sure thy promise, Lord, 
 And men securely trust. 
 
 4 My gracious God, how jjlain 
 Are thy directions given ! 
 
 O may I never read in vain, 
 But find the path to heaven ! 
 
 18 S. M. (53) 
 
 Psalm xxiii. 
 
 THE Lord my Shepherd is, 
 I shall be well supplied: 
 Since he is mine, and I am his. 
 What can I want beside? 
 
 2 He leads me to the place 
 Where heavenly pasture grows, 
 
 Where living Avaters gently pass, 
 And full salvation flows. 
 
 3 If e'er I go astray. 
 
 He doth my soul reclaim, 
 And guides me in his OAvn right way, 
 For his most holy name. 
 
IG BEING AND PERFECTIONS 
 
 4 While he affords his aid, 
 
 I cannot yield to fear: 
 Though I should walk through death's dark 
 shade, 
 
 My Shepherd's with me there. 
 
 19 C. M. (69) 
 
 Psalm cxxxix. 1-6. 
 
 LORD, all I am is known to thee : 
 In vain my soul would try 
 To shun thy presence, or to flee 
 The notice of thine eye. 
 
 2 Thy all-surrounding sight surveys 
 My rising and my rest, 
 
 My public walks, my private ways, 
 The secrets of my breast. 
 
 3 My thoughts lie open to thee. Lord, 
 Before they're formed within ; 
 
 And ere my lips pronounce the word. 
 Thou know'st the sense I mean. 
 
 4 O wondrous knowledge! deep and high: 
 Where can a creature hide? 
 
 Within thy circling arms I lie, 
 Beset on every side. 
 
 5 So let thy grace surround me still. 
 And like a bulwark prove. 
 
 To guard my soul from every ill. 
 Secured by sovereign love. 
 
 QO C. M. (71) 
 
 Psalm cxlv. 
 
 LET every tongue thy goodness speak. 
 Thou sovereign Lord of all ; 
 Thy strength' ning hands uphold the weak, 
 And raise the poor that fall. 
 
OF GOD. 17 
 
 2 When sorrows bow the spirit down, 
 
 When virtue lies distressed, 
 Beneath the proud oppressor's frown, 
 
 Thou giv'st the mourner rest. 
 
 S Tliou know'st the pains thy servants feel, 
 Thou hear'st thy children's cry; 
 
 And their best wishes to fulfill, 
 Thy grace is ever nigh. 
 
 4 Thy mercy never shall remove 
 From men of heart sincere: 
 
 Thou sav'st the souls whose humble love 
 Is joined with holy fear. 
 
 5 My lips shall dwell upon thy praise. 
 And spread thy fame abroad : 
 
 Let all tlie sons of Adam raise 
 The honors of their God. 
 
 21 8,8,8. (72) 
 
 Psalm cxlvi. 
 
 I'LL praise my Maker while I've breath. 
 And when my voice is lost in death, 
 Praise shall employ }ny nobler powers: 
 My days of praise shall ne'er be past. 
 While life, and thought, and being last. 
 Or immortality endures. 
 
 2 Happy the man whose hopes rely 
 On Israel's God : he made the sky. 
 
 And earth, and seas, with all tlieir train: 
 His truth forever stands secure : 
 He saves th' oppressed, he feeds the poor, 
 
 And none shall find his promise vain. 
 
 3 The Lord pours eyesight on the blind ; 
 The Lord supports the fainting mind ; 
 
 He sends the lab' ring conscience peace; 
 
18 MEDIATION OF CHRIST. 
 
 He helps the stranger in distress, 
 The widow and the fatherless, 
 
 And grants the prisoner sweet release. 
 
 4 T '11 praise him while he lends me breath, 
 And when my voice is lost in death, 
 
 Praise shall employ my nobler powers : 
 My days of praise shall ne'er be past, 
 While life, and thought, and being last, 
 
 Or immortality endures. 
 
 H 
 
 SECTION II. 
 
 Mediation of Christ. 
 22 7s. 
 
 The Incarnation. 
 
 "ARK! the herald angels sing, 
 ''Glory to the new-born King; 
 Peace on earth, and mercy mild ; 
 God and sinners reconciled:" 
 Joyful all ye nations rise. 
 Join the triumphs of the skies; 
 With th' angelic host proclaim, 
 "Christ is born in Bethlehem." 
 
 2 Christ, by highest heaven adored, 
 Christ, the everlasting Lord : 
 Late in time behold him come, 
 Ofispring of a virgin's womb. 
 Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, 
 Hail th' incarnate Deity! 
 Pleased as man with men t' appear, 
 Jesus our Immanuel here. 
 
MEDIATION OF CHEIST. 19 
 
 3 Hail ! the heaven-born Prince of peace ! 
 
 Hail, the Sun of righteousness! 
 
 Light and life to all he brings, 
 
 Risen with healing in his wings: 
 
 Mild he lays his glory by, 
 
 Born that man no more may die; 
 
 Born to raise the sons of earth ; 
 
 Born to give them second birth. 
 
 23 C. M. (99) 
 Psalm xcviii. 
 
 JOY to the v/orld — the Lord is come ! 
 Let earth receive her King; 
 Let every heart prepare him room, 
 And heaven and nature sing. 
 
 2 Joy to the earth — the Saviour reigns ! 
 Let men their songs employ; 
 
 While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, 
 Repeat the sounding joy. 
 
 3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, 
 Nor thorns infest the ground : 
 
 He comes to make his blessings flow, 
 Far as the curse is found. 
 
 4 Pie rules the world with truth and grace; 
 And makes the nations prove 
 
 The glories of his righteousness. 
 And wonders of his love. 
 
 24 C. M. (88) 
 The Advent. 
 
 H 
 
 ARK ! the glad sound ! the Saviour comes 1 
 The Saviour promised long 
 
 Let every heart prepare a throne. 
 And every voice a song. 
 
20 MEDIATION OF CHRIST. 
 
 2 He comes the prisoners to release, 
 In Satan's bondage held: 
 
 The gates of brass before him burst ; 
 The iron fetters yield I 
 
 3 He comes from thickest films of vice 
 To clear the mental ray; 
 
 And on the eyeballs of the blind 
 To pour celestial day. 
 
 4 He comes the broken heart to bind, 
 The bleeding soul to cure ; 
 
 And, with the treasures of his grace, 
 T' enrich the humble poor. 
 
 5 Our glad hosannas, Prince of peace, 
 Thy welcome shall proclaim; 
 
 And heaven's eternal arches ring 
 With thy beloved name. 
 
 25 L. M. (103) 
 
 Credentials of Jesus. 
 
 BEHOLD the blind their sight receive! 
 Behold the dead awake and live! 
 The dumb speak wonders ! and the lame 
 Leap like the hart, and bless his name ! 
 
 2 Thus does tli' eternal Spirit own, 
 And seal the mission of the Son; 
 The Father vindicates his cause, 
 While he hangs bleeding on the cross. 
 
 3 He dies — the heavens in mourning stood I 
 He rises — and appears a God ! 
 
 Behold the Lord ascending high, 
 No more to bleed, no more to die ! 
 
 4 IJence, and forever, from my heart 
 I bid my doubts and fears depart; 
 
 And to those hands my soul resign, \ 
 
 Which bear credentials so divine. 
 
MEDIATION OF CHRIST. 21 
 
 !6 L. M. (105) 
 
 His exemplary life. 
 y dear Kedeemer, and my Lord, 
 
 M' 
 
 I read my duty in thy word ; 
 But in thy life the laAV appears, 
 Drawn out in living characters. 
 •J Su'^h was thy truth, and such thy zeal, 
 Such def'rence to thy Father's will, 
 Such love, and meekness so divine, 
 T would transcribe, and make them mine, 
 o Cold mountains, and the midnight air. 
 Witnessed the fervor of thy prayer ; 
 The desert thy temptations knew, 
 Thy conflict, and thy vict'ry too. 
 4 Be thou my pattern: make me bear 
 More of thy gracious image here; 
 Then God, the Judge, shall own my name, 
 Amoner the followers of the Lamb. 
 
 H' 
 
 Q7 7s. (108) 
 
 '^That ye should foUoio his steps." 
 
 "OLY Lamb, who thee confess, 
 Followers of thy holiness, 
 Thee they ever keep in view. 
 Ever ask, "What shall we do?" 
 Governed by thy only will, 
 All thy words we would fulfill, 
 Would in all thy footsteps go, 
 W^alk as Jesus walked below. 
 
 2 While thou didst on earth appear, 
 Servant to thy servants here, 
 Mindful of thy place above. 
 All thy life was prayer and love: 
 Such our whole employment be, 
 Works of faith and charity: 
 
22 MEDIATION OF CHRIST. 
 
 Works of love on man bestowed, 
 Secret intercourse with God. 
 
 3 Early in the temple meet, 
 Let us still our Saviour greet: 
 Nightly to the mount repair, 
 Join our praying Pattern there : 
 There by wrestling faith obtain 
 Power to work for God again ; 
 Power his image to retrieve, 
 Power like thee, our Lord, to live. 
 
 D' 
 
 QS S. M. (Ill) 
 
 "He beheld the city, and wept over it." 
 
 I ID Christ o'er sinners weep, 
 And shall our cheeks be dry? 
 Let floods of penitential grief 
 Burst forth from every eye. 
 
 2 The Son of God in tears 
 The wond'ring angels see: 
 
 Be thou astonished, O my soul : 
 He shed those tears for thee ! 
 
 3 He wept that we might weep : 
 Each sin demands a tear: 
 
 In heaven alone no sin is found. 
 And there's no weeping there. 
 
 29 S. M. (120) 
 
 Attraction of the Cross. 
 
 BEHOLD th' an)azing sight, 
 The Saviour lifted high : 
 Behold the Son of God's delight 
 Expire in agony. 
 
 2 For whom, for whom, my heart, 
 Were all these sorrows borne? 
 
•MEDIATION OF CHRIST. 23 
 
 Wliy did he feel that piercing smart, 
 And meet that various scorn? 
 
 3 For love of us he bled, 
 And all in torture died ; 
 
 'T was love that bowed his fainting head, 
 And oped his gushing side. 
 
 4 I see, and I adore 
 
 In sympathy of love; 
 I feel the strong, attractive power 
 To lift my soul above. 
 
 30 C. M. (123) 
 The Crucifixion. 
 
 BEHOLD tlie Saviour of mankind 
 Nailed to the shameful tree ! 
 How vast tlie love that him inclined 
 To bleed and die for thee ! 
 
 2 Hark, liow he groans! while nature shakes, 
 And earth's strong pillars bend ! 
 
 The temple's vail in sunder breaks. 
 The solid marbles rend. 
 
 3 'Tis done! the precious ransom's paid! 
 "Receive my soul!" he cries: 
 
 kSee where he boAvs his sacred head ! 
 He bows his head, and dies ! 
 
 4 But soon he'll break death's envious chain, 
 And in full glory shine: 
 
 O Lamb of God, was ever pain. 
 Was ever love, like thine ! 
 
 31 L. M. (126) 
 Gal vi. 14. 
 
 WHEN I survey the wondrous cross 
 On which the Prince of glory died, 
 
24 MEDIATION OF CHRIST.- 
 
 My richest gain I count but loss, 
 
 And pour contempt on all my pride. 
 
 2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, 
 Save in the death of Christ, my God ; 
 
 All the vain things that cliarm me most, 
 
 1 sacrifice them to his blood. 
 
 3 See, from his head, his hands, his feet, 
 Sorrow and love flow mingled down! 
 
 Did e'er such love and sorrow meet? 
 Or thorns compose so rich a crown ? 
 
 4 Were the whole realm of nature mine, 
 That were a present far too small ; 
 
 Love so amazing, so divine, 
 
 Demands my soul, my life, my all. 
 
 82 S. M. (132) 
 
 The Fountain. 
 
 CALLED from above, I rise, 
 And wash away my sin: 
 The stream to which my spirit flies 
 Can make the foulest clean. 
 
 2 It runs divinely clear, 
 
 A fountain deep and wide: 
 'T was opened by the soldier's spear 
 In my Eedeeraer's side ! 
 
 33 C. M. (131) 
 
 The Fountain. 
 
 THERE is a fountain filled with blood, 
 Drawn from Immanuel's veins; 
 And sinners plunged beneath that flood, 
 Lose all their guilty stains. 
 
 2 The dying thief rejoiced to see 
 That fountain in his day ; 
 
MEDIATION OF CHRIST. 25 
 
 And tliere may I, though vile as he, 
 Wash all my sins away. 
 
 3 Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood 
 Shall never lose its power. 
 
 Till all the ransomed Church of God 
 Be saved to sin no more. 
 
 4 E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream 
 Thy flowing wounds supply, 
 
 Eedeeming love has been my theme, 
 And shall be till I die. 
 
 5 Then, in a nobler, sweeter song, 
 I'll sing thy power to save. 
 
 When this poor lisping, stamm'ring tongue 
 Lies silent in the grave. 
 
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 Rock of A-ges. 
 OCK of ages, cleft for me. 
 Let me hide myself in thee: 
 Let the water and the blood, 
 From thy wounded side which flowed, 
 Be of sin the double cure, 
 Save from wrath and make me pure. 
 
 2 Could my tears forever flow. 
 Could my zeal no languor know, 
 These for sin could not atone ; 
 Thou must save, and tliou alone : 
 In my hand no price I bring. 
 Simply to thy cross I cling. 
 
 3 While I draw this fleeting breath, 
 When my eyes shall close in death, 
 When I rise to worlds unknown. 
 And behold thee on thy throne, 
 Kock of ages, cleft for me. 
 Let me hide myself in iliee. 
 
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 Atoning Sacrifice. 
 
 'OT all the blood of beasts, 
 On Jewish altars slain, 
 Could give the guilty conscience peace, 
 Or wash away the stain. 
 
 2 But Christ, the heavenly Lamb, 
 Takes all our sins away; 
 
 A sacrifice of nobler name 
 And richer blood than they. 
 
 3 My faith would lay her hand 
 On that dear head of thine— 
 
 While like a penitent I stand, 
 And there confess my sin. 
 
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 Resurrection. 
 
 YES ! the Redeemer rose, 
 The Saviour left the dead ; 
 And o'er our hellish foes 
 
 High raised his conqu'ring head: 
 In wild dismay, The guards around 
 Fall to the ground. And sink away. 
 
 2 Lo ! the angelic bands 
 In full assembly meet. 
 
 To wait his high commands, 
 And worship at his feet: 
 Joyful they come, And wing their way, 
 From realms of day. To Jesus' tomb. 
 
 3 Then back to heaven they fly. 
 The joyful news to bear: 
 
 Hark ! as they soar on high. 
 
 What music fills the air! 
 
 Their anthems say, ''Jesus, who bled, 
 
 Hath left the dead: He rose to-day." 
 
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 4 Ye mortals, catch tlie sound, 
 Redeemed by Ilim from hell; 
 
 And send tlie echo round 
 
 The globe on which you dwell; 
 Transported cry, ''Jesus, who bled, 
 Hath left the dead, No more to die." 
 
 5 All hail, triumphant Lord, ^ 
 Who sav'st us with thy blood! 
 
 Yv^ide be thy name adored. 
 Thou rising, reigning God: 
 With thee we rise. With thee we reign, 
 And empires gain. Beyond the skies. 
 
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 Resurrection of Christ. 
 
 THE Lord of Sabbath let us praise, 
 In concert with the blest. 
 Who, joyful, in harmonious lays 
 Employ an endless rest. 
 
 2 Thus, Lord, while we remember thee, 
 We blest and pious grow ; 
 
 By hymns of praise we learn to be 
 Triumphant here below, 
 
 3 On tliis glad day a brighter scene 
 Of glory was displayed, 
 
 By God, th' eternal Word, than when 
 This universe was made. 
 
 4 He rises, who mankind has bought 
 With grief and pain extreme: 
 
 'T was great to speak tlie world from naught ; 
 'T was greater to redeem. 
 
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 Resurrection. 
 ^ ^ rpPIE Lord is risen indeed : " 
 J. He lives to die no more; 
 
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 He lives the sinner's cause to plead, 
 
 Whose curse and shame he bore. 
 2 " The Lord is risen indeed : " 
 
 Then hell has lost his prey ; 
 With him has risen the ransomed seed, 
 
 To reign in endless day. 
 ,3 " The Lord is risen indeed : " 
 
 Attending angels hear — 
 Up to the courts of heaven, with speed, 
 
 The joyful tidings bear. 
 4 Then wake your golden lyres, 
 
 And strike each cheerful chord; 
 Join, all ye bright, celestial choirs. 
 
 To sing our risen Lord. 
 
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 Dying, rising, reigning. 
 
 HE dies! the Friend of sinners dies! 
 Lo! Salem's daugliters weep around; 
 A solemn darkness veils the skies ; 
 
 A sudden trembling shakes the ground. 
 Come, saints, and drop a tear or two 
 
 For him who groaned beneath your load: 
 He shed a thousand drops for you, 
 A thousand drops of richer blood, 
 
 2 Here's love and grief beyond degree: 
 The Lord of glory dies for man ! 
 
 But lo! what sudden joys we see! 
 
 Jesus, the dead, revives again ! 
 The rising God forsakes tlie tomb ; 
 
 Up to his Father's courts he flies; 
 Cherubic legions guard him home, 
 
 And shout him welcome to the skies. 
 
 3 Break off your tears, ye saints, and tell 
 How high your great Deliverer reigns : 
 
 Sing how he spoiled the hosts of hell, 
 And led the monster death in chains ! 
 
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 Say, "Live forever, wondrous King! 
 
 Born to redeem, and strong to save!" 
 Tlien ask the monster, "Where's thy sting?" 
 
 And, " Where 's thy vict'ry, boasting grave?" 
 
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 Psalm xxiv. 7-10. 
 
 OUR Lord is risen from the dead ; 
 Our Jesus is gone up on liigh ! 
 , The powers of hell are captive led. 
 Dragged to the portals of the sky. 
 There his triumphal chariot waits. 
 
 And angels chant the solemn lay: 
 Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates, 
 Ye everlasting doors, give way. 
 
 2 Loose all your bars of massy light. 
 And wide unfold th' ethereal scene: 
 
 He claims these mansions as his right — 
 
 Receive the King of glory in. 
 Who is the King of glory? Who? 
 
 The Lord that all our foes o'ercame. 
 The world, sin, death, and hell, o'erthrew— 
 
 And Jesus is the conqu'ror's name. 
 
 3 Lo! his triumphal chariot waits. 
 And angels chant the solemn lay : 
 
 Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates, 
 Ye everlasting doors, give wav. 
 
 AVho is tiie King of glory? Who? 
 
 The Lord, of glorious power possessed : 
 
 The King of saints and angels too, 
 God over all forever blessed. 
 
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 ^^ Alive forevermore." 
 
 CIIIRIST, the Lord, is risen to-day 1 
 I Sous of men and angels say I 
 
so MEDIATION OF CHRIST. 
 
 Eaise your joys and triumphs high: 
 Sing, ye heavens — thou earth reply. 
 
 2 Love's redeeming work is done — 
 Fought the fight, the battle won : 
 Lo ! the sun's eclipse is o'er; 
 
 Lo ! he sets in blood no more. 
 
 3 Vain the stone, the watcji, the seal — 
 Christ hath burst the gates of hell : 
 Death in vain forbids his rise: 
 Christ hath opened paradise. 
 
 4 Lives again our glorious King ! 
 "Where, O death .'"is now thy sting?" 
 Once he died our souls to save: 
 "Where's thy victory, boasting grave?" 
 
 5 Soar we now where Clirist has led, 
 Following our exalted Head : 
 Made like him, like him we rise — 
 Ours the cross, the grave, the skies. 
 
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 The Ascension. 
 
 AIL the day that sees him rise, 
 Eavished from our wisliful eyes! 
 Christ aAvhile to mortals given, 
 Keascends his native heaven. 
 
 2 There the pompous triumph waits: 
 " Lift your heads, eternal gates ; 
 Wide imfold the radiant scene ; 
 Take the King of glory in ! " 
 
 3 Circled round with angel powers. 
 Their triumphant Lord, and ours, 
 Conqueror over death and sin: 
 Take the King of glory in ! 
 
 4 Him though highest heaven receives, 
 Still he loves the earth he leaves : 
 
MEDIATION OF CHRIST. 
 
 Though returning to his throne, 
 Still he calls mankind his own. 
 
 5 See, he lifts his hands above! 
 See, he shows the prints of love ! 
 Hark, his gracious lips bestow 
 Blessings on his Church below ! 
 
 6 Ever upward let us move. 
 Wafted on the wings of love: 
 Looking when thou. Lord, shalt come, 
 Longing, gasping after home. 
 
 7 There we shall with thee remain, 
 Partners of thy endless reign : 
 There tliy face unclouded see. 
 Find our heaven of heavens in thee. 
 
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 Priesthood of Christ. 
 AIL, thou once despised Jesus I 
 Hail, thou Galilean King! 
 Thou didst suffer to release us; 
 
 Thou didst free salvation bring. 
 Hail, thou agonizing Saviour, 
 
 Bearer of our sin and shame I 
 By thy merits we find favor ; 
 Life is given through thy name. 
 
 2 Paschal Lamb, by God appointed, 
 All our sins on tliee were laid; 
 
 By almighty love anointed, 
 
 Thou hast full atonement made : 
 
 All thy people are forgiven. 
 
 Through tlie virtue of thy blood ; 
 
 Opened is the gate of heaven; 
 
 Peace is made 'twixt man and God. 
 
 3 Jesus, hail ! enthroned in glory, 
 There forever to abide! 
 
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 All the heavenly hosts adore thee, 
 
 Sea^;ed at thy Father's side; 
 There for sinners thou art pleading, . 
 
 There thou dost our place prepare; 
 Ever for us interceding, 
 
 Till in glory we appear. 
 
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 Stupendous Love. 
 
 PLUNGED in a gulf of dark despair, 
 We wretched sinners lay. 
 Without one cheering beam of hope, 
 Or spark of glimmering day. 
 
 2 With pitying eyes the Prince of grace 
 Beheld our helpless grief: 
 
 He saw, and (O, amazing love!) 
 He ran to our relief. 
 
 3 Down from the shining seats above 
 With joyful haste he fled. 
 
 Entered the grave in mortal fle&h. 
 And dwelt among the dead. 
 
 4 O for this love let rocks and hills 
 Their lasting silence break ! 
 
 And all harmonious human tongues 
 The Saviour's praises speak. 
 
 5 Angels, assist our mighty Joys, 
 Strike all your harps of gold; 
 
 But ^hen you raise your highest notes. 
 His love can ne'er be told ! 
 
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 [From the Latin of St. Bernard.] 
 Love which passeth knowledge. 
 
 
 
 F Him Avho did salvation bring 
 I could forever think and sing: 
 
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 Arise, ye needy, he'll relieve; 
 Arise, ye guilty, he'll forgive. 
 
 2 Ask but his grace, and lo, 't is given ! 
 Ask, and he turns your hell to heaven : 
 Thougli sin and sorrow wound my soul, 
 Jesus, thy balm will make it whole. 
 
 3 To shame our sins he blushed in blood, 
 He closed his eyes to show us God : 
 
 Let all the world fall down and know 
 That none but God such love can show. . 
 
 4 'T is thee I love, for thee alone 
 
 I shed my tears and make my moan ! 
 Where'er I am, where'er I move, 
 I meet the object of my love. 
 
 5 Insatiate to this spring I fly ; 
 I drink, and yet am ever dry : 
 
 Ah! who against thy charms is proof? 
 Ah I who that loves can love enough ? 
 
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 Wonders of the Cross. 
 
 NATUKE with open volume stands 
 To spread her Maker's praise abroad ; 
 And every labor of his hands 
 
 Shows something worthy of a God. 
 
 2 But in the grace that rescued man. 
 His brightest form of glory shines: 
 
 Here, on the cross, 'tis fairest dra-vvn 
 In precious blood and crimson lines. 
 
 3 O ! the sweet wonders of that cross. 
 Where God, the Saviour, loved and died! 
 
 Her noblest life my spirit draws 
 
 From his dear wounds and bleeding side. 
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 4 I would forever speak his name, 
 In sound to mortal ears unknown; 
 
 With angels join to praise the Lamb, 
 And worship at his Father's throne. 
 
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 Indebtedness to Christ. 
 
 MAJESTIC sweetness sits enthroned 
 Upon the Saviour's brow; 
 His head with radiant glories crowned, 
 His lips with grace o'erflow. 
 
 2 He saw me plunged in deep distress, 
 And flew to my relief : 
 
 For me he bore the shameful cross, 
 And carried all my grief. 
 
 3 To heaven, the place of his abode. 
 He brings my weary feet, 
 
 Shows me the glories of my God, 
 And makes my joys complete. 
 
 4 Since from his bounty I receive 
 Such proofs of love divine, 
 
 Had I a thousand hearts to give, 
 Lord, they should all be thine. 
 
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 Heb. iv. 14-16. 
 
 WITH joy we meditate the grace 
 Of our High-priest above : 
 His heart is made of tenderness. 
 His bowels melt with love. 
 
 2 Touched with a sympathy within. 
 
 He knows our feeble frame: 
 He knows what sore temptations mean, 
 
 For he hath felt the same. 
 
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 3 He in the days of feeble flesh 
 Poured out strong cries and tears ; 
 
 And in his measure feels afresh 
 What every member bears. 
 
 4 He'll never quench the smoking flax, 
 But raise it to a flame: 
 
 The bruised reed he never breaks, 
 Nor scorns the meanest name. 
 
 5 Then let our humble faith address 
 His mercy and his power: 
 
 We shall obtain delivering grace 
 In the distressing hour. 
 
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 Eev. V. 11-13. 
 
 COME, let us join our cheerful songs 
 With angels round the throne: 
 Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, 
 But all their joys are one. 
 
 2 Worthy the Lamb that died, they cry, 
 To be exalted thus: 
 
 Worthy the Lamb, our hearts reply, 
 For he was slain for us. 
 
 3 Jesus is worthy to receive 
 Honor and power divine; 
 
 And blessings, more than we can give, 
 Be, Lord, forever thine. 
 
 4 The whole creation join in one 
 To bless the sacred name 
 
 Of him that sits upon the throne, 
 And to adore the Lamb. 
 
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 The Name of Jesus. 
 
 HOW sweet the name of Jesus sounds 
 In a believer's ear ! 
 
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 It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, 
 And drives away his fear. 
 
 2 It makes the wounded spirit whole, 
 And calms the troubled breast; 
 
 'T is manna to the hungry soul. 
 And to the weary, rest. 
 
 3 Weak is the effort of my lieart. 
 And cold my warmest thought • 
 
 But when I see thee as thou art, 
 I '11 praise thee as I ought. 
 
 4 Till then, I would thy love proclaim 
 With every fleeting breath ; 
 
 And may the music of thy name 
 Kefresh my soul in death ! 
 
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 "Se is precious." 
 
 JESUS, I love thy charming name, 
 'Tis music to my ear; 
 Fain would I sound it out so loud 
 That earth and heaven should hear. 
 
 2 Yes, thou art precious to my soul. 
 My transport and my trust; 
 
 Jewels, to thee, are gaudy toys, 
 And gold is sordid dust. 
 
 3 All my capacious powers can wish. 
 In thee doth richly meet; 
 
 Nor to mine eyes is light so dear, 
 Nor friendship half so sweet. 
 
 4 Thy grace still dwells upon my heart, 
 And sheds its fragrance there ; 
 
 The no])lest balm of all its wounds, 
 The cordial of its care. 
 
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 5 I'll speak the honors of thy name 
 With my last, laboring breath ! 
 
 Then speechless clasp thee in mine arms, 
 The antidote of death. 
 
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 Rev. V. 6-10. 
 
 BEHOLD the glories of the Lamb 
 Amidst his Father's throne! 
 Prepare new honors for his name,' 
 And songs, before unknown. 
 
 2 Let elders worship at his feet, 
 The Church adore around ; 
 
 With vials full of odors sweet. 
 And harps of sweetest sound. 
 
 3 Those are the prayers of all the saints, 
 And these the hymns they raise: 
 
 Jesus is kind to our complaints. 
 He loves to hear our praise. 
 
 4 Now to the Lamb that once M'as slain 
 Be endless blessings paid : 
 
 Salvation, glory, joy, remain, 
 Forever on thy head. 
 
 5 Thou hast redeemed our souls with blood ; 
 Hast set the prisoners free ; 
 
 Hast made us kings and priests to God ; 
 And Ave shall reign with thee ! 
 
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 ^^Let all the angels of God worship himJ' 
 
 HOW great the wisdom, power, and grace, 
 Which in redemption shine! 
 The heavenly liost with joy confess 
 
 Tlie work is all divine. 
 2 Before his feet they cast their crowns — 
 Those crowns which Jesus gn ve — 
 
38 MEDIATION OF CHRIST. 
 
 And, with ten thousand tliousand tongues, 
 
 Proclaim his power to save. 
 8 They tell the triumphs of his cross, 
 
 The sufferings which he bore — 
 How low he stooped, how high he rose, 
 
 And rose to stoop no more. 
 4 O let them still their voices raise, 
 
 And still their songs renew: 
 Salvation well deserves the praise 
 
 Of men and angels too! 
 
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 Salvation. 
 ^ALVATION, O the joyful sound! 
 
 'Tis pleasure to our ears: 
 A sovereign balm for every wound, 
 A cordial for our fears. 
 
 2 Buried in sorrow and in sin. 
 At hell's dark door we lay; 
 
 But we arise by grace divine 
 To see a heavenly day. 
 
 3 Salvation ! let the echo fly 
 The spacious earth around, 
 
 While all the armies of the sky 
 Conspire to raise the sound. 
 
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 Coronation of Christ: 
 
 ALL hail tlie power of Jesus' name! 
 Let angels prostrate fall: 
 Bring forth the royal diadem, 
 And crown him Lord of all. 
 2 Ye chosen seed of Israel's race — 
 
 A remnant weak and small — 
 Hail him who saves you by his grace, 
 And crown him Lord of all. 
 
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 3 Ye Gentile sinners, ne'er forget 
 The wormwood and the gall : 
 
 Go, spread your trophies at his feet, 
 And crown him Lord of all. 
 
 4 Let every kindred, every tribe, 
 On tliis terrestrial ball. 
 
 To him all majesty ascribe, 
 And crown him Lord of all. 
 
 5 O that, with yonder sacred throng. 
 We at his feet may fall ! 
 
 We'll join the everlasting song. 
 And crown him Lord of all. 
 
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 Grace. 
 
 GEACE ! 't is a charmihg sound! 
 Harmonious to my ear! 
 Heaven with the echo shall resound, 
 And all the earth shall hear. 
 
 2 Grace first contrived the way 
 To save rebellious man ; 
 
 And all the steps that grace display 
 Which drew the wondrous plan. 
 
 3 Grace taught my wandering feet 
 To tread the heavenly road ; 
 
 And new supplies each hour I meet 
 While pressing on to God. 
 
 4 Grace all the work shall crown, 
 Through everlasting days : 
 
 It lays in heaven the topmost stone, 
 And well deserves the praise. 
 
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 SECTION III. 
 
 Offices of the Holy Ghost. 
 
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 Pentecost. 
 
 LORD, we believe to us and ours 
 The apostolic promise given : 
 We wait the penteeostal powers, 
 
 The Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. 
 
 2 Ah ! leave us not to mourn below, 
 Or long for thy return to pine : 
 
 Now, Lord, the Comforter bestow. 
 And fix in us the Guest Divine. 
 
 3 Assembled here with one accord. 
 Calmly we wait the promised grace, 
 
 Tlie purchase of our dying Lord : 
 Come, Holy Ghost, and fill the place. 
 
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 Woj'k and Witness. 
 
 OCOME, and dwell in me, 
 Spirit of power within ! 
 And bring the glorious liberty 
 From sorrow, fear, and sin. 
 
 2 Hasten the joyful day 
 Which shall my sins consume, 
 
 When old things shall be done away, 
 And all things new become. 
 
 3 I want the witness, Lord, 
 That all I do is right, 
 
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 According to thy will and word, 
 Well-pleasing in thy sight. 
 
 4 I ask no higher state; 
 Indulge me but in this ; 
 
 And soon or later then translate 
 To my eternal bliss. 
 
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 Pentecost. 
 
 LOED God, the Holy Ghost, 
 In this accepted hour, 
 As on the day of Pentecost, 
 Descend in all thy power! 
 
 2 The young, the old, inspire 
 With wisdom from above ; • 
 
 And give us hearts and tongues of fire 
 To pray, and praise, and love. 
 
 3 Spirit of light, explore, 
 And chase our gloom away, 
 
 With luster shining more and more 
 Unto the perfect day. 
 
 4 Spirit of truth, be thou 
 
 In life and death our guide: 
 O Spirit of adoption, now 
 May we be sanctified! 
 
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 Spirit of Faith. 
 PIRIT of faith, come down, 
 Keveal the things of God ; 
 And malve to us the Godhead known, 
 
 And witness with the blood: 
 'Tis thine the blood t' apply, 
 
 And give us eyes to see. 
 
 Who did for every sinner die, 
 
 Hath surely died for me. 
 
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 2 No man can truly say 
 
 That Jesus is the Lord, 
 Unless thou take the veil awav, 
 
 And breathe the living word: 
 Then, only then, we feel 
 
 Our interest in his blood, 
 And cry with joy unspeakable, 
 
 "Thou art my Lord, my God !" 
 
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 His departure earnestly deprecated. 
 
 STAY, thou insulted Spirit ! stay ! 
 Though I have done thee such despite; 
 Nor cast the sinner quite away, 
 Nor take thine everlasting flight. 
 
 2 Though I have steeled my stubborn lieart, 
 And still shook ofl" my guilty fears ; 
 
 And vexed, and urged thee to depart, 
 For many long rebellious years: 
 
 3 Though I have most unfaithful been 
 Of all who e'er thy grace received; 
 
 Ten thousand times tliy goodness seen, 
 Ten thousand times thy goodness grieved ; 
 
 4 Yet O ! the chief of sinners spare, 
 In honor of my great High-priest; 
 
 Nor in thy righteous anger, swear 
 T' exclude me from thy people's rest. 
 
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 Ills influences sought. 
 
 iOME, Holy Spirit, come, 
 With energy divine, 
 And on this poor, benighted soul, 
 With beams of mercy shine. 
 
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 2 O melt this frozen heart ; 
 This stubborn will Fubdue; 
 
 Each evil passion overcome, 
 And form me all anew ! 
 
 3 The profit will be mine, 
 
 But thine shall be the praise; 
 And unto thee will I devote 
 The remnant of my days. 
 
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 Witness and Seal. 
 
 'HY should the children of a King 
 Go mourning all their days? 
 Great Comforter, descend, and bring 
 The tokens of thy grace. 
 
 2 Dost thou not dwell in all thy saints, 
 And seal the heirs of heaven? 
 
 When wilt thou banish my complaints, 
 And show my sins forgiven? 
 
 3 Assure my conscience of her part 
 In the Redeemer's blood ; 
 
 And bear thy witness with my heart, 
 That I am born of God. 
 
 4 Tliou art the earnest of his love, 
 The pledge of joys to come: 
 
 May thy blest wings, celestial Dove, 
 Safely convey me home ! 
 
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 His quichenings implored. 
 
 COME, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, 
 With all tiiy quickening powers, 
 Kindle a flame of sacred love 
 In these cold hearts of ours. 
 
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 2 Look how we grovel here below, 
 Fond of these earthly toys; 
 
 Our souls how heavily they go 
 To reacli eternal joys! 
 
 3 In vain we tune our formal songs, 
 In vain we strive to rise; 
 
 Hosannas languish on our tongues, 
 And our devotion dies. 
 
 4 And shall we then forever live 
 At this poor dying rate? 
 
 Our love so faint, so cold to thee. 
 And thine to us so great? 
 
 5 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, 
 With all thy quickening powers ; 
 
 Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love. 
 And that shall kindle ours. 
 
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 The Interpreter. Before Sermon. 
 
 COME, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire, 
 Let us thine influence prove: 
 Source of the old prophetic fire. 
 Fountain of life and love. 
 
 2 Come, Holy Ghost — for, moved by thee. 
 The prophets wrote and spoke — 
 
 Unlock the truth, thyself the key: 
 Unseal the sacred book. 
 
 3 Expand thy wings, celestial Dove, 
 Brood o'er our nature's night ; 
 
 On our disordered spirits move. 
 And let there now be light. 
 
 4 God, through himself, we then shall know, 
 If thou Avitliin us shine ; 
 
 And sound, with all thy saints below, 
 The depths of love divine. 
 
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 The Spirit invoiced. 
 
 CELESTIAL Dove, Come from above, 
 And guide me in thy ways: 
 My heart prepare For solemn j)rayer, 
 And tune my lips to praise. 
 
 2 Open mine eyes, And make me wise, 
 My interest to discern: 
 
 From every sin, Without, within, 
 Incline my heart to turn. 
 
 3 Fly to my aid, When I 'm afraid, 
 Or plunged in deep distress ; 
 
 My foes subdue, And bring me through 
 This howlins: wilderness. 
 
 SECTION IV. 
 
 Institutions of Christianity. 
 
 1, THE CHURCH. 
 
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 Psalm xxvii. 1-6. 
 
 THE Lord of glory is my light, 
 And my salvation too : 
 God is my strength ; nor will I fear 
 What all my foes can do. 
 
 2 One privilege my heart desires — 
 O grant me an abode 
 
 Among the Churches of thy saints, 
 The temples of my God ! 
 
 3 There shall I offer my requests, 
 And see thy beauty still ; 
 
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 Shall hear thy messages of love, 
 And there inquire thy will. 
 
 4 When troubles rise, and storms appear, 
 There may his children hide: 
 
 God has a strong pavilion, where 
 He makes my soul abide. 
 
 5 Now shall my head be lifted high 
 Above my foes around ; 
 
 And songs of joy and victory 
 Within thy temple sound. 
 
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 Psalm xlvi. 1-5. 
 
 GOD is the refuge of his saints, 
 When storms of sharp distress invade; 
 Ere we can offer our complaints, 
 Behold him present with his aid. 
 
 2 Let mountains from their seats be hurled 
 Down to the deep, and buried there — 
 
 Convulsions shake the solid world — 
 Our faith shall never yield to fear. 
 
 3 There is a stream, whose gentle flow 
 Supplies the city of our God ; 
 
 Life, love, and joy, still gliding tlirough. 
 And watering our divine abode. 
 
 4 That sacred stream, thy holy word. 
 Our grief allays, our fear controls : 
 
 Sweet peace thy promises afford. 
 
 And give new strength to fainting souls. 
 
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 Psalm Ixxxiv. 1-7. 
 
 OW pleasant, how divinely fair, 
 O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are I 
 W^ith strong desire my spirit faints 
 To meet th' assemblies of thy saints. 
 
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 2 Blest are the souls that find a place 
 Within the temple of thy grace: 
 Here they behold thy gentler rays, 
 And seek thy face, and learn thy praise. 
 
 3 Blest are the men whose hearts are set 
 To find the way to Zion's gate: 
 
 God is their strength, and through the road 
 Tliey lean upon their helper, God. 
 
 4 Cheerful they walk with growing strength, 
 Till all shall meet in heaven at length, 
 Till all before thy face appear. 
 
 And join in nobler worship there. 
 
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 Psalm cxxii. 
 
 "OW did my heart rejoice to hear 
 My friends devoutly say, 
 "In Zion let us all appear, 
 And keep the solemn day!" 
 
 2 I love her gates, I love the road I 
 The Church, adorned with grace, 
 
 Stands like a palace built for God, 
 To show his milder face. 
 
 3 Peace be within this sacred place. 
 And joy a constant guest! 
 
 With holy gifts and heavenly grace 
 Be her attendants blessed. 
 
 4 My soul shall pray for Zion still, 
 AVhile life or breath remains; 
 
 There my best friends, my kindred dwell, 
 There God, my Saviour, reigns. 
 
