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THE DEATH OF YOUTH.

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STEELE.

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down.-Job xiv. 2.

HEN blooming youth is snatched away

W By death's resistless hand,

Our hearts the mournful tribute pay,
Which pity must demand.

2 While pity prompts the rising sigh,
O may this truth, imprest
With awful power,-I too must die,-
Sink deep in every breast.

3 Let this vain world delude no more:
Behold the gaping tomb:

It bids us seize the present hour;
To-morrow death may come.

4 The voice of this alarming scene
May every heart obey:

Nor be the heavenly warning vain,
Which calls to watch and pray.

50 let us now to Jesus fly,

Whose powerful arm can save:
Then shall our hopes ascend on high,
And triumph o'er the grave.

ANNIVERSARIES.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

L.M.

WATTS.

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ordained strength.-Psa. viii. 2. LMIGHTY Ruler of the skies,

Thro the wide earth Thy name is spread;

And Thine eternal glories rise

O'er all the heavens Thy hands have made.

2 To Thee the voices of the young
A monument of honour raise;

And babes, with uninstructed tongue,
Declare the wonders of Thy praise.
8 Children amidst Thy temple throng
To see their Great Redeemer's face;
The Son of David is their song,
And young hosannas fill the place.

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Out of the mouths of babes Thou hast
perfected praise.-Matt. xxi. 16.
ILORY to the Father give,-

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God, in whom we move and live:
Children's prayers He deigns to hear;
Children's songs delight His ear.

2 Glory to the Son we bring,—
Christ our Prophet, Priest, and King:
Children, raise your sweetest strain
To the Lamb, for He was slain.
3 Glory to the Holy Ghost;
Be this day a Pentecost;

Children's minds may He inspire;
Touch their tongues with holy fire.

4 Glory in the highest be

To the blessed Trinity,
For the gospel from above,
For the word, that God is love.

C.M.

STRAPHAN.

974 Train up a child in the way he should go.

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Prov. xxii. 6.

BLEST work, the youthful mind to win,

And turn the rising race

From the deceitful paths of sin,
To seek redeeming grace.

2 Children our kind protection claim;
And God will well approve,
When infants learn to lisp His name,
And their Redeemer love.

3 Be ours the bliss, in wisdom's way
To guide untutored youth;

And show the mind which went astray
The Way, the Life, the Truth.

4 Thy Spirit, Father, on us shed,
And bless this good design:

The honours of Thy name be spread,
And all the glory Thine.

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CLEM. ALEX.

He shall gather the lambs with His arm.
Isa. xl. 11.

HEPHERD of tender youth,
Guiding, in love and truth,
Through devious ways;
Christ, our triumphant King,
We come Thy name to sing,
And here our children bring,
To shout Thy praise.

2 Thou art our Holy Lord,
The all-subduing Word,
Healer of strife:

Thou didst Thyself abase,
That from sin's deep disgrace
Thou mightest save our race,
And give us life.

3 0 wisdom's Great High Priest;
Thou hast prepared the feast

Of holy love;

And in our mortal pain,
None calls on Thee in vain:
Help Thou dost not refrain,-
Help from above.

4 Be ever near our side,

Our Shepherd and our Guide,
Our staff and song:
Jesus, Thou Christ of God,
By Thy perennial word,

Lead us where Thou hast trod;
Make our faith strong.

5 So now, and till we die,
Sound we Thy praises high,
And joyful sing.

Infants, and the glad throng
Who to Thy church belong,
Unite, and swell the song
To Christ our King.

GENERAL CHARITIES.

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O that Ishmael might live before Thee.
Gen. xvii. 18.

ORD of the lofty and the low,

Whose heart with tender pity yearns,
From Thee divine compassions flow
To him who from transgression turns.

2 Thou, who didst leave the world of light,
To dwell with man-his woes to share;
To put the powers of hell to flight,
Be present now to hear our prayer.
3 To raise the fallen, free the slave,

Reclaim the outcast; from the powe
Of sin and death the soul to save,
O help us, Saviour, every hour.
4 Help us, our work of faith and love
With sleepless ardour to pursue ;
Till, in the realms of bliss above,
Thy glorious face unveiled we view.

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Pure religion is, to visit the fatherless and widow.-Jas. i. 27.

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QRIGHT source of everlasting love,
To Thee our souls we raise,
And to Thy sovereign bounty rear
A monument of praise.

2 Thy mercy gilds the path of life
With every cheering ray;
Kindly restrains the rising tear,
Or wipes that tear away.

3 To scenes of woe, to beds of pain,
Our willing feet repair;

And with the gifts Thy hand bestows,
Relieve the mourners there.

4 The widow's heart shall sing for joy,
The orphan shall be glad;

And hungering souls we'll gladly point
To Christ the Living Bread.

5 Thus passing through the vale of tears
Our useful light shall shine,

And others learn to glorify
Our Father's name divine.

DOMESTIC RELIGION.

FAMILY WORSHIP.

L.M.

DODDRIDGE.

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Gen. xviii. 19.

NATHER of men, Thy care we bless,
Which crowns our families with peace:

From Thee they sprang, and by Thy hand
Their root and branches are sustained.