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HYMN 23.

(C. M. DUBLIN.)

Our want of love to Christ lamented.

1 COME, Thou Desire of all thy saints!
Our humble strains attend,

While with our praises and complaints
Before thy face we bend.

2 When we thy wondrous glories hear,
And all thy sufferings trace;

What great and marvellous scenes appear,
What rich unbounded grace!

3 How should our songs, like those above, With warm devotion rise!

How should our souls, on wings of love,
Mount upward to the skies!

4 But ah! the song, how cold it flows,
How languid the desire !

How faint the sacred passion glows,
Till Thou the soul inspire!

5 Haste, Lord! and in our bosoms raise
The pure and heavenly flame;

Then shall our lips resound thy praise,
Our hearts adore thy name.

6 Then shall our souls enraptured say,
"Come, great Redeemer! come!
"Hasten the joyful, wish'd for day,
"That calls thy children home."

HYMN 24.

(P. M. NORTHAMPTON.)

Christ, the good Shepherd.

1 JESUS! Shepherd of the sheep!

Powerful is thine arm to keep

All thy flocks with safest care,

Fed in pastures large and fair.

2 Thee their Guide and Guard they own ;
Thee they love, and Thee alone;
Thee they follow day by day,
Fearful lest their feet should stray.
3 Pity, Lord thy helpless sheep;
All the fold in safety keep:
Gently lead the wanderers home;
Guard them, lest again they roam.
4 Bring thy sheep, now far astray,
Wandering each in Satan's way;
Then (the fold, the Shepherd, one)
We shall praise Thee round the throne.

HYMN 25.

(P. M. FEVERSHAM.)

Redeeming love.

1 Now begin the heavenly theme;
Sing aloud the Saviour's name;
Ye, who all his kindness prove,
Triumph in "redeeming love."
2 Lo! the Lord of life appears!
Chace away your guilty fears:
See your guilt and curse remove,
Cancell❜d by "redeeming love."
3 Ye, alas! who long have been
Willing slaves of death and sin,
Now from bliss no longer rove;
Slight no more "redeeming love."

4 Welcome all thy sin oppress'd;
Welcome to this glorious rest;
Jesus waits enthroned above,
To impart redeeming love.
HYMN 26.

(P. M. NORTON green.)
For faith and holiness.

1 HOLY Lamb! who Thee receive,
Who in Thee begin to live,
Day and night they cry to Thee,
"As Thou art, so let us be."
2 Fix, oh! fix each wavering mind;
To thy sway our spirits bind;
Earthly passion far remove;
Fill our hearts with fervent love.
3 Dust and ashes though we be,
Full of guilt and misery,

Thine we are, Thou Son of God! Take the purchase of thy blood. 4 May we in thy name believe; To ourselves no longer live; Die to sin and live to Thee: Then we shall indeed be free. 5 Lamb of God, for sinners slain! Saviour of offending man! Endless praise to Thee be given By thy saints, in earth and heaven.

HYMN 27.

(P. M.

KENT.

The kingdom of Christ. Phil. iv. 4.

1 REJOICE! the Lord is King! Your God and King adore:

In loudest anthems sing,
And triumph evermore:
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, ye saints of God, rejoice!
2 Jesus, the Saviour, reigns,
The God of power and love;
Who having purged our sins,
Rose to his throne above:
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, ye saints of God, rejoice!
3 His Kingdom cannot fail;

He rules o'er earth and heaven:
The keys of death and hell

Into his hands are given:
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, ye saints of God, rejoice!
4 Rejoice in glorious hope!
The Saviour soon will come,
And take his servants up

To their eternal home:

Ye soon shall hear the' archangel's voice ; The trump of God shall sound, "Rejoice!"

HYMN 28.

(P. M. SALISBURY.)

For Easter-day.

1 JESUS, rising from the dead, Hallelujah! Bruised to-day the serpent's head:

Hal.

Now the vanquish'd powers of hell: Hal.
Swift from heaven like lightning fell. Hal.

2 Sinners! glad your voices raise;
Shout your great Redeemer's praise:

He, who died your souls to save,
Bursts the barriers of the

grave.
3 Lo! He rises, mighty King!
Where, O death, is now thy sting?
Lo! He claims his native sky;
Grave! where is thy victory?
4 Sinners; see your ransom paid;
Peace with God forever made:
With your risen Saviour rise;
Claim with Him the purchased skies.

HYMN 29.

(C. M. HEPHZIBAH.)

Christ seen of angels. 1 Tim, iii. 16.

1 BEYOND this glittering starry sky,
And o'er the' eternal hills,
Yon heaven of heavens, with peerless light,
Our great Redeemer fills.

2 Legions of angels, bright and fair,
Their countless myriads join,

To swell his praise, with harps of God
Attuned to songs divine.

3 Through all his travels here below
They did his steps attend;
Oft wondering how or where at last,
The mystic scene would end.

4 They saw his agonizing frame
Sweat blood at every pore;

They saw him break the bars of death,
Which none e'er broke before.

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