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DENNIS.

S. M.

HANS GEORGE NAEGELI.

797 Sympathy and mutual love.

1 BLEST be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love; 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 mutual burdens bear;

And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.

4 When we asunder part,

It gives us inward pain;

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 eternity.

JOHN FAWCETT.

798 Meeting, after absence.

1 AND are we yet alive,

And 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 sight appear.

2 What troubles have we seen,
What conflicts have we passed,
Fightings without, and fears within,
Since we assembled last!

But out of all the Lord

Hath 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 the cross,

Till we the crown obtain;
And gladly reckon all things loss,
So we may Jesus gain.

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ST. EBBE.

H. M.

RICHARD REDHEAD.

800 One Lord, one faith, one baptism. Eph. 4: 5.

1 ONE sole baptismal sign,

One Lord below, above, One faith, one hope divine,

One only watchword, love:

From different temples though it rise,
One song ascendeth to the skies.

2 Our Sacrifice is one;

One Priest before the throne, The slain, the risen Son,

Redeemer, Lord alone:

Thou who didst raise him from the dead, Unite thy people in their Head.

30 may that holy prayer, His tenderest and his last,

His constant, latest care

Ere to his throne he passed,

No longer unfulfilled remain,

The world's offense, his people's stain!

4 Head of thy Church beneath,

The catholic, the true,
On all her members breathe,
Her broken frame renew:
Then shall thy perfect will be done,
When Christians love and live as one.

GEORGE ROBINSON.

801 Bear ye one another's burdens. 1 THOU God of truth and love, We seek thy perfect way, Beady thy choice to approve, Thy providence to obey;

Enter into thy wise design,
And sweetly lose our will in thine.

2 Why hast thou cast our lot
In the same age and place?
And why together brought

To see each other's face; To join with softest sympathy, And mix our friendly souls in thee? 3 Didst thou not make us one, That we might one remain; Together travel on,

And bear each other's pain; Till all thy utmost goodness prove, And rise renewed in perfect love?

4 Surely thou didst unite

Our kindred spirits here,
That all hereafter might

Before thy throne appear;
Meet at the marriage of the Lamb,
And all thy gracious love proclaim.

5 Then let us ever bear

The blessed end in view,
And join, with mutual care,

To fight our passage through;
And kindly help each other on,
Till all receive the starry crown.
6 O may thy Spirit seal

Our souls unto that day,
With all thy fullness fill,

And then transport away,-
Away to our eternal rest,
Away to our Redeemer's breast!

CHARLES WESLEY.

NUREMBERG.

7.

JOHANN RUDOLF AHLE,

802

Sweet counsel.

1 GLORY be to God above,

God, from whom all blessings flow; Make we mention of his love,

Publish we his praise below:
2 Called together by his grace,
We are met in Jesus' name;
See with joy each other's face,
Followers of the bleeding Lamb.

3 Build we each the other up;

Pray we for our faith's increase; Solid comfort, settled hope,

Constant joy, and lasting peace. 4 More and more let love abcund; Let us never, never rest,

Till we are in Jesus found,
Of our paradise possessed.

803

CHARLES WESLEY.

Love, the bond of union.

1 WHILE We walk with God in light,
God our hearts doth still unite;
Dearest fellowship we prove,
Fellowship in Jesus' love:
Sweetly each, with each combined,
In the bonds of duty joined,
Feels the cleansing blood applied,
Daily feels that Christ hath died.
2 Still, O Lord, our faith increase,
Cleanse from all unrighteousness;
Thee the unholy cannot see,
Make, O make us meet for thee;
Every vile affection kill,

Root out every seed of ill,

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3 Ilence may all our actions flow, Love the proof that Christ we know; Mutual love the token be,

Lord, that we belong to thee:
Love, thine image, love impart;
Stamp it now on every heart:
Only love to us be given;

Lord, we ask no other heaven.

804

CHARLES WESLEY.

Of one heart and mind.

1 JESUS, Lord, we look to thee;
Let us in thy name agree;
Show thyself the Prince of peace;
Bid our jars forever cease.

2 By thy reconciling love,
Every stumbling-block remove;
Each to each unite, endear,

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3 Make us of one heart and mind,
Courteous, pitiful, and kind,
Lowly, meek, in thought and word,
Altogether like our Lord.

4 Let us for each other care,
Each the other's burden bear;
To thy Church the pattern give,
Show how true believers live.

5 Free from anger and from pride,
Let us thus in God abide;
All the depths of love express,
All the heights of holiness.

6 Let us then with joy remove

To the family above;

On the wings of angels fly;
Show how true believers die.
CHARLES WESLEY.

DNIDO. 7. D.

IGNACE PLEYEL.

805

Witnesscs for Jesus.

1 COME, and let us sweetly join,
Christ to praise in hymns divine;
Give we all, with one accord,
Glory to cur common Lord;
Hands, and hearts, and voices raise;
Sing as in the ancient days;
Antecate the 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 like them may live and love;
Called we are their joys to prove,
Saved with them from future wrath,
Partners of like precious faith.
3 Sing we, then, in Jesus' name,
Now as yesterday the same;
One in every time and place,
Full for all of truth and grace:
We for Christ, our Master, stand,
Lights in a benighted land:
We our cying Lord confess;
We are Jesus' witnesses.

CHARLES WESLEY.

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1 CHRIST, from whom all blessings flow, Perfecting the saints below,

Hear us, who thy nature share,
Who thy mystic body are.
Join us, in one spirit jo'n,
Let us still receive of thine;
Still for more on thce we call,
Thou who flest all in all.

2 Move, and actuate, and guide,
Divers gifts to each divide;
Placed according to thy will,
Let us all our work fulfill;
Never from our office move;
Needful to each other prove;
Let us daily growth receive,
More and more in Jesus live.
3 Sweetly may we all agree,
Touched with softest sympathy;
Kindly for each other care;
Every member feel its share.
Many are we now and one,
We who Jesus have put on;
Names, and sects, and parties fall:
Thou, O Christ, art all in all.

CHARLES WESLEY,

UNITY.

6, 5.

LOWELL MASON.

807 When shall we meet again?

1 WHEN shall we meet again, Meet ne'er to sever?

When will peace wreathe her chain
Round us forever?

Our hearts will ne'er repose,
Safe from each blast that blows,
In this dark vale of woes,
Never-no, never!

2 When shall love freely flow
Pure as life's river?

When shall sweet friendship glow Changeless forever?

Where joys celestial thrill,

Where bliss each heart shall fill,
And fears of parting chill
Never-no, never!

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