HYMN 25. "Give diligence to make your calling and election sure.” 2 PET. i. 10. 1. O GOD, thy saving grace impart ; Give us to feel their solemn weight, 2. Be this our one great object here, 3. Then, gracious Lord, our souls receive, HYMN 26. " Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." MATT. xviii. 20. 1. O KING of glory! come, This people as thine own: Beneath this roof vouchsafe to shew 2. Now let thine ear attend Our supplicating cries; Now let our praise ascend, Now let thy Gospel's joyful sound 3. Here let the listening throng Let them join the song Of seraphim above; And all who humbly seek thy face, (Burnham.) F HYMN 27. "Thou art my portion, O Lord." Ps. cxix. 57. 1. O LORD, thy heavenly grace impart, To Thee, my God, to Thee! 2. Whate'er pursuits my time employ, 3. Renouncing ev'ry worldly thing, In Thee, my God, in Thee! OBERLIN. HYMN 28. "The entrance of thy words giveth light." Ps. cxix. 130. 1. O THOU, at whose almighty word The glorious light from darkness sprung! And clothe with power the preacher's tongue. 2. 'Tis thine to teach him how to speak; 3. 'Tis also thine, Almighty Lord, 4. Thus would we at thy feet be found, NEWTON. HYMN 29. "Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory." Ps. lxxiii. 24. 1. O THOU! to whose all searching sight The darkness shineth as the light! Try us, and prove each treacherous heart, And bid the power of sin depart. 2. As through this vale of tears we stray, 3. If storms and tempests cloud our way, 4. Guide and uphold us with thy hand, The land where sin and death shall cease, (Islington.) MORAVIAN. |