LOVE, UNITY AND FELLOWSHIP.

LOVE, UNITY AND FELLOWSHIP.477L. M.Christian fellowship.Kindred in Christ, for his dear sakeA hearty welcome here receive;May we together now partakeThe joys which only he can give.2May he, by whose kind care we meet,Send his good spirit from above;Make our communications sweet,And cause our hearts to burn with love.3Forgotten be each worldly theme,When Christians meet together thus;We only wish to speak of himWho lived, and died, and reigns for us.4We’ll talk of all he did, and said,And suffered for us here below;The path he marked for us to tread,And what he’s doing for us now.5Thus—as the moments pass away—We’ll love, and wonder, and adore;And hasten on the glorious dayWhen we shall meet to part no more.Newton.478L. M.Come in, thou blessed of the Lord.Gen. 24:31.Come in, thou blesséd of our God,In Jesus’ name we bid thee come;No more thy feet shall roam abroad,Henceforth a brother—welcome home.2Those joys which earth can not afford,We’ll seek in fellowship to prove,Joined in one spirit to our Lord,Together bound by mutual love.3And while we pass this vale of tearsWe’ll make our joys and sorrows known;We’ll share each other’s hopes and fears,And count a brother’s cares our own.4Once more our welcome we repeat,Receive assurance of our love;O may we all together meetAround the throne of God above.Kelly.479L. M.Christian affection.How blest the sacred tie that binds,In sweet communion, kindred minds!How swift the heavenly course they run,Whose hearts, whose faith, whose hopes are one!2To each the soul of each how dear!What tender love, what holy fear!How doth the generous flame withinRefine from earth, and cleanse from sin!3Their streaming eyes together flowFor human guilt and mortal woe;Their ardent prayers together riseLike mingling flames in sacrifice.4Nor shall the glowing flame expire,When dimly burns frail nature’s fire;Then shall they meet in realms above,A heaven of joy, a heaven of love.Mrs. Barbauld.480L. M.The more excellent way.1 Cor. 12:31.Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews,And nobler speech than angels use,If love be absent, I am found,Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.2Were I inspired to preach and tellAll that is done in heaven and hell—Or could my faith the world remove—Still I am nothing without love.3Should I distribute all my storeTo feed the hungry, clothe the poor—Or give my body to the flame,To gain a martyr’s glorious name—4If love to God and love to menBe absent, all my hopes are vain;Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,The work of love can e’er fulfill.Watts.481L. M.The pilgrim band.Come, you that love the Lord indeed,Who are from sin and bondage freed,Submit to all the ways of God,And walk the narrow, happy road.CHORUS.We’re all united heart and hand,Joined in one band completely;We’re marching through Immanuel’s land,Where waters flow most sweetly.2Great tribulation you shall meet,But soon shall walk the golden street;Though hell may rage and vent its spite,Yet Christ will save his heart’s delight.3That happy day will soon appearWhen Michael’s trumpet you shall hearSound through the earth—yea, down to hell,And call the nations, great and small.4Behold the righteous marching home,And all the angels bid them come,While Christ the Judge these words proclaims,“Here come my saints—I own their names!”5“You everlasting gates, fly wide,Make ready to receive my bride;You harps of heaven, now sound aloud,Here come the ransomed by my blood!”6In grandeur see the royal line,In glittering robes the sun outshine!See saints and angels join in one,And march in splendor to the throne.7They stand, and wonder, and look on:They join in one eternal song,Their great Redeemer to admire,While rapture sets their souls on fire.482L. M.Thy little flock in safety keep.Jesus, thou Shepherd of the sheep,Thy little flock in safety keep;These lambs within thine arms now take,Nor let them e’er thy fold forsake.2Secure them from the scorching beam,And lead them to the living stream;In verdant pastures let them lie,And watch them with a shepherd’s eye!3O, teach them to discern thy voice,And in its sacred sound rejoice!From strangers may they ever flee,And know no other guide but thee.4Lord, bring thy sheep that wander yet,And let their number be complete;Then let the flock from earth remove,And reach the heavenly fold above.Collyer.483L. M.Organization of a church.Lord, bless thy saints assembled here,In solemn covenant now to join;Unite them in thy holy fear,And in thy love their hearts combine.2O give this church a large increaseOf such as thou wilt own and bless;Lord, fill their hearts with joy and peace,And clothe them with thy righteousness.3Make her a garden walled with grace,A temple built for God below,Where thy blest saints may see thy face;And fruits of thy blessed Spirit grow.484L. M.You are all one in Christ Jesus.Gal. 3:28.Still one in life and one in death,One in our hope of rest above;One in our joy, our trust, our faith,One in each other’s faithful love,2Yet must we part, and, parting, weep;What else has earth for us in store?Our farewell pangs, how sharp and deep!But soon we’ll meet to part no more.Bonar.485L. M.Parting hymn.My Christian friends in bonds of love,Whose hearts the sweetest union prove;Your friendship’s like the strongest band,Yet we must take the parting hand.2Your presence sweet, our union dear,What joys we feel together here!And when I see that we must part,You draw like chords around my heart.3How sweet the hours have passed away,Since we have met to sing and pray;How loath are we to leave the placeWhere Jesus shows his smiling face!4O could I stay with friends so kind,How would it cheer my fainting mind!But pilgrims in a foreign land,We oft must take the parting hand.5My Christian friends, both old and young,I trust you will in Christ go on;Press on, and soon you’ll win the prize—A crown of glory in the skies.6A few more days, or years at most,And we shall reach fair Canaan’s coast:When, in that holy, happy land,We’ll take no more the parting hand.7O blesséd day! O glorious hope!My soul rejoices at the thought,When, in that holy, happy land,We’ll take no more the parting hand.486C. M.Go on, you pilgrims.Go on, you pilgrims, while below,In the sure path of peace,Determined nothing else to knowBut Jesus and his grace.2Observe your leader, follow him;He through this world has beenOften reviled; but like a lambDid ne’er revile again.3O! take the pattern he has given,And love your enemies;And learn the only way to heavenThrough self-denial lies.4Remember, you must watch and prayWhile journeying on the road,Lest you should fall out by the way,And wound the cause of God.5Go on rejoicing night and day;Your crown is yet before,Defy the trials of the way,The storm will soon be o’er.6Soon we shall reach the promised land,With all the ransomed race,And join with all the glorious band,To sing redeeming grace.487C. M.Planting a church.Planted in Christ, the living vine,This day, with one accord,Ourselves, with humble faith and joy,We yield to thee, O Lord.2Joined in one body may we be;One inward life partake;One be our heart; one heavenly hopeIn every bosom wake.3In prayer, in effort, tears, and toils,One wisdom be our guide;Taught by one Spirit from above,In thee may we abide.4Around this feeble, trusting band,Thy sheltering pinions spread,Nor let the storms of trial beatToo fiercely on our head.5Then, when, among the saints in light,Our joyful spirits shine,Shall anthems of immortal praise,O Lamb of God, be thine.S. F. Smith.488C. M.The unity of the Spirit.Eph. 4:3.Blessed be the dear uniting love,That will not let us part;Our bodies may far off remove—We still are one in heart.2Joined in one Spirit to our Head,Where he appoints, we go;And still in Jesus’ footsteps tread,And show his praise below.3Partakers of the Saviour’s grace,The same in mind and heart;Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,Nor life, nor death, can part.C. Wesley.489C. M.We will serve the Lord.Josh. 24:15.Ye men and angels, witness now—Before the Lord we speak,To him we make our solemn vow—A vow we dare not break:2That, long as life itself shall last,Ourselves to Christ we yield;Nor from his cause will we depart,Or ever quit the field.3We trust not in our native strength,But on his grace rely;May he, with our returning wants,All needful aid supply.4O, guide our doubtful feet aright,And keep us in thy ways;And, while we turn our vows to prayers,Turn thou our prayers to praise.Beddome.490C. M.Restore such a one, etc.Gal. 6:1.Think gently of the erring one!O, let us not forget,However darkly stained by sin,He is our brother yet.2Heir of the same inheritance,Child of the self-same God,He hath but stumbled in the pathWe have in weakness trod.3Speak gently to the erring ones!We yet may lead them back,With holy words and tones of love,From misery’s thorny track.4Forget not, brother, thou hast sinned,And sinful yet may be;Deal gently with the erring heart,As God hath dealt with thee.Miss Fletcher.491C. M.Before and behind the vail.Happy the souls to Jesus joined,And made in spirit one:Walking in all his ways, they findTheir heaven on earth begun.2The church triumphant in thy love,Their mighty joys we know;They sing the Lamb in hymns above,And we in hymns below.3Thee in thy glorious realm they praise,And bow before thy throne;We in the kingdom of thy grace;The kingdoms are but one.4The holy to the holiest leads;To heaven our spirits rise;And he that in thy statutes treads,Shall meet thee in the skies.C. Wesley.492C. M.Spiritual blessings in heavenly places.Eph. 1:3.O happy they who know the Lord,With whom he deigns to dwell!He feeds and cheers them by his word,His arm supports them well.2To them, in each distressing hour,His throne of grace is near;And when they plead his love and power,He stands engaged to hear.3His presence sweetens all our cares,And makes our burdens light;A word from him dispels our fears,And gilds the gloom of night.4Lord, we expect to suffer here,Nor would we dare repine;But give us still to find thee near,And own us still for thine.5Let us enjoy and highly prizeThese tokens of thy love,Till thou shalt bid our spirits riseTo worship thee above.493C. M.The bond of perfectness.Col. 3:14.How sweet, how heavenly is the sight,When those that love the Lord,In one another’s peace delight,And so fulfill the word.2When each can feel his brother’s sigh,And with him bear a part;When sorrow flows from eye to eye,And joy from heart to heart:3When free from envy, scorn, and pride,Our wishes all above,Each can his brother’s failing hide,And show a brother’s love:4When love in one delightful streamThrough every bosom flows,When union sweet and dear esteemIn every action glows.5Love is the golden chain that binds,The happy souls above,And he’s an heir of heaven that findsHis bosom glow with love.Swain.494C. M.The whole family in heaven and earth.Eph 3:15.Come, let us join our friends above,Who have obtained the prize,And on the eagle wings of love,To joy celestial rise.2Let saints below in concert singWith those to glory gone;For all the servants of our King,In heaven and earth are one:3One family—we dwell in him;One church—above, beneath;Though now divided by the stream—The narrow stream of death.4One army of the living God,To his command we bow;Part of the host have crossed the flood,And part are crossing now.5Even now to their eternal homeSome happy spirits fly;And we are to the margin come,Expecting soon to die!6Dear Saviour! be our constant guide;Then, when the word is given,Bid Jordan’s narrow stream divide,And land us safe in heaven.C. Wesley.495S. M.Love as brethren.1 Pet. 3:8.Blest be the tie that bindsOur hearts in Christian love;The fellowship of kindred mindsIs like to that above.2Before our Father’s throneWe pour our ardent prayers;Our fears, our hopes, our aims, are one,Our comforts and our cares.3We share our mutual woes,Our mutual burdens bear;And often for each other flowsThe sympathizing tear.4Though often called to part,Amid these scenes of pain;Yet, we shall still be joined in heart,And hope to meet again.5This glorious hope revivesOur courage by the way;While each in expectation lives,And longs to see the day.6From sorrow, toil, and pain,And sin, we shall be free;And perfect love and friendship reignThrough all eternity.Fawcett.496S. M.Stand fast in the Lord.Phil. 4:1.All you that have confessedThat Jesus is the Lord,And to his people joined yourselves,According to his word:2In Zion you must dwell,Her altar ne’er forsake;Must come to all her solemn feasts,Of all her joys partake.3She must employ your thoughts,And your unceasing care;Her welfare be your constant wish,And her increase your prayer.4With humbleness of mind,Among her sons rejoice;A meek and quiet spirit isWith God of highest price.5Never offend, nor grieveYour brethren by the way;But shun the dark abodes of strife,Like children of the day.6In all your Saviour’s ways,With willing footsteps move;Be faithful unto death, and thenYou’ll reign with him above.497S. M.Let there be no divisions among you.1 Cor. 1:10.Let party names no moreThe Christian world o’erspread,Gentile and Jew, and bond and free,Are one in Christ, their Head.2Among the saints on earthLet mutual love be found;Heirs of the same inheritance,With mutual blessings crowned.3Thus will the church belowResemble that above,Where streams of pleasure ever flow,And every heart is love.Beddome.4987s.Strangers and pilgrims.1 Pet. 2:11.Children of the heavenly King,As ye journey, sweetly sing;Sing your Saviour’s worthy praise,Glorious in his works and ways.2Ye are traveling home to God,In the way the fathers trod:They are happy now—and yeSoon there happiness shall see.3Shout, ye little flock, and blest;You on Jesus’ throne shall rest:There your seat is now prepared—There your kingdom and reward.4Fear not, brethren, joyful standOn the borders of your land;Jesus Christ, your Father’s Son,Bids you undismayed go on.5Lord, submissive make us go,Gladly leaving all below;Only thou our leader be,And we still will follow thee.Cennick.4997s.Bond of peace.Eph. 4:3.Jesus, Lord, we look to thee;Let us in thy name agree;Show thyself the Prince of Peace;Bid our jars for ever cease.2By thy reconciling love,Every stumbling-block remove:Each to each unite, endear;Come, and spread thy banner here.3Make us of one heart and mind—Courteous, pitiful and kind;Lowly, meek, in thought and word—Altogether like our Lord.4Let us for each other care;Each the other’s burden bear;To thy Church the pattern give;Show how true believers live.5Free from anger and from pride,Let us thus in God abide;All the depths of love express—All the hights of holiness.6Let us then with joy removeTo the family above;On the wings of angels fly;Show how true believers die.C. Wesley.5008s.Love is of God.1 John 4:7.Say, whence does this union arise,Where hatred is conquered by love?It fastens our souls with such ties,That distance nor time can remove.2It can not in Eden be found,Nor yet in a Paradise lost;It grows on Immanuel’s ground,And Jesus’ life’s blood it has cost.3My friends so endeared unto me,Our souls so united in love;Where Jesus is gone we shall be,In yonder blest mansions above.4Why then so unwilling to part,Since there we shall soon meet again;Engraved on Immanuel’s heart,At distance we can not remain.5And then we shall see that bright day,And join with the angels above,Set free from our prisons of clay,United in Jesus’ kind love.6With Jesus we ever shall reign,And all his bright glory shall see;Then sing hallelujahs—Amen!Amen! Even so let it be!Baldwin.5018s & 7s.Receive ye one another.Rom. 15:7.Come, dear friends, we all are brethren,Bound for Canaan’s happy land;Come, unite and walk together,Christ, our Leader, gives command.Cease to boast of party merit,Wound the cause of God no more,Be united by his spirit;Zion’s peace again restore.2Now our hand, our heart and spirit,Here in fellowship we give;Let us love and peace inherit,Show the world how Christians live.We’ll be one in Christ our Saviour,Male and female, bond and free!Christ is all in all for ever,In him we shall blesséd be.5027s, 6 lines.Parting friends.When shall we all meet again?When shall we all meet again?Oft shall glowing hope expire,Oft shall wearied love retire,Oft shall death and sorrow reign,Ere we all shall meet again.2Though in distant lands we sigh,Parched beneath a hostile sky;Though the deep between us rolls—Friendship shall unite our souls:And in fancy’s wide domain,Oft shall we all meet again.3When the dreams of life are fled,And its wasted lamp is dead:When in cold oblivion’s shade,Beauty, wealth, and fame are laid;Where immortal spirits reign,There may we all meet again.503P. M.We shall meet no more to part.We shall meet no more to part;Cease thy sorrows, mourning heart!Weary days will soon depart—Then we may rest for ever!When the work of life is done,When the victor’s crown is won,Then, immortal life begun,We no more shall sever.We shall meet, no more to part;Cease thy sorrows, mourning heart!Weary days will soon depart—Then we may rest for ever!2In the house of peace and bliss,In the world where Jesus is,When we bid adieu to this,Then we may love for ever.Purified from every stain,Through the Lamb that once was slain,Brethren, we shall meet again,And be parted never!5046s & 5s.When shall we meet again.When shall we meet again?Meet ne’er to sever?When will Peace wreathe her chainRound us for ever?Our hearts will ne’er reposeSafe from each blast that blowsIn this dark vail of woes,Never—no, never!2When shall love freely flow,Pure as life’s river?When shall sweet friendship glow,Changeless for ever?Where joys celestial thrill,Where bliss each heart shall fill,And fears of parting chill,Never—no, never!3Up to that world of lightTake us, dear Saviour;May we all there unite,Happy for ever:Where kindred spirits dwell,There may our music swell,And time our joys dispel,Never—no, never!4Soon shall we meet again,Meet ne’er to sever:Soon shall Peace wreathe her chainRound us for ever:Our hearts will then reposeSecure from worldly woes;Our songs of praise shall close,Never—no, never!Select Hymns.505C. P. M.He that dwelleth in love, etc.1 John 4:16.O love divine, how sweet thou art!When shall I find my wandering heartAll taken up in thee!O may I daily live to proveThe sweetness of redeeming love,The love of Christ to me.2God only knows the love of God;O may it now be shed abroadTo cheer my fainting heart!I want to feel that love divine;This heavenly portion, Lord, be mine—Be mine this better part.3O that I could for ever sitWith Mary at the Master’s feet!Be this my happy choice;My only care, delight, and bliss,My joy, my heaven on earth, be this,To hear the Bridegroom’s voice.4O that I might, with happy John,Recline my weary head uponThe blessed Redeemer’s breast!From care, and fear, and sorrow free,Give me, O Lord, to find in theeMy everlasting rest.C. Wesley.5066s, 4s & 5s.A parting hymn.Peacefully, tenderly,Here, as we part,The farewell that lingersBe breathed from the heart:No place more fitting,O house of the Lord—Here be it spoken,That last prayerful word.2Thoughtfully, carefully,Solemn and slow!Tears are bedewingThe path that we go;Perils before usWe know not to-day—Kindly and safely,O Lord, lead the way.3Upwardly, steadfastly,Gaze on that brow:Jesus, our Leader,Reigns conqueror now.His steps let us follow,His sufferings dare,Go up to glory,His blessedness share.4Patiently, cheerfully,Up, and departTo labor and dutyWith gladness of heart;The ransomed, with triumph,To Zion we’ll bring,Shouting salvationTo Jesus, our King.507L. M.Pilgrim’s farewell.Farewell, my friends, time rolls along,Nor waits for mortal care or bliss;I leave you here to travel on,Till I arrive where Jesus is.Chorus.—Farewell, farewell, farewell,My Christian friends, farewell.2Farewell, my brethren in the Lord,To you I’m bound in cords of love,Yet we believe his gracious word,That we ere long shall meet above.3Farewell, old soldiers of the cross,You’ve struggled long and hard for heaven,You’ve counted all things here but dross,Fight on, the crown will soon be given.4Farewell, poor careless sinners, too,It grieves my soul to leave you here.Eternal sorrow waits for you,O turn, and find salvation near.50810s & 8s.Waiting on God.Isaiah. 40:31.O happy children who follow JesusInto the house of prayer and praise,And join in union while love increases,Resolved this way to spend our days:Although we’re hated by the world and Satan,By the flesh and such as love not God;Yet happy moments and joyful seasonsWe ofttimes find on Canaan’s road.2Since we’ve been waiting on lovely Jesus,We’ve felt some strength come from above,Our hearts have burned with holy rapture,We long to be absorbed in love:Let us sing praises for what is given,And trust in God for time to come;Sure we shall find the way to heaven;So farewell, brethren—we’re going home.3And as we go let us praise our Saviour,And pray for those who spurn his grace,Lest they should lose love’s richest treasure,And ne’er enjoy his smiling face.Now here’s my hand and my best wishes,In token of my Christian love;In hopes with you to praise my Jesus:So farewell, brethren,—we’ll meet above.509C. P. M.Heavenward.Col. 3:2.Come on, my partners in distress,My comrades in the wilderness,Who feel your sorrows still;A while forget your griefs and fearsAnd look beyond this vale of tearsTo that celestial hill.2Beyond the bounds of time and space,Look forward to that heavenly place,The saint’s secure abode;On faith’s strong eagle pinions rise,And force your passage to the skies,And scale the mount of God.3Who suffer with our Master here,Shall there before his face appear,And by his side sit down:To patient faith the prize is sure;And all that to the end endureThe cross, shall wear the crown.51011s.Home.Phil. 3:20.’Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints,How sweet to my soul is communion with saints;To find at the banquet of mercy there’s room,And feel in the presence of Jesus at home.2Sweet bonds, that unite all the children of peace;And thrice blesséd Jesus, whose love can not cease;Though oft from thy presence in sadness I roam,I long to behold thee in glory at home.3While here in the valley of conflict I stray,O give me submission and strength as my day;In all my afflictions to thee would I come,Rejoicing in hope of my glorious home.4I long, dearest Lord, in thy beauty to shine;No more as an exile in sorrow to pine;And in thy dear image arise from the tomb,With glorified millions to praise thee at home.Denham.511S. H. M.Ephesians 4:5.One baptism and one faith,One Lord below, above,The fellowship of Zion hathOne only watchword—Love.From different temples though it rise,One song ascendeth to the skies.2Our sacrifice is One;One priest before the throne—The crucified, the risen Son,Redeemer, Lord alone!And sighs from contrite hearts that spring,Our chief, our choicest offering.3O why should they who loveOne gospel to unfold,Who look for one bright home above,On earth be strange and cold?Why, subjects of the Prince of Peace,In strife abide, and bitterness?4O may that holy prayer—His tenderest and his last,The utterance of his latest careEre to the cross he passed—No longer unfulfilled remain,The World’s offense, thy people’s stain!E. Robinson.

