3 Their streaming eyes together flow For human guilt and mortal woe; Their ardent prayers together rise Like mingling flames in sacrifice. 4 Together shall they seek the place Where God reveals his awful face : How high, how strong, their raptures swell, There's none but kindred souls can tell. 5 Nor shall the glowing flame expire When nature droops her sickening fire; Then shall they meet in realms above, A heaven of joy, because of love.
1 FAR from thy servants, God of grace, Th' unfeeling heart remove,
And form in our obedient souls The image of thy love.
2 O, may our sympathizing breasts The generous pleasure know, Kindly to share in others' joy, And weep for others' woe!
3 Where'er the helpless sons of grief In low distress are laid,
Soft be our hearts their pains to feel, And swift our hands to aid.
4 O, be the law of love fulfilled In every act and thought, Each angry passion far removed, Each selfish view forgot!
5 Be thou, my heart, dilated wide With this kind, social grace, And, in one grasp of fervent love, All earth and heaven embrace.
1 ALL nature feels attractive power, A strong, embracing force; The drops that sparkle in the shower, The planets in their course.
2 Thus in the universe of mind Is felt the law of love;
The charity, both strong and kind, For all that live and move.
3 In this fine, sympathetic chain All creatures bear a part; Their every pleasure, every pain, Linked to the feeling heart.
4 More perfect bond, the Christian plan Attaches soul to soul;
Our neighbour is the suffering man, Though at the farthest pole.
5 To earth below, from heaven above, The faith in Christ professed
More clear reveals that God is love, And whom he loves is blest.
The Blessings of Friendship.
1 HOW pleasant 't is to see Kindred and friends agree! Each in his proper station move; And each fulfil his part,
With sympathizing heart,
In all the cares of life and love!
2 Like fruitful showers of rain, That water all the plain,
Descending from the neighbouring hills;
Such streams of pleasure roll Through every friendly soul, Where love, like heavenly dew, distils.
1 ALL-SEEING God! 't is thine to know The springs whence wrong opinions flow; To judge, from principles within, When frailty errs, and when we sin. 2 Who among men, great Lord of all, Thy servant to his bar shall call ?
Judge him, for modes of faith, thy foe, And doom him to the realms of woe ? 3 Who with another's eye can read? Or worship by another's creed? Trusting thy grace, we form our own, And bow to thy commands alone. 4 If wrong, correct; accept, if right; While, faithful, we improve our light, Condemning none, but zealous still To learn and follow all thy will.
The Properties of Christian Charity.
1 LET men of high conceit and zeal Their fervor and their faith proclaim :
If charity be wanting still,
The rest is but a sounding name. 2 Patient and meek, she suffers long, And slowly her resentments rise: Soon she forgets the greatest wrong, And rage retires, and malice dies. 3 She envies none their better state,
But makes her neighbour's bliss her own:
Nor vaunts herself with mind elate, But still a modest air puts on. 4 This is the grace that reigns on high, And brightly will for ever burn, When hope shall in fruition die, And faith to sight triumphant turn. L. M.
1 O GOD, my Father and my King, Of all I have, or hope, the spring! Send down thy spirit from above, And fill my heart with heavenly love. 2 May I from every act abstain, That hurts or gives another pain : And bear a sympathizing part, Whene'er I meet a wounded heart.
3 And let my neighbour's prosperous state A mutual joy in me create ; His virtuous triumph let me join; His peace and happiness be mine. 4 And though my neighbour's hate I prove, Still let me vanquish hate with love, And every secret wish suppress, That would abridge his happiness. 5 Let love through all my conduct shine, An image fair, though faint, of thine; Thus let me his disciple prove,
Who came to manifest thy love.
Christ's Love to Enemies our Example.
1 GOD of our mercy and our praise, Thy glory is our song ;
We 'Il speak the honors of thy grace With a rejoicing tongue.
2 When Christ among the sons of men In humble form was found,
With cruel slanders, false and vain, They compassed him around.
3 Their miseries his compassion moved, Their peace he still pursued ; They rendered hatred for his love, And evil for his good.
4 Their malice raged without a cause; Yet, with his dying breath,
He prayed for murderers on his cross And blest his foes in death.
5 O, may his conduct, all divine, To us a model prove
Like his, O God, our hearts incline Our enemies to love.
1 HAPPY the heart where graces reign, Where love inspires the breast: Love is the brightest of the train, And strengthens all the rest.
2 Knowledge, -alas! 't is all in vain, And all in vain our fear;
Our stubborn sins will fight and reign, If love be absent there.
3 This is the grace that lives and sings, When faith and hope shall cease; 'T is this shall strike our joyful strings In realms of endless peace.
4 Before we quite forsake our clay, Or leave this dark abode,
The wings of love bear us away To see our gracious God.
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