Imágenes de páginas
PDF
EPUB

Our thoughts are all confounded,
Whene'er we think on thee:
For us thou camest from heaven,
For us to bleed and die;
That, purchased and forgiven,
We might ascend on high.

2 O! let this love constrain us
To give our hearts to thee;
Let nothing henceforth pain us,
But that which paineth thee.
Our joy, our one endeavour,

Through suffering, conflict, shame,
To serve thee, gracious Saviour,
And magnify thy name.

408

Don

C. M.

not we love thee, blessed Lord?
Behold our heart and see;

And turn the dearest idol out,
That dares to rival thee.

2 Is not thy name melodious still
To our attentive ear?

02

Doth not each pulse with pleasure bound,
Our Saviour's voice to hear?

3 Hast thou a lamb in all thy flock
We would disdain to feed?
Hast thou a foe before whose face
We fear thy cause to plead?

4 Would not our heart pour forth its blood In honour of thy name?

And challenge the cold hand of death
To damp the immortal flame?

5 Thou knowest that we love thee, Lord; But O! we long to soar

Far from the sphere of mortal joys,
And learn to love thee more.

409

TEA

C. M.

EACH us yet more of thy blest ways,
Thou Holy Lamb of God;

And fix and root us in the grace,
So dearly bought with blood.

2 O tell us often of each wound,
Of every grief and pain;

And let our hearts with joy confess,
From hence comes all our gain.

3 For this, O may we freely count
Whate'er we have but loss;

And every name, and every thing,
Compared with thee, but dross.

4 Engrave this deeply on our hearts
With an eternal pen;

That thus we may, in some degree,
Return thy love again.

[blocks in formation]

THE wonders of that love

No earthly tongue can tell,

Which brought our Saviour from above
To ransom us from hell.

2. For us he wept and bled,

And suffered all his pain;

For us was numbered with the dead,
And rose to life again.

3 And still for us he prays,

And makes our souls his care;
He loves to hear our feeble praise,
And listens to our prayer.

4 Lord Jesus! grant that we
May know thy saving grace;
On earth thy humble followers be,
In heaven behold thy face.

[blocks in formation]

LET us chant melodious hymns, Loud as those of cherubims; Join with heart and tongue to bless Christ our strength and righteousness. 2 All our praise to thee belongs, Theme of our sublimest songs; Object of our choicest love,

Thee we laud with hosts above."

3 Thee we hail with joint acclaim,
Shout the glories of thy name;
Ever may we feel thee thus,
Dear Immanuel, God with us!
4 Prince of peace, thy people see,
All our thanks we aim at thee;
Deign our tribute to receive,
Praise is all we have to give.

[blocks in formation]

JESUS! Jesus! dearest Lord,
Forgive us, if we say

For very love, thy sacred name
A thousand times a day.

2 We love thee so, we know not how
Our transports to control;
Thy love is like a burning fire
Within our very soul.

3 For thou to us art all in all,
Our honour and our wealth;
Our heart's desire, our body's strength,
Our soul's eternal health.

4 Burn, burn, O love, within our heart
Burn fiercely night and day,
Till all the dross of earthly love
Is burned and burned away.

[blocks in formation]

JESUS! the very thought of thee

With sweetness fills the breast;
But sweeter far thy face to see,
And in thy presence rest.

2 Jesus! may all thy saving name,
Thy wondrous love adore,

And seeking thee, themselves inflame
To seek thee more and more.

3 Jesus! who dost all hearts below
With life and light inspire,
Surpassing all the joys we know,
All that we can desire.

4 Jesus! our only joy be thou,
As thou our prize wilt be;
Jesus! be thou our glory now,
And through eternity.

414

C. M. D.

WE E love thee, Lord, because when we

Had err'd and gone astray,

Thou didst recall our wandering souls
Into the homeward way:

When helpless, hopeless, we were lost
In sin and sorrow's night,

Thou didst send forth a guiding ray
Of thy benignant light.

2 Because when we forsook thy ways,
Nor kept thy holy will,

Thou wert not an avenging Judge,
But a gracious Father still:
Because we have forgot thee, Lord,
But thou hast not forgot;
Because we have forsaken thee,
But thou forsakest not.

3 Because, O Lord, thou lovedst us
With everlasting love:

Because thou gavest thy Son to die,
That we might live above:

[ocr errors]

Because, when we were heirs of wrath,"
Thou gavest us hopes of heaven:

We love, because we much have sinned,
And much have been forgiven.

415

8s, 7s & 4s.

GLORY, glory everlasting,

Be to him who bore the cross,
Who redeemed our souls by tasting
Death, the death deserved by us:
Spread his glory,

Who redeemed his people thus.

[ocr errors]
« AnteriorContinuar »