761 If God so loved us, we ought also to love one
C.M. [THOMAS COTTERILL (?)]
another.-I John iv. II.
UR God is love, and all His saints
His image bear below;
The heart with love to God inspired,
With love to man will glow.
2 O may we love each other, Lord,
As we are loved of Thee;
For none are truly born of God
Who live in enmity.
3 Heirs of the same immortal bliss,
Our hopes and fears the same,
The cords of love our hearts should bind,
The law of love inflame.
4 So shall the vain contentious world
Our peaceful lives approve,
And wondering say, as they of old,
See how these Christians love.
The greatest of these is charity.
I Corinthians xiii. 13.
APPY the heart where graces reign,
Where love inspires the breast;
Love is the brightest of the train,
And strengthens all the rest
2 'Tis love that makes our cheerful feet
In swift obedience move;
The devils know and tremble too,
But Satan cannot love.
3 This is the grace that lives and sings
When faith and hope shall cease;
"Tis this shall strike our joyful strings
In the bright realms of peace.
4 Before we quite forsake our clay,
Or leave this dark abode,
The wings of love bear us away
To see our Father God.
OW blest are they who daily prove,
By acts of charity and love,
The fervent gratitude they owe
To Him from whom all blessings flow.
In hours of sickness or of pain,
God will their fainting souls sustain ;
Bright hopes shall cheer the bed of death,
Sweet peace attend their parting breath.
2 When, summoned from the silent tomb,
The assembled world await their doom,
These shall behold their Saviour's face,
Beaming with smiles of heavenly grace;
And from His lips their raptured ear
Shall this their gracious sentence hear,
Come, O ye blessed of the Lord,
Come and receive your bright reward.
764 The night cometh, when no man can work.
WAKE, my zeal, awake my love,
To serve my Saviour here below,
In works which perfect saints above,
C.M. [THOMAS COTTERILL (?)]
If God so loved us, we ought also to love one
another.- John iv. 11.
UR God is love, and all His saints
His image bear below;
The heart with love to God inspired,
With love to man will glow.
2 O may we love each other, Lord,
As we are loved of Thee;
For none are truly born of God
Who live in enmity.
3 Heirs of the same immortal bliss,
Our hopes and fears the same,
The cords of love our hearts should bind,
The law of love inflame.
4 So shall the vain contentious world
Our peaceful lives approve,
And wondering say, as they of old,
See how th
2 'Tis love that makes our cheerful feet
In swift obedience move;
The devils know and tremble too,
But Satan cannot love.
3 This is the grace that lives and sings
When faith and hope shall cease;
"Tis this shall strike our joyful strings
In the bright realms of peace.
4 Before we quite forsake our clay,
Or leave this dark abode,
The wings of love bear us away
To see our Father God.
OW blest are they who daily prove,
By acts of charity and love,
The fervent gratitude they owe
To Him from whom all blessings flow.
In hours of sickness or of pain,
God will their fainting souls sustain ;
Bright hopes shall cheer the bed of death,
Sweet peace attend their parting breath.
2 When, summoned from the silent tomb,
The assembled world await their doom,
These shall behold their Saviour's face,
Beaming with smiles of heavenly grace ;
And from His lips their raptured ear
Shall this their gracious sentence hear,
of the Lord,
bright reward.
2 Awake, my charity, to feed
The hungry soul, and clothe the poor;
In heaven are found no sons of need,
There all these duties are no more.
3 Subdue thy passions, O my soul!
Maintain the fight, the work pursue,
Daily thy rising sins control,
And be thy victories ever new.
4 The land of triumph lies on high,
There are no foes to encounter there;
Lord, I would conquer till I die,
And finish all the glorious war.
Let every flying hour confess
I gain Thy gospel fresh renown;
And when my life and labours cease,
May I possess the promised crown!
APPY the man that fears the Lord,
And follows His commands;
Who lends the poor without reward,
Or gives with liberal hands.
2 As pity dwells within his breast
To all the sons of need;
So God shall answer his request
With blessings on his seed.
3 No evil tidings shall surprise
His well-established mind;
His soul to God his refuge flies,
And leaves his fears behind.
4 In times of general distress
Some beams of light shall shine,
To show the world his righteousness,
And give him peace divine.
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