4

What various stores of good,

Diffused from our Redeemer's hand,
And purchased with his blood!

Jesus, our living head,

We bless thy faithful care;
Our advocate before the throne,
And our forerunner there.

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

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June 29. 8s & 7s.

Sicilian Hymn.

A MORNING SONG.

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself."-Luke x. 27.

1

WELCOME now another morning,

While we meet our God to praise,

And, our daily work returning,

First to him our voice to raise.

2 Let us think how time is passingSoon the longest life departs, Nothing human is abiding,

Save the love of humble hearts.

3 Love to God and to our neighbor
Makes our purest happiness;
Vain the wish, the care, the labor,
Earth's poor trifles to possess.

4 Father, now one prayer we raise thee;
Give an humble, grateful heart;
Never let us cease to praise thee,
Never from thy fear depart.

5 Then, when years have gathered o'er us,
And the world begins to fade,

Heaven's bright realm will rise before us:
There our treasure has been laid.

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June 30. 7s.

Pleyel's Hymn.

WHO SHALL DWELL IN HEAVEN.

"Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart."-Ps. xv. 1, 2.

1

WHO, O Lord, when life is o'er,

Shall to heaven's blest mansions soar;

Who, an ever-welcome guest,

In thy holy place shall rest?—

2 He, whose heart thy love has warmed; He, whose will to thine conformed, Bids his life unsullied run;

He, whose words and thoughts are one;

3 He, who shuns the sinner's road,
Loving those who love their God;
Who, with hope, and faith unfeigned,
Treads the path by thee ordained;

4 He, who trusts in Christ alone,
Not in aught himself hath done :-
He, great God, shall be thy care,
And thy choicest blessings share.

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July 1.

C. M.

Lanesborough.

A HARVEST HYMN.

"Say not ye,* There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest. Behold I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest."-John iv. 35.

1 TO praise the ever-bounteous Lord,
My soul, wake all thy powers:

He calls, and at his voice comes forth
The smiling harvest hours.

2 His covenant with the earth he keeps;
My tongue, his goodness sing;
Summer and winter know their time,
His harvest crowns the spring.

* This is in the imperative mode, and should be read accordingly, and not, as is generally done, in the interrogative manAs if the Saviour had said, "Do not wait four months: the time to do good is always PRESENT."

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3 Well pleased the laborers behold
The waving yellow crop,

With joy they bear the sheaves away,
And sow again in hope.

4 Thus teach me, gracious God, to sow
The seeds of righteousness:

Smile on my soul, and with thy beams
The ripening harvest bless.

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July 2.

S. M.

Shirland.

PARENTAL ENTREATY.

"And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."-Jer. xxix. 13.

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2

3

MY son, know thou the Lord,

Thy father's God obey;

Seek his protecting care by night,
His guardian hand by day.

Call, while he may be found,

Oh, seek him while he's near;

Serve him with all thy heart and mind,

And worship him with fear.

If thou wilt seek his face,

His ear will hear thy cry;

Then shalt thou find his mercy sure,

Break off your sins to-day;"

Accept the Saviour's pardoning grace,
Believe, repent, and pray.

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July 3.

C. M.

Warwick.

PRAYER FOR THE EXTENSION OF CHRISTIANITY.

"The Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations."-Isa. lxi. 11.

1 SHINE, mighty God, on Zion shine,
With beams of heavenly grace;
Reveal thy power through every land,
And show thy smiling face.

2 When shall thy name, from shore to shore,
Sound through the earth abroad,
And distant nations know and love
Their Saviour and their God?

3 Is not thy sacred promise pledged
To thine exalted Son,

That through the nations of the earth
Thy word of life shall run?

4"Ask-and I give the heathen lands
For thine inheritance;

And to the world's remotest shores
Thine empire shall advance."

5 From east to west, from north to south,
Then be his name adored:

Let earth, with all its millions, shout
Hosanna to the Lord!

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July 4. L. M.

Missionary Chant.

"REMEMBER THEM THAT ARE IN BONDS."

"Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth."-James v. 4.

1

LORD, when thine ancient people cried,
Oppressed and bound by Egypt's king,

Thou didst Arabia's sea divide,

And forth thy fainting Israel bring.

2 Lo, in these latter days, our land

Groans with the anguish of the slave:
Lord God of hosts! stretch forth thy hand,
Not shortened that it cannot save.

3 Roll back the swelling tide of sin,
The lust of gain, the lust of power;
The day of freedom usher in:

How long delays the appointed hour?

4 As thou of old to Miriam's hand
The thrilling timbrel didst restore,
And to the joyful song her land
Echoed from desert to the shore;

50 let thy smitten ones again

Take up the chorus of the free,— Praise ye the Lord! His power proclaim, For he hath conquered gloriously!

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July 5. C. M.

Christmas.

GOD'S PRESENCE IS LIGHT IN DARKNESS.

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."-Ps. cxix. 105.

1 MY God! the spring of all my joys,

The life of my delights,

The glory of my brightest days,
And comfort of my nights,-

2 In darkest shades, if thou appear,
My dawning is begun;

Thou art my soul's bright morning star,
And thou my rising sun.

3 The opening heavens around me shine
With beams of sacred bliss,
While Jesus shows his mercy mine,
And whispers, I am his!

4 My soul would leave this heavy clay
At that transporting word,
And run with joy the shining way
To meet my gracious Lord.

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July 6.

C. M.

CONFIDENCE IN GOD.

Mear.

"Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation."-Hab. iii. 17, 18.

1

SINCE all the varying scenes of time

God's watchful eye surveys,

Oh, who so wise to choose our lot,

Or to appoint our ways!

2 Good, when he gives-supremely good, Nor less when he denies;