Skilled to draw thy children home,
Taught to give the darkened light.

4 Unto thee a people bend,

Bind us heart to heart in love;
Flock and pastor, we would tend

769.

Ever toward our home above.

L. M.

Ordination or Installation.

1 O THOU, who on thy chosen Son
Didst send thy spirit like a dove,
To mark the long expected one,

And seal the messenger of love;
2 And when the heralds of his name

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Went forth, his glorious truth to spread,
Didst send it down in tongues of flame
To hallow each devoted head.

3 So, Lord, thy servant now inspire
With holy unction from above;
Give him the tongue of living fire,
Give him the temper of the dove.
4 Lord, hear thy suppliant church to-day;
Accept our work, our souls possess,
"T is ours to labor, watch, and pray ;
Be thine to cheer, sustain and bless.

CHARITABLE AND MISSIONARY MEET

770.

INGS.

L. M. 6 L.

For a charitable Occasion.

J. TAYLOR.

1 O YE who seek Jehovah's face,
Bow at his throne, and feel his grace,

And never did imploring wretch
His garment touch in vain.
4 May we with humble effort take
Example from above,

And thence the active lesson learn
Of charity and love.

5 But chiefly be the labor ours
To shade the early plant;
To guard from ignorance and guilt
The infancy of want.

774.

8 & 7s. M.

For a Benevolent Society.

PIERPON

1 MIGHTY One, whose name is Holy,
Thou wilt save thy work alive;
And the spirit of the lowly

Thou wilt visit and revive.
What thy prophets thus have spoken,
Ages witness as they roll;
Bleeding hearts and spirits broken
Touched by thee, O God, are whole

2 By thy pitying spirit guided,

Jesus sought the sufferer's door,
Comforts for the poor provided,
And the mourner's sorrows bore.
So, it was thy spirit beaming

In his face whose name we bear,
That sustained him, while redeeming
Power's pale victims from despair.
3 To the prisoner, wan and wasting
In the voiceless dungeon's night,
He thine own apostle hasting,
Led him forth, unbound, to light.
So thy mercy's angel, bending,
Heard a friendless prisoner ca.l,

And, through night's cold vault descending.
Loosed from chains thy servant Paul.

4 Father, as thy love is endless,

Working by thy servants thus,
The forsaken and the friendless
Deign to visit, e'en by us.
So shall each, with spirit fervent
Laboring with thee here below,
Be declared thy faithful servant,
Where there 's neither want nor woe.

775.

C. M.

The Orphan's Hymn.

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1 WHERE shall the child of sorrow find
A place for calm repose?
Thou Father of the fatherless,
Pity the orphan's woes!

2 What friend have I in heaven or earth,
What friend to trust but thee?

My father's dead, my mother 's dead:
My God! "remember me."

3 Thy gracious promise now fulfil,
And bid my trouble cease;

In thee the fatherless shall find
and peace.

Pure mercy, grace,

4 I've not a secret care or pain
But he that secret knows ;
Thou Father of the fatherless,
Pity the orphan's woes!

1 FROM Greenland's icy mountains,

From India's coral strand,

Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand, -

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From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain, --
They call us to deliver

Their land from error's chain.

2 What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile;
In vain, with lavish kindness,
The gifts of God are strown;
The heathen, in his blindness,
Bows down to wood and stone.
3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted
By wisdom from on high,
Shall we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?
Salvation! O, salvation!
The joyful sound proclaim,
Till each remotest nation
Has learnt Messiah's name.

Universal Reign of Christ.

1 GREAT God, whose universal sway
The known and unknown worlds obey,
Now give the kingdom to thy Son,
Extend his power, exalt his throne.
2 The heathen lands, that lie beneatn
The shades of overspreading death,
Revive at his first dawning light,
And deserts blossom at the sight.
3 The saints shall flourish in his days,
Dressed in the robes of joy and praise ;
Peace, like a river, from his throne,
Shall flow to nations yet unknown.

WATTS

The Missionary charged and encouraged.

1 GO, messenger of peace and love,

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To people plunged in shades of night;
Like angels sent from fields above,

Be thine to shed celestial light.

2 Go to the hungry,

food impart ;

To paths of peace the wanderer guide;
And lead the thirsty, panting heart
Where streams of living water glide.
3 Go, bid the bright and morning star

From Bethlehem's plains resplendent shine,
And, piercing through the gloom afar,
Shed heavenly light and love divine.

4. O, faint not in the day of toil,

When harvest waits the reaper's hand;
Go, gather in the glorious spoil,
And joyous in his presence stand.

5 Thy love a rich reward shall find

From Him who sits enthroned on high;
For they who turn the erring mind
Shall shine like stars above the sky.

779.

8 & 9s. M.

Death of a Missionary.

SACRED SONGS

1 WEEP not for the saint that ascends
To partake of the joys of the sky;
Weep not for the seraph that bends
With the worshipping chorus on high;
Weep not for the spirit now crowned
With the garland to martyrdom given;
O, weep not for him; he has found

His reward and his refuge in heaven.
2 But weep fer their sorrows who stand
And lament o'er the dead by his

grave;