Taught by one Spirit from above,
In thee may we abide.

4 Around this feeble, trusting band
Thy sheltering pinions spread,
Nor let the storms of trial beat
Too fiercely on our head.

5 Then, when, among the saints in light,
Our joyful spirits shine,
Shall anthems of immortal praise,
O Lamb of God, be thine.

623.

S. M.

Christian Fellowship.

FAWCETT.

1 BLEST be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.

2 Before our Father's throne

We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares.

3 We share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows

The sympathizing tear.

4 When we asunder part,

It gives us inward pain;

But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.

5 This glorious hope revives

Our courage by the way;
While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.

6 From sorrow, toil, and pain,
And sin, we shall be free,

And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity.

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624.

THE LORD'S SUPPER.

C. M.

B. W. NOEL.

Remembering Christ.

. 1 IF human kindness meets return,
And owns the grateful tie;

If tender thoughts within us burn
To feel a friend is nigh;

2 O, shall not warmer accents tell
The gratitude we owe

To Him who died our fears to quell,
And save from sin and woe.

3 While yet his anguished soul surveyed
Those pangs he would not flee,

What love his latest words displayed!
"Meet and remember me. ""

4 Remember thee! thy death, thy shame,
The griefs which thou didst bear!
O memory, leave no other name
But his recorded there!

625.

C. M.

ANONYMOUS.

Coming to the Table of the Lord.

1 LET vain pursuits and vain desires
Be banished from the heart,

The Saviour's love fill every breast,
And light and life impart.

2 He knew how frail our nature is,
Our souls how apt to stray;
How much we need his gracious help
To keep us in the way!

3 These faithful pledges of his love
His mercy did ordain,

To bring refreshment to our souls,
And faith and hope sustain.

4 Since such his condescending grace,
Let us, with hearts sincere,
Obedient to his holy will,
His table now draw near.

5 And while we join to celebrate
The sufferings of our Lord,
May we receive new grace and power,
T'obey his holy word.

626.

C. M.

MONTGOMERY.

"This do in Remembrance of me."

1 ACCORDING to thy gracious word,
In meek humility,

This will I do, my dying Lord, -
I will remember thee.

2 Thy body, broken for my sake,
My bread from heaven shall be ;
Thy testamental cup I take,
And thus remember thee.

3 Gethsemane can I forget?
Or there thy conflict see,
Thine agony and bloody sweat,
And not remember thee?

4 When to the cross I turn mine eyes,
And rest on Calvary,

O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,
I must remember thee;

5 Remember thee, and all thy pains,
And all thy love to me;

Yea, while a breath, a pulse remains,
Will I remember thee.

627.

S. M.

FURNESS.

A Communion Hymn.

1 O, FOR a prophet's fire,

O, for an angel's tongue,

To speak the mighty love of Him
Who on the cross was hung!

2 In vain our hearts attempt,

In language meet, to tell

How through a thousand sorrows burned

That flame unquenchable.

3 Yet would we praise that love,

Beyond expression dear:

Come, gather round this table, then,
And celebrate it here.

4 These symbols of his death,

O, with what power they speak!
Prophetic lips and angels' lyres,
Compared with these, are weak.
5 And shall they plead in vain
With our forgetful souls?

Forbid it, God, while through our veins
The vital current rolls.

628.

C. M. BIRMINGHAM COLL.

For Communicants.

1 YE followers of the Prince of Peace,
Who round his table draw,
Remember what his spirit was,
What his peculiar law.

2 The love which all his bosom filled
Did all his actions guide;
Inspired by love, he lived and taught;
Inspired by love, he died.

3 Let each the sacred law fulfil;
Like his be every mind;

Be every temper formed by love,
And every action kind.

4 Let none who call themselves his friends
Disgrace the honored name,

But by a near resemblance prove
The title which they claim.

629.

C. M.

Christian Fellowship.

E. TAYLOR.

1 O, HERE, if ever, God of love,
Let strife and hatred cease,

And every heart harmonious move,
And every thought be peace.

2 Not here, where, met to think on Him
Whose latest thoughts were ours,
Shall mortal passions come to dim
The prayer devotion pours.

3 No, gracious Master, not in vain
Thy life of love hath been;

The peace thou gav'st may yet remain,
Though thou no more art seen.

4 Thy kingdom come : we watch, we wait To hear thy cheering call,

When heaven shall ope its glorious gate,
And God be all in all.

630.

S. M. ENGLISH Baptist COLL

Obeying Christ.

1 HERE, Saviour, we would come,
In thine appointed way;
Obedient to thy high commands,
Our solemn vows we pay.

2 O, bless this sacred rite,
To bring us near to thee;
And may we find that as our day
Our strength shall also be.

The Memorial of our absent Lord.

1 JESUS is gone above the sky,

WATTS.

Where our weak senses reach him not;
And earthly objects court our eye,

To thrust the Saviour from our thought.
2 He knows what treacherous hearts we have,
Prone to forget his wondrous grace;
And kindly this memorial gave,

Till we ascend to see his face.

3 The Lord of life this table spread
With tokens of his dying love;
And we who on its richness feed,
A foretaste gain of joys above.
4 Be sinful pleasures all forgot,

And earth grow less in our esteem;
Christ and his love fill every thought,
And faith and hope be fixed on him!

A Communion Hymn.

1 HERE, in the broken bread,
Here, in the cup we take,
His body and his blood behold,
Who suffered for our sake.

FURNESS.