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Sunday Morning Hymn.

C.M.

FATHER, I well may praise Thy name
In sounds of flowing song;

And in glad words aloud proclaim
That I to Thee belong.

2 I see Thy light, Thy world's wide scope, I hear Thy wind abroad;

All things that give me life and hope
Are from my Father, God.

3 This living soul, which I call mine,
Doth feel, and know, and love;
It is an utterance of Thine,
A breathing from above.

4 So I would fill a higher part,
Self-acting, like to Thee;
Therefore I'll stir my inmost heart
To live in action free.

5 This be my action, henceforth now,
Ever to will the Good;

And then when strength is failing, Thou
Wilt give my spirit food.

6 And through the grace of Him who willed To do Thy will on earth,

With truth my spirit shall be filled,
And reach its place of birth.

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A Life-Experience.
JESUS, Saviour, Brother, God!

All our fulness is in Thee!
All our joy shall ever be
On to press to Thine abode!

2 List'ning, we Thy voice may hear;
Seeking, may Thy mercy find;
And the lowly, loving mind
Feels Thy heav'n is ever near.

3 Life will sweet and holy be,-
All the earth be beautiful,-
If the heart be dutiful,
If the eye, in all, see Thee.

4 But a wild and noisy life—
Marring all the fairness nigh,
Mocking at the holy sky,-
Lives the world, in guilt and strife.

5 And the tumult spreadeth wide;
And the sorrow spreadeth, too:
And we lose the good and true,
In our falsehood and our pride.

6 And our work is feebly done,
With a faithless, weary heart:
And our gladness has its smart:
And our goal is never won.

7s.

7 And our loved ones pass away;
And we mourn our rifled nest,-
Through the drear night know no rest,
Crying for the break of day.

8 Then we turn to Thee, O Lord,-
From our sad and haunting fears,
From our dimness and our tears::
But, we cannot speak a word.

9 But, Thou speakest words of love :-
"I have trod your sorrow's path-
And my heart a pity hath,

Ne'er shall change, and ne'er remove. 10 Only trust me and obey;

All your loss shall be your gain,-
Purity be wrought through pain,—
Darkness brighten into Day."
11 Jesus, Saviour, Brother, God!
All our fulness is in Thee!
All our joy shall ever be
On to press to Thine abode !

INDEX.

N.B.-The thanks of the Compilers are respectfully offered
to Authors and Publishers-too numerous to be here separately
named,-who have kindly and generously permitted the use of
their copyright property. If any copyright hymns are included
without such consent, it is attributable to accident, and
apology is hereby sincerely tendered.

The hymns marked thus [+] are Original and Copyright.
Hymns in which any alteration, further than mere abridgment,
has been made, are marked with an asterisk [*] against the

authors' names.

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