477L. M.Christian fellowship.Kindred in Christ, for his dear sakeA hearty welcome here receive;May we together now partakeThe joys which only he can give.2May he, by whose kind care we meet,Send his good spirit from above;Make our communications sweet,And cause our hearts to burn with love.3Forgotten be each worldly theme,When Christians meet together thus;We only wish to speak of himWho lived, and died, and reigns for us.4We’ll talk of all he did, and said,And suffered for us here below;The path he marked for us to tread,And what he’s doing for us now.5Thus—as the moments pass away—We’ll love, and wonder, and adore;And hasten on the glorious dayWhen we shall meet to part no more.Newton.

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Christian fellowship.

Kindred in Christ, for his dear sakeA hearty welcome here receive;May we together now partakeThe joys which only he can give.

Kindred in Christ, for his dear sake

A hearty welcome here receive;

May we together now partake

The joys which only he can give.

2May he, by whose kind care we meet,Send his good spirit from above;Make our communications sweet,And cause our hearts to burn with love.

2May he, by whose kind care we meet,

Send his good spirit from above;

Make our communications sweet,

And cause our hearts to burn with love.

3Forgotten be each worldly theme,When Christians meet together thus;We only wish to speak of himWho lived, and died, and reigns for us.

3Forgotten be each worldly theme,

When Christians meet together thus;

We only wish to speak of him

Who lived, and died, and reigns for us.

4We’ll talk of all he did, and said,And suffered for us here below;The path he marked for us to tread,And what he’s doing for us now.

4We’ll talk of all he did, and said,

And suffered for us here below;

The path he marked for us to tread,

And what he’s doing for us now.

5Thus—as the moments pass away—We’ll love, and wonder, and adore;And hasten on the glorious dayWhen we shall meet to part no more.

5Thus—as the moments pass away—

We’ll love, and wonder, and adore;

And hasten on the glorious day

When we shall meet to part no more.

Newton.

478L. M.Come in, thou blessed of the Lord.Gen. 24:31.Come in, thou blesséd of our God,In Jesus’ name we bid thee come;No more thy feet shall roam abroad,Henceforth a brother—welcome home.2Those joys which earth can not afford,We’ll seek in fellowship to prove,Joined in one spirit to our Lord,Together bound by mutual love.3And while we pass this vale of tearsWe’ll make our joys and sorrows known;We’ll share each other’s hopes and fears,And count a brother’s cares our own.4Once more our welcome we repeat,Receive assurance of our love;O may we all together meetAround the throne of God above.Kelly.

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Come in, thou blessed of the Lord.Gen. 24:31.

Come in, thou blesséd of our God,In Jesus’ name we bid thee come;No more thy feet shall roam abroad,Henceforth a brother—welcome home.

Come in, thou blesséd of our God,

In Jesus’ name we bid thee come;

No more thy feet shall roam abroad,

Henceforth a brother—welcome home.

2Those joys which earth can not afford,We’ll seek in fellowship to prove,Joined in one spirit to our Lord,Together bound by mutual love.

2Those joys which earth can not afford,

We’ll seek in fellowship to prove,

Joined in one spirit to our Lord,

Together bound by mutual love.

3And while we pass this vale of tearsWe’ll make our joys and sorrows known;We’ll share each other’s hopes and fears,And count a brother’s cares our own.

3And while we pass this vale of tears

We’ll make our joys and sorrows known;

We’ll share each other’s hopes and fears,

And count a brother’s cares our own.

4Once more our welcome we repeat,Receive assurance of our love;O may we all together meetAround the throne of God above.

4Once more our welcome we repeat,

Receive assurance of our love;

O may we all together meet

Around the throne of God above.

Kelly.

479L. M.Christian affection.How blest the sacred tie that binds,In sweet communion, kindred minds!How swift the heavenly course they run,Whose hearts, whose faith, whose hopes are one!2To each the soul of each how dear!What tender love, what holy fear!How doth the generous flame withinRefine from earth, and cleanse from sin!3Their streaming eyes together flowFor human guilt and mortal woe;Their ardent prayers together riseLike mingling flames in sacrifice.4Nor shall the glowing flame expire,When dimly burns frail nature’s fire;Then shall they meet in realms above,A heaven of joy, a heaven of love.Mrs. Barbauld.

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Christian affection.

How blest the sacred tie that binds,In sweet communion, kindred minds!How swift the heavenly course they run,Whose hearts, whose faith, whose hopes are one!

How blest the sacred tie that binds,

In sweet communion, kindred minds!

How swift the heavenly course they run,

Whose hearts, whose faith, whose hopes are one!

2To each the soul of each how dear!What tender love, what holy fear!How doth the generous flame withinRefine from earth, and cleanse from sin!

2To each the soul of each how dear!

What tender love, what holy fear!

How doth the generous flame within

Refine from earth, and cleanse from sin!

3Their streaming eyes together flowFor human guilt and mortal woe;Their ardent prayers together riseLike mingling flames in sacrifice.

3Their streaming eyes together flow

For human guilt and mortal woe;

Their ardent prayers together rise

Like mingling flames in sacrifice.

4Nor shall the glowing flame expire,When dimly burns frail nature’s fire;Then shall they meet in realms above,A heaven of joy, a heaven of love.

4Nor shall the glowing flame expire,

When dimly burns frail nature’s fire;

Then shall they meet in realms above,

A heaven of joy, a heaven of love.

Mrs. Barbauld.

480L. M.The more excellent way.1 Cor. 12:31.Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews,And nobler speech than angels use,If love be absent, I am found,Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.2Were I inspired to preach and tellAll that is done in heaven and hell—Or could my faith the world remove—Still I am nothing without love.3Should I distribute all my storeTo feed the hungry, clothe the poor—Or give my body to the flame,To gain a martyr’s glorious name—4If love to God and love to menBe absent, all my hopes are vain;Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,The work of love can e’er fulfill.Watts.

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The more excellent way.1 Cor. 12:31.

Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews,And nobler speech than angels use,If love be absent, I am found,Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.

Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews,

And nobler speech than angels use,

If love be absent, I am found,

Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.

2Were I inspired to preach and tellAll that is done in heaven and hell—Or could my faith the world remove—Still I am nothing without love.

2Were I inspired to preach and tell

All that is done in heaven and hell—

Or could my faith the world remove—

Still I am nothing without love.

3Should I distribute all my storeTo feed the hungry, clothe the poor—Or give my body to the flame,To gain a martyr’s glorious name—

3Should I distribute all my store

To feed the hungry, clothe the poor—

Or give my body to the flame,

To gain a martyr’s glorious name—

4If love to God and love to menBe absent, all my hopes are vain;Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,The work of love can e’er fulfill.

4If love to God and love to men

Be absent, all my hopes are vain;

Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,

The work of love can e’er fulfill.

Watts.

481L. M.The pilgrim band.Come, you that love the Lord indeed,Who are from sin and bondage freed,Submit to all the ways of God,And walk the narrow, happy road.CHORUS.We’re all united heart and hand,Joined in one band completely;We’re marching through Immanuel’s land,Where waters flow most sweetly.2Great tribulation you shall meet,But soon shall walk the golden street;Though hell may rage and vent its spite,Yet Christ will save his heart’s delight.3That happy day will soon appearWhen Michael’s trumpet you shall hearSound through the earth—yea, down to hell,And call the nations, great and small.4Behold the righteous marching home,And all the angels bid them come,While Christ the Judge these words proclaims,“Here come my saints—I own their names!”5“You everlasting gates, fly wide,Make ready to receive my bride;You harps of heaven, now sound aloud,Here come the ransomed by my blood!”6In grandeur see the royal line,In glittering robes the sun outshine!See saints and angels join in one,And march in splendor to the throne.7They stand, and wonder, and look on:They join in one eternal song,Their great Redeemer to admire,While rapture sets their souls on fire.

L. M.

The pilgrim band.

Come, you that love the Lord indeed,Who are from sin and bondage freed,Submit to all the ways of God,And walk the narrow, happy road.CHORUS.We’re all united heart and hand,Joined in one band completely;We’re marching through Immanuel’s land,Where waters flow most sweetly.

Come, you that love the Lord indeed,

Who are from sin and bondage freed,

Submit to all the ways of God,

And walk the narrow, happy road.

CHORUS.

We’re all united heart and hand,

Joined in one band completely;

We’re marching through Immanuel’s land,

Where waters flow most sweetly.

2Great tribulation you shall meet,But soon shall walk the golden street;Though hell may rage and vent its spite,Yet Christ will save his heart’s delight.

2Great tribulation you shall meet,

But soon shall walk the golden street;

Though hell may rage and vent its spite,

Yet Christ will save his heart’s delight.

3That happy day will soon appearWhen Michael’s trumpet you shall hearSound through the earth—yea, down to hell,And call the nations, great and small.

3That happy day will soon appear

When Michael’s trumpet you shall hear

Sound through the earth—yea, down to hell,

And call the nations, great and small.

4Behold the righteous marching home,And all the angels bid them come,While Christ the Judge these words proclaims,“Here come my saints—I own their names!”

4Behold the righteous marching home,

And all the angels bid them come,

While Christ the Judge these words proclaims,

“Here come my saints—I own their names!”

5“You everlasting gates, fly wide,Make ready to receive my bride;You harps of heaven, now sound aloud,Here come the ransomed by my blood!”

5“You everlasting gates, fly wide,

Make ready to receive my bride;

You harps of heaven, now sound aloud,

Here come the ransomed by my blood!”

6In grandeur see the royal line,In glittering robes the sun outshine!See saints and angels join in one,And march in splendor to the throne.

6In grandeur see the royal line,

In glittering robes the sun outshine!

See saints and angels join in one,

And march in splendor to the throne.

7They stand, and wonder, and look on:They join in one eternal song,Their great Redeemer to admire,While rapture sets their souls on fire.

7They stand, and wonder, and look on:

They join in one eternal song,

Their great Redeemer to admire,

While rapture sets their souls on fire.

482L. M.Thy little flock in safety keep.Jesus, thou Shepherd of the sheep,Thy little flock in safety keep;These lambs within thine arms now take,Nor let them e’er thy fold forsake.2Secure them from the scorching beam,And lead them to the living stream;In verdant pastures let them lie,And watch them with a shepherd’s eye!3O, teach them to discern thy voice,And in its sacred sound rejoice!From strangers may they ever flee,And know no other guide but thee.4Lord, bring thy sheep that wander yet,And let their number be complete;Then let the flock from earth remove,And reach the heavenly fold above.Collyer.

L. M.

Thy little flock in safety keep.

Jesus, thou Shepherd of the sheep,Thy little flock in safety keep;These lambs within thine arms now take,Nor let them e’er thy fold forsake.

Jesus, thou Shepherd of the sheep,

Thy little flock in safety keep;

These lambs within thine arms now take,

Nor let them e’er thy fold forsake.

2Secure them from the scorching beam,And lead them to the living stream;In verdant pastures let them lie,And watch them with a shepherd’s eye!

2Secure them from the scorching beam,

And lead them to the living stream;

In verdant pastures let them lie,

And watch them with a shepherd’s eye!

3O, teach them to discern thy voice,And in its sacred sound rejoice!From strangers may they ever flee,And know no other guide but thee.

3O, teach them to discern thy voice,

And in its sacred sound rejoice!

From strangers may they ever flee,

And know no other guide but thee.

4Lord, bring thy sheep that wander yet,And let their number be complete;Then let the flock from earth remove,And reach the heavenly fold above.

4Lord, bring thy sheep that wander yet,

And let their number be complete;

Then let the flock from earth remove,

And reach the heavenly fold above.

Collyer.

483L. M.Organization of a church.Lord, bless thy saints assembled here,In solemn covenant now to join;Unite them in thy holy fear,And in thy love their hearts combine.2O give this church a large increaseOf such as thou wilt own and bless;Lord, fill their hearts with joy and peace,And clothe them with thy righteousness.3Make her a garden walled with grace,A temple built for God below,Where thy blest saints may see thy face;And fruits of thy blessed Spirit grow.

L. M.

Organization of a church.

Lord, bless thy saints assembled here,In solemn covenant now to join;Unite them in thy holy fear,And in thy love their hearts combine.

Lord, bless thy saints assembled here,

In solemn covenant now to join;

Unite them in thy holy fear,

And in thy love their hearts combine.

2O give this church a large increaseOf such as thou wilt own and bless;Lord, fill their hearts with joy and peace,And clothe them with thy righteousness.

2O give this church a large increase

Of such as thou wilt own and bless;

Lord, fill their hearts with joy and peace,

And clothe them with thy righteousness.

3Make her a garden walled with grace,A temple built for God below,Where thy blest saints may see thy face;And fruits of thy blessed Spirit grow.

3Make her a garden walled with grace,

A temple built for God below,

Where thy blest saints may see thy face;

And fruits of thy blessed Spirit grow.

484L. M.You are all one in Christ Jesus.Gal. 3:28.Still one in life and one in death,One in our hope of rest above;One in our joy, our trust, our faith,One in each other’s faithful love,2Yet must we part, and, parting, weep;What else has earth for us in store?Our farewell pangs, how sharp and deep!But soon we’ll meet to part no more.Bonar.

L. M.

You are all one in Christ Jesus.Gal. 3:28.

Still one in life and one in death,One in our hope of rest above;One in our joy, our trust, our faith,One in each other’s faithful love,

Still one in life and one in death,

One in our hope of rest above;

One in our joy, our trust, our faith,

One in each other’s faithful love,

2Yet must we part, and, parting, weep;What else has earth for us in store?Our farewell pangs, how sharp and deep!But soon we’ll meet to part no more.

2Yet must we part, and, parting, weep;

What else has earth for us in store?

Our farewell pangs, how sharp and deep!

But soon we’ll meet to part no more.

Bonar.

485L. M.Parting hymn.My Christian friends in bonds of love,Whose hearts the sweetest union prove;Your friendship’s like the strongest band,Yet we must take the parting hand.2Your presence sweet, our union dear,What joys we feel together here!And when I see that we must part,You draw like chords around my heart.3How sweet the hours have passed away,Since we have met to sing and pray;How loath are we to leave the placeWhere Jesus shows his smiling face!4O could I stay with friends so kind,How would it cheer my fainting mind!But pilgrims in a foreign land,We oft must take the parting hand.5My Christian friends, both old and young,I trust you will in Christ go on;Press on, and soon you’ll win the prize—A crown of glory in the skies.6A few more days, or years at most,And we shall reach fair Canaan’s coast:When, in that holy, happy land,We’ll take no more the parting hand.7O blesséd day! O glorious hope!My soul rejoices at the thought,When, in that holy, happy land,We’ll take no more the parting hand.

L. M.

Parting hymn.

My Christian friends in bonds of love,Whose hearts the sweetest union prove;Your friendship’s like the strongest band,Yet we must take the parting hand.

My Christian friends in bonds of love,

Whose hearts the sweetest union prove;

Your friendship’s like the strongest band,

Yet we must take the parting hand.

2Your presence sweet, our union dear,What joys we feel together here!And when I see that we must part,You draw like chords around my heart.

2Your presence sweet, our union dear,

What joys we feel together here!

And when I see that we must part,

You draw like chords around my heart.

3How sweet the hours have passed away,Since we have met to sing and pray;How loath are we to leave the placeWhere Jesus shows his smiling face!

3How sweet the hours have passed away,

Since we have met to sing and pray;

How loath are we to leave the place

Where Jesus shows his smiling face!

4O could I stay with friends so kind,How would it cheer my fainting mind!But pilgrims in a foreign land,We oft must take the parting hand.

4O could I stay with friends so kind,

How would it cheer my fainting mind!

But pilgrims in a foreign land,

We oft must take the parting hand.

5My Christian friends, both old and young,I trust you will in Christ go on;Press on, and soon you’ll win the prize—A crown of glory in the skies.

5My Christian friends, both old and young,

I trust you will in Christ go on;

Press on, and soon you’ll win the prize—

A crown of glory in the skies.

6A few more days, or years at most,And we shall reach fair Canaan’s coast:When, in that holy, happy land,We’ll take no more the parting hand.

6A few more days, or years at most,

And we shall reach fair Canaan’s coast:

When, in that holy, happy land,

We’ll take no more the parting hand.

7O blesséd day! O glorious hope!My soul rejoices at the thought,When, in that holy, happy land,We’ll take no more the parting hand.

7O blesséd day! O glorious hope!

My soul rejoices at the thought,

When, in that holy, happy land,

We’ll take no more the parting hand.

486C. M.Go on, you pilgrims.Go on, you pilgrims, while below,In the sure path of peace,Determined nothing else to knowBut Jesus and his grace.2Observe your leader, follow him;He through this world has beenOften reviled; but like a lambDid ne’er revile again.3O! take the pattern he has given,And love your enemies;And learn the only way to heavenThrough self-denial lies.4Remember, you must watch and prayWhile journeying on the road,Lest you should fall out by the way,And wound the cause of God.5Go on rejoicing night and day;Your crown is yet before,Defy the trials of the way,The storm will soon be o’er.6Soon we shall reach the promised land,With all the ransomed race,And join with all the glorious band,To sing redeeming grace.

C. M.

Go on, you pilgrims.

Go on, you pilgrims, while below,In the sure path of peace,Determined nothing else to knowBut Jesus and his grace.

Go on, you pilgrims, while below,

In the sure path of peace,

Determined nothing else to know

But Jesus and his grace.

2Observe your leader, follow him;He through this world has beenOften reviled; but like a lambDid ne’er revile again.

2Observe your leader, follow him;

He through this world has been

Often reviled; but like a lamb

Did ne’er revile again.

3O! take the pattern he has given,And love your enemies;And learn the only way to heavenThrough self-denial lies.

3O! take the pattern he has given,

And love your enemies;

And learn the only way to heaven

Through self-denial lies.

4Remember, you must watch and prayWhile journeying on the road,Lest you should fall out by the way,And wound the cause of God.

4Remember, you must watch and pray

While journeying on the road,

Lest you should fall out by the way,

And wound the cause of God.

5Go on rejoicing night and day;Your crown is yet before,Defy the trials of the way,The storm will soon be o’er.

5Go on rejoicing night and day;

Your crown is yet before,

Defy the trials of the way,

The storm will soon be o’er.

6Soon we shall reach the promised land,With all the ransomed race,And join with all the glorious band,To sing redeeming grace.

