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207.

ENTERING CHRIST'S SERVICE.

Kent St. Ambrose Mainzer.

1 Jesus, our best-beloved friend,

Draw out our souls in pure desire:
Jesus, in love to us descend:

Baptize us with thy Spirit's fire.
2 On thy redeeming name we call,
Poor and unworthy though we be:
Pardon and sanctify us all :

Let each thy full salvation see. 3 Our souls and bodies we resign,

L.M.

To fear and follow thy commands. O take our hearts-our hearts are thine, Accept the service of our hands. 4 Firm, faithful, watching unto prayer, May we thy blessed will obey; Toil in thy vineyard here, and bear The heat and burden of the day.

5 Yet, Lord, for us a resting-place, In heaven, at thy right hand, prepare: And till we see thee face to face,

Be all our conversation there.

208.

SETTING OUT FOR HEAVEN. 4 6s & 2 8s.

Beverley Knaresborough-St. Swithin's-Evegate.

1 Jesus, at thy command,

I launch into the deep,

And leave my native land,

Where sin lulls all to sleep: For thee I fain would all resign, And sail to heaven with thee and thine. 2 What though the seas are broad? What though the waves are strong? What though tempestuous winds Distress me all along?

Yet what are seas, or stormy wind, Compared to Christ, the sinner's friend? 3 Thou art my pilot wise,

My compass is thy Word;
My soul each storm defies,

While I have such a Lord:
I trust thy faithfulness and power,
To save me in the trying hour.
4 Whene'er becalmed I lie,

And all my storms subside,
Then to my succour fly,

And keep me near thy side;

Far more the treach'rous calm I dread,
Than tempests bursting o'er my head.
5 Come, heavenly wind, and blow
A prosp'rous gale of grace,
And waft me from below,

To heaven, my destined place;
Then in full sail my port I'll find,
And leave the world and sin behind!

209.

FOLLOWING THE MASTER.
Dismission-Vienna2-Mount Zion.

1 Jesus! I my cross have taken,
All to leave and follow thee.
Naked, poor, despised, forsaken,
Thou from hence my all shalt be.
Perish every fond ambition,

8s &7s.

All I've sought, or hoped, or known: Yet, how rich is my condition!

God and heaven are still my own.

2 Let the world despise and leave me:
They have left my Saviour too.
Human hearts and looks deceive me:-
Thou art not, like them, untrue.
And whilst thou shalt smile upon me,
God of wisdom, love, and might!
Foes may hate, and friends disown me:
Show thy face, and all is bright.

3 Go, then, earthly fame and treasure;
Come, disaster, scorn, and pain:
In thy service, pain is pleasure;
With thy favour, loss is gain.
Man may trouble and distress me;
"Twill but drive me to thy breast.
Life with trials hard may press me;

Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.

4 Soul! then, know thy full salvation; Rise o'er sin, and fear, and care. Joy to find, in every station,

Something still to do or bear. Think what Spirit dwells within thee; Think what Father's smiles are thine: Think that Jesus died to win thee: Child of heaven, canst thou repine? 5 Haste thee on from grace to glory, Armed by faith and winged by prayer; Heaven's eternal days before thee: God's own hand shall guide me there. Soon shall close thy earthly mission: Soon shall pass thy pilgrim days: Hope shall change to full fruition, Faith to sight, and prayer to praise.

210.

THE CROSS WITH CHRIST.

Salzbourg-Burton-Crediton.

1 Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free?
No, there's a cross for every one,
And there's a cross for me.

2 How happy are the saints above,
Who once went sorrowing here;
But now they taste unmingled love,
And joy without a tear.

C. M.

3 The consecrated cross I'll bear, Till death shall set me free,

And then go home, my crown to wear,For there's a crown for me.

211.

GLORYING IN THE CROSS.

C. M.

Newington-Durham York.

1 I'm not ashamed to own my Lord,
Or to defend his cause,
Maintain the glory of his cross,
And honour all his laws.

2 Jesus, my Lord! I know his name,
His name is all my boast;

Nor will he put my soul to shame,
Nor let my hope be lost.

3 I know that safe with him remains,
Protected by his power,
What I've committed to his trust,
Till the decisive hour.

4 Then will he own his servant's name
Before his Father's face,

And in the new Jerusalem
Appoint my soul a place.

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