2 Rivers to the ocean run,
Nor stay in all their course;
Fire, ascending, seeks the sun;
Both speed them to their source.
So a soul that 's born of God
Pants to view his glorious face;
Upward tends to his abode,
To rest in his embrace.

80.

C. M.

After Divine Service.

MONTGOM RI

1 AGAIN our ears have heard the voice
At which the dead shall live;
O, may the scund our hearts rejoice,
And strength immortal give!

And have we heard the word with joy?
And have we felt its power?

To keep it be our blest employ,
Till life's extremest hour.

81.

C. M.

C. WESLEY

Self-Consecration.

1 ETERNAL Father, God of love,
To thee our hearts we raise;
Thy all-sustaining power we prove,
And gladly sing thy praise.

2 Thine, wholly thine, O, let us be;
Our sacrifice receive;

82.

Made, and preserved, and saved by thee,
To thee ourselves we give.

8 & 7s. M.

Closing Hymn.

BICKERSTETH

1 ISRAEL'S Shepherd, guide me, feed me,
Through my pilgrimage below,
And beside the waters lead me,
Where thy flock rejoicing go

2 Lord, thy guardian presence ever,
Meekly kneeling, I implore;

I have found thee, and would never,
Never wander from thee more.

83.

L. M.

Close of Service.

HEBER

1 LORD, now we part in thy blest name,
In which we here together came;
Grant us our few remaining days

To work thy will and spread thy praise.
2 Teach us in life and death to bless
The Lord, our strength and righteousness;
And grant us all to meet above;

Then shall we better sing thy love.

84.

C. M.

A blessed Gospel.

WATTS.

1 BLEST are the souls that hear and know The gospel's joyful sound;

Peace shall attend the paths they go,

And light their steps surround.

2 Their joy shall bear their spirits up,
Through their Redeemer's name;
His righteousness exalts their hope,
Nor dares the world condemn.
3 The Lord, our glory and defence,
Strength and salvation gives :
Christian, thy King for ever reigns,
Thy God for ever lives.

85.

S. M.

Filial Confidence.

CAMPBELL'S COLL

1 BLEST Shepherd, I am thine;

Still keep me in thy fear;

Now fill my heart with grace divine;
Bring thy salvation near.

86.

2 Among thy little flock

I need the Shepherd's care;
Pour waters from the smitten Rock,
And pastures green prepare.

C M.

Praise for Christ.

1 NOW the full glories of the Lamb
Adorn the heavenly plains;

WATTE

Bright seraphs chant Immanuel's name,
And try their choicest strains.

2 O, may I bear some humble part
In that immortal song ;

87.

Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love command my tongue.

C. M.

Watch and Pray

CAMPBELL'S COLL.

1 THE Saviour bids us watch and pray,
For soon the hour will come
That calls us from the earth away,
To our eternal home.

2 O, Saviour, we would watch and pray,
And hear thy sacred voice,

88.

And walk, as thou hast marked the way,
To heaven's eternal joys.

7s. M.

Parting of Christians.

1 FOR a season called to part,

Let us now ourselves commend
To the gracious eye and heart
Of our ever-present Friend.

2 Father, hear our humble prayer :
Tender Shepherd of thy sheep,
Let thy mercy and thy care
All our souls in safety keep.

NEWTON

89.

3 In thy strength may we be strong;
Sweeten every cross and pain;
And our wasting lives prolong,
Till we meet on earth again

S. M.

Man's Frailty, God's Compassion.

1 OUR days are as the grass,
Or like the morning flower;

WATTS.

When blasting winds sweep o'er the field,
It withers in an hour.

2 But thy compassions, Lord,

To endless years endure,

And children's children ever find

Thy words of promise sure.

90.

L. P. M.

TATE & BRADY.

Exhortation to universal Praise.

1 YE saints and servants of the Lord,
The triumphs of his name record;
His sacred name for ever bless :
Where'er the circling sun displays
His rising beams or setting rays,
Due praise to his great name address.
2 God, through the world, extends his sway!
The regions of eternal day

But shadows of his glory are:

To him whose majesty excels,

Who made the heaven wherein he dwells,

91.

Let no created power compare.

H. M.

Universal Praise.

JEHOVAH'S praise sublime

Through the wide earth be sung;

CONDER

92.

Ye realms of every clime!
Ye tribes of every tongue! -
His infinite compassion bless,
His ever-during faithfulness.

7s. M.

Praise from all Lands.

1 ALL ye nations, praise the Lord;
All ye lands, your voices raise;
Heaven and earth, with loud accord,
Praise the Lord, for ever praise.
2 For his truth and mercy stand,
Past, and present, and to be,
Like the years of his right hand,
Like his own eternity.

MONTGOMERY

3 Praise him, ye who know his love;
Praise him from the depths beneath;
Praise him in the heights above;
Praise your Maker, all that breathe.
7s. M.

93.

Dews and Tears.

1 GENTLY fall the dews of eve,

Raising still the languid flowers;
Sweetly flow the tears that grieve

O'er a mourner's stricken hours.
2 Blessed tears and dews that yet

94.

Lift us nearer unto heaven!
Let us still his praise repeat,
Who in mercy all hath given.

S. M.

SF ADAMS.

WESLEY'S COLL

Prayer for Strength and Guidance.

1 GOD of almighty love,

By whose sufficient grace
I lift my heart to things above,
And humbly seek thy face.