And others learn to glorify
Our Father's name divine.

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HYMN 344. L. M.

what stupendous mercy shines Around the majesty of heav'n! Rebels he deigns to call his sons,

Their souls renew'd, their sins forgiv❜n.

2. Go, imitate the grace divine,

The grace that blazes like a sun;
Hold forth your fair, though feeble light,
Through all your lives let mercy run.
3. Upon your bounty's willing wings,
Swift let the needed blessings fly;
The hungry feed, the naked clothe,
To pain and sickness help apply.
4. Pity the weeping widow's wo,

And be her counsellor and stay;
Adopt the fatherless, and smooth
To useful, happy life his way.
5. Let age with want and weakness bow'd
Your mercy and compassion move;
Let e'en your enemies be bless'd,
Their hatred recompens'd with love.

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HYMN 345. L. M.

REAT God! whilst I thy love admire, Grant me to catch the sacred fire: Thus shall my heav'nly birth be known, And as thy child thou wilt me own.

2. Father, I see thy sun arise,

To cheer thy friends and enemies:
And when from heav'n thy rain descends,
Thy bounty both alike befriends.

3. Enlarge my soul with love like thine;
My mortal pow'rs by grace refine:
So shall I feel another's wo,
And freely feed a hungry foe.

4. I hope for pardon, through thy Son,

For all the crimes which I have done;

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that pardons me,

Then may the grace,
Constrain me to forgive like thee.

HYMN 346. s. M.

BEHOLD, where, breathing love,
Our dying Master stands!

His weeping foll'wers, gath'ring round,
Receive his last commands.

2. From that mild Saviour's lips
What tender accents fell!
The gentle precept, which he gave,
Became its author well.

3. Blest is the man, whose heart
Feels all another's pain;
To whom the supplicating eye
Was never rais'd in vain ;

4. Whose breast expands with warmth,
A stranger's wo to feel,
And bleeds in pity o'er the wound
He wants the pow'r to heal.

5. To offices of love

His feet are never slow:

He views through mercy's melting eye
A brother in a foe.

6. Peace from his Father God,
My peace to him I give;

And, when he kneels before the throne,
His trembling soul shall live.

7. To him shall grace be shewn ;
And mercy from above

Descend on those, who thus fulfil
The perfect law of love.

HYMN 847. c. M.

1. DAUGHTERS of pity, tune the lay;

mourners joy belongs;

While he, that wipes all tears away,
Accepts our thankful songs.

2. No altars smoke, no off'rings bleed,
No guiltless lives expire;

To help a brother in his need,
Is all our rites require.

3. Our off'ring is a willing mind
To comfort the distrest;
In others' good our own we find,
In others' blessing blest.

4. Go to the pillow of disease,
Where night gives no repose,

And on the cheek, where sickness preys, Bid health to plant a rose.

5. Go where the friendless stranger lies;
To perish is his doom:

Snatch from the grave his closing eyes,
And bring his blessing home.

6. Thus, what our heav'nly Father gave,
Shall we as freely give:

Thus copy him, who liv'd to save,
And died that we might live.

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HYMN 348. c. M.

Charity or Sunday school.

LEST is the man whose heart expands
At melting pity's call,

And the rich blessings of whose hands
Like heav'nly manna fall.

2. Be ours the bliss in wisdom's way
To guide untutor'd youth,

And lead the mind that went astray,
To virtue and to truth.

5. Children our kind protection claim;
And God will well approve,

When infants learn to lisp his name,
And their Creator love.

4. Delightful work, young souls to win,
And turn the rising race
From the deceitful paths of sin,
To seek redeeming grace!

5. Almighty God! thy influence shed,
To aid this good design:

The honours of thy name be spread,
And all the glory thine.

HYMN 349. L. M.

Candour and toleration.

1. ALL-seeing God! 'tis thine to know

The springs whence wrong opinions flow;
To judge, from principles within,
When frailty errs, and when we sin.
2. Who among men, great Lord of all!
Thy servant to his bar shall call ?
Judge him, for modes of faith, thy foe,
And doom him to the realms of wo?
3. Who with another's eye can read?
Or worship by another's ereed?

Trusting thy grace, we form our own,
And bow to thy commands alone.
4. If wrong, correct; accept, if right;
While faithful we improve our light,
Condemning none, but zealous still
To learn and follow all thy will.

HYMN 350. L. M.

1.ABSURD and vain attempt ! to bind

With iron chains the free-born mind,

To force conviction, and reclaim
The wand'ring by destructive flame.

2. Bold arrogance! to snatch from heav'n
Dominion not to mortals giv'n ;
O'er conscience to usurp the throne,
Accountable to God alone.

3. Jesus! thy gentle law of love
Does no such cruelties approve;
Mild as thyself, thy doctrine wields
No arms but what persuasion yields.
4. By proofs divine, and reason strong,
It draws the willing soul along;
And conquests to thy church acquires
By eloquence which heav'n inspires.
5. O happy, who are thus compell'd
To the rich feast, by Jesus held!
May we this blessing know, and prize
The light which liberty supplies.

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HYMN 351. s. M.

Christian unity.

IET 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 crown'd.

3. Let envy, child of hell! Be banish'd 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 ev'ry heart is love.

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HYMN 352. s. M.

LEST be the tie, that binds
Our hearts in christian love!
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.

2. Before our Father's throne,

We pour our ardent pray'rs :
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares.

3. We share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows
The sympathising tear.

4. When we asunder part,

It gives us inward pain:

But we shall still be join'd in heart,
And hope to meet again.

5. From sorrow, toil, and pain.

And sin, we shall be free;

And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity.