3 Let the minds of all our youth
Feel the force of sacred truth:
While the gospel call they hear,
May they learn to love and fear!
4 Where thou hast that work begun,
Give new strength the race to run;
Scatter darkness, doubts, and fears,
Wipe away the mourner's tears.
5 Bless us all, both old and young ;
Call forth praise from ev'ry tongue;
Let the whole assembly prove
All thy pow'r, and all thy love!
1 SPIRIT of mercy, truth, and love,
Oh shed thine influence from above!
And still from age to age convey
The wonders of this sacred day.
2 In every clime, by every tongue,
Be God's amazing glory sung;
Let all the list'ning earth be taught
The wonders by our Saviour wrought.
3 Unfailing comfort! heav'nly guide!
Still o'er thy favour'd church preside;
Still let mankind thy blessings prove,
Spirit of mercy, truth, and love.
1 CHRIST, the Lord, is ris'n to-day, Sons of men and angels say:
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Sing, ye heav'ns, and earth reply. 2 Love's redeeming work is done; Fought the fight, the battle won; Lo, our sun's eclipse is o'er ; Lo, he sets in blood no more. 3 Lives again our glorious King, Where, O death, is now thy sting? Once he died, our souls to save, Where thy victory, O grave?
4 Hail the Lord of earth and heav'n, Praise to thee by both be giv'n; Thee we greet triumphant now, Hail the resurrection, thou!
James iv, 14. (S. M.)
TO-MORROW, Lord, is thine,
Lodg'd in thy sov'reign hand;
And if its sun arise and shine,
It shines by thy command.
The present moment flies,
And bears our life away;
Oh! may thy servants, truly wise,
Improve each passing day.
3 Since on each winged hour Eternity is hung,
Awaken, by thy mighty power,
The aged and the young.
One thing demands our care;
Be that one thing pursu'd,
Lest, now despis'd, we never hear
Thy pard'ning voice renew'd.
Teach us thy name to fear;
And cry in every careless ear,
Prepare to meet thy God!"
Psalm cxxxix, 23-24. (L. M.)
1 O THOU, to whose all searching sight, The darkness shineth as the light,
Search, prove my heart, it pants for thee,
O burst these bonds and set it free.
2 Wash out its stains, refine its dross,
Nail my affections to the cross;
Hallow each thought, let all within
Be clean, as thou, O Lord, art clean.
3 Saviour! where'er thy steps I see,
Dauntless, untir'd, I follow thee!
O let thy hand support me still,
And lead me to thy holy hill.
4 If rough and thorny be the way,
My strength proportion to my day,
Till toil, and grief, and pain shall cease,
Where all is calm, and joy, and peace!
Micah iv, 1-2. (c. M.)
1 BEHOLD the mountain of the Lord,
In latter day shall rise,
Shall tower above the meaner hills,
And draw the wond'ring eyes.
2 To this the joyful nations round
All tribes and tongues shall flow;
"Ascend the hill of God," they say,
"And to his temple go."
3 No strife shall vex Messiah's reign,
Or mar the peaceful years;
To plough-shares shall they beat their swords,
To pruning-hooks their spears.
4 Come, then, oh come from ev'ry land,
To worship at his shrine;
And walking in the light of God,
With holy beauty shine.
1 Chronicles xxix, 14. (c. M.)
1 LORD, when our off'rings we present,
Before thy gracious throne,
We but return what thou hast lent,
And give thee "of thine own."
2 Ourselves, our all, to thee we owe,
To us thou'rt ever kind:
And while we of thy gifts bestow,
Give thou the willing mind.
3 The pow'r and willingness to give,
Alike proceed from thee;
Debtors we are, and while we live,
Debtors shall ever be.
4 O Lord, our contributions bless,
For their appointed end,
And crown, with happiest success,
The cause that we befriend.
Hebrews xiii, 14. (L. M.)
1 "WE'VE no abiding city here;"
This may distress the worldling's mind;
But should not cost the saint a tear,
Who hopes a better rest to find.
2 "We've no abiding city here;"
Sad truth, were this to be our home;
But let this thought our spirits cheer,
"We seek a city yet to come."
3 "We've no abiding city here;"
Then let us live as pilgrims do;
Let not the world our rest appear,
But let us haste from all below.
4 "We've no abiding city here;"
We seek a city out of sight;
Zion its name, the Lord is there,
It shines with everlasting light.
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