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 Psalm Ixxxiv, 8-12. 
 
 GEE AT God, attend while Zion sings 
 The joy that from thy presence springs: 
 
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 To spend one day with tliee on earth 
 Exceeds a thousand days of mirth. 
 
 2 Might I enjoy the meanest place 
 Within thy house, O God of grace, 
 Not tents of ease, nor thrones of power, 
 Should tempt my feet to leave thy door. 
 
 3 God is our sun, he makes our day : 
 God is our shield, he guards our way 
 I<rom all th' assaults of hell and sin— 
 I* rom foes without, and foes within. 
 
 4 All needful grace will God bestow. 
 And crown that grace with glory too: 
 He gives us all things, and withholds 
 No real good from upright souls. 
 
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 Isaiah li. 9-11. 
 
 ARM of the Lord, awake, awake ! 
 Thine own immortal strength put on ! 
 With terror clothed, hell's kingdom shake, 
 And cast thy foes with fury down. 
 
 2 As in the ancient days, appear ; 
 The sacred annals speak thy fame ; 
 
 Be now omnipotently near, 
 To endless ages still the same. 
 
 3 By death and hell pursued in vain, 
 To tliee the ransomed seed shall come; 
 
 Shouting, their heavenly Sion gain, 
 
 And pass through death triumphant home. 
 
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 Isaiah lii. 1-12. 
 
 AAVAKE, Jerusalem, awake! 
 No longer in thy sins lie dov/n ; 
 The garment of salvation take, 
 
 Thy beauty and thy strength put on. 
 
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 2 Shake off the dust that blinds thy siglit, 
 And hides the promise from thine eyes ; 
 
 Arise and struggle into light, 
 The great Deliverer calls, Arise ! 
 
 3 Shake off the bands of sad despair; 
 Sion, assert thy liberty ; 
 
 Look up, thy broken heart prepare, 
 And God shall set the captive free. 
 
 4 Vessels of mercy, sons of grace, 
 Be purged from every sinful stain, 
 
 Ee like your Lord, his word embrace, 
 Nor bear his hallowed name in vain. 
 
 5 The Lord shall in your front appear, 
 And lead the pompous triumph on ; 
 
 His glory shall bring up the rear. 
 And perfect what his grace begun. 
 
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 The Church Militant. 
 
 JESUS, the Conqueror, reigns, 
 In glorious strength arrayed, 
 His kingdom over all maintains, 
 And bids the earth be glad ! 
 
 2 Ye sons of men rejoice 
 In Jesus' mighty love : 
 
 Lift up your heart, lift up your voice, 
 To Him who rules above. 
 
 3 Extol his kingly power; 
 Kiss the exalted Son, 
 
 Who died, and lives to die no more, 
 High on his Father's throne: 
 
 4 Our Advetrnte with God, 
 He undertakes our cause, 
 
 And spreads through all the earth abroad 
 The victory of his cross. 
 
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 The Church Militant. 
 
 HAEK, how the watchmen cry! 
 Attend the trumpet's sound! 
 Stand to your arms, the foe is nigh; 
 The powers of hell surround. 
 
 2 Who bow to Christ's command, 
 Your arms and hearts prepare; 
 
 The day of battle is at hand! 
 Go forth to glorious war! 
 
 3 See, on the mountain top, 
 The standard of your God ! 
 
 In Jesus' name I lift it up, 
 
 All stained with hallowed blood. 
 
 4 His standard-bearer, I 
 To all tlie nations call: 
 
 Let all to Jesus' cross draw nigh ; 
 He bore the cross for all. 
 
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 Psalm xcii. 12-15. 
 
 LOE.D, 'tis a pleasant thing to stand 
 In gardens planted by thy hand ; 
 Let me within tliy courts be seen, 
 Like a young cedar, fresh and green. 
 
 2 There grow thy saints in faith and love, 
 Blest witli thine influence from above: 
 Isot Lebanon, with all its trees, 
 
 Yields such a comely sight as these. 
 
 3 Laden with fruits of age, they show 
 The Lord is holy, just, and true: 
 None that attend liis gates shall find 
 A God unfaitJiful or unkind. 
 

 
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 Serving the Church. 
 
 MIGHT my lot be cast with these. 
 The least of Jesus' witnesses! 
 O that my Lord would count me meet 
 To wash his dear disciples' feet ! 
 
 2 This only thing do I require: 
 Thou know'st 'i is all my heart's desire, 
 Freely what I receive to give, 
 
 The servant of thy Church to live — 
 
 3 After my lowly Lord to go, 
 And wait upon thy saints below; 
 Enjoy the grace to angels given, 
 And serve the royal heirs of heaven. 
 
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 Supplies of the Church. 
 
 GLORIOUS things of thee are spoken, 
 Zion, city of our God ! 
 He, whose word can ne'er be broken, 
 
 Formed thee for his own abode: 
 On the Rock of Ages founded, 
 
 What can shake thy sure repose? 
 "With salvation's walls surrounded, 
 Thou may' St smile at all thy foes. 
 
 2 See! the streams of living waters, 
 Springing from eternal love. 
 
 Well supply thy sons and daughters, 
 And all fear of want remove: 
 
 Who can faint while such a river 
 Ever Hows, their tliirst t' assuage? 
 
 Grace which, like the Lord, tlie giver, 
 Never fails from age to age. 
 
 3 Round each habitation hovering, 
 See the cloud and tire appear. 
 
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 For a glory and a covering — 
 Showing that the Lord is near; 
 
 Glorious things of thee are spoken, 
 Zion, city of our God ! 
 
 He, whose word can ne'er be broken, 
 Chose thee for his own abode. 
 
 2. THE MINISTRY. 
 
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 The Great Commission. 
 
 ^^ CiO preach my gospel," saith the Lord: 
 
 \jr ''Bid the whole earth my grace receive; 
 He shall be saved who trusts my word ; 
 He shall be damned who won't believe. 
 
 2 "I'll make your great commission known; 
 And ye shall prove my gaspel true, 
 
 By all the works that I have done, 
 By all the wonders ye shall do. 
 
 3 "Teach all the nations my commands; 
 I 'm with you till the world shall end: 
 
 All power is trusted in my hands; 
 
 1 can destroy, and I defend." 
 
 4 He spake — and light shone round his head; 
 On a bright cloud to heaven he rode ; 
 
 They to the farthest nations spread 
 The grace of their ascended God. 
 
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 Angeh of the Church. 
 
 DRAW near, O Son of God, draw near! 
 Us with thy flaming eye behold ; 
 Still in thy Church vouchsafe t' appear, 
 And let our candlestick be gold. 
 
 2 Still hold the stars in thy right-hand, 
 And let them in thy luster glow, 
 
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 The lights of a benighted land. 
 The angels of thy Church below. 
 
 3 Make good their apostolic boast, 
 Their high commission let tliem prove, 
 
 Be temples of the Holy Ghost, 
 
 And tilled with faith, and hope, and love. 
 
 4 Give them an ear to hear thy word : 
 Thou speakest to the churches now ; 
 
 And let all tongues confess their Lord, 
 Let every knee to Jesus bow. 
 
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 Isaiah lii. 7-10. 
 
 "OW beauteous are their feet 
 ^^ Who stand on Zion's hill; 
 Who bring salvation on their tongues, 
 
 And words of peace reveal ! 
 
 2 How charming is their voice! 
 How sweet tlie tidings are!^ 
 
 " Zion, behold thy Saviour King ; 
 He reigns and triumphs here !" 
 
 3 How happy are our ears 
 That hear this joyful sound, 
 
 Wliich kings and prophets waited for, 
 And sought, but never found ! 
 
 4 How blessed are our eyes 
 That see this heavenly light ! 
 
 Prophets and kings desired it long, 
 But died without the sight. 
 
 5 The watchmen join their voice. 
 And tuneful notes employ; 
 
 Jerusalem breaks fortli in songs, 
 And deserts learn the joy. 
 
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 6 Tlie Lord makes bare his arm 
 Through all the earth abroad: 
 
 Let every nation now behold 
 Their Saviour and their God. 
 
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 Zion's Watchmen. 
 
 LET Zion's watchmen all awake, 
 And take th' alarm they give ; 
 Now let them from the month of God 
 Their awful charge receive. 
 
 2 'T is not a cause of small import 
 The pastor's care demands; 
 
 But what might fill an angel's heart, 
 And fill a Saviour's hands. 
 
 3 They watch for souls, for which the Lord 
 Did heavenly bliss forego! 
 
 For souls which must forever live 
 In raptures, or in woe. 
 
 4 May they that Jesus Avhom they preach, 
 Their own Redeemer see, 
 
 And watch thou daily o'er their souls, 
 That they may watch for thee. 
 
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 For an increase of laborers. 
 
 LORD of the harvest, hear 
 Thy needy servant's cry; 
 Answer our faith's effectual prayer, 
 And all our wants supply. 
 
 2 On thee we humbly wait, 
 Our wants are in thy view; 
 
 The harvest, truly, Lord, is great, 
 The laborers are few. 
 
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 3 Convert and send forth more 
 Into thy Church abroad, 
 
 And let them speak thy word of power, 
 As workers with their God. 
 
 4 O let them spread thy name, 
 Their mission fully prove ; 
 
 Thy universal grace proclaim, 
 Thine all-redeeming love. 
 
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 The treasure in earthen vessels. 
 OW rich thy bounty, King of kings! 
 Thy favors, how divine! 
 The blessings which thy gospel brings, 
 How splendidly they sliine ! 
 
 2 Gold is but dross, and gems but toys, 
 Should gold and gems compare; 
 
 How mean, when set against those joys, 
 Thy poorest servants share ! 
 
 3 Yet all these treasures of thy grace 
 Are lodged in urns of clay ; 
 
 And the weak sons of mortal race 
 Til' immortal gifts convey. 
 
 4 Feebly they lisp thy glories forth ; 
 Yet grace the victory gives : 
 
 Quickly they molder back to earth ; 
 Yet still thy gospel lives. 
 
 5 Sucli wonders power divine effects; 
 Such trophies God can raise: 
 
 His hand, from crum]:)ling dust, erects 
 His monuments of praise. 
 
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 The minister's theme. 
 
 JESUS, the name high over all 
 In hell, or earth, or sky I 
 
56 INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 Angels and men before it fall, 
 And devils fear and fly. 
 
 2 Jesus, the name to sinners dear. 
 The name to sinners given ! 
 
 It scatters all their guilty fear: 
 It turns their hell to heaven. 
 
 3 O that the world might taste and see 
 The riches of his grace! 
 
 The arras of love that compass me, 
 Would all mankind embrace ! 
 
 4 His only righteousness I show. 
 His saving truth proclaim: 
 
 'T is all mv business here below 
 To cry, ''Behold the Lamb!" 
 
 5 Happy, if with my latest breath 
 I may but gasp his name ; 
 
 Preach him to all, and cry in death, 
 "Behold, behold the Lamb!" 
 
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 Closing Conference. 
 
 ND let our bodies part, 
 To different climes repair. 
 Inseparably joined in heart 
 The friends of Jesus are. 
 
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 2 The vineyard of the Lord ^ 
 Before his laborers lies; 
 
 And lo ! we see the vast reward 
 Which waits us in the skies. 
 
 3 O let our heart and mind 
 Continually ascend, 
 
 That haven of repose to find. 
 Where all our labors end! 
 
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 4 Where all our toils are o'er, 
 Our suffering and our pain : 
 
 Who meet on that eternal shore, 
 Shall never part again. 
 
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 Opening Conference. 
 
 ND are we yet alive, 
 xA.nd see each other's face? 
 Glory and praise to Jesus give 
 
 For his redeeming grace ! 
 Preserved by power divine 
 
 To full salvation here. 
 Again in Jesus' praise we join. 
 And in his siglit appear. 
 
 2 What troubles have we seen. 
 What conflicts have we passed, 
 
 Figlitings without, and fears within, 
 
 Since we assembled last! 
 But out of all the Lord 
 
 Plath brought us by his love; 
 And still he doth his help afford. 
 
 And hides our life above. 
 
 3 Then let us make our boast 
 Of his redeeming power. 
 
 Which saves us to the uttermost, 
 
 Till we can sin no more : 
 Let us take up tlie cross, 
 
 Till we the crown obtain; 
 And gladly reckon all things loss. 
 
 So we may Jesus gain. 
 
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 Closing Conference. 
 
 BLEST be the dear uniting love 
 That will not let us part: 
 
58 INSTITUTION'S. 
 
 Our bodies may far off remove, 
 We still are one in heart. 
 
 2 Joined in one spirit to our Head, 
 Where he appoints we go; 
 
 And still in Jesus' footsteps tread. 
 And show his praise below. 
 
 3 Partakers of the Saviour's grace, 
 The same in mind and heart, 
 
 Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place, 
 Nor life, nor death, can part. 
 
 4 But let us hasten to the day 
 Which shall our flesli restore. 
 
 When death shall all be done away, 
 And bodies part no more. 
 
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 Closing Conference. 
 
 JESUS, accept the praise 
 That to thy name belongs ! i 
 
 Matter of all our lays, ) 
 
 Subject of all our songs; 
 Through thee we now together came. 
 And part exulting in thy name. 
 
 2 In flesh we part awhile. 
 But still in spirit joined, 
 
 T' embrace the happy toil 
 Thou hast to each assigned ; 
 And while we do thy blessed will, 
 We bear our heaven about us still. 
 
 3 O let us thus go on 
 
 In all thy pleasant ways, 
 And, armed with patience, run 
 
 With joy th' appointed race! 
 Keep us and every seeking soul. 
 Till all attain the heavenly goal. 
 
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 4 Tliere we shall meet again, 
 
 AVhen all our toils are o'er, 
 
 And death, and grief, and pain. 
 
 And parting are no more: 
 
 We shall Avith all our brethren rise, 
 
 And grasp thee in the flaming skies. 
 
 3. BAPTISM. 
 
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 The commission. — For adults. 
 WAS the commission of our Lord, 
 ** Go, teach the nations, and baptize : " 
 The nations have received the word 
 Since he ascended to the skies. 
 
 2 "Eepent, and be baptized," he saith, 
 "For tJie remission of your sins;" 
 
 And thus our sense assists our faith, 
 And shows us what his gospel means. 
 
 3 Our souls he washes in his blood, 
 As water makes the body clean; 
 
 And the good Spirit from our God 
 Descends, like purifying rain. 
 
 4 Thus we engage ourselves to thee. 
 And seal our covenant with the Lord: 
 
 O may the great Eternal Three 
 In heaven our solemn vows record ! 
 
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 Adult. 
 pOME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
 yj Honor the means ordained by thee; 
 Make good our apostolic boast. 
 
 And own thy glorious ministry. 
 2 We now thy promised presence claim, 
 
 Sent to disciple all mankind — 
 
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 Sent to baptize into thy name — 
 
 We now thy promised presence find. 
 
 3 Father, in these reveal thy Son — ■ 
 In these, for whom we seek thy face, 
 
 The hidden mystery make known. 
 The inward, pure, baptizing grace. 
 
 4 Jesus, with us thou always art; 
 Effectuate now the sacred sign, 
 
 The gift unspeakable impart. 
 And bless the ordinance divine. 
 
 5 Eternal Spirit, come from high, 
 Baptizer of our spirits thou ! 
 
 The sacramental seal apply, 
 
 And witness with the water now. 
 
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 Infant.— Mark x. 13-16. 
 
 SEE Israel's gentle Shepherd stand, 
 With all-engaging charms : 
 Hark how he calls the tender lambs. 
 And folds them in his arms ! 
 
 2 ''Permit them to approach," he cries, 
 "Nor scorn their humble name; 
 
 For 't was to bless such souls as these 
 The Lord of angels came." 
 
 3 We bring them, Lord, in thankful hands. 
 And yield them up to thee; 
 
 Joyful that Ave ourselves are thine. 
 Thine let our offspring be. 
 
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 Infant. 
 
 THUS Lydia sanctified her house. 
 When she received the word; 
 Thus the believing jailer gave 
 His household to the Lord. 
 
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 2 Thus later saints, eternal King, 
 Thine ancient truth embrace: 
 
 To thee their infant offspring bring, 
 And humbly claim the grace. 
 
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 Infant. 
 
 OW large the promise, how divine, 
 To Abraham and his seed ! 
 "I am a God to thee and thine, 
 Supplying all their need." 
 
 2 The words of his extensive love 
 From age to age endure; 
 
 The angel of the covenant proves. 
 And seals the blessing sure. 
 
 3 Jesus the ancient faith confirms, 
 To our great father given ; 
 
 He takes our children to his arms. 
 And calls them heirs of heaven. 
 
 4 O God, how faithful are thy ways! 
 Thy love endures the same ; 
 
 Nor from the promise of thy grace 
 Blots out our children's name. 
 
 4. THE LORD'S SUPPER. 
 
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 The institution. 
 
 THAT doleful night before his death. 
 The Lamb for sinners slain 
 Did, almost with his dying breath, 
 I'his solemn feast ordain. 
 
 2 To keep the feast. Lord, we have met, 
 
 And to rememl)er thee : 
 Help each poor trembler to repeat, 
 
 "For me, he died for me!" 
 
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 3 Tliy sufferings, Lord, each sacred sign 
 To our remembrance brings ; 
 
 We eat the bread, and drink the wine, 
 Bat think on nobler things. 
 
 4 O tune our tongues, and set in frame 
 Each heart that pants for thee. 
 
 To sing "Hosanna to the Lamb!" 
 The Lamb that died for me ! 
 
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 Remembering Christ. 
 
 ACCORDING to thv gracious word, 
 In meek liumility. 
 This Avill I do, my dying Lord, 
 I will remember thee. 
 
 2 Thy body, broken for my sake, 
 My bread from heaven shall be; 
 
 Thy testamental cup I take. 
 And thus remember thee. 
 
 3 Remember thee and all thy pains. 
 And all thy love to me ; 
 
 Yea, while a breath, a pulse remains, 
 Will I remember thee. 
 
 4 And when these failing lips grow dumb, 
 And mind and memory flee. 
 
 When thou shalt in thy kingdom come, 
 Jesus, remember me. 
 
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 The covenant sealed. 
 
 THE promise of my Father's love 
 vShall stand forever good : 
 He said, and gave his soul to death. 
 And sealed the grace with nlood. 
 2 To this dear covenant of \hy word 
 I set my worthless name ; 
 
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 1 seal th' engagement to my Lord, 
 And make my humble claim. 
 
 3 Thy light, and strength, and pardoning grace, 
 And glory, shall be mine ; 
 
 My life and soul, my heart and flesh, 
 And all my powers, are thine. 
 
 4 Sweet is the memory of his name, 
 Who blessed us in his will. 
 
 And to his testament of love 
 Made his own blood the seal. 
 
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 The table prepared. 
 
 MY God, and is thy table spread? 
 And does tliy cup with love o'erflow? 
 Thither be all thy children led. 
 
 And let them all its sweetness know. 
 
 2 Hail, sacred feast, which Jesus makes! 
 Rich banquet of his flesh and blood ! 
 
 Thrice happy he who here partakes 
 That sacred stream, that heavenly food ! 
 
 3 O let thy table honored be. 
 
 And furnished well with joyful guests! 
 And may each soul salvation see, 
 That here its sacred pledges tastes ! 
 
 4 Let crowds approach with hearts prepared ; 
 With hearts inflamed let all attend; 
 
 Nor, v/lien we leave our Father's board, 
 The pleasure or the profit end. 
 
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 The invitation. 
 
 THE King of heaven his table spreads, 
 And blessings crown the board ; 
 Not paradise, with all its joys, 
 Could such delight afibrd. 
 
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 2 Pardon and peace to dying men, 
 And endless life, are given, 
 
 Tlirough the rich blood that Jesns shed, 
 To raise our souls to heaven. 
 
 3 Millions of souls, in glorv now, 
 Were fed and feasted here ; 
 
 And millions more, still on the way, 
 Around the board appear. 
 
 4 All things are ready: come away, 
 Nor weak excuses frame; 
 
 C'rowd to your places at the feast. 
 And bless the Founder's name. 
 
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 Penitent sinner^ welcome. 
 
 THIS is the feast of heavenly wine. 
 And God invites to sup ; 
 The juices of the living Vine 
 Were pressed to fill the cup. 
 
 2 O bless the Saviour, ye who eat. 
 With royal dainties fed ; 
 
 Not heaven aflbrds a costlier treat, 
 For Jesus is the bread ! 
 
 3 The vile, the lost — he calls to them : 
 "Ye trembling souls, appear! 
 
 The righteous in their own esteem 
 Have no acceptance here. 
 
 4 "Approach, ye poor, nor dare refuse 
 The banquet spread for you : " 
 
 Dear Saviour, this is welcome news ! 
 Then I may venture too. 
 
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 ''Let us keep the feast." 
 
 LET all who truly bear 
 The bleeding Saviour's name, 
 
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 Tlieir faitliful hearts with us prepare, 
 And eat the paschal Lamb. 
 
 2 Who thus our faith employ 
 His sufferings to recoi'd, 
 
 E'en now we mournfully enjoy 
 Communion with our Lord ; 
 
 3 As though we every one 
 Beneath his cross had stood, 
 
 And seen him heave, and lieard him groan. 
 And felt his gushing blood. 
 
 4 We too Avith him are dead, 
 And shall with him arise: 
 
 The cross on which he bows his liead 
 Shall lift us to the skies. 
 
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 The penitent at the table. 
 
 OW long, thou faitliful God, shall I 
 Here in thy ways forgotten lie? 
 Wlien shall the means of healing be 
 The chaiinels of thy grace to me? 
 
 2 Sinners, on every side, step in, 
 And wash away their pain and sin; 
 But I, a heli)less, sin-sick soul, 
 Still lie expiring at the pool. 
 
 3 In vain I tsd^e the broken bread, 
 I cannpt on thy mercy feed ; 
 In vain I drink the liallowed wine, 
 I cannot taste the love divine. 
 
 4 Surely if thou the symbols bless. 
 The covenant-blood shall seal my peace ; 
 Thy flesh, e'en now, shall be my food, 
 And all my soul be filled with God. 
 
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 5. THE SABBATH. 
 
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 Opening morning service. 
 
 AFELY through another week 
 God has brought us on our way; 
 Let US now a blessing seek, 
 
 Waiting in his courts to-day: 
 Day of all the week the best, 
 Emblem of eternal rest. 
 
 2 While we seek supplies of grace, 
 Tlirough the dear Redeemer's name, 
 
 Show thy reconciling face — 
 
 Take away our sin and shame: 
 From our worldly cares set free, 
 May we rest this day in thee. 
 
 3 Here we come thy name to praise ; 
 Let us feel thy presence near; 
 
 May thy glory meet ttur eyes. 
 
 While we in thy house appear: 
 Here afford us, Lord, a taste 
 Of our everlasting feast. 
 
 4 May the gospel's joyful sound 
 Conquer sinners, comfort saints, 
 
 Make the fruits of grace abound. 
 
 Bring relief from all complaints: 
 Thus let all our Sabbaths prove, 
 Till we join the Church above. 
 
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 Opening morning service. 
 
 COME, let us join with one accord 
 In hymns around the throne! 
 This is the day our rising Lord 
 Hath made and called his own. 
 
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 2 This is the day which God hath blessed, 
 The brigiitest of the seven, 
 
 Type of that everlasting rest 
 The saints enjoy in heaven. 
 
 3 Then let us in his name sing on, 
 And hasten to that day 
 
 When our Redeemer sliall come down, 
 And shadows pass away. 
 
 4 Not one, but all our days below, 
 Let us in hymns emph)y; 
 
 And in our Lord rejoicing, go 
 To his eternal joy. 
 
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 Opening morning service. 
 
 ANOTHER six days' work is done; 
 Another Sabbath is begun : 
 Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest, 
 Improve the day tliy God hath blessed. 
 
 2 O that our thouglits and thanks may rise, 
 As grateful incense, to the skies; 
 
 And draw from Christ that sweet repose 
 Which none but he that feels it knows ! 
 
 3 This heavenly calm within the breas't 
 Is the dear pledge of glorious rest, 
 W^hich for the Church of God remains, 
 The end of cares, the end of i^ains. 
 
 4 In holy duties let the day. 
 In holy comforts, pass away: 
 
 How sweet, a Sabbath thus to spend, 
 In hope of one that ne'er shall end! 
 
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 Psalm xcii. 
 
 SWEET is the work, my God, my King, 
 To praise thy name, give thanks, and sing; 
 
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 To show thy love by morning light, 
 And talk of all thy truth by night. 
 
 2 Sweet is the day of sacred rest; 
 
 No mortal cares shall seize my breast: 
 O may my heart in tune be found, 
 Like David's harp of solemn sound! 
 
 3 My heart shall triumph in my Lord, 
 And bless his works and bless liis word : 
 Thy works of grace, how bright they shine ! 
 How deep thy counsels ! how divine ! 
 
 4 Then shall I share a glorious part 
 When grace hath well refined my heart, 
 And fresh supplies of joy are shed. 
 Like holy oil, to cheer my head. 
 
 5 Then shall I see, and hear, and know, 
 All I desired or wished below; 
 
 And every power find sweet employ 
 In tliat eternal world of joy. 
 
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 In tJie sanctuary. 
 
 FAR from my thoughts, vain world, begone ! 
 Let my religious hours alone: 
 Fain would my eyes my Saviour see; 
 
 1 wait a visit, Lord, from thee. 
 
 2 My heart grows warm with holy fire. 
 And kindles with a pure desire: 
 Come, my dear Jesus, from above, 
 And feed my soul with heavenly love. 
 
 3 Blest Jesus, what delicious fare ! 
 How sweet thine entertainments are I 
 Never did angels taste above 
 Redeeming grace and dying love. 
 
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 Tlie eternal Sabbath. 
 
 THINE earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love ; 
 But there's a nobler rest above; 
 To that our laboring souls aspire, 
 With ardent pangs of strong desire. 
 
 2 No more fatigue, no more distress; 
 Nor sin nor hell shall reach the place; 
 No sighs shall mingle with the songs 
 AVhich warble from immortal tongues. 
 
 3 No rude alarms of raging foes ; 
 No cares to break the long re})ose; 
 No midnight shade, no clouded sun, 
 But sacred, high, eternal noon. 
 
 4 O long-expected day, begin; 
 Dawn on these realms of woe and sin : 
 Fain would we leave this weary road, 
 And sleep in death, to rest with God. 
 
 SECTION V. 
 
 The Gospel Call. 
 
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 The year of Jubilee. 
 
 BLOW ye the trumpet, blow, 
 The gladly solemn sound; 
 Let all the nations know, 
 To earth's remotest bound, 
 The year of jubilee is come; 
 Return, ye ransomed sinners, home. 
 2 Extol the Lamb of God, 
 
 Tiie all-atoning Lamb; 
 Eedemption through his blood 
 Throughout the world proclaim: 
 
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 The year of jubilee is come; 
 Eeturn, ye ransomed sinners, home. 
 
 3 Ye slaves of sin and hell, 
 Yonr liberty receive, 
 
 And safe in Jesus dwell. 
 And blest in Jesus live: 
 The year of jubilee is come ; 
 Eeturn, ye ransomed sinners, home. 
 
 4 Ye who have sold for naught 
 Your heritage above, 
 
 Receive it back unbought. 
 The gift of Jesus' love: 
 The year of jubilee is come ; 
 Eeturn, ye ransomed sinners, home. 
 
 5 The gospel trumpet hear. 
 The news of heavenly grace; 
 
 And, saved from earth, appear 
 Before your Saviour's face: 
 The year of jubilee is come; 
 Eeturn, ye ransomed sinners, home. 
 
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 The hearty uxlcome. 
 
 COME, sinners, to the gospel feast ; 
 Let every soul be Jesus' guest: 
 Ye need not one be left behind. 
 For God hath bidden all mankind. 
 
 2 Come, all ye souls by sin oppressed. 
 Ye restless wanderers after rest, 
 
 Ye poor, and maimed, and halt, and blind, 
 In Christ a hearty welcome find. 
 
 3 See him set forth before your eyes. 
 That precious, bleeding sacrifice ! 
 His offered benefits embrace. 
 
 And freely now be saved by grace I 
 
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 Isaiah Iv. 1-3. 
 
 "O ! every one tliat thirsts, draw nigh ; 
 'T is God invites the fallen race : 
 Mercy and free salvation buy; 
 
 Buy wine, and milk, and gospel grace. 
 
 2 Come to the living waters, come! 
 Sinners, obey your Maker's call: 
 
 Eeturn, ye weary wanderers, home, 
 And find my, grace is free for all. 
 
 3 See from the rock a fountain rise; 
 For you in healing streams it rolls ; 
 
 Money ye need not bring, nor price, 
 Ye laboring, burdened, sin-sick souls. 
 
 4 Nothing ye in exchange shall give ; 
 Leave all you have, and are, behind; 
 
 Frankly the gift of God receive, 
 Pardon and peace in Jesus find. 
 
 lia L. M. (354) 
 
 "Now is the accepted time." 
 
 WHILE life prolongs its precious liglit, 
 Mercy is found, and peace is given ; 
 But soon, ah soon, approaching niglit 
 Shall blot out every hope of heaven. 
 
 2 While God invites, how blest the day! 
 How sweet the gospel's charming sound ! 
 
 Come, sinners, haste, O haste away, 
 While yet a pardoning God is found. 
 
 3 Soon, borne on time's most rapid wing, 
 Shall death command you to tlie grave, 
 
 Before his bar your spirits bring. 
 And none be found to hear or save. 
 
72 THE GOSPEL CALL. 
 
 4 In that lone land of deep despair 
 No Sabbath's heavenly light shall rise, 
 
 No God regard 3^our bitter prayer, 
 No Saviour call you to the skies. 
 
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 ^'■Return unto me." 
 
 RETUKN, O wanderer, return ! 
 And seek an injured Father's face; 
 Those warm desires that in thee burn 
 Were kindled by reclaiming grace. 
 
 2 Keturn, O wanderer, return, 
 
 And seek a Father's melting heart; 
 His pitying eyes thy grief discern, 
 
 His hand shall heal thine inward smart. 
 
 3 Return, O wanderer, return. 
 Thy Saviour bids thy spirit live"; 
 
 Go to his bleeding feet, and learn 
 
 4 Eeturn, O wanderer, return. 
 And wipe away the falling tear; 
 
 'Tis God who says, ''No longer mourn;" 
 'T is mercy's voice invites thee near. 
 
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 The gospel supper. 
 
 SINNEES, obey the gospel word ! 
 Haste to the supper of my Lord : 
 Be wise to know your gracious day ; 
 All things are ready ; come away. 
 
 2 Eeady the Father is to own 
 And kiss his late-returning son : 
 Eeady your loving Saviour stands, 
 .And spreads for you his bleeding hands. 
 
THE GOSPEL CALL. 72 
 
 3 Eeady the Spirit of Ins love 
 Just now your hardness to remove; 
 T' apply and witness with the blood, 
 And wasli and seal the sons of God, 
 
 4 Eeady for you the angels wait, 
 To triumph in your blest estate: 
 Tuning their harps, they long to praise 
 The wonders of redeeming grace, 
 
 5 The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
 Are reatly with their shining host: 
 All heaven is ready to resound, 
 "The dead's alive*! the lost is found!" 
 
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 Come to Jesus. 
 
 COME, humble sinner, in whose breast 
 A thousand thoughts revolve — 
 Come, with your gnift and fear oppressed 
 And make this last resolve: 
 
 2 I'll go to Jesus, though niy sin 
 Hath like a mountain rose,- 
 
 I know his courts, I '11 enter in, 
 Whatever may oppose: 
 
 3 Prostrate I'll lie before his throne. 
 And there my guilt confess; 
 
 I'll tell him I'm a wretch undone, 
 Without his sovereign grace: 
 
 4 I '11 to the gracious King approach, 
 Wliose scepter pardon gives; 
 
 Perhaps he may command my touch, 
 And then the suppliant lives. 
 
 5 Perhaps he may admit my plea. 
 Perhaps will hear mv prayer; 
 
 But if I perish, I will pray, 
 And perish only there. 
 
74 THE GOSPEL CALL. 
 
 6 I can bnt perisli if I go, 
 I am resolved to try; 
 
 For if I stay away, I know 
 I must forever die. 
 
 7 But if I die with mercy souglit, 
 Wlien I the King have tried, 
 
 This were to die (delightful thought!) 
 As sinner never died. 
 
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 Urgent appeal. 
 
 SINNEES, the voice of God regard : 
 'Tis mercy speaks to-day; 
 He calls you by his sacred word 
 From sin's destructive way. 
 
 2 Like the rough sea that cannot rest, 
 You live devoid of peace ; 
 
 A thousand stings within your breast 
 Deprive your souls of ease. 
 
 3 Your way is dark, and leads to hell : 
 Why will you persevere? 
 
 Can you in endless torments dAvell, 
 Shut up in black despair? 
 
 4 Why will you in the crooked ways 
 Of sin and folly go? 
 
 In pain you travel all your days, 
 To reap eternal woe. 
 
 5 But he that turns to God shall live 
 Through his abounding grace: 
 
 His mercy will the guilt forgive 
 Of those that seek his face. 
 
 117 C. M. (350) 
 
 Revelation iii. 20. 
 
 COME, let us who in Christ believe, 
 Our common Saviour praise: 
 
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 To him, with joyful voices, give 
 The glory of his grace. 
 
 2 He now stands knocking at the door 
 Of every sinner's heart: 
 
 The worst need keep him out no more, 
 Or force him to depart. 
 
 3 Through grace we hearken to thy voice, 
 Yield to be saved from sin ; 
 
 In sure and certain hope rejoice, 
 That thou wilt enter in. 
 
 4 Come quickly in, thou heavenly Guest, 
 Nor ever hence remove; 
 
 But sup with us, and let the feast 
 Be everlasting love. 
 
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 Acts xvii. 30, 31. 
 
 REPENT, the voice celestial cries. 
 No longer dare dehiy; 
 The wretch tiuit scorns the mandate dies. 
 And meets a fiery day. 
 
 2 The summons goes through all the earth. 
 Let earth attend and fear: 
 
 Listen, ye men of royal birth. 
 And let your vassals hear. 
 
 3 Together in his presence bow, 
 And all your guilt confess; 
 
 Accei)t the ollei-ed Saviour now, 
 Nor trifle with the grace. 
 
 4 Bow, ere the awful trumpet sound. 
 And call you to hi« bar; 
 
 For mercy knows th' appointed bound, 
 And turns to vengeance there. 
 
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 Isaiah Iv. 1-3. 
 
 LET every mortal ear attend, 
 And every heart rejoice; 
 The trumpet of the gospel sounds 
 With an inviting voice. 
 
 2 Ho ! all ye hungry, starving souls, 
 That feed upon the wind, 
 
 And vainly strive with earthly toys 
 To fill an empty mind — 
 
 3 Eternal wisdom hath prepared 
 A soul-reviving feast, 
 
 And bids your longing appetites 
 The rich provision taste. 
 
 4 Ho ! ye that pant for living streams, 
 And pine away and die, 
 
 Here you may quench your raging thirst 
 With sj^rings that never dry. 
 
 5 Rivers of love and mercy here 
 In a rich ocean join : 
 
 Salvation, in abundance, flows 
 Like floods of milk and wine, 
 
 6 Tlie happy gates of gospel grace 
 Stand open night and day : 
 
 Lord, we are come to seek supplies. 
 And drive our wants away. 
 
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 Before an awakening sermon. 
 
 lOlME, O thou all-victorious Lord, 
 U Thy power to us make known ; 
 Strike with the hammer of thy word, 
 
 And break these -hearts of stone. 
 2 Convince us first of unbelief, 
 
 And freely then release: 
 
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THE GOSPEL CALL. 77 
 
 Fill every soul with sacred grief, 
 And then with sacred peace. 
 
 3 Impoverish, Lord, and then relieve. 
 And then enrich the poor: 
 
 Tlie knowledge of our sickness give, 
 The knowledge of our cure. 
 
 4 That blessed sense of guilt impart, 
 And then remove the load: 
 
 Trouble, and wash the troubled heart 
 In the atoning blood. 
 
 Our desperate state through sin declare, 
 And speak our sins forgiven : 
 
 By perfect holiness prepare, 
 And take us up to heaven. 
 
 121 7s. (345) 
 
 The expostulation. 
 
 INNERS, turn, why will ye die? 
 God, your Maker, asks you why — 
 God, who did your being give. 
 Made you with himself to live: 
 He the fatal cause demands, 
 Asks the work of his own hands, 
 Why, ye thankless creatures, why 
 AVill ye cross his love, and die? 
 
 2 Sinners, turn, Avhy will ye die? 
 God, your Saviour, asks you why — 
 God, who did your souls retrieve, 
 Died himself that ye might live: 
 Will ye let him die in vain? 
 Ci-ucify your Lord again? 
 Why, ye ransomed sinners, why 
 Will ye slight his grace, and die? 
 
 3 Sinners, turn, why Avill ye die? 
 
 God, the Spirit, asks you why — 
 
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78 THE G03PEL CALL. 
 
 He, who all your lives hath strove, 
 Wooed you to embrace his love: 
 Will ye not his grace receive? 
 W^ill ye still refuse to live? 
 Why, ye long-sought sinners, why 
 Will ye grieve your God, and die? 
 
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 122 7s. (360) 
 
 "Escape for thy life." 
 ASTEN, sinner, to be wise; 
 Stay not for the morrow's sun; 
 Wisdt>m, if thou still despise. 
 Harder is she to be won. 
 
 2 Hasten, mercy to implore ; 
 Stay not for the morrow's sun; 
 
 Lest thy season should be o'er 
 Ere this evening's stage be run. 
 
 3 Hasten, sinner, to return ; 
 Stay not for the morrow's sun; 
 
 Lest thy lamp should cease to burn 
 Ere salvation's work is done. 
 
 4 Hasten, sinner, to be blest ; 
 Stay not for the morrow's sun ; 
 
 Lest the curse should thee arrest 
 Ere the morrow is begun. 
 
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 Before an inviting sermon. 
 
 JESUS, tliou all-redeeming Lord, 
 Thy blessing we implore; 
 Open the door to preach thy word. 
 The great effectual door, 
 
 2 Gather tlie outcasts in, and save 
 From sin and Satan's power; 
 
 And let them now acceptance have, 
 And know their gracious houi\ 
 
THE GOSPEL CALL. 79 
 
 3 Lover of souls! tlion know'st to prize 
 What thou hast bought so dear: 
 
 Coine, tlien, and in thy people's eyes, 
 AVitli all thy wounds appear! 
 
 4 Keady thou art the blood t' apply, 
 And prove the record true; 
 
 And all thy wounds to sinners cry, 
 "I sullered this for you!" 
 
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 The free invUation. 
 
 JESUS, thy blessings are not few, 
 Nor is thy gos})el weak: 
 Tiiy grace can melt the stubborn Jew, 
 And bow th' aspiring Greek. 
 
 2 Wide as the reach of Satan's rage 
 Doth thy salvation (low; 
 
 'T is not confined to sex or age. 
 The lofty or the low. 
 
 3 While grace is offered to the prince, 
 The poor may take their share; 
 
 No mortal has a just pretense 
 To perish in despair. 
 
 4 Come, all ye vilest sinners, come; 
 He '11 form your souls anew: 
 
 His gosjjel and his heart have room 
 For rebels such as you. 
 
 1S5 C. M. v366) 
 
 Before evening se?'?7wn. 
 
 THOU Son of God, whose flaming eyes 
 Our inmost thoughts perceive, 
 Accept the evening sacrifice 
 AVhich now to tliee we give. 
 
80 THE GOSPEL CALL. 
 
 2 We bow before tliy gracious throne, 
 And think ourselves sincere; 
 
 But show us, Lord, is every one 
 Thy real worshiper? 
 
