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4 With fervor teach our hearts to pray,
And tune our lips to sing;
Nor from thy presence cast away.
The sacrifice we bring.

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1 How welcome to the soul, when pressed With six days' noise, and care, and toil, Is the returning day of rest,

Which hides us from the world awhile!

2 How happy they, whose lot is cast
Where Christ invites the "weary" yet;
They find their sorrows quickly past,
And all their burdens soon forget.

3 Though pinched with poverty at home,
With sharp afflictions daily fed,
It makes amends, if they can come

To God's own house for heavenly bread.
4 We thank thee for thy day, O Lord!
And here thy promised presence seek;
Open thy hand with blessings stored,
And give us manna for the week.

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Christian Worship.

1 FATHER of all! where shall we find
A temple suited to thy praise?
To thee, the uncreated Mind,

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What earthly altar shall we raise ?

2 We'll call a multitude around,

And gladly seek the house of prayer;
There thy salvation we have found,
And still, O God, we 'll seek it there.

3 From breast to breast the holy flame
Shall kindle round the sacred place:
At-once we 'll hymn our Father's name,
At once we'll seek our Father's face.
4 There, heavenly Father, condescend
To meet us with peculiar love;
And when the hymns of earth shall end
We'll give thee nobler hymns above.

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The Lord's Prayer.

FATHER! adored in worlds above,

POPE'S COLL .

Thy glorious name be hallowed still;
Thy kingdom come with power and love,
And earth, like heaven, obey thy will.

2 Lord! make our daily wants thy care;
Forgive the sins which we forsake:
And, as we in thy kindness share,
Let fellow-men of ours partake.

3 Evils beset us every hour;

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Thy kind protection we implore:
Thine is the kingdom, thine the power;
Be thine the glory evermore!

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Mutual Invitation.

MONTGOMERY.

1 COME, let us join our souls to God
In everlasting bands,

And seize the blessings he bestows
With eager hearts and hands.

2 Come, let us to his temple haste,
And seek his favor there,

Before his footstool humbly bow
And offer fervent prayer.

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3 Come, let us share, without delay,
The blessings of his grace;
Nor shall the years of distant life
Their mem'ry e'er efface.

4 O, may our children ever haste
To seek their fathers' God,
Nor e'er forsake the happy path

Their fathers' feet have trod.

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"The Lord God is a Sun and Shield." Ps. 84.

1 How lovely are thy dwellings fair,
O Lord of hosts, how dear

The pleasant tabernacles are
Where thou dost dwell so near!

2 Happy, who in thy house reside,
Where thee they ever praise,
Happy, whose strength in thee doth bide,
And in their hearts thy ways.

3 They pass through sorrow's thirsty vale,
That dry and barren ground,
As through a fruitful, wat'ry dale,
Where springs and showers abound.

4 They journey on from strength to strength, With joy and gladsome cheer,

Till all before our God at length

In Zion do appear.

5 For God the Lord, both sun and shield,
Gives grace and glory bright;

No good from them shall be withheld
Whose ways are just and right.

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House of God.

SALISBURY COLL

1 Lo, God is here! Let us adore,
And humbly bow before his face;
Let all within us feel his power;
Let all within us seek his grace.

2 Lo, God is here! Him, day and night
United choirs of angels sing:
To him, enthroned above all height,
Heaven's host their noblest homage bring.

3 Being of beings! may thy praise

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Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill:
Still may we stand before thy face-
Still hear and do thy sovereign will.

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1 WE bless thee for this sacred day,
Thou who hast every blessing given,
Which sends the dreams of earth away,
And yields a glimpse of opening heaven.

2 Lord, in this day of holy rest,

We would improve the calm repose;
And, in thy service truly blest,

Forget the world, its joys and woes.

3 Lord! may thy truth upon the heart,
Now fall and dwell as heavenly dew
And flowers of grace in freshness start
Where once the weeds of error grew

4 May prayer now lift her sacre wings,
Contented with that aim alone
Which bears her to the King of kings,
And rests her at his sheltering throne.

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MONTGOMERY.

Introduction to Evening Worship.

1 ON the first Christian Sabbath eve, When his disciples met

O'er his lost fellowship to grieve,

Nor knew the Scripture yet,

2 Lo! in their midst his form was seen,The form in which he died;

Their Master's marred and wounded mien, -
His hands, his feet, his side.

3 Then were they glad their Lord to know,
And hailed him, yet with fear;
Jesus, again thy presence show;
Meet thy disciples here.

4 Be in our midst; let faith rejoice
Our risen Lord to view,

And make our spirits hear thy voice
Say, "Peace be unto you!"

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Going to Church. Ps. 122.

1 How did my heart rejoice to hear
My friends devoutly say,

"In Zion let us all appear,
And keep the solemn day!"

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2 Up to her courts, with joys unknown
The holy tribes repair:

The Son of David holds his throne
And sits in judgment there.

3 Peace be within this sacred place,
And joy a constant guest;
With holy gifts and heavenly grao
Be her attendants blest.

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