By Thy passion on the tree, Let all our griefs and troubles cease; O! remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace.

Never will we hence depart,

Till Thou our wants relieve, Write forgiveness on our heart, And all Thine image give! Still our souls shall cry to Thee Till perfected in holiness; O! remember Calvary, And bid us go in peace.

CHARLES WESLEY.

475. United Worship.

MATTHEW Xviii. 20.

T cannot be inappropriate to mark the transition from the Eucharistic Hymns to those for the Lord's day and public worship by these well-known stanzas of Cowper. The special allusions in some of the verses are explained by the fact that the Hymn was composed for the opening of a room for prayer-meetings at Olney, in 1769. Here the poet in his happier days often led the devotions.

As a specimen of unwarrantable interpolations, the following additions to the Hymn, by Mr. Keble, may be quoted from the Sarum Hymnbook. After verse 4 Mr. Keble adds:

"Here to the babe new born on earth
Grant Thou the newer, better birth;

By water and the Holy Ghost
Restoring all that Adam lost.

For Thou, within no walls confined,
Inhabitest the humble mind;
Such ever bring Thee where they come,
And going, take Thee to their home.

Dear Shepherd of Thy chosen few!
Thy former mercies here renew;
Here, to our waiting hearts, proclaim
The sweetness of Thy saving name.

Here may we prove the power of prayer,
To strengthen faith and sweeten care:
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heaven before our eyes.
[Behold, at Thy commanding word,
We stretch the curtain and the cord;
Come Thou, and fill this wider space,
And bless us with a large increase.]

Lord, we are few, but Thou art near ;
Nor short Thine arm, nor deaf Thine ear:
Oh rend the heavens, come quickly down,
And make our waiting hearts Thine own.

On the lone mountain side, Before the morning's light,

The Man of Sorrows wept and cried, And rose refreshed with might.

Oh hear us, then, for we

Are very weak and frail; We make the Saviour's name our plea, And surely must prevail.

C. H. SPURGEON.

477. Rest and Worship.

REVELATION i. 10.

HE only one of the author's many Hymns that is likely to live, and that for its tender restful tone rather than for any poetic excellence. These five verses are from a longer poem of fourteen. In many hymn-books a second verse is added by a different writer:

"Come bless the Lord, whose love assigns So sweet a rest to wearied minds; Provides an antepast of heaven,

And gives this day the food of seven." This inversion of the history of the manna is undoubtedly ingenious and interesting; but the addition as a whole scarcely improves the Hymn.

L.M.

ANOTHER six days' work is done,

Another Sabbath is begun,
Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest,
Improve the day thy God hath blest.

Oh that our thoughts and thanks may rise
As grateful incense to the skies,
And draw from heaven that sweet repose
Which none but he that feels it knows.

This heavenly calm within the breast.
Is the dear pledge of glorious rest,
Which for the church of God remains,
The end of cares, the end of pains.

With joy, great God, Thy works we view
In various scenes both old and new;
With praise we think on mercies past,
With hope we future pleasures taste.

In holy duties let the day,
In holy pleasures, pass away;
How sweet a Sabbath thus to spend
In hope of one that ne'er shall end!

DR. JOSEPH STENNETT.