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187. The Blessedness of God's Children. (Rom. viii. 16, 17.).

ST. AUSTIN. P. M.

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ABBA, Father, while we sing,
Hear the thankful praise we bring ;
Taught to cast our care on thee,
Daily mercies, Lord, we see:
Yet enrich us with thy grace;
Give us with thy sons a place.

By the Holy Spirit led;
Nourish'd with celestial bread;
Strengthen'd through their mortal strife;
Kept to everlasting life;

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Peace and hope to them are given;
Time and glory; earth and heaven.
What though trials wait us here;
Christ endur'd what we must bear;
If his grace our strength sustain,
Welcome sorrow, shame, and pain;
Peace shall flow from ev'ry loss;
Endless glory from the Cross.

188. Profession evidenced by Holiness.

(Matt. vii. 20, 21.)

ROCKINGHAM. L. M.

BLEST is the man, for ever blest,
Whose guilt is pardon'd by his God;
Whose sins with sorrow are confest,
And cancell'd by the Saviour's blood.
No merit of his own he pleads,
And not on works, but grace relies ;
Yet ever strives by righteous deeds,
Το prove his title to the skies.

From guile his heart and lips are free;
His humble joy, his holy fear,
With deep repentance well agree,
And join to shew his faith sincere.

189.

Fearless Profession of Religion.
(1 Kings xviii. 21-24.)

LONDON NEW. C. M.

I'M not asham'd to own the Lord,
Or to defend his cause;
Maintain the honor of his word,
The glory of his laws.

Jesus, my God, I love thy name,
And on that name rely;
Thou wilt not put my soul to shame,
Nor leave my hope to die.

Firm as thy throne thy promise stands;
Eternal as thy power;

I rest secure within thy hands,
Till the decisive hour.

Then wilt thou own my humble name
Before thy Father's face;

And in the New Jerusalem
Appoint my soul a place.

190. Dependence upon God's Help.

(1 Kings xix. 4.)

IRISH. C. M.

O HELP us Lord! in all our need
Thy heav'nly succour give;
Help us in thought, in word, in deed,
Through ev'ry hour we live.

Thy strength and comfort, Lord, impart,
When gloomy doubt prevails;

When fear and sorrow wound the heart,
And trembling nature fails.

Help us with humble faith to pray;
With holy joy to praise;
And, walking in thy perfect way,
To serve thee all our days..
In all temptations, Lord, be nigh,
To whom for help we flee;
And O, support us when we die;
Then take our souls to thee!

191. Pleading for Help. (1 Cor. x. 13.)

MOUNT CALVARY. C. M.

O THOU, from whom all goodness flows,
I lift my heart to thee;
In all my conflicts, pain, and woes,
Good Lord, remember me.

When on my fearful, burden'd heart,
My sins press heavily;

Thy pardon grant, thy peace impart :
Good Lord, remember me.

If strong temptations crowd my way,
And ills I cannot flee;

Let strength be equal to my day:
Good Lord, remember me.

When in the solemn hour of death
I bow to thy decree;

Be this the prayer of my last breath,-
Good Lord, remember me!

192. Zealous Exertion in God's Service.

(Luke xvi. 8.)

ASHLEY. C.M.

AWAKE my soul, stretch ev'ry nerve,
And press with vigor on;
A heav'nly race demands thy zeal,
And an immortal crown.

'Tis God's all animating voice
That cheers thee from on high;
'Tis his own hand presents the prize
To thine aspiring eye.

A cloud of witnesses around
Thy glorious course survey:
Forget the steps already trod,
And onward urge thy way.

Then wake, my soul, stretch ev'ry nerve,
And press with vigor on;

A heav'nly race demands thy zeal,
And an immortal crown.

193. Mourning past Neglect. (1 Kings xxi. 20—27.)

ST. STEPHEN'S. C. M.

AS o'er the past my mem'ry strays,
Why heaves the secret sigh?
'Tis that I mourn departed days,
Still unprepar'd to die.

The world, and worldly things belov'd,
My anxious thoughts employ'd;
While time unhallow'd, unimprov'd,
Presents a fearful void.

Yet, holy Father! wild despair
Chase from this lab'ring breast:
Thy grace it is which prompts the prayer;
That grace can do the rest.

My life's best remnant all be thine;
And when thy sure decree
Bids me this fleeting breath resign-
O take my soul to thee!

194. Danger of delaying Repentance.
(1 Kings xxii. 37, 38.)

JERSEY. P. M.

HASTEN, sinner, to be wise;
Stay not for the morrow's sun;
Wisdom if you still despise,
Harder is she to be won!

Hasten, sinner, to return;
Stay not for the morrow's sun;
Lest thy lamp should cease to burn,
Ere the needful work be done.

Hasten mercy to implore:
Stay not for to-morrow's sun;
Lest thy season should be o'er,
Ere to-morrow is begun.

Lord! do thou the sinner turn;
Rouse him from his senseless state;
Let him not thy counsel spurn,
And lament his choice too late,

195. Christ weeping over Jerusalem. (Luke xix.41.)

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PAST is her day of grace;
Her cup of wrath o'erflows:
Yet Jesus views the guilty place,
And weeps her coming woes.
"If thou hadst known, e'en thou,
At least in this thy day,

The message of thy peace,-but now
Thine hour is pass'd away!

And doth the Saviour weep
Over his people's sin,

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Because they will not let him keep
The souls he died to win?

Ye hearts that love the Lord,
If at this sight ye burn,

See that in thought, in deed, in word,
Ye hate what made him mourn!

196. The renewing Spirit. (1 Cor. xii. 7.)

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HOW helpless guilty nature lies,
Unconscious of its load;

The heart unchang'd can never rise
To happiness and God.

The will perverse, the passions blind,
In paths of ruin stray;
Reason so lost can never find

The safe, the narrow way.

Can aught except a power divine
The stubborn will subdue?
'Tis thine, eternal Spirit, thine,
To form the heart anew.

O shine on us with quick'ning ray,
And bid the sinner live;

And, lest we leave the heav'nly way,
Thy constant succour give.

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