 3 Is here a soul that knows thee not, 
 Nor feels his want of thee ; 
 
 A stranger to the blood which bought 
 His jjardon on the tree? 
 
 4 Convince him now of unbelief. 
 His desperate state explain ; 
 
 And fill his heart with sacred grief. 
 And penitential pain. 
 
 5 Speak with that voice that wakes the dead, 
 And bid the sleeper rise ; 
 
 And bid his guilty conscience dread 
 The death that never dies. 
 
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 Eccles. xii. 1. 
 
 IN the soft season of thy youth, 
 In nature's smiling bloom, 
 Ere age arrives, and trembling waits 
 
 Its summons to the tomb, 
 Remember thy Creator now; 
 
 For him thy [)owers employ; 
 Make him thy fear, thy love, thy hope, 
 Thy confidence and joy. 
 
 2 He shall defend and guide thy youth 
 
 Through life's uncertain sea, 
 Till tliou art landed on the coast 
 
 Of blest eternity. 
 Then seek the Lord betimes, and choose 
 
 The path of heavenly truth : 
 This earth affords no lovelier sight 
 
 Than a religious youth. 
 
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 ^^Now is the day of scdvation." 
 
 TO-MORROW, Lord, is thine, 
 Lodged in thy sovereign hand, 
 And if its sun arise and shine, 
 It shines by thy command. 
 
 2 The present moment flies, 
 
 And bears our life away; 
 O make thy servants truly wise, 
 
 That they may live to-day ! 
 
 8 One thing demands our care; 
 
 O be it still pursued, 
 Lest, slighted once, the season fair 
 
 Should never be renewed ! 
 
 4 To Jesus may we fly, 
 
 Swift as the morning light, 
 Lest life's young golden beam should die 
 
 In sudden, endless night. 
 
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 Revelation iii. 20. 
 
 BEHOLD a Stranger at the door ! 
 He gently knocks, has knocked before ; 
 Has waited long — is waiting still ; 
 You treat no other friend so ill. 
 
 2 O lovely attitude ! He stands 
 
 With melting heart and bleeding hands; 
 O matchless kindness! and lie shows 
 This matchless kindness to his foes! 
 
 3 But will he prove a Friend indeed ? 
 He will; the very Friend you need; 
 The Friend of sinners — yes, 'tis He, 
 With garments dyed on Calvary. 
 
82 THE GOSPEL CALL. 
 
 4 Eise, touched with gratitude divine ; 
 Turn out his enemy and tliine, 
 
 That soul-destroying monster, sin, 
 And let the heavenly Stranger in. 
 
 5 Admit him, ere his anger burn ; 
 His £eet departed, ne'er return; 
 Admit him, or the hour's at hand, 
 You'll at his door rejected stand. 
 
 129 8,7,8,7,4,7. (330) 
 
 The invitation. 
 
 COME, ye sinners, poor^nd needy. 
 Weak and wounded, sick and sore ; 
 Jesus ready stands to save you, 
 Full of pity, love, and power: 
 
 He is able, 
 He is willing : doubt no more. 
 
 2 Now, ye needy, come and welcome, 
 God's free bounty glorify : 
 
 True belief and true repentance. 
 Every grace that brings you nigh, 
 
 Without money, 
 Come to Jesus Christ and buy. 
 
 3 Let not conscience make you linger ; 
 Nor of fitness fondly dream; 
 
 All tlie litness he requiretli 
 Is to feel your need of him: 
 
 This he gives you, 
 'Tis the Spirit's glimmering beam. 
 
 4 Come, ye weary, lieavy-laden, 
 Bruised and mangled by the fall, 
 
 If you tarry till you 're lietter. 
 You will never coine at all: 
 
 Not the righteous, 
 Sinners Jesus came to c,-'ll. 
 
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 130 11,10,11,10. (352) 
 
 Co?ne, ye disconsolate. 
 
 COME, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languish, 
 QomQ, and at God's altar fervently kneel ; 
 Here hring your wounded hearts, here tell your 
 anguish; 
 Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. 
 
 2 Jf.y of the desolate, Light of the straying, 
 Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure. 
 
 Here speaks the Comforter, in God's name say- 
 ing, 
 Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot cure. 
 
 3 Go, ask the infidel what boon he brings us — 
 What charm for aching liearts he can reveal, 
 
 Sv/eet as the heavenly promise hope sings us. 
 Earth has no sorro\v that God cannot heal. 
 
 SECTION VI. 
 
 Penitential Exercises. 
 
 131 7,0,7,6,7,8,7,6. (379) 
 
 Praying for repeT^tance. 
 
 JESUS, let thy pitying eye 
 Call back a wandering sheep; 
 False to thee, like Peter, I 
 
 Would fain like Peter, weep. 
 Let me be by grace restored ; 
 
 On me be all iong-sufiering shown: 
 Turn, and look upon me, Lord, 
 
 And break my heart of stone. 
 2 Saviour, Prince, enthroned above, 
 
 Repentance to im])art. 
 Give me, through thy dying love, 
 
 Tiie humble, contrite heart: 
 
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 84 PENITENTIAL EXERCISES. 
 
 Give what I have long implored, ; 
 
 A portion of thy grief unknown: 
 Turn, and look upon me, Lord, 
 
 And break my heart of stone. 
 
 3 Look as when thy languid eye 
 
 Was closed that we might live: 
 "Father" (at the point to die 
 
 My Saviour gasped), ''forgive!" 
 Surely with that dying word 
 
 He turns, and looks, and cries, "'Tis done!" 
 O my bleeding, loving Lord, 
 
 Thou break'st my heart of stone ! 
 
 133 L. M. (380) 
 
 Psalm li. 1-4. 
 
 HOW pity. Lord, O Lord, forgive, 
 Let a repenting rebel live : 
 Are not thy mercies large and free? 
 May not a sinner trust in thee? 
 
 2 My crimes are great, but don't surpass 
 The power and glory of thy grace: 
 Great God, tJiy nature liath no bound, 
 So let thy pardoning love be found. 
 
 3 O wash my%oul from every sin ! 
 And make my guilty conscience clean ! 
 Here on my heart the burden lies. 
 And past offenses pain mine eyes. 
 
 4 My lips with shame my sins confess. 
 Against thy law, against thy grace: 
 Lord, should thy judgments grow severe, 
 I am condemned, but thou art clear. 
 
 5 Yet save a trembling sinner. Lord, 
 Whose hope, still hovering round thy Avord, 
 Would light on some sweet promise there, 
 Some sure support against despair. 
 
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 133 L. M. (381) 
 
 Psalm li. 5-8. 
 
 LOKD, we are vile, conceived in sin. 
 And Ijorn unholy and unclean : 
 Sprung from the man whose guilty faii 
 Corrupts his race, and taints us all. 
 
 2 Soon as Ave draw our infant breath, 
 The seeds of sin grow up for death : 
 Thy law demands a perfect heart, 
 But we're defiled in every part. 
 
 3 Behold, I fall before thy face; 
 My only refuge is thy grace : 
 
 K o outward forms can make me clean ; 
 The leprosy lies deep within. 
 
 '4 Jesus, my God, thy blood alone 
 Hath po^ver sufficient to atone; 
 Thy blood can make me white as snow: 
 No Jewish types could cleanse me so. 
 
 5 While guilt disturbs and breaks my peace, 
 .Nor flesli nor soul hath rest or ease: 
 Lord, let me hear thy pardoning voice, 
 And make my broken heart rejoice. 
 
 134 S. M. (375) 
 
 Praying for repentance. 
 
 THAT I could repent. 
 With all my idols part; 
 And to thy gracious eye present 
 A humble, contrite heart: 
 
 
 
 2 A heart with grief oppressed 
 For having grieved my God ; 
 
 A troubled heart that cannot rest 
 Till sprinkled with thy blood. 
 

 
 Ob PENITENTIAL EXERCISES. 
 
 3 Jesus, on me bestow 
 The penitent desire ; 
 
 With true sincerity of woe 
 My aciiing breast inspire: 
 
 4 With softening pity look, 
 And melt my hardness down: 
 
 Strike with thy love's resistless stroke, 
 And break this heart of stone ! 
 
 135 C. M. (377) 
 
 Praying for repentance. 
 FOR that tenderness of heart, 
 Which bows before the Lord, 
 Acknowledging how just thou art, 
 
 And trembling at thy word ! 
 O for those humble, contrite tears, 
 
 'Which from repentance flow; 
 That consciousness of guilt ^^hich fears 
 The long suspended blow! 
 
 2 Saviour, to me in pity give 
 
 The sensible distress; 
 The pledge thou wilt, at last, receive. 
 
 And bid me die in peace: 
 Wilt from the dreadful day remove. 
 
 Before tlie evil come; 
 My spirit hide with saints above 
 
 My body in the tomb. 
 
 136 S. M. (394) 
 
 Surrendering the heart. 
 
 WHEN shall thy love constrain 
 And force me to thy breast? 
 AVlien shall my soul return again 
 To her eternal rest? 
 
 2 Ah ! what avails my strife, 
 Mv wandering to and fro? 
 
PENITENTIAL EXERCISES. 0/ 
 
 Thou hast the words of endless life: 
 Ah ! whither should I go ? 
 
 3 Tliy condescending grace 
 To ine did freely move: 
 
 It calls' me still to seek thy 'ftice, 
 And stoops to ask my love. 
 
 4 Lord, at thy feet I fall, 
 I groan to be set free : 
 
 1 fain would now obey the call, 
 And give up all for thee. 
 
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 "Help thou my unbelief." 
 
 HOW sad our state by nature is ! 
 Our sin how deep it stains! 
 And Satan binds our captive souls 
 Fast in his slavish chains. 
 
 2 But there's a voice of sovereign grace 
 Sounds from tlie sacred word : 
 
 Ho ! ye despairing sinners, come, 
 And trust a faithful Lord. 
 
 3 My soul obeys the gracious call, 
 And runs to this relief:^ 
 
 I would believe thy promise. Lord, 
 O help my unbelief! 
 
 4 To tlie blest fountain of thy blood, 
 Incarnate God, I fiy: 
 
 Here let me wash my spotted soul 
 From crimes of deepest dye. 
 
 5 A guilty, weak, and lielpless worm. 
 Into thy arms I fall: 
 
 Be thou my strength and righteousness, 
 My Jesus and my all. 
 
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 138 7s. (433) 
 
 Refuge in Christ. 
 
 JESUS, Lover of my soul, 
 Let me to thy bosom tiy, 
 While the nearer waters roll, 
 
 While the tempest still is liigii : 
 Hide me, O my Saviour, hide, 
 
 Till the storm of life he past; 
 Safe into the haven guide, 
 
 receive my soul at last! 
 
 2 either refuge have I none. 
 
 Hangs my helpless soul on tliee: ^ 
 Leave, ah ! leave me not alone. 
 
 Still support and comfort me ! 
 All my trust on thee is stayed. 
 
 All my help from thee I bring: 
 Cover my defenseless head 
 
 With the shadow of thy wing. 
 
 3 Thou, O Christ, art all I want; 
 Moi-e than all in thee I find : 
 
 Raise the follen, cheer the faint. 
 
 Heal the sick, and 'lead the blind. 
 Just and holy is thy name ; 
 
 1 am all unrighteousness: 
 False, and full of sin, I am; 
 
 Thou art full of truth and grace. 
 
 4 Plenteous grace with tliee is found, 
 Grace to cover all my sin : 
 
 Let the healing streams abound,' 
 Make and keep me })ure within: 
 
 Thou of life the fountain art ; 
 Freely let me take of tliee: 
 
 Spring thou up within my heart, 
 Rise to all eternity! 
 
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 139 C. M. (435) 
 Subdued by the Cross. 
 
 IN evil long I took delight, 
 Unawed by shame or fear ; . 
 Till a new object struck ray sight, 
 I. And stopped my wild career. 
 
 2 I saw one hanging on a tree, 
 In agonies and l)lood, 
 
 "Who fixed his languid eyes on me. 
 As near his cross I stood. 
 
 3 Sure, never to ray latest breath 
 Can I forget that look; 
 
 It seemed to charge rae with his death, 
 Though not a word he spoke. 
 
 4 My conscience felt, and owned the guilt, 
 " And plunged me in despair: 
 
 I saw my sins his blood had spilt, 
 And helped to nail him there. 
 
 5 A second look he gave, which said, 
 " I freely all forgive ; 
 
 This blood is for thy ransom paid; . 
 I died that thou may'st live." 
 
 6 Thus, while his death my sin displays 
 In all its blackest hue. 
 
 Such is the mystery of grace, 
 It seals my pardon too. 
 
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 Praying for faith. 
 
 FATHER, I stretch my hands to thee. 
 No other help I know ; 
 If thou withdraw tliyself from me, 
 Ah ! whither shall I go? 
 
90 PENITENTIAL EXERCISES. 
 
 2 What did thine only Son endure, 
 Before I drew my breatli ! 
 
 What pain, what labor to secure 
 My soul from endless death ! 
 
 3 Author of faith, to thee I lift 
 My weary, longing eyes-: 
 
 O let me now receive that gift ! 
 My soul without it dies ! 
 
 4 Surely thou canst not let me die: 
 O speak, and I shall live; 
 
 And here I Avill unwearied lie, 
 Till thou thy Spirit give. 
 
 5 The worst of sinners would rejoice, 
 Could they but see thy face : 
 
 let me hear thy quickening voice, 
 And taste thy pardoning grace ! 
 
 141 C. M. (449) 
 
 The backsUder^s prayer. 
 
 FOR, a closer walk with God, 
 A calm and heavenly frame, 
 A light to shine upon the road 
 That leads me to the Lamb ! 
 
 2 W^here is the blessedness I knew 
 When first I saw the Lord ? 
 
 Where is the soul-refreshing view 
 Of Jesus and his word ? 
 
 3 AVhat peaceful hours I once enjoyed 1 
 How sweet their memory still! 
 
 But they have left an aching void 
 The world can never fill. 
 
 4 Keturn, O holy Dove, return. 
 Sweet messenger of rest! 
 
 1 hate the sins that made thee mourn, 
 And drove thee from my breast. 
 
 
 
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 5 The dearest idol I have known, 
 Whate'er that idol be, 
 
 Help me to tear it from thy throne, 
 And worship only thee. 
 
 6 So shall my walk be close with God, 
 Calm and serene my frame; 
 
 So purer light shall mark tlie road 
 That leads me to tlie Lamb. 
 
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 14.-2 S. M. (395) 
 
 Surrendering the heart. 
 ND can I yet delay 
 My little all to give? 
 To tear my soul from earth away 
 For Jesus to receive? 
 
 2 Nay, but I yield, I yield! 
 I can hold out no more: 
 
 1 sink, by dying love compelled, 
 And own thee conqueror! 
 
 3 Though late, I all forsake; 
 My friends, my all resign: 
 
 Gracious Kedeemer, take, O take, 
 And seal me ever thine! 
 
 4 Come, and possess me whole, 
 Nor hence again remove : 
 
 Settle and fix my wavering soul 
 With all thy weiglit of love. 
 
 143 S. M. (410; 
 
 Embracing offered mercy. 
 MY offended God, 
 If now at last I see 
 That I have trampled on thy blood, 
 And done despite to thee: 
 
 2 If I begin to wake 
 Out of my deadly sleep 
 
 
 
92 PENITENTIAL EXERCISES. 
 
 Into tliy arms of mercy take, 
 And there forever keep. 
 
 3 No other right have I 
 
 Than what the world may claim : 
 All, all may to their God draw nigh, 
 Through faith in Jesus' name. 
 
 4 Thou hast obtained the grace 
 That all may turn and live; 
 
 And lo! thy offer I embrace, 
 Thy mercy I receive. 
 
 1 4.-4 7s. (87 Z.) 
 
 The suit. 
 
 COME, my soul, thy suit prepare — 
 Jesus loves to answer prayer: 
 He himself has bid thee pray. 
 Therefore will not say thee nay. 
 2 Thou art coming to the King: 
 Large petitions with thee bring ; 
 For his grace and power are such. 
 None can ever ask too much. 
 B With my burden I begin : 
 Lord, remove tliis load of sin! 
 Let thy blood, for sinners spilt. 
 Set my conscience free from guilt. 
 4 Lord, I come to thee for rest — 
 Take possession of my breast : 
 There thy blood-bought right maintain, 
 And without a rival reign. 
 
 145 L. M. (414) 
 
 "Heal my soul.'" 
 
 OTHOL'', whom once tliey flocked to hear! 
 Thy words to hear, thy power to feel ; 
 oufFer the sinners to draw near, 
 And graciously receive us still. 
 
PENITENTIAL EXERCISES. 93 
 
 2 They that be whole, thyself hast said, 
 No need of a physician have; 
 
 But I am sick, and want thine aid, 
 And ask thine utmost power to save. 
 
 3 Thy poAver, and truth, and love divine, 
 Tlie same from age to age endure : 
 
 A word, a gracious word of thine. 
 The most inveterate plague can cure. 
 
 4 Helpless howe'er my spirit lies. 
 
 And long hath languished at the j^ool, 
 A word of thine shall make it rise, 
 Shall speak me in a moment whole. 
 
 146 C. M. (425) 
 
 Surrendering at the cross. 
 
 ALAS! and did my Saviour bleed? 
 And did my Sovereign die? 
 Would he devote that sacred head 
 For such a worm as I ? 
 
 2 Was it for crimes that I had done 
 He groaned upon the tree? 
 
 Amazing pity ! grace unknown ! 
 And love beyond degree ! 
 
 3 Well might the sun in darkness hide. 
 And shut his glories in. 
 
 When Christ, the mighty Maker, died 
 For man, tlie creature's, sin! 
 
 4 Thus might I hide my blushing face, 
 Wliile his dear cross appears; 
 
 Dissolve my heart in thankfulness. 
 And melt mine eyes to tears. 
 
 5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay 
 The debt of love I owe: 
 
 Here, Lord, I give myself away, 
 'Tis all that I can do. 
 
94 PENITENTIAL EXERCISES. 
 
 147 C. M. (427) 
 The effort. 
 
 APPROACH, ray soul, the mercy-seat, 
 Wliero Jesus answers prayer ; 
 There humbly fall before his feet, 
 For none can perish thei-e. 
 
 2 Thy promise is my only plea, 
 With this I venture nigli : 
 
 Thou call'st the burdened soul to thee, 
 And such, O Lord, am I. 
 
 3 Bowed down beneath a load of sin, 
 By Satan sorely pressed. 
 
 By wars without, and fears within, 
 I come to thee for rest. 
 
 4 Be thou my shield and hiding-place. 
 That, sheltered near thy side, 
 
 1 may my fierce accuser face, 
 And tell him thou hast died. 
 
 5 O wondrous love, to bleed and die. 
 To bear the cross and shame. 
 
 That guilty sinners, such as I, 
 Might plead his gracious name! 
 
 6 " Poor tempest-tossed soul, be still, 
 My promised grace receive:" 
 
 'T is Jesus speaks — I must, I will, 
 I can, I do believe. 
 
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 "I am the iray." 
 
 JESUS, my all, to heaven is gone. 
 He whom I fix my hopes upon; 
 His track I see, and I '11 pursue 
 The narrow way, till him I view. 
 
 2 The way the holy prophets went, 
 
 » The road that leads from banishment, 
 
PENITENTIAL EXERCISES. 95 
 
 The King's liighway of holiness, 
 I'll go, for all his paths are peace. 
 
 3 This is the way I long have sought, 
 And mourned because 1 found it not: 
 My grief a burden long has been, 
 Because I was not saved from sin. 
 
 4 The more I strove against its power, 
 I felt its weight and guilt the more; 
 Till late I heard ray Saviour say, 
 "Come hither, soul, I AM the way." 
 
 5 Lo ! glad I come, and thou, blest Lamb 
 Shalt take me to thee as I am ; 
 Nothing but sin have I to give, 
 Nothing but love shall I receive. 
 
 6 Then will I tell to sinners round 
 What a dear Saviour I have found ; 
 I'll point to thy redeeming blood, 
 And say, "Behold the way to God!" 
 
 149 8,8,6. (436) 
 
 Panting for the love of Oocl. 
 LOVE divine, hoAv sweet thou art! 
 When shall 1 hnd my willing heart 
 All taken up by thee? 
 
 1 thirst, I faint, I die to prove 
 The greatness of redeeming love, 
 
 The love of Christ to me. 
 
 2 Stronger his love than death or hell ; 
 Its riches are unsearchable: 
 
 The first-born sons of light 
 Desire in vain its depths to see ; 
 They cannot reach the mystery, 
 
 The length, the breadth, and height. 
 
 3 God only knows the love of God: 
 O that it now were shed abroad 
 
 In this poor stony heart! 
 
 
 
96 PENITENTIAL EXERCISES. 
 
 For love I sigh, for love I pine : 
 This only portion, Lord, be mine ! 
 Be mine this better part! 
 
 4 O that I could forever sit 
 Vrith Mary at the Master's feet! 
 
 Be tills my happy choice: 
 ISIy only care, delight, and bliss, 
 My joy, my heaven on earth, be this. 
 
 To hear the Bridegroom's voice ! 
 
 150 8,8,8,8,8,8. (441) 
 
 WresUing Jacob. 
 
 COME, O thou Traveler unknown, 
 Whom still I hold, but cannot see ; 
 My company before is gone, 
 
 And I am left alone with thee : 
 Witli thee all night T mean to stay. 
 And wrestle till the break of day. 
 
 2 I need not tell thee who I am ; 
 My sin and misery declare : 
 
 Thyself hast called me by my name. 
 
 Look on thy liands and read it there; 
 But Avho, 1 ask thee, who art thou ? 
 Tell me thy name, and tell me now. 
 
 3 In vain thou strugglest to get free ; 
 I never will unloose my hold ! 
 
 Art thou the Man that died for me? 
 
 The secret of thy love unfold: 
 Wrestling, I will not let thee go. 
 Till I tliy name, thy nature know. 
 
 4 Wilt thou not yet to me reveal 
 Tby new, unutterable name? 
 
 Tell me, I still beseech tliee, tell; 
 To know it now, resolved I am : 
 Wrestling, I will not let thee go, 
 Till 1 thy name, thy nature know. 
 
PENITENTIAL EXERCISES. 97 
 
 151 8,8,8,8,8,8. (442) 
 
 Concluded. 
 
 YIELD to me now, for I am weak. 
 But confident in self-despair: 
 Speak to my heart, in blessings speak ; 
 Be conquei'cd by my instant prayer : 
 Speak, or thou never hence shalt move, 
 And tell me if thy name is Love. 
 
 2 'Tis Love! 'Tis Love! thou diedst for me; 
 I hear thy whisper in my heart: 
 
 The morning breaks, tlie shadows flee; 
 
 Pure, universal love thou art: 
 To me, to all, thy bowels move, 
 Thy nature and thy name is Love. 
 
 3 I know thee. Saviour, who thou art, 
 Jesus, the feeble sinner's Friend; 
 
 Nor wilt thou with the night depart. 
 
 But stay and love me to the end : 
 Thy mercies never shall remove: 
 Thy nature and thy name is Love. 
 
 4 Lame as I am, I take the prey ; 
 
 Hell, earth, and sin, with case o'ercome; 
 I leap for joy, pursue my way. 
 
 And, as a bounding hart, fly home; 
 Through all eternity to prove 
 Thy nature and thy name is Love. 
 
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 153 7s. (453] 
 
 The bacJcslider' s plea. 
 
 |EPTII of mercy! can there be 
 
 Mercy still reserved for me ? 
 
 Can my God his wrath forbear ? 
 
 Me, the chief of sinners, spare ? 
 
 2 I have long withstood his grace, 
 Long provoked him to liis face ; 
 4 
 
98 PENITENTIAL EXEKCISES. , 
 
 Would not hearken to his calls ; 
 Grieved him by a thousand falls. 
 
 3 Lo ! I cumber still the ground : 
 Lo! an Advocate is found! 
 "Hasten not to cut him flown: 
 Let this barren soul alone." 
 
 4 Jesus speaks, and pleads his blood: 
 He disarms the wrath of God ! 
 
 Now my Father's bowels move; 
 Justice lingers into love. 
 
 5 Kindled his relentings are; 
 Me he nov/ delights to spare; 
 Cries, "How shall I give thee up?" 
 Lets tlie lifted thunder drop. 
 
 6 There for me the Saviour stands ; 
 Shows his wounds and spreads his hards: 
 God is love! I know, I feel; 
 
 Jesus weeps and loves me still. 
 
 153 8,8,8,6. (104 Z.) 
 
 The venture. 
 
 JUST as I am — without one plea, 
 But that thy blood was shed for me, 
 And that thou bidst me come to thee — 
 O Lamb of God, I come! 
 
 2 Just as T am — and waiting not 
 To rid my soul of one dark blot. 
 
 To thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot, 
 O Lamb of God, I come ! 
 
 3 Just as I am — though tossed about 
 With many a conflict, many a doubt, 
 Witli fears within and wars without— 
 
 O Lamb of God, I come ! 
 
JUSTIFICATION. 99 
 
 4 Just as T am — poor, wretched, blind: 
 Sight, riches, healing of the mind, 
 Yea, all I need, in thee to find, 
 
 O Lamb of God, I come ! 
 
 5 Just as I am — thy love unknown 
 Has broken every barrier down : 
 Now to be thine, yea, thine alone, 
 
 O Lamb of God, I come ! 
 
 SECTION VII. 
 
 Christian Experience. 
 
 1. JUSTIFICATION AND THE NEW BIRTH, 
 
 154: C. M. (456) 
 
 Opening worship. 
 
 OFOE a thousand tongues to sing 
 My great Redeemei-'s praise! 
 The glories of my God and King, 
 The triumphs of his grace ! 
 
 2 My gracious Master and my God, 
 Assist me to proclaim. 
 
 To spread through all the earth abroad 
 The honors of thy Name. 
 
 3 Jesus! the Name that charms our fears, 
 That bids our sorrows cease ; 
 
 'Tis nuisic in tiie sinner's ears, 
 'T is life, and health, and peace. 
 
 4 He breaks the power of canceled sin, 
 He sets the prisoner free: 
 
 His blood can make tlie foulest clean; 
 His blood availed for me. 
 
 5 He speaks — and, listening to his voice, 
 New life the dead receive ; 
 
100 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 Tlie mournful, broken hearts rejoice; ^ 
 The humble poor believe. 
 
 6 Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb, 
 Your loosened tongues employ ; 
 
 Ye blind, behold your Saviour come, 
 And leap, ye lame, for joy. 
 
 155 C. M. (476) 
 ^^ The fruit of the Spirit is — joy" 
 
 JOY is a fruit that will not grow 
 In nature's barren soil: 
 All we can boast, till Christ we know. 
 Is vanity and toil. 
 
 2 But where the Lord has planted grace, 
 And made his glories known. 
 
 There fruits of heavenly joy and peace 
 Are found — and there alone. 
 
 3 A bleeding Saviour seen by faith, 
 A sense of pardoning love, 
 
 A hope that triumphs over death. 
 Give joys like those above. 
 
 4 To take a glimpse within the vail, 
 To know that God is mine, 
 
 Are springs of joy that never fail, 
 Unspeakable, divine! 
 
 5 These are the joys which satisfy, 
 And sanctify, the mind ; 
 
 Which make the spirit mount on high, 
 And leave the world behind. 
 
 156 6,6,6,0,8,8. (469) 
 Whereby we cry, Abba, Father J' 
 
 EISE, my soul, arise, 
 Shake otf thy guilty fears, 
 The bleeding Sacrifice 
 In my behalf appears : 
 
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JUSTIFICATION. 101 
 
 Before the throne mv Surety stands, 
 My name is written on his hands. 
 
 2 He ever lives above, 
 For me to intercede ; 
 
 His all-redeeming love, 
 
 His precious blood, to plead : 
 His blood atoned for all our race, 
 And sprinkles now the throne of grace. 
 
 3 Five bleeding wounds he bears, 
 Received on Calvary: 
 
 They pour effectual prayers, 
 They strongly speak for me : 
 "Forgive him, O forgive," they cry, 
 "Nor let that ransomed sinner die !" 
 
 4 The Father hears him pray, 
 His vdear Anointed One: 
 
 He cannot turn away 
 
 The presence of his Son: 
 His Spirit answers to the blood, 
 And tells me I am born of God. 
 
 5 My God is reconciled, 
 
 His pardoning voice I hear: 
 He owns me for his child, 
 I can no longer fear: 
 With confidence I now draw nigli. 
 And Father, Abba, Father, cry. 
 
 157 6,6,6,6,8,8. (177) 
 
 The Saviour's praise. 
 
 IET earth and heaven agree, 
 J Angels and men be joined, 
 To celebrate with me 
 
 Tlie Saviour of mankind; 
 T' adore the all-atoning Lamb, 
 And bless the sound of Jesus' nMtie. 
 
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 2 Stung by tlie scorpion, sin, 
 My poor expiring soul 
 
 The balmy sound drinks in, 
 And is at once made whole: 
 See there my Lord upon the treel 
 I hear, I feel he died for me. 
 
 3 O unexampled love ! 
 
 O all-redeeming grace ! 
 How swiftly didst thou move 
 
 To save a fallen race! 
 What shall I do to make it known 
 What thou for all mankind hast done ? 
 
 4 O for a trumpet voice, 
 On all the Avorld to call ! 
 
 To bid their hearts rejoice 
 In him who died for all ! 
 For all my Lord was crucified ; 
 For all, for all my Saviour died. 
 
 158 L. M. (480) 
 
 Proverbs iii. 13-18. 
 
 HAPPY the man that finds the grace, 
 The blessing of God's cliosen race. 
 The wisdom coming from above, 
 The faith that sweetly works by love. 
 
 2 Happy beyond description, he 
 
 Who knows "the Saviour died for me! " 
 
 The gift unspeakable obtains. 
 
 And heavenly understanding gains. 
 
 3 Wisdom divine! who tells the price 
 Of wisdom's costly merchandise? 
 Wisdom to silver we prefer, 
 
 And gold is dross compared to her. 
 
 4 Her hands are filled with length of days, 
 True riches and immortal praise — 
 
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 JUSTIFICATION. 103 
 
 Riches of Christ on all bestowed, 
 And honor that descends from God. 
 
 5 To purest joys she all invites, 
 Cliaste, holy, spiritual delights: 
 Her v;ays are ways of pleasantness, 
 And all her flowery paths are peace. 
 
 () Happy the man who wisdom gains; 
 Thrice happy who his guest retains: 
 He owns, and shall forever own, 
 * Wisdom, and Christ, and heaven, are one. 
 
 159 C. M. (481) 
 
 God the source of joy. 
 
 Y God, the spring of all my jovs, 
 iU The life of my delights, 
 The glory of my brightest days. 
 And comfort of my nights ! 
 
 2 In darkest shades if thou appear, 
 My dawning is begun ; 
 
 Thou art my soul's bright morning .-tiir, 
 And thou my rising sun. 
 
 3 The opening heavens ai-onnd me shiiie 
 Witli beams of sacred bliss, 
 
 If Jesus show his mercy mine, 
 And whisper I am his. 
 
 4 My soul would leave this heavy cl-iy, 
 xVt that transporting word, 
 
 Ilun up with joy tlie siiining way, 
 To see and praise my Lord. 
 
 5 Fearless of hell and ghastly death, 
 I'd break throngli every foe; 
 
 The wings of love and arms of faith 
 Would bear me conquercn- through. 
 
104 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 160 L. M. (458) 
 Opening worship. 
 
 JESUS, thou everlasting King, 
 Accept the tribute wliich we bring: 
 Accept thy well-deserved renown, 
 And wear our praises as thy crown. 
 
 2 Let every act of worship be 
 Like our espousals, Lord, to thee — 
 Like the blest hour, when from above 
 We first received the pledge of love. i 
 
 3 The gladness of that happy day, 
 O may it ever, ever stay ! 
 
 Nor let our faith forsake its hold, 
 Nor hope decline, nor love grow cold ! 
 
 4 Each following minute, as it flies. 
 Increase thy praise, improve our joys, 
 Till Ave are raised to sing thy name 
 At the great supper of the Lamb. 
 
 161 L. M. (460) 
 
 [From the German of Zinzendorf.] 
 Receiving the atonement. 
 
 JESUS, thy blood and righteousness 
 My beauty are, my glorious dress : 
 Midst flaming Vt^orlds, in these arrayed, 
 With joy shall I lift up my head. 
 
 2 Bold shall I stand in thy great day. 
 For who aught to my charge shall lay? 
 Fully absolved through these I am, 
 From sin and fear, from guilt and shame. 
 
 3 The holy, meek, unspotted Lamb, 
 Who from the Father's bosom came. 
 Who died for me, e'en me t' atone. 
 Now for my Lord and God I own. 
 
 4 Lord, I believe thy precious blood, 
 Which, at the mercy-seat of God, 
 
JUSTIFICATION. 105 
 
 Forever doth for sinners plead, 
 For me, e'en for my soul, was shed, 
 o Lord, I believe were sinners more 
 Than sands upon the ocean shore. 
 Thou hast for ALL a ransom paid, 
 For ALL a full atonement made. 
 
 162 L. M. j461) 
 
 The work of faith. 
 
 AUTHOE of faith, eternal Word, 
 Yvliose Spirit breathes the active flame, ' 
 Faith, like its Finisher and Lord, 
 To-day, as yesterday, the same : 
 
 2 To. thee our humble hearts aspire. 
 And ask the gift unspeakable: 
 
 Li crease in us- the kindled fire, 
 In us the. work of faith fulfill. 
 
 3 To him that in thy name believes, 
 Eternal life with thee is given: 
 
 Into himself he all receives — 
 
 Pardon, and holiness, and heaven. 
 
 4 Faith lends its realizing light. 
 
 The clouds disperse, the shadows fly, 
 Th' Invisible appears in siglit. 
 And God is seen by mortal eye. 
 
 163 S. M. (466) 
 Witness of adoption. 
 
 OW can a sinner know 
 His sins on earth forgiven? 
 How can my gracious Saviour show 
 
 My name inscribed in heaven ! 
 2 What we have felt and seen, 
 
 AVith confidence Ave tell ; 
 And publisli to the sons of men 
 The signs infallible. 
 
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106 CHRISTIAN EXPEKIENCE. 
 
 3 We who in Christ believe 
 That he for us hath died, 
 
 We all his unknown peace receive, 
 And feel his blood applied. 
 
 4 Exults our rising soul, 
 Disburdened of her load, 
 
 And swells unutterably full 
 Of glory and of God. 
 
 164 S. M. (465) 
 Adoption. 
 
 BErlOLD ! what wondrous gimee 
 The Fatlier hath bestowed 
 On sinners of a mortal race — ■ 
 To call them sons of God ! 
 
 2 iSTor does it yet appear 
 How great we must be made ; 
 
 But when we see our Saviour here, 
 We shall be like our Head. 
 
 3 A hope so much divine 
 May trials well endure. 
 
 May purge our souls from sense and sin, 
 As Christ, the Lord, is pure. 
 
 4 If in my Father's love 
 I share a filial part, 
 
 Send down thy Spirit, like a dove, 
 To rest upon my heart. 
 
 5 We would no longer lie 
 
 Like slaves beneatJi tlie throne, 
 My faitb shall Abba, Father, cry, 
 And thou the kindred own. 
 
 165 ^ 8,7,8,7,4,7. (471) 
 " Wkoin not having seen, we love." 
 THOU God of my salvation, 
 
 My Eedeemer from all sin. 
 
 
 
JUSTIFICATION. 107 
 
 Moved by thy divine compassion, 
 Who hast died my heart to win, 
 
 I will praise thee: 
 Where shall I thy praise begin ? 
 
 2 Though unseen, I love the Saviour: 
 He hath brought salvation near — ■ 
 
 Manifests his pardoning favor, 
 And, when Jesus doth appear, 
 
 Soul and body 
 Shall his glorious image bear. 
 
 3 While the angel choirs are crying, 
 Glory to the great I AM ! 
 
 1 with them will still be vying, 
 Glory! glory to the Lamb! 
 
 O how precious 
 Is the sound of Jesus' name ! 
 
 4 Angels now are hovering round us, 
 Unperceived they mix the throng, 
 
 Wondering at the love that crowned us, 
 Glad to join the holv song: 
 Hallelujah ! 
 Love and praise to Christ belong ! 
 
 166 7s. (47-3) 
 
 Love to the Saviour. 
 ATlTv, my soul, it is the Lord ! 
 "Tis thy Saviour, hear his word! 
 Je*;us speaks, he speaks to thee: 
 "Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou me? 
 
 2 "1 delivered thee when bound, 
 And, when bleeding, healed thy wound ; 
 Sought tiiee wandering, set thee right, 
 Turned tliy darkness into light. 
 
 3 "Can a mother's tender care 
 Cease toward the child she bare? 
 Yes, she may forgetful be. 
 Yet will I remember thee 
 
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108 ciirasTiAN experience. 
 
 4 "Mine is an unchanging love, 
 Higher than the heigJits above, 
 Deeper than the depths beneath, 
 Free and faitliful, strong as death. 
 
 5 " Thou slialt see my glory soon, 
 When tlie work of faith is done ; 
 Partner of my throne shalt be : 
 Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou me?" 
 
 6 Lord, it is my chief complaint 
 That my love is still so faint ; 
 Yet I love thee and adore: 
 
 O for grace to love thee more ! 
 
 167 L. M. (488) 
 "Owr rejoicing is this" — 
 
 LOED, how secure and blest are they 
 Who feel the joys of pardoned sin! 
 Should storms of wrath shake earth and sea, 
 Their minds have heaven and peace within, 
 
 2 The day glides sweetly o'er their heads, 
 Made up of innocence and love; 
 
 And soft and silent as the shades 
 Their nightly minutes gently move. 
 
 3 Quick as their tlioughts their joys come on, 
 But fly not half so fast away : 
 
 Their souls are ever bright as noon, 
 And calm as summer evenings be. 
 
 4 How oft they look to th' heavenly hiHs, 
 Wliere groves of living pleasures grow! 
 
 And longing hopes and cheerful smiles 
 Sit undisturbed upon their brow. 
 
 168 L. M. (477) 
 [From the German.] 
 
 Love and joy. 
 T THIKST, thou wounded Lamb of God, 
 1 To wash me in thv cleansing blood : 
 
JUSTIFICATION. 109 
 
 To dwell within thy wounds : then pain 
 Is sweet, and life or death is gain. 
 
 2 Take my poor heart, and let it be 
 Forever closed to all but thee ! 
 Seal thou my breast, and let me wear 
 That pledge of love forever there. 
 
 8 How blest are they who still abide 
 Close sheltered in thy bleeding side ! 
 Who life and strength from thence derive, 
 And by thee move, and in thee live. 
 
 4 What are our works but sin and death, 
 Till thou thy quickening Spirit breathe? 
 Thou giv'st the power thy grace to move: 
 O wondrous grace I O boundless love ! 
 
 169 L. M. (478) 
 
 Concluded. 
 
 HOW can it be, thou heavenly King, 
 That thou shouklst us to glory bring ? 
 Make slaves the partners of thy throne, 
 Decked with a never-fading crown ! 
 
 2 Hence our hearts melt, our eyes o'erflow. 
 Our words are lost, nor will we knoAV, 
 Nor will we think, of aught beside, 
 
 ''My Lord, my Love is crucilied." 
 
 3 Ah ! Lord, enlarge our scanty thought, 
 To know the wonders thou hast wrought: 
 Unloose our stammering tongues to tell 
 Thy love immense, unsearchable. 
 
 4 First-born of many brethren thou. 
 To thee, lo, all our souls we bow: 
 
 To thee our hearts and hands we give; 
 Thine may we die, thine may we live. 
 
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 170 11,9. (483) 
 
 Ecstasy of the neiv-born soul. 
 
 HOW happy are they Who tlieir Saviour obey, 
 And have hiid up their treasures above ! 
 Tongue cannot express The sweet comfort and 
 peace 
 Of a soul in its earliest love ! 
 