6Soon we shall reach the promised land,

With all the ransomed race,

And join with all the glorious band,

To sing redeeming grace.

487C. M.Planting a church.Planted in Christ, the living vine,This day, with one accord,Ourselves, with humble faith and joy,We yield to thee, O Lord.2Joined in one body may we be;One inward life partake;One be our heart; one heavenly hopeIn every bosom wake.3In prayer, in effort, tears, and toils,One wisdom be our guide;Taught by one Spirit from above,In thee may we abide.4Around this feeble, trusting band,Thy sheltering pinions spread,Nor let the storms of trial beatToo fiercely on our head.5Then, when, among the saints in light,Our joyful spirits shine,Shall anthems of immortal praise,O Lamb of God, be thine.S. F. Smith.

C. M.

Planting a church.

Planted in Christ, the living vine,This day, with one accord,Ourselves, with humble faith and joy,We yield to thee, O Lord.

Planted in Christ, the living vine,

This day, with one accord,

Ourselves, with humble faith and joy,

We yield to thee, O Lord.

2Joined in one body may we be;One inward life partake;One be our heart; one heavenly hopeIn every bosom wake.

2Joined in one body may we be;

One inward life partake;

One be our heart; one heavenly hope

In every bosom wake.

3In prayer, in effort, tears, and toils,One wisdom be our guide;Taught by one Spirit from above,In thee may we abide.

3In prayer, in effort, tears, and toils,

One wisdom be our guide;

Taught by one Spirit from above,

In thee may we abide.

4Around this feeble, trusting band,Thy sheltering pinions spread,Nor let the storms of trial beatToo fiercely on our head.

4Around this feeble, trusting band,

Thy sheltering pinions spread,

Nor let the storms of trial beat

Too fiercely on our head.

5Then, when, among the saints in light,Our joyful spirits shine,Shall anthems of immortal praise,O Lamb of God, be thine.

5Then, when, among the saints in light,

Our joyful spirits shine,

Shall anthems of immortal praise,

O Lamb of God, be thine.

S. F. Smith.

488C. M.The unity of the Spirit.Eph. 4:3.Blessed be the dear uniting love,That will not let us part;Our bodies may far off remove—We still are one in heart.2Joined in one Spirit to our Head,Where he appoints, we go;And still in Jesus’ footsteps tread,And show his praise below.3Partakers of the Saviour’s grace,The same in mind and heart;Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,Nor life, nor death, can part.C. Wesley.

C. M.

The unity of the Spirit.Eph. 4:3.

Blessed be the dear uniting love,That will not let us part;Our bodies may far off remove—We still are one in heart.

Blessed be the dear uniting love,

That will not let us part;

Our bodies may far off remove—

We still are one in heart.

2Joined in one Spirit to our Head,Where he appoints, we go;And still in Jesus’ footsteps tread,And show his praise below.

2Joined in one Spirit to our Head,

Where he appoints, we go;

And still in Jesus’ footsteps tread,

And show his praise below.

3Partakers of the Saviour’s grace,The same in mind and heart;Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,Nor life, nor death, can part.

3Partakers of the Saviour’s grace,

The same in mind and heart;

Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,

Nor life, nor death, can part.

C. Wesley.

489C. M.We will serve the Lord.Josh. 24:15.Ye men and angels, witness now—Before the Lord we speak,To him we make our solemn vow—A vow we dare not break:2That, long as life itself shall last,Ourselves to Christ we yield;Nor from his cause will we depart,Or ever quit the field.3We trust not in our native strength,But on his grace rely;May he, with our returning wants,All needful aid supply.4O, guide our doubtful feet aright,And keep us in thy ways;And, while we turn our vows to prayers,Turn thou our prayers to praise.Beddome.

C. M.

We will serve the Lord.Josh. 24:15.

Ye men and angels, witness now—Before the Lord we speak,To him we make our solemn vow—A vow we dare not break:

Ye men and angels, witness now—

Before the Lord we speak,

To him we make our solemn vow—

A vow we dare not break:

2That, long as life itself shall last,Ourselves to Christ we yield;Nor from his cause will we depart,Or ever quit the field.

2That, long as life itself shall last,

Ourselves to Christ we yield;

Nor from his cause will we depart,

Or ever quit the field.

3We trust not in our native strength,But on his grace rely;May he, with our returning wants,All needful aid supply.

3We trust not in our native strength,

But on his grace rely;

May he, with our returning wants,

All needful aid supply.

4O, guide our doubtful feet aright,And keep us in thy ways;And, while we turn our vows to prayers,Turn thou our prayers to praise.

4O, guide our doubtful feet aright,

And keep us in thy ways;

And, while we turn our vows to prayers,

Turn thou our prayers to praise.

Beddome.

490C. M.Restore such a one, etc.Gal. 6:1.Think gently of the erring one!O, let us not forget,However darkly stained by sin,He is our brother yet.2Heir of the same inheritance,Child of the self-same God,He hath but stumbled in the pathWe have in weakness trod.3Speak gently to the erring ones!We yet may lead them back,With holy words and tones of love,From misery’s thorny track.4Forget not, brother, thou hast sinned,And sinful yet may be;Deal gently with the erring heart,As God hath dealt with thee.Miss Fletcher.

C. M.

Restore such a one, etc.Gal. 6:1.

Think gently of the erring one!O, let us not forget,However darkly stained by sin,He is our brother yet.

Think gently of the erring one!

O, let us not forget,

However darkly stained by sin,

He is our brother yet.

2Heir of the same inheritance,Child of the self-same God,He hath but stumbled in the pathWe have in weakness trod.

2Heir of the same inheritance,

Child of the self-same God,

He hath but stumbled in the path

We have in weakness trod.

3Speak gently to the erring ones!We yet may lead them back,With holy words and tones of love,From misery’s thorny track.

3Speak gently to the erring ones!

We yet may lead them back,

With holy words and tones of love,

From misery’s thorny track.

4Forget not, brother, thou hast sinned,And sinful yet may be;Deal gently with the erring heart,As God hath dealt with thee.

4Forget not, brother, thou hast sinned,

And sinful yet may be;

Deal gently with the erring heart,

As God hath dealt with thee.

Miss Fletcher.

491C. M.Before and behind the vail.Happy the souls to Jesus joined,And made in spirit one:Walking in all his ways, they findTheir heaven on earth begun.2The church triumphant in thy love,Their mighty joys we know;They sing the Lamb in hymns above,And we in hymns below.3Thee in thy glorious realm they praise,And bow before thy throne;We in the kingdom of thy grace;The kingdoms are but one.4The holy to the holiest leads;To heaven our spirits rise;And he that in thy statutes treads,Shall meet thee in the skies.C. Wesley.

C. M.

Before and behind the vail.

Happy the souls to Jesus joined,And made in spirit one:Walking in all his ways, they findTheir heaven on earth begun.

Happy the souls to Jesus joined,

And made in spirit one:

Walking in all his ways, they find

Their heaven on earth begun.

2The church triumphant in thy love,Their mighty joys we know;They sing the Lamb in hymns above,And we in hymns below.

2The church triumphant in thy love,

Their mighty joys we know;

They sing the Lamb in hymns above,

And we in hymns below.

3Thee in thy glorious realm they praise,And bow before thy throne;We in the kingdom of thy grace;The kingdoms are but one.

3Thee in thy glorious realm they praise,

And bow before thy throne;

We in the kingdom of thy grace;

The kingdoms are but one.

4The holy to the holiest leads;To heaven our spirits rise;And he that in thy statutes treads,Shall meet thee in the skies.

4The holy to the holiest leads;

To heaven our spirits rise;

And he that in thy statutes treads,

Shall meet thee in the skies.

C. Wesley.

492C. M.Spiritual blessings in heavenly places.Eph. 1:3.O happy they who know the Lord,With whom he deigns to dwell!He feeds and cheers them by his word,His arm supports them well.2To them, in each distressing hour,His throne of grace is near;And when they plead his love and power,He stands engaged to hear.3His presence sweetens all our cares,And makes our burdens light;A word from him dispels our fears,And gilds the gloom of night.4Lord, we expect to suffer here,Nor would we dare repine;But give us still to find thee near,And own us still for thine.5Let us enjoy and highly prizeThese tokens of thy love,Till thou shalt bid our spirits riseTo worship thee above.

C. M.

Spiritual blessings in heavenly places.Eph. 1:3.

O happy they who know the Lord,With whom he deigns to dwell!He feeds and cheers them by his word,His arm supports them well.

O happy they who know the Lord,

With whom he deigns to dwell!

He feeds and cheers them by his word,

His arm supports them well.

2To them, in each distressing hour,His throne of grace is near;And when they plead his love and power,He stands engaged to hear.

2To them, in each distressing hour,

His throne of grace is near;

And when they plead his love and power,

He stands engaged to hear.

3His presence sweetens all our cares,And makes our burdens light;A word from him dispels our fears,And gilds the gloom of night.

3His presence sweetens all our cares,

And makes our burdens light;

A word from him dispels our fears,

And gilds the gloom of night.

4Lord, we expect to suffer here,Nor would we dare repine;But give us still to find thee near,And own us still for thine.

4Lord, we expect to suffer here,

Nor would we dare repine;

But give us still to find thee near,

And own us still for thine.

5Let us enjoy and highly prizeThese tokens of thy love,Till thou shalt bid our spirits riseTo worship thee above.

5Let us enjoy and highly prize

These tokens of thy love,

Till thou shalt bid our spirits rise

To worship thee above.

493C. M.The bond of perfectness.Col. 3:14.How sweet, how heavenly is the sight,When those that love the Lord,In one another’s peace delight,And so fulfill the word.2When each can feel his brother’s sigh,And with him bear a part;When sorrow flows from eye to eye,And joy from heart to heart:3When free from envy, scorn, and pride,Our wishes all above,Each can his brother’s failing hide,And show a brother’s love:4When love in one delightful streamThrough every bosom flows,When union sweet and dear esteemIn every action glows.5Love is the golden chain that binds,The happy souls above,And he’s an heir of heaven that findsHis bosom glow with love.Swain.

C. M.

The bond of perfectness.Col. 3:14.

How sweet, how heavenly is the sight,When those that love the Lord,In one another’s peace delight,And so fulfill the word.

How sweet, how heavenly is the sight,

When those that love the Lord,

In one another’s peace delight,

And so fulfill the word.

2When each can feel his brother’s sigh,And with him bear a part;When sorrow flows from eye to eye,And joy from heart to heart:

2When each can feel his brother’s sigh,

And with him bear a part;

When sorrow flows from eye to eye,

And joy from heart to heart:

3When free from envy, scorn, and pride,Our wishes all above,Each can his brother’s failing hide,And show a brother’s love:

3When free from envy, scorn, and pride,

Our wishes all above,

Each can his brother’s failing hide,

And show a brother’s love:

4When love in one delightful streamThrough every bosom flows,When union sweet and dear esteemIn every action glows.

4When love in one delightful stream

Through every bosom flows,

When union sweet and dear esteem

In every action glows.

5Love is the golden chain that binds,The happy souls above,And he’s an heir of heaven that findsHis bosom glow with love.

5Love is the golden chain that binds,

The happy souls above,

And he’s an heir of heaven that finds

His bosom glow with love.

Swain.

494C. M.The whole family in heaven and earth.Eph 3:15.Come, let us join our friends above,Who have obtained the prize,And on the eagle wings of love,To joy celestial rise.2Let saints below in concert singWith those to glory gone;For all the servants of our King,In heaven and earth are one:3One family—we dwell in him;One church—above, beneath;Though now divided by the stream—The narrow stream of death.4One army of the living God,To his command we bow;Part of the host have crossed the flood,And part are crossing now.5Even now to their eternal homeSome happy spirits fly;And we are to the margin come,Expecting soon to die!6Dear Saviour! be our constant guide;Then, when the word is given,Bid Jordan’s narrow stream divide,And land us safe in heaven.C. Wesley.

C. M.

The whole family in heaven and earth.Eph 3:15.

Come, let us join our friends above,Who have obtained the prize,And on the eagle wings of love,To joy celestial rise.

Come, let us join our friends above,

Who have obtained the prize,

And on the eagle wings of love,

To joy celestial rise.

2Let saints below in concert singWith those to glory gone;For all the servants of our King,In heaven and earth are one:

2Let saints below in concert sing

With those to glory gone;

For all the servants of our King,

In heaven and earth are one:

3One family—we dwell in him;One church—above, beneath;Though now divided by the stream—The narrow stream of death.

3One family—we dwell in him;

One church—above, beneath;

Though now divided by the stream—

The narrow stream of death.

4One army of the living God,To his command we bow;Part of the host have crossed the flood,And part are crossing now.

4One army of the living God,

To his command we bow;

Part of the host have crossed the flood,

And part are crossing now.

5Even now to their eternal homeSome happy spirits fly;And we are to the margin come,Expecting soon to die!

5Even now to their eternal home

Some happy spirits fly;

And we are to the margin come,

Expecting soon to die!

6Dear Saviour! be our constant guide;Then, when the word is given,Bid Jordan’s narrow stream divide,And land us safe in heaven.

6Dear Saviour! be our constant guide;

Then, when the word is given,

Bid Jordan’s narrow stream divide,

And land us safe in heaven.

C. Wesley.

495S. M.Love as brethren.1 Pet. 3:8.Blest be the tie that bindsOur hearts in Christian love;The fellowship of kindred mindsIs like to that above.2Before our Father’s throneWe pour our ardent prayers;Our fears, our hopes, our aims, are one,Our comforts and our cares.3We share our mutual woes,Our mutual burdens bear;And often for each other flowsThe sympathizing tear.4Though often called to part,Amid these scenes of pain;Yet, we shall still be joined in heart,And hope to meet again.5This glorious hope revivesOur courage by the way;While each in expectation lives,And longs to see the day.6From sorrow, toil, and pain,And sin, we shall be free;And perfect love and friendship reignThrough all eternity.Fawcett.

S. M.

Love as brethren.1 Pet. 3:8.

Blest be the tie that bindsOur hearts in Christian love;The fellowship of kindred mindsIs like to that above.

Blest be the tie that binds

Our hearts in Christian love;

The fellowship of kindred minds

Is like to that above.

2Before our Father’s throneWe pour our ardent prayers;Our fears, our hopes, our aims, are one,Our comforts and our cares.

2Before our Father’s throne

We pour our ardent prayers;

Our fears, our hopes, our aims, are one,

Our comforts and our cares.

3We share our mutual woes,Our mutual burdens bear;And often for each other flowsThe sympathizing tear.

3We share our mutual woes,

Our mutual burdens bear;

And often for each other flows

The sympathizing tear.

4Though often called to part,Amid these scenes of pain;Yet, we shall still be joined in heart,And hope to meet again.

4Though often called to part,

Amid these scenes of pain;

Yet, we shall still be joined in heart,

And hope to meet again.

5This glorious hope revivesOur courage by the way;While each in expectation lives,And longs to see the day.

5This glorious hope revives

Our courage by the way;

While each in expectation lives,

And longs to see the day.

6From sorrow, toil, and pain,And sin, we shall be free;And perfect love and friendship reignThrough all eternity.

6From sorrow, toil, and pain,

And sin, we shall be free;

And perfect love and friendship reign

Through all eternity.

Fawcett.

496S. M.Stand fast in the Lord.Phil. 4:1.All you that have confessedThat Jesus is the Lord,And to his people joined yourselves,According to his word:2In Zion you must dwell,Her altar ne’er forsake;Must come to all her solemn feasts,Of all her joys partake.3She must employ your thoughts,And your unceasing care;Her welfare be your constant wish,And her increase your prayer.4With humbleness of mind,Among her sons rejoice;A meek and quiet spirit isWith God of highest price.5Never offend, nor grieveYour brethren by the way;But shun the dark abodes of strife,Like children of the day.6In all your Saviour’s ways,With willing footsteps move;Be faithful unto death, and thenYou’ll reign with him above.

S. M.

Stand fast in the Lord.Phil. 4:1.

All you that have confessedThat Jesus is the Lord,And to his people joined yourselves,According to his word:

All you that have confessed

That Jesus is the Lord,

And to his people joined yourselves,

According to his word:

2In Zion you must dwell,Her altar ne’er forsake;Must come to all her solemn feasts,Of all her joys partake.

2In Zion you must dwell,

Her altar ne’er forsake;

Must come to all her solemn feasts,

Of all her joys partake.

3She must employ your thoughts,And your unceasing care;Her welfare be your constant wish,And her increase your prayer.

3She must employ your thoughts,

And your unceasing care;

Her welfare be your constant wish,

And her increase your prayer.

4With humbleness of mind,Among her sons rejoice;A meek and quiet spirit isWith God of highest price.

4With humbleness of mind,

Among her sons rejoice;

A meek and quiet spirit is

With God of highest price.

5Never offend, nor grieveYour brethren by the way;But shun the dark abodes of strife,Like children of the day.

5Never offend, nor grieve

Your brethren by the way;

But shun the dark abodes of strife,

Like children of the day.

6In all your Saviour’s ways,With willing footsteps move;Be faithful unto death, and thenYou’ll reign with him above.

6In all your Saviour’s ways,

With willing footsteps move;

Be faithful unto death, and then

You’ll reign with him above.

497S. M.Let there be no divisions among you.1 Cor. 1:10.Let party names no moreThe Christian world o’erspread,Gentile and Jew, and bond and free,Are one in Christ, their Head.2Among the saints on earthLet mutual love be found;Heirs of the same inheritance,With mutual blessings crowned.3Thus will the church belowResemble that above,Where streams of pleasure ever flow,And every heart is love.Beddome.

S. M.

Let there be no divisions among you.1 Cor. 1:10.

Let party names no moreThe Christian world o’erspread,Gentile and Jew, and bond and free,Are one in Christ, their Head.

Let party names no more

The Christian world o’erspread,

Gentile and Jew, and bond and free,

Are one in Christ, their Head.

2Among the saints on earthLet mutual love be found;Heirs of the same inheritance,With mutual blessings crowned.

2Among the saints on earth

Let mutual love be found;

Heirs of the same inheritance,

With mutual blessings crowned.

3Thus will the church belowResemble that above,Where streams of pleasure ever flow,And every heart is love.

3Thus will the church below

Resemble that above,

Where streams of pleasure ever flow,

And every heart is love.

Beddome.

4987s.Strangers and pilgrims.1 Pet. 2:11.Children of the heavenly King,As ye journey, sweetly sing;Sing your Saviour’s worthy praise,Glorious in his works and ways.2Ye are traveling home to God,In the way the fathers trod:They are happy now—and yeSoon there happiness shall see.3Shout, ye little flock, and blest;You on Jesus’ throne shall rest:There your seat is now prepared—There your kingdom and reward.4Fear not, brethren, joyful standOn the borders of your land;Jesus Christ, your Father’s Son,Bids you undismayed go on.5Lord, submissive make us go,Gladly leaving all below;Only thou our leader be,And we still will follow thee.Cennick.

7s.

Strangers and pilgrims.1 Pet. 2:11.

Children of the heavenly King,As ye journey, sweetly sing;Sing your Saviour’s worthy praise,Glorious in his works and ways.

Children of the heavenly King,

As ye journey, sweetly sing;

Sing your Saviour’s worthy praise,

Glorious in his works and ways.

2Ye are traveling home to God,In the way the fathers trod:They are happy now—and yeSoon there happiness shall see.

2Ye are traveling home to God,

In the way the fathers trod:

They are happy now—and ye

Soon there happiness shall see.

3Shout, ye little flock, and blest;You on Jesus’ throne shall rest:There your seat is now prepared—There your kingdom and reward.

3Shout, ye little flock, and blest;

You on Jesus’ throne shall rest:

There your seat is now prepared—

There your kingdom and reward.

4Fear not, brethren, joyful standOn the borders of your land;Jesus Christ, your Father’s Son,Bids you undismayed go on.

4Fear not, brethren, joyful stand

On the borders of your land;

Jesus Christ, your Father’s Son,

Bids you undismayed go on.

