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MONTGOMERY.

"The unity of the spirit in the bond of peace."
1 THE glorious universe around,

The heavens with all their train,
Sun, moon, and stars, are firmly bound
In one mysterious chain.

2 The earth, the ocean, and the sky,
To form one world agree,
Where all that walk, or swim, or fly,
Compose one family.

3 In one fraternal bond of love,
One fellowship of mind,

The saints below and saints above
Their bliss and glory find.

4 Here in their house of pilgrimage,
Thy statutes are their song;

There, through one bright, eternal age,
Thy praises they prolong.

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C. WESLEY.

The Church on Earth and in Heaven, One.

1 THE saints on earth and those above
But one communion make:
Joined to their Lord in bonds of love,
All of his grace partake.

2 One family, we dwell in him;
One church above, beneath;
Though now divided by the stream,
The swelling stream of death.

3 One army of the living God,-
To his command we bow;

Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.

4 O God, be thou our constant guide!
And when the word is given,
Sustain us o'er the fearful tide,
And bring us safe to heaven.

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S. M.

Christian Unity.

1 LET party names no miore

The Christian world o'erspread;
Gentile and Jew, and bond and free,
Are one in Christ their head.

2. Among the saints on earth
Let mutual love be found;
Heirs of the same inheritance,
With mutual blessings crowned.

3 Let envy and ill-will

BEDDOME.

Be banished far away;
Those should in holy friendship dwell,
Who the same Lord obey.

4 Thus will the church below
Resemble that above;

Where streams of pleasure always flow,
And every heart is love.

L. M.

Christian Friendship.

1 How blest the sacred tie that binds

In union sweet according minds!

BARBAULD.

How swift the heavenly course they run,
Whose hearts, and faith, and 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 eyes together flow
For human guilt and mortal woe;
Their ardent prayers together rise
Like mingling flames in sacrifice.

4 Together shall 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.

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ANONYMOUS.

Charitable Judgment.

1 OMNISCIENT GOD, 't is thine to know
The springs whence wrong opinions flow;
To judge from principles within,
When frailty errs, and when we sin.

2 Who with another's eye can read,
Or worship by another's creed?
Revering thy command alone,
We humbly seek and use our own.
3 If wrong, forgive; accept, if right,
Whilst faithful, we obey our light,
And judging none, are zealous still
To follow, as to learn, thy will.

4 When shall our happy eyes behold
Thy people, fashioned in thy mould?
And charity our kindred prove
Derived from thee, O God of love?

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The Same.

WATTS

1 Nor different food, nor different dress,
Compose the kingdom of our Lord;
But peace, and joy, and righteousness,
Faith, and obedience to his word.

2 When weaker Christians we despise,
We do the gospel mighty wrong;
For God, the gracious and the wise,
Receives the feeble with the strong.

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3 Let pride and wrath be banished hence,
Meekness and love our souls pursue,
Nor shall our practice give offence
To saints, the Gentile or the Jew.

S. M.

Private Judgment and Accountability.
1 IMPOSTURE shrinks from light,
And dreads the curious eye;
But sacred truths the test invite,
They bid us search and try.

2 With understanding blest,
Created to be free,

SCOTT.

Our faith on man we dare not rest,
Subject to none but thee.

3 Lord, give the light we need;
With soundest knowledge fill;
From noxious error guard our creed,
From prejudice our will.

4 The truth thou shalt impart,
May we with firmness own;
Abhorring each evasive art,
And fearing thee alone.

C. M.

401

NEWTON.

True Zeal.

1 ZEAL is that

pure

and heavenly flame

The fire of love supplies;

Whilst that which often bears the name,

Is self but in disguise.

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2 True zeal is merciful and mild,
Can pity and forbear;

The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,
And breathes revenge and war.

3 While zeal for truth the Christian warms.
He knows the worth of peace;

But self contends for names and forms,
Its party to increase.

4 Zeal has attained its highest aim,
Its end is satisfied,

If sinners love the Saviour's name,-
Nor seeks it aught beside.

5 This idol self, O Lord, dethrone,
And from our hearts remove;
And let no zeal by us be shown
But that which springs from love.

C. M.

Moderation.

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NEEDHAM

1 HAPPY the man whose cautious steps
Still keep the golden mean;

Whose life by wisdom's rules well formed,
Declares a conscience clean.

2 To sect or party his large soul
Disdains to be confined;

The good he loves of every name,
And prays for all mankind.

3 His business is to keep his heart;
Each passion to control;
Nobly ambitious well to rule
The empire of his soul.

4 Not on the world his heart is set,
His treasure is above;

Nothing beneath the sovereign good
Can claim his highest love.

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