 2 That comfort was mine, When tlie favor divine 
 I first found in the blood of the Lamb : 
 
 When my heart it believed. What a joy I re- 
 ceived, 
 What a heaven in Jesus's name ! 
 
 3 'T was a heaven below My Redeemer to know, 
 And the angels could do nothing more 
 
 Than fall at his feet. And the story repeat, 
 And the Lover of sinners adore. 
 
 4 Jesus all the day long Was my joy and my 
 
 song : 
 O that all his salvation might see ! 
 He hath loved me, I cried. He hath suffered 
 and died. 
 To redeem a poor rebel like me. 
 
 5 On the wings of his love I was carried above 
 All sin, and temptation, and pain: 
 
 I could not believe That I ever should grieve. 
 That I ever should suffer again. 
 
 6 O the rapturous heiglit Of that holy deliglit 
 Which I felt in the life-giving blood ! 
 
 Of my Saviour possessed, I v.'as perfectly blessed, 
 As if filled with the fullness of God. 
 
 171 6,6,4,6,6,6,4. (103 Z.) 
 Self-consecration at the cross. 
 
 Y faith looks up to thee, 
 Thou Lamb of Calvary, 
 Saviour divine ! 
 
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JUSTIFICATION. Ill 
 
 NoAv hear me while I pray: 
 Take all my guilt away: 
 O let me from this day 
 Be wholly thine. 
 
 2 May thy rich grace impart 
 Streiigtli to my fainting heart, 
 
 My zeal inspire : 
 As thou hast died for me, 
 O may my love to thee, 
 Pure, warm, and changeless be — 
 
 A living fire. 
 
 3 While life's dark maze I tread, 
 And griefs around me spread. 
 
 Be thou my guide: 
 Bid darkness turn to day, 
 AVipe sorrow's tears away, 
 Nor let me ever stray 
 
 From thee aside ! 
 
 4 When ends life's transient dream. 
 When death's cold, sullen stream 
 
 Shall o'er me roll — 
 Blest Saviour, then in love 
 Fear and distrust remove: 
 O bear me safe above — 
 
 A ransomed soul ! 
 
 1 7S 8,7. (479) 
 
 Sitting at the Cross. 
 
 SWEET the moments, rich in blessing. 
 Which before the cross I spend; 
 Life, and health, and peace possessing. 
 
 From the sinner's dying Friend: 
 Here it is I find my heaven, 
 
 While upon the Lamb I gaze: 
 Love I much? I've much forgiven — 
 I'm a miracle of grace I 
 
112 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 2 Love and grief my heart dividing, 
 
 With my tears his feet I'll bathe ; 
 Constant still in faith abiding, 
 
 Life deriving from his death. 
 May I still enjoy this feeling. 
 
 In all need to Jesus go ; 
 Prove his wounds each day more healing, 
 
 And himself more deeply know. 
 
 2. ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION AND PERFECT 
 LOVE. 
 
 173 C. M. (494) 
 Perfect 'purification. 
 
 FOEEVEE here my rest shall be, 
 Close to thy bleeding side; 
 Tills all my hope, and all my plea. 
 For me the Saviour died. 
 
 2 My dying Saviour, and my God, 
 Fountain for guilt and sin. 
 
 Sprinkle me ever with thy blood, 
 And cleanse and keep me clean. 
 
 3 Wash me, and make me thus thine own ; 
 Wash me, and mine thou art; 
 
 Wash me, but not my feet alone. 
 My hands, my head, my heart. 
 
 4 Th' atonement of thy blood apply, 
 • Till faith to siglit improve. 
 
 Till hope in full fruition die, . 
 And all my soul be love. 
 
 174 C. M. (497) 
 
 The rest of faith. 
 
 LOED, I believe a rest remains, 
 To all thy people known ; 
 A rest where pure enjoyment reigns, 
 And thou art loved alone : 
 
ENTIRE SANCTIFICATiON. 113 
 
 2 A rest where all our soul's desire 
 Is fixed on tilings above; 
 
 Where fear, and sin, and grief, expire, 
 Cast out by perfect love. 
 
 3 O that I now the rest might know, 
 Believe, and enter in! 
 
 Now, Saviour, now the power bestow, 
 And let me cease from sin! 
 
 4 Remove this hardness from my heart, 
 Tliis unbelief remove: 
 
 To me the rest of faith impart. 
 The Sabbath of thy love. 
 
 175 L. M. (538) 
 
 Seeking perfect rest in Christ. 
 
 OTH AT my load of sin were gone ! 
 O that I could at last submit 
 At Jesus' feet to lay it down ! 
 To lay my soul at Jesus' feet ! 
 
 2 Rest for my soul I long to find : 
 Saviour of all, if mine thou art, 
 
 Give me thy meek and lowly mind, 
 And stamp thine image on my heart. 
 
 3 Break off the yoke of inbred sin, 
 And fully set my spirit free : -^ 
 
 1 cannot rest till pure within, 
 Till I am wholly lost in thee. 
 
 4 Fain Avould I learn of thee, my God; 
 Thy light and easy burden prove, 
 
 The cross, all stained with hallowed blood. 
 The labor of thy dying love. 
 
 5 I would, but thou must give the power; 
 My heart from every sin release ; 
 
 Bring near, bring near the joyful hour, 
 And till me with thy perfect peace. 
 
114 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 176 L. M. (526) 
 
 [From the French.] 
 The act of consecration. 
 
 COME, Saviour, Jesus, from above! 
 Assist me Avith thy heavenly grace ; 
 Empty my heart of earthly love, 
 And for thyself prepare the place. 
 
 2 O let thy sacred presence fill. 
 And set my longing spirit free, 
 
 Which pants to have no other will, 
 Eut day and night to feast on thee. 
 
 8 While in this region here below, 
 No other good will I pursue : 
 
 I'll bid this world of noise and show, 
 W^ith all its glittering snares, adieu ! 
 
 4 That path with humble speed I '11 seek, 
 In which my Saviour's footsteps shine, 
 
 Nor will I hear, nor will I speak, 
 Of any other love but thine. 
 
 5 Henceforth may no profane delight 
 Divide this consecrated soul; 
 
 Possess it, thou, who hast the right, 
 As Lord and Master of the whole. 
 
 177 CM. (504) 
 . Longing to he established in love. 
 
 COME, Lord, and claim me for thine own : 
 Saviour, thy right assert! 
 Come, gracious Lord, set up thy throne, 
 And reign within my heart! 
 
 2 So shall I bless thy pleasing sway, 
 
 And, sitting at tliy feet, 
 Tliy laws with all my heart obey, 
 
 With all my soul submit. 
 
ENTIRE SANCTIFICATIOX. 115 
 
 3 Thy love the conquest more than gains : 
 To all I shall proclaim, 
 
 Jesus, the King, the Conqueror reigns, 
 Bow down to Jesus' name. 
 
 4 To thee shall earth and hell submit, 
 And every foe shall fall, 
 
 Till death expires beneath thy feet, 
 And God is all in all. 
 
 178 C. M. (528) 
 
 The act of consecration. 
 
 IET him to whom we now belong 
 J His sovereign right assert. 
 And take up every tliankful song, 
 And every loving heart. 
 
 2 He justly claims us for his own. 
 Who bought us with a price : 
 
 The Christian lives to Christ alone. 
 To Christ alone he dies. 
 
 3 Jesus, thine own at last receive. 
 Fulfill our hearts' desire ; 
 
 And let us to thy glory live. 
 And in thy cause expire ! 
 
 4 Our souls and bodies we resign: 
 With joy we render thee 
 
 Our all, no longer ours, but thine, 
 To all eternity. 
 
 179 C. M. (541) 
 
 Longing to be established in love. 
 
 THAT in me the sacred fire 
 Migbt now begin to glow! 
 Burn up tlie dross of base desire. 
 And make the mountains flow ! 
 
 
 
116 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 2 O that it now from heaven might fall, 
 And all my sins consume ! 
 
 Come, Holy Ghost, for thee I call, 
 Spirit of burning, come ! 
 
 3 Eefining lire, go through my heart, 
 Illuminate my soul : 
 
 Scatter thy life through every part, 
 And sanctify the whole. 
 
 4 No longer then my heart shall mourn, 
 AVhile, purified by grace, 
 
 I only for his glory burn, 
 And always see his face. 
 
 I 
 
 180 C. M. (500) 
 
 The rapture of love. 
 KNOW that my Eedeemer lives. 
 And ever prays for me: 
 A token of his love he gives, 
 A pledge of liberty. 
 
 2 I find him lifting up my head, 
 He brings salvation near : 
 
 His presence makes me free indeed. 
 And he will soon appear. 
 
 3 He wills that I should holy be ! 
 What can withstand his will? 
 
 The counsel of his grace in me 
 He surely shall fulfill. 
 
 4 Jesus, I hang u])on thy word : 
 I steadfastly believe 
 
 Thou wilt return, and claim me. Lord, 
 And to thyself receive. 
 
 181 C. M. (5a2) 
 Hejoicing in hope. 
 
 JOYFUL sound of gospel grace ! 
 Christ shall in me appear: 
 
 
 
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 EXTIRE SANCTIFICATION. 117 
 
 I, even I, sliall see his fiice ; 
 p I shall be holy here. 
 
 P 2 The promised land from Pisgah's top 
 I now exult to see : 
 :^Iy hope is full (O glorious hope!) 
 Of immortality. 
 
 3 With me, I know, I feel, thou art; 
 H ^ But this cannot suffice, 
 
 f Unless thou plantest in my heart 
 A constant paradise. 
 
 4 Come, O my God, thyself reveal, 
 Fill all this mighty void : 
 
 Thou only canst my spirit fill : 
 Come, O my God, my God ! 
 
 182 C. M. (533) 
 
 Praying for a holy heart. 
 
 OFOE a heart to praise my God, 
 A heart from sin set free ! 
 A heart that always feels thy blood 
 So freely spilt for me ! 
 
 2 A heart resigned, submissive, meek, 
 My great Redeemer's throne, 
 
 Where only Christ is heard to speak. 
 Where Jesus reigns alone. 
 
 3 O for a lowly, contrite heart, 
 Believing, true, and clean ! 
 
 Which neither life nor death can part 
 From him that dwells within: 
 
 4 A heart in every thought renewed, 
 And full of love divine; 
 
 Perfect, and right, and pure, and good— 
 A copy, Lord, of thine. 
 
118 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 183 S. M. (531) 
 
 The act of consecration, 
 
 LORD, in the strength of grace, 
 ^Vitll a glad heart and free, 
 Myself, my residue of days, 
 I consecrate to thee. 
 
 2 Thy ransomed servant, I 
 Restore to thee thine own ; 
 
 And, from this moment, live or die. 
 To serve my God alone. 
 
 184 B. M. (493] 
 
 The new creation. 
 
 THE thing ray God doth hate, 
 1 That I no more may do, 
 Thy creature. Lord, again create, 
 
 And all my soul renew: 
 My soul shall then, like thine. 
 
 Abhor the thing unclean. 
 And, sanctified by love divine. 
 
 Forever cease from sin. 
 
 2 That blessed law of thine, 
 
 Jesus, to me impart, 
 The Spirit's law of life divine, 
 
 O Avrite it in my heart! 
 Implant it deep within, 
 
 AVhence it may ne'er remove, 
 The law of liberty from sin, 
 
 The perfect law of love. 
 
 185 C. M. (540; 
 
 Longing to he established in love. 
 
 Y God! I know, I feel thee mine, 
 And will not quit my claim. 
 
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ENTIilE SANCTIFICATION. 119 
 
 Till all I liave is lost in thine, 
 And all renewed I am. 
 
 2 I hold thee with a trembling hand, 
 But will not let thee go, 
 
 Till steadfastly by faith I stand, 
 t And all thy goodness know. 
 
 3 When shall T see the welcome hour, 
 That idants my God in me! 
 
 Spirit of health, and life, and power, 
 And perfect liberty ! 
 
 4 Jesus, thine all-victorious love 
 Shed in my heart abroad ; 
 
 Then shall my feet no longer rove, 
 Kooted and fixed in God. 
 
 186 . S. M. (546) 
 
 Waiting at the Cross. 
 
 Ij^ATIIER, I dare believe 
 Thee merciful and true: 
 Thou wilt my guilty soul forgive. 
 My fallen soul renew. 
 
 2 Come, then, for Jesus' sake, 
 And bid my heart be clean: 
 
 An end of all my troubles make, 
 An end of all my sin. 
 
 3 I cannot wash ray heart, 
 But by believing thee. 
 
 And waiting for thy blood t' impart 
 The spotless purity. 
 
 4 While at thy cross I lie, 
 Jesus, thy grace bestow ; 
 
 Now thy all-cleansing blood apply, 
 And I am white as snow. 
 
120 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
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 187 7,7,7,7,7,7. (530) 
 
 TliG act of consecration. 
 ATHER, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
 One in Three, and Three in One, 
 As by the celestial host, 
 
 Let thy will on earth be done : 
 Praise by all to thee be given. 
 Glorious Lord of earth and heaven! 
 
 2 If so poor a worm as I 
 May to thy great glory live, 
 
 All my actions sanctify. 
 
 All my words and thoughts receive: 
 Claim me for thy service, claim 
 All I have and all I am. 
 
 3 Take my soul and body's powers; 
 Take my memory, mind, and will ; 
 
 All my goods, and all my hours ; 
 
 All I know, and all I feel; 
 All I think, or speak, or do : 
 Take my heart ; but make it new ! 
 
 W^ 
 
 188 7s. (545j 
 
 Humble aspiration. 
 TIEN, my Saviour, shall I be 
 Perfectly resigned to thee? 
 Poor and vile in my own eyes. 
 Only in thy wisdom wise ? 
 
 2 Only thee content to knoAV, 
 Ignorant of all below ; 
 Only guided by thy light; 
 Only mighty in thy might? 
 
 3 So I may thy Spirit know, 
 Let him as he listeth blow: 
 Let the manner be unknown, 
 So I may with thee be one. 
 
DUTIES AND TRIALS. 121 
 
 4 Fully in my life express 
 All the heiglits of lioliness: 
 Sweetly let my spirit prove 
 All the depths of humble love. 
 
 V 
 
 189 7s. (502) 
 
 Christ liveth in me" 
 OVING Jesus, gentle Lamb, 
 In thy gracious hands I am : 
 Make me, Saviour, what thou art, 
 Live thyself within my heart. 
 
 2 I shall then show forth thy praise, 
 Serve thee all my happy days; 
 Then the world sliall always see 
 Christ, the holy Child, in me. 
 
 3. DUTIES AND TRIALS. 
 
 190 6,6,8,4. (552) 
 The God of Abraham. 
 
 THE God of Abrah'm praise, 
 Who reigns enthroned above, 
 Ancient of everlasting days, 
 And God of love : 
 Jehovah, great I AM ! 
 By eartli and heaven confessed ; 
 I boAv and bless the sacred Name, 
 Forever blessed. 
 
 2 The God of Abrah'm praise. 
 At wliose supreme command. 
 From earth I rise, and seek the joys 
 At his right-hand : 
 I all on earth forsake, 
 Its wisdom, fame, and power; 
 And him my only portion make, 
 My shield and tower. 
 
122 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 3 The God of Abrah'm praise, 
 AVhose all-sufficient grace 
 
 Shall guide me all my happy days 
 In all my ways: 
 He calls a worm his friend ! 
 He calls himself my God ! 
 And he shall save me to the end, 
 Through Jesus' blood ! 
 
 4 He by himself hath sworn ; 
 I on his oath depend ; 
 
 1 shall, on eagles' wings upborne, 
 
 To heaven ascend: 
 I shall behold his face, 
 I shall his power adore, 
 And sing the wonders of his grace 
 
 Foreverm.ore. 
 
 191 7,6,7,6,7,7,7,6. (553) 
 
 The pilgrimage, 
 
 I)TSE, my soul, and stretch thy wings, 
 \} Thy better portion trace ; 
 Bise from transitory things, 
 
 Toward heaven, thy native place: 
 Sun and moon and stars decay ; 
 
 Time shall soon this earth remove: 
 Eise, my soul, and haste away 
 To seats prepared above. 
 
 2 Kivers to the ocean run, 
 Nor stay in all their course; 
 
 Fire ascending seeks the sun — 
 Both speed them to their source : 
 
 So a soul that 's born of God 
 Pants to view liis glorious face. 
 
 Upward tends to his abode, 
 To rest in his embrace. 
 
DUTIES AND TRIALS. 123 
 
 3 Cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn; 
 
 Press onward to tlie prize; 
 Soon our Saviour ■will return, 
 
 Triumphant in the skies. 
 Yet a season, and you know 
 
 Happy entrance will be given; 
 All our sorrows left below. 
 
 And earth exchanged for heaven. 
 
 192 7,6,7,6,7,8,7,6. (575) 
 
 Only Jesus. 
 
 VAIN, delusive world, adieu, 
 With all of creature-good ! 
 Only Jesus I pursue, 
 
 Wlio bought me Avitli his blood ! 
 All thy pleasures I forego, 
 
 I trample on thy wealth and pride: 
 Only Jesus will I know. 
 And Jesus crucified. 
 
 2 Other knowledge I disdain, 
 'Tis all but vanity; 
 
 Christ, the Lamb of God, was slain, 
 
 He tasted death for me! 
 Me to save from endless woe 
 
 The sin-atoning Victim died! 
 Only .Jesus will I know. 
 
 And Jesus crucified! 
 
 3 O tliat I could all invite 
 This saving truth to prove. 
 
 Show the length, the breadth, the height, 
 
 And depth, of Jesus' love! 
 Fain I would to sinners show 
 
 The blood by faith alone applied I 
 Only Jesus v.-ill I know, 
 
 And Jesus crucified! 
 
124 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 M" 
 
 193 C. M. (562) 
 
 Psalm Ixxi. 15. 
 Y Saviour, my alruiglity Friend, 
 When I begin thy praise, 
 Where will the growing numbers end, 
 The numbers of thy grace? 
 
 2 Thou art my everlasting trust; 
 Thy goodness I adore : 
 
 Send down thy grace, O blessed Lord, 
 That I may love thee more. 
 
 3 My feet shall travel all the length 
 Of the celestial road ; 
 
 And march with courage in thy strength, 
 To see the Lord my God. 
 
 4 Awake ! awake ! my tuneful powers : 
 With this delightful song 
 
 1 '11 entertain the darkest hours, 
 
 Kor think the season long. 
 
 i94r C. M. (564; 
 
 WalJdng with God. 
 
 TALK with us, Lord, thyself reveal. 
 While here o'er earth we rove; 
 Speak to our hearts, and let us feel 
 The kindlings of thy love. 
 
 2 With thee conversing, we forget 
 All time, and toil, and care: 
 
 Labor is rest, and pain is sweet, 
 If thou, my God, art here. 
 
 3 Here then, my God, vouchsafe to stay, 
 And bid my heart rejoice ; 
 
 My bounding heart shall own thy sway, 
 And echo to thy voice. 
 
 4 Thou callest me to seek thy face ; 
 'Tis all I wish to seek: 
 
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 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 125 
 
 T' attend the Avhispers of thy grace 
 And Iiear thee inly sjjeak. 
 
 5 Let this my every hour employ, 
 
 Till I thy glory see, 
 Enter into my Master's joy, 
 
 And find my heaven in thee ! 
 
 ^ 95 • C. M. (569) 
 
 Sluggishness lamented. 
 Y drowsy powers, why sleep ye so? 
 Awake, my sluggish soul ! 
 ^Xothmg hath half thy work to do. 
 Yet nothing's half so dull. 
 
 2 Go to the ants; for one poor grain 
 ^ See how they toil and strive ! 
 
 Yet we, who have a heaven t' obtain 
 How negligent we live ! ' 
 
 3 Lord, shall we live so sluggish still, 
 And never act our parts ? 
 
 Come Holy Dove, from th' heavenly hill 
 And warm our frozen hearts. 
 
 4 Give us with active warmth to move 
 With vigorous souls to rise, ' 
 
 With hands of faitli and wings of love 
 To fly and take the prize. 
 
 196 S. M. (576) 
 
 Depending on Christ. 
 
 JESUS, my truth, my way, 
 My sure, unerring light. 
 On thee my feeble steps I stay, 
 
 Which thou wilt guide aright. 
 2 My wisdom and my guide, 
 My counselor thou art: 
 
126 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 O never let me leave thy side, 
 Or from thy paths deiJart! 
 
 3 I lift mine eyes to thee, 
 Tliou gracious, bleeding Lamb, 
 
 That I may now enlightened be. 
 And never put to shame. 
 
 4 Never will I remove 
 
 Out of thy hands my cause; 
 But rest in thy redeeming love, 
 And hang upon thy cross. 
 
 197 S. M. (586] 
 Watchfulness. 
 
 GRACIOUS Redeemer, shake 
 This slumber from my soul ! 
 Say to me now, "Awake, awake! 
 And Christ shall make thee whole." 
 
 2 For each assault prepared 
 And ready may I be ; 
 
 Forever standing on my guard. 
 And looking up to thee. 
 
 3 O do thou always Avarn 
 My soul of evil near ! 
 
 When to the riglit or left I turn, 
 Thy voice still let me hear : 
 
 4 " Come back ! this is the way ! 
 Come back! and Avalk herein!" 
 
 O may I hearken and obey, 
 And shun the paths of sin 1 
 
 198 S. M. (587. 
 Concluded. 
 
 THOU seest my feebleness: 
 Jesus, be thou my power, 
 
DUTIES AND TllIALS. 127 
 
 My help and refuge in distress, 
 My fortress and my tower. 
 
 2 Give me to trust in thee; 
 Be thou my sure ahode: 
 
 My horn, and rock, and buckler he. 
 My Saviour, and my God. 
 
 3 Myself I cannot save. 
 Myself I cannot keep ; 
 
 But strength in thee I surely have, 
 Whose eyelids never sleep. 
 
 4 My soul to thee alone, 
 Now, therefore, I commend; 
 
 Thou, Jesus, love me as thine own, 
 And love me to the end ! 
 
 199 C. M. (591) 
 
 Opening luorship. 
 
 NCE more we come before our God ; 
 Once more his blessings ask: 
 O may not duty seem a load, 
 Nor worship prove a task ! 
 
 0^ 
 
 2 Father, thy quickening Spirit send 
 From heaven in .Jesus' name. 
 
 To make our waiting minds attend, 
 And put our souls in frame. 
 
 3 May we receive the word we hear. 
 Each in an honest heart ; 
 
 And keep the precious treasure there. 
 And never with it part. 
 
 4 To seek thee all our hearts dispose, 
 To eacli thy blessings suit. 
 
 And let tlie seed thy servant sows 
 Produce abundant fruit. 
 
128 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 200 7s. (592) 
 
 Opening icorship. 
 
 LOED, we come before thee now, 
 At thy feet y.^e humbly bow ; 
 O do not our suit disdain ! 
 Shall we seek thee, Lord, in vain? 
 
 2 Lord, on thee our souls depend ; 
 In compassion now descend: 
 
 Fill our hearts with thy rich grace, 
 Tune our lips to sing thy praise. 
 
 3 In thine own appointed way, 
 Now we seek thee, here we stay : 
 Lord, we know not how to go 
 Till a blessing thou bestow, 
 
 4 Send some message from thy word. 
 That may joy and peace afford ; 
 
 Let thy Spirit now impart 
 Full salvation to each heart. 
 
 5 Comfort those who weep and mourn, 
 Let the time of joy return ; 
 
 Those that are cast down lift up, 
 Make them strong in faith and hope. 
 
 6 Grant that all may seek and find 
 Thee a gracious God, and kind ; 
 Heal the sick, the captive free ; 
 Let us all rejoice in thee. 
 
 201 L. M. (597) 
 Titus ii. 10-13. 
 
 SO let our lips and lives express 
 The holy gospel we profess ; 
 So let our works and virtues shine, 
 To prove the doctrine all divine. 
 
 2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad 
 The honoi's of our Saviour God, 
 
DUTIES AND TRIALS. 129 
 
 When the salvation reigns within, 
 And grace subdues the power of sin. 
 
 3 Our flesh and sense must be denied, 
 Passion and envy, lust and pride; 
 
 While justice, temperance, truth, and love, 
 Our inward piety approve. 
 
 4 Religion bears our spirits up, 
 While we expect that blessed hope, 
 The bright appearance of the Lord ; 
 And faith stands leaning on his word. 
 
 202 L. M. (589) 
 
 Prayer. 
 
 PKAYER is appointed to convey 
 The blessings God designs to give : 
 Long as they live should Christians pray, 
 Tliey learn to pray when first they live. 
 
 2 If pain afflict, or wrongs oppress; 
 If cares distract, or fears dismay; 
 
 If guilt deject; if sin distress; 
 
 In every case still watch and pray. 
 
 3 'T is prayer supports the soul that 's weak : 
 Though thought be broken, language lame. 
 
 Pray if thou canst or canst not speak. 
 But pray with faith in Jesus' name. 
 
 4 Depend on him ; tliou canst not fail ; 
 Make all thy wants and wishes known; 
 
 Fear not; his merits must prevail; 
 Ask but in faith, it shall be done. 
 
 Q03 L. M. (613) 
 
 Not ashamed of Jesus. 
 
 JESUS! and sliall it ever be, 
 A mortal man ashamed of thee? 
 Ashamed of thee, whom angels praise. 
 Whose glories shine through endless days? 
 
130 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 2 Ashamed of Jesus ! sooner far 
 Let evening blush to own a star: 
 He sheds the beams of light divine 
 O'er this benighted soul of mine. 
 
 3 Ashamed of Jesus! just as soon 
 Let midnight be ashamed of noon: 
 'T is midnight with my soul, till he, 
 Bright Morning Star, bid darkness flee ! 
 
 4 Ashamed of Jesus ! that dear Friend 
 On whom my hopes of heaven depend ? 
 No: when I blush, be this my shame, . 
 That I no more revere his name. 
 
 204 L- M. (605) 
 
 At charitable collections. 
 
 WHEN Jesus dwelt in mortal clay, 
 What were his works from day to day, 
 But miracles of power and grace, 
 That sj)read salvation through our race? 
 
 2 Teach us, O Lord, to keep in view 
 .Thy pattern, and thy steps pursue ; 
 Let alms bestowed, let kindness done, 
 Be witnessed by each rolling sun. 
 
 3 That man may last, but never lives, 
 Who much receives, but nothing gives, 
 Whom none can love, whom none can thank, 
 Creation's blot, creation's blank. 
 
 4 But he who marks, from day to day. 
 In generous acts his radiant way. 
 Treads the same path the Saviour trod. 
 The path to glory and to God. 
 
 205 L. M. (625) 
 
 Doing all to the glory of God. 
 THOU, who camest from above, 
 The pure celestial fire t' impart, 
 
 
 
DUTIES AND TRIALS. 131 
 
 Kindle a flame of sacred love 
 On the mean altar of ray heart. 
 
 2 There let it for thy glory burn, 
 With inextinguishable blaze, 
 
 And trembling to its source return, 
 In humble love and fervent praise. 
 
 3 Jesus, confirm my heart's desire, 
 
 To work, and speak, and think, for thee ; 
 Still let me guard the holy fire. 
 And still stir up thy gift in me. 
 
 4 Ready for all thy perfect will, 
 My acts of faith and love repeat, 
 
 Till death thy endless mercies seal. 
 And make the sacrifice complete. 
 
 206 8,7,8,7,4,7. (558) 
 
 The pilgrimage. 
 
 GUIDE me, O thou great Jehovah, 
 Pilgrim through this barren land ; 
 
 1 am weak, but thou art mighty ; 
 Hold me with thy powerful hand : 
 
 Bread of heaven. 
 Feed me till I want no more. 
 
 2 Open, Lord, the crystal fountain 
 Whence the healing waters flow; 
 
 Let the fiery, cloudy pillar 
 
 Lead me all my journey through : 
 
 Strong Deliverer ! 
 Be thou still my strength and shield. 
 
 3 Wlien I tread the verge of Jordan, 
 Bid my anxious fears subside; 
 
 Death of death, and hell's destruction, 
 Land me safe on Canaan's side: 
 
 Songs .of praises 
 I will ever give to thee. 
 
132 CHKISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 207 S. M. (664) 
 
 The trium])h. 
 ''J THE good fight have fought," 
 
 JL O when shall I declare ! 
 The victory by my Saviour got 
 I long with Paul to share. 
 
 2 O may I triumph so, 
 When all my warfare's past; 
 
 And, dying, find my latest foe 
 Under my feet at last ! 
 
 3 This blessed word be mine, 
 Just as the port is gained, 
 
 " Kept by the power of grace divine, 
 I have the faith maintained." 
 
 4 Th' apostles of my Lord, 
 To whom it first was given, 
 
 They could not speak a greater word, 
 Nor all the saints in heaven. 
 
 Q08 S. M. • (217 Z.) 
 
 The conflict. 
 "Y soul, be on thy guard. 
 Ten thousand foes arise: 
 
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 The hosts of sin are pressing hard 
 To draw thee from the skies. 
 
 2 O watch, and fight, and pray, 
 The battle ne'er give o'er: 
 
 Renew it boldly every day. 
 And help divine implore. 
 
 3 Ne'er think the victory won, 
 Nor lay thine armor down: 
 
 Thy arduous work will not be done 
 Till thou obtain the crown. 
 
 4 Fight on, my soul, till death 
 Shall bring thee to thy God : 
 
 He'll take thee, at thy parting breath, 
 Up to his blest abode. 
 
DUTIES AND TRIALS. 133 
 
 209 S. M. (594) 
 Luke xii. 35-37. 
 
 YE servants of the Lord, 
 Each in his office "wait, 
 Observant of his heavenly word, 
 And watchful at his gate. 
 
 2 Let all your lamps be bright, 
 And trim the golden flame ; 
 
 Gird up your loins, as in his sight, 
 For awful is his name. 
 
 3 Watch, 'tis your Lord's command; 
 And while we speak he's near: 
 
 Mark tiie first signal of his hand, 
 And ready all appear. 
 
 4 O happy servant he 
 
 In such a posture found ! 
 He shall his Lord with rapture see, 
 And be Avitli honor crowned. 
 
 210 S. M. -(657) 
 
 Eph. vi. 10. 
 
 UOLDTEKS of Christ, arise! 
 
 ►O And put your armor on, 
 
 Strong in the strengtli which God supplies 
 
 Tlirough his eternal Son; 
 Strong in the Lord of hosts, 
 
 And in his mighty power, 
 Who in the strength of Jesus trusts 
 
 Is more than conqueror. 
 
 2 Stand, then, in his great might, » 
 
 With all his strength endued; 
 
 But take, to arm you for the fight, 
 TJie panoply of God; 
 
134 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 That having all things done, 
 And all your conflicts passed, 
 
 Ye may o'ercome through Christ alone, 
 And stand entire at last. 
 
 ^11 CM. (209 Z.) 
 
 Religion. 
 
 RELIGION is the chief concern 
 Of mortals here below : 
 May I its great importance learn. 
 Its sovereign virtue know I 
 
 2 Eeligion should our thoughts engage 
 Amidst our youthful bloom : 
 
 'T \n\\ fit us for declining age, 
 And for the aAvful tomb. 
 
 3 O may my heart, by grace renewed. 
 Be my Eedeemer's throne; 
 
 And be my stubborn will subdued, 
 His government to own ! 
 
 4 Let deep repentance, faith, and love, 
 Be joined with godly fear; 
 
 And all my conversation prove 
 My heart to be sincere. 
 
 5 Let lively hope my soul inspire : 
 Let warm affections rise; 
 
 And may I wait with strong desire 
 To mount above the skies I 
 
 Q12 C. M. (582) 
 
 A tender conscience. 
 
 ♦ T WANT a principle within 
 
 JL Of jealous, godly fear, 
 A sensibility of sin, 
 A pain to feel it near. 
 
DUTIES AKD TRIALS. 135 
 
 2 Quick as the apple of an eye, 
 O God, ray conscience make ! 
 
 Awake my soul when sin is nigh, 
 And keep it still av/ake. 
 
 3 If to the right or left I stray, 
 That moment, Lord, reprove; 
 
 And let me weep my life away 
 For having grieved thy love. 
 
 4 O may the least omission pain 
 My well-instructed soul ; 
 
 And drive me to the blood again 
 Which makes the Avounded whole! 
 
 Q13 C. M. (626) 
 
 *^Our good is all divine." 
 
 FATHEK, to thee my soul I lift, 
 My soul on tliee depends. 
 Convinced that every perfect gift 
 From thee alone descends, 
 
 2 Mercy and grace are thine alone, 
 And power and wisdom too: 
 
 Without the Spirit of thy Son 
 We nothing good can do. 
 
 3 We cannot speak one useful word, 
 One holy thought conceive. 
 
 Unless, in answer to our Lord, 
 Thyself the blessing give. 
 
 4 His blood demands the purchased grace; 
 His blood's availing plea 
 
 Obtained the help for all our race, 
 And sends it down to me. 
 
 5 Thou all our works in us hast wrought; 
 Our good is all divine: 
 
 The praise of every virtuous thought, 
 And righteous word, is thine. 
 
136 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 6 From thee, through Jesus, we receive 
 
 The power on thee to call, 
 In whom we are, and move, and live; 
 
 Our God is all. in all. 
 
 Q14 C. M. (619) 
 
 Surrendering all for Christ. 
 
 HOW vain are all things here below ! 
 How false, and yet how fair ! 
 Each pleasure hath its poison too, 
 And every sweet a snare. 
 
 2 The brightest things below the sky 
 Give but a flattering light : 
 
 We should suspect some danger nigh 
 Where we possess delight. 
 
 3 Our dearest joys and nearest friends, 
 The partners of our blood, 
 
 How they divide our wavering minds, 
 And leave but half for God ! 
 
 4 The fondness of a creature's love, 
 How strong it strikes the sense ! 
 
 Thither the warm affections move, 
 Nor can we call them thence. 
 
 5 Dear Saviour, let thy beauties be 
 My soul's eternal food ; 
 
 And'grace command my heart away 
 From all created good. 
 
 215 C. M. (611) 
 
 Judges v. 31. 
 
 JESUS, let all thy lovers shine. 
 Illustrious as the sun ; 
 And, bright with borrowed rays divine, 
 Their glorious circuit run. 
 
DUTIES AND TRIALS. 137 
 
 2 Beyond the reach of mortals, spread 
 Their light where'er they go; 
 
 And heavenly influences shed 
 On all the world below. 
 
 3 As giants may they run their race, 
 Exulting in their might; 
 
 As burning luminaries, chase 
 The gloom of hellish night. 
 
 4 As the bright Sun of righteousness, 
 Their healing wings display ; 
 
 And let their luster still increase 
 Unto the perfect day. 
 
 a 16 C. M. (616) 
 
 " T/ie Lord is my portion." 
 
 Y God, my portion, and my love. 
 My everlasting all, 
 I've none but thee in heaven above. 
 Or on this earthly ball. 
 
 2 What empty things are all the skies, 
 And this inferior clod ! 
 
 There 's nothing here deserves my joys, 
 There's nothing like my God. 
 
 3 How vain a toy is glittering wealth, 
 If once compared to thee ! 
 
 Or what's my safety, or my health, 
 Or all my friends to me ? 
 
 4 Were I possessor of the earth. 
 And called the stars my own, 
 
 Without thy graces and thyself, 
 I were a wretch undone. 
 
 5 Let others stretch their arms like seas, 
 And grasp in all the shore : 
 
 Grant me the visits of thy face, 
 And I desire no more. 
 
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 ai7 S. M. (642) 
 
 "All things work together for good." 
 
 AWAY ! my needless fears. 
 And doubts no longer mine ; 
 A ray of heavenly light appears, 
 A messenger divine. 
 
 2 Thrice comfortable hope. 
 That calms my troubled breast; 
 
 My Father's hand prepares the cup, 
 And what he wills is best. 
 
 3 Here then I doubt no more, 
 But in his pleasure rest, 
 
 Whose wisdom, love, and truth, and power, 
 Engage to make me blest. 
 
 4 T' accomplish his design, 
 The creatures all agree; 
 
 And all the attributes divine 
 Are now at work for me. 
 
 Q18 S. M. (643) 
 
 [From the German of Gerhard.] 
 Trust in Providence. 
 
 COMMIT thou all thy griefs 
 And ways into his hands, 
 To his sure trust and tender care, 
 
 Who earth and heaven commands: • 
 Who points tlie clouds their course. 
 
 Whom winds and seas obey, 
 He shall direct thy wandering feet, 
 He shall prepare thy way. 
 
 2 Thou on the Lord rely, 
 
 So safe shalt thou go on: 
 Fix on his work thy steadfast eye, 
 
 So shall tliv work be done. 
 
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 No profit canst thou gain 
 
 By self-consuming care; 
 To him commend thy cause, his ear 
 
 Attends the softest prayer. 
 
 S19 S. M. (644) 
 
 Concluded. 
 
 IVE to the winds thy fears ; 
 Hope, and be undismayed : 
 God hears thy sighs, and counts thy tears 
 
 God shall lift up thy head: 
 Through waves, and clouds, and storms, 
 
 He gently clears thy way ; 
 Wait thou his time, so shall this night 
 
 Soon end in joyous day. 
 
 2 Still heavy is thy heart ? 
 
 Still sink thy spirits doAvn? 
 Cast off the weight, let fear depart, 
 
 And every care be gone, 
 What though thou rulest not. 
 
 Yet heaven, and earth, and hell 
 Proclaim, God sittcth on tlie throne, 
 
 And ruletli all things well. 
 
 220 S. M. (607) 
 
 Eccles. xi. 6. 
 
 SOW in the morn thy seed, 
 At eve hold not thy hand; 
 To doubt and fear give thou no heed — 
 Broad-cast it o'er the land. 
 
 2 Thou know' St not which shall thrive, 
 The late or early sown ; 
 
 Grace keeps tlie precious germ alive, 
 AVhen and wherever strown; 
 
 3 And duly shall appear. 
 
 In verdure, beauty, strength, 
 
140 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 The tender blade, the stalk, the ear, 
 And the full corn at length. 
 
 4 Then, when the final end. 
 
 The day of God is come, 
 The angel reapers shall descend, 
 
 And heaven sing, "Harvest home!" 
 
 231 S. M. (621) 
 
 Rejoicing in God. 
 
 COME, ye that love the Lord, 
 And let your joys be known: 
 Join in a song with sweet accord, 
 While ye surround his throne. 
 
 2 Let those refuse to sing 
 Who never knew our God ; 
 
 But servants of the heavenly King 
 May speak their joys abroad. 
 
 3 The God that rules on high. 
 That all the earth surveys, 
 
 That rides upon the stormy sky. 
 And calms the roaring seas — 
 
 4 This awful God is ours, 
 Our Father and our Love ; 
 
 He will send down his heavenly powers, 
 To carry us above. 
 
 5 There we shall see his face, 
 And never, never sin; 
 
 There, from the rivers of his grace. 
 Drink endless pleasures in : 
 
 6 Then let our songs abound, 
 And every tear be dry; 
 
 We 're marching through Immanuel's ground 
 To fairer worlds on high. 
 
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 SS2 C. M. (612) 
 
 "Thou knoicest that Hove theeJ' 
 
 DO not I love thee, O mj Lord? 
 Behold my heart, and see; 
 And turn each cursed idol out 
 That dares to rival thee. 
 
 2 Do not I love thee from my soul? 
 Then let me nothing love; 
 
 Dead be my heart to every joy, 
 When Jesus cannot move. 
 
 3 Hast thou a lamb in all thy flock 
 I would disdain to feed? 
 
 Hast thou a foe before whose face 
 I fear thy cause to plead? 
 
 4 Would not my heart pour forth its blood 
 In honor of thy name? 
 
 And challenge the cold hand of death 
 To damp th' immortal flame? 
 
 5 Thou know'st I love thee, dearest Lord ; 
 But O ! I long to soar 
 
 Far from the sphere of mortal joys, 
 And learn to love thee more. 
 