5Lord, submissive make us go,Gladly leaving all below;Only thou our leader be,And we still will follow thee.

5Lord, submissive make us go,

Gladly leaving all below;

Only thou our leader be,

And we still will follow thee.

Cennick.

4997s.Bond of peace.Eph. 4:3.Jesus, Lord, we look to thee;Let us in thy name agree;Show thyself the Prince of Peace;Bid our jars for ever cease.2By thy reconciling love,Every stumbling-block remove:Each to each unite, endear;Come, and spread thy banner here.3Make us of one heart and mind—Courteous, pitiful and kind;Lowly, meek, in thought and word—Altogether like our Lord.4Let us for each other care;Each the other’s burden bear;To thy Church the pattern give;Show how true believers live.5Free from anger and from pride,Let us thus in God abide;All the depths of love express—All the hights of holiness.6Let us then with joy removeTo the family above;On the wings of angels fly;Show how true believers die.C. Wesley.

7s.

Bond of peace.Eph. 4:3.

Jesus, Lord, we look to thee;Let us in thy name agree;Show thyself the Prince of Peace;Bid our jars for ever cease.

Jesus, Lord, we look to thee;

Let us in thy name agree;

Show thyself the Prince of Peace;

Bid our jars for ever cease.

2By thy reconciling love,Every stumbling-block remove:Each to each unite, endear;Come, and spread thy banner here.

2By thy reconciling love,

Every stumbling-block remove:

Each to each unite, endear;

Come, and spread thy banner here.

3Make us of one heart and mind—Courteous, pitiful and kind;Lowly, meek, in thought and word—Altogether like our Lord.

3Make us of one heart and mind—

Courteous, pitiful and kind;

Lowly, meek, in thought and word—

Altogether like our Lord.

4Let us for each other care;Each the other’s burden bear;To thy Church the pattern give;Show how true believers live.

4Let us for each other care;

Each the other’s burden bear;

To thy Church the pattern give;

Show how true believers live.

5Free from anger and from pride,Let us thus in God abide;All the depths of love express—All the hights of holiness.

5Free from anger and from pride,

Let us thus in God abide;

All the depths of love express—

All the hights of holiness.

6Let us then with joy removeTo the family above;On the wings of angels fly;Show how true believers die.

6Let us then with joy remove

To the family above;

On the wings of angels fly;

Show how true believers die.

C. Wesley.

5008s.Love is of God.1 John 4:7.Say, whence does this union arise,Where hatred is conquered by love?It fastens our souls with such ties,That distance nor time can remove.2It can not in Eden be found,Nor yet in a Paradise lost;It grows on Immanuel’s ground,And Jesus’ life’s blood it has cost.3My friends so endeared unto me,Our souls so united in love;Where Jesus is gone we shall be,In yonder blest mansions above.4Why then so unwilling to part,Since there we shall soon meet again;Engraved on Immanuel’s heart,At distance we can not remain.5And then we shall see that bright day,And join with the angels above,Set free from our prisons of clay,United in Jesus’ kind love.6With Jesus we ever shall reign,And all his bright glory shall see;Then sing hallelujahs—Amen!Amen! Even so let it be!Baldwin.

8s.

Love is of God.1 John 4:7.

Say, whence does this union arise,Where hatred is conquered by love?It fastens our souls with such ties,That distance nor time can remove.

Say, whence does this union arise,

Where hatred is conquered by love?

It fastens our souls with such ties,

That distance nor time can remove.

2It can not in Eden be found,Nor yet in a Paradise lost;It grows on Immanuel’s ground,And Jesus’ life’s blood it has cost.

2It can not in Eden be found,

Nor yet in a Paradise lost;

It grows on Immanuel’s ground,

And Jesus’ life’s blood it has cost.

3My friends so endeared unto me,Our souls so united in love;Where Jesus is gone we shall be,In yonder blest mansions above.

3My friends so endeared unto me,

Our souls so united in love;

Where Jesus is gone we shall be,

In yonder blest mansions above.

4Why then so unwilling to part,Since there we shall soon meet again;Engraved on Immanuel’s heart,At distance we can not remain.

4Why then so unwilling to part,

Since there we shall soon meet again;

Engraved on Immanuel’s heart,

At distance we can not remain.

5And then we shall see that bright day,And join with the angels above,Set free from our prisons of clay,United in Jesus’ kind love.

5And then we shall see that bright day,

And join with the angels above,

Set free from our prisons of clay,

United in Jesus’ kind love.

6With Jesus we ever shall reign,And all his bright glory shall see;Then sing hallelujahs—Amen!Amen! Even so let it be!

6With Jesus we ever shall reign,

And all his bright glory shall see;

Then sing hallelujahs—Amen!

Amen! Even so let it be!

Baldwin.

5018s & 7s.Receive ye one another.Rom. 15:7.Come, dear friends, we all are brethren,Bound for Canaan’s happy land;Come, unite and walk together,Christ, our Leader, gives command.Cease to boast of party merit,Wound the cause of God no more,Be united by his spirit;Zion’s peace again restore.2Now our hand, our heart and spirit,Here in fellowship we give;Let us love and peace inherit,Show the world how Christians live.We’ll be one in Christ our Saviour,Male and female, bond and free!Christ is all in all for ever,In him we shall blesséd be.

8s & 7s.

Receive ye one another.Rom. 15:7.

Come, dear friends, we all are brethren,Bound for Canaan’s happy land;Come, unite and walk together,Christ, our Leader, gives command.Cease to boast of party merit,Wound the cause of God no more,Be united by his spirit;Zion’s peace again restore.

Come, dear friends, we all are brethren,

Bound for Canaan’s happy land;

Come, unite and walk together,

Christ, our Leader, gives command.

Cease to boast of party merit,

Wound the cause of God no more,

Be united by his spirit;

Zion’s peace again restore.

2Now our hand, our heart and spirit,Here in fellowship we give;Let us love and peace inherit,Show the world how Christians live.We’ll be one in Christ our Saviour,Male and female, bond and free!Christ is all in all for ever,In him we shall blesséd be.

2Now our hand, our heart and spirit,

Here in fellowship we give;

Let us love and peace inherit,

Show the world how Christians live.

We’ll be one in Christ our Saviour,

Male and female, bond and free!

Christ is all in all for ever,

In him we shall blesséd be.

5027s, 6 lines.Parting friends.When shall we all meet again?When shall we all meet again?Oft shall glowing hope expire,Oft shall wearied love retire,Oft shall death and sorrow reign,Ere we all shall meet again.2Though in distant lands we sigh,Parched beneath a hostile sky;Though the deep between us rolls—Friendship shall unite our souls:And in fancy’s wide domain,Oft shall we all meet again.3When the dreams of life are fled,And its wasted lamp is dead:When in cold oblivion’s shade,Beauty, wealth, and fame are laid;Where immortal spirits reign,There may we all meet again.

7s, 6 lines.

Parting friends.

When shall we all meet again?When shall we all meet again?Oft shall glowing hope expire,Oft shall wearied love retire,Oft shall death and sorrow reign,Ere we all shall meet again.

When shall we all meet again?

When shall we all meet again?

Oft shall glowing hope expire,

Oft shall wearied love retire,

Oft shall death and sorrow reign,

Ere we all shall meet again.

2Though in distant lands we sigh,Parched beneath a hostile sky;Though the deep between us rolls—Friendship shall unite our souls:And in fancy’s wide domain,Oft shall we all meet again.

2Though in distant lands we sigh,

Parched beneath a hostile sky;

Though the deep between us rolls—

Friendship shall unite our souls:

And in fancy’s wide domain,

Oft shall we all meet again.

3When the dreams of life are fled,And its wasted lamp is dead:When in cold oblivion’s shade,Beauty, wealth, and fame are laid;Where immortal spirits reign,There may we all meet again.

3When the dreams of life are fled,

And its wasted lamp is dead:

When in cold oblivion’s shade,

Beauty, wealth, and fame are laid;

Where immortal spirits reign,

There may we all meet again.

503P. M.We shall meet no more to part.We shall meet no more to part;Cease thy sorrows, mourning heart!Weary days will soon depart—Then we may rest for ever!When the work of life is done,When the victor’s crown is won,Then, immortal life begun,We no more shall sever.We shall meet, no more to part;Cease thy sorrows, mourning heart!Weary days will soon depart—Then we may rest for ever!2In the house of peace and bliss,In the world where Jesus is,When we bid adieu to this,Then we may love for ever.Purified from every stain,Through the Lamb that once was slain,Brethren, we shall meet again,And be parted never!

P. M.

We shall meet no more to part.

We shall meet no more to part;Cease thy sorrows, mourning heart!Weary days will soon depart—Then we may rest for ever!When the work of life is done,When the victor’s crown is won,Then, immortal life begun,We no more shall sever.We shall meet, no more to part;Cease thy sorrows, mourning heart!Weary days will soon depart—Then we may rest for ever!

We shall meet no more to part;

Cease thy sorrows, mourning heart!

Weary days will soon depart—

Then we may rest for ever!

When the work of life is done,

When the victor’s crown is won,

Then, immortal life begun,

We no more shall sever.

We shall meet, no more to part;

Cease thy sorrows, mourning heart!

Weary days will soon depart—

Then we may rest for ever!

2In the house of peace and bliss,In the world where Jesus is,When we bid adieu to this,Then we may love for ever.Purified from every stain,Through the Lamb that once was slain,Brethren, we shall meet again,And be parted never!

2In the house of peace and bliss,

In the world where Jesus is,

When we bid adieu to this,

Then we may love for ever.

Purified from every stain,

Through the Lamb that once was slain,

Brethren, we shall meet again,

And be parted never!

5046s & 5s.When shall we meet again.When shall we meet again?Meet ne’er to sever?When will Peace wreathe her chainRound us for ever?Our hearts will ne’er reposeSafe from each blast that blowsIn this dark vail of woes,Never—no, never!2When shall love freely flow,Pure as life’s river?When shall sweet friendship glow,Changeless for ever?Where joys celestial thrill,Where bliss each heart shall fill,And fears of parting chill,Never—no, never!3Up to that world of lightTake us, dear Saviour;May we all there unite,Happy for ever:Where kindred spirits dwell,There may our music swell,And time our joys dispel,Never—no, never!4Soon shall we meet again,Meet ne’er to sever:Soon shall Peace wreathe her chainRound us for ever:Our hearts will then reposeSecure from worldly woes;Our songs of praise shall close,Never—no, never!Select Hymns.

6s & 5s.

When shall we meet again.

When shall we meet again?Meet ne’er to sever?When will Peace wreathe her chainRound us for ever?Our hearts will ne’er reposeSafe from each blast that blowsIn this dark vail of woes,Never—no, never!

When shall we meet again?

Meet ne’er to sever?

When will Peace wreathe her chain

Round us for ever?

Our hearts will ne’er repose

Safe from each blast that blows

In this dark vail of woes,

Never—no, never!

2When shall love freely flow,Pure as life’s river?When shall sweet friendship glow,Changeless for ever?Where joys celestial thrill,Where bliss each heart shall fill,And fears of parting chill,Never—no, never!

2When shall love freely flow,

Pure as life’s river?

When shall sweet friendship glow,

Changeless for ever?

Where joys celestial thrill,

Where bliss each heart shall fill,

And fears of parting chill,

Never—no, never!

3Up to that world of lightTake us, dear Saviour;May we all there unite,Happy for ever:Where kindred spirits dwell,There may our music swell,And time our joys dispel,Never—no, never!

3Up to that world of light

Take us, dear Saviour;

May we all there unite,

Happy for ever:

Where kindred spirits dwell,

There may our music swell,

And time our joys dispel,

Never—no, never!

4Soon shall we meet again,Meet ne’er to sever:Soon shall Peace wreathe her chainRound us for ever:Our hearts will then reposeSecure from worldly woes;Our songs of praise shall close,Never—no, never!

4Soon shall we meet again,

Meet ne’er to sever:

Soon shall Peace wreathe her chain

Round us for ever:

Our hearts will then repose

Secure from worldly woes;

Our songs of praise shall close,

Never—no, never!

Select Hymns.

505C. P. M.He that dwelleth in love, etc.1 John 4:16.O love divine, how sweet thou art!When shall I find my wandering heartAll taken up in thee!O may I daily live to proveThe sweetness of redeeming love,The love of Christ to me.2God only knows the love of God;O may it now be shed abroadTo cheer my fainting heart!I want to feel that love divine;This heavenly portion, Lord, be mine—Be mine this better part.3O that I could for ever sitWith Mary at the Master’s feet!Be this my happy choice;My only care, delight, and bliss,My joy, my heaven on earth, be this,To hear the Bridegroom’s voice.4O that I might, with happy John,Recline my weary head uponThe blessed Redeemer’s breast!From care, and fear, and sorrow free,Give me, O Lord, to find in theeMy everlasting rest.C. Wesley.

C. P. M.

He that dwelleth in love, etc.1 John 4:16.

O love divine, how sweet thou art!When shall I find my wandering heartAll taken up in thee!O may I daily live to proveThe sweetness of redeeming love,The love of Christ to me.

O love divine, how sweet thou art!

When shall I find my wandering heart

All taken up in thee!

O may I daily live to prove

The sweetness of redeeming love,

The love of Christ to me.

2God only knows the love of God;O may it now be shed abroadTo cheer my fainting heart!I want to feel that love divine;This heavenly portion, Lord, be mine—Be mine this better part.

2God only knows the love of God;

O may it now be shed abroad

To cheer my fainting heart!

I want to feel that love divine;

This heavenly portion, Lord, be mine—

Be mine this better part.

3O that I could for ever sitWith Mary at the Master’s feet!Be this my happy choice;My only care, delight, and bliss,My joy, my heaven on earth, be this,To hear the Bridegroom’s voice.

3O that I could for ever sit

With Mary at the Master’s feet!

Be this my happy choice;

My only care, delight, and bliss,

My joy, my heaven on earth, be this,

To hear the Bridegroom’s voice.

4O that I might, with happy John,Recline my weary head uponThe blessed Redeemer’s breast!From care, and fear, and sorrow free,Give me, O Lord, to find in theeMy everlasting rest.

4O that I might, with happy John,

Recline my weary head upon

The blessed Redeemer’s breast!

From care, and fear, and sorrow free,

Give me, O Lord, to find in thee

My everlasting rest.

C. Wesley.

5066s, 4s & 5s.A parting hymn.Peacefully, tenderly,Here, as we part,The farewell that lingersBe breathed from the heart:No place more fitting,O house of the Lord—Here be it spoken,That last prayerful word.2Thoughtfully, carefully,Solemn and slow!Tears are bedewingThe path that we go;Perils before usWe know not to-day—Kindly and safely,O Lord, lead the way.3Upwardly, steadfastly,Gaze on that brow:Jesus, our Leader,Reigns conqueror now.His steps let us follow,His sufferings dare,Go up to glory,His blessedness share.4Patiently, cheerfully,Up, and departTo labor and dutyWith gladness of heart;The ransomed, with triumph,To Zion we’ll bring,Shouting salvationTo Jesus, our King.

6s, 4s & 5s.

A parting hymn.

Peacefully, tenderly,Here, as we part,The farewell that lingersBe breathed from the heart:No place more fitting,O house of the Lord—Here be it spoken,That last prayerful word.

Peacefully, tenderly,

Here, as we part,

The farewell that lingers

Be breathed from the heart:

No place more fitting,

O house of the Lord—

Here be it spoken,

That last prayerful word.

2Thoughtfully, carefully,Solemn and slow!Tears are bedewingThe path that we go;Perils before usWe know not to-day—Kindly and safely,O Lord, lead the way.

2Thoughtfully, carefully,

Solemn and slow!

Tears are bedewing

The path that we go;

Perils before us

We know not to-day—

Kindly and safely,

O Lord, lead the way.

3Upwardly, steadfastly,Gaze on that brow:Jesus, our Leader,Reigns conqueror now.His steps let us follow,His sufferings dare,Go up to glory,His blessedness share.

3Upwardly, steadfastly,

Gaze on that brow:

Jesus, our Leader,

Reigns conqueror now.

His steps let us follow,

His sufferings dare,

Go up to glory,

His blessedness share.

4Patiently, cheerfully,Up, and departTo labor and dutyWith gladness of heart;The ransomed, with triumph,To Zion we’ll bring,Shouting salvationTo Jesus, our King.

4Patiently, cheerfully,

Up, and depart

To labor and duty

With gladness of heart;

The ransomed, with triumph,

To Zion we’ll bring,

Shouting salvation

To Jesus, our King.

507L. M.Pilgrim’s farewell.Farewell, my friends, time rolls along,Nor waits for mortal care or bliss;I leave you here to travel on,Till I arrive where Jesus is.Chorus.—Farewell, farewell, farewell,My Christian friends, farewell.2Farewell, my brethren in the Lord,To you I’m bound in cords of love,Yet we believe his gracious word,That we ere long shall meet above.3Farewell, old soldiers of the cross,You’ve struggled long and hard for heaven,You’ve counted all things here but dross,Fight on, the crown will soon be given.4Farewell, poor careless sinners, too,It grieves my soul to leave you here.Eternal sorrow waits for you,O turn, and find salvation near.

L. M.

Pilgrim’s farewell.

Farewell, my friends, time rolls along,Nor waits for mortal care or bliss;I leave you here to travel on,Till I arrive where Jesus is.Chorus.—Farewell, farewell, farewell,My Christian friends, farewell.

Farewell, my friends, time rolls along,

Nor waits for mortal care or bliss;

I leave you here to travel on,

Till I arrive where Jesus is.

Chorus.—Farewell, farewell, farewell,

My Christian friends, farewell.

2Farewell, my brethren in the Lord,To you I’m bound in cords of love,Yet we believe his gracious word,That we ere long shall meet above.

2Farewell, my brethren in the Lord,

To you I’m bound in cords of love,

Yet we believe his gracious word,

That we ere long shall meet above.

3Farewell, old soldiers of the cross,You’ve struggled long and hard for heaven,You’ve counted all things here but dross,Fight on, the crown will soon be given.

3Farewell, old soldiers of the cross,

You’ve struggled long and hard for heaven,

You’ve counted all things here but dross,

Fight on, the crown will soon be given.

4Farewell, poor careless sinners, too,It grieves my soul to leave you here.Eternal sorrow waits for you,O turn, and find salvation near.

4Farewell, poor careless sinners, too,

It grieves my soul to leave you here.

Eternal sorrow waits for you,

O turn, and find salvation near.

50810s & 8s.Waiting on God.Isaiah. 40:31.O happy children who follow JesusInto the house of prayer and praise,And join in union while love increases,Resolved this way to spend our days:Although we’re hated by the world and Satan,By the flesh and such as love not God;Yet happy moments and joyful seasonsWe ofttimes find on Canaan’s road.2Since we’ve been waiting on lovely Jesus,We’ve felt some strength come from above,Our hearts have burned with holy rapture,We long to be absorbed in love:Let us sing praises for what is given,And trust in God for time to come;Sure we shall find the way to heaven;So farewell, brethren—we’re going home.3And as we go let us praise our Saviour,And pray for those who spurn his grace,Lest they should lose love’s richest treasure,And ne’er enjoy his smiling face.Now here’s my hand and my best wishes,In token of my Christian love;In hopes with you to praise my Jesus:So farewell, brethren,—we’ll meet above.

10s & 8s.

Waiting on God.Isaiah. 40:31.

O happy children who follow JesusInto the house of prayer and praise,And join in union while love increases,Resolved this way to spend our days:Although we’re hated by the world and Satan,By the flesh and such as love not God;Yet happy moments and joyful seasonsWe ofttimes find on Canaan’s road.

O happy children who follow Jesus

Into the house of prayer and praise,

And join in union while love increases,

Resolved this way to spend our days:

Although we’re hated by the world and Satan,

By the flesh and such as love not God;

Yet happy moments and joyful seasons

We ofttimes find on Canaan’s road.

2Since we’ve been waiting on lovely Jesus,We’ve felt some strength come from above,Our hearts have burned with holy rapture,We long to be absorbed in love:Let us sing praises for what is given,And trust in God for time to come;Sure we shall find the way to heaven;So farewell, brethren—we’re going home.

