O give me a diviner name !
Call me Thy servant, Lord!
2 Sweet title that delighteth me-
Rank earnestly implored!
O what can reach my dignity?—
I am Thy servant, Lord!

No longer would my soul be known
As self-sustained and free;

O not mine own! O not mine own!
Lord, I belong to Thee !

4 In each aspiring burst of prayer
Sweet leave my soul would ask
Thine every burden, Lord, to bear,
To do Thine easy task.

5 For ever, Lord, Thy servant choose,-
Nought of Thy claim abate!

The glorious name I would not lose,
Nor change the sweet estate.

6 In life, in death, on earth, in heaven,
No other name for me!

The same sweet style and title given
Through all eternity..

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HOW

An Altar to God.

shall I build an altar
To the Author of my days?
With lips so prone to falter,
How shall I sing His praise!

7.6.

2 Thy temples were too lowly,
Oh, great Jerusalem!
The Lord of Hosts too holy,
Too pure to dwell in them.
3 Then, how shall I, the weakest,
His servant hope to be!—
I'll listen when Thou speakest,
Spirit of Love, to me.

4 I'll do Thy holy bidding,
With unrepining heart;
I'll bear Thy gentle chiding,
For merciful Thou art.

5 I'll bring each angry feeling
A sacrifice to Thee;

I'll ask Thy heavenly healing
E'en for mine enemy.

6 Thus shall I build an altar,
To the Author of my days;
With lips though prone to falter
Thus shall I sing His praise.

Is the Lord at Hand?

(Mark xiii, 35)

DAYLIGHT fades away.

Is the Lord at hand,
In the shadows grey
Stealing on the land?

2 Hark, the dead noon's height!
Is the Lord at hand,

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In the cloke of night
Stolen upon the land?
3 List, the cock's awake!
Is the Lord at hand?
Cometh He to make
Light in all the land?
4 Lo, the dawning hill!
Is the Lord at hand?
Come to scatter ill,
Ruling in the land?

5 We will watch all day,

Lest the Lord should come !
All night waking stay,

'Mid the darkness dumb;

6 For we know not when
Christ may be at hand;
But we know that then
Joy is in the land,

VI. THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST.

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THE CHURCH:-MISSIONS.

Invitation to Christ.

8.7.4.

COME, ye sinners, poor and wretched,
Weak and wounded, sick and sore,

Jesus ready stands to save you,
Full of pity, joined with power;
He is able,

He is willing: doubt no more.

2 Let not conscience make you linger,
Nor of fitness fondly dream;
All the fitness He requireth,
Is to feel your need of Him:
This He gives you;

'Tis the Spirit's rising beam. 3 Come, ye weary, heavy-laden, Bruis'd and mangled by the fall; If you tarry till you're better, You will never come at all: Not the righteous,

Sinners Jesus came to call. 4 Agonizing in the garden,

Lo! your Saviour prostrate lies!
On the bloody tree behold him!
Hear Him cry before He dies,
"It is finish'd!".

Finish'd, the great sacrifice!
5 Lo! th' incarnate God, ascended,
Pleads the merit of His blood;
Venture on Him, venture wholly ;
Let no other trust intrude:
None but Jesus

Can do helpless sinners good. 6 Saints and angels, joined in concert, Sing the praises of the Lamb;

While the blissful seats of heaven
Sweetly echo with His name:
Hallelujah!

Sinners here may sing the same.

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The Kingdom of God.

1 COME, kingdom of our God,

Sweet reign of light and love!
Shed peace, and hope, and joy abroad,
And wisdom from above.

2 Over our spirits first

Extend thy healing reign;

S.M.

There raise and quench the sacred thirst,
That never pains again.

3 Come, kingdom of our God!

And make the broad earth thine;
Stretch o'er her lands and isles the rod
That flowers with grace divine.

4 Soon may all tribes be blest

With fruit from life's glad tree;
And in its shade like brothers rest,
Sons of one family.

5 Come, kingdom of our God!
And raise thy glorious throne
In worlds by the undying trod,
Where God shall bless his own.

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The Church in Heaven and on
Earth One.

HAPPY the souls to Jesus join'd,

And sav'd by grace alone:

Walking in all His ways they find
Their heaven on earth begun.

C.M.