 223 C. M. (638) 
 
 Psalm xxxiv. 1-9. 
 
 THROUGH all the changing scenes of life, 
 In trouble and in joy, 
 The praises of my God shall still 
 My heart and tongue employ. 
 
 2 Of his deliverance I will boast, 
 
 Till all that are distressed. 
 From my example comfort take. 
 
 And cJiarm tlieir griefs to rest. 
 
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 3 O make but trial of liis lov . ! 
 Experience will decide 
 
 How blest tliey are, and only they, 
 Who in his truth confide. 
 
 4 Fear him, ye saints; and you vail tlien 
 Have nothing else to fear: 
 
 Make you his service your delight ; 
 He '11 make your wants his care. 
 
 Q24 C. M. (649) 
 
 Contentment. 
 
 MY span of life will soon be done, 
 The passing moriients say ; 
 As lengthening shadows o'er the mead 
 Proclaim the close of day. 
 
 2 O that my heai't might dwell aloof 
 From all created things. 
 
 And learn that wisdom from above 
 Whence true contentment springs ! 
 
 3 Courage, my soul ! thy bitter cross, 
 In every trial here, 
 
 Shall bear thee to thy heaven above, 
 But shall not enter there. 
 
 4 The sighing ones that liumbly seek 
 In sorrowing paths below, 
 
 Shall in eternity rejoice, 
 
 W^here endless comforts flow. 
 
 5 Soon will the toilsome strife be o'er 
 Of sublunary care, 
 
 And life's dull vanities no more 
 This anxious breast ensnare. 
 
 6 Courage, my soul ! on God rely, 
 Deliverance soon will come: 
 
 A thousand ways has Providence 
 To bring believers home. 
 
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 Q25 "J^s. (561) 
 
 The pilgrim's song. 
 
 CHILDKEN of the heavenly King, 
 As we journey, let us sing; 
 Sing our Saviour's worthy praise. 
 Glorious in his works and ways. 
 
 2 We are traveling home to God, 
 In the way our fathers trod ; 
 They are happy now, and we 
 Soon their happiness shall see. 
 
 3 O ye banished seed, be glad ! 
 Christ our Advocate is made : 
 Us to save, our flesh assumes, 
 Brother to our souls becomes. 
 
 4 Fear not, brethren, joyful stand 
 On the borders of our land ; 
 Jesus Christ, our Fathei-'s Son, 
 Bids us undismayed go on. 
 
 5 Lord! obediently we'll go, 
 Gladly leaving all below: 
 Only thou our Leader be. 
 And we still will follow thee. 
 
 226 C. M. (567) 
 
 The Christian race. 
 
 AWAKE, my soul ! stretch every nerve, 
 And press with vigor on : 
 A heavenly race demands tliy zeal, 
 And an immortal crown. 
 
 2 A cloud of witnesses arounJ 
 
 Hold thee in full survey 
 Forget the steps already tro.l, 
 
 And onward urge tliy way. 
 
144 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 3 'T is God's all-animating voice 
 That calls thee from on high ; 
 
 'Tis his own hand presents the prize 
 To thine aspiring eye : 
 
 4 That prize, with peerless glories bright, 
 Which shall new luster boast, 
 
 When victors' wreaths and monarchs' gems 
 Shall blend in common dust. 
 
 5 Blest Saviour ! introduced by thee. 
 Have I my race begun ; 
 
 And, crowned with victory, at thy feet 
 I'll lay my honors down. 
 
 237 S. M. (595) 
 
 Keeping the charge of the Lord. 
 
 ACHAKGE to keep I have, 
 A God to glorify ; 
 A never-dying soul to save. 
 
 And fit it for the sky ; 
 To serve the j^resent age. 
 My calling to fulfill — 
 O may it all my powers engage 
 To do my Master's will! 
 
 2 Arm me with jealous care, 
 
 As in thy sight to live ; 
 And O, thy servant, Lord, jarepare 
 
 A strict account to give ! 
 Help me to watch and pray, 
 
 And on thyself rely, 
 Assured if I my trust betray, 
 
 I shall forever die. 
 
 ^28 S. M. (596) 
 
 A holy life. 
 lOD of almighty love, 
 By whose sufiicient grace 
 
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DUTIES AND TRIALS. 145 
 
 1 lift my heart to things above, 
 And humbly seek thy face — 
 
 Through Jesus Christ, the just, 
 
 My faint desires receive. 
 And let me in thy goodness trust, 
 
 And to thy glory live. 
 
 2 Whatever I say or do, 
 Thy glory be my aim ; 
 
 My offerings all be offered through 
 
 The ever-blessed Name. 
 Jesus, my single eye 
 
 Be fixed on thee alone; 
 Thy name be praised on earth, on high, 
 
 Thy will by all be done ! 
 
 3 Spirit of faith, inspire 
 My consecrated heart ; 
 
 Fill me witli pure celestial fire, 
 "With all thou hast and art. 
 
 My feeble mind transform, 
 And, perfectly renewed. 
 
 Into a saint exalt a worm, 
 A worm exalt to God ! 
 
 Q29 8,8,6. (663) 
 
 Full assurance of hope. 
 
 COME on, my partners in distress. 
 My comrades tlirougli the wilderness. 
 
 Who still your bodies feel ; 
 Awhile forget your griefs and fears. 
 And look bevond this vale of teare 
 
 To that celestial hill. 
 2 Beyond the bounds of time and space 
 Look forward to that heavenly place, 
 
 The saints' secure abode : 
 On faith's strong eagle-pinions rise, 
 And force your passage to the skies, 
 
 And scale the mount of God. 
 
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 3 Wlio suffer with our Master here, 
 We shall before his face appear, 
 
 And by his side sit down : 
 To patient faith the prize is sure; 
 And all that to the end endure 
 
 The cross, shall wear the crown. 
 
 4 Thrice blessed, bliss-inspiring hope! 
 It lifts the fainting spirits up. 
 
 It brings to life the dead : 
 Our conflicts here shall soon be past, 
 And you and I ascend at last, 
 
 Triumphant with our Plead. 
 
 230 8,8,6. (580) 
 
 Circumspection. 
 E it my only wisdom here 
 
 To serve the Lord with filial fear. 
 With loving gratitude ; 
 Superior sense may I display, 
 By shunning every evil way, 
 And walking in the good. 
 
 2 O may I still from sin depart; 
 A wise and understanding heart, 
 
 Jesus, to me be given ! 
 And let me through tliy Spirit know 
 To glorify my God below, 
 
 And find my way to heaven. 
 
 Q31 S. M. (624) 
 
 A single eye. 
 
 I"^EACH me, my God and King, 
 . In all things thee to see ; 
 And what I do, in any thing, 
 To do it as for thee ; 
 
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 T 
 
 2 To scorn the senses' sway. 
 While still to thee I tend: 
 
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 In all I do be thou the way, 
 In all be thou the end. 
 
 3 All may of thee partake: 
 Nothing so small can be, 
 
 But draws, when acted for thy sake, 
 Greatness and worth from thee. 
 
 4 If done t' obey thy laws, 
 E'en servile labors shine; 
 
 Hallowed is toil, if this the cause, 
 The meanest work divine. 
 
 5 Thee, then, my God and King, 
 In all things may I see ; 
 
 And what I do, in any thing. 
 May it be done for thee ! 
 
 232 8,7. (632) 
 
 Taking up the cross. 
 
 JESUS, I my cross have taken. 
 All to leave, and follow thee; 
 Naked, poor, despised, forsaken. 
 
 Thou, from hence, my ail shalt be. 
 Perish, every fond ambition, 
 
 All I've sought, or lioped, or known; 
 Yet how rich is my condition! 
 
 God and heaven are still my own ! 
 
 2 Let" the world despise and leave me — 
 They have left my Saviour too : 
 
 Human hearts and looks deceive me — 
 Thou art not, like them, untrue ; 
 
 And while thou shalt smile upon me, 
 God of wisdom, love, and might. 
 
 Foes may hate, and friends disown me; 
 Show thy face, and all is bright. 
 
 3 Go, then, earthly fome and treasure; 
 Come disaster, scorn, and pain ; 
 
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 148 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 In thy service pain is pleasure; 
 
 With thy favor loss is gain. 
 I have called thee, Abba, Father, 
 
 I have set my heart on thee: 
 Storms may howl, and clouds may gather — 
 
 All must work for good to me. 
 
 233 7s. (630) 
 
 Chastisement 
 
 IS my happiness below 
 Not to live without the cross ; 
 But the Saviour's po*wer to know, 
 Sanctifying every loss. 
 
 2 Trials must and will befall ; 
 But with humble faith to see 
 
 Love inscribed upon them all — 
 This is happiness to me. 
 
 3 Trials make the promise sweet; 
 Trials give new life to prayer; 
 
 Bring me to my Saviour's feet, 
 Lay me low, and keep me there. 
 
 234 7s. (647) 
 
 Daily bread. 
 
 I AY by day the manna fell: 
 O, to learn this lesson well! 
 Still by constant mercy fed, 
 Give me, Lord, my daily bread. 
 
 2 "Day by day," the promise reads, 
 Daily strength for daily needs : 
 Cast foreboding fears away; 
 Take the manna of to-day. 
 
 3 Lord ! my times are in thy hand : 
 All my sanguine hopes have planned, 
 
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 To thy wisdom I resign, 
 And would make thy purpose mine. 
 4 Thou my daily task shalt give: 
 Day by day to thee I live ; 
 So shall added years fulfill, 
 , Not my own, my Father's will. 
 
 235 Ss. (615) 
 
 Delight in Christ. 
 
 HOW tedious and tasteless the hours 
 When Jesus no longer I see ! 
 Sweet prospects, sweet birds, and sweet flowers, 
 
 Have all lost their sweetness to me : 
 The midsummer sun shines but dim, 
 
 The fields strive in vain to look gay ; 
 But when I am happy in him, 
 December's as pleasant as May. 
 
 2 His name yields the richest perfume. 
 And sweeter than uuisic his voice; 
 
 His presence disperses my gloom, 
 And makes all Avithin me rejoice: 
 
 I sliould, were he always thus nigh, 
 Have nothing to wisli or to fear; 
 
 No mortal so happy as I, 
 
 My summer would last all the year. 
 
 3 Content with beholding his face, 
 j\Iy all to his pleasure resigned; 
 
 No changes of season or place 
 
 Would myke any change in my mind: 
 
 While blessed with a sense of iiis love, 
 A palace a toy would appear; 
 
 And prisons would palaces prove, 
 If Jesus would dwell with me there. 
 
 4 Dear Lord, if indeed I am thine, 
 If tliou art my sun and my song. 
 
 Say why do I languish and pine? 
 And why are my winters so long? 
 
150 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 O drive these dark clouds from my sky, 
 Tliy soul-cheering presence restore; 
 
 Or take me to thee up on high, 
 
 Where winter and clouds are no more. 
 
 236 8s. (614) 
 
 Delight in Christ. * 
 
 THOU Shepherd of Israel and mine, 
 The joy and desire of my heart, 
 For closer communion I pine, 
 I long to reside where thou art. 
 
 2 The pasture I languish to find, 
 Where all who their Shepherd obey, 
 
 Are fed, on thy bosom reclined, 
 
 And screened from the heat of the day. 
 
 3 'T is there with the lambs of thy flock, 
 There only I covet to rest; 
 
 To lie at the foot of the rock, 
 Or rise to be hid in thy breast: 
 
 4 'T is there I would always abide, 
 And never a moment depart ; 
 
 Concealed in the cleft of thy side, 
 Eternally held in thy heart. 
 
 237 8,7. (623) 
 Gratitude. 
 
 COME, thou Fount of every blessing, 
 Tune my heart to sing thy grace : 
 Streams of mercy, never ceasing. 
 
 Call for songs of loudest praise. 
 Teacli me some melodious sonnet, 
 
 Sung by flaming tongues above; 
 Praise the mount — I 'm fixed upon it — 
 
 Mount of thy redeeming love! 
 2 Here I'll raise mine Ebenezer, 
 
 Hither, by thy help, I'm come; 
 
DUTIES AND TRIALS. 151 
 
 And I hope, by thy good pleasure, 
 
 Safely to arrive at home. 
 Jesus sought me, when a stranger, 
 
 Wandering from the fold of God : 
 He, to rescue me from danger. 
 
 Interposed his precious blood ! 
 
 3 O to grace how great a debtor 
 
 Daily I 'm constrained to be ! 
 Let thy goodness, like a fetter, 
 
 Bind my wandering heart to thee! 
 Prone to wander. Lord, I feel it — 
 
 Prone to leave the God I love — 
 Here's my heart, O take and seal it! 
 
 Seal it for thy courts above. 
 
 238 lis. (640) 
 
 Precious promises. 
 
 HOW firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, 
 Is laid for your faith in his excellent word ! 
 What more can he say than to you he hath said, 
 You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled? 
 
 2 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 may demand, shall thy strength 
 ever be. 
 
 3 ''Fear not; I am with thee; O be not dis- 
 
 mayed ! 
 I, I am thy God, and will still give thee aid ; 
 I '11 strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee 
 
 to stand, 
 Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand. 
 
 4 ''When through the deep waters I call thee 
 
 . to go, 
 The rivers of woe shall not thee overflow: 
 
152 CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 
 
 For I will be with tliee, thy troubles to bless, 
 And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. 
 
 5 ''When through fiery trials thy pathway 
 
 shall lie, 
 My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply: 
 The flame shall not liurt thee — I only design 
 Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine, 
 
 6 " E'en down to old age, all my people shall 
 
 prove 
 My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love; 
 And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn, 
 Like lambs they shall still in my bosom be 
 
 borne. 
 
 7 "The soul that on Jesus still leans for repose,! 
 I will not, I ivill not, desert to his foes ; 
 
 That soul, though all hell should endeavor to 
 
 shake, 
 I '11 never, no, never, so, never forsake." 
 
 239 L. M. (629) 
 
 [From the German.] 
 Adve^^sity. 
 
 OTHOU, to Avhose all-searching sight 
 The darkness shineth as the light. 
 Search, prove my heart, it pants for thee, 
 O burst these bonds, and set it free ! 
 
 2 Wash out its stains, refine its dross, 
 Nail my affections to the cross ; 
 Hallow each thought, let all within 
 Be clean, as thou, my Lord, art clean. 
 
 3 Saviour, where'er thy steps I see, 
 Dauntless, untired, I follow thee: 
 
 O let thy hand support me still, 
 And V'sd me to thy holy hill! 
 
DUTIES AND TRIALS. 153 
 
 4 If rough and thorny be the way, 
 My strength proportion to my day; 
 Till toil, and grief, and pain shall cease, 
 Where all is cahn, and joy, and peace. 
 
 240 L. M. (639) 
 Hab. iii. 17, 18. 
 
 AWAY, my unbelieving fear ! 
 Fear shall in me no more have place: 
 jSIy Saviour doth not yet appear, 
 
 lie liides the brightness of his face ; 
 But shall I therefore let him go. 
 
 And basely to the tempter yield ? 
 No, in the strength of Jesus, no, 
 
 1 never will give up my shield. 
 
 2 Although the vine its fruit deny, 
 
 Altliough the olive yield no oil. 
 The withering fig-tree droop and die. 
 
 The- field illude the tiller's toil. 
 The empty stall no herd afford. 
 
 And perish all the bleating race, 
 Yet will I triumph in the Lord, 
 
 The God of my salvation praise. 
 
 241 C. M. (656) 
 Courage. 
 
 M I a soldier of the cross, 
 V follower of the Lamb, 
 And shall I fear to own his cause. 
 Or blush to speak liis name? 
 
 2 Must I be carried to the skies 
 On flowery beds of ease. 
 
 While others fought to win the prize. 
 And sailed tlirough bloody seas? 
 
 3 Are there no foes for me to face? 
 Must I not stem the flood ? 
 
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154 christiIn experience. 
 
 Is this vile world a friend to grace, 
 To help me on to God ? 
 
 4 Sure I must fight if I would reign ; 
 Increase my courage, Lord : 
 
 I'll bear the toil, enolure the pain, 
 Supported by thy word. 
 
 5 Thy saints, in all this glorious war. 
 Shall conquer, though they die; 
 
 They see the triumpli from afar — 
 By faith they bring it nigh. 
 
 6 When that illustrious day shall rise, 
 And all thy armies shine. 
 
 In robes of victory, through the skies, 
 The glory shall be thine. 
 
 942 C. M. (654) 
 
 Oratitude and hope. 
 
 AMAZING grace! (how sweet the sound!) 
 That saved a wretch like me ! 
 
 1 once was lost, but now I'm found. 
 Was blind, but now I see. 
 
 2 'T was grace that taught my heart to fear, 
 And grace my fears relieved ; 
 
 How precious did that grace appear, 
 Tlie hour I first believed ! 
 
 3 Through many dangers, toils, and snares, 
 I have already come; 
 
 'T is grace has brought me safe thus far, 
 And grace will lead me home. 
 
 4 The Lord has promised good to me; 
 His word my hope secures: 
 
 He will my shield and portion be 
 As long as life endures. 
 
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 FUTURE STATE. 155 
 
 5 Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail, 
 
 And mortal life shall cease, 
 I shall possess within the vail 
 
 A life of joy and peace. 
 
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 Inspiring hope. 
 HEN I can read my title clear 
 To mansions in the skies, 
 
 1 '11 bid farewell to every fear, 
 And wipe my weeping eyes. 
 
 2 Should earth against my soul engage, 
 And fiery darts be hurled, 
 
 Tlien I can smile at Satan's rage. 
 And face a frowning world. 
 
 3 Let cares, like a wild deluge, come. 
 Let storms of sorrow fall ; 
 
 So I but safely reach my home. 
 My God, my heaven, my all. 
 
 4 There I shall bathe my weary soul 
 In seas of heavenly rest, 
 
 And not a wave of trouble roll 
 Across my peaceful breast. 
 
 SECTION VIII. 
 
 Death and the Future State. 
 
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 Psalm xc. 
 GOD, our help in ages past. 
 Our hope for years to come. 
 Our shelter from the stormy blast, 
 And our eternal home : 
 
 
 
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 2 Under the shadow of thy throne, 
 Still may we dwell secure ; 
 
 . Sufficient is thine arm alone, 
 And our defense is sure. 
 
 3 Before the hills in order stood. 
 Or earth received her frame, 
 
 From everlasting thou art God, 
 To endless years the same. 
 
 4 A thousand ages, in thy sight, 
 Are like an evening gone ; 
 
 Short as the watch that ends the night 
 Before the rising sun. 
 
 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, 
 Bears all its sons away; * 
 
 They fly, forgotten, as a dream 
 Dies at the opening day. 
 
 6 O God, our help in ages past. 
 Our hope for years to come. 
 
 Be thou our guard while life shall last. 
 And our perpetual home ! 
 
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 Funeral of a Christian. 
 HY do we mourn departing friends, 
 Or shake at death's alarms? 
 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends 
 To call them to his arms. 
 
 2 Why should we tremble to convey 
 Their bodies to the tomb ? 
 
 There once the flesh of Jesus lay. 
 And left a long perfume. 
 
 3 The graves of all his saints he blessed, 
 And softened every bed : 
 
 AVhere should the dying members rest, 
 But with their dying Head? 
 
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FUTURE STATE. 157 
 
 4 Tlience he arose, ascending lii^li, 
 And shoAved our feet the way : 
 
 Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly, 
 At the great rising day. 
 
 5 Tlien let the last loud trumpet sound, 
 And bid our kindred rise: 
 
 Awake, ye nations under ground ; 
 Ye saints, ascend the skies ! 
 
 246 C. M. (726) 
 
 Funeral of a Christian. Rev. xiv. 13. 
 
 HEAE. what the voice from heaven proclaims 
 For all the pious dead ! 
 Sweet is the savor of their names. 
 And soft their sleeping bed. 
 
 2 They die in Jesus, and are blessed ; 
 How kind their slumbers are ! 
 
 From sufferings and from sins released. 
 And freed from every snare. 
 
 3 Far from this world of toil and strife. 
 They're present with the Lord: 
 
 The labors of their mortal life 
 End in a large reward. 
 
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 A voice from the tombs. 
 
 HARK ! from the tombs a doleful sound 1 
 My ears, attend the cry : 
 "Ye living men, come view the ground 
 Where you must shortly lie. 
 
 2 " Princes, this clay must be your bed, 
 
 In spite of all your towers; 
 The tall, the wise, the reverend head, 
 
 Must lie as low as ours." 
 
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 3 Great God ! is this our certain doom? 
 And are we still secure? 
 
 Still walking downward to the tomb, 
 And yet prepared no more ! 
 
 4 Grant us the power of quickening grace, 
 To fit our souls to fly; 
 
 Then, when we drop this dying flesh, 
 We '11 rise above the sky. 
 
 948 L. M. (678) 
 
 Death welcome to the Christian. 
 
 SHKINKING from the cold hand of death, 
 I soon shall gather up my feet; 
 Shall soon resign this fleeting breath, 
 And die — my father's God to meet. 
 
 2 Numbered among thy people, I 
 Expect with joy thy face to see: 
 
 Because thou didst for sinners die, 
 Jesus, in death remember me ! 
 
 3 O that without a lingering groan 
 I may the welcome w^ord receive ! 
 
 My body with my charge lay down, 
 And cease at once to work and live! 
 
 4 Walk with me through the dreadful shade, 
 And, certified tiiat thou art mine. 
 
 My spirit, calm and undismayed, 
 I shall into thy hands resign. 
 
 5 No anxious doubt, no guilty gloom. 
 Shall damp whom Jesus' presence cheers ; 
 
 My light, my life, my God is come. 
 And glory in his face appears ! 
 
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 The peaceful death. 
 
 WHY should we start and fear to die? 
 What timorous worms wt> mortals are I 
 
FUTURE STATE. 159 
 
 Death is the gate to endless joj, 
 And yet we dread to enter there. 
 
 2 The pains, the groans, the dying strife, 
 Fright our approaching souls away; 
 
 And we shrink back again to life, 
 Fond of our prison and our clay. 
 
 3 O if my Lord would come and meet, 
 
 My soul would stretcli her Avings in haste, 
 Fly fearless tlirough death's iron gate, 
 Nor feel the terrors as she passed ! 
 
 4 Jesus can make a dying-bed 
 Feel soft as downy pillows are. 
 
 While on his breast I lean my liead. 
 And breathe my life out sweetly there. 
 
 250 L. M. (693) 
 Dies ine. 
 
 THE day of wrath, that dreadful day. 
 When heaven and earth shall pass away! 
 W^hat power shall be the sinner's stay ? 
 How shall he meet tliat dreadful day — 
 
 2 When, shriveling like a parched scroll, 
 The flaming heavens together roll ; 
 
 And louder yet, and yet more dread, 
 Swells the high trump that wakes the dead? 
 
 3 O on that day, that wrathful day, 
 When man to judgment wakes from clay, 
 Be thou, O Olirist, the sinner's stay. 
 Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! 
 
 251 L. M. (697) 
 Heaven. Psalm xvii. 15. 
 
 WHAT sinners value I resign ; 
 Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine: 
 
160 DEATH AND THE 
 
 1 shall behold thy blissful face, 
 And stand complete in righteousness. 
 
 2 This life's a dream, an empty show; 
 But the bright world to which I go 
 Hath joys substantial and sincere: 
 
 • When shall I wake and find me there ? 
 
 3 O glorious hour ! O blest abode ! 
 I shall be near, and like, my God; 
 And flesh and sin no more control 
 The sacred pleasures of the soul. 
 
 4 My flesh shall slumber in the ground 
 Till the last trumpet's joyful sound"; 
 Then burst the chains with sweet surprise, 
 And in my Saviour's image rise. 
 
 Q53 C. M. (720) 
 
 Funeral of a child. 
 
 TPIY life I read, my gracious Lord, 
 With transport all divine: 
 Thine image trace in every word, 
 Thy love in every line. 
 
 2 Methinks I see a thousand charms 
 Spread o'er thy lovely face. 
 
 While infants in thy tender arms 
 Receive the smiling grace. 
 
 3 *'[ take these little lambs," said he, 
 "And lay tliem in my breast: 
 
 Protection they shall find in me. 
 In me be ever blest. 
 
 4 " Death may the bands of life unlooee, 
 But can't dissolve my love : 
 
 Millions of infant souls compose 
 The family above." 
 
FUTURE STATE. 161 
 
 Q63 ' C. M. (721^ 
 
 Funeral of a child. 
 
 LIFE is a span, a fleeting liour: 
 How soon the vapor flies ! 
 Man is a tender, transient flower, 
 That e'en in blooming dies. 
 
 2 Death spreads his withering, wintry arms, 
 And beauty smiles no more : 
 
 Ah ! where are now those rising charms 
 Which pleased our eyes before ? 
 
 3 That once loved form, now cold and dead, 
 Each mournful thought employs ; 
 
 "We weep our earthly comforts fled, 
 And withered all our joys. 
 
 4 Hope looks beyond the bounds of time. 
 When what we now deplore 
 
 Shall rise in full, immortal prime, 
 And bloom to fade no more. 
 
 254 C. M. (688) 
 
 The saints above. 
 
 GIVE me the wings of faith, to rise 
 Within the vail, and see 
 The saints above, how great their joys, 
 How bright their glories be. 
 
 2 I ask them whence their victory came; 
 They, with united breath, 
 
 Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb, 
 Their triumph to his death. 
 
 3 They marked the footsteps that he trod 
 His zeal inspired their breast; 
 
 And, following their incarnate God, 
 Possess the promised rest. 
 6 
 
162 DEATH AND THE 
 
 4 Our glorious Leader claims our praise 
 • For his own pattern given ; 
 While the long cloud of witnesses 
 Show the same path to heaven. 
 
 Q55 L. M. ^ (724) 
 
 Funeral of a youth. 1 Peter i. 24, 25. 
 
 THE morning flowers display their sweets, 
 And gay their silken leaves unfold, 
 As careless of the noontide heats, 
 As fearless of the evening cold. 
 
 2 Nipped by the wind's unkindly blast, 
 Parched by the sun's directer ray, 
 
 The momentary glories Avaste, 
 
 The short-lived beauties die aAvay. 
 
 3 So blooms the human face divine, 
 When youth its pride of beauty shows : 
 
 Fairer than spring the colors shine, 
 And sweeter than the virgin rose. 
 
 4 Or worn by slowly-rolling years. 
 Or broke by sickness in a day, 
 
 The fading glory disappears, 
 
 The short-lived beauties die away. 
 
 5 Yet these, new-rising from the tomb, 
 With luster brighter far shall shine, 
 
 Revive with ever-during bloom. 
 Safe from diseases and decline. 
 
 6 Let sickness blast, let death devour. 
 If heaven must recompense our pains : 
 
 Perish the grass, and fade the flower. 
 If firm the Avord of God remains. 
 
 S56 L. M. (728) 
 
 Funeral of a Christian. 
 
 UNVEIL thy bosom, faithful tomb, 
 Take this new treasure to thy trust; 
 
FUTURE STATE. 163 
 
 And give these sacred relics room, 
 To slumber in the silent dust. 
 
 2 Kor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear, 
 Invades thy bounds ; no mortal Avoes 
 
 Can reach the peaceful sleeper here, 
 While angels watch the soft repose. 
 
 3 So Jesus slept: God's dying Son 
 
 Passed through tlie grave, and blessed the bed : 
 Kest here, blest saint, till from his throne 
 The morning break, and pierce the shade. 
 
 4 Break from his tlirone, illustrious morn ! 
 Attend, O earth, his sovereign word ! 
 
 Eestore thy trust: a glorious form 
 Shall then arise to meet the Lord. 
 
 S57 L. M. (681) 
 
 Death of the righteous. 
 
 HOW blest the righteous when he dies ! 
 When sinks a weary soul to rest. 
 How mildly beam the closing eyes ! 
 
 How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 
 
 2 So fades a summer cloud away ; 
 
 So sinks the gale wlien storms are o'er- 
 So gently shuts the eye of day ; ' 
 
 So dies a wave along the. shore. 
 
 3 Life's duty done, as sinks the clay, 
 Light from its load the spirit flies ; 
 
 While heaven and earth combine to say, 
 "How blest the righteous Avhen he dies!" 
 
 Q58 C. M. (669) 
 
 Brevity of life. 
 
 THEE we adore, eternal Name I 
 And humbly own to thee 
 
164 DEATH AND THE 
 
 How feeble is our mortal frame, 
 What dying worms we be ! 
 
 2 The year rolls round, and steals away 
 The breath that first it gave : 
 
 Whate'er we do, where'er we be, 
 We 're traveling to the grave. 
 
 3 Dangers stand thick through all the ground 
 To push us to the tomb ; 
 
 And fierce diseases wait around 
 To hurry mortals home. 
 
 4 Waken, O Lord, our drowsy sense 
 To walk this dangerous road ; 
 
 And if our souls be hurried hence. 
 May they be found with God ! 
 
 259 C. M. (719) 
 
 Eternal death. 
 
 THAT awful day will surely come, 
 Th' appointed hour makes haste, 
 When I must stand before my Judge, 
 And pass the solemn test. 
 
 2 Jesus, thou Source of all my joys. 
 Thou Euler of my heart, 
 
 How could I bear to hear thy voice 
 Pronounce the sound, "Depart!" 
 
 3 The thunder of that awful word 
 Would so torment my ear, 
 
 'T would tear my soul asunder, Lord, 
 With most tormenting fear. 
 
 4 O wretched state of deep despair, 
 To see my God remove, 
 
 And fix my doleful station where 
 I must not taste his love ! 
 
FUTURE STATE. 165 
 
 Q60 C. M. (689) 
 
 The day of judgment. 
 
 AND must I be to judgment brouglit, 
 And answer in that day 
 For every vain and idle thought, 
 And every word I say? 
 
 2 Yes, every secret of my heart 
 Shall shortly be made known, 
 
 And I receive my just desert 
 For all that I have done. 
 
 3 How careful, tlien, ought I to live ! 
 Yv^ith what religious fear! 
 
 Who such a strict account must give 
 For my behavior here! 
 
 4 Thou awful Judge of quick and dead, 
 The watchful power bestow ; 
 
 So shall I to my ways take heed. 
 To all I speak or do. 
 
 5 If now thou standest at the door, 
 
 let me feel tliee near ! 
 
 And make my peace with God, before 
 
 1 at thy bar appear. 
 
 •^61 S. M. (298 i. 
 
 Peaceful death. 
 
 FOE the death of those 
 Who slumber in the Lord ! 
 O be, like theirs, my last repose, 
 Like theirs my last reward ! 
 
 2 Their bodies in tlie ground 
 In silent hope may lie, 
 
 Till the last trumpet's joyful sound 
 Shall call them to the sky. 
 
 
 
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 166 DEATH AND THE 
 
 3 Their ransomed spirits soar, 
 On wings of faith and love, 
 
 To meet the Saviour thej^ adore, 
 And reign with him above. 
 
 4 With us their names shall live 
 Through long succeeding years. 
 
 Embalmed with all our hearts can give, 
 Our praises and our tears. 
 
 5 O for the death of those, 
 Who slumber in the Lord ! 
 
 O be, like theirs, my last repose. 
 Like theirs my last reward ! 
 
 263 S. M. (730) 
 
 Funeral of a Christian. 
 ND must this body die, 
 This well-wrought frame decay? 
 And must these active limbs of mine 
 Lie moldering in the clay? 
 
 2 Corruption, earth, and worijis, 
 Shall but refine this flesh, 
 
 Till my triumphant spirit comes 
 To put it on afresh. 
 
 3 Arrayed in glorious grace 
 Shall these vile bodies shine. 
 
 And every shape, and every face, 
 Be heavenly and divine. 
 
 4 These lively hopes we owe. 
 Lord, to thy dying love : 
 
 O may we bless thy grace below, 
 And sing thy grace above ! 
 
 263 • S. M. (676) 
 
 The issues of life and death. 
 WHERE shall rest be found, 
 Eest for the wearv soul? 
 
 
 
FUTURE STATE. 167 
 
 'T were vain the ocean-depths to sound, 
 Or pierce to either pole : 
 
 2 The world can never give 
 The bliss for which we sigh : 
 
 'Tis not the whole of life to live, 
 Nor all of death to die. 
 
 3 Beyond this vale of tears 
 There is a life above, 
 
 Unmeasured by tlie liight of years; 
 And all that life is love: 
 
 4 There is a death whose pang 
 Outlasts the fleeting breath; 
 
 O what eternal horrors hang 
 Around "the second death!" 
 
 5 Lord God of trutli and grace, 
 Teach us that deatli to shun, 
 
 Lest we be banislied from thy face, 
 And evermore undone. 
 
 264 S. M. (674) 
 
 The end of life. 
 
 ND am I born to die ? 
 To lay this body down? 
 And must my trembling spirit fly 
 Into a world unknown ? 
 
 iV 
 
 2 A land of deepest shade, 
 Unpierced by human thought; 
 
 The dreary regions of the dead. 
 Where all things are forgot! 
 
 3 Soon as from earth I go. 
 What will become of me? 
 
 Eternal happiness or woe 
 Must then my portion be. 
 
168 DEATH AND THE 
 
 4 Waked by the trumpet's sound, 
 I from my grave shall rise ; 
 
 And see the Judge with glory croAvned, 
 And see the flaming skies ! 
 
 5 Who can resolve the doubt 
 That tears my anxious breast? 
 
 Shall I be with the damned cast out, 
 Or numbered with the blest? 
 
 6 I must from God be driven. 
 Or with my Saviour dwell ; 
 
 Must come at his command to heaven, 
 Or else — depart to hell. 
 
 265 S. M. (675) 
 The end of life. 
 
 THOU that wouldst not have 
 One wretched sinner die ; 
 Who diedst thyself, my soul to save 
 From endless misery ! 
 
 2 Show me the way to shun 
 Thy dreadful wrath severe ; 
 
 That when thou comest on thy throne, 
 I may with joy appear! 
 
 3 Thou art thyself the way, 
 Thyself in me reveal; 
 
 So shall I spend my life's short day 
 Obedient to thy will: 
 
 4 So shall I love my God, 
 Because he first loved me ; 
 
 And praise thee in thy bright abode 
 To all eternity. 
 
 266 C. M. (705) 
 
 The heavenly Jerusalem. 
 
 JEEUSALEM, my happy homel 
 Name ever dear to me 1 
 
 
 
FUTUKE STATE. 169 
 
 When shall my labors have An end, 
 In joy, and peace, and thee? 
 
 2 O Avhen, thou city of my God, 
 Shall I thy courts ascend, 
 
 Where congregations ne'er break up, 
 And Sabbaths have no end? 
 
 3 Why should I shrink at pain and woe? 
 Or feel at death dismay? 
 
 I've Canaan's goodly land in view. 
 And realms of endless day. 
 
 4 Jerusalem ! my happy home ! 
 My soul still pants for thee ; 
 
 Then shall my labors have an end. 
 When I thy joys shall see. 
 
 267 C. M. (703) 
 
 The heavenly Canaan. 
 
 THERE is a land of pure delight. 
 Where saints immortal reign ; 
 Infinite day excludes the night. 
 And pleasures banish pain. 
 
 2 There everlasting spring abides. 
 And never-withering flowers : 
 
 Death, like a narrow sea, divides 
 Tills heavenly land from ours. 
 
 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood 
 Stand dressed in living green : 
 
 So to the Jews old Canaan stood. 
 While Jordan rolled between. 
 
 4 Could we but climb v/here Moses stood, 
 And view the landscaj)e o'er, 
 
 Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, 
 
170 DEATH AND THE 
 
 268 C. M. (707) 
 
 The heavenly Canaan. 
 
 ON Jordan's stormy banks I stand, 
 And cast a wishful eye 
 To Canaan's fair and happy land, 
 Where my possessions lie. 
 
 2 O the transporting, rapturous scene, 
 That rises to my sight! 
 
 Sweet fields arrayed in living green, 
 And rivers of delight! 
 
 3 There generous fruits that never fail 
 On trees immortal grow; 
 
 There rocks, and hills, and brooks, and vales, 
 With milk and honey flow. 
 
 4 All o'er those wide-extended plains 
 Shines one eternal day; 
 
 There God, the Sun, forever reigns. 
 And scatters niglit away. 
 
 5 No chilling winds nor poisonous breath 
 Can reach that healthful shore; 
 
 Sickness and sorrow, pain and death. 
 Are felt and feared no more. 
 
 6 When shall I reach that happy place, 
 And be forever blest? 
 
 When shall I see my Father's face, 
 And in his bosom rest? 
 
 7 Filled with delight, my raptured soul 
 Would here no longer stay ! 
 
 Though Jordan's waves around me roll, 
 Fearless I'd launch away. 
 
 269 8,8,6. (673) 
 The end of life. 
 
 AND am I only born to die? 
 And must I suddenly comply 
 With nature's stern decree? 
 
FUTURE STATE. 171 
 
 What after death for me remains? 
 Celestial joys or hellish pains, 
 To all eternity ! 
 
 2 No room for mirth or trifling here, 
 For worldly hope or worldly fear, 
 
 If life so soon is gone ; 
 If now the Judge is at the door, 
 And all mankind must stand before 
 
 Th' inexorable throne ! 
 
 3 Nothing is worth a thought beneath. 
 But how I may escape the death 
 
 That never, never dies! 
 How make mine own election sure. 
 And when I fail on earth, secure 
 
 A mansion in the skies. 
 
 4 Jesus, vouchsafe a pitying ray. 
 Be thou my guide, be thou my way. 
 
 To glorious happiness ! 
 Ah ! write the pardon on my heart! 
 And whensoe'er I hence depart, 
 
 Let me depart in peace ! 
 
 270 7s. (702) 
 
 Bev. vii. 13-17. 
 HAT are these arrayed in white, 
 Brighter than the noonday sun ; 
 Foremost of the sons of light. 
 Nearest the eternal throne? 
 Tb.ese are they that bore the cross, 
 
 Nobly for their jMaster stood ; 
 Sufferers in his righteous cause. 
 Followers of the dying God. 
 
 2 Out of great distress they came, 
 Washed their robes by faith below 
 
 In the blood of yonder Lamb, 
 
 Blood that washes white as snow ; • 
 
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172 DEATH AND THE 
 
 Therefore are tliey next the throne, 
 Serve their Maker day and night: 
 
 God resides among his own, 
 God doth in his saints delijrht. 
 
 ff 
 
 S71 CM. (713,715) 
 
 The full assurance of hope. 
 "OW happy every child of grace, 
 Who knows his sins forgiven! 
 This earth, he cries, is not my place, 
 
 I seek my place in heaven ; 
 A country far from mortal sight — 
 
 Yet, Ol by faith I see 
 The land of rest, the saints' delight, 
 The heaven prepared for me. 
 
 2 O what a blessed hope is onrs ! 
 While here on earth we stay, 
 
 We more than taste the heavenly powers, 
 
 And antedate that day: 
 We feel the resurrection near, 
 
 Our life in Christ concealed. 
 And with his glorious presence here 
 
 Our earthen vessels filled. 
 
 3 O would he more of heaven bestow, 
 And let the vessels break, 
 
 And let our ransomed spirits go, 
 
 To grasp the God we seek; 
 In rapturous awe on him to gaze. 
 
 Who bought the sight for me, 
 And shout, and wonder at his grace, 
 
 To all eternity ! 
 
 272 C. M. (711, 712) 
 
 Visions of heaven. 
 
 AND let this feeble body fail. 
 And let it droop or die: 
 
FUTURE STATE. 173 
 
 My soul shall quit the mournful vale, 
 And soar to worlds on high — 
 
 Shall join the disembodied saints, 
 And find its long-sought rest, 
 
 That only bliss for which it pants, 
 In my Redeemer's breast. 
 
