3. Then let us here improve bur hours,& 483. Christian Communion. L.M. Nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient. ENAMOUR'D of their golden dreams, The world should lie beneath their feet. 2 And do they want a nobler theme, Whom JESUS suffer'd to redeem? ¡ The love that bore the cross should A shade on ev'ry thing below,o [throw 3 The cross-its burden, O! how great: 29 No strength but his could bear its 21 No weight: No love but his would undertake A To bear it for the sinner's sake. 4 [His saints can never want a theme: 5 Come then, and let us talk of him, 6 Let idle jests be far from us, It suits us not to trifle thus: 484. Christian Parting. 7s. And now, brethren, I commend you to GOD, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified.Acts xx. 32. FOR a season call'd to part, 2 JESUS, hear our humble prayer!!! Tender shepherd of thy sheep!T Let thy mercy and thy care All our souls in safety keep. 3 In thy strength may we be strong; 4 Then, if thou thy help afford, And our souls shall praise the LORD, 485. Christian Union. C. M. Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of anolove as brethren.-1 PETER iii. 8. ther; BLEST be the dear uniting love, 2 Join'd in one Spirit to our head, 30 may we ever walk in him! A Nothing desire, nothing esteeni, baf 4 Partakers of the SAVIOUR'S grace, 5 But let us hasten to the day, Which shall our flesh restore; 486. Love to Christ shown by kindness and love to his people. C.M. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.-MATT. XXV. 40. JESUS, my LORD, how rich thy grace! 2 High on a throne of glorious light 3 But thou hast brethren here below, And wilt confess their humble names 4 In them thou may'st be cloth'd and fed, And visited and cheer'd; And in their accents of distress 5 Thy face with rev'rence and with love I in thy poor would see: O let me rather beg my bread, 487. The Excellency of Religion. 7s. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.-PROV. iii. 17. 'TIS religion that can give Solid comforts when we die. 2 After death, its joys will be Be the living GOD my friend, t 488. The shortness of Time. 7s. WHILE with ceaseless course the sun 2 Fix'd in their eternal state, But how little none can know |