2Since we’ve been waiting on lovely Jesus,

We’ve felt some strength come from above,

Our hearts have burned with holy rapture,

We long to be absorbed in love:

Let us sing praises for what is given,

And trust in God for time to come;

Sure we shall find the way to heaven;

So farewell, brethren—we’re going home.

3And as we go let us praise our Saviour,And pray for those who spurn his grace,Lest they should lose love’s richest treasure,And ne’er enjoy his smiling face.Now here’s my hand and my best wishes,In token of my Christian love;In hopes with you to praise my Jesus:So farewell, brethren,—we’ll meet above.

3And as we go let us praise our Saviour,

And pray for those who spurn his grace,

Lest they should lose love’s richest treasure,

And ne’er enjoy his smiling face.

Now here’s my hand and my best wishes,

In token of my Christian love;

In hopes with you to praise my Jesus:

So farewell, brethren,—we’ll meet above.

509C. P. M.Heavenward.Col. 3:2.Come on, my partners in distress,My comrades in the wilderness,Who feel your sorrows still;A while forget your griefs and fearsAnd look beyond this vale of tearsTo that celestial hill.2Beyond the bounds of time and space,Look forward to that heavenly place,The saint’s secure abode;On faith’s strong eagle pinions rise,And force your passage to the skies,And scale the mount of God.3Who suffer with our Master here,Shall there before his face appear,And by his side sit down:To patient faith the prize is sure;And all that to the end endureThe cross, shall wear the crown.

C. P. M.

Heavenward.Col. 3:2.

Come on, my partners in distress,My comrades in the wilderness,Who feel your sorrows still;A while forget your griefs and fearsAnd look beyond this vale of tearsTo that celestial hill.

Come on, my partners in distress,

My comrades in the wilderness,

Who feel your sorrows still;

A while forget your griefs and fears

And look beyond this vale of tears

To that celestial hill.

2Beyond the bounds of time and space,Look forward to that heavenly place,The saint’s secure abode;On faith’s strong eagle pinions rise,And force your passage to the skies,And scale the mount of God.

2Beyond the bounds of time and space,

Look forward to that heavenly place,

The saint’s secure abode;

On faith’s strong eagle pinions rise,

And force your passage to the skies,

And scale the mount of God.

3Who suffer with our Master here,Shall there before his face appear,And by his side sit down:To patient faith the prize is sure;And all that to the end endureThe cross, shall wear the crown.

3Who suffer with our Master here,

Shall there before his face appear,

And by his side sit down:

To patient faith the prize is sure;

And all that to the end endure

The cross, shall wear the crown.

51011s.Home.Phil. 3:20.’Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints,How sweet to my soul is communion with saints;To find at the banquet of mercy there’s room,And feel in the presence of Jesus at home.2Sweet bonds, that unite all the children of peace;And thrice blesséd Jesus, whose love can not cease;Though oft from thy presence in sadness I roam,I long to behold thee in glory at home.3While here in the valley of conflict I stray,O give me submission and strength as my day;In all my afflictions to thee would I come,Rejoicing in hope of my glorious home.4I long, dearest Lord, in thy beauty to shine;No more as an exile in sorrow to pine;And in thy dear image arise from the tomb,With glorified millions to praise thee at home.Denham.

11s.

Home.Phil. 3:20.

’Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints,How sweet to my soul is communion with saints;To find at the banquet of mercy there’s room,And feel in the presence of Jesus at home.

’Mid scenes of confusion and creature complaints,

How sweet to my soul is communion with saints;

To find at the banquet of mercy there’s room,

And feel in the presence of Jesus at home.

2Sweet bonds, that unite all the children of peace;And thrice blesséd Jesus, whose love can not cease;Though oft from thy presence in sadness I roam,I long to behold thee in glory at home.

2Sweet bonds, that unite all the children of peace;

And thrice blesséd Jesus, whose love can not cease;

Though oft from thy presence in sadness I roam,

I long to behold thee in glory at home.

3While here in the valley of conflict I stray,O give me submission and strength as my day;In all my afflictions to thee would I come,Rejoicing in hope of my glorious home.

3While here in the valley of conflict I stray,

O give me submission and strength as my day;

In all my afflictions to thee would I come,

Rejoicing in hope of my glorious home.

4I long, dearest Lord, in thy beauty to shine;No more as an exile in sorrow to pine;And in thy dear image arise from the tomb,With glorified millions to praise thee at home.

4I long, dearest Lord, in thy beauty to shine;

No more as an exile in sorrow to pine;

And in thy dear image arise from the tomb,

With glorified millions to praise thee at home.

Denham.

511S. H. M.Ephesians 4:5.One baptism and one faith,One Lord below, above,The fellowship of Zion hathOne only watchword—Love.From different temples though it rise,One song ascendeth to the skies.2Our sacrifice is One;One priest before the throne—The crucified, the risen Son,Redeemer, Lord alone!And sighs from contrite hearts that spring,Our chief, our choicest offering.3O why should they who loveOne gospel to unfold,Who look for one bright home above,On earth be strange and cold?Why, subjects of the Prince of Peace,In strife abide, and bitterness?4O may that holy prayer—His tenderest and his last,The utterance of his latest careEre to the cross he passed—No longer unfulfilled remain,The World’s offense, thy people’s stain!E. Robinson.

S. H. M.

Ephesians 4:5.

One baptism and one faith,One Lord below, above,The fellowship of Zion hathOne only watchword—Love.From different temples though it rise,One song ascendeth to the skies.

One baptism and one faith,

One Lord below, above,

The fellowship of Zion hath

One only watchword—Love.

From different temples though it rise,

One song ascendeth to the skies.

2Our sacrifice is One;One priest before the throne—The crucified, the risen Son,Redeemer, Lord alone!And sighs from contrite hearts that spring,Our chief, our choicest offering.

2Our sacrifice is One;

One priest before the throne—

The crucified, the risen Son,

Redeemer, Lord alone!

And sighs from contrite hearts that spring,

Our chief, our choicest offering.

3O why should they who loveOne gospel to unfold,Who look for one bright home above,On earth be strange and cold?Why, subjects of the Prince of Peace,In strife abide, and bitterness?

3O why should they who love

One gospel to unfold,

Who look for one bright home above,

On earth be strange and cold?

Why, subjects of the Prince of Peace,

In strife abide, and bitterness?

4O may that holy prayer—His tenderest and his last,The utterance of his latest careEre to the cross he passed—No longer unfulfilled remain,The World’s offense, thy people’s stain!

4O may that holy prayer—

His tenderest and his last,

The utterance of his latest care

Ere to the cross he passed—

No longer unfulfilled remain,

The World’s offense, thy people’s stain!

E. Robinson.

THE LORD’S SUPPER.512L. M.Glorying only in the cross.Gal. 6:14.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!2Forbid 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.3See 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?4Were the whole realm of nature mine,That were a present far too small;Love so amazing, so divine,Demands my soul, my life, my all!Watts.513L. M.Delight in Christ.Jesus, thou Joy of loving hearts!Thou Fount of Life! thou Light of men!From the best bliss that earth imparts,We turn unfilled to thee again.2Thy truth unchanged hath ever stood;Thou savest those that on thee call;To them that seek thee, thou art good,To them that find thee—All in All!3We taste thee, O thou Living Bread,And long to feed upon thee still;We drink of thee, the Fountain Head,And thirst our souls from thee to fill.4Our restless spirits yearn for thee,Where’er our changeful lot is cast;Glad, when thy gracious smile we see,Blest, when our faith can hold thee fast.5O Jesus, ever with us stay!Make all our moments calm and bright,Chase the dark night of sin away—Shed o’er the world thy holy light!Bernard.514L. M.Soft be the gently breathing notes.Soft be the gently breathing notesThat sing the Saviour’s dying love;Soft as the evening zephyr floats,Soft as the tuneful lyres above:Soft as the morning dews descend,While warbling birds exulting soar;So soft to our almighty FriendBe every sigh our bosoms pour.2Pure as the sun’s enlivening ray,That scatters life and joy abroad;Pure as the lucid orb of day,That wide proclaims its Maker, God;Pure as the breath of vernal skies,So pure let our contrition be;And purely let our sorrows riseTo him who bled upon the tree.Collyer.515L. M.Communion in Christ.How pleasing to behold and seeThe friends of Jesus all agree—To sit around the sacred boardAs members of one common Lord.2Here we behold the dawn of bliss—Here we behold the Saviour’s grace—Here we behold his precious blood,Which sweetly pleads for us with God.3While here we sit, we would imploreThat love may spread from shore to shore,Till all the saints, like us, combineTo praise the Lord in songs divine.4To all we freely give our hand,Who love the Lord in every land;For all are one in Christ our head,To whom be endless honors paid.Dobell.516L. M.Welcome to young converts.Welcome, ye hopeful heirs of heaven,To this rich feast of gospel love—This pledge is but the prelude givenTo that immortal feast above.2How great the blessing, thus to meetAccording to our Saviour’s word,And hold by faith communion sweet,With our unseen yet present Lord.3And if so sweet this feast below,What will it be to meet above,Where all we see, and feel, and know,Are fruits of everlasting love!4Soon shall we tune the heavenly lyre,While listening worlds the song approve;Eternity itself expire,Ere we exhaust the theme of love.517L. M.The last scenes.’Twas on that night when doomed to knowThe eager rage of every foe,That night in which he was betrayed,The Saviour of the world took bread;2And, after thanks and glory givenTo him that rules in earth and heaven,That symbol of his flesh he broke,And thus to all his followers spoke:3My broken body thus I giveTo you, my friends; take, eat, and live;And oft the sacred feast renew,That brings my wondrous love to view.4Then in his hands the cup he raised,And God anew he thanked and praised;While kindness in his bosom glowed,And from his lips salvation flowed.5My blood I thus pour forth, he cries,To cleanse the soul in sin that lies;In this the covenant is sealed,And heaven’s eternal grace revealed.6This cup is fraught with love to men;Let all partake who love my name;Through latest ages let it pourIn memory of my dying hour.518L. M.The bread of life.Away from earth my spirit turns—Away from every transient good:With strong desire my bosom burnsTo feast on heaven’s diviner food.2Thou, Saviour, art the living bread;Thou wilt my every want supply;By thee sustained, and cheered, and led,I’ll press through dangers to the sky.3What though temptations oft distress,And sin assails, and breaks my peace;Thou wilt uphold, and save, and bless,And bid the storms of passion cease.4Then let me take thy gracious hand,And walk beside thee onward still;Till my glad feet shall safely standForever firm on Zion’s hill.Palmer.519C. M.They came together to break bread.Acts 20:7.Lord, may the spirit of this feast—The earnest of thy love—Maintain a dwelling in our breastUntil we meet above.2The healing sense of pardoned sin,The hope that never tires,The strength a pilgrim’s race to win,The joy that heaven inspires:3Still may their light our duties traceIn lines of hallowed flame,Like that upon the prophet’s face,When from the mount he came.4But if no more with kindred dearThe broken bread we share,Nor at the banquet board appearTo breathe the grateful prayer;5Forget us not—when on the bedOf dire disease we waste,Or to the chambers of the dead,And bar of judgment haste.6Forget not—thou who bore the woeOf Calvary’s fatal tree—Those who within these courts belowHave thus remembered thee.Mrs. Sigourney.520C. M.Remembering Christ.If human kindness meets return,And owns the grateful tie—If tender thoughts within us burnTo feel a friend is nigh;2O, shall not warmer accents tellThe gratitude we oweTo him who died our fears to quell,And save from endless woe?3While yet his anguished soul surveyedThose pangs he would not flee,What love his latest words displayed—“Meet and remember me.”4Remember thee! thy death, thy shame,The griefs which thou didst bear!O memory, leave no other nameBut His recorded there.R. W. Noel.521C. M.Spiritual refreshment.O God, unseen yet ever near!Reveal thy presence now,While we, in love that hath no fear,Before thy glory bow.2Here may obedient spirits findThe blessings of thy love—The streams that through the desert wind,The manna from above.3Awhile beside the fount we stay,And eat this bread of thine,Then go, rejoicing, on our way,Renewed with strength divine.522C. M.Reception of members.Come in, thou blesséd of the Lord;Stranger nor foe art thou:We welcome thee with warm accord,Our friend, our brother now.2The hand of fellowship, the heartOf love, we offer thee:Leaving the world, thou dost but partFrom lies and vanity.3The cup of blessing which we bless,The heavenly bread we break—Our Saviour’s blood and righteousness,Freely with us partake.4In weal or woe, in joy or care,Thy portion shall be ours;Christians their mutual burdens bear;They lend their mutual powers.5Come with us, we will do thee good,As God to us hath done;Stand but in him, as those have stood,Whose faith the victory won.6And when, by turns, we pass awayAs star by star grows dim,May each, translated into day,Be lost, and found in him.Montgomery.523C. M.Blessed are the poor in spirit.Matt. 5:3.Lord, at thy table we beholdThe wonders of thy grace;But most of all admire that weShould find a welcome place.2What strange, surprising grace is this,That we, so lost, have room!Jesus our weary souls invites,And freely bids us come!3Ye saints below, and hosts of heaven,Join all your sacred powers:No theme is like redeeming love;No Saviour is like ours.Stennett.524C. M.In remembrance of me.1 Cor. 11:24.In memory of the Saviour’s love,We keep the sacred feast,Where every humble, contrite heartIs made a welcome guest.2Under his banner thus we singThe wonders of his love,And thus anticipate by faithThe heavenly feast above.525C. M.He was known of them, etc.Luke 24:35.Shepherd of souls, refresh and blessThy chosen pilgrim flock,With manna from the wilderness,With water from the rock.2Hungry and thirsty, faint and weak(As thou when here below),Our souls the joys celestial seek,That from thy sorrows flow.3We would not live by bread alone,But by thy word of grace—In strength of which we travel onTo our abiding place.4Be known to us in breaking bread,But do not then depart—Saviour abide with us, and spreadThy table in our heart.5Then sup with us in love divine;Thy body and thy blood,That living bread and heavenly wine,Be our immortal food.526S. M.You do show the Lord’s death.1 Cor. 11:26.Jesus, the Friend of man,Invites us to his board;The welcome summons we obey,And own our gracious Lord.2Here we show forth his love,Which spake in every breath,Prompted each action of his life,And triumphed in his death.3Here let our powers uniteHis honored name to raise;Let grateful joy fill every mind,And every voice be praise.4One faith, one hope, one LordOne God alone we know;Brethren we are; let every heartWith kind affections grow.Watts.527S. M.After the supper.Now let each happy guestThe sacred concert raise,To close the honors of the feast,And sing the Master’s praise.2His condescending loveFirst calls our wonder forth;He left the blesséd realms above,To dwell with men on earth.3His precepts, how divine!How suited to our state!How bright his acts of mercy shineHis promises how great!4Redemption’s glorious plan,How wondrous in our view!The salutary source to manOf peace and pardon too.528S. M.Truly our fellowship is with the Father, etc.1 John 1:3.Our heavenly Father calls,And Christ invites us near;With both, our friendship shall be sweet,And our communion dear.2God pities all our griefs:He pardons every day;Almighty to protect our souls,And wise to guide our way.3How large his bounties are!What various stores of good,Diffused from our Redeemer’s hand,And purchased with his blood!4Jesus, our living Head,We bless thy faithful care;Our Advocate before the throne,And our forerunner there.5Here fix my roving heart!Here wait my warmest love!Till the communion be complete,In nobler scenes above.Doddridge.529C. M.Take this, etc.Luke 22:17.Jesus invites his saintsTo meet around his board;Here pardoned rebels sit, and holdCommunion with their Lord.2This holy bread and wineMaintain our fainting breath,By union with our living Lord,And interest in his death.3Let all our powers be joinedHis glorious name to raise;Let holy love fill every mind,And every voice be praise.Watts.530S. M.And when they had sung a hymn, etc.Matt. 26:30.A parting hymn we sing,Around thy table, Lord;Again our grateful tribute bring,Our solemn vows record.2Here have we seen thy face,And felt thy presence here;So may the savor of thy graceIn word and life appear.3The purchase of thy blood—By sin no longer led—The path our dear Redeemer trodMay we rejoicing tread.4In self-forgetting loveBe Christian union shown,Until we join the Church above,And know as we are known.A. R. W.531S. M.Behold the Lamb of God.John 1:36.Not all the blood of beasts,On Jewish altars slain,Could give the guilty conscience peace,Or wash away its stain.2But Christ, the heavenly Lamb,Bears all our sins away;A sacrifice of nobler nameAnd richer blood than they.3My faith would lay her handOn that dear head of thine,While like a penitent I stand,And there confess my sin.4Believing, we rejoiceTo see the curse remove;We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice,And sing his dying love.Watts.532S. M.Foretastes.Mark 14:25.Blest feast of love divine!’Tis grace that makes us freeTo feed upon this bread and wine,In memory, Lord, of thee!2That blood which flowed for sin,In symbol here we see,And feel the blesséd pledge within,That we are loved of thee.3O, if this glimpse of loveBe so divinely sweet,What will it be, O Lord, above,Thy gladdening smile to meet!4To see thee face to face—Thy perfect likeness wear—And all thy ways of wondrous graceThrough endless years declare!5338s & 7s.I will draw all men unto me.John 12:32.It is finished! Man of Sorrows!From thy cross our frailty borrowsStrength to bear and conquer thus.2While extended there we view thee,Mighty Sufferer! draw us to thee;Sufferer victorious!3Not in vain for us uplifted,Man of Sorrows, wonder-gifted!May that sacred emblem be;4Lifted high amid the ages,Guide of heroes, saints, and sages;May it guide us still to thee!T. H. Hedge.5347s.The body and blood of Christ.Bread of heaven, on thee we feed,For thy flesh is meat indeed;Ever let our souls be fedWith this true and living bread.2Vine of heaven, thy blood suppliesThis blest cup of sacrifice;Lord, thy wounds our healing give;To thy cross we look and live.3Day by day with strength supplied,Through the life of him who died,Lord of life, O let us beRooted, grafted, built on thee.Conder.5358s & 7s.Leaving the Lord’s table.From the table now retiring,Which for us the Lord hath spread,May our souls, refreshment finding,Grow in all things like our Head.2His example by beholding,May our lives his image bear;Him our Lord and Master calling,His commands may we revere.3Love to God and man displaying,Walking steadfast in his way,Joy attend us in believing,Peace from God, through endless day.536P. M.It was for us.Near the cross our station taking,Earthly cares and joys forsaking,Meet it is for us to mourn:’Twas for us he came from heaven,’Twas for us his heart was riven;All his griefs for us were borne.2When no eye its pity gave us,When there was no arm to save us,He his love and power displayed:By his stripes our help and healing,By his death our life revealing,He for us the ransom paid.3Jesus, may thy love constrain us,That from sin we may refrain us,In thy griefs may deeply grieve;Thee our best affections giving,To thy praise and honor living,May we in thy glory live!537P. M.My peace I give unto you.Lamb of God! whose bleeding loveWe now recall to mind,Send thy blessing from above,And let us mercy find;Think on us, who think on thee;Every burdened soul release;O, remember Calvary,And bid us go in peace!2By thine agonizing pain,And bloody sweat, we pray—By thy dying love to man,Take all our sins away:By thy passion on the tree,Let our griefs and troubles cease:O, remember Calvary,And bid us go in peace!C. Wesley.5388s & 7s.Looking to Jesus.Heb. 12:2.Sweet the moments, rich in blessing,Which before the cross I spend;Life, and health, and peace possessing,From the sinner’s dying friend.2Here I’ll sit, for ever viewingMercy streaming in his blood;Precious drops! my soul bedewing,Plead they now my peace with God.3Truly blesséd is this station,Here unfolds his wondrous grace;While I see divine compassionBeaming in his lovely face.4Here it is I find my heaven,While upon the cross I gaze;Here the joy of sins forgivenShall inspire my songs of praise.5Love and grief my heart dividing,While his feet I bathe with tears;Constant still in faith abiding—Hope triumphant o’er my fears.6Lord! in ceaseless contemplation,Fix my trusting heart on thee,Till I know thy full salvation,And thy face in glory see.Altered from Batty.539P. M.My meditation shall be sweet.Psalm 104:34.Here I sink before thee lowly,Filled with gladness deep and holy,As with trembling awe and wonderOn thy mighty work I ponder—On this banquet’s mystery,On the depths we can not see:Far beyond all mortal sightLie the secrets of thy might.2Sun, who all my life dost brighten!Light, who dost my soul enlighten!Joy, the sweetest man e’er knoweth!Fount, whence all my being floweth!Humbly draw I near to thee;Grant that I may worthilyTake this blesséd heavenly food,To thy praise, and to my good.3Jesus, Bread of Life from heaven,Never be thou vainly given,Nor I to my hurt invited;Be thy love with love requited;Let me learn its depths indeed,While on thee my soul doth feed;Let me, here so richly blest,Be hereafter, too, thy guest.5408s & 7s.Whom having not seen, we love.1 Pet. 1:8.While in sweet communion feedingOn this earthly bread and wine,Saviour may we see thee bleedingOn the cross to make us thine.2Though unseen, now be thou near us,With the still small voice of love,Whispering words of peace to cheer us—Every doubt and fear remove.3Bring before us all the story,Of thy life, and death of woe!And with hopes of endless glory,Wean our hearts from all below.541P. M.To Him be glory.Eph. 3:21.Jesus has died for me,Glory to God!From sin he set me free,Glory to God!And, if I trust his grace,I soon shall win the race;Then see his lovely face,Glory to God.2Soon, I shall sing above,Glory to God!Tell of his wondrous love,Glory to God:Free from all death and wrong,Then shall my notes prolongOne loud, triumphant song,Glory to God!W. T. Moore.5426s & 4s.Christ our confidence.My faith looks up to thee,Thou Lamb of Calvary:Saviour divine,Now hear me while I pray;Take all my guilt away;O, let me, from this day,Be wholly thine.2May thy rich grace impartStrength to my fainting heart;My zeal inspire;As thou hast died for me,O may my love to theePure, warm, and changeless be—A living fire.3While life’s dark maze I tread,And griefs around me spread,Be thou my guide;Bid darkness turn to day,Wipe sorrow’s tears away,Nor let me ever strayFrom thee aside.4When ends life’s transient dream,When death’s cold, sullen streamShall o’er me roll;Blest Saviour, then, in love,Fear and distress remove;O bear me safe above—A ransomed soul.Ray Palmer.5437s & 6s.The Cross—the power of God.1 Cor. 1:18.I saw the cross of JesusWhen burdened with my sin;I sought the cross of JesusTo give me peace within;I brought my soul to Jesus;He cleansed it in his blood;And in the cross of JesusI found my peace with God.2I love the cross of Jesus—It tells what I am;A vile and guilty creature,Saved only through the Lamb.No righteousness, no merit,No beauty can I plead;Yet in the cross I glory,My title there I read.3I clasp the cross of JesusIn every trying hour,My sure and certain refuge,My never-failing tower.In every fear and conflict,I more than conqueror am;Living I’m safe, or dying,Through Christ the risen Lamb.4Sweet is the cross of Jesus!There let my weary heartStill rest in peace and safetyTill life itself depart;And then in strains of gloryI’ll sing thy wondrous power,Where sin can never enter,And death is known no more.F. Whitfield.54410s.Communion of the body and blood of Christ.Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face;Here would I touch and handle things unseen;Here grasp with firmer hand the eternal grace,And all my weariness upon thee lean.2Here would I feed upon the bread of God;Here drink with thee the royal wine of heaven;Here would I lay aside each earthly load,Here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven.3Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear;The feast, though not the love, is passed and gone:The bread and wine remove, but thou art here—Nearer than ever—still my Shield and Sun.4Feast after feast thus comes and passes by;Yet, passing, points to the glad feast above—Giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy,The Lamb’s great bridal feast of bliss and love.545H. M.Believing, we rejoice.1 Peter 1:8.Ye saints, your music bring,Attuned to sweetest sound,Strike every trembling string,Till earth and heaven resound;The triumphs of the cross we sing;Awake, ye saints, each joyful string.2The cross, the cross alone,Subdued the powers of hell;Like lightning from his throneThe prince of darkness fell,The triumphs of the cross we sing,Awake, ye saints, each joyful string.3The cross hath power to saveFrom all the foes that rise;The cross hath made the graveA passage to the skies;The triumphs of the cross we sing;Awake, ye saints, each joyful string.Reed.5467s, 6 lines.The true Passover.Once the angel started back,When he saw the blood-stained door,Pausing on his vengeful track,And the dwelling passing o’er.Once the sea from Israel fled,Ere it rolled o’er Egypt’s dead.2Now our Passover is come,Dimly shadowed in the past,And the very Paschal Lamb,Christ, the Lord, is slain at last.Then with hearts and hands made meet,Our unleavened bread we’ll eat.3Blesséd Victim sent from heaven,Whom all angel hosts obey,To whose will all earth is given,At whose word hell shrinks away.Thou hast conquered death’s dread strife,Thou hast brought us light and life.Bishop Williams.

