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3 Here may we prove the power of prayer,
To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heaven before our eyes.

4 Lord, we are few, but thou art near;
Nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine ear:
O, rend the heavens, come quickly down,
And make a thousand hearts thine own'

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Freedom in Worship.

1 THOU biddest, Lord, thy sons be bold;
Lord, thou hast set us free;
The dear adoption fast we hold,
The glorious liberty!

2 We stand unto our God how near!
Nor priest nor veil between;
Lord! full unto thine own appear;
We cast away each screen.

3 Thy truth is waiting to be seized;
Thou sweetly bid'st us dare;

We look, we seek, and thou art pleased

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To meet us everywhere.

4 Thy Spirit's fulness we embrace,-
Away with man's poor dole!

The sweetest visit of thy grace
Asks but an open soul.

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5 Full feels our solemn privacy
The sweet celestial air;

In humble joy we lay on thee
The loving clasp of prayer.

6 We mingle now our inmost fires,
A glowing spirit-throng!

All free and strong of wing, aspires
The passion of our song.

7 Thine own we are, Almighty One!
Thine own would ever be ;
Endless thy dear dominion,
Our glorious liberty!

S. M.

Brotherly Love.

1 BLEST are the sons of peace,

Whose hearts and hopes are one;
Whose kind designs to serve and please
Through all their actions run!

2 Blest is the pious house,

WATTS.

Where zeal and friendship meet;
Their songs of praise, their mingled vows,

Make their communion sweet.

3 Thus on the heavenly hills

The saints are blest above,

Where peace like morning dew distils,

And all the air is love.

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COWPER.

8 & 7s M.

Future Peace and Glory of the Church.

1 HEAR what God, the Lord, hath spoken:
O my people, faint and few,
Comfortless, afflicted, broken,

Fair abodes I build for you:
Scenes of heartfelt tribulation

Shall no more perplex your ways;
You shall name your walls salvation,
And your gates shall all be praise.

2 There, like streams that feed the garden,
Pleasures without end shall flow;

For the Lord, your faith rewarding,
All his bounty shall bestow :
Still in undisturbed possession

Peace and righteousness shall reign;
Never shall you feel oppression,
Hear the voice of war again.

3 Ye, no more your suns descending,
Waning moons no more shall see ;
But, your griefs forever ending,
Find eternal noon in me:

God shall rise, and, shining o'er you,
Change to day the gloom of night;

He, the Lord, shall be your glory,
God your everlasting light.

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J. NEWTON.

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8 & 7s M.

The City of God.

1 GLORIOUS things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God!

He whose word cannot be broken
Formed thee for his own abode.

2 On the Rock of ages founded,

What can shake thy sure repose?
With salvation's walls surrounded,
Thou mayst smile at all thy foes.

3 See! the streams of living waters,
Springing from eternal love,
Well supply thy sons and daughters,
And all fear of want remove.

4 Who can faint while such a river
Ever flows their thirst to assuage?
Grace, which, like the Lord the giver,
Never fails from age to age.

7 & 6s M.

Joy and Peace in Believing.

1 SOMETIMES a light surprises
The Christian while he sings;
It is the Lord who rises
With healing on his wings:

COWPER.

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When comforts are declining,
He grants the soul again
A season of clear shining,
To cheer it after rain.

2 In holy contemplation,

We sweetly then pursue
The theme of God's salvation,
And find it ever new;

Set free from present sorrow,
We cheerfully can say,
E'en let the unknown to-morrow
Bring with it what it may !

3 It can bring with it nothing
But he will bear us through;
Who gives the lilies clothing
Will clothe his people too;
Beneath the spreading heavens,
No creature but is fed;
And he who feeds the ravens

Will give his children bread.

C. M.

God Everywhere.

1 THE heaven of heavens cannot contain

The universal Lord!

Yet he in humble hearts will. deign

To dwell and be adored.

DRENNAN.

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