733.* T. 590.3. THY mercy, Lord, to us dispense, O may we fully know thy mind, Thy saving word proclaim, 2. In these our days exalt thy grace, Lord, by thy Spirit us prepare To follow thy command, To execute thy utmost aim, And in thy presence stand, As servants willing to be us'd, Who in thy work delight, And offer freely praise and prayer As incense day and night. 4. Hereto we cheerful say, Amen; We have this truth avow'd, That we in spirit, body, soul, Are bound to serve our God, Who touch'd, and drew, and woo'd our hearts, And conquer'd us by love; To him we have engag'd ourselves, O may we faithful prove. Countess Zinzendorf. IN our short warfare here below 3. Ah, could we preach in every ness. The earth is still o'ercast with shade: Break forth, thou Sun of righteous(bless. With healing beams the nations 5. Whene'er we to mankind proclaim Thy dying love and precious name, Support thy servants' weakness, Lord, By thy blest Spirit, grace, and word. 6. Lord of the harvest, laborers send, Who willing are their lives to spend In scorching heat and chilling cold, To bring the heathen to thy fold. 7. When all our labour here is o'er, And when our light shall burn no more, When our endeavours have an end, Then let our souls to thee ascend. M. Stach. 735.* T. 114. THOU Saviour of the world, great Behold thy seed extend from pole to pole: (creature ; Thy boundless mercy show to every With old and young thy gracious aim obtain; (plead in vain. Thy prayers and tears can never 2. Thy glorious gospel spread thro' every nation; (name In the most distant regions to proGive us an open door, thy saving claim, With power, and with the Spirit's demonstration; And grant us joyfully in every land To see thy pleasure prosper in our hand. 738.* T. 22. LORD, at thy feet amaz'd we sink, When on thy wondrous grace we think, Which now so strikingly appears, Nations that never heard of thee, 739. T. 221. THE springs of salvation from Christ the rock bursting, And flowing through the wilderness, Refresh and enliven his heritage thirsting; Abundant are the showers of grace; As rain overstreaming the parched ground, With plenty now teeming, spreads verdure round, The promised blessing its influence diffuses, And fruit, to the husbandman grateful, produces. 2. I'll bless thee and thou shalt Thus saith the Lord, 'to all around:' be set for a blessing,' may we in grace and in number In faith, which works by love, increasing, (abound: Upon thy grace founded immovably, And rooted and grounded in love to Thus shall we in doctrine, in word and behaviour, (savour. To others of life unto life prove a 740.* (thee; T. 205. Are our door-posts, Lamb of God, | To many a heathen nation, And spread his gospel every where. 741.* Z. T. 221. WITH fire and with spirit endow'd every moment, Ye ministers of Christ confess'd, Go forth and proclaim ye the word of atonement, (press'd Both far and near; and when opBy hardships and trials, be bold in God, (and blood: And gladly for him spend your life 'Midst tempests and billows, and thro' deserts go, (then to sow. The seed of the gospel 'mongst hea 742.* I. Arbo. T. 582. AMBASSADORS of Christ, Their only Saviour own, (base, Of all is sovereign Lord, T. 79. GO, witness of the suffering 744.* Z T. 205. 4. The love of Christ constraining | There will be with exultation them, FATHER of boundless grace! At first to Salem came, And saw the wonders of thy hand, The coming of our Lord; In unexhausted grace; By him redeem'd of old, All nations must come in, and make One undivided fold: While gather'd in by thee, And perfected in one, They all at once thy glory see, In thine eternal Son. 748.* C. Wesley. T. 155. O WHAT praise in highest strain, By the ransom'd host in heaven Will be given To him who brought us to God When of every tongue and nation But one flock and Shepherd known 2. Amen, Jesus' words are true. Ye his servants, ready stand Yea, in the most distant places, bring: 2. O God of Israel, view their race! Back to thy fold the wanderers (grace, Teach them to seek thy slighted To hail in Christ their promis'd King. 3. The vail of darkness rend in twain, Which hides their Shiloh's glorious light: The sever'd olive-branch again 4. While Judah views his birth- praise. Bickersteth's Collection |