2 Nearer, and nearer still,

We to our country come,
To that celestial hill,

The weary pilgrim's home,
The new Jerusalem above,
The seat of everlasting love.

3 The ransomed sons of God,
All earthly things we scorn,
And to our high abode

With songs of praise return; From strength to strength we still proceed,

With crowns of joy upon our head.

4 The peace and joy of faith

Each moment may we feel;
Redeemed from sin and wrath,

From earth, and death, and hell,
We to our Father's house repair,
To meet our elder Brother there.

Shall gloriously hurry our souls to the The fiercer the blast,

The sooner 'tis past;

The troubles that come,

Shall come to our rescue, and hasten us

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559,559.

COME, let us ascend,

My companion and fried, To a taste of the banquet above; If thy heart be as mine, If for Jesus it pine,

Come up into the chariot of love.

2 Who in Jesus confide,

We are bold to outride

The storms of affliction beneath;
With the prophet we soar
To the heavenly shore,

And outfly all the arrows of death.
3 By faith we are come
To our permanent home:
By hope we the rapture improve:
By love we still rise,

And look down on the skies, For the heaven of heavens is love,

4 Who on earth can conceive

How happy we live,

In the palace of God, the great King?
What a concert of praise,
When our Jesus's grace
The whole heavenly company sing!

5 What a rapturous song,
When the glorified throng
In the spirit of harmony join:
Join all the glad choirs,
Hearts, voices, and lyres,

And the burden is, "Mercy divine!"

6 Hallelujah, they cry,

To the King of the sky,
To the great everlasting I AM;
To the Lamb that was slain,
And liveth again,

Hallelujah to God and the Lamb!

7 The Lamb on the throne,

Lo! he dwells with his own,

And to rivers of pleasure he leads;
With his mercy's full blaze,
With the sight of his face,
Our beatified spirits he feeds.

8 Our foreheads proclaim
His ineffable name;
Our bodies his glory display;
A day without night
We feast in his sight,
And eternity seems as a day!

3 The gift which he on one bestows,
We all delight to prove ;

The grace through every vessel flows,
In purest streams of love.

4 Even now we think and speak the same, And cordially agree;

Concentred all, through Jesu's name,
In perfect harmony.

5 We all partake the joy of one,
The common peace we feel,

A peace to sensual minds unknown,
A joy unspeakable.

6 And if our fellowship below
In Jesus be so sweet,

What heights of rapture shall we know, When round his throne we meet !

SECTION III.

FOR THE SOCIETY PRAYING.

C. M.

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JESUS, great Shepherd of the sheep,
To thee for help we fly:

Thy little flock in safety keep;
For O the wolf is nigh.

2 He comes, of hellish malice full,
To scatter, tear, and slay;
He seizes every straggling soul,
As his own lawful prey.

3 Us into thy protection take,
And gather with thy arm;
Unless the fold we first forsake,
The wolf can never harm.

4 We laugh to scorn his cruel power,
While by our Shepherd's side;
The sheep he never can devour,
Unless he first divide.

5 O do not suffer him to part

The souls that here agree;
But make us of one mind and heart,
And keep us one in thee!

UNCHANGEABLE, almighty Lord,
Our souls upon thy truth we stay;
Accomplish now thy faithful word,
And give, O give us all one way!

2 O let us all join hand in hand

Who seek redemption in thy blood, Fast in one mind and spirit stand, And build the temple of our God! 3 Thou only canst our wills control, Our wild unruly passions bind, Tame the old Adam in our soul, And make us of one heart and mind.

4 Speak but the reconciling word,

The winds shall cease, the waves
subside,

We all shall praise our common Lord,
Our Jesus, and him crucified.

5 Giver of peace and unity,

Send down thy mild, pacific Dove; We all shall then in one agree,

And breathe the spirit of thy love.

6 We all shall think and speak the same,
Delightful lesson of thy grace!
One undivided Christ proclaim,
And jointly glory in thy praise.

7 O let us take a softer mould,

Blended and gathered into thee;
Under one Shepherd make one fold,
Where all is love and harmony!

8 Regard thine own eternal prayer,
And send a peaceful answer down;
To us thy Father's name declare;
Unite and perfect us in one!

9 So shall the world believe and know
That God hath sent thee from above,
When thou art seen in us below,
And every soul displays thy love.

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Remember us for good;

O fulfil his faithful word,

And hear his speaking blood!
Give us that for which he prays;
Father, glorify thy Son!

Show his truth, and power, and grace,
And send the Promise down.

2 True and faithful Witness, thou,
O Christ, thy Spirit give!
Hast thou not received him now,
That we might now receive?
Art thou not our living Head?
Life to all thy limbs impart;
Shed thy love, thy Spirit shed
In every waiting heart.

3 Holy Ghost, the Comforter,
The gift of Jesus, come;
Glows our heart to find thee near,
And swells to make thee room;
Present with us thee we feel,
Come, O come, and in us be!
With us, in us, live and dwell,
To all eternity.

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SAVIOUR of all, to thee we bow,

And own thee faithful to thy word We hear thy voice, and open now Our hearts to entertain our L