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God is Love.

BURDER. 3 No earthly father loves like thee,
I COME, ye that know and fear the Lord, No mother half so mild
And raise your soul above :

Bears and forbears, as thou hast done Let every heart and voice accord,

With me, thy sinful child. To sing that God is love.

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Prayer for full Assurance. MRS. STEELI ? Behold! his loving-kindness waits For those who from him rove,

1 ETERNAL Source of joys divine, And calls of mercy reach their hearts,

To thee my soul aspires : To teach them God is love.

Oh could I say, “ The Lord is mine,"

'Tis all my soul desires ! 8 Oh may we all, while here below,

2 My IIope, my Trust, my Life, my Lord, This best of blessings prove,

Assure me of thy love: Till warmer hearts, in brighter worlds,

Oh speak the kind, transporting word, Shall shout that God is love!

And bid my fears remove !

LYRA CATE.

3 Then shall my thankful powers rejoice,

And triumph in my God,
Till heavenly rapture tune my voice

To spread thy praise abroad.

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God's Condescending Love.
1 Ilow dread are thine eternal years,

O everlasting Lord !
By prostrate spirits, day and night,

Incessantly adored.
2 Yet I may love thee, too, O Lord !

Almighty as thou art;
For thou hast stooped to ask of me

The love of my poor heart.

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Doxology.
To God, before whom angele bow,

The God whom we adore,
Be glory as it was, is now,

And shall be evermore.

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MONTGOMERY

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God our Shepherd. Ps. 23.
1 The Lord is my shepherd, no want shall I know:

I feed in green pastures, safe folded I rest :
He leadeth my soul where the still waters flow,

Restores me when wandering, redeems when oppressed.
2 Through the valley and shadow of death though I stray,

Since thou art my guardian, no evil I fear:
Thy rod shall defend me, thy staff be my stay;

No harm can befall, with my comforter near.
8 In the midst of affliction, my table is spread;

With blessings unmeasured my cup runneth o'er;
With perfume and oil thou anointest my head:

Ob what shall I ask of thy providence more
4 Let goodness and mercy, my bountiful God,

Still follow my steps, till I meet thee above :
I seek, by the path which my forefathers trod
Through the land of their sojourn, thy kingdom of love.

In every

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“God through all, and in you all."

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God is Good.

GURNEY. 1 God of the earth, the sky, the sea; 1 Yes, God is good: in earth and sky, Maker of all above, below,

From ocean-depths and spreading wood, Creation lives and moves in thee;

Ten thousand voices seem to cry, Thy present life through all doth flow. “God made us all, and God is good." 2 Thee in the lonely woods we meet, 2 The sun that keeps his trackless way, On the bare hills or cultured plains, And downward pours his golden flood, flower beneath our feet,

Night's sparkling hosts, all seem to say, And even the still rock's mossy stains. In accents clear, that God is good. 3 Thy love is in the sunshine's glow, 3 I hear it in the rushing breeze: Thy life is in the quickening air:

The hills that have for ages stood, When lightnings flash and storm-winds The echoing sky and roaring seas, blow,

All swell the chorus, “God is good."' There is thy power; thy law is there.

4 Yes, God is good, all nature says, 4 We feel thy calm at evening's hour, By God's own hand with speech endued

Thy grandeur in the march of night; And man, in louder notes of praise, And, when the morning breaks in power, Should sing for joy that God is good." We hear thy word, “Let there be liglit.”

5 For all thy gifts we bless thee, Lord; 6 But higher far, and far more clear, But chiefly for our heavenly food, Thee in man's spirit we behold;

Thy pardoning grace, thy quickening Thine image and thyself are there, - word : The indwelling God, proclaimed of old. These prompt our song, that God is good MI.

DEVOUT ASPIRATIONS AND AFFECTIONS.

APPLETON. L.M.

DR BOYCE.

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The Lord's Prayer. BIRMINGHAX COL. 12 Yet, through this rough and thorns 1 FATIIER, adored in worlds above,

maze, Thy glorious name be hallowed still ; I follow hard on thee, my God: Thy kingdom come in truth and love;

Thine hand unseen upholds my ways; And earth, like heaven, obey thy will. I lean upon thy staff and rod.