I A PARTING hymn we sing

Around Thy table, Lord;
Again our grateful tribute bring,
Our solemn vows record.
2 Here have we seen Thy face,

And felt Thy presence here;
So may the savor of Thy grace

In word and life appear.

3 The purchase of Thy blood, By sin no longer led,

The path our dear Redeemer trod, May we rejoicing tread.

4 In self-forgetting love

Be our communion shown, Until we join the Church above, And know as we are known.

2 That so Thy wondrous way

May through the world be known; While distant lands their tribute pay, And Thy salvation own.

3 Oh let them shout and sing

With joy and pious mirth;

For Thou,the righteous Judge and King, Shalt govern all the earth.

4 Let differing nations join

To celebrate Thy fame;

Let all the world, O Lord, combine
To praise Thy glorious name.

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I To God the only wise,

Our Saviour and our King,

Let all the saints below the skies,
Their humble praises bring.

2 'Tis His almighty love,

His counsel and His care, Preserves us safe from sin and death, And every hurtful snare.

3 He will present our souls,

Unblemished and complete,
Before the glory of His face,
With joys divinely great.

4 To our Redeemer-God

Wisdom and power belong,
Immortal crowns of majesty,
And everlasting song.

SHACKFORD. C. M.

950

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I How sweet, how heavenly is the sight,
When those who love the Lord
In one another's peace delight,
And so fulfil his word:

2 When 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:

3 When, free from envy, scorn and pride,
Our wishes all above,
Each can his brother's failings hide,
And show a brother's love!

4 Let love in one delightful stream

Through every bosom flow,

And union sweet, and dear esteem,

In every action glow.

5 Love is the golden chain that binds
The happy souls above;

And he's an heir of heaven who finds
His bosom glow with love.

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I OUR Souls by love together knit,
Cemented, mixed in one,

One hope, one heart, one mind, one voice,

'Tis heaven on earth begun.

2 Our hearts have often burned within,
And glowed with sacred fire,
While Jesus spoke,and fed,and blessed,
And filled the enlarged desire.

I 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.
2 Those joys which earth cannot afford,
We'll seek in fellowship to prove,
Joined in one Spirit to our Lord,
Together bound by mutual love.

3 And 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 our brother's cares our own.

4 Once more our welcome we repeat;
Receive assurance of our love;
Oh may we all together meet
Around the throne of God above!

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

2 To each the soul of each how dear!
What jealous love, what holy fear!
How doth the generous flame within
Refine from earth and cleanse from sin!
3 Their streaming tears together flow
For human guilt and mortal woe;
Their ardent prayers together rise
Like mingling flames in sacrifice.

4 Together oft they seek the place Where God reveals His awful face; How high, how strong, their raptures swell,

There's none but kindred souls can tell.

5 Nor shall the glowing flame expire When nature droops her sickening fire; Then shall they meet in realms above, A heaven of joy, a heaven of love.

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I O LORD, how joyful 'tis to see

The brethren join in love to Thee!
On Thee alone their heart relies;
Their only strength Thy grace supplies.
2 How sweet, within Thy holy place,
With one accord to sing Thy grace,
Besieging Thine attentive ear
With all the force of fervent prayer.

3 Oh may we love the house of God,
Of peace and joy the blest abode ;
Oh may no angry strife destroy
That sacred peace, that holy joy.

4 The world without may rage, but we Will only cling more close to Thee, With hearts to Thee more wholly given, More weaned from earth, more fixed on Heaven.

5 Lord, shower upon us from above
The sacred gift of mutual love ;
Each other's wants may we supply,
And reign together in the sky.

OLMUTZ. S. M.

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I BLEST be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love:
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.

2 Before our Father's throne

We pour our ardent prayers;

Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares.

3 We share our mutual woes,

Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows

The sympathizing tear.

4 When we asunder part,

It gives us inward pain;

But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.

5 This glorious hope revives

Our courage by the way;
While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.

6 From sorrow, toil, and pain,

And sin, we shall be free,

And perfect love and friendship reign.
Through all eternity.

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I FOR all Thy saints, O Lord,

Who strove in Thee to live, Who followed Thee, obeyed, adored, Our grateful hymn receive.

2 For all Thy saints, O Lord, Accept our thankful cry,

Who counted Thee their great reward, And strove in Thee to die.

3 They all, in life or death,

With Thee, their Lord, in view, Learned from Thy Holy Spirit's breath To suffer and to do.

4 For this, Thy name we bless,
And humbly pray that we
May follow them in holiness,
And live and die in Thee.

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I OH what, if we are Christ's,
Is earthly shame or loss?
Bright shall the crown of glory be,
When we have borne the cross.

2 Keen was the trial once,
Bitter the cup of woe,

When martyred saints, baptized in blood,

Christ's sufferings shared below.

3 Bright is their glory now,

Boundless their joy above,
Where, on the bosom of their God,
They rest in perfect love.

4 Lord, may that grace be ours,
Like them in faith to bear
All that of sorrow, grief, or pain
May be our portion here !

1 COME, let us join our friends above
That have obtained the prize;
And on the eagle wings of love,
To joys celestial rise.

2 Let all the saints terrestrial sing

With those to glory gone;

For all the servants of our King, In heaven and earth, are one. 3 One family, we dwell in Him,

One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream,

The narrow stream of death.

4 One army of the living God,

To His command we bow;
Part of His host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.

5 Ten thousand to their endless home
This solemn moment fly;
And we are to the margin come,
And we expect to die.

6 His militant, embodied host,

With wishful looks we stand, And long to see that happy coast, And reach the heavenly land.

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I GIVE me the wings of faith, to rise
Within the veil, and see

The saints above, how great their joys,
How bright their glories be.

2 Once they were mourning here below,
And wet their couch with tears;
They wrestled hard, as we do now,
With sins and doubts and fears.

3 I ask them, whence their victory came;
They, with united breath,
Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,
Their triumph to His death.

4 They marked the footsteps He had trod;
His zeal inspired their breast;
And, following their incarnate God,
Possess the promised rest.

5 Our glorious Leader claims our praise For His own pattern given,

While the long cloud of witnesses
Show the same path to heaven.

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I GLORY to God! whose witness-train,
Those heroes bold in faith,
Could smile on poverty and pain,
And triumph e'en in death.

2 God whom we serve, our God, can save,
Can damp the scorching flame,
Can build an ark, can smooth the wave,
For such as love His name.

3 Lord, if Thine arm support us still
With its eternal strength,
We shall o'ercome the mightiest ill,

And conquerors prove at length.