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Ob 2

Of wild war music o'er the earth shall cease; Love shall tread out the baleful fires of anger, And in its ashes plant the tree of peace.

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wak - eth

I THOU art the Way: to thee alone
From sin and death we flee;
And he who would the Father seek,
Must seek him, Lord, by thee.

2 Thou art the Truth: thy word alone
True wisdom can impart ;
Thou only canst inform the mind
And purify the heart.

3 Thou art the Life: the rending tomb Proclaims thy conquering arm;

And those who put their trust in thee
Nor death nor hell shall harm.

4 Thou art the Way, the Truth, the Life:
Grant us that way to know,
That truth to keep, that life to win,
Whose joys eternal flow.

Heber. C.M.

259.

I THE world throws wide its brazen gates; With thee we enter in :

O, grant us, in our humble sphere,

To free that world from sin !

2 We have one mind in Christ our Lord,
To stand and point above,-
To hurl rebuke at social wrong;

But all, O God, in love.

3 The star is resting in the sky;

To worship Christ we came ;

The moments haste: O, touch our tongues
With thy celestial flame!

4 The truest worship is a life;
All dreaming we resign;
We lay our offering at thy feet,
Our lives, O Christ, are thine !

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260.

I O GOD, that mad'st the earth and sky,
The darkness and the day,

O, listen to thy children's cry,
And help us when we pray!

2 The cross that Jesus bore for man,
Like him we fain would bear;

But mortal strength to weakness turns,
And courage to despair.

3 Have mercy on our failings, Lord,
Our sinking faith renew;

And when his sorrows visit us,
O, send his patience too!

261.

I SEE, Israel's gentle Shepherd stands,
With all engaging charms!
Hark, how he calls the tender lambs,
And folds them in his arms!

2" Permit them to approach," he cries, "Nor scorn their humble name;

For 't was to bless such souls as these

The Lord of angels came."

262.

I IN all we do, in all we dream,
One duty haunts the soul;

Through evil dark the watch-towers gleam,
To guide us to one goal..

2 Howe'er we stray, we are pursued; God foils us from above,

By fatherly solicitude

And by relentless love.

And yield them up to thee;
Joyful that we ourselves are thine,
Thine let our offspring be.

4 Ye little flock, with pleasure hear;
Ye children, seek his face,
And fly with transport, to receive
The blessings of his grace.

Langdon. C.M.

We all, at last, must turn ;
The kindling heat of our desire

Shall help our sins to burn.

4 And thou wilt have us right at last,
O ceaseless Fatherhood!
No other fate for us thou hast,
The only goal is Good.

test our lives by thine.

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263.

1 O LORD and Master of us all,

Whate'er our name or sign,

We own thy sway, we hear thy call,
We test our lives by thine.

2 We faintly hear, we dimly see,

In differing phrase we pray;
But, dim or clear, we own in thee
The Light, the Truth, the Way!

3 Apart from thee all gain is loss,
And labor vainly done;
The solemn shadow of thy cross
Is better than the sun.

4 Alone, O Love ineffable!
Thy saving name is given;
To turn aside from thee is hell,
To walk with thee is heaven.