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3 Vain, sinful man!

Creation's Lord
Thy golden offerings well may spare;
But give thy heart, and thou shalt find
Here dwells a God who heareth prayer.

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Lord's Bay.

1 SLEEP, sleep to-day, tormenting cares,
Of earth and folly born;

Ye shall not dim the light that streams
From this celestial morn.

2 To-morrow will be time enough
To feel your harsh control;
Ye shall not violate, this day,
The sabbath of the soul.

3 Sleep, sleep forever, guilty thoughts;
Let fires of vengeance die ;

And, purged from sin, may I behold
A God of purity!

L. M. SUN. SCHOOL H. B.

Lord's Bay.

1 CALLED by the Sabbath bells away,
Unto thy holy temple, Lord,

I'll go, with willing mind, to pray,
To praise thy name, and hear thy word.

2 O sacred day of peace and joy,
Thy hours are ever dear to me;
Ne'er may a sinful thought destroy
The holy calm I find in thee

3 Dear are thy peaceful hours to me,

For God has given them, in his love, To tell how calm, how blest, shall be The endless day of heaven above.

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Social Worship.

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L. M.

Entroduction to Evening Worship.

BOWRING.

1 How shall we praise thee, Lord of light!
How shall we all thy love declare!

The earth is veiled in shades of night,
But heaven is open to our prayer:
That heaven, so bright with stars and suns,

That glorious heaven, which has no bound,
Where the full tide of being runs,

And life and beauty glow around.

2 We would adore thee, God sublime,
Whose power and wisdom, love and grace,
Are greater than the round of time,
And wider than the bounds of space.
O, how shall thought expression find,
All lost in thine immensity!

How shall we seek thee, glorious Mind,
Amid thy dread infinity!

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3 But thou art present with us here,

As in thy glittering, high domain;
And grateful hearts and humble fear
Can never seek thy face in vain.
Help us to praise thee, Lord of light;

Help us thy boundless love declare;
And, while we crowd thy courts to-night,
Aid us, and hearken to our prayer.

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For Sincerity.

METHODIST COL.

1 0 THAT we all might now begin
Our foolishness to mourn;
And turn at once from every sin,
And to our Saviour turn.

2 Give us ourselves and thee to know,
In this our gracious day;
Repentance unto life bestow,
And take our sins away.

3 Conclude us first in unbelief,
And freely then release;

Fill every soul with sacred grief,
And then with sacred peace.

4 Impoverish, Lord, and then relieve,
And then enrich the poor;

The knowledge of our sickness give;
The knowledge of our cure.

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METHODIST COL.

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Enbocation.

1 FATHER, at thy footstool see
Those who now are one in thee:
Draw us by thy grace alone;
Give, O give us to thy Son.

2 Jesus, friend of human kind,
Let us in thy name be joined;
Each to each unite and bless;
Keep us still in perfect peace.

3 Heavenly, all-alluring Dové,
Shed thy overshadowing love;
Love, the sealing grace, impart;
Dwell within our single heart.

L. M.

For Social Worship.

COWPER.

1 OUR God, where'er thy people meet,
There they behold thy mercy-seat;
Where'er they seek thee, thou art found,
And every place is hallowed ground.

2 For thou, within no walls confined,
Inhabitest the humble mind;

Such ever bring thee where they come,
And, going, take thee to their home.