 2 In hope of that immortal crown, 
 I now the cross sustain; 
 
 And gladly wander up and down, 
 
 And smile at toil and pain: 
 I suffer out my three-score years, 
 
 Till my Deliverer come. 
 And wipe away his servant's tears, 
 
 And take his exile home. 
 
 3 O what are all my sufferings here. 
 If, Lord, thou count me meet 
 
 With that enraptured host t' appear, 
 
 And worship at thy feet! 
 Give joy or grief, give ease or pain — 
 
 Take life or friends away, 
 
 1 come to find them all again 
 In that eternal day. 
 
 273 C. M. (716) 
 
 The whole family in heaven and earth. 
 
 COME, let us join our friends above, 
 That have obtained the prize; 
 And on the eagle wings of love 
 
 To joys celestial rise: 
 Let ail the saints terrestrial sing, 
 
 With those to glory gone ; 
 For all the servants of our King, 
 In earth and heaven, are one. 
 
 2 One ianiily we dwell in him. 
 One Church above, beneath, 
 
 Though now divided by the stream, 
 The narrow stream, of death. 
 
174 DEATH AND THE 
 
 One army of the living God, 
 
 To his command we bow ; 
 Part of his host have crossed the flood, 
 
 And part are crossing now. 
 
 3 Our old companions in distress 
 
 We haste again to see, 
 And eager long for our release 
 
 And full felicity : 
 E'en now by faith we join our hands 
 
 With those that went before, 
 And greet the blood-besprinkled bands 
 
 On the eternal shore. 
 
 274 S. M. (347 Z.) 
 
 Forever with the Lord. 
 
 ' ' POKEVER with the Lord ! " 
 
 J} Amen, so let it be : 
 Life from the dead is in that word, 
 
 'Tis immortality. 
 Here, in the body pent, 
 
 Absent from him I roam ; 
 Yet nightly pitch my moving tent j 
 
 A day's march nearer home. 
 
 2 My Father's house on high, 
 Home of my soul, how near. 
 
 At times, to faith's foreseeing eye, 
 
 Thy golden gates appear. 
 Yet clouds will intervene, 
 
 And all my prospect flies: 
 Like Noah's dove I flit between 
 
 Eough seas and stormy skies. 
 
 3 Anon the clouds dispart. 
 The winds, and waters cease, 
 
 While sweetly o'er my gladdened heart 
 Expands the bow of peace. 
 
FUTURE STATE. 175 
 
 Beneath its glowing arch, 
 Along the hallowed ground, 
 
 I see cherubic armies march, 
 A camp of fire around. 
 
 275 lis. (708) 
 
 "I would not live alwayJ^ 
 
 I WOULD not live alway : I ask not to stay 
 Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the 
 way ; 
 The few lurid mornings that dawn on us here 
 Are enough for life's woes, full enough for its 
 
 cheer. 
 2 I would not live alway: no — welcome the 
 
 tomb; 
 Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its 
 
 gloom': 
 There sweet be my rest till he bid me arise, 
 To hail him in triumph descending the skies. 
 8 Who, who would live alway, away from his 
 
 God, 
 Away from yon heaven, that blissful abode, 
 Where the rivers of pleasure flow o'er the bright 
 
 plains, 
 And the noontide of glory eternally reigns : 
 4 Where the saints of all ages in harmony 
 
 meet, 
 Their Saviour and brethren transported to 
 
 greet ; 
 AVhile the anthems of rapture unceasingly roll, 
 And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the 
 soul! 
 
 276 8,7. (513 Z.) 
 
 There is rest for the weary. 
 "N tlie Christian's home in glory, 
 There remains a land of rest: 
 
 r 
 
176 DEATH Al^B THE 
 
 There my Saviour 's gone before me, 
 To fulfill my soul's request. 
 
 Chorus. — There is rest for the weary- 
 There is rest for the weary — 
 There is rest for the weary — 
 
 There is rest for you — 
 On the otlier side of Jordan, 
 In the sweet fields of Eden, 
 Wliere the tree of life is blooming — 
 
 There is rest for you. 
 
 2 He is fitting up my mansion, 
 
 Which eternally shall stand, 
 Tov my stay shall not be transient 
 
 In that holy^ happy land. 
 
 o Pain and sickness ne'er shall enter, 
 Grief nor woe my lot shall share. 
 
 But, in that celestial center, 
 I a crown of life shall wear. 
 
 4 Death itself sliall there be vanished, 
 And his sting shall be withdrawn; 
 
 Shout for gladness, O ye ransomed, 
 Hail with joy the rising dawn! 
 
 5 Sing, O sing, ye heirs of glory — 
 Shout your triumphs as ye go ; 
 
 Zion's gates will open for you, 
 
 Ye shall find an entrance through. 
 
 277 13,11. (731) 
 
 Funeral of a Christian. 
 
 THOU art gone to the grave — but we will not 
 deplore thee: 
 Thougli sorrows and darkness encompass the 
 tomb. 
 
FUTURE STATE. 177 
 
 Thy Saviour has passed through its portal be- 
 fore thee, 
 And the lamp of his love is thy guide through 
 the gloom. 
 
 2 Thou art gone to the grave — we no longer 
 
 behold thee, 
 
 Nor tread the rough paths of the world by 
 thy side ; 
 But the wide arms of mercy, are spread to en- 
 fold thee. 
 
 And sinners may die since the Sinless has 
 died. 
 
 3 Thou art gone to the grave — and its man- 
 
 sion forsaking, 
 Perchance thy weak spirit in fear lingered 
 
 long; 
 But the mild rays of paradise beamed on thy 
 
 waking, 
 And the sound which thou heardst was the 
 
 seraphim's song. 
 
 4 Thou art gone to the grave — but we ^vill not 
 
 deplore thee. 
 
 Whose God was thy ransom, thy guardian, 
 and guide ; 
 He gave thee ; he took thee ; and he will re- 
 store thee ; 
 
 And death has no sting, for the Saviour lias 
 died. 
 
 278. S. M. (739) 
 
 Funeral of an aged minister. 
 
 ^^ HEKVANT of God, we-11 done! 
 kj Rest from thy loved employ ; 
 The battle fought, the victory won, 
 Enter thy Master's joy." 
 
178 FUTURE STATE. 
 
 2 The voice at midnight came ; 
 He started up to hear ; 
 
 A mortal arrow pierced his frame: 
 He fell; but felt no fear. 
 
 3 The pains of death are past, 
 Labor and sorrow cease ; 
 
 And, life's long warfare closed at last. 
 His soul is found in peace. 
 
 4 Soldier of Qhrist, well done ! 
 Praise be thy new employ ; 
 
 And while eternal ages run, 
 Eest in thy Saviour's joy. 
 
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 279 S. M. (524 Z.) 
 
 Nearing the end. 
 
 iNE sweetly solemn thought 
 Comes to me o'er and o'er: 
 Nearer my parting hour am I 
 Than e'er I was before. 
 
 2 Nearer my Fatlier's house. 
 Where many mansions be ; 
 
 Nearer the throne where Jesus reigns — 
 Nearer the crystal sea ; 
 
 3 Nearer my going home, 
 Laying my burden down. 
 
 Leaving my cross of heavy grief, 
 Wearing my starry croAvn ; 
 
 4 Nearer that hidden stream. 
 Winding through shades of night, 
 
 Eolling its cold, dark waves between 
 Me and the world of light. 
 
 5 Jesus ! -to thee I cling : 
 Strengthen my arm of faith ; 
 
 Stay near me while my way-worn feet 
 Press through the stream of death. 
 
MISSIONS. 179 
 
 SECTION IX. 
 
 Special Occasions. 
 
 1. MISSIONS. 
 
 280 L. M. (741) 
 
 Psalm Ixxii. 
 
 JESUS shall reign where'er the sun 
 Does his successive journeys run ; 
 His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, 
 Till moons shall wax and wane no more. 
 
 2 From north to south the princes meet 
 To pay their homage at his feet ; 
 While western empires own their Lord, 
 And savage tribes attend his word. 
 
 3 For him shall endless prayer be made, 
 And endless praises crown his head ; 
 His name, like sweet perfume, shall rise 
 With every morning sacrifice. 
 
 4 People and realms, of every tongue. 
 Dwell on his love with sweetest song. 
 And infant voices shall proclaim 
 Their early blessings on his name. 
 
 5 Blessings abound where'er he reigns, 
 The prisoner leaps to loose his chains, 
 Tlie weary find eternal rest. 
 
 And all the sons of want are blessed. 
 
 6 Where he displays iiis healing power. 
 Death and the curse are known no more; 
 In him the tribes of Adam boast 
 
 More blessings than their father lost. 
 
180 SPECIAL OCCASIOXS. 
 
 7 Let every creature rise and bring 
 Peculiar honors to our King; 
 Angels descend with songs again, 
 And earth rejpeat the long Amen! 
 
 Q81 L. M. (744) 
 
 Psalm cxvii. 
 
 FEOM all that dwell below the skies, 
 Let the Creator's praise arise; 
 Let the Redeemer's name be sung 
 Through every land, by every tongue. 
 
 2 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord, 
 Eternal truth attends thy word; 
 Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore 
 Till suns shall rise and set no more. 
 
 282 8,7,4. 
 
 Isa. lii. 7. 
 
 ON the mountain's top appearing, 
 Lo, the sacred herald stands, 
 Welcome news to Zion bearing, 
 Zion long in liostile lands : 
 
 Mourning captive, 
 God himself will loose thy bands. 
 
 2 Has thy night been long and mournful, 
 All tliy friends unfaithful proved? 
 
 Have thy foes been proud and scornful, 
 By thy sighs and tears unmoved? 
 
 Cease thy mourning, 
 Zion still is Avell beloved. 
 
 3 God, thy God, will now restore thee ! 
 He himself appeals thy friend : 
 
 All thy foes shall flee before thee, 
 Here their boasts and triumphs end : 
 
 Great deliverance 
 Zion's King vouchsafes to send. 
 
MISSIONS. 181 
 
 283 8,7,8,7,4,7. (756) 
 
 Spread of the (jospel. 
 
 O'ER the gloomy hills of darkness, 
 Look, my soul, be still and gaze, 
 All thy promises do travail 
 "With a glorious day of grace : 
 
 Blessed jubilee, 
 Let thy glorious morning dawn ! 
 
 2 Kingdoms wide that sit in darkness, 
 Grant them, Lord, the glorious light. 
 
 And from eastern coast to western, 
 May the morning chase the night ; 
 
 And redemption. 
 Freely purchased, win the day. 
 
 3 Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel ; 
 Win and conquer, never cease ; 
 
 May thy lasting, wide dominions 
 Multiply, and still increase; 
 
 Sway thy scepter, 
 Saviour, all the world around. 
 
 Q84 7s. (767) 
 
 Success. 
 EE how great a flame aspires, 
 Kindled by a spark of grace ! 
 Jesus' love the nations fires, 
 
 Sets the kingdoms on a blaze. 
 To bring fire on earth he came ; 
 Kindled in some hearts it is : 
 O that all might catch the flame, 
 All partake tlie glorious bliss ! 
 
 2 When he first the work begun, 
 Small and feeble was his day : 
 
 Kow the word doth swiftly run, 
 Now it wins its widening way: 
 
 S^ 
 
182 SPECIAL OCCASIONS. 
 
 More and more it spreads and grows, 
 
 Ever mighty to prevail ; 
 Sin's strongholds it now o'erthrows, 
 
 Shakes the trembling gates of hell. 
 
 3 Saw ve not the cloud arise, 
 
 Little as a human hand? 
 Now it spreads along the skies, 
 
 Hangs o'er all the thirsty land; 
 Lo ! the promise of a shower 
 
 Drops already from above ; 
 But the Lord will shortly pour 
 
 All the Spirit of his love. 
 
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 285 7s. (765) 
 
 "Watchman, what of the night f 
 
 ATCHMAN, tell us of the night. 
 What its signs of promise are. 
 Traveler, o'er yon mountain's height, 
 
 See that glory-beaming star. 
 Watchman, does its beauteous ray 
 Aught of hope or joy foretell? 
 Traveler, yes ; it brings the day, 
 Promised day of Israel. 
 
 2 Watchman, tell us of the night: 
 Higher yet that star ascends. 
 
 Traveler, blessedness and light, 
 
 Peace and truth, its course portends. 
 
 Watchman, will its beams alone 
 
 Gild the spot that gave them birth? 
 
 Traveler, ages are its own ; 
 
 See ! it bursts o'er all the earth. 
 
 3 Watchman, tell us of the night. 
 For the morning seems to dawn. 
 
 Traveler, darkness takes its flight, 
 Doubt and terror are withdrawn. 
 
MISSIONS. 183 
 
 "Watchman, let tliy wanderings cease ; 
 
 Hie thee to thy quiet home. 
 Traveler, lo ! the Prince of peace, 
 
 Lo! the Son of God is come. 
 
 Q86 7,6,7,6. (760) 
 
 "Come over — and help us I" 
 
 FEOM Greenland's icy mountains, » 
 
 From India's coral strand ; 
 Yrhere Afric's sunny fountains 
 Roll down their golden sand ; 
 From many an ancient river, 
 From many a palmy plain, 
 They call us to deliver 
 
 Tiieir land from error's chain. 
 
 2 What though the spicy breezes 
 Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, 
 
 Though every prospect pleases, 
 
 And only man is vile: 
 In vain with lavish kindness 
 
 The gifts of God are strown ; 
 The heathen in his blindness 
 
 Bows down to wood and stone. 
 
 3 Shall we whose souls are lighted 
 AVith wisdom from on high, 
 
 Sliall we to men benighted 
 
 The lamp of life deny? 
 Salvation ! O salvation ! 
 
 The joyful sound proclaim. 
 Till earth's remotest nation 
 
 Has learned Messiah's name. 
 
 4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his storj, 
 And you, ye waters, roll, 
 
 TiU, like a sea of glory, 
 
 it spreads from pole to pole: 
 
184 SPECIAL OCCASIONS. 
 
 Till o'er our ransomed nature 
 The Lamb for sinners slain, 
 
 Redeemer, King, Creator, 
 In bliss returns to reign. 
 
 2. BIBLE. 
 
 287 L. M. (770) 
 Psalm xix. 
 
 THE heavens declare thy glory. Lord, 
 In every star thy wisdom shines ; 
 But when our eyes behold thy word. 
 We read thy name in fairer lines. 
 
 2 The rolling sun, the changing light, 
 And night and day, thy power confess ; 
 
 But the blest volume thou hast writ, 
 Reveals thy justice and thy grace. 
 
 3 Sun, moon, and stars, convey thy praise 
 Round the whole earth, and never stand ; 
 
 So when thy truth began its race, 
 
 It touched and glanced on every land. 
 
 4 Nor shall thy spreading gospel rest, 
 
 Till through the world tliy truth lias run : 
 Till Christ has all the nations blessed, 
 That see the light, or feel tlie sun. 
 
 5 Great Sun of righteousness, arise! 
 
 Bless the dark Avorld with heavenly liglit: 
 Thy gospel makes the simple Avise : 
 
 Tliy lav\^s are pure, thy judgments right. 
 
 288 ■ C. M. (771) 
 
 Psalm cxix. 
 
 HOW shall the young secure their hearts, 
 And guard their lives from sin? 
 Thy word the choicest rule imparts 
 To keep the conscience clean. 
 
ERECTION OF CHURCHES. 185 
 
 2 When once it enters to tlie mind, 
 It spreads such light abroad, 
 
 The meanest souls instruction tind, 
 And raise their thoughts to God. 
 
 3 'T is like the sun, a heavenly light, 
 That guides us all the day ; 
 
 And through the dangers of the night, 
 A lamp to lead our way. 
 
 4 Thy word is everlasting truth; 
 How pure is every page ! 
 
 That holy book shall guide our youth, 
 And well support our age. 
 
 289 L. M. (772) 
 Excellence of God's ivovd. 
 
 LET everlasting glories crown 
 Thy head, my Saviour, and my Lord ; 
 Thy hands have brought salvation down, 
 And writ the blessings in thy word. 
 
 2 In vain the trembling conscience seeks 
 Some solid ground to rest upon ; 
 
 With long despair the spirit breaks, 
 Till Ave apply to Christ alone. 
 
 3 How well thy blessed truths agree ! 
 How wise and holy thy commands ! 
 
 Thy promises, how firm they be ! 
 
 How firm our hope, our comfort, stands ! 
 
 4 Should all the forms that men devise 
 Assault my faith with treacherous art, 
 
 I 'd call them vanity and lies, 
 And bind the gospel to my heart. 
 
 3. ERECTION OF CHURCHES. 
 
 290 L. M. (786) 
 Psalm Ixxxvii. 
 
 AND will the great, eternal God, 
 On earth establish his abode? 
 
186 SPECIAL OCCASIONS. 
 
 And will he from his radiant throne, 
 Avow our temple for his own? 
 
 2 We bring the tribute of our praise ; 
 And sing that condescending grace, 
 Which to our notes will lend an ear, 
 And call us sinful mortals near. 
 
 3 These Avails we to thy honor raise. 
 Long may they echo to thy praise ; 
 And thou, descending, fill the place 
 With choicest tokens of thy grace. 
 
 4 And in the great, decisive day, 
 Wlien God the nations shall survey, 
 May it before the world appear 
 That crowds were born to glory here ! 
 
 291 C. M. (782) 
 
 Fsalm cxviii. 22, 23. 
 
 BEHOLD the sure foundation-stone 
 Which God in Zion lays. 
 To build our he'avenly hopes u^Don, 
 And his eternal praise. 
 
 2 Chosen of God, to sinners dear. 
 We now adore thy name ; 
 
 We trust our whole salvation here, 
 Nor can we sufier shame. 
 
 3 The foolish builders, scribe and priest, 
 Keject it with disdain; 
 
 Yet on this Rock the Church shall rest, 
 And envy rage in vain. 
 
 . 4 What though the gates of hell withstood, 
 Yet must this building rise: 
 'T is thine own work, Almighty God, 
 And AV'ondrous in our eyes. 
 
EDUCATION OF YOUTH. 187 
 
 S92 S- M. (788) 
 
 Psalm xlviii. 
 
 GEEAT is the Lord our God, 
 And let his praise be great ; 
 He makes his churches his abode, 
 His most delightful seat. 
 
 2 These temples of his grace, 
 
 How beautiful they stand ! ♦ 
 
 The honors of our native place. 
 And bulwarks of our land. 
 
 3 In Sion God is known 
 A refuge in distress : 
 
 How bright has his salvation shone 
 Through all her palaces ! 
 
 4 In every new distress 
 We'll to his house repair; 
 
 We'll think upon his wondrous grace, 
 And seek deliverance there. 
 
 4. EDUCATION OF YOUTH. 
 
 293 L. M. 
 
 Laying a cornfT-stone of an institution. 
 
 ALMIGHTY God, we to thy praise, 
 And in thy name, this ])uilding raise; 
 Here sliall thy wondrous works be shown, 
 And here thy sovereign will made known. 
 
 2 Science and Revelation here 
 In perfect liarmony appear, 
 Guiding young feet along the road, 
 Through grace and nature up to God. 
 
 3 Sons of the prophets here sliall be 
 Taught in thy way more perfectly, 
 TJiat others they in turn may teach 
 The mysteries t'hey are called to preacli. 
 
188 SPECIAL OCCASIONS. 
 
 4 In thy great name, Lord, alone, 
 We this day lay our corner-stone : 
 O let t]iy work to us appear — 
 
 Thy glory to our seed declare ! 
 
 5 Praise to the Father, and the Son, 
 And Holy Spirit — three in one ; 
 
 As 'twas of old, is now, shall be, 
 Ascribed to all eternity ! 
 
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 Q94 L. M. 
 
 Commencement ode. 
 
 ATHER of lights ! with one accord, 
 jj Thy works and word proclaim thee Lord- 
 Reveal thy wisdom, power, and love, 
 To all around, beneath, above. 
 
 2 By faith and science here we trace 
 Thee, God of nature, and of grace: 
 Though dimly seen, yet seen art thou— 
 Father of lights ! we see thee noAV ! 
 
 3 But when Ave gain that world of bliss. 
 Where faith and science both shall cease, 
 Where floods of light burst from thy throne, 
 Then shall we know as we are known. 
 
 4 Jehovah Elohim ! to thee — 
 In essence one, in persons three — 
 
 With bounding heart, and tuneful tongue, 
 We raise our glad Commencement-song! 
 
 3.95 6,6,4,6,6,6,4. 
 
 I Commencement ode. 
 
 jT^ATHER of lights! thy name 
 Jj This glad day we proclaim. 
 With boundino: heart: 
 
EDUCATION OF YOUTH. 189 
 
 Ancient of endless days, 
 Thy works declare thy praise — 
 Thy word, with brighter rays, 
 Shows what thou art. 
 
 2 Open our eyes that we 
 Thy glory, Lord, may see 
 
 In thy own light: 
 That glory may we trace 
 In all the truth and grace, 
 Which beams in Jesus' face — 
 
 Transporting sight ! 
 
 3 Hear us. Lord God of trutli. 
 Shine forth upon our youth — 
 
 We humbly pray: 
 Let them thy influence prove — 
 Spirit of light and love. 
 Beam on them from above 
 
 This festal day! 
 
 296 C. M. (800) 
 
 For an orphan asylum. 
 
 FATHEE of mercies, hear our prayers 
 For those that do us good, 
 Whose love for us a place prepares, 
 And gives the orphans food. 
 
 2 Their alms in blessings on their head 
 A thousand-fold restore ; 
 
 O feed their souls with living bread. 
 And let their cup run o'er! 
 
 3 Forever in thy Christ built up, 
 Thy bounty let them prove ; 
 
 Steadfast in faith, joyful through hope, 
 And rooted deep in love. 
 
 4 For those wlio kindly founded this, 
 A better house prepare ; 
 
 Remove them to thy heavenly bliss, 
 And let us uieet them tliere. 
 
190 SPECIAL OCCASIONS. 
 
 5. THE SEASONS. 
 
 297 10,5,11. (803) 
 
 New-year's-day. 
 
 COME, let us anew Our journey pursue, 
 Eoll round Avitli the year, 
 A nd never stand still till the Master appear ! 
 His adorable will Let us gladly fulfill, 
 
 And our talents improve, 
 By the patience of hope, and the labor of love. 
 
 2 Oar life is a dream ; Our time, as a stream, 
 
 Glides swiftly away ; 
 And the fugitive moment refuses to stay. ^ 
 The arrow is flown, The moment is gone ; 
 
 The millennial year 
 Rushes on to our view, and eternity 's here. 
 
 3 O that each in the day Of his coming may say, 
 
 " I have fought my way through ; 
 I have finished the work thou didst give me 
 
 to do!" 
 O that each from his Lord May receive the 
 glad word, 
 "Well and faithfully done! 
 Enter into my joy, and sit down on my throne." 
 
 298 C. M. (808) 
 
 New-year'' s-day. 
 
 QING to the great Jehovah's praise! 
 iO All praise to him belongs, 
 Who kindly lengthens out our days, 
 
 Demands our choicest songs : 
 His providence hath brought us through 
 
 Another various year ; 
 We all with vows and anthems new 
 
 Before our God appear. 
 
THE SEASONS. 191 
 
 2 Father, thy mercies past we own, 
 Thy still continued care ; 
 
 To thee presenting, through thy Son, 
 
 Whate'er we have or are: 
 Our lips and lives shall gladly show 
 
 The wonders of thy love, 
 While on in Jesus' steps we go 
 
 To seek thy face above. 
 
 3 Our residue of days or hours, 
 Thine, wholly thine, shall be ; 
 
 And all our consecrated powers 
 
 A sacrifice to thee ; 
 Till Jesus in the clouds appear 
 
 To saints on earth forgiven, 
 And bring the grand sabbatic year, 
 
 The jubilee of heaven. 
 
 Q99 S. M. (824) 
 
 Watch-night. 
 
 THOU Judge of quick and dead, 
 Before whose bar severe. 
 With holy joy, or guilty dread. 
 We all shall soon appear, 
 
 2 Our cautioned souls prepare 
 For that tremendous day, 
 
 And fill us now with watchful care, 
 And stir us up to pray. 
 
 3 O may we thus be found. 
 Obedient to his word ; 
 
 Attentive to the trumpet's sound, 
 And looking for our Lord! 
 
 4 O may we thus insure 
 A lot among the blest; 
 
 And watch a moment to secure 
 An everlasting rest! 
 
192 SPECIAL OCCASIOXS. 
 
 300 C. M. (828) 
 
 Renewing the covenant. 
 
 COME, let us use the grace divine, 
 And all, with one accord, 
 In a perpetual covenant join 
 Ourselves to Christ the Lord : 
 
 2 Give up ourselves, through Jesus' power, 
 His name to glorify; 
 
 And promise, in this sacred hour. 
 For God to live and die. 
 
 3 The covenant we this moment make, 
 Be ever kept in mind : 
 
 We will no more our God forsake, 
 Or cast his words behind. 
 
 4 We never will throw off his fear, 
 Who hears our solemn vow ; 
 
 And if thou art well pleased to hear, 
 . Come down, and meet us now! 
 
 5 Thee, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
 Let all our hearts receive ; 
 
 Present with the celestial host. 
 The peaceful answer give. 
 
 6 To each the covenant blood apply, 
 Which takes our sins away ; 
 
 And register our names on high. 
 And keep us to that day. 
 
 301 C. M. (821) 
 
 End of the year. 
 
 ND now, my soul, another year 
 Of thy short life is past ; 
 
 1 cannot long continue here, 
 And this may be my last. 
 
 2 Awake, my soul ! with utmost care 
 Thy true condition learn: 
 
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NATIONAL SOLEMNITIES. 193 
 
 Wliat are thy hopes? how sure? how fair? 
 What is thy great concern ? 
 
 3 Beliold, another year begins ! 
 Set out afresh for heaven; 
 
 vSeek pardon for thy former sins, 
 In Christ so freely given. 
 
 4 Devoutly yield thyself to God, 
 And on his grace depend ; 
 
 With zeal pursue the heavenly road, 
 Nor doubt a happy end. 
 
 6. NATIONAL SOLEMNITIES. 
 
 302 L. M. (830) 
 Public fast. Ezek. ix. 4-6. 
 
 OEIGHTEOUS God, thou Judge supreme, 
 We tremble at thy dreadful name ! 
 And all our crying guilt we own, 
 In dust and tears, before thy throne. 
 
 2 Justly might this polluted land 
 Prove all the vengeance of thy hand ; 
 
 And, bathed in heaven, thy sword might come, 
 To drink our blood, and seal our doom. 
 
 3 Yet hast thou not a remnant here. 
 Whose souls are filled with pious fear? 
 O bring thy wonted mercy nigh. 
 While prostrate at thy feet they lie ! 
 
 4 Behold their tears, attend their moan, 
 Nor turn away their secret groan : 
 With these we join our humble prayer, 
 Our nation shield, our country spare. 
 
 303 S. M. (855) 
 General thanksgiving. 
 
 THROUGH all the lofty sky. 
 Through all th' inferior ground, 
 
194 SPECIAL OCCASIONS. 
 
 Th' Almighty Maker sliines confessed, 
 And pours his blessings round. 
 
 2 Each year the teeming earth 
 Witli flowers and fruits is crowned; 
 
 And grass, and herbs, and harvests, grow, 
 And send their joys around. 
 
 3 The world of waters yields 
 A rich sup})ly of food, 
 
 And distant lands their treasures send 
 Upon the rolling flood. 
 
 4 To serve and bless our land 
 The elements conspire ; 
 
 And mercies mix themselves with earth, 
 With ocean, air, and fire. 
 
 5 O that the sons of men 
 
 To God their songs would raise. 
 And celebrate his power and love 
 In never-ceasing praise! 
 
 304 L. M. ^856) 
 
 General thanksgiving. 
 
 WE thank thee, Lord of heaven and earth. 
 Who hast preserved us from our birth; 
 Eedeemed us oft from death and dread. 
 And with thy gifts our table spread. 
 
 2 We thank thee for thy still small voice, 
 Which oft has checked our wayward choice; 
 For life preserved, for senses clear. 
 
 And for our friendships, doubly dear. 
 
 3 Thy providence has been our stay, 
 When other helps w^ere far away; 
 
 Our constant guide through every stage, 
 From infancy to riper age. 
 
ON A VOYAGE. 195 
 
 4 How shall we half our task fulfill ? 
 We thank thee for thy mind and will, 
 For present joys, for blessings past, 
 And for the hope of heaven at last. 
 
 7. ON A VOYAGE. 
 
 305 7s. (857) 
 
 Psalm cvii. 23-32. 
 
 LORD, whom winds and seas obey, 
 Guide us through the watery way; 
 In the hollow of thy hand 
 Hide, and bring us safe to land. 
 
 2 Jesus, let our faithful mind 
 Eest, on thee alone reclined ; 
 Every anxious thought repress, 
 Keep our souls in perfect peace. 
 
 3 Keep the souls Avhom now we leave; 
 Bid them to each other cleave; 
 
 Bid them walk on life's rough rea; 
 Bid them come by faith to thee. 
 
 4 Save, till all these tempests end, 
 All who on thy love depend : 
 Waft our happy spirits o'er; 
 Land us on the heavenlv shore. 
 
PAET II. 
 
 For Social Worship. 
 
 SECTION I. 
 
 Communion of Saints. 
 
 306 S. M. (869) 
 
 Opening the exercises. 
 
 JESUS, we look to thee, 
 Thy promised presence claim; 
 Thou in the midst of us shalt be, 
 
 Assembled in thy name: 
 Thy name salvation is, 
 
 AVhich here "\ve come to prove; 
 Thy name is life, and health, and peace, 
 And everlasting love. 
 
 2 Not in the name of pride 
 Or selfishness we meet; 
 
 From nature's paths we turn aside, 
 And worldly thoughts forget: 
 
 We meet tlie grace to take 
 
 Which thou hast freely given ; 
 
 We meet on earth for thy dear sake. 
 That we may meet in heaven. 
 
 3 Present we know thou art; 
 But O thyself reveal ! 
 
 Now, Lord, let every bounding heart 
 
 The mighty comfort feel ! 
 O may thy quickening voice 
 
 The death of sin remove, 
 And bid our inmost souls rejoice 
 
 In hope of perfect love ! 
 
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COMMUNION OF SAINTS. 197 
 
 307 C. M. (872) 
 Opening the exercises. 
 
 ALL praise to our redeeming Lord, 
 Who joins us by ]iis grace, 
 And bids ns, each to each restored, 
 Together seek his face. 
 
 2 He bids us build each other up ; 
 And, gathered into one. 
 
 To our high calling's glorious hope 
 We hand in hand go on. 
 
 3 The gift which he on one bestows, 
 We all delight to prove; 
 
 The grace through every vessel flows, 
 In purest streams of love. 
 
 4 And if our felloAVship below 
 In Jesus be so sweet, 
 
 What heights of rapture shall we knoAV 
 When round his throne we meet! 
 
 308 C. M. (886) 
 
 Joining the Church. — The vow. 
 
 ITNESS, ye men and angels, now. 
 Before the Lord we speak ; 
 To him we make our solenm vow, 
 A vow we dare not break — 
 
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 2 That long as life itself shall last, 
 Ourselves to Christ we yield; 
 
 Nor from his cause will we depart. 
 Or ever quit the held. 
 
 3 We trust not in our native strength, 
 But on his grace rely, 
 
 That with returning wants, the Lord 
 Will all our need supply. 
 
198 COMMUNION OF SAINTS. ' 
 
 4 O guide our doubtful feet aright, 
 
 And keep us in tliy ways; 
 And while we turn our vows to prayers, 
 
 Turn thou our prayers to praise ! 
 
 309 C. M. (893) 
 
 United in Christ. 
 
 JESUS, united by thy grace, 
 And each to each endeared, 
 With confidence we seek thy face, 
 And know our prayer is heard. 
 
 2 Still let us own our common Lord, 
 AiTd bear tliine easy yoke; 
 
 A band of love, a threefold cord, 
 Which never can be broke. 
 
 3 Touclied by the loadstone of thy love. 
 Let all our hearts agree ; 
 
 And ever toward each other move, 
 And ever move toward thee. 
 
 4 To thee inseparably joined. 
 Let all our spirits cleave : 
 
 O may we all the loving mind 
 That was in thee receive ! 
 
 5 Grant this, and then from all below 
 Insensibly remove : 
 
 Our souls the change shall scarcely know 
 Made perfect first in love ! 
 
 310 CM. (888) 
 
 "Ye are come unto Mount Sion." 
 
 HAPPY the souls to Jesus joined, 
 And saved by gra^^e alone: 
 Walking in all his ways, they find 
 Their heaven on earth begun. 
 
COMMUNION OF SAINTS. 199 
 
 2 Tlie Churcli trinraphant in thy love, 
 Their mighty joys we know: 
 
 They sing the Lamb in hymns above, 
 And we in hymns below. 
 
 3 Tliee, in thy glorious realm, they praise, 
 And bow before thy throne; 
 
 We, in the kingdom of thy grace — 
 The kingdoms are but one. 
 
 > 4 Tlie holy to the holiest leads: 
 From thence our spirits rise; 
 And lie tliat in thy statutes treads, 
 Shall meet thee in the skies. 
 
 311 C. M. (892) 
 
 Safety in union. 
 
 JESUS, great Shepherd of the sheep, 
 To tliee for help we fly: 
 Thy little flock in safety keep ! 
 For O, the wolf is nigh ! 
 
 2 He comes, of hellish malice full, 
 To scatter, tear, and slay ; 
 
 He seizes every straggling soul ^ 
 
 As his own lawful prey. 
 
 3 Us into thy protection take, 
 And gather with thy arm : 
 
 Unless the fold we first forsake, 
 The wolf can never harm. 
 
 4 We laugh to scorn his cruel power, 
 While by our Shepherd's side: 
 
 The sheep lie never can devour. 
 Unless he first divide. 
 
 5 Together let us sweetly live. 
 Together let us die ; 
 
 And each a starry crown receive, 
 And reign above the sky. 
 
200 COMMUNION OF SAINTS. 
 
 313 S. M. (887) 
 
 Fsahn cxxxvii. 5, 6. 
 
 I LOVE thy kingdom, Lord, 
 The house of thine abode. 
 The Church bur blest Eedeemer bought 
 With his own precious blood. 
 
 2 I love thy Church, O God ! 
 
 Her walls before thee stand, < 
 
 Dear as the apple of thine eye, . 
 And graven on thy hand. 
 
 3 For her my tears shall fall. 
 For her my prayers ascend ; 
 
 To her my cares and toils be given, 
 Till toils and cares shall end. 
 
 4 Beyond my highest joy 
 
 I prize her heavenly ways. 
 Her sweet communion, solemn vows. 
 Her hymns of love and praise. 
 
 313 L. M. (1011) 
 
 Eucharistic vow. 
 
 HAPPY day that fixed my choice 
 On thee, my Saviour and my God ! 
 Well may this glowing heart rejoice. 
 And tell its raptures all abroad. 
 
 2 O happy bond that seals my vows 
 To him who merits all my love! 
 
 Let clieerful anthems fill his house, 
 W^liile to that sacred shrine I move. 
 
 3 'Tis done: the great transaction's done! 
 I am my Lord's, and he is mine; 
 
 He drew me, and T followed on. 
 
 Charmed to confess the voice divine. 
 
COMMUNION OF SAINTS. 201 
 
 4 High Heaven that heard the solemn vow, 
 That vow renewed shall daily hear, 
 
 Till in life's latest hour I bow, 
 And bless in deatli a bond so dear. 
 
 314 7s. (877,878) 
 
 Love-feast. 
 
 COME, and let us sweetly join, 
 Christ to praise in hymns divine! 
 Give Ave all with one accord 
 Glory to our common Lord ; 
 Hands, and liearts, and voices, raise; 
 Sing as in the ancient days; 
 Antedate tlie joys above; 
 Celebrate the feast of love. 
 
 2 Strive we, in affection strive: 
 Let the purer flame revive, 
 Such as in the martyrs glowed, 
 Dying champions for their God. 
 We for Christ, our Master, stand, 
 Lights in a benighted land ; 
 
 We our dying Lord confess, 
 We are Jesus' witnesses. 
 
 3 Jesus, we thy promise claim: 
 We are met in thy great name : 
 In tlie midst do thou appear. 
 Manifest tliy presence here ! 
 Sanctify us. Lord, and bless! 
 Breathe thy Spirit, give thy peace ; 
 Thou thyself within us move: 
 Make our feast a feast of love. 
 
 315 S. M. (908) 
 
 Closing the exercises. 
 
 I LEST be the tie tliat binds 
 Our hearts in Christian love: 
 
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202 COMMUNION OF SAINTS. 
 
 The fellowship of kindred minds 
 Is like to that above. 
 
 2 Before our Father's throne 
 We pour our ardent prayers ; 
 
 Our fears, our hopes, our aims, are one- 
 Our comforts and our cares. 
 
 3 We share our mutual woes, 
 Our nmtuai burdens bear; 
 
 And often for each other flows 
 The symjjathizing tear. 
 
 4 When we asunder part, 
 It gives us inward ])ain ; 
 
 But we shall still be joined in heart, 
 And hope to meet again. 
 
 5 This glorious hope revives 
 Our courage by the way; 
 
 While each in expectation lives, 
 And longs to see the day. 
 
 6 From sorrow, toil, and pain. 
 And sin, we shall be free; 
 
 And perfect love and friendship reign 
 Through all eternitv. 
 
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 316 C. M. (1014) 
 
 Gratitude. 
 TIEN all thy mercies, O my God, 
 My rising soul surveys, 
 Transported with the view, I'm lost 
 In wonder, love, and praise! 
 
 2 O how can words with equal warmth 
 The gratitude declare 
 
 That glows within my ravished heart? 
 But thou canst read it there ! 
 
 3 Ten thousand thousand precious gifts 
 My daily thanks employ ; 
 
COMMUNION OF SAINTS. 203 
 
 Nor is the least a clieei'ful heart, 
 That tastes those gifts with joy. 
 
 4 Tlirough every period of my life 
 Thy goodness I'll pursue; 
 
 And after deatli, in distant worlds, 
 The pleasing theme renew. 
 
 5 When nature fails, and day and night 
 Divide thy works no more, 
 
 My ever grateful heart, O Lord, 
 Thy mercies shall adore. 
 
 6 Through all eternity to thee 
 A grateful song I'll raise; 
 
 But O, eternity 's too short 
 To utter all thy praise ! 
 
 317 C. M. (904) 
 
 Mutual aid, 
 
 TKY us, O God, and search the ground 
 Of every sinful heart: 
 Whate'er of sin in us is found, 
 O bid it all depart ! 
 
 2 When to the right or l^ft we stray. 
 Leave us not comfortless ; 
 
 But guide our feet into the way 
 Of everlasting peace. 
 
 3 Help us to help each other, Lord, 
 Eacli otlier's cross to hear: 
 
 Let eacli his friendly aid afford. 
 And feel his brother's care. 
 
 4 Help us to build each other up, 
 Our little stock improve: 
 
 . Increase our faitli, confirm our hope, 
 And perfect us in love. 
 
 5 Up into thee, our living Head, 
 Let us in all things grow; 
 
204 PRAYER. 
 
 Till thou liast made iis free indeed, 
 And spotless here below. 
 
 6 Then, wlien the mighty work is wrought, 
 
 Eeceive thy ready bride : 
 Give us in heaven a happy lot 
 
 With all the sanctified. 
 
 318 C. M, (910) 
 
 Closing the exercises. 
 
 GOD of all consolation, take 
 The glory of thy grace ! 
 Thy gifts to thee we render back 
 In ceaseless songs of praise. 
 
 2 Through thee we now together came, 
 In singleness of heart : 
 
 We met, O Jesus, in thy name. 
 And in thy name we part. 
 
 3 We part in body, not in mind ; 
 Our minds continue one ; 
 
 And each to each in Jesus joined, 
 We hand in hand go on. 
 
 4 Subsists as in us all one soul ; 
 No power can make us twain ; 
 
 And mountains rise, and oceans roll, 
 To sever us in vain. 
 
