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4 Poor virtues, that he boasted so,
This test unable to endure,-

Let CHRIST, and grace, and glory go
..To make his land and money sure.
5 Ah, foolish choice of treasures here!
Ah, fatal love of tempting gold!
Must this base world be bought so dear,
And life and heaven so cheaply sold?
6 In vain the charms of nature shine
If this vile passion governs me;
Transform my soul, O love divine!
And make me part with all for thee.

DR. WATTS'S SERMONS.

521 S. M. Eagle Street New 55. Harbro 142. How shall a young Man cleanse his Way? Psal. cxix. 9.

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WITH humble heart and tongue,
My GOD! to thee I pray;

O make me learn, whilst I am young,
How I may cleanse my way.

Now in my early days,
Teach me thy will to know;
O GOD! thy sanctifying grace
Betimes on me bestow.

3 Make an unguarded youth
The object of thy care;

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Help me to choose the way of truth,

And fly from every snare.
My heart, to folly prone,
Renew by power divine;
Unite it to thyself alone,

And make me wholly thine,"

5* O let thy word of grace

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My warmest thoughts employ;
Be this, thro' all my following days,

My treasure and my joy.
To what thy laws impart
Be my whole soul inclin'd;

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O let them dwell within my heart,
And sanctify my mind.

May thy young servant learn
By these to cleanse his way;

And may I here the path discern

That leads to endless day. DR. FAWCETT.

FOR A SUNDAY SCHOOL.

522 8.8.6. Broadmead 150. Chatham 59.

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The Importance of Educating Youth.

Congregation.

NOW let our hearts conspire to raise
A cheerful anthem to his praise.
Who reigns enthron'd above:
Let music, sweet as incense, rise
With grateful odours to the skies,
The work of joy and love.

Children.

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2 Teach us to bow before thy face;
Nor let our hearts forget thy grace,
Or slight thy providence;
When lost in ignorance we lay,
To vice and death an easy prey,
Thy goodness snatch'd us thence.
Congregation.

3 0 what a numerous race we see,
In ignorance and misery,
Unprincipled, untaught!

Shall they continue still to lie
In ignorance and misery?"
We cannot bear the thought.

Children.

4 Give, LORD! each liberal soul to prove
The joys of thine exhaustless love;
And, while thy praise we sing,
May we the sacred scriptures know,
And, like the blessed JESUS grow,
That earth and heaven may ring.
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Congregation.

5 We feel a sympathizing heart;
LORD! 'tis a pleasure to impart;
To thee thine own we give:
Hear thou our cry, and pitying see,
O let these children live to thee,
O let these children live.

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D. BRADBERY's altered.

523 (1st P.) C. M. Bath Chapel 26. Crowle 3.

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BLEST

Sunday School.

LEST is the man whose heart expands
At melting pity's call,

And the rich blessings of whose hands
Like heavenly manna fall.

2 Mercy, descending from above,
In softest accents pleads;

O! may each tender bosom move,
When mercy intercedes!

3 Be ours the bliss in wisdom's

way

To guide untutor'd youth,
And lead the mind that went astray
To virtue and to truth.

4 Children our kind protection claim,
And God will well approve,

When infants learn to lisp his name,
And their Creator love.

5 Delightful work! young souls to win,
And turn the rising race
From the deceitful paths of sin,
To seek redeeming grace.

6 Almighty God! thy influence shed
To aid this good design:

The honours of thy name be spread,
And all the glory thine.

J. STRAPHAN.

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523 (2d P.) L. M. Angel's Hymn 60. Bab. Streams 23.

Thoughtful Children of a Sunday School.

1 LORD, while the little heathens bend

And call some wooden god their friend, Or stand and see, with bitter cries, Their mothers burnt before their eyes; 2 While many a dear and tender child Is thrown to bears and tigers wild, Or left upon the river's brink,

To suffer more than heart can think;
3 Behold! what mercies we possess!
How far beyond our thankfulness!
Cheerful and happy here we stand,
To serve thee, in a Christian land.
4 0! when that awful day shall rise
When CHRIST shall come in yonder skies,
And we must answer, one by one,
For every deed our hands have done,
5 LORD, let it not be said of us

That heathens could not have been worse,
But may we now that pardon crave,
Which can the guiltiest sinner save.
6 With all the bright and happy crowd,
We then would praise thee, long and loud;
And O! to little heathens send,

The news of CHRIST, the sinner's friend.

MRS. GILBERT.

523 (3d P.) C. M. James's 163. Tiverton 109.

Hymn for a Child.

1 TORD, teach a little child to pray,
Thy grace betimes impart;

And grant thy Holy Spirit may
Renew my infant heart.

2 A sinful creature I was born,
And from the womb have stray'd;

I must be wretched and forlorn

Without thy mercies' aid.

3 But CHRIST can all my sins forgive,
And wash away their stain,
And fit my soul with him to live,
And in his kingdom reign.
4 To him let little Children come,
For he has said they may;
His bosom then shall be their home,
Their tears he'll wipe away:
5 For all that early seek his face
Shall surely taste his love;
JESUS shall guide them by his grace,

To dwell with him above.

DR. RYLAND.

524 (1st P.) C.M. Bangor 231. Wantage 204.

Old Age approaching; or, Man frail and mortal.

1 ETERNAL GOD! enthron'd on high!
Whom angel-hosts adore;

Who yet to suppliant dust art nigh;
Thy presence I implore.

2 O guide me down the steep of age,
And keep my passions cool:
Teach me to scan the sacred page,
And practise every rule.

3 My flying years time urges on,
What's human must decay;

My friends, my young companions gone,
Can I expect to stay?

44 Can I exemption plead, when death
Projects his awful dart?

Can med'cines then prolong my breath,
Or virtue shield my heart?

5 Ah! no-then smooth the mortal hour,
On thee my hope depends:
Support me with almighty power,
While dust to dust descends..

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