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Preciousness of the Bible.

OW precious is the book divine,
By inspiration given;

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Bright as a lamp its doctrines shine,
To guide our souls to heaven.

2 It sweetly cheers our drooping hearts, In this dark vale of tears

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And life, and light, and joy imparts,

And banishes our fears.

3 This lamp, through all the tedious night Of life, shall guide our way;

Till we behold the clearer light

Of an eternal day.

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Light upon the narrow path.

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BRIGHT was the guiding star that led,

mild, benignant ray,

The Gentiles to the lowly shed
Where the Redeemer lay.

2 But lo! the Scriptures' clearer light
Now points to his abode;

It shines through sin and sorrow's night,
To guide us to our God.

30 let us tread the narrow path,
While light and grace are given;
And thus escape the coming wrath,
And reign with him in heaven.

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The divine Interpreter.

PIRIT of Truth, essential God,

inspire,

Shed in their hearts thy love abroad,

And touch their hallow'd lips with fire:

Our God from all eternity,

World without end we worship thee.

2 Still we believe, almighty Lord,

Whose presence fills both earth and heaven,
The meaning of the written word
Is by thy inspiration given;
Thou only dost thyself explain
The secret mind of God to man.

3 Come, then, divine Interpreter,-
The Scriptures to our hearts apply;
And, taught by thee, we God revere;
Him in three persons magnify:

And still the triune God adore,
Who was, and is, forever more.

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The word of God, quick and powerful.

HY word, almighty Lord,
Where'er it enters in,

Is sharper than a two-edged sword,
To slay the man of sin.

2 Thy word is power and life;
It bids confusion cease,
And changes envy, hatred, strife,
To love, and joy, and peace.

3 Then let our hearts obey

The gospel's glorious sound;

And all its fruits, from day to day,
Be in us and abound.

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Delight in the word.

WHEN quiet in my house I sit,

Thy book be my companion still;
My joy thy sayings to repeat,-
Talk o'er the records of thy will,
And search the oracles divine,
Till every heart-felt word be mine.

20 may the gracious words divine,
Subject of all my converse be;
So will the Lord his foll'wer join,

And walk and talk himself with me:
So shall my heart his presence prove,
And burn with everlasting love.
3 Oft as I lay me down to rest,
O may the reconciling word
Sweetly compose my weary breast;
While on the bosom of my Lord
I sink in blissful dreams away,
And visions of eternal day.

4 Rising to sing my Saviour's praise,
Thee may I publish all day long;
And let thy precious word of grace
Flow from my heart, and fill my tongue:
Fill all my life with purest love,
And join me to the church above.

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The Saviour seen in the Scriptures.
OW let my soul, eternal King,

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Now thee its grateful tribute bring;

My knee, with humble homage, bow;
My tongue perform its solemn vow.
2 All nature sings thy boundless love,
In worlds below, and worlds above;
But in thy blessed word I trace
Diviner wonders of thy grace.

3 There, what delightful truths I read!
There, I behold the Saviour bleed:
His name salutes my list'ning ear,
Revives my heart, and checks my fear.
4 There Jesus bids my sorrows cease,
And gives my lab'ring conscience peace;
Raises my grateful thoughts on high,
And points to mansions in the sky.

5 For love like this, O let my song, Through endless years, thy praise prolong; Let distant climes thy Name adore,

Till time and nature are no more.

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Their universal diffusion.

ESUS, the word bestow,—

The true immortal seed;

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Thy gospel then shall greatly grow,
And all our land o'erspread;
Through earth extended wide
Shall mightily prevail,-

Destroy the works of self and pride,
And shake the gates of hell.

2 Its energy exert

In the believing soul;

Diffuse thy grace through every part,
And sanctify the whole;

Its utmost virtue show

In pure consummate love, And fill with all thy life below, And give us thrones above.

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Revelation welcomed and disseminated.

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AIL, sacred truth! whose piercing rays
Dispel the shades of night;

Diffusing o'er a ruin'd world

The healing beams of light.

2 Thy word, O Lord, with friendly aid,
Restores our wand'ring feet;

Converts the sorrows of the mind
To joys divinely sweet.

3 0 send thy light and truth abroad,
In all their radiant blaze;

And bid the' admiring world adore
The glories of thy grace.

CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.

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COMMUNION OF SAINTS.

The universal bond of love.

THE glorious universe around,

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The heavens with all their train, Sun, moon, and stars, are firmly bound In one mysterious chain.

2 The earth, the ocean, and the sky,
To form one world agree;

Where all that walk, or swim, or fly,
Compose one family.

3 God in creation thus displays
His wisdom and his might,

While all his works with all his ways
Harmoniously unite.

4 In one fraternal bond of love,
One fellowship of mind,
The saints below and saints above
Their bliss and glory find.

5 Here, in their house of pilgrimage,
Thy statutes are their song;
There, through one bright, eternal age,
Thy praises they prolong.

6 Lord, may our union form a part
Of that thrice happy whole;

Derive its pulse from thee, the heart,
Its life from thee, the soul.

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One in Christ Jesus.

LET party names odd

The Christian world o'erspread;

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Gentile and Jew, and bond and free,

Are one in Christ their Head.

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