4 Be thou my pattern; make me bear More of thy gracious image here;

Then God, the Judge, shall own my name
Amongst the followers of the Lamb.

74.

"LET THE SAME MIND BE IN YOU." Evan-Winchester Old-Canterbury. 1 Lord, as to thy dear cross we flee, And plead to be forgiven,

So let thy life our pattern be,

And form our souls for heaven.

2 Help us, through good report and ill,
Our daily cross to bear;

Like thee to do our Father's will,
Our brethren's griefs to share.

3 Let grace our selfishness expel,
Our earthliness refine,

And kindness in our bosoms dwell,
As free and true as thine.

4 Kept peaceful in the midst of strife,
Forgiving and forgiven,

O may we lead the pilgrim's life,
And follow thee to heaven.

75.

C. M.

THE MAN OF SORROWS (Isa. liii.). C. M. Ravensburg-St. Mary's-Martyrdom.

1 How few receive with cordial faith The tidings which we bring!

How few have seen the arm revealed

Of heaven's eternal King!

2 The Saviour comes! no outward pomp
Bespeaks his presence nigh;
No earthly beauty shines in him
To draw the carnal eye.

3 Fair as a beauteous tender flower
Amidst the desert grows,

So slighted by a rebel race
The heav'nly Saviour rose.

4 Rejected and despised of men,
Behold a man of woe!

Grief was his close companion still
Through all his life below.

5 Yet all the griefs he felt were ours,
Ours were the woes he bore:

Pangs, not his own, his spotless soul
With bitter anguish tore.

6 We held him as condemned by Heaven, An outcast from his God,

While for our sins he groaned, he bled,
Beneath his Father's rod.

7 His sacred blood hath washed our souls From sin's polluted stain;

His stripes have healed us, and his death
Revived our souls again.

8 We all, like sheep, had gone astray
In ruin's fatal road:

On him were our transgressions laid;
He bore the mighty load.

9 Wronged and oppressed, how meekly he In patient silence stood! Mute, as the peaceful harmless lamb, When brought to shed its blood. 10 Who can his generation tell? From prison see him led!

With impious show of law condemned, And numbered with the dead. 11 'Midst sinners low in dust he lay; The rich a grave supplied: Unspotted was his blameless life; Unstained by sin he died.

12 Yet God shall raise his head on high,
Though thus he brought him low;
His sacred offering, when complete,
Shall terminate his woe.

13 For, saith the Lord, my pleasure then
Shall prosper in his hand;
His shall a numerous offspring be,
And still his honours stand.

14 His soul, rejoicing, shall behold
The purchase of his pain;
And all the guilty whom he saved
Shall bless Messiah's reign.

15 He with the great shall share the spoil, And baffle all his foes;

Though ranked with sinners, here he fell,
A conqueror he rose.

16 He died to bear the guilt of men,
That sin might be forgiven:

He lives to bless them and defend,
And plead their cause in heaven.

76.

HASTING TO SUFFER.

St. Andrew's-Jerusalem-Prestwich.

1 The Saviour, what a noble flame
Was kindled in his breast,
When hasting to Jerusalem,
He marched before the rest!

2 Good-will to men, and zeal for God,
His every thought engross;

He longs to be baptized with blood,
He pants to reach the cross.

3 With all his sufferings full in view,
And woes to us unknown,

Forth to the task his spirit flew;
'Twas love that urged him on.

4 Lord, we return thee what we can!
Our hearts shall sound abroad,
Salvation to the dying Man,
And to the rising God.

C.M.

5 And while thy bleeding glories here
Engage our wondering eyes,

We learn our lighter cross to bear,
And hasten to the skies.

77.

THE GUEST CHAMBER.

Communion.

L. M.

1 'Twas on that night, when doomed to know The eager rage of every foe,

That night in which he was betrayed, The Saviour of the world took bread: 2 And, after thanks and glory given To him that rules in earth and heaven, That symbol of his flesh he broke, And thus to all his followers spoke: 3 My broken body thus I give

For you, for all; take, eat, and live; And oft the sacred rite renew That brings my wondrous love to view. 4 Then in his hands the cup he raised, And God anew he thanked and praised; While kindness in his bosom glowed, And from his lips salvation flowed: 5 My blood I thus pour forth, he cries, To cleanse the soul in sin that lies; In this the covenant is sealed,

And Heaven's eternal grace revealed.