I hold thee fast, my hope, my trust:

I will not let thee go.

g 4 Still sure to me thy promise stands,
And ever must abide:

Behold it written on thy hands,
And graven in thy side.

5 To this, this only will I cleave:
Thy word is all my plea:

That word is truth, and I believe :
Have mercy, Lord, on me!

MONTGOMERY.

HYMN 313. C. M. Funeral Hymn. [b]

For Pardon, Holiness, and Heaven.

INNERS of Adam's fallen race,
Sinners by practice too,

In prayer, O God, we seek thy face,
In prayer for mercy sue.

-2 No trembling penitent to Thee
E'er turned, and was denied:
Accept, O Lord! our only plea;
For us thy Son hath died.

o 3 For Him, thy gift, thy name we bless:
To us, for whom He died,

Through faith impute his righteousness,
And we are justified.

-4 Nor rest we here, thou God of love!
May we, for whom He died,

Receive thy Spirit from above,

And thus be sanctified.

5 At length made holy, just, forgiven,
Through Christ who for us died,
May we, exchanging earth for heaven,
With him be glorified.

ALEXANDER'S CUL.

HYMN 314. 7s. Hotham. [*]·

Choosing the Heritage of God's People.
EOPLE of the living God,

• 1 Phave sought the world around,

Paths of sin and sorrow trod,

Peace and comfort nowhere found.

Now to you my spirit turns,

Turns, a fugitive unblessed;
Brethren, where your altar burns,
O receive me into rest!

2 Lonely I no longer roam,
Like the cloud, the wind, the wave,
Where you dwell shall be my home,
Where you die shall be my grave;
Mine the God whom you adore,
Your Redeemer shall be mine;
Earth can fill my heart no more,
Every idol I resign.

HYMN 315. C. M. Broomsgrove, [*]

1

BER

Social Dedication to God.

EING of beings, God of love! To thee our hearts we raise; Thy all-sustaining power we prove, And gladly sing thy praise.

e 2 Thine, wholly thine, we want to be,
Our sacrifice receive;

Made, and preserved, and saved by thee,
To thee ourselves we give.

83 Come, Holy Ghost! the Saviour's love
Shed in our hearts abroad;

So shall we ever live and move,
And be with Christ, in God.

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C. WESLEY.

HYMN 316. C. M. Arundel. [*]
"Hinder me not." Gen. xxiv, 56.

IN

all my Lord's appointed ways

My journey I'll pursue;

"Hinder me not," ye much-loved saints, For I must go with you.

2 Through floods and flames, if Jesus lead, I'll follow where he goes;

"Hinder me not," shall be my cry,

Though earth and hell oppose.

3 Through duty, and through trials too, I'll go at his command:

"Hinder me not," for I am bound

To my Immanuel's land.

o 4 And when my Saviour calls me home, My joyful cry shall be,

"Hinder me not;" come, welcome death; I'll gladly go with thee.

DR. RYLAND

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HYMN 317. L. M.

Blendon. [*]

Following Jesus as the Forerunner.
JEHU whom I fix my hopes upon;
ESUS, my all, to heaven is gone,

His track I see, and I'll pursue
The narrow way till him I view.
-2 The way the holy prophets went,
The way that leads from banishment;
The King's highway of holiness,
I'll go, for all his paths are peace.
-3 This is the way I long had sought,
And mourned because I found it not;
My grief a burden long had been,
Oppressed with unbelief and sin.

-4 The more I strove against their power,
I sinned and stumbled but the more;
Till late I heard my Saviour say,
"Come hither, soul, I am the way."

5 Lo! glad I come, and thou, blest Lamb,
Shalt take me to thee as I am :

Nothing but sin I thee can give ;
Nothing but love shall I receive.

86 Then will I tell to sinners round,
What a dear Saviour I have found;
I'll point to thy redeeming blood,
"Behold the way to God."

And say,

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CENNICE.

HYMN 318. C. M. Stephens. [*]

66

Help, Lord."

H help us, Lord! each hour of need
Thy heavenly succour give;

Help us in thought, and word, and deed,
Each hour on earth we live.

2 Oh help us, through the prayer of faith,
More firmly to believe;

For still the more thy servant hath,
The more shall he receive.

3 If, strangers to thy fold, we call,
Imploring at thy feet,

The crumbs that from thy table fall, "Tis all we dare entreat.

4 But be it, Lord of mercy, all,

So thou wilt grant but this;
The crumbs that from thy table fall,
Are light, and life, and bliss.

SELECT.

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5 Oh help us, Jesus! from on high,

We know no help but thee.:

Oh help us so to live and die

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As thine in heaven to be.

MILMAN.?

HYMN 319. C. M. Woodstoch.. [b]

HOW

The Fulness of Redemption.

OW shall my soul find rest in hi oven,
Th' eternal, blest abode?

When," without holiness, no man

Shall see the holy God."

2 Though I have nothing of my own,
To form that heavenly dress;
Jesus has wrought, and gives to me,
The robe of righteousness,

o 3 Hear thou, my soul, his teaching voice
With wise endeavour, still,
Observe the guiding of his eye,

And precepts of his will.

4 Then shall the robe thy Saviour wrought
The ransom he has given,

Be made thy title to the rest
Prepared for saints in heaven.

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HYMN 320. S. M. Watchman. [*]
Salvation by Grace, from the first to the last.
GRACE! 'tis a charming sound;

Harmonious to the ear b

u Heaven with the echo shall resound,
And all the earth shall hear.

8 2 Grace first contrived the way
To save rebellious man;
And all the steps that grace display,
Which drew the wondrous plan.

3 Grace led my roving feet
To tread the heavenly road;
And new supplies each hour I meet,
While pressing on to God.

4 Grace all the work shall crown,
Through everlasting days;

a It lays in heaven the topmost stone,
And well deserves the praise.

DODBRIDGE.

HYMN 321. P. M. Bingham. [b or *] Bartimeus. Mark x, 47, 48.

p1: "MThus blind Bartimeus prayed;

ERCY, O thou Son of David!"

Others by the word are saved, o Now to me afford thine aid: Many for his crying chid him, o But he called the louder still; e Till the gracious Saviour bid him "Come and ask me what you will.” e 2 Money was not what he wanted, Though by begging used to live; But he asked, and Jesus granted, Alms, which none but he could give: 0 Lord, remove this grievous blindness, "Let my eyes behold the day;"

Straight he saw, and, won by kindness,
Followed Jesus in the way.

"

s 3 Oh! methinks I hear him praising, Publishing to all around;

Friend, is not my case amazing? "What a Saviour I have found: "Oh! that all the blind but knew him; "And would be advised by me! "Surely would they hasten to him, "He would cause them all to see.'

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HYMN 322. C. M. Warwick. [*]

"Herein is Love." 1 John iv, 10.

YE saints, assist me in my song

Let all your passions move:

To Jesus all the notes belong→

I sing redeeming love.

e 2 Around the circle of his friends,

His tender passions move:

And while he lived, his constant theme
Was still redeeming love.

p 3 Gently he raised his sacred hands,
Before his last remove:

And the last whispers of his tongue
Sighed forth redeeming love."

4 Through life's wide waste, with weary feet,

In darkness I may rove;

But never can my heart forget

Redeeming, dying love