Lord, here accept our hearts, Great God, accept their infant songs; 5 Lord, bid this work of love Be crown'd with meet success; This institution bless: Thus shall the praise resound to thee, HYMN 111. LORY to the Father give, GLO (111. 1.) God in whom we move and live; Christ our Prophet, Priest, and King; 3 Glory to the Holy Ghost, 4 Glory in the highest be For the Gospel from above, 1 W HEN Jesus left his heav'nly throne, Like us unhonour'd and unknown, He came to dwell on earth: 2 Like him, may we be found below 3 Sweet were his words and kind his look, Their infants in his arms he took, And on his bosom bless'd: 4 Safe from the world's alluring harms, Beneath his watchful eye, O, thus encircled in his arms, May we for ever lie! HYMN 113. ORD, how delightful 'tis to see Not all that earth and sin can say, (L. M.) 4 With thoughts of Christ and things divine, Fill up this sinful heart of mine; 1 That hoping pardon through his blood, ME HYMN 114. ERCY, descending from above, O may each tender bosom move, 2 Children our kind protection claim, 3 Delightful work! young souls to win, To seek their Saviour's face. 4 Almighty God! thine influence shed The honour of thy name be spread, (C. M.) B CHARITABLE OCCASIONS. HYMN 115. (c. M.) LEST is the man whose soft'ning heart To whom the supplicating eye Is never rais'd in vain: 2 Whose breast responds with gen'rous warmth, A stranger's wo to feel; Who weeps in pity o'er the wound He wants the pow'r to heal. 3 To gentle offices of love His feet are never slow; He views, through mercy's melting eye, 4 To him protection shall be shown; 1 Descend on those who thus fulfil The Christian law of love. HYMN 116. RICH are the joys which cannot die, With God laid up in store; Treasures beyond the changing sky, 2 The seeds which piety and love In the fair fertile fields above To ample harvests grow. 3 The mite, my willing hands can give, At Jesus' feet I lay; 1 Grace shall the humble gift receive, Abounding grace repay. HYMN 117. ORD of life, all praise excelling, Deign'st to make thy humble dwelling 2 As thy love, through all creation, L (c. M.) L may (111. 3.) 6 3 Thus thy care, for all providing, Warm'd thy faithful prophet's tongue; Who, the lot of all deciding, To thy chosen Israel sung: 4 "When thy harvest yields thee pleasure, Chorus. 5 "These thy God ordains to bless, 6 "When thy favour'd vintage flowing, 7 Still we read thy word declaring Warms the heart resembling thee. 8 Still the orphan and the stranger, Still the widow owns thy care; Screen'd by thee in ev'ry danger, Heard by thee in ev'ry pray'r. Hallelujah, Amen. 1 Go TO BE USED AT SEA. HYMN 118. OD of the seas! thine awful voice 2 The smallest fish that swims the seas, (L. M.) 1 3 Thus is thy glorious pow'r ador'd "Save Lord! or we perish." ST. MATTHEW viii. 25. W HEN through the torn sail the wild tempest is streaming, When o'er the dark wave the red lightning is gleaming, Nor hope lends a ray the poor seaman to cherish, We fly to our Maker: "Save, Lord! or we perish.” 2 O Jesus, once rock'd on the breast of the billow, Arous'd, by the shriek of despair, from thy pillow, Now seated in glory, the mariner cherish, Who cries in his anguish, "Save, Lord! or we perish." 3 And O! when the whirlwind of passion is raging, When sin in our hearts its wild warfare is waging, Then send down thy Spirit thy ransom'd to cherish, Rebuke the destroyer;" Save, Lord! or we perish." HYMN 120. (c. M.) Which may be used at Sea or on Land. 1 LORD! for the just thou dost provide, Thou art their sure defence! Eternal wisdom is their guide, 2 Though they through foreign lands should roam, 3 Thy goodness sweetens ev'ry soil, 4 When waves on waves, to heav'n uprear'd, When terror in each face appear'd, 5 To thee I rais'd my humble prayer, |