Blessedness of instructing the young.
ELIGHTFUL work! young souls to win,
And turn the rising race
From the deceitful paths of sin,
To seek redeeming grace.
2 Children our kind protection claim;
And God will well approve
When infants learn to lisp his name,
And their Redeemer love.
3 Be ours the bliss, in wisdom's way
To guide untutor'd youth,
And show the mind which went astray
The Way, the Life, the Truth.
4 Almighty God, thine influence shed,
To aid this blest design:
The honours of thy Name be spread,
And all the glory thine.
5th P. M, 4 lines TB.
A blessing invoked on teachers.
MIGHTY One, before whose face
Wisdom had her glorious seat,
When the orbs that people space
Sprang to birth beneath thy feet;
2 Source of truth, whose rays alone
Light the mighty world of mind;
God of love, who from thy throne
Kindly watchest all mankind;
3 Shed on those, who in thy Name
Teach the way of truth and right,
Shed that love's undying flame,---
Shed that wisdom's guiding light.
For a blessing on the children.
WISDOM! whose unfading power
Beside the' Eternal stood,
To frame, in nature's earliest hour,
The land, the sky, the flood;
2 Yet didst thou not disdain awhile
An infant form to wear,--
To bless thy mother with a smile,
And lisp thy falter'd prayer.
3 But in thy Father's own abode,
With Israel's elders round,
Conversing high with Israel's God,
Thy chiefest joy was found.
4 So may our youth adore thy Name!
And, Saviour: deign to bless
With fost'ring grace the timid flame
Of early holiness.
The Christian child.
B'How sweet the lily grows!
Y cool Siloam's shady rill
How sweet the breath, beneath the hill,
Of Sharon's dewy rose!
2 Lo! such the child whose early feet
The paths of peace have trod--
Whose secret heart, with influence sweet,
Is upward drawn to God.
3 By cool Siloam's shady rill
The lily must decay;
The rose that blooms beneath the hill
Must shortly fade away.
4 And soon, too soon, the wintry hour
Of man's maturer age
Will shake the soul with sorrow's power, And stormy passion's rage.
5 O Thou who givest life and breath,
We seek thy grace alone,
In childhood, manhood, age, and death,
To keep us still thine own.
Sanctified knowledge.
COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
To whom we for our children cry,
The good desired, and wanted most,
Out of thy richest grace supply;
The sacred discipline be given,
To train and bring them up for heaven.
2 Error and ignorance remove;
Their blindness, both of heart and mind:
Give them the wisdom from above,-
Spotless, and peaceable, and kind:
In knowledge pure their minds renew,
And store with thoughts divinely true.
3 Learning's redundant part and vain
Be here cut off, and cast aside :
But let them, Lord, the substance gain;
In every solid truth abide;
Swiftly acquire, and ne'er forego
The knowledge fit for man to know.
4 Unite the pair so long disjoin'd,
Knowledge and vital piety:
Learning and holiness combined,
And truth and love, let all men see
In those whom up to thee we give,
Thine, wholly thine, to die and live.
Anniversary; the children's jubilee.
JOSANNA, be the children's song,
Hf Christ, the children's King
His praise, to whom our souls belong,
Let all the children sing.
2 From little ones to Jesus brought,
Hosanna now be heard;
Let little infants now be taught
To lisp that lovely word.
3 Hosanna, sound from hill to hill,
And spread from plain to plain,
While louder, sweeter, clearer still,
Woods echo to the strain.
4 Hosanna, on the wings of light,
O'er earth and ocean fly,
Till morn to eve, and noon to night,
And heaven to earth, reply.
5 Hosanna, then, our song shall be;
Hosanna to our King:
This is the children's jubilee;
Let all the children sing.
Children recalling the example of Jesus.
WHEN Jesus left his Father's throne,
He chose an humble birth;
And, all unhonour'd and unknown,
He came to dwell on earth.
2 Like him, may we be found below
In wisdom's path of peace;
Like him, in grace and knowledge grow, As years and strength increase.
8 Sweet were his words, and kind his look, When mothers round him press'd; Their infants in his arms he took,
And on his bosom blest.
4 Safe from the world's alluring charms, Beneath his watchful eye,
Thus, in the circle of his arms,
May we forever lie.
26th P. M. 76, 76, 76, 76.
Grateful praise.
Womens from earth's deep mine;
E bring no glitt'ring treasures,
We come, with simple measures,
To chant thy love divine.
Children, thy favours sharing,
Their voice of thanks would raise;
Father, accept our off'ring,
Our song of grateful praise.
2 The dearest gift of Heaven,
Love's written word of truth,
To us is early given,
To guide our steps in youth;
We hear the wondrous story,
The tale of Calvary;
We read of homes in glory,
From sin and sorrow free.
3 Redeemer! grant thy blessing!
O! teach us how to pray,
That each, thy fear possessing,
May tread life's onward way;
Then where the pure are dwelling
We hope to meet again,
And sweeter numbers swelling,
Forever praise thy Name.
Hosanna to the Son of David.
are those soul-reviving strains
Which echo thus from Salem's plains!
What anthems loud, and louder still,
So sweetly sound from Zion's hill!
2 Lo! 'tis an infant chorus sings
Hosanna to the King of kings:
The Saviour comes!--and babes proclaim
Salvation, sent in Jesus' name.
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