HYMN II.

How easy, Lord, in solemn phrase And form to bless Thy Son,

To bring up stirring scenes, and praise
What He has said and done :

To publish Him our Light, our Guide,
To shew the path He trod;
To own the truth when undenied,
And call the Lord our God!

The yielding heart, the gentle tear,
The penitent design,

The seeing eye, the hearing ear,

The will that would be Thine, Are Thine to give, Thine only, Lord; To Thee our hands we lift, For Jesus' sake to us accord Such high and holy gift.

O may thy Spirit grant us here

The heart of innocence !

An open temper, conscience clear,

And void of all offence !

Let all our thoughts and deeds avow

That Spirit's holy sway!

Lord, we are Thine by name! be Thou

Our life, our truth, our way!

HYMN III.

"IT is all too late," the Sinner cries,

Deluded by his sin,

Nor yet believes his Saviour dies

A sinful world to win.

Lord! turn us to Thy Cross, that so

This dark delusion break; Thy Spirit work in us to know

Salvation for Thy sake.

There is no mystery in faith,
To know, obey, and love,

The word that marks our earthly path,
And tells of heaven above.

The mystery is in sin, whereby
We hide us from Thy face:
And full of self and woe, deny
The richness of Thy grace.

Have mercy, Lord, that we unlearn
This treacherous mystery,

And deeply own the Cross, discern

The hope that rests in Thee.

THE CROSS.

THE just and pure and holy God has known
Our frequent sins, our pride, and fleshly will;
Has mark'd our rising up and lying down,
And seen how every thought was evil still,
And every deed. O Lord, in this deep thrill
Of fear, how thankful were our souls to know
Thy great salvation! now for us fulfil

The promise of Thy Spirit! Let our woe

For Christ's sake at the foot of His Cross lay us low!

2.

There let us learn the lesson of Thy grace,
There silence Thou the tempter, or convert
The tale he tells, of ruin and disgrace,
Of mean hypocrisy, of false desert,
And worse relapse, which often deeply hurt
Our souls, O! turn this tale, at once begun
In truth and falsehood, able to pervert
Repentance into pride, and duties done

Into remorse, to tell the Cross of Thy dear Son.

3.

To tell that Cross alone! the curse of sin
Remov'd, our souls redeem'd, our ransom paid.
Spirit, most holy! fix and keep therein

Our life, and hope, and happiness. Persuade
Our whole hearts to adopt what Thou hast made
Their righteousness! and, emptied of all pride
And passion, evermore to seek Thine aid,
When memory else were sin, and the strong tide
Of reason swept us far from Jesus crucified.

4.

Thou camest in the flesh, and on the Cross Wert hanging, while creation shudder'd all, Man, only man excepted. Thee, the loss Of heaven, the woes of earth might not appal; For Thou didst know the ignorance and thrall Of lost mankind; and love and justice, might And mercy, were Thine own. Unto Thy call Turn every heart in every land. Oh! bright Blaze the standard of Thy Cross on every sinner's sight.

F

JEHOVAH.

GREAT God! that in the heav'ns, thy dwelling-place, Hearest all prayer utter'd in Jesus' name, For His dear sake be this an hour of grace, And now deliver us from sin and shame, And turn us from the paths of death! reclaim Each wanderer; fix the wavering; stablish Thou The lowly, in their way through Him who came On earth and wore the thorns upon His brow, Enthron'd with Thee, and crown'd with power and glory

now.

2.

Save us from that delusion of deep sin,
Whereby we trust in future penitence,
And close our eyes on light that will break in,
Startling the dulness of our blunted sense.
Thy promise is not ever to dispense
Such gifted rays, be striving evermore
With wilful sin and conscious negligence.

Teach us to own and use that light! restore

Our hearts to know in truth the God we would adore.