859.

1 BREAD of heaven, on thee we feed,
For thy flesh is meat indeed;
Ever let our souls be fed

With this true and living bread.

2 Vine of heaven, thy blood supplies
This blest cup of sacrifice;

Lord, thy wounds our healing give,
To thy cross we look and live.

3 Day by day, with strength supplied
Through the life of him who died,
Lord of life, oh let us be

Rooted, grafted, built in thee.

860.

78.

Josiah Conder, 1824.

10s.

1 And now we rise; the symbols disappear; The feast, though not the love, is past [art here, The bread and wine remove; but thou Nearer than ever; still my shield and

and gone;

sun.

2 Feast after feast thus comes and passes by, And passing points to the glad feast above,

Giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy,
The Lamb's great bridal feast of bliss

and love.

Horatius Bonar, 1856.

861.

THE MINISTRY.

ISAIAH liii. 7-10.

1 How beauteous are their feet

Who stand on Zion's hill,

S. M.

Who bring salvation on their tongues,
And words of peace reveal!

2 How charming is their voice!
How sweet the tidings are!
"Zion, behold thy Saviour King;
He reigns and triumphs here."

3 How happy are our ears,

That hear this joyful sound,
Which kings and prophets waited for,
And sought, but never found!

4 How blessed are our eyes,

That see this heavenly light!
Prophets and kings desired it long,
But died without the sight.

5 The watchmen join their voice,
And tuneful notes employ;
Jerusalem breaks forth in songs,
And deserts learn the joy.

6 The Lord makes bare his arm
Through all the earth abroad;
Let every nation now behold
Their Saviour and their God!
Isaac Watts, 1709.

862.

1 LET Zion's watchmen all awake, And take the alarm they give;

C. M.

Now let them, from the mouth of God,
Their awful charge receive.

2 'Tis not a cause of small import
The pastor's care demands,
But what might fill an angel's heart,
And filled a Saviour's hands.

3 They watch for souls for which the Lord Did heavenly bliss forego;

For souls which must forever live
In raptures or in woe.

4 May they that Jesus whom they preach, Their own Redeemer see;

And watch thou daily o'er their souls,
That they may watch for thee.

863.

Philip Doddridge, 1736.

C. M.

1 Lord, thou hast taught our hearts to glow With love's undying flame;

But more of thee we long to know,
And more would love thy name.

2 Thou bid'st us go, with thee to stand
Against hell's marshalled powers,
And heart to heart, and hand to hand,
To make thine honor ours.

3 With thine own pity, Saviour, see
The thronged and darkening way!
We go to win the lost to thee,
Oh help us, Lord, we pray!

4 Teach thou our lips of thee to speak,
Of thy sweet love to tell,

Till they who wander far shall seek
And find and serve thee well.

Ray Palmer.

864.

L. M.

1 FATHER of mercies, in thy house
Smile on our homage and our vows,
While with a grateful heart we share
These pledges of our Saviour's care.
2 The Saviour, when to heaven he rose
In splendid triumph o'er his foes,
Scattered his gifts on men below,
And wide his royal bounties flow.

3 Hence sprung the Apostles' honored name, Sacred beyond heroic fame;

In lowlier forms to bless our eyes,
Pastors from hence, and teachers rise.

4 So shall the bright succession run
Through the last courses of the sun;
While unborn churches by their care
Shall rise and flourish large and fair.

5 Jesus our Lord, their hearts shall know,
The spring whence all these blessings
Pastors and people shout his praise [flow;
Through the long round of endless days.

865.

Philip Doddridge, 1755.

1 GREAT Lord of angels, we adore

L. M.

The grace that builds thy courts below, And through ten thousand sons of light Stoops to regard what mortals do.

2 Amidst the wastes of time and death
Successive pastors thou dost raise,
Thy charge to keep, thy house to guide,
And form a people for thy praise.

3 The heavenly natives with delight
Hover around the sacred place,
Nor scorn to learn from mortal tongues
The wonders of redeeming grace.

4 At length dismissed from feeble clay Thy servants join the angelic band, With them through distant worlds they fly, With them before thy presence stand. 5 Yet while these labors we pursue,

Thus distant from thy heavenly throne,
Give us a zeal and love like theirs,
And half their heaven shall here be
known.

866.

Philip Doddridge, 1755.

L. M.

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; guard and keep
This fold from hell, and earth, and sin;
Nourish the lambs, and feed the sheep,
The wounded heal, the lost bring in.

3 Come as a teacher, sent from God,

Charged his whole counsel to declare; Lift o'er our ranks the prophet's rod, While we uphold thy hands with prayer.

4 Come as a messenger of peace,

Filled with the Spirit, fired with love! Live to behold our large increase, And die to meet us all above.

867.

James Montgomery, 1825.

L. M.

1 WITH heavenly power, O Lord, defend Him whom we now to thee commend; Thy faithful messenger secure,

And make him to the end endure.

2 Gird him with all-sufficient grace Direct his feet in paths of peace;