5 Then let us hasten to the day,
When all shall be brought home;
Come, O Redeemer, come away,
O Jesus, quickly come!
HYMN 329. C. M. [121]
TRY us, O God, and search the ground
Of every sinful heart:
Whate'er of sin in us is found,
O bid it all depart.
2 When to the right or left we stray,
Leave us not comfortless;
But guide our feet into the way
Of everlasting peace.
3 Help us to help each other, Lord,
Each other's eross to bear:
Let each his friendly aid afford,
And feel his brother's care.
4 Help us to build each other up,
Our little stock improve;
Increase our faith, confirm our hope,
And perfect us in love.
5 Up into thee, our living Head,
Let us in all things grow;
Till thou hast made us free indeed,
And spotless here below.
6 Then when the mighty work is wrought,
Receive thy ready bride;
Give us in heaven a happy lot
With all the sanctified.
HYMN 330. C. M. [122]
JESUS, united by thy grace,
And each to each endear'd,
With confidence we seek thy face,
And know our prayer is heard.
2 Still let us own our common Lord
And bear thine easy yoke;
A band of love a threefold cord,
Which never can be broke.
3 Make us into one spirit drink;
Baptize into thy Name;
And let us always kindly think,
And sweetly speak the same.
4 Touch'd with the loadstone of thy love,
Let all our hearts agree;
And ever toward each other move,
And ever move toward thee.
HYMN 331. C. M.
TO thee inseparably join'd, Let all our spirits cleave; .O may we all the loving mind That was in thee receive!
2 This is the bond of perfectness,
The spotless charity;
O let us (still we pray) possess
The mind that was in thee!
3 Grant this, and then from all below
Insensibly remove;
Our souls the change shall scarcely know,
Made perfect first in love!
4 With ease our souls through death shall glide Into their paradise;
And thence on wings of angels ride,
Triumphant through the skies.
5 Yet when the fullest joy is given,
The same delight we prove,
In earth, in paradise, in heaven,
Our all in all is Love.
JESUS, accept the praise
That to thy name belongs;
Matter of all our lays,
Subject of all our songs;
Through thee we now together came,
And part, exulting in thy Name.
2 In flesh we part awhile,
But still in spirit join'd, T'embrace the happy toil,
Thou hast to each assigned;
And while we do thy blessed will,
We bear our heaven about us still.
3 0 let us thus go on
In all thy pleasant ways:
And, arm'd with patience, run
With joy th' appointed race;
Keep us, and every seeking soul,
Till all attain the heavenly goal.
4 There we shall meet again,
When all our toils are o'er,
And death, and grief, and pain,
And parting are no more:
We shall with all our brethren rise,
And grasp thee in the flaming skies.
5 O happy, happy day,
That calls thy exiles home! The heavens shall pass away,
The earth receive its doom;
Earth we shall view, and heaven destroy'd,
And shout above the fiery void.
HYMN 333. C. M. [473]
COME, let us strike our harps afresh
To great Jehovah's name;
Sweet be the accents of our tongues,
When we his love proclaim.
2 "Twas by his bidding we were called In pain awhile to part;
"Tis by his care we meet again,
And gladness fills our heart.
3 Blest be the hand that has preserved
Our feet from every snare,
And bless the goodness of the Lord,
Which to this hour we share.
4 O, may the Spirit's quickening power Now sanctify our joy,
And warm our zeal in works of love
Our talents to employ.
5 Fast, fast our minutes fly away;
Soon shall our wanderings cease:
Then with our Father we shall dwell,
A family of peace.
THOU God of truth and love,
We seek thy perfect way,
Ready thy choice t' approve,
Thy providence t' obey;
Enter into thy wise design,
And sweetly lose our will in thine.
2 Why hast thou cast our lot
In the same age and place?
And why together brought
To see each others' face;
To join with softest sympathy,
And mix our friendly souls in thee?
3 Didst thou not make us one,
That we might one remain,
Together travel on,
Änd bear each others' pain;
Till all thy utmost goodness prove,
And rise renew'd in perfect love?
4 Surely thou didst unite
Our kindred spirits here,
That all hereafter might
Before thy throne appear:
Meet at the marriage of the Lamb,
And all thy gracious love proclaim.
5 Then let us ever bear
The blessed end in view,
And join with mutual care,
To fight our passage through; And kindly help each other on, Till all receive the starry crown.
KINDRED in Christ, for his dear sake,
A hearty welcome here receive;
May we together now partake
The joys which only he can give.
2 To you and us by grace is giv'n,
To know the Saviour's precious name,
And shortly we shall meet in heav'n,
Our hope, our way, our end the same,
3 May he by whose kind care we meet,
Send his good spirit from above;
Make our communications sweet,
And cause our hearts to burn with love,
4 Forgotten be each earthly theme,
When christians see each other thus;
We only wish to speak of Him,
Who lived-and died-and reigns-for us.
5 We'll 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.
6 Thus as the moments pass away,
We'll love, and wonder, and adore;
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