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ABANDON'D C'er the world's wide waste.
Why should we FORD II WŁn and fear?
Now from Destruction let us haste,
And set for Zion our career.

Through no proud dangers. foods, or fres.
No stirring scenes, our course is bent;
We struggle against low desires.

Bad passions, selfish discontent.

Work in us, and work with us, Lord!
To follow where Thy servants lead,
In dust and thirst to seek Thy word,
And onward still in prayer proceed!
Let not the Parables of life

Confuse the truth they should display;
Trackless and humble is our strife,
Unseen by man our noiseless way!
How shall we, sinners all, regret
That we have not great things to do!
O! may our hearts each day be set
To travel all its duties through!

And Thou, the Saviour of our race!
Be with us on our lowly path;
That there we seek Thy promised grace,
And flee in earnest from Thy wrath!

B

A thousand years have roll'd away, and now
The Martyr's trial is no longer ours:
Yet is there danger still, lest down we bow
And burn our incense to some Idol powers.
A thousand storied years to us have given
These Prayers, that hallow our own Book of Prayer;
They warn us how our forefathers have striven,
And what the arms and armour we should bear :
They stand between the living and the dead;
They tell us our communion cannot die;
They make us one in Christ, and, duly said,
Connect our world with that so long gone by:
They help to make us hopeful, humble, meek;
They prove the Blessing with the Promise sent;
Of Jesus and the Comforter they speak

In strongest words, yet grave and reverent.
O! we must love our ancient Prayers, as we
Love the old church in which our fathers sleep,
The well-known tomb, and venerable tree
That shaded them ere we had learnt to weep.
Eternal God! to whom a thousand years
Are as one day! Thy will be ever done!
May our affections, reason, hopes, and fears,
All cling to Thee, through Thine Incarnate Son!
Spirit of Power! let each regenerate heart

Seek fellowship with all Thy saints on high!
There shall they gather, all, no more to part,
From every land and age, no more to die.

Father and mother, children, husband, wife,
Brethren and friends, dear as our own heart's blood,

Shall there, in Christ, receive eternal life,

And bless His reign, one holy brotherhood!

HYMNS.

I.

ABANDON'D o'er the world's wide waste,
Why should we roam in want and fear?
Now from Destruction let us haste,
And set for Zion our career.

Through no proud dangers, floods, or fires,
No stirring scenes, our course is bent;
We struggle against low desires,

Bad passions, selfish discontent.

Work in us, and work with us, Lord!
To follow where Thy servants lead,
In dust and thirst to seek Thy word,
And onward still in prayer proceed!
Let not the Parables of life

Confuse the truth they should display;
Trackless and humble is our strife,
Unseen by man our noiseless way!
How shall we, sinners all, regret
That we have not great things to do!
O! may our hearts each day be set
To travel all its duties through!

And Thou, the Saviour of our race!
Be with us on our lowly path;
That there we seek Thy promised grace,
And flee in earnest from Thy wrath!

B

and now

A thousand years have roll'd away,
The Martyr's trial is no longer ours:
Yet is there danger still, lest down we bow
And burn our incense to some Idol powers.

A thousand storied years to us have given
These Prayers, that hallow our own Book of Prayer;
They warn us how our forefathers have striven,
And what the arms and armour we should bear:
They stand between the living and the dead;
They tell us our communion cannot die;
They make us one in Christ, and, duly said,
Connect our world with that so long gone by:
They help to make us hopeful, humble, meek;
They prove the Blessing with the Promise sent;
Of Jesus and the Comforter they speak

In strongest words, yet grave and reverent.
O! we must love our ancient Prayers, as we
Love the old church in which our fathers sleep,
The well-known tomb, and venerable tree
That shaded them ere we had learnt to weep.

Eternal God! to whom a thousand years
Are as one day! Thy will be ever done!
May our affections, reason, hopes, and fears,
All cling to Thee, through Thine Incarnate Son!
Spirit of Power! let each regenerate heart
Seek fellowship with all Thy saints on high!
There shall they gather, all, no more to part,
From every land and age, no more to die.

Father and mother, children, husband, wife,
Brethren and friends, dear as our own heart's blood,
Shall there, in Christ, receive eternal life,

And bless His reign, one holy brotherhood!

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