512L. M.Glorying only in the cross.Gal. 6:14.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!2Forbid 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.3See 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?4Were the whole realm of nature mine,That were a present far too small;Love so amazing, so divine,Demands my soul, my life, my all!Watts.

L. M.

Glorying only in the cross.Gal. 6:14.

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!

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!

2Forbid 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.

2Forbid 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.

3See 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?

3See 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?

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

4Were the whole realm of nature mine,

That were a present far too small;

Love so amazing, so divine,

Demands my soul, my life, my all!

Watts.

513L. M.Delight in Christ.Jesus, thou Joy of loving hearts!Thou Fount of Life! thou Light of men!From the best bliss that earth imparts,We turn unfilled to thee again.2Thy truth unchanged hath ever stood;Thou savest those that on thee call;To them that seek thee, thou art good,To them that find thee—All in All!3We taste thee, O thou Living Bread,And long to feed upon thee still;We drink of thee, the Fountain Head,And thirst our souls from thee to fill.4Our restless spirits yearn for thee,Where’er our changeful lot is cast;Glad, when thy gracious smile we see,Blest, when our faith can hold thee fast.5O Jesus, ever with us stay!Make all our moments calm and bright,Chase the dark night of sin away—Shed o’er the world thy holy light!Bernard.

L. M.

Delight in Christ.

Jesus, thou Joy of loving hearts!Thou Fount of Life! thou Light of men!From the best bliss that earth imparts,We turn unfilled to thee again.

Jesus, thou Joy of loving hearts!

Thou Fount of Life! thou Light of men!

From the best bliss that earth imparts,

We turn unfilled to thee again.

2Thy truth unchanged hath ever stood;Thou savest those that on thee call;To them that seek thee, thou art good,To them that find thee—All in All!

2Thy truth unchanged hath ever stood;

Thou savest those that on thee call;

To them that seek thee, thou art good,

To them that find thee—All in All!

3We taste thee, O thou Living Bread,And long to feed upon thee still;We drink of thee, the Fountain Head,And thirst our souls from thee to fill.

3We taste thee, O thou Living Bread,

And long to feed upon thee still;

We drink of thee, the Fountain Head,

And thirst our souls from thee to fill.

4Our restless spirits yearn for thee,Where’er our changeful lot is cast;Glad, when thy gracious smile we see,Blest, when our faith can hold thee fast.

4Our restless spirits yearn for thee,

Where’er our changeful lot is cast;

Glad, when thy gracious smile we see,

Blest, when our faith can hold thee fast.

5O Jesus, ever with us stay!Make all our moments calm and bright,Chase the dark night of sin away—Shed o’er the world thy holy light!

5O Jesus, ever with us stay!

Make all our moments calm and bright,

Chase the dark night of sin away—

Shed o’er the world thy holy light!

Bernard.

514L. M.Soft be the gently breathing notes.Soft be the gently breathing notesThat sing the Saviour’s dying love;Soft as the evening zephyr floats,Soft as the tuneful lyres above:Soft as the morning dews descend,While warbling birds exulting soar;So soft to our almighty FriendBe every sigh our bosoms pour.2Pure as the sun’s enlivening ray,That scatters life and joy abroad;Pure as the lucid orb of day,That wide proclaims its Maker, God;Pure as the breath of vernal skies,So pure let our contrition be;And purely let our sorrows riseTo him who bled upon the tree.Collyer.

L. M.

Soft be the gently breathing notes.

Soft be the gently breathing notesThat sing the Saviour’s dying love;Soft as the evening zephyr floats,Soft as the tuneful lyres above:Soft as the morning dews descend,While warbling birds exulting soar;So soft to our almighty FriendBe every sigh our bosoms pour.

Soft be the gently breathing notes

That sing the Saviour’s dying love;

Soft as the evening zephyr floats,

Soft as the tuneful lyres above:

Soft as the morning dews descend,

While warbling birds exulting soar;

So soft to our almighty Friend

Be every sigh our bosoms pour.

2Pure as the sun’s enlivening ray,That scatters life and joy abroad;Pure as the lucid orb of day,That wide proclaims its Maker, God;Pure as the breath of vernal skies,So pure let our contrition be;And purely let our sorrows riseTo him who bled upon the tree.

2Pure as the sun’s enlivening ray,

That scatters life and joy abroad;

Pure as the lucid orb of day,

That wide proclaims its Maker, God;

Pure as the breath of vernal skies,

So pure let our contrition be;

And purely let our sorrows rise

To him who bled upon the tree.

Collyer.

515L. M.Communion in Christ.How pleasing to behold and seeThe friends of Jesus all agree—To sit around the sacred boardAs members of one common Lord.2Here we behold the dawn of bliss—Here we behold the Saviour’s grace—Here we behold his precious blood,Which sweetly pleads for us with God.3While here we sit, we would imploreThat love may spread from shore to shore,Till all the saints, like us, combineTo praise the Lord in songs divine.4To all we freely give our hand,Who love the Lord in every land;For all are one in Christ our head,To whom be endless honors paid.Dobell.

L. M.

Communion in Christ.

How pleasing to behold and seeThe friends of Jesus all agree—To sit around the sacred boardAs members of one common Lord.

How pleasing to behold and see

The friends of Jesus all agree—

To sit around the sacred board

As members of one common Lord.

2Here we behold the dawn of bliss—Here we behold the Saviour’s grace—Here we behold his precious blood,Which sweetly pleads for us with God.

2Here we behold the dawn of bliss—

Here we behold the Saviour’s grace—

Here we behold his precious blood,

Which sweetly pleads for us with God.

3While here we sit, we would imploreThat love may spread from shore to shore,Till all the saints, like us, combineTo praise the Lord in songs divine.

3While here we sit, we would implore

That love may spread from shore to shore,

Till all the saints, like us, combine

To praise the Lord in songs divine.

4To all we freely give our hand,Who love the Lord in every land;For all are one in Christ our head,To whom be endless honors paid.

4To all we freely give our hand,

Who love the Lord in every land;

For all are one in Christ our head,

To whom be endless honors paid.

Dobell.

516L. M.Welcome to young converts.Welcome, ye hopeful heirs of heaven,To this rich feast of gospel love—This pledge is but the prelude givenTo that immortal feast above.2How great the blessing, thus to meetAccording to our Saviour’s word,And hold by faith communion sweet,With our unseen yet present Lord.3And if so sweet this feast below,What will it be to meet above,Where all we see, and feel, and know,Are fruits of everlasting love!4Soon shall we tune the heavenly lyre,While listening worlds the song approve;Eternity itself expire,Ere we exhaust the theme of love.

L. M.

Welcome to young converts.

Welcome, ye hopeful heirs of heaven,To this rich feast of gospel love—This pledge is but the prelude givenTo that immortal feast above.

Welcome, ye hopeful heirs of heaven,

To this rich feast of gospel love—

This pledge is but the prelude given

To that immortal feast above.

2How great the blessing, thus to meetAccording to our Saviour’s word,And hold by faith communion sweet,With our unseen yet present Lord.

2How great the blessing, thus to meet

According to our Saviour’s word,

And hold by faith communion sweet,

With our unseen yet present Lord.

3And if so sweet this feast below,What will it be to meet above,Where all we see, and feel, and know,Are fruits of everlasting love!

3And if so sweet this feast below,

What will it be to meet above,

Where all we see, and feel, and know,

Are fruits of everlasting love!

4Soon shall we tune the heavenly lyre,While listening worlds the song approve;Eternity itself expire,Ere we exhaust the theme of love.

4Soon shall we tune the heavenly lyre,

While listening worlds the song approve;

Eternity itself expire,

Ere we exhaust the theme of love.

517L. M.The last scenes.’Twas on that night when doomed to knowThe eager rage of every foe,That night in which he was betrayed,The Saviour of the world took bread;2And, after thanks and glory givenTo him that rules in earth and heaven,That symbol of his flesh he broke,And thus to all his followers spoke:3My broken body thus I giveTo you, my friends; take, eat, and live;And oft the sacred feast renew,That brings my wondrous love to view.4Then in his hands the cup he raised,And God anew he thanked and praised;While kindness in his bosom glowed,And from his lips salvation flowed.5My blood I thus pour forth, he cries,To cleanse the soul in sin that lies;In this the covenant is sealed,And heaven’s eternal grace revealed.6This cup is fraught with love to men;Let all partake who love my name;Through latest ages let it pourIn memory of my dying hour.

L. M.

The last scenes.

’Twas on that night when doomed to knowThe eager rage of every foe,That night in which he was betrayed,The Saviour of the world took bread;

’Twas on that night when doomed to know

The eager rage of every foe,

That night in which he was betrayed,

The Saviour of the world took bread;

2And, after thanks and glory givenTo him that rules in earth and heaven,That symbol of his flesh he broke,And thus to all his followers spoke:

2And, after thanks and glory given

To him that rules in earth and heaven,

That symbol of his flesh he broke,

And thus to all his followers spoke:

3My broken body thus I giveTo you, my friends; take, eat, and live;And oft the sacred feast renew,That brings my wondrous love to view.

3My broken body thus I give

To you, my friends; take, eat, and live;

And oft the sacred feast renew,

That brings my wondrous love to view.

4Then in his hands the cup he raised,And God anew he thanked and praised;While kindness in his bosom glowed,And from his lips salvation flowed.

4Then in his hands the cup he raised,

And God anew he thanked and praised;

While kindness in his bosom glowed,

And from his lips salvation flowed.

5My blood I thus pour forth, he cries,To cleanse the soul in sin that lies;In this the covenant is sealed,And heaven’s eternal grace revealed.

5My blood I thus pour forth, he cries,

To cleanse the soul in sin that lies;

In this the covenant is sealed,

And heaven’s eternal grace revealed.

6This cup is fraught with love to men;Let all partake who love my name;Through latest ages let it pourIn memory of my dying hour.

6This cup is fraught with love to men;

Let all partake who love my name;

Through latest ages let it pour

In memory of my dying hour.

518L. M.The bread of life.Away from earth my spirit turns—Away from every transient good:With strong desire my bosom burnsTo feast on heaven’s diviner food.2Thou, Saviour, art the living bread;Thou wilt my every want supply;By thee sustained, and cheered, and led,I’ll press through dangers to the sky.3What though temptations oft distress,And sin assails, and breaks my peace;Thou wilt uphold, and save, and bless,And bid the storms of passion cease.4Then let me take thy gracious hand,And walk beside thee onward still;Till my glad feet shall safely standForever firm on Zion’s hill.Palmer.

L. M.

The bread of life.

Away from earth my spirit turns—Away from every transient good:With strong desire my bosom burnsTo feast on heaven’s diviner food.

Away from earth my spirit turns—

Away from every transient good:

With strong desire my bosom burns

To feast on heaven’s diviner food.

2Thou, Saviour, art the living bread;Thou wilt my every want supply;By thee sustained, and cheered, and led,I’ll press through dangers to the sky.

2Thou, Saviour, art the living bread;

Thou wilt my every want supply;

By thee sustained, and cheered, and led,

I’ll press through dangers to the sky.

3What though temptations oft distress,And sin assails, and breaks my peace;Thou wilt uphold, and save, and bless,And bid the storms of passion cease.

3What though temptations oft distress,

And sin assails, and breaks my peace;

Thou wilt uphold, and save, and bless,

And bid the storms of passion cease.

4Then let me take thy gracious hand,And walk beside thee onward still;Till my glad feet shall safely standForever firm on Zion’s hill.

4Then let me take thy gracious hand,

And walk beside thee onward still;

Till my glad feet shall safely stand

Forever firm on Zion’s hill.

Palmer.

519C. M.They came together to break bread.Acts 20:7.Lord, may the spirit of this feast—The earnest of thy love—Maintain a dwelling in our breastUntil we meet above.2The healing sense of pardoned sin,The hope that never tires,The strength a pilgrim’s race to win,The joy that heaven inspires:3Still may their light our duties traceIn lines of hallowed flame,Like that upon the prophet’s face,When from the mount he came.4But if no more with kindred dearThe broken bread we share,Nor at the banquet board appearTo breathe the grateful prayer;5Forget us not—when on the bedOf dire disease we waste,Or to the chambers of the dead,And bar of judgment haste.6Forget not—thou who bore the woeOf Calvary’s fatal tree—Those who within these courts belowHave thus remembered thee.Mrs. Sigourney.

C. M.

They came together to break bread.Acts 20:7.

Lord, may the spirit of this feast—The earnest of thy love—Maintain a dwelling in our breastUntil we meet above.

Lord, may the spirit of this feast—

The earnest of thy love—

Maintain a dwelling in our breast

Until we meet above.

2The healing sense of pardoned sin,The hope that never tires,The strength a pilgrim’s race to win,The joy that heaven inspires:

2The healing sense of pardoned sin,

The hope that never tires,

The strength a pilgrim’s race to win,

The joy that heaven inspires:

3Still may their light our duties traceIn lines of hallowed flame,Like that upon the prophet’s face,When from the mount he came.

3Still may their light our duties trace

In lines of hallowed flame,

Like that upon the prophet’s face,

When from the mount he came.

4But if no more with kindred dearThe broken bread we share,Nor at the banquet board appearTo breathe the grateful prayer;

4But if no more with kindred dear

The broken bread we share,

Nor at the banquet board appear

To breathe the grateful prayer;

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

5Forget us not—when on the bed

Of dire disease we waste,

Or to the chambers of the dead,

And bar of judgment haste.

6Forget not—thou who bore the woeOf Calvary’s fatal tree—Those who within these courts belowHave thus remembered thee.

6Forget not—thou who bore the woe

Of Calvary’s fatal tree—

Those who within these courts below

Have thus remembered thee.

Mrs. Sigourney.

520C. M.Remembering Christ.If human kindness meets return,And owns the grateful tie—If tender thoughts within us burnTo feel a friend is nigh;2O, shall not warmer accents tellThe gratitude we oweTo him who died our fears to quell,And save from endless woe?3While yet his anguished soul surveyedThose pangs he would not flee,What love his latest words displayed—“Meet and remember me.”4Remember thee! thy death, thy shame,The griefs which thou didst bear!O memory, leave no other nameBut His recorded there.R. W. Noel.

C. M.

Remembering Christ.

If human kindness meets return,And owns the grateful tie—If tender thoughts within us burnTo feel a friend is nigh;

If human kindness meets return,

And owns the grateful tie—

If tender thoughts within us burn

To feel a friend is nigh;

2O, shall not warmer accents tellThe gratitude we oweTo him who died our fears to quell,And save from endless woe?

2O, shall not warmer accents tell

The gratitude we owe

To him who died our fears to quell,

And save from endless woe?

3While yet his anguished soul surveyedThose pangs he would not flee,What love his latest words displayed—“Meet and remember me.”

3While yet his anguished soul surveyed

Those pangs he would not flee,

What love his latest words displayed—

“Meet and remember me.”

