For now Thy people are allowed
To scale the mount, and pierce the cloud;
And faith may feed her eager view
With wonders Sinai never knew.

Fresh from the atoning sacrifice,
The world's Redeemer bleeding lies,
That man, His foe, for whom He bled,
May take Him for his daily bread.

Oh! agony of wavering thought,
When sinners first so near are brought :
It is my Maker-dare I stay?
My Saviour-dare I turn away?

O Saviour! calm our troubled fears;
O Saviour! gather up our tears;
And let us in this solemn hour
Behold Thy glory, feel Thy power.

Let crowds approach with hearts prepared,

With hearts inflamed let all attend ; Nor, when we leave our Father's board, The pleasure or the profit end.

Revive our dying churches, Lord,
And bid our drooping graces live ;
And more, that energy afford,
A Saviour's blood alone can give.

DR. DODDridge.

451.-The Saviour's Guests.

FORTH

ISAIAH Xxxii. 2.

L.M. six lines.

ORTH from the dark and stormy sky,

Lord, to Thine altar's shade we fly,
Forth from the world, its hope and fear,
Saviour, we seek Thy shelter here;
Weary and weak, Thy grace we pray ;
Turn not, O Lord, Thy guests away.

Long have we roamed in want and pain,
Long have we sought for rest in vain :
'Wildered in doubt, in darkness lost,
Long have our souls been tempest-tost:
Low at Thy feet our sins we lay;
Turn not, O Lord, Thy guests away.

"Jesus invites His saints."

Better known, however, is the following, in which simplicity and pathos redeem the lack of high poetical expression.

On the authority of the late Mr. D. Sedgwick we retain in the last verse but one the reading of many old editions: "Nor lets His saints forget." Dr. Watts meant to say that Christ had ordained this memorial that His Church might remember Him. Most modern hymn-books, however, make the line hortatory: "Nor let His saints forget."

458.-Love and Fellowship.

JOHN xiii. 23. HIS Hymn is from a series of six (Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749) on the same subject: "Desiring to Love." In its ardour and pathos it well merits a place among Hymns for the Lord's Supper, a position to which a fine appropriateness is given by the allusion to " the beloved disciple," in the last verse. Many hymn-books end with the stanza on "Mary at the Master's feet," an obvious incompleteness. There is a seventh verse in the original, which, though fine in itself, seems needless here, and the Wesleyan Hymnbook judiciously omits it.