4 Holy Ghost, with joy divine,
Cheer this sadden'd heart of mine;
Bid my many woes depart,
Heal my wounded, bleeding heart.

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URE the blest Comforter is nigh,

L.M.

SURE the bustains my fainting heart;
Else would my hope forever die,
And ev'ry cheering ray depart.

2 When some kind promise cheers my soul,
Do I not find His healing voice
The tempest of my fears control,
And bid my drooping powers rejoice?
3 What less than Thine almighty word
Can raise my heart from earth and dust,
And bid me cleave to Thee, my Lord,
My life, my treasure, and my trust?
4 And when my cheerful hope can say,
"I love my God, and taste His grace;"
Lord, is it not Thy blissful ray

Which brings this dawn of sacred peace? 5 Let Thy kind Spirit in my heart For ever dwell, O God of love; And light and heavenly peace impart, Sweet earnest of the joys above.

189 (799).

C. M.

HY should the children of a King

W Go mourning all their days?

Great Comforter, descend and bring
Some tokens of Thy grace.

2 Dost Thou not dwell in all Thy saints,
And seal them heirs of heaven?
When wilt Thou banish my complaints,
And show my sins forgiven?

3 Assure my conscience of her part
In my Redeemer's blood,
And bear Thy witness, with my heart,
That I am born of God.

4 Thou art the earnest of His love,
The pledge of joys to come;
And Thy soft wings, celestial Dove,
Will safely bear me home.

190 (804).

SPIRIT of the living God,

In all Thy plenitude of grace, Where'er the foot of man hath trod, Descend on our apostate race.

2 Be darkness, at Thy coming, light, Confusion, order, in Thy path:

L. M.

Souls without strength inspire with might:
Bid mercy triumph over wrath.

Baptize the nations; far and nigh,
The triumphs of the cross record;
The name of Jesus glorify,

Till ev'ry kindred call Him Lord.

God from eternity hath will'd

All flesh shall His salvation see:
So be the Father's love fulfill'd,

The Saviour's suff'rings crown'd through
Thee.

THE CHURCH.

HER FOUNDATION.

191 (148).

S.M.

EE what a living stone

SE

The builders did refuse!

Yet God hath built His Church thereon,
In spite of envious Jews.

2 The work, O Lord, is Thine,
And wondrous in our eyes;
This day declares it all divine,
This day did Jesus rise.

3 Hosanna to the King

Of David's royal blood!
Bless Him, ye saints, He comes to bring
Salvation from our God.

4 Oh, come the happy hour

When all the world shall own
Thy Son, O God, declared with power,
And worship at Thy throne!

5 We bless Thy holy word

Which all this grace displays;
And offer on Thine altar, Lord,
Our sacrifice of praise.

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C.M

EHOLD the sure foundation-stone

B Which God in Zion lays,

To build our heavenly hopes upon,
And His eternal praise.

2 Chosen of God, to sinners dear,
Let saints adore the name;

They trust their whole salvation here,
Nor shall they suffer shame.

3 The foolish builders, scribe and priest,
Reject it with disdain;

Yet on this Rock the Church shall rest,
And envy rage in vain.

4 What though the gates of hell withstood; Yet must this building rise: "Tis Thine own work, Almighty God, And wondrous in our eyes.

HER PRIVILEGES AND GLORY.

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8s & 7s.

LORIOUS things of thee are spoken,

GZion, city of our God;

He, whose word cannot be broken,
Form'd thee for His own abode:
On the Rock of Ages founded,

What can shake Thy sure repose?
With salvation's walls surrounded,
Thou may'st smile at all thy foes.
2 See, the streams of living waters,
Springing from eternal love,
Well supply thy sons and daughters,
And all fear of want remove:
Who can faint while such a river
Ever flows thy thirst t' assauge?
Grace which, like the Lord, the Giver,
Never fails from age to age.

3 Round each habitation hov'ring,
See the cloud and fire appear!

For a glory and a cov'ring,

Showing that the Lord is near:
Thus deriving from their banner
Light by night and shade by day;
Safe they feed upon the manna

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Which He gives them when they pray.

C.M

H, where are kings and empires now, Of old that went and came? But, Lord, Thy Church is praying yet, A thousand years the same.

2 We mark her goodly battlements,
And her foundations strong;

We hear within the solemn voice
Of her unending song.

3 For not like kingdoms of the world
Thy holy Church, O God!

Though earthquake shocks are threat'ning h And tempests are abroad;

4 Unshaken as eternal hills,
Immovable she stands,

A mountain that shall fill the earth,
A house not made by hands.

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HER MINISTRY.

ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION.

L.

WITH to Thee confen

ITH heavenly power, O Lord, defend

Thy faithful messenger secure,

And make him to the end endure.