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911. C. M.

1. BEHOLD, the mountain of the Lord,
In latter days, shall rise
On mountain tops, above the hills,
And draw the wond'ring eyes.

2. To this the joyful nations round,
All tribes and tongues, shall flow;
"Up to the hill of God," they say,
"And to His house we 'll go."

3. The beams that shine on Zion's hill
Shall lighten every land;

The King who reigns in Salem's towers'
Shall all the world command.

4. No longer hosts encountering hosts,
Their millions slain deplore;
They hang the trumpet in the hall,
And study war no more.

5. Come, then-oh come from every land,
To worship at His shrine;
And, walking in the light of God,
With holy beauties shine.

912. C. M.

1. THE Lord of glory is my light,

And my salvation too;

LOGAN.

God is my strength, nor will I fear
What all my foes can do.

2. One privilege my heart desires;
O grant me an abode
Among the churches of Thy saints,
The temples of my God!

3. There shall I offer my requests,
And see Thy beauty still;
Shall hear Thy messages of love,

And there inquire Thy will.

4. When troubles rise, and storms appear,
There may His children hide;
God has a strong pavilion, where
He makes my soul abide.

5. Now shall my head be lifted high
Above my foes around;
And songs of joy and victory
Within Thy temple sound.

913. C. M.

WATTS.

1. O WHERE are kings and empires now Of old that went and came?

But Holy Church is praying yet,
A thousand years the same.

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1. THERE is a little lonely fold,
Whose flock One Shepherd keeps,
Through summer's heat and winter's cold,
With eye that never sleeps.

2. By evil beast, or burning sky,
Or damp of midnight air,
Not one in all that flock shall die
Beneath that Shepherd's care.

3. For if, unheeding or beguiled,
In danger's path they roam,
His pity follows through the wild,
And guards them safely home.

4. Oh, gentle Shepherd, still behold
Thy helpless charge in me;
And take a wanderer to Thy fold,
That trembling turns to Thee.
LITCHFIELD'S COLL

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DUNDEE. C. M.

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2. While all our hearts, and all our songs, Join to admire the feast,

Each of us cries, with thankful tongues,-
"Lord, why was I a guest?

3. "Why was I made to hear Thy voice,
And enter while there's room,
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?"

4. 'Twas the same love that spread the feast, That sweetly drew us in;

Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.

5. Pity the nations, O our God!

Constrain the earth to come;

Send Thy victorious word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.

917. C. M.

WATTS.

1. Ir human kindness meets return,
And owns the grateful tie;
If tender thoughts within us burn,
To feel a friend is nigh;-

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

To Him, who died, our fears to quell-
Who bore our guilt 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 !

O memory! leave no other name
But His recorded there.

918. C. M.

1. LORD, may the spirit of this feastThe earnest of Thy loveMaintain a dwelling in our breast,

Until we meet above.

2. The healing sense of pardoned sin, The hope that never tires,

NOEL.

The strength a pilgrim's race to win,
The joy that heaven inspires.

3. Still may their light our duties trace
In lines of hallowed flame,
Like that upon the prophet's face,
When from the mount he came.
4. But if no more with kindred dear
The broken bread we share,
Nor at the banquet-board appear
To breathe the grateful prayer;—

5. Forget us not,-when on the bed
Of dire disease we waste,
Or to the chambers of the dead,
And bar of judgment haste.

6. Forget not,-Thou who bore the woo Of Calvary's fatal tree,—

Those who within these courts below
Have thus remembered Thee.

MRS. SIGOURNEY.

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1. MANY centuries have fled

Since our Saviour broke the bread,
And this sacred feast ordain'd,
Ever by His church retain'd:
Those His body who discern,
Thus shall meet till His return.

2. Through the church's long eclipse,
When, from priest or pastor's lips,
Truth divine was never heard,—
'Mid the famine of the word,
Still these symbols witness gave
To His love who died to save.

3. All who bear the Saviour's name,
Here their common faith proclaim;
Though diverse in tongue or rite,
Here, one body we unite;
Breaking thus one mystic bread,
Members of one common head.

4. Come, the blessed emblems share,
Which the Saviour's death declare;
Come, on truth immortal feed;
For His flesh is meat indeed:
Saviour! witness with the sign,
That our ransomed souls are Thine.

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Then He closed, in solemn order,
Wondrously, His life of woe.
3. Lo! o'er ancient forms departing,
Newer rites of grace prevail;
Faith for all defects supplying,
Where the feeble senses fail.

4. To the everlasting Father,

Through the Son who reigns on high,
Be salvation, honor, blessing,
Might, and endless majesty.

921. C. M.*

BREVIARY.

1. How condescending and how kind
Was God's eternal Son!

Our misery reached His heavenly mind,
And pity brought Him down.

