But in thy life the law appears, Drawn out in brightest characters. 2 What truth and love thy bosom fill! What zeal to do thy Father's will ! Such zeal, and truth, and love divine, I would transcribe and make them mine. 3 Cold mountains and the midnight air Witness'd the fervour of thy prayer; The desert thy temptations knew, Thy conflict, and thy victory too. 4 Be Thou my pattern! let me bear More of thy heavenly image here; And own at last my worthless nante, Among the followers of the Lamb. HYMN 230. (C. M. ATTERCLIFFE.) The heavenly Canaan. 1 THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign: Where endless day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 Lo! rising from the swelling flood, So Canaan's land of old was view'd, 3 But timorous mortals start and shrink, And linger, shivering on the brink, 4 Oh! could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise; And see the Canaan that we love, 5 'Till from the mount where Moses stood, Seeking a better country. 1 FROM Egypt lately come, Where death and darkness reign, We are on our way to God. 2 There sin and sorrow cease, And, every conflict o'er, We there shall dwell in endless peace, 3 There, in celestial strains, Enraptured myriads sing, 4 We hope to join the throng, HYMN 232. (P. M. STAMFORD.) The insufficiency of formal services. Our Saviour! 5 To pleasure prone, we thought it hard, For the fruitfulness of God's vineyard. 1 SEE the vineyard lately planted, Let thy people's prayer be granted, 3 Further, Lord! be Thou entreated; HYMN 234. (c. M. LANE END.) For Christian love. 1 OUR God is love: and all his saints The heart, with love to God inflamed, 2 O may we love each other, Lord! For none are truly born of God, 3 Heirs of the same immortal bliss, The cords of love our hearts should bind, The law of love inflame. 4 So shall the vain contentious world HYMN 235. (C. M. WARWICK.) Love, the most excellent of Christian graces. 1 Of all the graces that adorn The Christian's hallow'd breast, 3 Love fires the soul, and makes our feet 4 This shall the Christian's bosom warm, HYMN 236. (L. M. LUTHER.) For the conversion of the Jews. 1 Great God of Abraham! hear our prayer; Let Abraham's seed thy mercy share; Oh! may they now at length return, And look on Him they pierced and mourn. 2 Remember Jacob's flock of old, Bring home the wanderers to thy fold: |