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3 Malice and rage, those fires of hell,
She quenches with her tongue;
Hopes and believes, and thinks no ill,
Though she endures the wrong.

4 She nor desires nor seeks to know
The scandals of the time;

Nor looks with pride on those below
Nor envies those that climb.

5 She lays her own advantage by,
To seek her neighbor's good:
So God's own Son came down to die,
And bought our lives with blood.

6 Love is the grace that keeps her power
In all the realms above;

There faith and hope are known no more,
But saints forever love.

432.

L. M.

*WATTS.

All Things vain without Love.

1 HAD I the tongues of Greeks and Jews,
And nobler speech than angels use,
If love be absent, I am found
Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.

2 Were I inspired to preach and tell
All that is done in heaven and hell;
Or could my faith the world remove,
Still I am nothing without love.

3 Should I distribute all

my store

To feed the cravings of the poor:
Or give my body to the flame
To gain a martyr's glorious name;

4 If love to God and love to men

Be absent, all my hopes are vain :
Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,
The works of love can e'er fulfil.

433.

C. M.

WATTS.

'But the Greatest of these is Charity.'

1 HAPPY the heart where graces reign,
Where love inspires the breast:
Love is the brightest of the train,
And strengthens all the rest.

2 Knowledge-alas! 'tis all in vain,
And all in vain our fear;

Our stubborn sins will fight and reign,
If love be absent there.

3 This is the grace that lives and sings
When faith and hope shall cease;
'Tis this shall strike our joyful strings
In the sweet realms of bliss.

4 Before we quite forsake our clay,
Or leave this dark abode,

The wings of love bear us away
To see our gracious God.

434.

S. M.

BEDDOME.

Mutual Charity among Christians.

1 LET party names no more

The Christian world o'erspread; Gentile and Jew, and bond and free, Are one in Christ their head.

2 Among the saints on earth
Let mutual love be found;
Heirs of the same inheritance,
With mutual blessings crowned.

3 Let

envy, child of hell!

Be banished far away;

Those should in strictest friendship dwell Who the same Lord obey.

4 Thus will the church below

Resemble that above;

Where streams of pleasure ever flow,
And every heart is love.

435.

H. M.

MONTGOMERY.

Brotherly Love. Ps. 133.

1 How beautiful the sight Of brethren who agree

In friendship to unite,

And bonds of charity!

'Tis like the precious ointment shed O'er all his robes from Aaron's head.

2 'Tis like the dews that fill

The cups of Hermon's flowers;
Or Zion's fruitful hill,

Bright with the drops of showers;
When mingling odors breathe around,
And glory rests on all the ground.

3 For there the Lord commands Blessings, a boundless store, From his unsparing hands,

Yea, life for evermore.
Thrice happy they who meet above
To spend eternity in love!

436.

C. M.

WATTS.

The Same. Ps. 133.

1 Lo, what an entertaining sight

Are brethren that agree!

Brethren whose cheerful hearts unite
In bands of piety!

2 When streams of love, from Christ the spring, Descend to every soul,

And heavenly peace, with balmy wing,
Shades and bedews the whole.

3 'Tis like the oil, divinely sweet,
On Aaron's reverend head;
The trickling drops perfumed his feet,
And o'er his garments spread.

4 'Tis pleasant as the morning dews
That fall on Zion's hill,

Where God his mildest glory shows,
And makes his grace distil.

437.

S. M.

DODDRIDGE.

Honest Search for Truth.

1 IMPOSTURE shrinks from light,

And dreads the curious eye;

But Christian truths the test invite,-
They hus search and try.

2 A meek, inquiring mind,

Lord, help us to maintain;

That growing knowledge we may find, And growing virtue gain.

3 With understanding blest,
Created to be free,

Our faith on man we dare not rest,
Subject to none but thee.

4 Give us the light we need;
Our minds with knowledge fill;
From noxious error guard our creed,
From prejudice our will.

5 The truth thou shalt impart
May we with firmness own;
Abhorring each evasive art,
And fearing thee alone.

438.

S. M.

ANONYMOUS

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'Blessed are the Meek.'

1 BLEST are the meek,' he said,
Whose doctrine is divine;

The humble-minded earth possess,
And bright in heaven will shine.

2 While here on earth they stay,
Calm peace with them shall dwell;
And cheerful hope and heavenly joy
Beyond what tongue can tell.

3 The God of peace is theirs;
They own his gracious sway;
And, yielding all their wills to him,
His sovereign laws obey.

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