3 We share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear:
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.
4 When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.
5 This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way;
While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.
6 From sorrow, toil, and pain,
And sin we shall be free;
And perfect love and friendship reign Through all eternity.
Meeting, after absence.
AND are we yet alive,
And see each other's face? Glory and praise to Jesus give, For his redeeming grace. Preserved by power divine To full salvation here, Again in Jesus' praise we join, And in his sight appear. 2 What troubles have we seen, What conflicts have we passed, Fightings without, and fears within, Since we assembled last! But out of all the Lord
Hath brought us by his love;
And still he doth his help afford,
And hides our life above.
3 Then let us make our boast
Of his redeeming power,
Which saves us to the uttermost,
Till we can sin no more:
Let us take up the cross,
Till we the crown obtain;
And gladly reckon all things loss,
So we may Jesus gain.
LEST are the sons of peace,
Whose hearts and hopes are one; Whose kind designs to serve and please Through all their actions run.
2 Blest is the pious house
Where zeal and friendship meet; Their songs of praise, their mingled vows, Make their communion sweet.
3 Thus on the heavenly hills
The saints are blest above,
Where joy like morning dew distills,
And all the air is love.
One Lord, one faith, one baptism.-Eph.4: 5.
NE sole baptismal sign,
One Lord below, above,
One faith, one hope divine,
One only watchword, love:
From different temples though it rise,
One song ascendeth to the skies.
2 Our Sacrifice is one;
One Priest before the throne,
The slain, the risen Son,
Redeemer, Lord alone:
Thou who didst raise him from the dead,
Unite thy people in their Head.
3 O may that holy prayer,
His tenderest and his last,
His constant, latest care
Ere to his throne he passed,
No longer unfulfilled remain,
The world's offense, his people's stain!
4 Head of thy Church beneath,
The catholic, the true,
On all her members breathe,
Her broken frame renew:
Then shall thy perfect will be done,
When Christians love and live as one.
801 Bear ye one another's burdens.
THOU God of truth and love,
We seek thy perfect way,
Ready thy choice to approve,
Thy providence to obey;
Enter into thy wise design,
And sweetly lose our will in thine.
2 Why hast thou cast our lot
In the same age and place?
And why together brought
To see each other's face;
To join with softest sympathy,
And mix our friendly souls in thee?
3 Didst thou not make us one,
That we might one remain;
Together travel on,
And bear each other's pain;
Till all thy utmost goodness prove,
And rise renewed in perfect love?
4 Surely thou didst unite
Our kindred spirits here,
That all hereafter might
Before thy throne appear;
Meet at the marriage of the Lamb,
And all thy gracious love proclaim.
5 Then let us ever bear
The blessed end in view,
And join, with mutual care,
To fight our passage through;
And kindly help each other on,
Till all receive the starry crown.
6 O may thy Spirit seal
Our souls unto that day,
With all thy fullness fill,
And then transport away,—
Away to our eternal rest,
Away to our Redeemer's breast!
God, from whom all blessings flow;
Make we mention of his love,
Publish we his praise below:
2 Called together by his grace,
We are met in Jesus' name;
See with joy each other's face,
Followers of the bleeding Lamb.
3 Build we each the other up;
Pray we for our faith's increase;
Solid comfort, settled hope,
Constant joy, and lasting peace.
4 More and more let love abound;
Let us never, never rest,
Till we are in Jesus found,
Of our paradise possessed.
803 Love, the bond of union.
HILE we walk with God in light,
God our hearts doth still unite;
Dearest fellowship we prove,
Fellowship in Jesus' love:
Sweetly each, with each combined,
In the bonds of duty joined,
Feels the cleansing blood applied,
Daily feels that Christ hath died.
2 Still, O Lord, our faith increase,
Cleanse from all unrighteousness;
Thee the unholy cannot see,
Make, O make us meet for thee;
Every vile affection kill,
Root out every seed of ill,
Utterly abolish sin,
Write thy law of love within.
3 Hence may all our actions flow, Love the proof that Christ we know; Mutual love the token be,
Lord, that we belong to thee:
Love, thine image, love impart;
Stamp it now on every heart:
Only love to us be given;
Lord, we ask no other heaven.
804 Of one heart and mind.
JESUS, Lord, we look to thee;
us in thy name agree;
Show thyself the Prince of peace;
Bid our jars forever cease.
2 By thy reconciling love,
Every stumbling-block remove;
Each to each unite, endear,
Come, and spread thy banner here.
3 Make us of one heart and mind,
Courteous, pitiful, and kind,
Lowly, meek, in thought and word,
Altogether like our Lord.
4 Let us for each other care,
Each the other's burden bear:
To thy Church the pattern give,
Show how true believers live.
5 Free from anger and from pride,
Let us thus in God abide;
All the depths of love express,
All the heights of holiness.
6 Let us then with joy remove
To the family above;
On the wings of angels fly;
Show how true believers die.
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