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3. Then let us here improve bur hours,&
Improve them to a SAVIOURIsapraise;
To him with zeal devote our pow'rs,
And run with joy in wisdom's ways.
4 [Let all our meetings now be made
Subservient to each other's good;
For worldly joys must quickly fade,
Nor can they yield substantial food.]
5 Whene er requir'd to part from those
With whom the truth unites us here,
We'll call to mind the joyful close,
When CHRIST, the SAVIOUR, will appear.
6 Then shall his saints all meet again,
For so his word of promise says;
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483. Christian Communion. L.M.

Nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.
-EPH. v. 4.

ENAMOUR'D of their golden dreams,
Let worldlings talk on worldly themes:
This should not be when Christians
meet:

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:

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To bear it for the sinner's sake.

4 [His saints can never want a theme:
How can they, when they think of him?
For love like his, so rich, so strong,
Is theme enough for endless song.]

5 Come then, and let us talk of him,
Who died, the sinner to redeem:4
The joyful theme we'll still.
pursue,
'Tis sweet, 'tis rich, 'tis ever new.

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6 Let idle jests be far from us,

It suits us not to trifle thus:
We'll leave it to the sons of earth,
And meet for profit not for mirth.

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,
Let us now ourselves commend!!
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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;
Sweeten every cross and pain:
Give us, if we live, ere long
In thy peace to meet again.

4 Then, if thou thy help afford,
Ebenezers shall be rear'd;

And our souls shall praise the LORD,
Who our poor petitions heard.

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,
That will not let us part;
Our bodies may far off remove,
We still are one in heart.

2 Join'd in one Spirit to our head,
Where he appoints we go;
And still in JESU's footsteps tread,
And show his praise below.

30 may we ever walk in him!
And nothing know beside:

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But JESUS crucified!

4 Partakers of the SAVIOUR'S grace,
The same in mind, in heart;
Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
Nor life, nor death can part.

5 But let us hasten to the day,

Which shall our flesh restore;
When death shall all be done away,
And Christians part no more!

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!
Thy bounties how complete!
How shall I count the matchless sum?
How pay the mighty debt?

2 High on a throne of glorious light
Dost thou exalted shine;
What can my poverty bestow,
When all the worlds are thine?

3 But thou hast brethren here below,
The partners of thy grace,

And wilt confess their humble names
Before thy Father's face.

4 In them thou may'st be cloth'd and fed, And visited and cheer'd;

And in their accents of distress
My SAVIOUR'S voice is heard.

5 Thy face with rev'rence and with love I in thy poor would see:

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O let me rather beg my bread,
Than keep it back from thee."!

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
Sweetest pleasures while we live;
'Tis religion must supply

Solid comforts when we die.

2 After death, its joys will be
Lasting as eternity!

Be the living GOD my friend,
Then my bliss shall never end.

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488. The shortness of Time. 7s.
Redeeming the time.-EPH. v. 16.

WHILE with ceaseless course the sun
Hasted through the former year,
Many souls their race have run,
Never more to meet us here!

2 Fix'd in their eternal state,
They have done with all below
We a little longer wait,

But how little none can know

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