 5 Then let us lawfully contend. 
 And fight our passage through — 
 
 Bear in our faithful minds the end, 
 And keep the prize in view. 
 
PRAYER. 205 
 
 SECTION II. 
 
 Prayer. 
 
 319 L. M. (914) 
 
 Opening the exercises. 
 
 WHAT various hind' ranees we meet 
 In coming to a mercy-seat ! 
 Yet who that knows the worth of prayer 
 But wishes to be often there? 
 
 2 Prayer makes the darkened cloud withdraw ; 
 Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw; 
 
 Giyes exercise to faith and loye; 
 Brings eyery blessing from aboye. 
 
 3 Eestraining prayer, we cease to fight ; 
 Prayer makes the Christian's armor bright ; 
 And Satan trembles when lie sees 
 
 The weakest saint upon his knees. 
 
 4 Haye you no words ? Ah ! think again : 
 Wo];-ds How apace when you complain, 
 And fill your fellow-creature's ear 
 AVith the sad tale of all your care. 
 
 5 Were half the breath thus vainly spent, 
 
 To Heaven in supplication sent, ( 
 
 Your cheerful song would oftener be, 
 "Hear what the Lord has done for me." 
 
 3Q0 L. M. (237 Z.) 
 
 The mercy-seat. 
 
 FPOM every stormy wind that blows, 
 From every swelling tide of woes, 
 There is a calm, a &ure retreat: 
 'T is found beneath the mercy -seat. 
 

 
 206 PRAYER. 
 
 2 There is a place where Jesus sheds 
 The oil of gladness on our lieads — 
 A place than all besides more sweet: 
 It is the blood-bought mercy-seat. 
 
 3 There is a scene where spirits blend, 
 Where friend holds fellowship with fiicnd; 
 Though sundered far by faith they meet 
 Around one common mercy-seat. 
 
 4 There, there on eagle-wing we soar, 
 And sin and sense seem all no more; 
 
 And heaven comes down our souls to greet, 
 And glory crowns the mercy-seat. 
 
 321 S. M. (936) 
 ^^The violent take it by force." 
 
 MAY thy powerful word 
 
 Inspire a feeble worm 
 
 To rusJi into tliy kingdom, Lord, 
 
 And take it as by storm ! 
 2 O may we all improve 
 
 The grace already given. 
 To seize the crown of perfect love, 
 And scale the mount of heaven ! , 
 
 322 C. M. (911) 
 
 Opening the exercises. 
 
 SHEPHERD Divine, our wants relieve, 
 In this our evil day: 
 To all thy tempted followers give 
 The power to watch and pray. 
 
 2 Long as our fiery trials last, 
 Long as the cross we bear, 
 
 O let our souls on thee be cast 
 In never-ceasing prayer! 
 
 3 Till tliou thy perfect love impart, 
 Till thou thyself bestow. 
 
PRAYER. 207 
 
 Be this the cry of every heart — 
 I will not let thee go — 
 
 4 I will not let thee go unless 
 Thou tell thy name to nie, 
 
 With all thy great salvation bless, 
 And make me all like thee. 
 
 5 Then let me, on the mountain-top, 
 Behold tliy open face; 
 
 Where faitii in sight is swallowed up. 
 And jjrayer in endless praise. 
 
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 393 S. M. (912) 
 
 Opening the exercises. 
 'HE })raying Spirit breathe, 
 Tiie watching poAver impart; 
 From ail entanglements beneath 
 Gall off my anxious heart: 
 
 2 My feeble mind sustain, 
 
 By worldly thoughts oppressed; 
 Appear, and bid me turn again 
 To my eternal rest. 
 
 3 Swift to my rescue come, 
 Thine own this moment seize; 
 
 Gather my wandering spirit home, 
 And keep in perfect i)eace: 
 
 4 Suflcred no more to rove 
 O'er all the earth abroad, 
 
 Arrest the prisoner of thy love, 
 And shut me up in God. 
 
 3Q4 C. M. (917) 
 
 What is player? 
 
 PRAYER, is the soul's sincere desire, 
 Uttered or unexpressed ; 
 
208 PRAYER. 
 
 The motion of a hidden fire 
 That trembles in the breast. 
 
 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigli, 
 The falling of a tear, 
 
 The upward glancing of an eye, 
 When none but God is near. 
 
 3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech 
 That infant lips can try; 
 
 Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach 
 The Majesty on high. 
 
 , 4 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, 
 The Christian's native air; 
 His watch- AYord at the gates of death ; 
 He enters heaven with prayer. 
 
 5 Prayer is tlie contrite sinner's voice, 
 Returning from his ways, 
 
 While angels in their songs rejoice, 
 And cry, "Behold, he prays ! " 
 
 6 O thou, bv Avhom we come to God, 
 The Life,\he Truth, the AYay! 
 
 The path of prayer thyself hast trod : 
 Lord, teach us how to pray. 
 
 325 C. M. (923) 
 
 For the water of life. 
 
 FOUNTAIN of life to all below 
 Let thy salvation roll ; 
 Water, replenish, and o'erflow, 
 Every believing soul. 
 
 2 Turn back our nature's rapid tide, 
 
 And we shall flow to thee, 
 While down the stream of time we glide 
 
 To our eternity. 
 
PRATER. 209 
 
 3 The well of life to us thou art, 
 Of joy the swelling flood; 
 
 Wafted by thee, with willing heart 
 We swift return to God. 
 
 4 We soon shall reach the boundless sea, 
 Into thy fullness fall; 
 
 Be lost and swallowed up in thee, 
 Our God, our all in all. 
 
 326 S. M. (921) 
 
 Wants. 
 
 JESUS, my strength, my hope, 
 On thee I cast my care. 
 With humble confidence look up, 
 
 And know thou hear'st ray prayer. 
 Give me on thee to wait, 
 
 Till I can all things do, 
 On thee, almighty to create. 
 Almighty to renew. 
 
 2 I want a sober mind, 
 A self-renouncing will. 
 
 That tramples down and casts behind 
 
 The baits of pleasing ill; 
 A soul inured to pain. 
 
 To hardship, grief, and loss, 
 Bold to take up, firm to sustain, 
 
 The consecrated cross. 
 
 3 I want a godly fear, 
 
 A quick-discerning eye. 
 That looks to thee when sin is near, 
 
 And sees the tempter fly; 
 A spirit still prepared, 
 
 And armed with jealous care, 
 Forever standing on its guard, 
 
 And watching unto prayer. 
 
210 PRAYER. 
 
 327 C. M. (949) 
 
 The henediction. Num. vi. 24-26. 
 
 COME, FatJier, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
 One God in persons three, 
 Bring back the heavenly blessing lost, 
 
 By all mankind and nie. 
 Thy favor, and thy nature too, 
 
 To nie, to all restore: 
 Forgive, and after God renew. 
 And keep us evermore. 
 
 2 Eternal Sun of righteousness, 
 Display thy beams divine, 
 
 And cause the glories of thy face 
 
 Upon my iieart to sliine. 
 Light, in thy light, O may I' see, 
 
 Thy grace and mercy prove! 
 Revived, and cheered, and blessed by thee, 
 
 The God of pardoning love. 
 
 3 Lift up thy countenance serene, 
 And let thy happy child 
 
 Behold, without a cloud between. 
 
 The Godhead reconciled. 
 That all-com})rising peace bestow 
 
 On me, through grace forgiven: 
 The joys of holiness below, 
 
 And then the joys of heaven I 
 
PAET III. 
 
 For Domestic Worship. 
 
 SECTION I. 
 
 The Family. 
 
 328 S. M. (994) 
 Psalm cxxxiii. 
 
 BLEST are the sons of peace, 
 Whose hearts and hopes are one; 
 Whose kinil tlesigns to serve and please 
 Tlirongh all their actions run. 
 
 2 Blest is the pious house 
 Where zeal and friendship meet; 
 
 Their songs of praiso, their mingled vows, 
 ^lake their communion sweet. 
 
 3 Thus on the heavenly hills 
 The saints are blest above, 
 
 Where joy, like morning dew, distils, 
 And all the air is love. 
 
 329 C. M. (958) 
 
 Sahhath morning. Psalm v. 1-8. 
 
 LORD, in the morning thou shalt hear 
 My voice ascending high; 
 To thee will I direct my prayer, 
 To tliee lift up mine eye: 
 
 2 Up to the hills where Christ is gone. 
 To plead for all iiis saints, 
 
 Presenting at his Father's throne 
 Our songs and our complaints. 
 
 3 Thou art a Ood before whose sight 
 The wicked shuU not stand ; 
 
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212 THE FAMILY. 
 
 Sinners shall ne'er be thy delight, 
 Nor dwell at thy right-hand. 
 
 4 Bnt to thy house will I resort, 
 To taste thy mercies there; 
 
 I will frequent thy holy court, 
 And worship in thy fear. 
 
 5 O may thy Spirit guide my feet 
 In ways of righteousness; 
 
 Make every path of duty straight 
 And plain before my iace. 
 
 330 L. M. (951) 
 Morning. 
 
 AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun 
 Thy daily stage of duty run ; 
 Shake off dull sloth, and early rise 
 To pay thy morning sacrifice. 
 
 2 Wake and lift up thyself, my heart, 
 And Avith the angels bear thy part; 
 Who all night long unwearied sing 
 High praise to the eternal King. 
 
 3 Glory to thee, who safe hast kept. 
 And hast refreshed me Avhile I slept: 
 Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, 
 I may of endless life partake. 
 
 4 Direct, control, suggest this day, 
 All I design, or do, or say. 
 
 That all my powers, with all their might. 
 In thy sole glory may unite. 
 
 331 L. M. (959) 
 
 Evening. 
 
 ALL praise to thee, my God, this night, 
 For all the blessings of the light: 
 Keep me, O keep me, King of kings, 
 Under thine own almighty wings. 
 
THE FAMILY. 213 
 
 2 Forgive me, Lord, for tiiy dear Son, 
 The ills that I this day liave done; 
 That with the world, myself, and thee, 
 I, ere I sleep, at peace may be. 
 
 3 Teach me to live that I may dread 
 The grave as little as my bed; 
 Teach me to die, that so I may 
 Rise glorious at the awful day. 
 
 4 O may my soul on thee repose, 
 
 And with sweet sleep mine eyelids close — 
 Sleep that may me more vigorous make, 
 To serve my God, when I av/ake. 
 
 333 7s. (960) 
 
 Evening. 
 MNIPRESEXT God ! whose aid 
 No one ever asked in vain, 
 Be this night about my bed, 
 
 Every evil thought restrain: 
 Lay thy hand upon my soul, 
 
 God of my unguarded hours ! 
 All my enemies control. 
 
 Hell, and earth, and nature's powers. 
 
 2 O thou jealous God ! come down, 
 
 God of spotless purity ; 
 Claim and seize me for thine own. 
 
 Consecrate my heart to thee: 
 Under thy protection take; 
 
 Songs in the night season give; 
 Let nie sleep to thee, and wake; 
 
 Let me die to thee, and live. 
 
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 333 S. M. (955) 
 
 3Iorning. 
 EE how the morning sun 
 Pursues his shinins: wav. 
 
 S' 
 
214 THE FAMILY. 
 
 And wide proclaims his Maker's praLse, 
 With every briglitening ray. 
 
 2 Thus would my rising soul 
 Its heavenly Parent sing; 
 
 And to its great Original 
 The humble tribute bring, 
 
 3 Serene I laid me down, 
 Beneath his guardian care; 
 
 1 slept, and I awoke, and found 
 My kind Preserver near ! 
 
 4 My life I would anew 
 Devote. O Lord, to thee; 
 
 And in thy service I would spend 
 A long eternity. 
 
 334 S. M. (963) 
 
 Evening. 
 
 THE day is past and gone. 
 The evening sluides appear: 
 O niay we all remember welL 
 The night of death draws near! 
 
 2 We lay our garments by, 
 Upon our beds to rest; 
 
 So death will soon disrobe us all 
 Of what is here possessed. 
 
 3 Lord, keep us safe this night, 
 Secure from all our fears; 
 
 May angels guard us, while we sleep, 
 Till morning light appears. 
 
 4 And when we early rise, 
 And view the unwearied sun, 
 
 May we set out to win the prize, 
 And after glory run. 
 
THE FAMILY. 215 
 
 5 And when our days are past, 
 And we from time remove, 
 
 O may we in thy bosom rest, 
 The bosom of thy love! 
 
 335 L. M. (964) 
 Evening. 
 
 THUS far the Lord hath led me on, 
 Thus far his power prolongs ray days. 
 And every evening shall make known 
 Some tresh memorial of his grace. 
 
 2 Much of ray time has run to waste, 
 And I perhaps am near my home; 
 
 But he forgives my follies past, 
 
 And gives me strength for days to come. 
 
 3 I lay my body down to sleep, 
 Peace is the pillow for ray liead; 
 
 While well-appointed angels keep 
 
 TJieir watchful stations round my bed. 
 
 4 Thus when the night of death shall come, 
 3.1y flesh shall rest beneath the ground, 
 
 And wait thy voice to rouse my tomb, 
 With sweet salvation in the sound. 
 
 336 L. M. (973) 
 
 Morning or evening. 
 
 MY God, how endless is thy love ! 
 Thy gifts are every evening new ; 
 And morning mercies from above 
 Gently distil like early dew. 
 
 2 Thou spread'st the curtains of the night. 
 Great Guardian of my sleei)ing liours; 
 
 Thy sovereign word restores the light, 
 And quickens all my di'owsy powers. 
 
216 THE FAMILY. 
 
 3 I yield myself to thy command; 
 
 To thee devote my nights and days: 
 Perpetual blessings from thy hand 
 
 Demand perpetual songs of praise. 
 
 
 
 337 C. M. (953) 
 
 3Ioniing. 
 
 |NCE more, my soul, the rising day 
 Salutes thy waking eyes; 
 Once more, my voice, tliy tribute pay 
 To Him that rules the skies. 
 
 2 Night unto night his name repeats, 
 The day renews the sound — 
 
 Wide as the heavens on which he sits, 
 To turn the seasons round. 
 
 3 'T is he supports my mortal frame ; 
 My tongue shall speak his praise: 
 
 My sins might rouse his wrath to flame, 
 But yet his wrath delays. 
 
 4 O God, let all my hours be thine, 
 While I enjoy the light ! 
 
 Then shall my sun in smiles decline, 
 And bring a pleasant night. 
 
 338 C. M. (371 Z.) 
 
 Child's morning hymn. 
 
 THE morning bright, With rosy light. 
 Has waked me up from sleep: 
 Father, I own Thy love alone 
 Thy little one doth keep. 
 
 2 All through the day, I humbly pray, 
 Be thou my guard and guide: 
 
 My sins forgive, And let me live, 
 Blest Jesus, near thv side. 
 
THE FAMILY. 217 
 
 3 O make thy rest Witliin my breast, 
 
 Great Spirit of all grace : 
 Make me like thee, Then shall I be 
 \ Prepared to see thy face. 
 
 339 C. M. (372 Z.) 
 
 ChikVs evening hymn. 
 
 THE daylight fades : The evening shades 
 Are gathering round my head : 
 Father above, I praise that love 
 Which smooths and guards my bed. 
 
 2 While tJiou art near, I need not fear 
 The gloom of midnight hour : 
 
 Blest Jesus, still From every ill 
 Defend me with thy power. 
 
 3 Pardon my sin, And enter in 
 And sanctify my heart: 
 
 Spirit divine, O make me thine, 
 And ne'er from me depart ! 
 
 840 0. M. (969) 
 
 Evening. 
 
 DREAD Sovereign, let my evening song 
 Like holy incense rise; 
 Assist the offerings of my tongue 
 To reach the lofty skies. 
 
 2 Through all the dangers of the day 
 Tliy hand was still my guard ; 
 
 And still to drive my wants away 
 Thy mercy stood prepared. 
 
 3 Sprinkled afresh with pardoning blood, 
 I lay me down to rest; 
 
 As in the eiybraces of my God, 
 Or on mv Saviour's breast. 
 
218 THE FAMILY. 
 
 341 8,7. (961) 
 
 Evening. 
 
 SAVrOUK, breathe an evening blessing 
 Ere repose our spirits seal : 
 Sin and want we come confessing; 
 Thou canst save and thou canst heal. 
 
 2 Though destruction walk around us, 
 Though tlie arrow past us fly, 
 
 Angel-guards from thee surround us ; 
 We are safe, if thou art nigh. 
 
 3 Though the night be dark and dreary, 
 Darkness cannot bJde from thee; 
 
 Thou art he who, never Aveary, 
 Watclieth where thy people be. 
 
 4 Should swift death this night o'ertake us, 
 And our coucli l)ecome our tomb, 
 
 May the morn in heaven awake us. 
 Clad in light, and deathless bloom. 
 
 342 C. M. (965) 
 
 Evening. 
 
 "OW from the altar of our hearts 
 Let warmest thanks arise ; 
 Assist us. Lord, to offer up ^ 
 
 Our evening sacrifice. 
 
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 2 This day God was our sun and shield. 
 Our keeper and our guide ; 
 
 His care was on our weakness shown. 
 His mercies multiplied. 
 
 3 Minutes and mercies multiplied, 
 Have made up all this day; 
 
 Minutes came quick, but mercies vrere 
 More fleet and free than they. 
 
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 4 New time, new favors, and new joys, 
 
 Do a new song require: 
 Till we shall praise thee as we would, 
 
 Accept our hearts' desire. 
 
 SECTION II. 
 
 The Closet. 
 
 343 C. M. (1009) 
 
 "My meditation of him shall be sweet." 
 
 WHILE thee I seek, protecting Power! 
 Be my vain wishes stilled ; 
 And may this consecrated hour 
 With better hopes be filled. 
 
 2 Thy love the power of thought bestowed, 
 To thee my thoughts would soar : 
 
 Thy mercy o'er my life has flowed; 
 That mercy I adore. 
 
 3 In each event of life, how clear 
 Thy ruling hand I see ! 
 
 Each blessing to my soul most dear, 
 Because conferred by thee. 
 
 4 In every joy that crowns my days, 
 In every pain I bear, 
 
 My heart shall find delight in praise, 
 Or seek relief in i)rayer. 
 
 5 When gladness wings the favored hour, 
 Thy love my thoughts shall fill; 
 
 Resigned, when storms of sorrow lower, 
 My soul shall meet thy will. 
 
220 THE CLOSET. 
 
 6 My lifted eye, -without a tear, 
 The gathering storm shall see; 
 
 My steadfast heart shall know no fear — 
 That heart will rest on thee. 
 
 344 8,7. (1046) 
 
 The departing saint. 
 
 HAPPY soul, thy days are ended, 
 All thy mourning-days below ; 
 Go, by angel-guards attended, 
 
 To the sight of Jesus, go ! 
 Waiting to receiye thy spirit, 
 
 Lo ! tlie Saviour stands above ; 
 
 Shows the purchase of his merit. 
 
 Beaches out the crown of love. 
 
 2 Struggle through thy latest passion, 
 
 To thy great Redeemer's breast — 
 To his uttermost salvation, 
 
 To his everlasting rest. 
 For the joy he sets before thee. 
 
 Bear a momentary pain — 
 Die, to live a life of glory ! 
 
 Sufler, with thy Lord to reign. 
 
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 Benedictions and Doxologies. 
 
 345 8,7. (1050) 
 
 Dismission. 
 
 LORD, dismiss us with tliy blessing, 
 Bid us now depart in peace ; 
 Still on heavenly manna feeding, 
 
 Let our faith and love increase: 
 Fill each breast with consolation; 
 Up to thee our hearts we raise : 
 When we reach our blissful station. 
 Then we ' 11 give thee nobler praise. 
 
 Gloria Patri. 
 
 346 S. M. (1052) 
 IVE to the Father praise ; 
 
 Give glory to the Son ; 
 And to the Spirit of his grace 
 Be equal honor done. 
 
 347 C. M. (1053) 
 
 NOW let the Father, and the Son, 
 And Spirit be adored, 
 Where there are Avorks to make him known. 
 Or saints to love the Lord. 
 
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 348 L. M. (1054) 
 
 PRAISE God, from whom all blessings flow ; 
 Praise him, all creatures here below ; 
 Praise him above, ye heavenly host; 
 Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 
 
 349 L. M. 
 
 PRAISE to the Father, and the Son, 
 And Ploly Spirit — Three in One; 
 As 't was of old, is now, shall be. 
 Ascribed to all eternity ! 
 
Miscellany. 
 
 350 8,7. 
 
 7 will go to Jesus. 
 
 LADEN with a heavy burden, 
 To my Saviour I will go, 
 Casting all my care upon him, 
 He will bear my load, I know. 
 Me/ram. 
 I will go, with all my guilt, to Jesus, 
 
 Wretched, poor, and, helpless though I be; 
 I will go and wash ujy spirit in the fountain — 
 His blood shall set me free. 
 
 2 Jesus is the burden-bearer; 
 All my sins on him were laid; 
 
 Dying on the cross accursed, 
 He a full atonement made. 
 
 3 At the feet of Jesus falling. 
 
 Rent with anguish, pain, and grief, 
 Of my crimes with tears re[)enting, 
 He will give me sweet relief. 
 
 4 By his grace and mercy pardoned, 
 All my sins and guilt forgiven, 
 
 I will thank, and bless, and praise him, 
 For the joyful hope of heaven. 
 
 351 6,4,6,4,6,6,4. (519 Z.) 
 Nearer^ my God, to thee. 
 
 NEARER, my God, to thee, 
 Nearer to thee. 
 E'en though it be a cross 
 
 That raiseth me ; 
 Still all my song shall be, 
 Nearer, my God, to thee. 
 Nearer to thee. 
 
 (222) 
 
223 
 
 2 Though like the wanderer, 
 Tlie sun gone down, 
 
 Darkness be over me, 
 
 My rest a stone ; 
 Yet in my dreams I 'd be 
 Nearer, my God, to thee, 
 
 Kearer to thee. 
 
 3 There let the way appear 
 Stejjs unto heaven; 
 
 All that thou sendest me 
 
 In mercy given; 
 Angels to beckon me 
 Nearer, my God, to thee, 
 
 Nearer to thee. 
 
 6,4,6,4,6,6,4. 
 Nearer, my God, to thee. 
 
 NEAREE, my God, to thee— 
 Nearer, I sigh: 
 Nearer, I fain would be — 
 
 Nearer, still cry! 
 Nearer, when woes assail, 
 Nearer, when joys prevail- 
 Nearer to thee ! 
 
 2 The world is dark and drear— 
 I feel so lone : 
 
 Beset with sin and fear — 
 
 I sigh and moan ; 
 Nor can I comfort see 
 Till I can nearer be — • 
 
 Nearer to thee ! 
 
 3 The crosses on me laid 
 Still press me down: 
 
 One cross can give me aid — 
 
 One cross alone — 
 The cross of Calvary — 
 My Savioui-'s cross — lifts me 
 
 Nearer to thee ! 
 
224 MISCELLANY. 
 
 353 8,7. 
 
 The precious name. 
 
 TAKE the name of Jesns witli you, 
 Child of sorrow and of woe — 
 It will joy and comfort give you ; 
 Take it, then, where'er you go. 
 
 Cliorus. 
 Precious name, O how sweet ! 
 
 Hope of earth and joy of heaven ; 
 Precious name, O how sweet ! 
 
 Ho^De of earth and joy of heaven. 
 
 2 Take the name of Jesus ever, 
 As a shield from every snare ; 
 
 If temptations 'round you gather, 
 Breathe that holy name in jirayer. 
 
 3 O the precious name of Jesus ! 
 How it thrills our souls with joy, 
 
 When his loving arms receive us, 
 And his songs our tongues employ ! 
 
 4 At the name of Jesus bowing, 
 Falling prostrate at his iaet, 
 
 King of kings in heaven we'll crown him, 
 When our journey is complete. 
 
 354 9s. 
 
 Sweet by and by. 
 
 THERE'S a land that is fairer than day, 
 And by faith we may see it afar, 
 For the Father waits over the way, 
 To prepare us a dwelling-place there. 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 In the sweet by and by. 
 We shall meet on that beautiful shore. 
 
 In the sweet by and by. 
 We shall meet on that beautiful shore. 
 
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 2 We shall sing on that beautiful shore 
 The melodious songs of the blest, 
 
 And our spirits shall sorrow no more — 
 Kot a sigh for tlie blessing of rest. 
 
 3 To our bountiful Father above 
 We will offer the tribute of praise, 
 
 For the glorious gift of his love. 
 
 And the blessings that hallow our dajs. 
 
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 355 7s. 
 
 I am coming to the cross. 
 AM coming to the cross ; 
 I am poor, and Vv'eak, and blind ; 
 
 1 am counting all but dross, 
 I shall full salvation find. 
 
 Chorus. — I am trusting, Lord, in thee, 
 Blessed Lamb of Calvary; 
 Humbly at thy cross I bow ; 
 Save me, Jesus, save me now. 
 
 2 Long my heart has sighed for thee, 
 Long has evil reigned within ; 
 
 Jesus sweetly speaks to me, 
 
 '*I will cleanse you from all sin." 
 
 3 Here I give my all to thee, 
 Friends, and time, and earthly store ; 
 
 Soul and body thine to be — 
 Wholly thine forevermore. 
 
 4 In thy promises I trust, 
 Now I feel tlie blood applied : 
 
 I am prostrate in the dust, 
 I with Christ am crucified. 
 
 5 Jesus comes ! he fills my soul ! 
 Perfected in him I am ; 
 
 I am every whit made wliole : 
 Glory, glory to the Lamb ! 
 
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226 MISCELLAITY. 
 
 356 10,8. 
 
 Gathering home. 
 
 UP to the bountiful Giver of life — 
 Gathering home ! gathering home ! 
 Up to the dwelling where cometh no strife. 
 The dear ones are gathering home. 
 
 Chorus. 
 Gathering home ! gathering home ! 
 
 Never to sorrow more, never to roam, 
 Gathering home ! gathering home ! 
 
 God's children are gatliering home. 
 
 2 Up to the city where falleth no night — 
 Gatliering home! gathering home! 
 
 Up where the Saviour's own face is the light, 
 The dear ones are gathering home. 
 
 3 Up to the beautiful mansions above — 
 Gathering home! gathering home! 
 
 Safe in the arms of his infinite love, 
 The dear ones are gathering home. 
 
 857 8s. 
 
 ^^I go to prepare a place for you." John xiv. 2. 
 
 THINK of a home oyer there, 
 By the side of the river of light, 
 Where the saints, all immortal and fair. 
 Are robed in their garments of white. 
 
 Mefrain. 
 Over there, over there, 
 
 O think of a home over there! 
 Over there, over there, 
 
 O think of a home over there ! 
 2 O think of the friends over there, 
 
 Who before us the journey have trod, 
 Of the songs that they breathe on the air, 
 In their home in the palace of God. 
 
MISCELLANY. 227 
 
 3 My SavioTir is now over there, 
 
 There my kindred and friends are at rest; 
 Then away from my sorrow and care, 
 Let me fly to the land of the blest. 
 
 4 I'll soon be at home over there, 
 For the end of my journey I see : 
 
 Many dear to my heart over there, 
 Are watching and waiting for me. 
 
 358 7,5,8. 
 
 Joy in heaven. 
 
 THERE is joy in heaven to-day! 
 There is joy to-day 
 O'er the lamb that is found again, . 
 Far away from pastures green, 
 Wandering all alone. 
 
 On the desolate, barren plain. 
 
 Refrain. 
 Glory to the Lord of hosts, 
 
 Shout the morning stars on high. 
 Praise him ever, ye angels of light! 
 He has heard the distant cry 
 Of the lamb to-day. 
 And he bears it rejoicing home. 
 
 2 When a soul has gone astray 
 From tlie narrow way. 
 
 And there seemeth no joy nor rest, 
 Jesus still is ever near, 
 Hearing, night and day. 
 
 All the cries of the sin-oppressed. 
 
 3 Sinner, bow with gratitude. 
 And, with heart subdued. 
 
 Plead his mercy and pardon free. 
 He will see the falling tear. 
 Hear the fervent prayer. 
 
 And will tenderly welcome thee. 
 
228 MISCELLANY. 
 
 359 7,9. 
 
 Every day and hour. 
 
 SAVIOUR! more tluan life to me, 
 I am clinging, clinging close to tliee ; 
 Let thy precious blood applied, 
 Keep me ever, ever near thy side. 
 
 Refrain. — Every day, every hour. 
 
 Let me feel thy cleansing power; 
 
 May thy tender love to me 
 
 Bind me closer, closer. Lord, to thee. 
 
 2 Through this changing world beloAV 
 Lead me gently, gently as I go ; 
 Trusting thee, I cannot stray — 
 
 I can never, never lose my way. 
 
 3 Let me love thee more and more. 
 Till this fleeting, fleeting life is o'er; 
 Till my soul is lost in love, 
 
 In a brighter, brighter world above. 
 
 360 s,7. 
 
 What a friend tve have in Jesus. 
 
 'HAT a friend we have in Jesus, 
 All our sins and griefs to bear ! 
 What a privilege to carry 
 
 Every thing to God in prayer ! 
 O Avhat peace we often forfeit ! 
 
 O what needless pain we bear ! 
 All because we do not carry 
 Every thing to God in prayer. 
 
 2 Have we trials and temptations ? 
 Is there trouble anywhere ? 
 
 We should never be discouraged- 
 Take it to the Lord in prayer. 
 
 Can we find a Friend so faithful, 
 Who will all our sorrows share? 
 
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MISCELLANY. 229 
 
 Jesus knows our eveiy weakness — 
 Take it to the Lord in prayer. 
 
 3 Are we weak and lieavy-laden, 
 
 Cumbered with a hxid of care? 
 Precious Saviour! still our refuge — 
 
 Take it to the Lord in prayer. 
 Do thy friends despise, forsake thee? 
 
 Take it to the Lord in prayer; 
 In his arms he '11 take and shield thee— 
 
 Thou wilt lind a solace there. 
 
 861 8,9. 
 
 Hear Him calling. 
 A RE you staying, safely staying, 
 /V In the tender Shepherd's peaceful fold? 
 Xo, I'm straying, sadly straying. 
 On the lonely mountains, dark and cold. 
 
 Refrain. 
 On your ear his loving tones are falling, 
 
 For lie seeks you, wliercsoe'er you roaiu; 
 Hear him calling, sweetly calling, 
 
 As he bids his wandering sheep come home 
 
 2 Are you hearing, gladly hearing, 
 How he bids his folded flock I'ejoice? 
 
 No, I'm fearing, sadly fearing — 
 
 I have followed far the stranger's voice. 
 
 o Are you roaming, longer roaming, 
 
 In the cold, dark night of doubt and sin? 
 
 No, I'm coming, cpiictkly coming! 
 Open, Door, make haste to let me in ! 
 
 362 7,8. 
 
 Jesus Vuill forgive. 
 
 COME, ye sinners, come to-day, 
 Jesus will forgive you freely; 
 
230 MISCELLANY. 
 
 All your sins lie '11 wash away, 
 Jesus will forgive you freely. 
 
 Refrain. — O come to-day! 
 
 "sVliy longer stay away? 
 He will not say you nay ; 
 
 Jesus will forgive you freely. 
 
 2 Come unto the mercy-seat, 
 Jesus will forgive you freely ; 
 
 Humbly falling at his feet, 
 Jesus will forgive you freely. 
 
 3 Lay your treasures up above, 
 Jesus will forgive you freely ; 
 
 Trust the riches of his love, 
 Jesus will forgive you freely. 
 
 4 Earnestly a blessing seek, 
 Jesus will forgive you freely; 
 
 Trembling sinner, faint and weak, 
 Jesus will forgive you freely. 
 
 5 He is able all to save, 
 Jesus \n\\ forgive you freely; 
 
 For your love liis blood he gave, 
 Jesus will forgive you freely. 
 
 Then, ye sinners, come to-day, 
 .Jesus will forgive you freely; 
 
 All your sins he'll vrash away, 
 Jesus will forgive you freely. 
 
 363 7,6. (457 Z.) 
 
 when shall I see Jesus f 
 
 OWHEN shall I see Jesus, 
 And reign with him above, 
 And drink the flowing fountain 
 Of everlasting love? 
 
MISCELLANY. 231 
 
 When shall I he delivered 
 From this vain world of sin, 
 
 And with my blessed Jesus 
 Drink endless pleasures in? 
 
 Refrain. — Christ is all the world to me, 
 And his glory I shall see; 
 And before I'd leave my Saviour, 
 I'd lay me down and die. 
 
 2 But now I am a soldier; 
 My Captain 's gone before, 
 
 Pie 's given me my orders, 
 And bids me not give o'er; 
 
 And, if I hold out^ faithful, 
 A crown of life he'll give; 
 
 And all his valiant soldiers 
 Shall ever with him live. 
 
 3 Whene'er you meet with troubles 
 And trials on your way, 
 
 O cast your care on Jesus, 
 And do n't forget to pray I 
 
 Gird on the heavenly armor 
 Of faith, and Iiope, and love; 
 
 And when the combat's ended, 
 You'll reign witli iiim above. 
 
 3G4 L. M. 
 
 By and by. 
 
 IT may be far, it may be near; 
 There is a hope, there is a fear ; 
 But in tb.e future waiting, I 
 Shall Jesus see, yes, '' by and by." 
 
 Chorus. — By and by, yes, by and by. 
 By and by, yes, by jind by; 
 But in the future waiting, I 
 Shall Jesus see, yes, **by and by." 
 
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 232 MISCELLANY. 
 
 2 Impatient soul, and murmuring lieart, 
 Your murmuring cease, and Lear your part 
 Of pain and labor on life's road, 
 
 For soon 't will lead thee to thy God. 
 
 3 Yes, "by and by" vdll soon be now, 
 And God shall wipe eacli tear-stained brow, 
 The Lamb shall feed tliem from the throne, 
 To living fountains lead his own, 
 
 4 O verdant fields ! O shining shore ! 
 The Lamb of God sj^reads wide the door ; 
 Ah, golden city, surely I 
 
 Shall see thy glories "by and by!" 
 
 365 '8,7. (304 Z.) 
 
 Gone to heaven. 
 HY lament the Christian dying? 
 Why indulge in tears or gloom? 
 Calmly on the Lord relying. 
 He can greet the opening tomb. 
 Refrain. — We '11 meet again, by and by! 
 We'll meet again, by and by! 
 In the realms of endless glory 
 We shall meet, yes, by and by. 
 
 2 Scenes seraphic, higli, and glorious, 
 Now forbid his longer stay ; 
 
 See him rise, o'er death victorious! 
 Angels beckon him away. 
 
 3 Hark, the golden harps are ringing ! 
 . Sounds unearthly fill his ear : 
 
 Millions now in heaven singing, 
 Greet his joyful entrance there. 
 
 366 L. M. 
 
 He leadeth me. 
 
 HE leadeth me ! O blessed thought ! 
 O words with heavenlv comfort fraught ! 
 
MISCELLANY. 233 
 
 Whate'er I do, where'er I be, 
 
 Still 'tis God's liand that leadeth rae! 
 
 Chorus. — He leadeth me, leadeth me ; 
 He leadeth me, 
 By his own hand he leadeth me. 
 
 2 Sometimes, 'mid scenes of deepest gloom, 
 Sometimes, where Eden's bowers bloom, 
 By waters still, o'er troubled sea — 
 
 Still 'tis his hand that leadeth me ! 
 
 3 Lord, I would clasp thy hand in mine, 
 Nor ever murmur nor repine : 
 Content, whatever lot I see, 
 
 Since 't is my God that leadeth me ! 
 
 4 And when my task on earth is done. 
 When, by thy grace, the victory's won. 
 E'en death's cold wave I will not flee. 
 Since God through Jordan leadeth me ! 
 
 367 8s. 
 
 The Rock that is higher than I. 
 
 SOMETIMES the shadows are deep. 
 And rough seems the path to the goal. 
 And sorrows, sometimes how they swee]) 
 Like tempests down over the soul ! 
 
 Chorus. 
 O then to the Rock let me fly. 
 To the Bock that is higher than I ! 
 O then to the Bock let me fly. 
 To the Bock that is higher than I ! 
 
 2 O sometimes how long seems the day, 
 And sometimes liow weary my feet I 
 
 But toiling in life's dusty way, 
 
 The Bock's blessed shadow how SAveet ! 
 
 3 O near to the Bock let me keep, 
 If blessings or sorrows prevail ; 
 
234 MISCELLANY. 
 
 Or climbing the monntain-way steep, 
 Or walking the sliadowy vale ! 
 Then, quick to tlie Eock I can fly, 
 To the Eock that is higher than I. 
 
 368 9,4. 
 
 Footsteps of Jesus. 
 
 SAVEETLY, Lord, have we heard thee calling, 
 Come, follow me ! 
 And we see where tliy foot-prints falling, 
 Lead us to thee. 
 
 Chorus. 
 Foot-prints of Jesus, jthat make the pathway 
 
 glow; 
 AVe will follow the steps of Jesus where'er 
 
 tliey go. 
 
 2 Though they lead o'er the cold, dark mount- 
 
 ains, 
 Seeking his sheep ; 
 Or along by Siloara's fountains, 
 Helping the weak. 
 
 3 If they lead through the temple holy, 
 
 Preaching the word ; 
 Or in homes of the poor and lowly, 
 Serving the Lord. 
 
 4 Thougli, dear Lord, in thy pathway keeping. 
 
 We follow tliee ; 
 Through tlie gloom of that place of weeping, 
 Gethsemane! 
 
 5 If thy way and its sorrows bearing. 
 
 We go again. 
 Up the slope of the hill-side, bearing 
 Our cross of pain. 
 
 6 By and by, tliroiigli the sliining portals, 
 
 Turning our feet, 
 
MISCELLANY. 235 
 
 We shall walk with the glad immortals 
 Heaven's golden street. 
 
 7 Then at last, when on high he sees us, 
 
 Our journey done, 
 We will rest where the steps of Jesus 
 
 End at his throne. 
 
 869 lis. 
 
 Revive us again. 
 
 ALL glory and praise be to Jesus our Lord, 
 So plenteous in grace, and so true to his 
 word. 
 
 Refrain. — Hallelujah ! thine the glory, 
 Hallelujah ! Amen. 
 Hallelujah ! thine the glory, 
 Revive us again. 
 
 2 To us he hath given the gift from above — 
 The earnest of heaven, the Spirit of love. 
 
 3 Ye all may receive, who on Jesus do call. 
 The gift of his Spirit — 'tis proffered to all. 
 
 4 The peace and the power ye sinners embrace. 
 And look for the shower — the Spirit of grace. 
 
INDEX OF HYMNS. 
 
 [The Figuroi refer to the Hymn.] 
 
 A charge to keep I have, C. Wesley 227 
 
 A thousand oracles divine, C. Wesley 1 
 
 According to thy gracious word, J. Montgomery... 96 
 
 Alas! and did my Saviour bleed, Watts 146 
 
 All hail the power of Jesuy' name, Ed. Perronet.. 65 
 
 All praise to our redeeming Lord, C. Wesley 307 
 
 All praise to thee, my Cxod,'tliis night. Ken 331 
 
 Almighty God, we to thy praise, 293 
 
 Amazing grace! how sweet tlie sound, J. Newton.. 242 
 
 Am I a soldier of tiie cross. Watts 241 
 
 And am I born to die? (J. Wesley 2(j4 
 
 And am I only born to die? C. Wesley 2G;i 
 
 And art- we yet alive? C.Wesley 87 
 
 And can I yet delay? C. Wesley 142 
 
 And let our bodies part, C. Wesley 86 
 
 And let this feeble body fail, C. Wesley 272 
 
 And must I be to judgment brought? C. Wesley... 260 
 
 And must this body die? Watts 262 
 
 And now, my soul, "another year, Browne 301 
 
 And will the'great, eternal God, Doddridge 290 
 
 Another six days' work is done, J. Stennett 105 
 
 Approach, my soul, the mercy-seat, J. Newton... 147 
 
 Arise, mysoiil, arise, C. Wesley 156 
 
 Arm of the Lord, awake, awake, C. Wesley 72 
 
 Author of faith, eternal Word, C. Wesley 162 
 
 Awake, Jerusalem, awake, C. Wesley 73 
 
 Awake, my soul, and with the sun, Ken 330 
 
 Awake, my sou! ! stretch every nerve, Doddridge.. 226 
 
 Away! my needless fears, C. Wesley 217 
 
 Away, my unbelieving fear, C. Wesley 240 
 
 Be it my only wisdom here, C. Wesley 230 
 
 Before Jehovah's awful throne, Watts Id 
 
 Behold a Stranger at the door, Joseph Grigg 128 
 
 Behold th' amazing sight! Doddridge 2!) 
 
