VARIOUS SUBJECTS AND OCCASIONS.

5 Soon will our earthly race be run,
Our mortal frame decay;
Children and teachers, one by one,
Must droop, and pass away.

6 Great God! impress the serious thought This day on every breast;

That both the teachers and the taught
May enter into rest.

VARIOUS SUBJECTS AND OCCASIONS

EIGHTS AND SIXES 124.

WESLEY.

BE it my only wisdom here

To serve the Lord with filial fear,
With loving gratitude:

Superior sense may I display,
By shunning every evil way,
And walking in the good.

2 O may I still from sin depart;
A wise and understanding heart,
Jesus, to me be given!

And let me through thy Spirit know,
To glorify my God below,

And find my way to heaven.

GREAT God! behold, before thy throne

A band of children lowly bend;

95

Thy face we seek, thy name we own,
And pray that thou wilt be our friend.
2 Thy Holy Spirit's aid impart,

That he may teach us how to pray;
Make us sincere, and let each heart
Delight to tread in wisdom's way.
3 0 let thy grace our souls renew,
And seal a sense of pardon there;
Teach us thy will to know and do,
And let us all thy image bear.

COMMON.

126.

MONTGOMERY.

WHEN Jesus iit 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.

3 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 bless'd.

4 Safe from the world's alluring charms, Beneath his watchful eye,

Thus in the circle of his arms
May we for ever lie.

LONG.

127.

WESLEY.

HAPPY the child who finds the grace,
The blessings of God's chosen race,

The wisdom coming from above,
The faith that sweetly works by love.

2 Happy, beyond description, he
Who knows "the Saviour died for me!"
The gift unspeakable obtains,

And heavenly understanding gains.

3 Wisdom divine! Who tells the price Of wisdom's costly merchandise? Wisdom to silver we prefer,

And gold is dross compared to her.

4 Her hands are fill'd with length of days,
True riches, and immortal praise;
Riches of Christ on all bestow'd,
And honour that descends from God.

5 To pure st joys she all invites,
Chaste, boly, spiritual delights;
Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all her paths are paths of peace.

6 Happy the child who wisdom gains;
Thrice happy who his guest retains;
He owns, and shall for ever own,
Visdom, and Christ, and Heaven are one.

COMMON.

128.

WESLEY

HOW happy every child of grace
Who knows his sins forgiven!
This earth, he cries, is not my place,
I seek my place in heaven:

2 A country far from mortal sight,
Yet, O! by faith I see

The land of rest, the saints' delight,
The heaven prepared for me.

3 A stranger in the world below,
I calmly sojourn here;
Nor can its happiness or wo
Provoke my hope or fear,

4 Its evils in a moment end;
Its joys as soon are past;
But, O the bliss to which I tend
Eternally shall last.

SEVENS AND SIXES.

129.

EDMESTON

WHO would not love the Saviour,

That once loved children so!

Who would not love the Saviour,
Who did that Saviour know!

2 Infants were brought before him,
He smiled on them, and shed

A sweet, a holy blessing,
In love upon each head.

3 "O bring them," he commanded,
"And send them not away;
My Father's heavenly kingdom
Is fill'd with such as they."

4 Who would not love the Saviour,
That once loved children so!
Who would not love the Saviour,
Who did that Saviour know!

EIGHTS AND SEVENS.

130.

EDMESTON.

WHEN the Saviour said, that children

Fill'd the courts of heaven above,

He but meant to praise their meekness, Sweet simplicity, and love.

2 Thus he said, that man's proud bosom Must become as soft, and mild, Lowly, teachable, and gentle,

As a little humble child.

3 But if children, vain and haughty,
Bear a high and wicked heart;
"Tis not children such as they are,
In that kingdom have a part.

4 Make me, Saviour, meek and lowly,
O'er me shed thy love abroad!
So shall I, through that, be fitted
For the kingdom of my God."