4Remember thee! thy death, thy shame,The griefs which thou didst bear!O memory, leave no other nameBut His recorded there.

4Remember thee! thy death, thy shame,

The griefs which thou didst bear!

O memory, leave no other name

But His recorded there.

R. W. Noel.

521C. M.Spiritual refreshment.O God, unseen yet ever near!Reveal thy presence now,While we, in love that hath no fear,Before thy glory bow.2Here may obedient spirits findThe blessings of thy love—The streams that through the desert wind,The manna from above.3Awhile beside the fount we stay,And eat this bread of thine,Then go, rejoicing, on our way,Renewed with strength divine.

C. M.

Spiritual refreshment.

O God, unseen yet ever near!Reveal thy presence now,While we, in love that hath no fear,Before thy glory bow.

O God, unseen yet ever near!

Reveal thy presence now,

While we, in love that hath no fear,

Before thy glory bow.

2Here may obedient spirits findThe blessings of thy love—The streams that through the desert wind,The manna from above.

2Here may obedient spirits find

The blessings of thy love—

The streams that through the desert wind,

The manna from above.

3Awhile beside the fount we stay,And eat this bread of thine,Then go, rejoicing, on our way,Renewed with strength divine.

3Awhile beside the fount we stay,

And eat this bread of thine,

Then go, rejoicing, on our way,

Renewed with strength divine.

522C. M.Reception of members.Come in, thou blesséd of the Lord;Stranger nor foe art thou:We welcome thee with warm accord,Our friend, our brother now.2The hand of fellowship, the heartOf love, we offer thee:Leaving the world, thou dost but partFrom lies and vanity.3The cup of blessing which we bless,The heavenly bread we break—Our Saviour’s blood and righteousness,Freely with us partake.4In weal or woe, in joy or care,Thy portion shall be ours;Christians their mutual burdens bear;They lend their mutual powers.5Come with us, we will do thee good,As God to us hath done;Stand but in him, as those have stood,Whose faith the victory won.6And when, by turns, we pass awayAs star by star grows dim,May each, translated into day,Be lost, and found in him.Montgomery.

C. M.

Reception of members.

Come in, thou blesséd of the Lord;Stranger nor foe art thou:We welcome thee with warm accord,Our friend, our brother now.

Come in, thou blesséd of the Lord;

Stranger nor foe art thou:

We welcome thee with warm accord,

Our friend, our brother now.

2The hand of fellowship, the heartOf love, we offer thee:Leaving the world, thou dost but partFrom lies and vanity.

2The hand of fellowship, the heart

Of love, we offer thee:

Leaving the world, thou dost but part

From lies and vanity.

3The cup of blessing which we bless,The heavenly bread we break—Our Saviour’s blood and righteousness,Freely with us partake.

3The cup of blessing which we bless,

The heavenly bread we break—

Our Saviour’s blood and righteousness,

Freely with us partake.

4In weal or woe, in joy or care,Thy portion shall be ours;Christians their mutual burdens bear;They lend their mutual powers.

4In weal or woe, in joy or care,

Thy portion shall be ours;

Christians their mutual burdens bear;

They lend their mutual powers.

5Come with us, we will do thee good,As God to us hath done;Stand but in him, as those have stood,Whose faith the victory won.

5Come with us, we will do thee good,

As God to us hath done;

Stand but in him, as those have stood,

Whose faith the victory won.

6And when, by turns, we pass awayAs star by star grows dim,May each, translated into day,Be lost, and found in him.

6And when, by turns, we pass away

As star by star grows dim,

May each, translated into day,

Be lost, and found in him.

Montgomery.

523C. M.Blessed are the poor in spirit.Matt. 5:3.Lord, at thy table we beholdThe wonders of thy grace;But most of all admire that weShould find a welcome place.2What strange, surprising grace is this,That we, so lost, have room!Jesus our weary souls invites,And freely bids us come!3Ye saints below, and hosts of heaven,Join all your sacred powers:No theme is like redeeming love;No Saviour is like ours.Stennett.

C. M.

Blessed are the poor in spirit.Matt. 5:3.

Lord, at thy table we beholdThe wonders of thy grace;But most of all admire that weShould find a welcome place.

Lord, at thy table we behold

The wonders of thy grace;

But most of all admire that we

Should find a welcome place.

2What strange, surprising grace is this,That we, so lost, have room!Jesus our weary souls invites,And freely bids us come!

2What strange, surprising grace is this,

That we, so lost, have room!

Jesus our weary souls invites,

And freely bids us come!

3Ye saints below, and hosts of heaven,Join all your sacred powers:No theme is like redeeming love;No Saviour is like ours.

3Ye saints below, and hosts of heaven,

Join all your sacred powers:

No theme is like redeeming love;

No Saviour is like ours.

Stennett.

524C. M.In remembrance of me.1 Cor. 11:24.In memory of the Saviour’s love,We keep the sacred feast,Where every humble, contrite heartIs made a welcome guest.2Under his banner thus we singThe wonders of his love,And thus anticipate by faithThe heavenly feast above.

C. M.

In remembrance of me.1 Cor. 11:24.

In memory of the Saviour’s love,We keep the sacred feast,Where every humble, contrite heartIs made a welcome guest.

In memory of the Saviour’s love,

We keep the sacred feast,

Where every humble, contrite heart

Is made a welcome guest.

2Under his banner thus we singThe wonders of his love,And thus anticipate by faithThe heavenly feast above.

2Under his banner thus we sing

The wonders of his love,

And thus anticipate by faith

The heavenly feast above.

525C. M.He was known of them, etc.Luke 24:35.Shepherd of souls, refresh and blessThy chosen pilgrim flock,With manna from the wilderness,With water from the rock.2Hungry and thirsty, faint and weak(As thou when here below),Our souls the joys celestial seek,That from thy sorrows flow.3We would not live by bread alone,But by thy word of grace—In strength of which we travel onTo our abiding place.4Be known to us in breaking bread,But do not then depart—Saviour abide with us, and spreadThy table in our heart.5Then sup with us in love divine;Thy body and thy blood,That living bread and heavenly wine,Be our immortal food.

C. M.

He was known of them, etc.Luke 24:35.

Shepherd of souls, refresh and blessThy chosen pilgrim flock,With manna from the wilderness,With water from the rock.

Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless

Thy chosen pilgrim flock,

With manna from the wilderness,

With water from the rock.

2Hungry and thirsty, faint and weak(As thou when here below),Our souls the joys celestial seek,That from thy sorrows flow.

2Hungry and thirsty, faint and weak

(As thou when here below),

Our souls the joys celestial seek,

That from thy sorrows flow.

3We would not live by bread alone,But by thy word of grace—In strength of which we travel onTo our abiding place.

3We would not live by bread alone,

But by thy word of grace—

In strength of which we travel on

To our abiding place.

4Be known to us in breaking bread,But do not then depart—Saviour abide with us, and spreadThy table in our heart.

4Be known to us in breaking bread,

But do not then depart—

Saviour abide with us, and spread

Thy table in our heart.

5Then sup with us in love divine;Thy body and thy blood,That living bread and heavenly wine,Be our immortal food.

5Then sup with us in love divine;

Thy body and thy blood,

That living bread and heavenly wine,

Be our immortal food.

526S. M.You do show the Lord’s death.1 Cor. 11:26.Jesus, the Friend of man,Invites us to his board;The welcome summons we obey,And own our gracious Lord.2Here we show forth his love,Which spake in every breath,Prompted each action of his life,And triumphed in his death.3Here let our powers uniteHis honored name to raise;Let grateful joy fill every mind,And every voice be praise.4One faith, one hope, one LordOne God alone we know;Brethren we are; let every heartWith kind affections grow.Watts.

S. M.

You do show the Lord’s death.1 Cor. 11:26.

Jesus, the Friend of man,Invites us to his board;The welcome summons we obey,And own our gracious Lord.

Jesus, the Friend of man,

Invites us to his board;

The welcome summons we obey,

And own our gracious Lord.

2Here we show forth his love,Which spake in every breath,Prompted each action of his life,And triumphed in his death.

2Here we show forth his love,

Which spake in every breath,

Prompted each action of his life,

And triumphed in his death.

3Here let our powers uniteHis honored name to raise;Let grateful joy fill every mind,And every voice be praise.

3Here let our powers unite

His honored name to raise;

Let grateful joy fill every mind,

And every voice be praise.

4One faith, one hope, one LordOne God alone we know;Brethren we are; let every heartWith kind affections grow.

4One faith, one hope, one Lord

One God alone we know;

Brethren we are; let every heart

With kind affections grow.

Watts.

527S. M.After the supper.Now let each happy guestThe sacred concert raise,To close the honors of the feast,And sing the Master’s praise.2His condescending loveFirst calls our wonder forth;He left the blesséd realms above,To dwell with men on earth.3His precepts, how divine!How suited to our state!How bright his acts of mercy shineHis promises how great!4Redemption’s glorious plan,How wondrous in our view!The salutary source to manOf peace and pardon too.

S. M.

After the supper.

Now let each happy guestThe sacred concert raise,To close the honors of the feast,And sing the Master’s praise.

Now let each happy guest

The sacred concert raise,

To close the honors of the feast,

And sing the Master’s praise.

2His condescending loveFirst calls our wonder forth;He left the blesséd realms above,To dwell with men on earth.

2His condescending love

First calls our wonder forth;

He left the blesséd realms above,

To dwell with men on earth.

3His precepts, how divine!How suited to our state!How bright his acts of mercy shineHis promises how great!

3His precepts, how divine!

How suited to our state!

How bright his acts of mercy shine

His promises how great!

4Redemption’s glorious plan,How wondrous in our view!The salutary source to manOf peace and pardon too.

4Redemption’s glorious plan,

How wondrous in our view!

The salutary source to man

Of peace and pardon too.

528S. M.Truly our fellowship is with the Father, etc.1 John 1:3.Our heavenly Father calls,And Christ invites us near;With both, our friendship shall be sweet,And our communion dear.2God pities all our griefs:He pardons every day;Almighty to protect our souls,And wise to guide our way.3How large his bounties are!What various stores of good,Diffused from our Redeemer’s hand,And purchased with his blood!4Jesus, our living Head,We bless thy faithful care;Our Advocate before the throne,And our forerunner there.5Here fix my roving heart!Here wait my warmest love!Till the communion be complete,In nobler scenes above.Doddridge.

S. M.

Truly our fellowship is with the Father, etc.1 John 1:3.

Our heavenly Father calls,And Christ invites us near;With both, our friendship shall be sweet,And our communion dear.

Our heavenly Father calls,

And Christ invites us near;

With both, our friendship shall be sweet,

And our communion dear.

2God pities all our griefs:He pardons every day;Almighty to protect our souls,And wise to guide our way.

2God pities all our griefs:

He pardons every day;

Almighty to protect our souls,

And wise to guide our way.

3How large his bounties are!What various stores of good,Diffused from our Redeemer’s hand,And purchased with his blood!

3How large his bounties are!

What various stores of good,

Diffused from our Redeemer’s hand,

And purchased with his blood!

4Jesus, our living Head,We bless thy faithful care;Our Advocate before the throne,And our forerunner there.

4Jesus, our living Head,

We bless thy faithful care;

Our Advocate before the throne,

And our forerunner there.

5Here fix my roving heart!Here wait my warmest love!Till the communion be complete,In nobler scenes above.

5Here fix my roving heart!

Here wait my warmest love!

Till the communion be complete,

In nobler scenes above.

Doddridge.

529C. M.Take this, etc.Luke 22:17.Jesus invites his saintsTo meet around his board;Here pardoned rebels sit, and holdCommunion with their Lord.2This holy bread and wineMaintain our fainting breath,By union with our living Lord,And interest in his death.3Let all our powers be joinedHis glorious name to raise;Let holy love fill every mind,And every voice be praise.Watts.

C. M.

Take this, etc.Luke 22:17.

Jesus invites his saintsTo meet around his board;Here pardoned rebels sit, and holdCommunion with their Lord.

Jesus invites his saints

To meet around his board;

Here pardoned rebels sit, and hold

Communion with their Lord.

2This holy bread and wineMaintain our fainting breath,By union with our living Lord,And interest in his death.

2This holy bread and wine

Maintain our fainting breath,

By union with our living Lord,

And interest in his death.

3Let all our powers be joinedHis glorious name to raise;Let holy love fill every mind,And every voice be praise.

3Let all our powers be joined

His glorious name to raise;

Let holy love fill every mind,

And every voice be praise.

Watts.

530S. M.And when they had sung a hymn, etc.Matt. 26:30.A parting hymn we sing,Around thy table, Lord;Again our grateful tribute bring,Our solemn vows record.2Here have we seen thy face,And felt thy presence here;So may the savor of thy graceIn word and life appear.3The purchase of thy blood—By sin no longer led—The path our dear Redeemer trodMay we rejoicing tread.4In self-forgetting loveBe Christian union shown,Until we join the Church above,And know as we are known.A. R. W.

S. M.

And when they had sung a hymn, etc.Matt. 26:30.

A parting hymn we sing,Around thy table, Lord;Again our grateful tribute bring,Our solemn vows record.

A parting hymn we sing,

Around thy table, Lord;

Again our grateful tribute bring,

Our solemn vows record.

2Here have we seen thy face,And felt thy presence here;So may the savor of thy graceIn word and life appear.

2Here have we seen thy face,

And felt thy presence here;

So may the savor of thy grace

In word and life appear.

3The purchase of thy blood—By sin no longer led—The path our dear Redeemer trodMay we rejoicing tread.

3The purchase of thy blood—

By sin no longer led—

The path our dear Redeemer trod

May we rejoicing tread.

4In self-forgetting loveBe Christian union shown,Until we join the Church above,And know as we are known.

4In self-forgetting love

Be Christian union shown,

Until we join the Church above,

And know as we are known.

A. R. W.

531S. M.Behold the Lamb of God.John 1:36.Not all the blood of beasts,On Jewish altars slain,Could give the guilty conscience peace,Or wash away its stain.2But Christ, the heavenly Lamb,Bears all our sins away;A sacrifice of nobler nameAnd richer blood than they.3My faith would lay her handOn that dear head of thine,While like a penitent I stand,And there confess my sin.4Believing, we rejoiceTo see the curse remove;We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice,And sing his dying love.Watts.

S. M.

Behold the Lamb of God.John 1:36.

Not all the blood of beasts,On Jewish altars slain,Could give the guilty conscience peace,Or wash away its stain.

Not all the blood of beasts,

On Jewish altars slain,

Could give the guilty conscience peace,

Or wash away its stain.

2But Christ, the heavenly Lamb,Bears all our sins away;A sacrifice of nobler nameAnd richer blood than they.

2But Christ, the heavenly Lamb,

Bears all our sins away;

A sacrifice of nobler name

And richer blood than they.

3My faith would lay her handOn that dear head of thine,While like a penitent I stand,And there confess my sin.

3My faith would lay her hand

On that dear head of thine,

While like a penitent I stand,

And there confess my sin.

4Believing, we rejoiceTo see the curse remove;We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice,And sing his dying love.

4Believing, we rejoice

To see the curse remove;

We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice,

And sing his dying love.

Watts.

532S. M.Foretastes.Mark 14:25.Blest feast of love divine!’Tis grace that makes us freeTo feed upon this bread and wine,In memory, Lord, of thee!2That blood which flowed for sin,In symbol here we see,And feel the blesséd pledge within,That we are loved of thee.3O, if this glimpse of loveBe so divinely sweet,What will it be, O Lord, above,Thy gladdening smile to meet!4To see thee face to face—Thy perfect likeness wear—And all thy ways of wondrous graceThrough endless years declare!

S. M.

Foretastes.Mark 14:25.

Blest feast of love divine!’Tis grace that makes us freeTo feed upon this bread and wine,In memory, Lord, of thee!

Blest feast of love divine!

’Tis grace that makes us free

To feed upon this bread and wine,

In memory, Lord, of thee!

2That blood which flowed for sin,In symbol here we see,And feel the blesséd pledge within,That we are loved of thee.

2That blood which flowed for sin,

In symbol here we see,

And feel the blesséd pledge within,

That we are loved of thee.

3O, if this glimpse of loveBe so divinely sweet,What will it be, O Lord, above,Thy gladdening smile to meet!

3O, if this glimpse of love

Be so divinely sweet,

What will it be, O Lord, above,

Thy gladdening smile to meet!

4To see thee face to face—Thy perfect likeness wear—And all thy ways of wondrous graceThrough endless years declare!

4To see thee face to face—

Thy perfect likeness wear—

And all thy ways of wondrous grace

Through endless years declare!

5338s & 7s.I will draw all men unto me.John 12:32.It is finished! Man of Sorrows!From thy cross our frailty borrowsStrength to bear and conquer thus.2While extended there we view thee,Mighty Sufferer! draw us to thee;Sufferer victorious!3Not in vain for us uplifted,Man of Sorrows, wonder-gifted!May that sacred emblem be;4Lifted high amid the ages,Guide of heroes, saints, and sages;May it guide us still to thee!T. H. Hedge.

8s & 7s.

I will draw all men unto me.John 12:32.

It is finished! Man of Sorrows!From thy cross our frailty borrowsStrength to bear and conquer thus.

It is finished! Man of Sorrows!

From thy cross our frailty borrows

Strength to bear and conquer thus.

2While extended there we view thee,Mighty Sufferer! draw us to thee;Sufferer victorious!

2While extended there we view thee,

Mighty Sufferer! draw us to thee;

Sufferer victorious!

3Not in vain for us uplifted,Man of Sorrows, wonder-gifted!May that sacred emblem be;

3Not in vain for us uplifted,

Man of Sorrows, wonder-gifted!

May that sacred emblem be;

4Lifted high amid the ages,Guide of heroes, saints, and sages;May it guide us still to thee!

4Lifted high amid the ages,

Guide of heroes, saints, and sages;

May it guide us still to thee!

T. H. Hedge.

5347s.The body and blood of Christ.Bread of heaven, on thee we feed,For thy flesh is meat indeed;Ever let our souls be fedWith this true and living bread.2Vine of heaven, thy blood suppliesThis blest cup of sacrifice;Lord, thy wounds our healing give;To thy cross we look and live.3Day by day with strength supplied,Through the life of him who died,Lord of life, O let us beRooted, grafted, built on thee.Conder.

7s.

The body and blood of Christ.

Bread of heaven, on thee we feed,For thy flesh is meat indeed;Ever let our souls be fedWith this true and living bread.

Bread of heaven, on thee we feed,

For thy flesh is meat indeed;

Ever let our souls be fed

With this true and living bread.

2Vine of heaven, thy blood suppliesThis blest cup of sacrifice;Lord, thy wounds our healing give;To thy cross we look and live.

2Vine of heaven, thy blood supplies

This blest cup of sacrifice;

Lord, thy wounds our healing give;

To thy cross we look and live.

3Day by day with strength supplied,Through the life of him who died,Lord of life, O let us beRooted, grafted, built on thee.

3Day by day with strength supplied,

Through the life of him who died,

Lord of life, O let us be

Rooted, grafted, built on thee.

Conder.

5358s & 7s.Leaving the Lord’s table.From the table now retiring,Which for us the Lord hath spread,May our souls, refreshment finding,Grow in all things like our Head.2His example by beholding,May our lives his image bear;Him our Lord and Master calling,His commands may we revere.3Love to God and man displaying,Walking steadfast in his way,Joy attend us in believing,Peace from God, through endless day.

8s & 7s.

Leaving the Lord’s table.

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

From the table now retiring,

Which for us the Lord hath spread,

May our souls, refreshment finding,

Grow in all things like our Head.

2His example by beholding,May our lives his image bear;Him our Lord and Master calling,His commands may we revere.

2His example by beholding,

May our lives his image bear;

Him our Lord and Master calling,

His commands may we revere.

3Love to God and man displaying,Walking steadfast in his way,Joy attend us in believing,Peace from God, through endless day.

3Love to God and man displaying,

Walking steadfast in his way,

Joy attend us in believing,

Peace from God, through endless day.

