58. For the Consecration or Opening of a Church or Chapel. (L. M.) 1 AND wilt Thou, O Eternal God, 59. For the Ember Weeks, or a Visitation. (L. M.) 2 How great their work! how vast their charge! 5 Let thronging multitudes around 6 Let sinners break their massy chains, 60. For the Induction of a Clergyman to a Living, Lectureship, or Preachership. (L. M.) "We exhort you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye have in remembrance into how high a dignity, and to how weighty an office and charge ye are called : That is to say, to be MESSENGERS, WATCHMEN, and STEWARDS of the Lord; to TEACH and to premonish; to FEED and provide for the Lord's Family; to seek for Christ's SHEEP that are dispersed abroad, that they may be saved through Christ for ever.". ORDINATION SERVICE. - 1 WE bid thee welcome in the name Of JESUS, our exalted head: Come as a SERVANT, SO HE came, And we receive thee in His stead. 2 Come as a SHEPHERD:-WATCH, and keep This fold from error and from sin : Nourish the lambs and FEED the SHEEP; The wounded heal, the lost bring in. 4 Come as a TEACHER sent by God, Charg'd His whole counsel to declare; Lift o'er our ranks the prophet's rod, While we uphold thy hands with pray'r. * See Exod. xvii. 11, 12. 5 Come as a MESSENGER of peace, XV. FOR FUNERALS. 61. The shortness of time, and the frailty of man. 1 ALMIGHTY Maker of my frame, 2 My days are shorter than a span, How vain are all his hopes and fears! 3 Vain his ambition, noise, and show! Vain are the cares which rack his mind! He heaps up treasures mix'd with woe, And dies and leaves them all behind. 4 O be a nobler portion mine! Saviour! I bow before Thy throne; 62. For the Funeral of a young Person. 1 THE morning flowers display their sweets, And gay their varied leaves unfold; Unfaded by the noon-day heats, Nor wither'd by the ev'ning cold. 2 Nipp'd by the wind's unkindly blast, 3. So blooms the human face divine, 4 But, worn by slowly-rolling years, Or broke by sickness in a day, Its fading glory disappears, Its short-liv'd beauties fade away. 5 Yet these, new rising from the tomb, Through Jesu's grace shall brighter shine; Revive with ever-during bloom, Safe from diseases and decline. 6 Let sickness blast, - let death devour, Since heav'n shall recompense our pains: Perish the grass! and fade the flower! Since firm the word of God remains. 63. The Christian's prospect in life and death. 1 GOD of our life! our souls defend, 2 This life's a dream, an empty show; 4 O glorious hour! O blest abode ! 64. Anticipation of Judgment. (L. M.) "In the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, Good Lord, deliver us. - LITANY. 1 My God! when nature's frame shall sink 2 'Twas THOU, that form'd'st me first from clay, |