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2 Yet is his house and heart so large
That millions more may come;
Nor could the whole assembled world
O'erfill the spacious room.

3 All things are ready; come away,
Nor weak excuses frame;

Crowd to your places at the feast,
And bless the Founder's name.

S. M.

A Communion Hymn

1 O, FOR a prophet's fire.
O, for an angel's tongue,

To speak the mighty love of Him
Who on the cross was hung.

2 In vain our hearts attempt,
In language meet, to tell

FCRNE

How through a thousand sorrows burned
That flame unquenchable.

3 Yet would we praise that love,
Beyond expression dear:

Come, gather round this table, then,
And celebrate it here.

"This do in remembrance of me."

1 ACCORDING to thy gracious word,
In meek humility,

This will I do. my dying Lord,
I will remember inee.

2 Thy body broken for my sake,
My bread from heaven snail ne;
Thy testamental cup I take,
And thus remember thee.

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3 Wher to the cross I turn mine eyes,
And rest on Calvary,

O Lamb of God, my sacrifice!
must remember thee.

4 Remember tnee, and all thy pains
And all thy love to me;

Yea, while a breath, a pulse reinaias,
Will I remember thee.

"We love him because he first loved us."
1 IF human kindness meets return,
And owns the grateful tie;
If tender thoughts within us burn
To feel that friends are nigh;

2 O, shall not warmer accents tell
The gratitude we owe

To Him who died, our fears to quell,
And save from death and woe?

3 While yet in anguish he surveyed ;
Those pangs he would not flee,

What love his latest words displayed;
"Meet, and remember me.'

4 Remember thee! thy death, thy shame,
Our sinful hearts to share !
U, memory, leave no other name
But his, recorded there.

S. M.

"Whosvener wil.. let him come!'

1 JESUS invites his friends
To meet around his board,
Ana join in blest communion here
With him their gracious Lord.

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2 For us he gave

his life;

For us he gave his blood;

To save from sin our thankless race,
And bring them back to God.

3 Our heavenly Father calls
Christ and his members cne ·
We the young children of his grace,
And he the elder Son.

4 Let all our souls unite
A grateful song to raise;
Pleasure and love fill every mind,
And every voice be praise.

L. M.

A View of the Cross.

WATTS

1 WHEN I Survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ, my
Lord;
All the vain things that charm me most.
I sacrifice them to his blood.

3 See from his head, his hands, his feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down!
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet?

Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

4 Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, iny al.

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LUTHERAN COLL

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Close of Communion Service

1 PITY the nations, O our God,

Constrain the earth to come;
Send thy victorious word abroad
And bring the strangers home

2 We long to see thy churches full,
That all thy faithful race

May with one voice, and heart. and sou.,
Sing thy redeeming grace.

1 FROM the table now retiring,

Which for us the Lord hath spread,
May our souls, refreshment finding,
Grow in all things like our Head.

2 His example by beholding,

May our lives his image bear;
Him our Lord and Master calling,
His commands may we revere.

3 Love to God and man displaying,
Walking steadfast in his way,-
Joy attend us in believing ་

Peace from God, through endless day!

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DEDICATIONS; ORDINATIONS; INSTALLATIONS.

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L. M.

MONTGOMERY

On Laying the Corner-stone of a Church. 1 THIS stone to thee in faith we lay,

We build the temple, Lord, to thee
Thine eye be open night and day,

To guard this house from error free.
2 Here, when thy people seek thy face,
And dying sinners pray to live,
Hear thou, in heaven thy dwelling-place,
And when thou hearest, Lord, forgive.
3 Here, when thy messengers proclaim
The blesséd gospel of thy Son,
Still by the power of his great name
Be mighty signs and wonders done.

4 When children's voices raise the song,
Hosanna! to their Heavenly King,
Let heaven with earth the strain prolong;
Hosanna! let the angels sing.

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5 Thy glory never hence depart;

Yet choose not, Lord, this house alone;
Thy kingdom come to every heart,
In every bosom fix thy throne.

L. M.

Dedication Hymn.

1 THE perfect world by Adam trod,

Was the first temple,-built by God;
His fiat laid the corner-stone,

And heaved its pillars, one by one.

WILLIS