5 Love is the golden chain that binds The happy souls above; And he's an heir of heaven, who finds 458 A Welcome to Christian Fellowship. 1 COME 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, 3 And while we pass this vale of tears, Su I 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. Kel 459 "Exhorting one another," &c. Heb. x. 25. L. 1 BLESS'D intercourse when Christians mee 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, 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. Kelly, (alt'd.) 460 1 BLESS The Beatitudes. Matt. v. 3—12. And plead their cause against the great. 5 Bless'd are the men whose hearts can move From Christ the Lord shall they obtain 6 Bless'd are the pure, whose hearts are clean With endless pleasure they shall see 7 Bless'd are the men of peaceful life, 8 Bless'd are the suff'rers who partake 45* L.M. Watts. 461 REVIVAL. Prayer for Revival. 1 H for the happy hour When God will hear our cry, And send, with a reviving power, 2 We meet, we sing, we pray, In vain-we see no cheering ray, 4 While many crowd thy house, 5 Meet to recount their solemn vows, Thou, thou alone canst give 6 Come, then, with power divine, Then shall our people all be thine, S. M. Bethune, (orig.) 462 The prosperity of Zion. Isa. lx. 1. 1ZION, tune thy voice, And raise thy hands on high; Tell all the earth thy joys, Arise and shine: 2 He gilds thy morning face With beams that cannot fade; H. M. His all-resplendent grace Thy form shall view, 3 In honor to his name Reflect that sacred light, Till sovereign love, 4 There, on his holy hill, 463 1 A brighter Sun shall rise, Joy over the repenting Sinner. H, how divine, how sweet the joy, OH And with a humble, broken heart, His sin and error mourns! Doddridge. 2 Pleased with the news, the saints below 3 Well pleased the Father sees and hears 4 Nor angels can their joys contain, "The sinner lost is found," they sing, And strike the sounding lyre. C. M. Needham. 464 1 Converting Grace. Ps. xlv. 3, 5. AIL, mighty Jesus, how divine The stoutest rebel must resign, 2 Deep are the wounds thy arrows give, 3 The strongest holds of Satan yield When once thy glorious arm 's revealed, 465 1 Prayer for a Revival. Ps. lxxxv. 6. 2 Keep no longer at a distance; 466 The Conversion of Sinners. 1 HOW much the hearts of those revive Who love and fear the Lord, When sinners dead are made alive 2 The ministers of Christ rejoice, When souls the word receive; When sinners hear the Saviour's voice, C. M. Wallin. 8.7. Newton. C. M. |