536P. M.It was for us.Near the cross our station taking,Earthly cares and joys forsaking,Meet it is for us to mourn:’Twas for us he came from heaven,’Twas for us his heart was riven;All his griefs for us were borne.2When no eye its pity gave us,When there was no arm to save us,He his love and power displayed:By his stripes our help and healing,By his death our life revealing,He for us the ransom paid.3Jesus, may thy love constrain us,That from sin we may refrain us,In thy griefs may deeply grieve;Thee our best affections giving,To thy praise and honor living,May we in thy glory live!

P. M.

It was for us.

Near the cross our station taking,Earthly cares and joys forsaking,Meet it is for us to mourn:’Twas for us he came from heaven,’Twas for us his heart was riven;All his griefs for us were borne.

Near the cross our station taking,

Earthly cares and joys forsaking,

Meet it is for us to mourn:

’Twas for us he came from heaven,

’Twas for us his heart was riven;

All his griefs for us were borne.

2When no eye its pity gave us,When there was no arm to save us,He his love and power displayed:By his stripes our help and healing,By his death our life revealing,He for us the ransom paid.

2When no eye its pity gave us,

When there was no arm to save us,

He his love and power displayed:

By his stripes our help and healing,

By his death our life revealing,

He for us the ransom paid.

3Jesus, may thy love constrain us,That from sin we may refrain us,In thy griefs may deeply grieve;Thee our best affections giving,To thy praise and honor living,May we in thy glory live!

3Jesus, may thy love constrain us,

That from sin we may refrain us,

In thy griefs may deeply grieve;

Thee our best affections giving,

To thy praise and honor living,

May we in thy glory live!

537P. M.My peace I give unto you.Lamb of God! whose bleeding loveWe now recall to mind,Send thy blessing from above,And let us mercy find;Think on us, who think on thee;Every burdened soul release;O, remember Calvary,And bid us go in peace!2By thine agonizing pain,And bloody sweat, we pray—By thy dying love to man,Take all our sins away:By thy passion on the tree,Let our griefs and troubles cease:O, remember Calvary,And bid us go in peace!C. Wesley.

P. M.

My peace I give unto you.

Lamb of God! whose bleeding loveWe now recall to mind,Send thy blessing from above,And let us mercy find;Think on us, who think on thee;Every burdened soul release;O, remember Calvary,And bid us go in peace!

Lamb of God! whose bleeding love

We now recall to mind,

Send thy blessing from above,

And let us mercy find;

Think on us, who think on thee;

Every burdened soul release;

O, remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace!

2By thine agonizing pain,And bloody sweat, we pray—By thy dying love to man,Take all our sins away:By thy passion on the tree,Let our griefs and troubles cease:O, remember Calvary,And bid us go in peace!

2By thine agonizing pain,

And bloody sweat, we pray—

By thy dying love to man,

Take all our sins away:

By thy passion on the tree,

Let our griefs and troubles cease:

O, remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace!

C. Wesley.

5388s & 7s.Looking to Jesus.Heb. 12:2.Sweet the moments, rich in blessing,Which before the cross I spend;Life, and health, and peace possessing,From the sinner’s dying friend.2Here I’ll sit, for ever viewingMercy streaming in his blood;Precious drops! my soul bedewing,Plead they now my peace with God.3Truly blesséd is this station,Here unfolds his wondrous grace;While I see divine compassionBeaming in his lovely face.4Here it is I find my heaven,While upon the cross I gaze;Here the joy of sins forgivenShall inspire my songs of praise.5Love and grief my heart dividing,While his feet I bathe with tears;Constant still in faith abiding—Hope triumphant o’er my fears.6Lord! in ceaseless contemplation,Fix my trusting heart on thee,Till I know thy full salvation,And thy face in glory see.Altered from Batty.

8s & 7s.

Looking to Jesus.Heb. 12:2.

Sweet the moments, rich in blessing,Which before the cross I spend;Life, and health, and peace possessing,From the sinner’s dying friend.

Sweet the moments, rich in blessing,

Which before the cross I spend;

Life, and health, and peace possessing,

From the sinner’s dying friend.

2Here I’ll sit, for ever viewingMercy streaming in his blood;Precious drops! my soul bedewing,Plead they now my peace with God.

2Here I’ll sit, for ever viewing

Mercy streaming in his blood;

Precious drops! my soul bedewing,

Plead they now my peace with God.

3Truly blesséd is this station,Here unfolds his wondrous grace;While I see divine compassionBeaming in his lovely face.

3Truly blesséd is this station,

Here unfolds his wondrous grace;

While I see divine compassion

Beaming in his lovely face.

4Here it is I find my heaven,While upon the cross I gaze;Here the joy of sins forgivenShall inspire my songs of praise.

4Here it is I find my heaven,

While upon the cross I gaze;

Here the joy of sins forgiven

Shall inspire my songs of praise.

5Love and grief my heart dividing,While his feet I bathe with tears;Constant still in faith abiding—Hope triumphant o’er my fears.

5Love and grief my heart dividing,

While his feet I bathe with tears;

Constant still in faith abiding—

Hope triumphant o’er my fears.

6Lord! in ceaseless contemplation,Fix my trusting heart on thee,Till I know thy full salvation,And thy face in glory see.

6Lord! in ceaseless contemplation,

Fix my trusting heart on thee,

Till I know thy full salvation,

And thy face in glory see.

Altered from Batty.

539P. M.My meditation shall be sweet.Psalm 104:34.Here I sink before thee lowly,Filled with gladness deep and holy,As with trembling awe and wonderOn thy mighty work I ponder—On this banquet’s mystery,On the depths we can not see:Far beyond all mortal sightLie the secrets of thy might.2Sun, who all my life dost brighten!Light, who dost my soul enlighten!Joy, the sweetest man e’er knoweth!Fount, whence all my being floweth!Humbly draw I near to thee;Grant that I may worthilyTake this blesséd heavenly food,To thy praise, and to my good.3Jesus, Bread of Life from heaven,Never be thou vainly given,Nor I to my hurt invited;Be thy love with love requited;Let me learn its depths indeed,While on thee my soul doth feed;Let me, here so richly blest,Be hereafter, too, thy guest.

P. M.

My meditation shall be sweet.Psalm 104:34.

Here I sink before thee lowly,Filled with gladness deep and holy,As with trembling awe and wonderOn thy mighty work I ponder—On this banquet’s mystery,On the depths we can not see:Far beyond all mortal sightLie the secrets of thy might.

Here I sink before thee lowly,

Filled with gladness deep and holy,

As with trembling awe and wonder

On thy mighty work I ponder—

On this banquet’s mystery,

On the depths we can not see:

Far beyond all mortal sight

Lie the secrets of thy might.

2Sun, who all my life dost brighten!Light, who dost my soul enlighten!Joy, the sweetest man e’er knoweth!Fount, whence all my being floweth!Humbly draw I near to thee;Grant that I may worthilyTake this blesséd heavenly food,To thy praise, and to my good.

2Sun, who all my life dost brighten!

Light, who dost my soul enlighten!

Joy, the sweetest man e’er knoweth!

Fount, whence all my being floweth!

Humbly draw I near to thee;

Grant that I may worthily

Take this blesséd heavenly food,

To thy praise, and to my good.

3Jesus, Bread of Life from heaven,Never be thou vainly given,Nor I to my hurt invited;Be thy love with love requited;Let me learn its depths indeed,While on thee my soul doth feed;Let me, here so richly blest,Be hereafter, too, thy guest.

3Jesus, Bread of Life from heaven,

Never be thou vainly given,

Nor I to my hurt invited;

Be thy love with love requited;

Let me learn its depths indeed,

While on thee my soul doth feed;

Let me, here so richly blest,

Be hereafter, too, thy guest.

5408s & 7s.Whom having not seen, we love.1 Pet. 1:8.While in sweet communion feedingOn this earthly bread and wine,Saviour may we see thee bleedingOn the cross to make us thine.2Though unseen, now be thou near us,With the still small voice of love,Whispering words of peace to cheer us—Every doubt and fear remove.3Bring before us all the story,Of thy life, and death of woe!And with hopes of endless glory,Wean our hearts from all below.

8s & 7s.

Whom having not seen, we love.1 Pet. 1:8.

While in sweet communion feedingOn this earthly bread and wine,Saviour may we see thee bleedingOn the cross to make us thine.

While in sweet communion feeding

On this earthly bread and wine,

Saviour may we see thee bleeding

On the cross to make us thine.

2Though unseen, now be thou near us,With the still small voice of love,Whispering words of peace to cheer us—Every doubt and fear remove.

2Though unseen, now be thou near us,

With the still small voice of love,

Whispering words of peace to cheer us—

Every doubt and fear remove.

3Bring before us all the story,Of thy life, and death of woe!And with hopes of endless glory,Wean our hearts from all below.

3Bring before us all the story,

Of thy life, and death of woe!

And with hopes of endless glory,

Wean our hearts from all below.

541P. M.To Him be glory.Eph. 3:21.Jesus has died for me,Glory to God!From sin he set me free,Glory to God!And, if I trust his grace,I soon shall win the race;Then see his lovely face,Glory to God.2Soon, I shall sing above,Glory to God!Tell of his wondrous love,Glory to God:Free from all death and wrong,Then shall my notes prolongOne loud, triumphant song,Glory to God!W. T. Moore.

P. M.

To Him be glory.Eph. 3:21.

Jesus has died for me,Glory to God!From sin he set me free,Glory to God!And, if I trust his grace,I soon shall win the race;Then see his lovely face,Glory to God.

Jesus has died for me,

Glory to God!

From sin he set me free,

Glory to God!

And, if I trust his grace,

I soon shall win the race;

Then see his lovely face,

Glory to God.

2Soon, I shall sing above,Glory to God!Tell of his wondrous love,Glory to God:Free from all death and wrong,Then shall my notes prolongOne loud, triumphant song,Glory to God!

2Soon, I shall sing above,

Glory to God!

Tell of his wondrous love,

Glory to God:

Free from all death and wrong,

Then shall my notes prolong

One loud, triumphant song,

Glory to God!

W. T. Moore.

5426s & 4s.Christ our confidence.My faith looks up to thee,Thou Lamb of Calvary:Saviour divine,Now hear me while I pray;Take all my guilt away;O, let me, from this day,Be wholly thine.2May thy rich grace impartStrength to my fainting heart;My zeal inspire;As thou hast died for me,O may my love to theePure, warm, and changeless be—A living fire.3While life’s dark maze I tread,And griefs around me spread,Be thou my guide;Bid darkness turn to day,Wipe sorrow’s tears away,Nor let me ever strayFrom thee aside.4When ends life’s transient dream,When death’s cold, sullen streamShall o’er me roll;Blest Saviour, then, in love,Fear and distress remove;O bear me safe above—A ransomed soul.Ray Palmer.

6s & 4s.

Christ our confidence.

My faith looks up to thee,Thou Lamb of Calvary:Saviour divine,Now hear me while I pray;Take all my guilt away;O, let me, from this day,Be wholly thine.

My faith looks up to thee,

Thou Lamb of Calvary:

Saviour divine,

Now hear me while I pray;

Take all my guilt away;

O, let me, from this day,

Be wholly thine.

2May thy rich grace impartStrength to my fainting heart;My zeal inspire;As thou hast died for me,O may my love to theePure, warm, and changeless be—A living fire.

2May thy rich grace impart

Strength to my fainting heart;

My zeal inspire;

As thou hast died for me,

O may my love to thee

Pure, warm, and changeless be—

A living fire.

3While life’s dark maze I tread,And griefs around me spread,Be thou my guide;Bid darkness turn to day,Wipe sorrow’s tears away,Nor let me ever strayFrom thee aside.

3While life’s dark maze I tread,

And griefs around me spread,

Be thou my guide;

Bid darkness turn to day,

Wipe sorrow’s tears away,

Nor let me ever stray

From thee aside.

4When ends life’s transient dream,When death’s cold, sullen streamShall o’er me roll;Blest Saviour, then, in love,Fear and distress remove;O bear me safe above—A ransomed soul.

4When ends life’s transient dream,

When death’s cold, sullen stream

Shall o’er me roll;

Blest Saviour, then, in love,

Fear and distress remove;

O bear me safe above—

A ransomed soul.

Ray Palmer.

5437s & 6s.The Cross—the power of God.1 Cor. 1:18.I saw the cross of JesusWhen burdened with my sin;I sought the cross of JesusTo give me peace within;I brought my soul to Jesus;He cleansed it in his blood;And in the cross of JesusI found my peace with God.2I love the cross of Jesus—It tells what I am;A vile and guilty creature,Saved only through the Lamb.No righteousness, no merit,No beauty can I plead;Yet in the cross I glory,My title there I read.3I clasp the cross of JesusIn every trying hour,My sure and certain refuge,My never-failing tower.In every fear and conflict,I more than conqueror am;Living I’m safe, or dying,Through Christ the risen Lamb.4Sweet is the cross of Jesus!There let my weary heartStill rest in peace and safetyTill life itself depart;And then in strains of gloryI’ll sing thy wondrous power,Where sin can never enter,And death is known no more.F. Whitfield.

7s & 6s.

The Cross—the power of God.1 Cor. 1:18.

I saw the cross of JesusWhen burdened with my sin;I sought the cross of JesusTo give me peace within;I brought my soul to Jesus;He cleansed it in his blood;And in the cross of JesusI found my peace with God.

I saw the cross of Jesus

When burdened with my sin;

I sought the cross of Jesus

To give me peace within;

I brought my soul to Jesus;

He cleansed it in his blood;

And in the cross of Jesus

I found my peace with God.

2I love the cross of Jesus—It tells what I am;A vile and guilty creature,Saved only through the Lamb.No righteousness, no merit,No beauty can I plead;Yet in the cross I glory,My title there I read.

2I love the cross of Jesus—

It tells what I am;

A vile and guilty creature,

Saved only through the Lamb.

No righteousness, no merit,

No beauty can I plead;

Yet in the cross I glory,

My title there I read.

3I clasp the cross of JesusIn every trying hour,My sure and certain refuge,My never-failing tower.In every fear and conflict,I more than conqueror am;Living I’m safe, or dying,Through Christ the risen Lamb.

3I clasp the cross of Jesus

In every trying hour,

My sure and certain refuge,

My never-failing tower.

In every fear and conflict,

I more than conqueror am;

Living I’m safe, or dying,

Through Christ the risen Lamb.

4Sweet is the cross of Jesus!There let my weary heartStill rest in peace and safetyTill life itself depart;And then in strains of gloryI’ll sing thy wondrous power,Where sin can never enter,And death is known no more.

4Sweet is the cross of Jesus!

There let my weary heart

Still rest in peace and safety

Till life itself depart;

And then in strains of glory

I’ll sing thy wondrous power,

Where sin can never enter,

And death is known no more.

F. Whitfield.

54410s.Communion of the body and blood of Christ.Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face;Here would I touch and handle things unseen;Here grasp with firmer hand the eternal grace,And all my weariness upon thee lean.2Here would I feed upon the bread of God;Here drink with thee the royal wine of heaven;Here would I lay aside each earthly load,Here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven.3Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear;The feast, though not the love, is passed and gone:The bread and wine remove, but thou art here—Nearer than ever—still my Shield and Sun.4Feast after feast thus comes and passes by;Yet, passing, points to the glad feast above—Giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy,The Lamb’s great bridal feast of bliss and love.

10s.

Communion of the body and blood of Christ.

Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face;Here would I touch and handle things unseen;Here grasp with firmer hand the eternal grace,And all my weariness upon thee lean.

Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face;

Here would I touch and handle things unseen;

Here grasp with firmer hand the eternal grace,

And all my weariness upon thee lean.

2Here would I feed upon the bread of God;Here drink with thee the royal wine of heaven;Here would I lay aside each earthly load,Here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven.

2Here would I feed upon the bread of God;

Here drink with thee the royal wine of heaven;

Here would I lay aside each earthly load,

Here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven.

3Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear;The feast, though not the love, is passed and gone:The bread and wine remove, but thou art here—Nearer than ever—still my Shield and Sun.

3Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear;

The feast, though not the love, is passed and gone:

The bread and wine remove, but thou art here—

Nearer than ever—still my Shield and Sun.

4Feast after feast thus comes and passes by;Yet, passing, points to the glad feast above—Giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy,The Lamb’s great bridal feast of bliss and love.

4Feast after feast thus comes and passes by;

Yet, passing, points to the glad feast above—

Giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy,

The Lamb’s great bridal feast of bliss and love.

545H. M.Believing, we rejoice.1 Peter 1:8.Ye saints, your music bring,Attuned to sweetest sound,Strike every trembling string,Till earth and heaven resound;The triumphs of the cross we sing;Awake, ye saints, each joyful string.2The cross, the cross alone,Subdued the powers of hell;Like lightning from his throneThe prince of darkness fell,The triumphs of the cross we sing,Awake, ye saints, each joyful string.3The cross hath power to saveFrom all the foes that rise;The cross hath made the graveA passage to the skies;The triumphs of the cross we sing;Awake, ye saints, each joyful string.Reed.

H. M.

Believing, we rejoice.1 Peter 1:8.

Ye saints, your music bring,Attuned to sweetest sound,Strike every trembling string,Till earth and heaven resound;The triumphs of the cross we sing;Awake, ye saints, each joyful string.

Ye saints, your music bring,

Attuned to sweetest sound,

Strike every trembling string,

Till earth and heaven resound;

The triumphs of the cross we sing;

Awake, ye saints, each joyful string.

2The cross, the cross alone,Subdued the powers of hell;Like lightning from his throneThe prince of darkness fell,The triumphs of the cross we sing,Awake, ye saints, each joyful string.

2The cross, the cross alone,

Subdued the powers of hell;

Like lightning from his throne

The prince of darkness fell,

The triumphs of the cross we sing,

Awake, ye saints, each joyful string.

3The cross hath power to saveFrom all the foes that rise;The cross hath made the graveA passage to the skies;The triumphs of the cross we sing;Awake, ye saints, each joyful string.

3The cross hath power to save

From all the foes that rise;

The cross hath made the grave

A passage to the skies;

The triumphs of the cross we sing;

Awake, ye saints, each joyful string.

Reed.

5467s, 6 lines.The true Passover.Once the angel started back,When he saw the blood-stained door,Pausing on his vengeful track,And the dwelling passing o’er.Once the sea from Israel fled,Ere it rolled o’er Egypt’s dead.2Now our Passover is come,Dimly shadowed in the past,And the very Paschal Lamb,Christ, the Lord, is slain at last.Then with hearts and hands made meet,Our unleavened bread we’ll eat.3Blesséd Victim sent from heaven,Whom all angel hosts obey,To whose will all earth is given,At whose word hell shrinks away.Thou hast conquered death’s dread strife,Thou hast brought us light and life.Bishop Williams.

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The true Passover.

Once the angel started back,When he saw the blood-stained door,Pausing on his vengeful track,And the dwelling passing o’er.Once the sea from Israel fled,Ere it rolled o’er Egypt’s dead.

Once the angel started back,

When he saw the blood-stained door,

Pausing on his vengeful track,

And the dwelling passing o’er.

Once the sea from Israel fled,

Ere it rolled o’er Egypt’s dead.

2Now our Passover is come,Dimly shadowed in the past,And the very Paschal Lamb,Christ, the Lord, is slain at last.Then with hearts and hands made meet,Our unleavened bread we’ll eat.

2Now our Passover is come,

Dimly shadowed in the past,

And the very Paschal Lamb,

Christ, the Lord, is slain at last.

Then with hearts and hands made meet,

Our unleavened bread we’ll eat.

3Blesséd Victim sent from heaven,Whom all angel hosts obey,To whose will all earth is given,At whose word hell shrinks away.Thou hast conquered death’s dread strife,Thou hast brought us light and life.

3Blesséd Victim sent from heaven,

Whom all angel hosts obey,

To whose will all earth is given,

At whose word hell shrinks away.

Thou hast conquered death’s dread strife,

Thou hast brought us light and life.

Bishop Williams.

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