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5 Love is the golden chain that binds
The happy souls above;

And he's an heir of heaven, who finds
His bosom glow with love.

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COME

A Welcome to Christian Fellowship.

OME in, thou blessed of the Lord; We bid thee come, in Jesus' name; We welcome thee with one accord,

And trust the Saviour does the same. 2 Those joys which earth cannot afford, We'll seek in fellowship to prove; Joined in one spirit to our Lord,

Together bound by mutual love.

3 And while we pass this vale of tears,

We'll make our joys and sorrows known; We'll share each other's hopes and fears, And count a brother's cares our own.

4 Once more our welcome we repeat;
Receive assurance of our love:

Oh may we all together meet
Around the throne of God above.

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L. M

Kelly.

Exhorting one another," &c. Heb. x. 25. L. M. LESS'D intercourse when Christians meet, And speak of him who died for them:

They sit at their Redeemer's feet,

And care not if the world condemn.

2 Is any other name so great

As his who bore the sinner's load?

Is any subject half so sweet,

So various as the love of God?

3 Pleased with their fleeting golden dreams,
Let worldlings of their treasure tell;
But we will speak of higher themes,
And on eternal riches dwell.

4 Exhorting one another here,

And pressing on our pilgrim way, We'll look to see our Life appear, And own us in that glorious day.

5 of him we now would speak and sing,
Whose glory we expect to share:
In heaven we shall behold our King,
And yield a nobler tribute there.

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The Beatitudes. Matt. v. 3—12.

Kelly, (alt'd.)

LESS'D are the humble souls, that see
Their emptiness and poverty;
Treasures of grace to them are given,
And crowns of joy laid up in heaven.

2 Bless'd are the men of broken heart,
Who mourn for sin with inward smart;
The blood of Christ divinely flows,
A healing balm for all their woes.

3 Bless'd are the meek, who stand afar
From rage and passion, noise and war;
God will secure their happy state,

And plead their cause against the great.

4 Bless'd are the souls that thirst for grace,
Hunger and long for righteousness;
They shall be well supplied, and fed
With living streams and living bread.

5 Bless'd are the men whose hearts can move
And melt with sympathy and love;
From Christ the Lord shall they obtain
Like sympathy and love again.

6 Bless'd are the pure, whose hearts are clean
From the defiling power of sin;

With endless pleasure they shall see
A God of spotless purity.

7 Bless'd are the men of peaceful life,
Who quench the coals of growing strife;
They shall be called the heirs of bliss,
The sons of God, the God of peace.

8 Bless'd are the suff'rers who partake
Of pain and shame for Jesus' sake;
Their souls shall triumph in the Lord
Glory and joy are their reward.

L. M.

Watts.

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REVIVAL.

Prayer for Revival.

1 H for the happy hour
When God will hear our cry,
And send, with a reviving power,
His Spirit from on high.

2 We meet, we sing, we pray,
We listen to the word,

In vain-we see no cheering ray,
No cheering voice is heard.

3 Our prayers are faint and dull,
And languid all our songs;

Where once with joy our hearts were full,
And rapture tuned our tongues.

4 While many crowd thy house,
How few, around thy board,
Meet to recount their solemn vows,
And bless thee as their Lord!

5 Thou, thou alone canst give
Thy gospel sure success;
Canst bid the dying sinner live
Anew in holiness.

6 Come, then, with power divine,
Spirit of life and love;

Then shall our people all be thine,
Our church like that above.

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S. M.

Bethune, (orig.)

The prosperity of Zion. Isa. lx. 1.
ZION, tune thy voice,
And raise thy hands on high;
Tell all the earth thy joys,
And shout salvation nigh:
Cheerful in God,

Arise and shine:
While rays divine
Stream all abroad.

He gilds thy morning face

With beams that cannot fade;

H. M.

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His all-resplendent grace
He pours around thy head:
The nations round

Thy form shall view,
With lustre new
Divinely crowned.

In honor to his name

Reflect that sacred light,
And loud that grace proclaim
Which makes thy darkness bright:
Pursue his praise,

Till sovereign love,
In worlds above,
The glory raise.

There, on his holy hill,

A brighter Sun shall rise,
And with his radiance fill
Those fairer, purer skies:
While round his throne
Ten thousand stars
In nobler spheres
His influence own.

Joy over the repenting Sinner.

H, how divine, how sweet the joy,
When but one sinner turns,
And with a humble, broken heart,

His sin and error mourns!

2 Pleased with the news, the saints below
In songs their tongues employ;
Beyond the skies the tidings go,
And heaven is filled with joy.

3 Well pleased the Father sees and hears
The conscious sinner's moan;

Jesus receives him in his arms,
And claims him for his own.

4 Nor angels can their joys contain,

But kindle with new fire:

"The sinner lost is found," they sing, And strike the sounding lyre.

Doddridge.

C. M.

Needham.

464 Converting Grace. Ps. xlv. 3, 5.

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H Is thy Victorious sword!
AIL, mighty Jesus, how divine

The stoutest rebel must resign,
At thy commanding word.

2 Deep are the wounds thy arrows give,
They pierce the hardest heart;
Thy smiles of grace the slain revive,
And joy succeeds to smart.

3 The strongest holds of Satan yield
To thy all-conquering hand;

When once thy glorious arm's revealed,
No rebel can withstand.

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Prayer for a Revival. Ps. lxxxv. 6. AVIOUR, visit thy plantation; Grant us, Lord, a gracious rain; All will come to desolation,

Unless thou return again.
2 Keep no longer at a distance;
Shine upon us from on high,
Lest, for want of thy assistance,
Every plant should droop and die.
3 Let our mutual love be fervent,

Make us prevalent in prayers;
Let each one esteemed thy servant
Shun the world's bewitching snares.
4 Break the tempter's fatal power;
Turn the stony heart to flesh;
And begin, from this good hour,
To revive thy work afresh.

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The Conversion of Sinners.

TOW much the hearts of those revive

HOW

Who love and fear the Lord,

When sinners dead are made alive

By his all-quickening word.

2 The ministers of Christ rejoice,
When souls the word receive;

When sinners hear the Saviour's voice,
And in the Lord believe.

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