 Behold the bhnd their .sight receive, Watts 25 
 
 Behold the glories of the Lamb, Watts 52 
 
 Behold the morning sun, Watts 17 
 
 Behold the Saviour of mankind, C. Wesley 30 
 
 Behold the sure Foundation-stone, Watts 291 
 
 Behold what wondrous grace. Watts 164 
 
 Blest are the sons of peace. Watts 328 
 
 Blest be the dear uniting love, C. Wesley 88 
 
 Blest be the tie that binds, Fawcett 315 
 
 Blow ye the trumpet, blou-, C. Wesley lU'J 
 
 (236) 
 
INDEX OF HYMNS. 237 
 
 Called from above, I rise, C. Weslky 32 
 
 Oeiestiul Dove, Come from above, Beddome (JG 
 
 Children of the heavenly King, Cennick 226 
 
 Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day, C. Wesley 41 
 
 Come, and let us sweetly join, C. Wesley olJ 
 
 Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Honor the 
 
 means ordained by thee, C. Wesley 91 
 
 Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One God in 
 
 persons three, C. Wesley 327 
 
 Coihe, Holy Ghost, onr hearts inspire, C. Wesley.. 6f 
 
 Come, Holy Spirit, come, Beddome (52 
 
 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, Watts G4 
 
 Come, humble sinner, in whose breast, E. Jones.. 115 
 Come, let us anew Our journey pursue, C. Wes- 
 ley 297 
 
 Come, let us join our cheerful songs, Watts 49 
 
 Come, let us join our friends above. C. Wesley 2?3 
 
 Come, let us join with one accord, C. Wesley 104 
 
 Come, let us use the grace divine, C. Wesley 300 
 
 Come, let us who in Christ believe, C. Wesley 117 
 
 Come, Lord, and claim me for thine own, C. Wes- 
 ley 177 
 
 Come, my soul, thy sutt prepare, Newton 144 
 
 Come, O thou all-victorious Lord, C. Wesley 120 
 
 Come, O thou Traveler unknown, C. Wesley 150 
 
 Come on, my partners in distress, C. Wesley 229 
 
 Come, Saviour, Jesus, from above, J. Wesley J76 
 
 Come, sinners, to the gospel feast, C. Wesley 110 
 
 Come, sound iiis praise abroad. Watts 10 
 
 Com», thou almighty King,=:' 2 
 
 Come, tiiou Fount of every blessingf 237 
 
 Come, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languish, T. 
 
 MOOKE 130 
 
 Come, ye sinners, poor and needy. Hart 129 
 
 Come, "ye that love the Lord, Watts 221 
 
 Commit thou all thy griefs, J. Wesley 218 
 
 Day by day the manna fell, Conder 2:34 
 
 Denth of mercy! can there be, C. Wesley 152 
 
 Did Christ o'er sinners weep? Beddome 28 
 
 Do not I love thee, O my Lord? Doddridue 222 
 
 Draw near, O Son of God, draw near, C. Wesley... 80 
 Dread Sovereign, let my evening song. Watts 340 
 
 Eternal Power, whose high abode, Watts 3 
 
 Far from my thoughts, vain world, begone. Watts 107 
 Father, how wide thy glory shines, Watts 7 
 
 * Attributel to 0. WeBley, first printed 17.>7. 
 
 t Genor.illy attributed to. R. Robiusou, but more "eoeutly to Lady 
 Huntingdon. 
 
238 
 
 IliTDEX OF HYMNS. 
 
 Father, I dare believe, C. Wesley 186 
 
 Father, I stretch my hands to thee, C. Wesley 140 
 
 Father of Hghts! thy name, 295 
 
 Fatlier of hghts! with one accord, 294 
 
 Fatiier of mercies, hoar our prayers, C. Wesley.. 296 
 
 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, C' Weslky 187 
 
 Father, lo thee my soul I lift, C. Wesley 213 
 
 Forever here my rest shall be, G. Wesley 173 
 
 Forever with the Lord, ;RIoNTGOMEr.Y 274 
 
 Fountain of life, to all below, C. We.-ley S25 
 
 From all that dwell below the skies. Watts 281 
 
 From Greenland's icy mountains, Heber 286 
 
 From every stormy wind that blows, Btowell 320 
 
 Give me the wings of faith, to rise, Watts 254 
 
 Give to the Father praise. Watts 346 
 
 Give to the winds thy fears, J. Wesley 219 
 
 Glorious things of thee are spoken, J. Newton 78 
 
 Go, preach my gospel, saith the Lord, Watts 79 
 
 God is the refuge of his saints. Watts 68 
 
 God moves in a mysterious way, W. Cowpeh 8 
 
 God of all consolation, take C. Wesley 318 
 
 God of almighty love, C. Wesley 228 
 
 God of my life, whose gracious power, C. Wesley 6 
 
 Grace! 't is a charming sound, Doddridge 56 
 
 Gracious Redeemer, shake, C. Wesley 197 
 
 Great God, attend, while Zion sings. Watts 71 
 
 Great God, to me the sight afford, 0. Wesley 12 
 
 Great is the Lord our God, Watts 292 
 
 Guide me, O thou great Jehovah, Wm. Williams»206 
 
 Hail the day that sees him rise, C. Weslf.y 42 
 
 Hail! thou once despised Jesus, .J. Hakkwell 43 
 
 Happy soul, thy days are ended. 0. Wesley 344 
 
 Happy the man that finds the grace, C. Wesley... 158 
 
 Happy the souls to Jesus joined. 0. Wesley 310 
 
 Hark! from the tombs a doleful soimtl. Watts 247 
 
 Hark! how the watchmen cry, C.Wesley 75 
 
 Hark! my soul, it is the Lord, W. Cowpek 106 
 
 Hark! the glad sound, the Saviour comes! Dod- 
 dridge 24 
 
 Hark! the herald angels sing! C. Wesley 22 
 
 Hasten, sinner, to be wise, T. Scott 122 
 
 He dies, the Friend of sinners dies. Watts 3'J 
 
 Hear what the voice from heaven proclaims. 
 
 Watts 246 
 
 High in the heavens, eternal God, Watts 11 
 
 Ho! every one that thirsts, draw ni2h,C. Wesley.. Ill 
 
 Holy Lamb, who thee confess, C. .Wesley 27 
 
 How beauteous are their feet, Watts 81 
 
INDEX OF HYMNS. 239 
 
 Row blest the righteous wiien he dies, Barbauld.. 257 
 
 How can a sinner know C. Wesley 163 
 
 How can it be, thou heavenly King, J. Wesley... 169 
 
 How did my heart rejoice to "hear, Watts 70 
 
 How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, 
 
 KiRKlCAM 238 
 
 How great the wisdom, power, and grace, Bed- 
 dome 53 
 
 How happy are they Who their Saviour obev, C. 
 
 Wesley .". 170 
 
 How happy every child of grace, C. Wesley 271 
 
 How large the promise, how divine. Watts 94 
 
 How long, thou faithful God, shall I, C. Wesley... 102 
 
 How pleasant, how divinely fair, Watts 69 
 
 How rich thy bounty, King of kings, Doddridge... 84 
 
 How sad our state by nature is. Watts 137 
 
 How shall the young secure their hearts,. Watts... 288 
 How sweet thename of Jesus sounds, J. Newton.. 50 
 How tedious and tasteless the hours, .7. Newton... 235 
 How vain are all things here below. Watts 214 
 
 I know that my Redeemer lives, C. Wesley 180 
 
 T love thv kingdom. Lord, T. Dwight 312 
 
 I the good fight have fought, C. Wesley 207 
 
 I thirst, thou wounded Lamb of God, J. Wesley... 168 
 
 I want a principle within, C. Wesley 212 
 
 1 would not live alway : I ask not to stay, Muhlen- 
 berg '. 275 
 
 I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, Watts... 21 
 
 In evil long I took delight, J. Newton 139 
 
 In the Christian's home in glory 276 
 
 In the soft season of thy youthji Gibbons 126 
 
 Jerusalem, my happy home,='= 266 
 
 Jesus, accept the praise, C. Wesley 89 
 
 Jesus, and shall it ever be, Grigg 203 
 
 Jesus, great Shepherd of the sheep, C. Wesley... 311 
 
 Jesus, 1 love thy charming name, Doddridge 51 
 
 Jesus, I my cross have taken, Henry F. Lyte 232 
 
 Jesus, let all thy lovers shine, C. Wesley 215 
 
 Jesus, let thy pitying eye, C. Wesley 131 
 
 Jesus, Lover of my soul, C. Wesley 138 
 
 Jesus, my all, to heaven is gone, Cennick I'lS 
 
 Jesus, m'y strength, my hope, C. Wesley 326 
 
 Jesus, my truth, my way, C. Wesley 196 
 
 Jesus shall reign where'er the sim. Watts 280 
 
 Jesus, the Conqueror, reigns, C. Wesley 74 
 
 * Imitation of an old Latin hymn : it has been erroneously at- 
 tributed to J. Montgomery, Burkitt, David Dickson, and others, whf 
 printed it, with variations, from an old MS. in the British Museum. 
 
210 INDEX OF HYMNS. 
 
 Jesus, the name high over all, C. Weslei 85 
 
 Jesus, thou all-redeemin,^ Lorrl, C. Wesi,ey 123 
 
 Jesus, tliou eveiiastino; King, Watts 160 
 
 Jesus, thy blessings are not few, Watts 124 
 
 Jesus, thy blood and righteousness, J. Wesley... 161 
 
 Jesus, united by thy grace, C. Wesley S09 
 
 Jesus, we look to thee, C. Wesi-ey 306 
 
 Joy is a fruit tliat will not grow, J. Newton 155 
 
 Joy to the world — the Lord is come! Watts 23 
 
 Just as I am, without one plea, Elliott 153 
 
 Let all who truly bear, C. Wesley 101 
 
 Let earth and heaven agree, C. Wesley 157 
 
 Let everlasting glories crown. Watts 289 
 
 Let every mortal' ear attend. Watts 119 
 
 Let every tongue thy goodness speak. Watts 20 
 
 Let him to vvhom we" now belong, C. Wesley 178 
 
 Let Zion's watchmen all awake, Doddridge 82 
 
 Life is a span, a fleeting hour, Anne Steele 253 
 
 Lord, all I am is known to thee. Watts 19 
 
 Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing- 345 
 
 Lord God, the Holy Ghost, J. Montgomery 59 
 
 Lord, how secure and blest are they, Watts 167 
 
 Lord, I believe a rest remains, 0. Wesi,ey Hi 
 
 Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear. Watts 329 
 
 Lord, in the strength of grace, C. Wesley 183 
 
 Lord of the harvest, hear, C. Wesley 83 
 
 Lord, 'tis a pleasant thing to stand Watts 7G 
 
 Lord, we are vile, conceived in sin. Watts 133 
 
 Lord, we believe to us and ours, C. Wesley 57 
 
 Lord, we come before thee now. Hart 200 
 
 fjord, whom winds and seas obey, C. Wesley 305 
 
 Loving Jesus, gentle Lamb, C. Wesley 189 
 
 Majestic sweetness sits enthroned, S. Stennett... 47 
 
 My dear Redeemer and my Lord, Watts 26 
 
 My drowsy powers, why sfeep ye so? Watts 105 
 
 My faith looks up to thee, R. Palmer 171 
 
 My God! and is thy table spread? Doddridge 9E 
 
 My God, how endless is thv love, Watts 336 
 
 My God, I know, I feel thee mine, C. Wesley 185 
 
 My God, my life, my love. Watts 4 
 
 My God, my portion, and my love, Watts 2K 
 
 My God, the spring of all my joys. Watts 159 
 
 My Saviour, m'v almighty Friend, Watts 193 
 
 My soul, be on thy guard, Heath 208 
 
 My soul, repeat his praise. Watts 15 
 
 My span of life will soon be done, Mrs. Cowper... 224 
 
 * From a OoUeciiou of Psalms and Hyinus, by J. and W. Oliver, 
 London, 1771. 
 
INDEX OF HYMNS. 24] 
 
 Nature with open volume stands, Watis 4(i 
 
 Not all the blood of beasts, Watts ;{.'> 
 
 Now from the altar of our hearts, .J. Mason '.HI 
 
 Now let the Father, and the Son, Watts .'547 
 
 O bless the Lord, my soul, Watts 14 
 
 O come and dwell in me, C. Wesley 58 
 
 < ) for a closer walk \vith God, W. Cowpek 141 
 
 () for a thousand tongues to sing, C. Wesley 154 
 
 () for a heart to praise my God, C. Wesley 182 
 
 <) for that tenderness of "heart. C. Wesley 135 
 
 O for the death of those, J. Montgomery 2(31 
 
 O God, our help in ages past. Watts 244 
 
 Ohappvdav, that fixed my choiee, Doddridoe 3i;-5 
 
 O jovful sound of gospel grace, C. We^^ley 181 
 
 () Love Divine, how sweet thou art! C. Wesley 149 
 
 <) may thy powerful word, C Wesley ;>2l 
 
 () might my lot be east with these, C. Wesley 77 
 
 O my offended God, C.Wesley 14;{ 
 
 <) rigliteous God, thou Judj^e supre;ne, Doddridge 'M2 
 
 <3 that I could repent, C. Wesley 134 
 
 I) that in me the sacred fire, C. Wesley 179 
 
 O that my load of sin were gone, C. Wesley 175 
 
 "thou God of my salvation-''- 105 
 
 U thou that wouldst not have, 0. Wesley 2(J5 
 
 (> thou to whose all-s(»arehing sight, J. Wesley 23Q 
 
 O thou who earnest from above, C. Wesley 205 
 
 O thou whom all thy saints adore, C. Weslky 5 
 
 O tliou whom once they flocked to hear, C. Wesley 145 
 
 (.) where shall rest be found? J. MoNtdoMERV 2c:} 
 
 Of him who did salvation V)rin<it .. 45 
 
 O'er the gloomy hills of darkness, Wm. Williams.. 283 
 
 Omnipresent God, whose aid, C. Wesley 3:52 
 
 On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, S. Stennett... 208 
 
 On the mountain-top appearing, 282 
 
 t)nce more, my soul, the rising' day. Watts 337 
 
 Once more we come before our God, Hart 1!'!» 
 
 One sweetly solemn thought, P. Gary 27!t 
 
 Our Lord is risen from the dead, C. Wesley 4<) 
 
 IMnnged in a gulf of dark despair. Watts 41 
 
 I'raise God. from wiiom all blessings flow, Kkn 348 
 
 Praise to the Father, and the Son, 349 
 
 Prayer is appointed to convey. Hart '2(i2 
 
 Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, J. Montgomery 324 
 
 » From "Pocket Hymi) hook." the first Rymn-book puhlinhed foi 
 thfi Methodist Rpi'^copHi Church, by Bishops Coke and AKburT — at- 
 tributed to Olivers. 1769, 
 
 I Krotn a translation of a T.atin hviun by St. Rerrard. by Anthony 
 William Boehni, abridecd la "A Colleclioa of PsaluLs uud Hymns, "' 
 by J. and C. Wesley, 1741. 
 
242 INDEX OF HYMNS. 
 
 Religion is the chief eoncern Favvcett 211 
 
 Repent, the voice celestial cries, Doddridge 118 
 
 Return, O wnnderer, return, Coi.lykk 113 
 
 Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings, R. Seagkave IDl 
 
 Rock of ages, cleft for rne, Toplady 34 
 
 Safely through another week, J. Newton 1U3 
 
 Salvation! 6 the joyful sound, Watts , 5-4 
 
 Saviour, breathe an evening blessing, J. Edsieston 341 
 
 See how great a flame aspires, C. Wesley 284 
 
 See how the morning sun Scott '6'S.i 
 
 See Israel's gentle Shepherd stand, Uoddkidge 92 
 
 Servant of God, well done, J. Montgomeky 278 
 
 Shepherd Divine, our wants relieve. C. Wesley 3.J2 
 
 Show pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive. Watts 13-2 
 
 Shrinking from the cold hand of death, C. Wesley 248 
 
 Since all the varying scenes of time J. Heuvey 9 
 
 Sing to the great Jehovah's praise, C. Wesley 2!)8 
 
 Sinners, obey the gospel word, C. Wesley 114 
 
 Sinners, the voice of God regard, Fawcett 116 
 
 Sinners, turn, why will ye die? C. Wesley lil 
 
 So let our lips and lives"express Watt* 2ul 
 
 Soldiers of Christ, arise, C. Wesley 210 
 
 Sow in the morn thy seed, J. Montgomery 220 
 
 Sjjirit of faith, come down, C. Wesley 00 
 
 Stay, thou insulted bpirit, stay,«C. Wesley 61 
 
 Sweet is the work, my God, my King, Watts loO 
 
 Sweet the moments, rich in blessing* 172 
 
 Talk with us, Lord, thyself reveal, C. Wesley 194 
 
 'i't'ai-h me. my God and King, Herdeet 231 
 
 That awfi;l day will surely come, Watts 259 
 
 Thai doleful night before his death, Hart 95 
 
 The day is past and gone, John Leland 334 
 
 ,~--«U'he daylight lades. The evening shades 339 
 
 f The day of wrath, that dreadful day, W. Scott 200 
 
 The God of Abrah'm praise, T. Olivers 190 
 
 The heavens declare thy glory, Lord, W^atts 287 
 
 The King of heaven his" table spreads, Doddridge 99 
 
 The Lord is risen indeed, Kelly 38 
 
 The Lord my Shepherd is. Watts 18 
 
 The Lord ofglory is my light. Watts 67 
 
 The Lord of Sabbath let us praise, S. Wesley, jr.. 37 ' 
 
 "°^^he morning bright. With rosy light 338 
 
 The morning flowers display their sweets, S. Wes- 
 ley, jr 255 
 
 The praying Spirit breathe. C Wesley 323 
 
 The promise of my Father's love Watts 97 
 
 *Attributed bj some to Christopher Batty: it has alao been cred- 
 ited tu several others— particularly James Allen and W. Shirley. 
 
INDEX OF HYMNS. 24:6 
 
 The thing my God doth hate, C. Wesi-ey 184 
 
 Tliee we adore, eternal Name, Watts 258 
 
 There is a fountain filled with bloo(i, W. Cowper... 33 
 
 There is a land of pure delight. Watts 267 
 
 Thine earthly Sabbatlis, Lord, we love, Dohduioge lOS 
 
 This is the feast of heavenly wine, W. Cowper 100 
 
 Thou art gone to the grave— but we will not de- 
 plore thee, Heber 277 
 
 [ Thou Judge of quick and dead. C. Wesley 29!) 
 
 Thou seest my feeVjleness, C. Wesley 198 
 
 Tliou Shepherd of Israel and mine, C. Wesley 236 
 
 Thou Son of God, whose flaming eyes, C. Wesley 125 
 ' Through all the changing scenes of life, Buady & 
 
 , Tate 223 
 
 ■ Through all the lofty sky. Gibbons 303 
 
 Thus far the Lord hath led me on. Watts 335 
 
 Thus Lydia sanctified her house. Watts 93 
 
 ' Thy ceaseless, unexhausted love, C. Wesley 13 
 
 i Thy life I read, my gracious Lord, S. Stexnett.... 252 
 
 I 'Tis mv happiness below, W. Cowper 233 
 
 To-morrow, Lord, is thine, Doddridge 127 
 
 Try us, O God, and search the ground, C. Wesley 317 
 'Twas the commission of our Lord, Watts 'JO 
 
 Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb, Watts 25(3 
 
 Vain, dehisive world, adieu, C. Wesley 192 
 
 Watchman, tell us of the night, Bowrino 285 
 
 We thank thee, Lord of heaven and earth, Cottle 304 
 
 What are these arrayed in white, C. Wesley 270 
 
 What sinners value,*! resign, Watts 251 
 
 What various hind'rances we meet, W. Cowper.... 319 
 
 When ail thy mercies, my God, J. Addison 31G 
 
 When 1 can read my title clear Watts 243 
 
 When I survey the wondrous cross, Watts 31 
 
 When Jesus dwelt in mortal clay, Gibboxs 204 
 
 When, my Saviour, shall 1 be, C. Wesley 188 
 
 When shall thy love constrain, C. Wesley 136 
 
 While life prolon.^s its precious livtht, T. Dwight... 112 
 While thee I seek, protecting Power, Williams... 343 
 
 Why do we mourn departing' friends? Watts 245 
 
 Why should the children of a King Watts 03 
 
 Why should we start and fear to die? Watts 240 
 
 With joy we meditate the grace Watts 48 
 
 Witness, ye men and angels, now, Beddome 308 
 
 Ye servants of the Lord, Doddridoe 209 
 
 Yes! the Redeemer rose, Doddridge 36 
 
 Yield to me now, for I am weak, C. Wesley 151 
 
244 INDEX OF HYMNS. 
 
 INDEX TO MISCELLANY. 
 
 All glory and praise be to Jesus our Lord, 369 
 
 Are you staying, safely staying, 361 
 
 Come, ye sinners, come to-day, 362 
 
 He leadeth me! O blessed thought! ■.... 366 
 
 I am coming to the cross 355 
 
 It may be far, it may be near, 364 
 
 Laden with a heavy burden, 35(J 
 
 Nearer, my God, to thee, 351 
 
 ^^earer, my God, to thee, 352 
 
 O sometimes the shadows are deep, 367 
 
 O think of a home over there, 357 
 
 O when shall I see Jesus, 36? 
 
 Saviour, more tlmn life to me 35E 
 
 Sweetly, Lord, have we heard thee calling, 36S 
 
 Take the name of Jesus with you, 353 
 
 There's a land that is fairer than day, 354 
 
 There is joy in heaven to-day, t 358 
 
 Up to the bountiful Giver of life, 356 
 
 What a friend we have in Jesus, 360 
 
 Why lament the Christian dying? Hastings 365 
 
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ORDER OF PUBLIC WORSHIP. 
 
 The Discipline of the ]\L E. Church, 
 South, contains this Directory : 
 
 Ques. 1. What directions are given for uni- 
 formity in public Avorship? 
 
 Am^. 1. The morning service shall be con- 
 ducted in the following order : 
 
 (1) Singing— the congregation standing. 
 
 (2) Prayer — the congregation kneeling. 
 
 (3) Reading a lesson out of the Old Testa- 
 ment and another out of the New. 
 
 (4) Singing — the congregation sitting. 
 
 (5) Preaching. 
 
 (6) Singing — the congregation standing. 
 
 (7) Prayer — the congregation kneeling. 
 
 (8) Benediction. 
 
 2. The afternoon and evening service shall 
 be the same as the morning, except that one of 
 the lessons, or both, may be omitted, at the dis- 
 cretion of the minister. 
 
 3. The Lord's Supper shall be administered 
 monthly, in every congregation, wherever it is 
 practicable; and where it is not, at every quar- 
 terly meeting. Let the service preceding the 
 administration be so proportioned as to admit 
 of due time for this solemn ordinance. 
 
 4. Let the Lord's Prayer be used on all oc- 
 casions of public worship, in concluding the 
 first morning prayer, the congregation repeat- 
 ing after the minister ; and the apostolic bene- 
 diction (2 Cor. xiii. 14) in dismissing the con- 
 gregation. 
 
 0. The Ritual shall be invariably used in 
 all tlie offices for which it is prescribed. 
 
 (245) 
 
246 USE OF THE RITUAL. 
 
 USE OF THE RITUAL. 
 
 And let all the people saj^ 
 Araen. 
 
 This is a very ancient and scriptural part of 
 tbe liturgy. 
 
 When the baptism of infants or adults is per- 
 formed, let every one present turn to the Kit- 
 iial for the occasion, and at the end of each 
 petition by the minister (as laid do'vvn) say, 
 audibly, Amen. 
 
 So, also, in the administration of the Lord's 
 Supper. 
 
 Tlie congregation are thus joined together 
 in the solemn service, and are not spectators, 
 but worshipers. 
 
 When the vows are taken, as i-n adult bap- 
 tism and the reception or recognition of Church- 
 members, the candidates in each case should 
 be supplied with the book, and answer accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 THE i^lir^lSTRATION OF BAPTiSr^l TO 
 INFANTS. 
 
 The minister, coming to the font, which is to be filled 
 with pure water, shall use the foUowiog, or some 
 other'suitable exhortation: 
 
 Dearly beloved, forasmuch as all men are 
 conceived and born in sin, and that our Saviour 
 Christ saith, Except a man be born of water 
 and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the king- 
 dom of God : I beseech you to call upon God 
 the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 that of his bounteous mercy he will grant to 
 this child that which by nature he cannot have: 
 that }ie may be baptized with water and the 
 Holy Ghost, and received into Christ's holy 
 
BAPTISM OF INFANTS. 247 
 
 Church, and be made a lively member of the 
 same. 
 
 Then shall the minister say, 
 Let us pray. 
 
 Almighty and everlasting God, we beseech 
 thee for thine infinite mercies, that thou wilt 
 look upon this child: wash him and sanctify 
 him with the Holy Ghost; that he, being de- 
 livered from thy wrath, may he received into 
 the ark. of Christ's Church, and being steadfast 
 in faith, joyful through hope, and rooted in 
 love, may so pass the Avaves of this trouble- 
 some world, that finally he may come to the 
 land of everlasting life, there to reign with 
 thee, world without end, through Jesus Christ 
 our Lord; Amen. 
 
 O merciful God, grant tliat the old Adam 
 in this child may be so buried, that the new man 
 may be raised up in him. Amen. 
 
 Grant that ail carnal affections may die in 
 him, and that all things belonging to the Sj^irit 
 may live and grow in him. Amen. 
 
 Grant tiiat he may have j)ower and strength 
 to have victory, and to triumph against the 
 devil, the v,'orld, and the flesh. Amen. 
 
 Grant that whosoever is dedicated to thee by 
 our office and ministry may also be endued with 
 heavenly virtues, and everlastingly rewarded 
 through thy mercy, O blessed Lord God, who 
 dost live and govern all things, world without 
 end. Amen. 
 
 Almighty, ever-living God, wliose most dear- 
 ly-beloved Son Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness 
 of our sins, did shed out of his most precious 
 side both water and blood, and gave command- 
 m.ent to his disciples that they should go teach 
 all nations, and baptize them in the name of 
 the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 
248 BAPTISM OF INFANTS. 
 
 Ghost: regard, we beseech thee, the supplica- 
 tions of thy congregation; and grant that IhiJi 
 child, now to be baptized, may receive the 
 fuUness of thy grace, and ever remain in the 
 number of thy faithful and elect children, 
 through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Then shall the people stand up; and the minister 
 
 shall say, 
 
 Hem the icords of fhe Gospel, written by St. Mark, in the 
 
 tenth chapter , at the thirteentli verse: , 
 
 They brought young children to Christ, that 
 he should touch them. And his disciples re- 
 buked those that brought them ; but when Jesus 
 3aw it, he was much displeased, and said unto 
 them. Suffer the little children to come unto 
 me, and forbid them not, for of such is the 
 kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, 
 Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of 
 God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. 
 And he took them up in his arms, put his h*nds 
 upon them, and blessed them. 
 
 Then the minister, addressing the parents, or others 
 presenting the child, shall say, 
 
 In causing this child to be brought by baptism 
 into the Church of Christ, it is your duty to 
 teach him to renounce the devil and all his 
 works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, 
 with all covetous desires of the same, and the 
 carnal desires of the flesh, so that he may not 
 follow or be led by them; to believe all the 
 articles of the Christian ftiith ; and to obe- 
 diently keep God's holy will and command- 
 ments all the days of his life. 
 
 Then the minister shall take the child into his hands, 
 if convenient, and say to the friends of the child, 
 
 i»J'ame this cLxld. 
 
BAPTISM. 249 
 
 And then, naming it after them, he shall sprinkle or 
 pour water upon it (or, if desjred, immerse it in 
 water), saying, 
 
 N., I baptize thee in the name of the Father, 
 and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 
 
 The minister may, at his di?<cretion, lay hands on the 
 subject, accompanying the act with a suitable in- 
 vocation, and tlien," ail kneeling, close with extem- 
 poraneous devotions and the Lord's Prayer. 
 
 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be 
 thy name ; thy kingdom come ; thy will be 
 done on earth, as it is in heaven ; give us this 
 day our daily bread ; and forgive us our tres- 
 passes, as we forgive those who trespass against 
 us ; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver 
 us fi'oni evil. Amen. 
 
 THE MINISTRATION OF BAPTISM TO SUCH 
 AS ARE OF RIPER YEARS. 
 
 The minister, coming to the font, which is to be filled 
 with pure water, shall use the following, or some 
 other suitable exhortation: 
 
 Dearly beloved, forasmuch as all men are 
 conceived and born in sin (and that which is 
 born of the flesh is flesh, and they that are in 
 the flesh cannot please God, but live in sin, 
 committing many actual transgressions), and 
 that our Saviour Christ saith, Except a man be 
 born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot en- 
 ter into the kingdom of God : I beseecli you to 
 call upon God the Father, through our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, that of liis bounteous goodness he 
 will grant to these persons that which by nature 
 
250 BAPTISM OF SUCH AS 
 
 they cannot have: that they may be baptized 
 with water and tlie Holy Ghost, and received 
 into Christ's holy Church, and be made lively 
 members of the same. 
 
 Then shall the minister saj-, 
 
 Almighty and immortal God, the aid of all 
 that need, the helper of all that flee to thee for 
 succor, the life of them that believe, and the 
 resurrection of the dead- we call upon thee for 
 (hese persons now to be baptised. Receive tliem, 
 O Lord, as thou hast promised by thy well- 
 beloved Son, saying, Ask, and ye shall receive ; 
 seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be 
 opened unto you: so give now unto us that 
 ask; let us that seek find; open the gate unto 
 us that knock; that these persons may enjoy tlie 
 everlasting benediction of thy lieavenly wash- 
 ing, and may come to the eternal kingdom 
 which thou hast promised by Christ our Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
 Then shall the people stand up, P.nd the mini:^ter 
 
 shall say, 
 
 Rear the xvorda of the Gospel, ivritfen by St. John, in the 
 
 third chapter, beginning at the first verse: 
 
 There was a man of the Pharisees, named 
 Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews : the same came 
 to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, 
 we know that thou art a teaclier come ^j from 
 God; for no man can do these miracles that 
 thou doest, except God be witli him. Jesus an- 
 swered and said unto him. Verily, verily. 1 
 say unto thee. Except a man be born again, he 
 cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus 
 saith unto him. How can a man be born wlien 
 he is old ? Can he enter the second time into 
 his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus an- 
 swered, ^"eriiy, verily, I say unto thee, Except 
 
ARE OF RIPER YEARS. 251 
 
 a man be Lorn of water, and of the Spirit, he 
 cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That 
 which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that 
 which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel 
 not tliat I said unto thee, Ye must be born 
 again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and 
 tiiou hearest tlie sound thereof, but canst not 
 tell wJience it cometli, and whither it goeth ; 
 so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 
 
 Then the minister shall speak to the persons to be 
 baptized on this wise: 
 
 "Well-beloved, who are come hither, desiring 
 to receive holy baptism, ye have heard how the 
 congregation hath prayed that our Lord Jesus 
 Christ would vouchsafe to receive you, and bless 
 you, to release you of your sins, to give you the 
 kingdom of heaven, and everlasting life. And 
 our Lord Jesus Christ hath promised in his 
 holy word to grant all tliose things that we 
 have prayed for ; which promise he for his part 
 will most surely keep and perform. 
 
 Wherefore after this promise made by Christ, 
 ye must also faithfully, for your part, promise, 
 in the presence of this Avhole congregation, 
 tliatye tt/uY/ renounce the devil and all his works, 
 and constantly believe God's lioly word, and 
 obediently keep his commandments. 
 
 Then sh.all the minister demand of each of the per- 
 sons to be baptized, severally: 
 
 Ques. Dost thou renounce the devil and all 
 his works, the vain pomp and glory of the 
 world, with all covetous desires of the same, 
 and the carnal desires of the flesh, so that thou 
 wilt not follow or be led by them? 
 
 Ans. I renounce them all. 
 
 Que'^. Dost thou believe in God the Father 
 Aluiightv, maker of heaven and earth? and in 
 
252 BAPTISM. 
 
 Jesus Christ, his only-begotten Son, our Lord? 
 and that he was conceived by the Holy Ghost, 
 born of the Virgin Mary? that he suflered 
 under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and 
 buried ? that he rose again the third day? that 
 he ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the 
 right-hand of God the Father Almighty, and 
 from thence shall come again, at the end of 
 the world, to judge the quick and the dead? 
 
 And dost tliou believe in the Holy Ghost, 
 the Church of God, the communion of saints, 
 the remission of sins, the resurrection of the 
 body, and everlasting life after death ? 
 
 Ans. All this I steadfastly believe. 
 
 Ques. Wilt thou be baptized iu this faith? 
 
 Ans. This is my desire. 
 
 Ques. Wilt thou then obediently keep God's 
 holy will and commandments, and v/alk in the 
 same all the days of thy life ? 
 
 Ans. I will endeavor so to do, God being my 
 helper. 
 
 Then shall the minister saj', 
 
 O merciful God, grant that the old Adam in 
 these persons may be so buried, that the new 
 man may be raised up in them. A^nen. 
 
 Grant that all carnal affections may die in 
 them, and that all things belonging to the Spirit 
 may live and grow in them. Amen. 
 
 Grant that they may liave power and strength 
 to have victory, and to triumph against the 
 devil, the world, and the flesh. Amen. 
 
 Grant that they, being here dedicated to thee 
 by our office and ministry, may also be endued 
 with heavenly virtues, and everlastingly re- 
 warded, through thy mercy, O blessed Lord 
 God, who dost live and govern all things, world 
 without end. Amen. 
 
RECEPTION AND RECOGNITION. 253 
 
 Almighty, ever-living God, whose most dear- 
 ly-beloved Son Jesus Christ, for the forgive- 
 ness of our sins, did shed out of his most pre- 
 cious side both water and blood; and gave 
 commandment to his disciples, that they should 
 go teach all nations, and baptize them in the 
 name of the Father, and of the Son, and of 
 the Holy Ghost: regard, we beseech thee, the 
 supplications of this congregation ; and grant 
 that the persons now to be baptized may receive 
 the fullness of thy grace, and ever remain in 
 the number of thy faithful and elect children, 
 through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Then shall the minister take each person to be bap- 
 tized by the right-hand; and placing him conven- 
 iently "by the font, according to his discretion, 
 shall" ask the name; and then shall sprinkle or 
 pour water upon him (or, if he shall desire it, shall 
 immerse him in water), saying, 
 
 N., I baptize thee in the name of the Father, 
 and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 
 
 The minister may, at his discretion, lay hands on the 
 subject, accom'panying the act with a suitable invo- 
 cation. 
 
 FORM OF THE RECEPTION AND RECOGNI- 
 TION OF CHURCH-MEMBERS. 
 
 The minister shall cause the candidates to be placed 
 conveniently before the congregation, and aft"r 
 baptizing any who may not have been previously 
 baptized, he shall say: 
 
 Brethren, the Church is of God, and will be 
 preserved to the end of time, for tlie promotion 
 of his worship and the due administration of 
 
254 KECEPTION AND KECOGNITIOX 
 
 his word and ordinances — the maintenance of 
 Christian fellowship and discipline — the edifi- 
 cation of believers, and the conversion of the 
 world. All, of every age and station, stand in 
 need of the means of grace v/hich it alone sup- 
 plies ; and it invites all alike to become fellow- 
 citizens with the saints and of the household 
 of God. But as none who have arrived at 
 years of discretion can remain witliin its pales, 
 or be admitted to its communion, without as- 
 suming its obligations, it is my duty to de- 
 mand of these persons present whether they 
 are resolved to assume the same. 
 
 Then shall the minister address the candidates, as 
 follows: 
 
 Dearly beloved, you profess to have a desire 
 to flee from the wrath to come, and to be saved 
 from your sins; you seek the fellowship of the 
 people of God, to assist you in working out 
 your salvation; I therefore demand of you: 
 
 Do you solemnly, in the presence of God and 
 this congregation, ratify and confirm the prom- 
 ise and vow of repentance, faith, and obedi- 
 ence, contained in the baptismal covenant? 
 
 Ans. I do, God being my helper. 
 
 Will you be subject to the discipline of the 
 Church, attend upon its ordinances, and sup- 
 port its institutions? 
 
 Ans. I will endeavor so to do, by the help 
 of God. 
 
 The minister shall then say to the candidates: 
 
 We rejoice to recognize you as members of 
 the Church of Christ, and bid you welcome to 
 all its privileges ; and in token of our brotherly 
 iove, we give you the right-hand of fellowship, 
 and pray that you may be both numbered with 
 
OF CHUKCH-MEMBERS. 255 
 
 his peoi)le here, and with his saints in glory 
 everlasting. 
 
 The minister shall then say to the congregation: 
 
 Brethren, I commend to your love and care 
 tliese persons whom we this day recognize as 
 members of tlie Church of Christ. Do all in 
 your power to increase their faith, confirm their 
 hope, and perfect them in love. 
 
 Then mRV follow a hvmn suitnble to the occasion (as 
 881-8S9— New Hynin-book, 308-313), and the minis- 
 ter shall say, 
 
 Let us pray. 
 
 Almighty God, we thank thee for founding 
 thy Church, and promising that the gates of 
 hell shall not prevail against it. We bless thee 
 for calling us to the fellowship of thy people, 
 and for numbering us with the sons and daugh- 
 ters of the Lord Almiglity. We especially 
 praise thy name for enabling these thy serv- 
 ants to avouch the Lord to be their God. Help 
 them to perform the promise and vow which 
 they have made, to renounce the devil, the 
 world, and the flesh; to believe the record 
 which thou hast given of thy Son ; and to 
 walk in all thy commandments and ordinances 
 blameless, to the end of their lives. May their 
 communion with thy people be sanctified to 
 their growth in grace and in the knowledge of 
 our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, being nour- 
 islied and knit together, increasing with the 
 increase of God. May tliy people do them 
 good, and may they prove a blessing to tliy peo- 
 ple. And grant, O Lord, that all who are here 
 members of thy militant Church, througli thy 
 mercy, the merit of thy Son, and the grace of 
 thy Spirit, may finally be made members of 
 tliy triumphant Church in lieaven. Amea. 
 
256 RECEPTION AND RECOGNITION. 
 
 Almiglitv and everlasting God, Heavenlr 
 Father, we give thee humble thanks, for that 
 thou hast vouchsafed to call us to the knowl- 
 edge of thy grace, and faith in thee : increase 
 tliis knowledge and confirm this ftiith in us 
 evermore. Give tliy Holy Spirit to these per- 
 sons, that they, being born again, may be made 
 heirs of everlasting salvation, through our 
 Lord Jesus Christ, who liveth and reignetli 
 with thee and the Holy Spirit, now and for- 
 ever. Amen. 
 
 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be 
 thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be 
 done on earth, as it is in heaven; giye us this 
 day our daily bread ; and forgive us our tres- 
 passes, as we forgive tliose who tres})ass against 
 us; and lead us not into temptation, but de- 
 liver us from evil. Amen. 
 
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