4 Ye, by fiercer anguish torn,
In remorse for guilt who mourn;
Here repose your heavy care:
Conscience wounded, who can bear?
5 Sinner, come! for here is found
Balm that flows for every wound;
Peace that ever shall endure;
Rest eternal, sacred, sure.

281.

C. M.

Mutual Invitation.

MONTGOMERY.

1 COME, let us join our souls to God
In everlasting bands,

And seize the blessings he bestows
With eager hearts and hands.

2 Come, let us to his temple haste,
And seek his favor there,

Before his footstool humbly bow,
And offer fervent prayer.

3 Come, let us share, without delay,
The blessings of his grace;
Nor shall the years of distant life
Their mem'ry e'er efface.

4 O, may our children ever haste
To seek their fathers' God,
Nor e'er forsake the happy path
Their fathers' feet have trod.

282.

L. M.

Religion the one Thing needful.

DODDRIDGE.

1 WHY do we waste in trifling cares,
The lives divine compassion spares,
While, in the various range of thought,
The one thing needful is forgot?

2 Our Father calls us from above,
Our Saviour pleads his dying love,
Awakened conscience gives us pain;
Shall all these pleas unite in vain ?
3 Not so our dying eyes will view
The objects which we now pursue;
Not so eternity appear,

When the decisive hour is near.

4 Then wake, my soul, thy way prepare,
And lose in this each meaner care;
With steady step that path be trod,
Which through the grave conducts to God.

283.

S. M. EPISCOPAL COLL.

Gospel Invitations.

1 THE Spirit, in our hearts,

Is whispering, "Sinner, come!"

The Bride, the church of Christ, proclaims
To all his children, "Come!

2 Let him that heareth say

To all about him, " Čome!"
Let him that thirsts for righteousness,
To Christ, the Fountain, come!

3 Yes, whosoever will,

O, let him freely come,

And freely drink the stream of life;
"T is Jesus bids him come.

4 Lo, Jesus, who invites,

Declares, "I quickly come ":
Lord, even so! I wait thine hour:
Jesus, my Saviour, come!

284.

7s. M.

EPISCOPAL COLL.

The Sinner entreated to awake.

1 SINNER, rouse thee from thy sleep;
Wake, and o'er thy folly weep;
Raise thy spirit, dark and dead;
Jesus waits his light to shed.

2 Wake from sleep; arise from death;
See the bright and living path;
Watchful, tread that path; be wise;
Leave thy folly; seek the skies.

3 Leave thy folly; cease from crime;
From this hour redeem thy time;
Life secure without delay;
Evil is thy mortal day.

4 O, then, rouse thee from thy sleep;
Wake, and o'er thy folly weep;
Jesus calls from death and night;
Jesus waits to shed his light.

285.

S. M.

SELECT HYMNS.

Now the Day of Grace.

1 NOW is the day of grace;

Now to the Father come;

The Lord is calling, "Seek my face,
And I will guide you home.

2 The Saviour bids you speed;
O, wherefore then delay?

He calls in love; he sees your need ;
He bids you come to-day.

3 To-day the prize is won;
The promise is to save;

Then, O, be wise; to-morrow's sun
May shine upon your grave.

A timely Improvement of Life.

1 THE swift-declining day,
How fast its moments fly!

DODDRIDGE.

While evening's broad and gloomy shade
Gains on the western sky.

2 Ye mortals! mark its pace;

Improve the hours of light;
And know, your Maker can command
An instantaneous night.

3 His word blots out the sun

In its meridian blaze;

And cuts from sanguine, vigorous youth
The remnant of its days.

4 On the dark mountain's brow
Your feet shall quickly slide,
And from its airy summit dash
Your momentary pride.

5 What most demands your care,
O, be it still pursued!

Lest, slighted once, the season fair
Should never be renewed.

6 Then shall new lustre break

Through horror's darkest gloom,
And lead you to unchanging light,
In a celestial home.

287.

7 & 6s. M.

MONTGOMERY.

Blessings of Christ's Kingdom.

1 HAIL to the Lord's Anointed,
Great David's greater Son!
Hail! in the time appointed
His reign on earth begun!
He comes to break oppression,
To set the captive free,
To take away transgression,
And rule in equity.

2 He comes, with succour speedy,
To those who suffer wrong;
To help the poor and needy,
And bid the weak be strong;
To give them songs for sighing,
Their darkness turn to light,
Whose souls, condemned and dying,
Were precious in his sight.

3 He shall descend like showers
Upon the fruitful earth,
And love and joy, like flowers,
Spring in his path to birth;
Before him, on the mountains,
Shall peace, the herald, go;
And righteousness, in fountains,
From hill to valley flow.

4 For him shall prayer unceasing
And daily vows ascend,
His kingdom still increasing,
A kingdom without end:
The tide of time shall never
His covenant remove :

288.

His name shall stand for ever;

That name to us is love.

The Gospel gives Peace and Rest.

1 PEACE, troubled soul, whose plaintive moan Hath taught these rocks the notes of woe; Cease thy complaints, suppress thy groan, And let thy tears forget to flow:

Behold the precious balm is found,

Which lulls thy pain, which heals thy wound.

2 Come, freely come, by sin oppressed,
Unburden here the weighty load,
Here find thy refuge and thy rest,
And trust the mercy of thy God:
Thy God 's thy Father, glorious word!
For ever love and praise the Lord.

3 As spring the winter, day the night, Peace sorrow's gloom shall chase away, And smiling joy, a seraph bright,

Shall tend thy steps and near thee stay; Whilst glory weaves th' immortal crown, And waits to claim thee for her own.

289.

SPIRITUAL INFLUENCES.

H. M.

CAMPBELL'S COLL.

Pleading the Promise of the Spirit.

1 0 THOU that hearest prayer,
Attend our humble cry,
And let thy servants share

Thy blessing from on high:
We plead the promise of thy word;
Grant us thy holy spirit, Lord.

2 If earthly parents hear

Their children when they cry, ·

If they, with love sincere,

Their varied wants supply,

Much more wilt thou thy love display,
And answer when thy children pray.

3 Our heavenly Father, thou;
We, children of thy grace:

O, let thy spirit now

Descend and fill the place:

So shall we feel the heavenly flame,
And all unite to praise thy name.

4 O, may that sacred fire,

Descending from above,

Our languid hearts inspire
With fervent zeal and love: