Shall ever molest me again, Perfection of glory reigns there! This soul and this body shall shine. In robes of salvation and praise, And banquet on pleasures divine, 2 Where God his full beauty displays.] 6 Ye palaces, sceptres, and crowns, Your pride with disdain I survey; Your pomps are but shadows and sounds, And pass in a moment away: The crown that my Saviour bestows Yon permanent sun shall outshine; My joy everlastingly flows, to ni My Gop, my Redeemer is mine. B. FRANCIS. 254 S. M. Vermont 134. Stoke 207. How quia Harborough 142. 1 2 3 4 Love to the Brethren. BLEST be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love! The fellowship of kindred minds Before our Father's throne We pour our ardent prayers: Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, Our comforts and our cares. We share our mutual woes; Our mutual burdens bear: And often for each other flows The sympathizing tear. S When we asunder part, 5 It gives us inward pain; But we shall still be join'd in heart, 5 This glorious hope revives Our courage by the way theĄ 6 From sorrow, toil, and pain, 53 And sin, we shall be free; And perfect love and friendship reign: Thro' all eternity.side to DR.› FAWCETT, 255 S. M. Eagle Street New 55, Enfield 5. Christian Love, Gal. ill. 28. 1 LET party names no more lo 2 The Christian world o'erspread; Let mutual love be found; 3 Let envy, child of hell! Be banish'd far Those should in strictest friendship dwell Who the same LORD obey. Resemble that above; Where streams of pleasure ever flow, And every heart is love. BEDDOME. 256 L. M. New Court 173. Antigua 120. The heart purified to unfeigned Love of the Brethren by the Spirit, I Pet. i. 22. 1 GREAT Spirit of immortal love! Vouchsafe our frozen hearts to move; 2 Still let the heavenly fire endure, every hand Let 3 Celestial Dove! descend and bring را 257 C. M. Ludlow 84. Charmouth £8. Love to our Neighbour; or, the good Samaritan, Luke X. 29-37. 1 FATHER of mercies! send thy grace, To form, in our obedient souls, 2 Oh, may our sympathizing breasts: i 3 When the most helpless sons of grief Soft be our hearts their pains to feel, 4 So JESUS look'd on dying man, per c And 'mid th' embraces of his Gop, He felt compassion rise: 5 On wings of love the Saviour flew, To raise us from the ground, And shed the richest of his blood, 258 528 A balm for every wound. DR. DODDRIDGE. C. M. Worksop 31. Ann's 58., 07 Love to our Enemies from the Example of CHRIST, Luke xxiii. 34. Matt. v. 44. A LOUD we sing the wond'rous grace CHRIST to his murderers bare; Which made the tort'ring cross its throne, And hung its trophies there. 2 Father, forgive! his mercy cried, And drew eternal blessings down Jo 3 JESUS, this wond'rous love we sing! Breathe on our souls, and kindle there 258 (2d P.) C. M. Providence College 10. New York 33. Perfect Love. 1 THAT perfect love is perfect bliss, Nor shall felicity but this, In earth or heaven be found. 2 This is the joy of joy I know, That can delight impart: Warm as the ruby tides that flow 3 This is the joy that angels feel, 4 Say-is not this the dazzling light 259 C. M. Providence College 10. New York 33, All attainments vain without Love, 1 Cor. xiii. 1-3. 1 SHOULD bounteous Nature kindly pour, Her richest gifts on me, Still, O my God! I should be poor, 2 Not shining wit, nor manly sense, 3 Did I possess the gift of tongues, My loudest words, my loftiest songs, 4. Tho' thou shouldst give-me heavenly skill My knowledge would be vain. No faith could do me real good, 7 What tho' my body I consign In hope the glorious deed will shine 8 These splendid acts of vanity, I Can never please my GOD.] 9 Oh, grant me, then, this one request, That love divine may rule my breast, DR. S. STENNETT. 260 S. M. Mansfield 154. Mount Ephraim 185. The Meek beautified with Salvation, Psalm cxlix. 4. 1. E humble souls, rejoice, And cheerful praises sing! Wake all your harmony of voice of d 2 That meek and lowly LORD, Whom here your souls have known, Pledges the honour of his word our Ea T' avow you for his own.; 10 3 He brings salvation near, allocid sulT For which his blood was paid! |