As Thou hast given a place for prayer,
So give us hearts to pray.
2 Show us some token of thy love,
Our fainting hope to raise ;
And pour thy blessings from above,
That we may render praise.
3 Within these walls let holy peace,
And love, and concord dwell;
Here give the troubled conscience ease,
The wounded spirit heal.
4 The feeling heart, the melting eye,
The humble mind bestow;
And shine upon us from on high,
To make our graces grow.
5 May we in faith receive thy word,
In faith present our prayers;
And in the presence of our Lord
Unbosom all our cares.
6 And may the gospel's joyful sound,
Enforced by mighty grace,
Awaken many sinners round,
To come and fill the place.
525 Opening an Enlarged Place for
JESUS, where'er thy people meet,
There they behold thy mercy-seat;
Where'er they seek Thee, Thou art found,
And every place is hallowed ground.
2 For Thou, within no walls confined,
Inhabitest the humble mind;
Such ever bring Thee where they come,
And, going, take Thee to their home.
3 Dear Shepherd of thy chosen few !
Thy former mercies here renew;
Here, to our waiting hearts proclaim
The sweetness of thy saving name.
4 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.
5 Behold, at thy commanding word
We stretch the curtain and the cord,
Come Thou and fill this wider space,
And bless us with a large increase.
6 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 our waiting hearts thine own!
2.-UNION AND HOME MISSIONARY MEETINGS.
KINDRED in Christ, to us 'tis given
To know the Saviour's precious name;
And shortly we shall meet in heaven,
Our hope, our way, our end the same.
2 May He, by whose kind care we meet,
Send his good Spirit from above,
Make our communication sweet,
And cause our hearts to burn with love!
3 Forgotten be each worldly theme
When Christians see each other thus ;
We only wish to speak of Him
Who lived, and died, and reigns for us.
4 We talk of all He did and said,
And suffer'd for us here below;
The path He mark'd for us to tread,
And what He's doing for us now.
5 Thus, as the moments pass away,
We'll love, and wonder, and adore,
And hasten on the glorious day
When we shall meet to part no more.
NEWTON.*
OLEST 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 sympathising tear.
4 When we asunder part,
It gives our spirits 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.
Meeting of Brethren.
AND are we yet alive,
And see each other's face?
Glory and praise to Jesus give
For his redeeming grace!
Preserved by power divine
To full salvation here,
Again in Jesu's praise we join,
And in his sight appear.
2 What troubles have we seen!
What conflicts have we past!
Fightings without, and fears within,
Since we assembled last.
But out of all the Lord
Hath brought us by his love:
And still He doth his help afford,
And hides our life above.
3 Then let us make our boast
Of his redeeming power,
Which saves us to the uttermost,
Till we can sin no more :
Let us take up the cross,
Till we the crown obtain ;
And gladly reckon all things loss,
So we may Jesus gain.
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