3. Their streaming eyes together flow
For human guilt and mortal woe;
Their ardent prayers together rise,
Like mingling flames in sacrifice.

4. Together oft they seek the place
Where God reveals His awful face;
How high, how strong their raptures swell
There's none but kindred souls can tell.
5. Nor shall the glowing flame expire
'Midst nature's drooping, sick'ning fire:
Soon shall they meet in realms above,
A heaven of joy, because of love.

681.

L. M.

MRS. BARBAULD.

1. COME in, thou blessed of our God,
In Jesus' name we bid thee come;
No more thy feet shall roam abroad,

Henceforth a brother-welcome home.
2. Those joys which earth can not afford,
We'll seek in fellowship to prove,
Joined in one spirit to our Lord,
Together bound by mutual love.

3. And while we pass this vale of tears

We'll make our joys and sorrows known; We'll share each other's hopes and fears, And count a brother's cares our own.

4. Once more our welcome we repeat; Receive assurance of our love;

O may we all together meet

Around the throne of God above!

KELLY.

1. How blest is he whose tranquil mind,
When life declines, recalls again
The years that time has cast behind,
And reaps delight from toil and pain.

2. So, when the transient storm is past,
The sudden gloom and driving shower,
The sweetest sunshine is the last;

683.

The loveliest is the evening hour.

L. M.

1. My God, permit me not to be
A stranger to myself and Thee;
Amid a thousand thoughts I rove,
Forgetful of my highest love.

2. Why should my passions mix with earth,
And thus debase my heavenly birth?
Why should I cleave to things below,
And let my God, my Saviour, go?

3. Call me away from flesh and sense;
One sovereign word can draw me thence;
I would obey the voice divine,

And all inferior joys resign.

4. Be earth, with all her scenes withdrawn; Let noise and vanity be gone:

In secret silence of the mind

My heaven, and there my God, I find.

1. GREAT Shepherd of Thine Israel,

Who didst between the cherubs dwell,
And lead the tribes, Thy chosen sheep,
Safe through the desert and the deep:-

2. Thy church is in the desert now;
Shine from on high and guide us through;
Turn us to Thee, Thy love restore-
We shall be saved, and sigh no more.

3. Great God, whom heavenly hosts obey,
How long shall we lament and pray,
And wait in vain Thy kind return?
How long shall thy fierce anger burn?

WATTS.

4. Instead of wine and cheerful bread,
Thy saints with their own tears are fed;
Turn us to Thee, Thy love restore-
We shall be saved, and sigh no more.

1. KINDRED in Christ! for His dear sake A hearty welcome here receive; May we together now partake

The joys which only He can give.

2. May He, by whose kind care we meet, Send His good Spirit from above; Make our communications sweet,

WATTS.

And cause our hearts to burn with love.

3. Forgotten be each worldly theme,

When Christians meet together thus;
We only wish to speak of Him

Who lived, and died, and reigns for us.
4. We'll talk of all He did, and said,
And suffered for us here below;
The path He marked for us to tread,
And what He's doing for us now.

5. Thus-as the moments pass away-
We'll love, and wonder, and adore;
And hasten on the glorious day

When we shall meet to part no more.

NEWTON.

686.

L. M.

1. WHAT various hind'rances we meet
In coming to a mercy-seat!

Yet who that knows the worth of prayer
But wishes to be often there?

2. Prayer makes the darkened clouds withdraw; Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw,

Gives exercise to faith and love,

Brings every blessing from above.

3. Restraining prayer, we cease to fight;
Prayer makes the Christian's armor bright;
And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.

4. Have you no words? Ah, think again;
Words flow apace when you complain;
And fill a fellow-creature's ear
With the sad tale of all your care.

5. Were half the breath thus vainly spent
To heaven in supplication sent,

Our cheerful song would oftener be,
"Hear what the Lord hath done for me."

Doxology. L. M.

1. Он, may Thy grace on us bestow The Father and the Son to know,

COWPER.

And Thee through endless times confess'd
Of Both th' eternal Spirit blest.

2. All glory while the ages run

687.

Be to the Father, and the Son

Who rose from death; the same to Thee,
O Holy Ghost, eternally.

C. M.

1. WHILE Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes still'd;

And may this consecrated hour

With better hopes be fill'd.

2. Thy love the powers of thought bestowed!
To Thee my thoughts would soar;
Thy mercy o'er my life has flowed;

That mercy I adore.

3. In each event of life, how clear
Thy ruling hand I see!

Each blessing to my soul more dear,
Because conferred by Thee.

4. In every joy that crowns my days,
In every pain I bear,

My heart shall find delight in praise,
Or seek relief in prayer.

5. When gladness wings my favored hour,
Thy love my thoughts shall fill;
Resigned, when storms of sorrow lower,
My soul shall meet Thy will.

6. My lifted eye, without a tear,
The gathering storm shall see;

My steadfast heart shall know no fear;
That heart shall rest on Thee.

688.

MRS. H. M. WILLIAMS.

C. M.

1. O GOD of Bethel! by whose hand
Thy people still are fed;

Who through this weary pilgrimage
Hast all our fathers led!

2. Our vows, our prayers we now present
Before Thy throne of grace:

God of our fathers! be the God
Of their succeeding race.

3. Through each perplexing path of life
Our wandering footsteps guide;
Give us each day our daily bread,
And raiment fit provide.

4. O spread Thy covering wings around,
Till all our wanderings cease,
And at our Father's loved abode,
Our souls arrive in peace.

5. Such blessings from Thy gracious hand
Our humble prayers implore;

And Thou shalt be our chosen God
And portion evermore.

LOGAN.