2 To Jesus' Name give thanks and sing,
Whose mercies never end:
Rejoice! rejoice! the Lord is King;
The King is now our Friend.
3 We for his sake count all things loss;
On earthly good look down;
And joyfully sustain the cross,
Till we receive the crown.
4 0 let us stir each other up,
Our faith by works to' approve,-
By holy, purifying hope,
And the sweet task of love.
5 Let all who for the promise wait,
The Holy Ghost receive;
And, raised to our unsinning state,
With God in Eden live :-
6 Live, till the Lord in glory come,
And wait his heaven to share:
He now is fitting up your home;
Go on, we'll meet you there.
4th P. M. 886, 886.
Unity of spirit and of purpose.
Come, Jesus, in thy name to join
A happy, chosen band;
Who fain would prove thine utmost will,
And all thy righteous laws fulfil,
In love's benign command.
2 If pure essential love thou art,
Thy nature into every heart,
Thy loving self, inspire:
Bid all our simple souls be one,
United in a bond unknown,
Baptized with heavenly fire.
3 Still may we to our centre tend,
To spread thy praise our common end,
To help each other on;
Companions through the wilderness,
To share a moment's pain, and seize
An everlasting crown.
4 Jesus, our tender'd souls prepare ;
Infuse the softest social care,-
The warmest charity;
The bowels of our bleeding Lamb,
The virtues of thy wondrous name,
The heart that was in thee.
5 Supply what every member wants;
To found the fellowship of saints,
Thy Spirit, Lord, supply;
So shall we all thy love receive,
Together to thy glory live,
And to thy glory die.
NOME, and let us sweetly join,
Christ to praise in hymns divine:
Give we all, with one accord,
Glory to our common Lord:
Hands, and hearts, and voices raise;
Sing as in the ancient days;
Ante-date the joys above,—
Celebrate the feast of love.
2 Strive we, in affection strive;
Let the purer flame revive;
Such as in the martyrs glow'd,
Dying champions for their.God:
We like them may live and love;
Call'd we are their joys to prove ;
Saved with them from future wrath;
Partners of like precious faith.
3 Sing we then in Jesus' Name,
Now as yesterday the same;
One in every time and place,
Full for all of truth and grace:
We for Christ, our Master, stand,
Lights in a benighted land:
We our dying Lord confess;
We are Jesus' witnesses.
1OME, thou high and lofty Lord,
Lowly, meek, incarnate Word;
Humbly stoop to earth again;
Come, and visit abject man.
Jesus, dear expected guest,
Thou art bidden to the feast:
For thyself our hearts prepare;
Come, and sit, and banquet there.
2 Jesus, we thy promise claim:
We are met in thy great name:
In the midst do thou appear;
Manifest thy presence here.
Sanctify us, Lord, and bless;
Breathe thy Spirit, give thy peace ;
Thou thyself within us move:
Make our feast a feast of love.
3 Let the fruits of grace abound
i Let us in thy bowels sound;
Faith, and love, and joy increase,-
Temperance and gentleness;
Plant in us thy humble mind,
Patient, pitiful, and kind:
Meek and lowly let us be,-
Full of goodness, full of thee.
4 Make us all in thee complete;
Make us all for glory meet;
Meet to' appear before thy sight,
Partners with the saints in light.
Call, O call us each by name,
To the marriage of the Lamb:
Let us lean upon thy breast;
Love be there our endless feast.
Mutual 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 join'd,
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.
EHOLD the Christian warrior stand
all the armour of his God;
The Spirit's sword is in his hand,
His feet are with the Gospel shod ;
2 In panoply of truth complete,
Salvation's helmet on his head;
With righteousness a breast-plate meet,
And faith's broad shield before him spread ;-
3 Undaunted to the field he goes;
Yet vain were skill and valour there, Unless, to foil his legion foes,
He takes the trustiest weapon, prayer.
4 Thus, strong in his Redeemer's strength, Sin, death, and hell, he tramples down; Fights the good fight, and wins at length, Through mercy, an immortal crown.
RM me with thy whole armour, Lord;
A Support my weakness with thy might;
Gird on my thigh thy conqu'ring sword,
And shield me in the threat'ning fight;
From faith to faith, from grace to grace,
So in thy strength shall I go on;
Till heaven and earth flee from thy face,
And glory end what grace begun.
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