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PROVERBS Xxii. 6. MARK x. 13, 14.

C. M.

1 CHILDREN our kind protection claim, And God will well approve,

When infants learn to lisp his name
And their Creator love.

2 Delightful work young souls to win,
And turn the rising race
From the deceitful paths of sin,
To seek redeeming grace.

3 Be ours the joy in wisdom's way
To guide their early youth,

And lead the mind that went astray
To virtue and to truth.

4 Almighty God! thy grace bestow
To aid this good design:

May multitudes in wisdom grow
And prove thy love divine.

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CHR

MATTHEW xxviii 6.

its prey;

HRIST the Lord is risen to day,
Death hath yielded up
He endured the cross and grave
Sinners to redeem and save.

2 Lo! He rises, mighty king,
Where, O death! is now thy sting?
Lo! He claims his native sky,
Grave, Where is thy victory?
3 Sinners see your ransom paid,
Peace with God for ever made;

7's.

With your risen Saviour rise;
Claim with him the purchased skies.
4 Christ the Lord is risen to day,
Death hath yielded up its prey;
Let us our Redeemer praise,
Let us love him all our days.

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MATTHEW Xxviii. 1-10. COL. iii. 1-4.

1 CHRIST, the Lord, is risen to day

Sons of men, and angels say!
Raise your songs and triumphs high,
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.

2 Love's redeeming work is done,
Fought the fight, the battle won;
Lo! our Sun's eclipse is o'er;
Lo! he sets in blood no more.

3 Vain the stone, the watch, the seal,
Christ hath burst the gates of hell;
Death in vain forbids his rise,
Christ hath opened Paradise.

4 Lives again our glorious King!
Where, O death, is now thy sting?
Once he died, our souls to save,
Where thy victory, O grave?

5 Soar we now where Christ hath led,
Following our exalted head;

Made like him, like him we rise,
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.

7's

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7's.

1

CHRI

PHILIPPIANS iv. 20.

HRISTIAN brethren, ere we part, Let us each with grateful heart, Once more to our Father raise

Our united hymn of praise.

2 Here perhaps we meet no more ;
But we seek a brighter shore,
Where above all sin and pain,
Brethren, we shall meet again.

3 To the Triune God of heaven,
Love and praise be ever given;
Here, and by his hosts above,
Endless praise, adoring love.

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LUKE li. 6-14.

10's.

1 CHRISTIANS, recall with joy the happy

morn

Whereon the Saviour of mankind was born; Rise to adore the mystery of love,

Which hosts of angels chanted from above: With them the joyful tidings first begun Of God incarnate, and the Virgin's Son.

2 Then to the watchful shepherds it was told, Who heard the angelic herald's voice "Behold!"

I bring good tidings of a Saviour's birth,
To you and all the nations upon earth;
This day hath God fulfilled his faithful word,
"This day is born a Saviour, Christ the Lord!

3 He spake; and straightway the celestial choir
In hymns of joy, unknown before, conspire;
The praises of redeeming love they sang,
And heaven with joyful hallelujah's rang;
God's highest glory was their anthem still,
Peace upon earth, and unto men good will.

4 Oh! may we keep and ponder in our mind
God's wondrous love in saving lost mankind;
Trace we the Lord, who hath retriev'd our loss,
From his poor manger to his bitter cross;
Tread in his steps, assisted by his grace,
Till we in heaven behold him face to face.

5 Then may we hope the angelic hosts among, To see the ransomed, the triumphant throng; Jesus for us a man of sorrows made

Shall by his glorious goodness make us glad; And saved by grace we shall for ever sing The praise of our Redeemer and our King.

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ROMANS i. 18-20-ii. 12. EPHES. ii. 3-12. L. M.

1 CHR

HRISTIANS, the glorious hope we know Which soothes the heart in every woe; While heathens, helpless, hopeless lie: ray of glory meets their eye:

No

Oh, give to their desiring sight

The hope that Jesus brought to light.

2 Christians, ye taste the heavenly grace, Which cheers believers in their race;

Uncheered by grace, through heathen gloom, See millions hastening to the tomb; To heathen lands that grace convey, Which trains the soul for endless day. 3 Christians, ye prize the Saviour's blood, In which the soul is cleansed for God; Millions of souls in darkness dwell, Uncleansed from sin-exposed to hell; Oh, strive, that heathens soon may view That precious blood, which cleanseth you.

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EPHESIANS iii. 14–21.

L. M.

1 COME, dearest Lord, descend and dwell By faith and love in every breast;

Then shall we know and taste and feel,
The joys that cannot be exprest.

2 Come, fill our hearts with inward strength, Make our enlarged souls possess,

And learn the height, and breadth, and length, Of thine immeasurable grace.

3 Now to the God, whose power can do More than our minds can ever know; Be everlasting honors done

By all the church, through Christ his Son.

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ROMANS viii. 14.

1 COME, gracious Spirit, from above,

Author of light, and source of love; Be thou our Guardian, thou our Guide, O'er every thought and step preside.

L. M.