WIFT the moments fly away
Wirst the hour and then the day,

Next the week, the month, the year, i
Steal away, and disappear.

2 Time is ever on the wing,
While I speak, or think, or sing!
Whether working or at play,
Time is rolling fast away!

8 Think, my soul! awake and see
What will soon become of thee
Whither tending, canst thou tell
Up to heaven, or down to hell? our
4 Jesus, I would humbly pray, 97
Guide and keep me in the way;
Every gift and grace bestow;
Wean my heart from things below.

H Receive instruction well;

APPY the child whose tender years

Who hates the sinner's path, and fears
The road that leads to hell.

2 "T will save us from a thousand snares To seek religion young;

Grace will preserve our foll'wing years,
And make our virtue strong.

3 To thee, Almighty God, to thee
Our childhood we resign;

"Twill please us to look back and see That our whole lives were thine.

4 Let the sweet work of prayer and praise Employ our youngest breath;

Thus we're prepared for longer days,
Or fit for early death.

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Religion.

MIS religion that can give
Sweetest pleasures while we live:

'Tis religion must supply
Solid comforts when we die."

2 After death its joys will be

Lasting as eternity

Let me then make God my friend,
And on all his ways attend.

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Rewards of early piety?

YOD has said-"Forever blessed

G Those seek me in their youth

path of wisdom,

They shall findrow way of truth:"

And

Guide us, Saviour,

In the narrow way of truth.

2 Be our strength, for we are weakness; Be our wisdom and our guide;

May we walk in love and meekness,

Nearer"

to our Saviour's side:

Naught can harm us,

While we thus in thee abide.

3 Thus, when evening shades shall gather,
We may turn our tearless eye
To the dwelling of our Father,
To our home beyond the sky-
Gently passing

To the happy land on high.

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Holy children.

OLY children read and pray,

H Love God's holy word and day:

Fly from sin and seek his grace,
Learn his will, and Christ embrace;
They are humble, meek, and mild;
Lord, make me a holy child.

2 Holy children, when they die,
Soar to Christ above the sky;
Take their seats around his throne,
Make his praise forever known :
Pleasing thought! may I be styled,
Now, the Saviour's holy child !

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God will be our guide.

Bthe child whose tender youth,
LEST, beyond all earthly blessing,
In the Lord a guide possessing,
Walks in paths of light and truth.

2 He will govern those who love him:
Those who walk in faith and fear,
In all danger still shall prove him
Gracious, kind, and ever near.

3 Heavenly Father, let us prove thee,
An all-wise, protecting Friend!
Make us fear thee, make us love thee,
Constant, to our latest end!

PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF THE

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Privileges and duties of the young,

E are but young-yet we may sing

He made the earth, the sea, the sky,
And all the starry worlds on high.

2 We are but young-yet we must die;
Perhaps our latter end is nigh; {
Lord, may we early seek thy grace,
And find in Christ a hiding place.

3 We are but young-we need a guide;
Jesus, in thee we would confide;
O lead us in the path of truth,
Protect and bless our helpless youth.

4 We are but young-yet God has shed
Unnumber'd blessings on our head;
Then let our youth and riper days
Be all devoted to his praise.

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God's blessings on children.

HAPPY child, whom God doth aid!

God our souls and bodies made;

God on us in gracious showers
Blessings every moment pours:
Compasses with angel bands,

Bids them bear us in their hands;

Parents, friends, 'twas God bestow'd;

Life and all descend from God.

2 He this flowery carpet spread,
Made the earth on which we tread;
God refreshes in the air,

Covers with the clothes we wear:
Feeds us with the food we eat,
Cheers us by his light and heat,
Makes his sun on us to shine;
All our blessings are divine.

3 Man, we for his kindness love;
How much more our God above!
Give him then, and ever give,
Thanks for all that we receive:
Worthy thou, our heavenly Lord,
To be honour'd and adored:
God of all-creating grace,
Take the everlasting praise.

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JESUS, delight of my soul, for
My Saviour, my Shepherd divine,
I yield to thy blessed control:
My body and spirit are thine:
Thy love can never deserve,

That bids me be happy in thee;
My God and my King I will serve,
Whose favour is heaven to me.

2 How can I thy goodness repay, By nature so weak and defiled? Myself I have given away;

י

O call me thine own blessed child:
And art thou my Father above?

Will Jesus abide in my heart?
O bind me so fast with thy love,
That I never from thee shall depart.