2. He sunk beneath our heavy woes,
To raise us to His throne;
There's ne'er a gift His hand bestows,
But cost His heart a groan.
3. This was compassion, like a God,
That when the Saviour knew
The price of pardon was His blood,
His pity ne'er withdrew.

4. Now, though He reigns exalted high, His love is still as great;

Well He remembers Calvary,
Nor lets His saints forget.

5. Here let our hearts begin to melt,
While we His death record,
And, with our joy for pardoned guilt,
Mourn that we pierced the Lord.

• Sung to Dundee.

WATTS.

EUCHARIST. L. M.

From the Dulcimer.

1. O, happy day that fixed my choice On Thee, my Saviour, and my God!

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2. O, happy bond that seals my vows
To Him who merits all my love!
Let cheerful anthems fill the house,
While to His altar now I move.

3. 'T is done the great transaction 's done;
I am my Lord's, and He is mine;
He drew me, and I followed on,

Charmed to confess the voice divine. 4. Now rest, my long-divided heart!

Fixed on this blissful centre, rest;
Here have I found a nobler part,
Here heavenly pleasures fill my breast.
5. High Heaven, that hears the solemn vow,
That vow renewed, shall daily hear;

Till, in life's latest hour, I bow,
And bless in death a bond so dear.

923. L. M.

DODDRIDGE.

1. JESUS, the sinner's Friend, to Thee, Lost and undone, for aid I flee; Weary of earth, myself, and sin, Open Thine arms and take me in. 2. Pity and save my sin-sick soul, 'Tis Thou alone canst make me whole; Dark, till in me Thine image shine, And lost I am till Thou art mine. 3. At length I own it can not be, That I should fit myself for Thee, Here now to Thee I all resign, Thine is the work, and only Thine. 4. What shall I say Thy grace to move? Lord, I am sin, but Thou art love; I give up every plea beside,Lord, I am lost, but Thou hast died.

924. L. M.

1. THIS child we dedicate to Thee,
O God of grace and purity!

Shield it from sin and threatening wrong,
And let Thy love its life prolong.

2. O may Thy Spirit gently draw
Its willing soul to keep Thy law;
May virtue, piety, and truth,
Dawn even with its dawning youth.
3. We, too, before Thy gracious sight,
Once shared the blest baptismal rite,
And would renew its solemn vow
With love, and thanks, and praises, now.
4. Grant that, with true and faithful heart,
We still may act the Christian's part,
Cheered by each promise thou hast given,
And laboring for the prize in heaven.

WEST BOSTON COLL

925. II. M.

1. DEAR Saviour, if these lambs should stray
From Thy secure inclosure's bound,
And, lured by worldly joys away,
Among the thoughtless crowd be found;
2. Remember still that they are Thine,
That Thy dear sacred name they bear;
Think that the seal of love divine,
The sign of covenant grace they wear.
3. In all their erring, sinful years,

O let them ne'er forgotten be;
Remember all the prayers and tears

Which made them consecrate to Thee. 4. And when these lips no more can pray, These eyes can weep for them no more, Turn Thou their feet from folly's way; The wand'rers to Thy fold restore.

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1. By cool Siloam's shady rill
How fair the lily grows!

How sweet the breath, beneath the hill,
Of Sharon's dewy rose!

2. Lo! such the child, whose early feet
The paths of peace have trod,

Whose secret heart, with influence sweet,
Is upward drawn to God.

3. By cool Siloam's shady rill
The lily must decay;

The rose, that blooms beneath the hill,
Must shortly fade away.

4. And soon, too soon, the wintry hour
Of man's maturer age

Will shake the soul with sorrow's power,
And stormy passion's rage.

5. O Thou, who givest life and breath,
We seek Thy grace alone,

In childhood, manhood, age, and death,
To keep us still Thine own.

927. C. M.

HEBER.

1. O SAY not, think not, heavenly notes
To childish ears are vain;
That the young mind at random floats,
And can not reach the strain.

2. Was not our Lord, a little child,
Taught by degrees to pray,
By father dear, and mother mild,
Instructed day by day?

3. And though some tones be weak and low, What are all prayers beneath,

But cries of babes, that can not know Half the deep thought they breathe? 4. In His own words we Christ adore; But angels, as we speak, Higher above our meaning soar, Than we o'er children weak.

928. C. M.

KEBLE

1. SEE Israel's gentle Shepherd stand,
With all-engaging charms;
Hark! how He calls the tender lambs,
And folds them in His arms!

2. "Permit them to approach," he cries,
"Nor scorn their humble name;

It was to bless such souls as these
The Lord of angels came."

3. We bring them, Lord, in thankful bands, And yield them up to Thee;

Joyful that we ourselves are Thine,
Thine let our offspring be!

DODDRIDGE.

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