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91.

Teach us, O thou heavenly King,
Thus to show our grateful mind,
Thus the accepted offering bring,
Love to thee, and all mankind.

L. M.

1 So let our lips and lives express
The holy gospel we profess;

So let our works and virtues shine,
To prove the doctrine all divine.

2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad
The honours of our Savior, God,
When his salvation reigns within,
And grace subdues the power of sin.

WATTS.

3 Our flesh and sense must be denied,
Passion and envy, lust and pride;
While justice, temperance, truth and love,
Our inward piety approve.

92.

L. M.

SCOTT.

1 TH' uplifted eye, and bended knee,
Are but vain homage,Lord, to thee:
In vain our lips thy praise prolong,
The heart a stranger to the song:

2 Can rites, and forms, and flaming zeal
The breaches of thy precepts heal?
Or fasts and penance reconcile
Thy justice, and obtain thy smile?

3 The pure, the humble, contrite mind,
Sincere, and to thy will resigned,
To thee a nobler offering yields,

Than Sheba's groves, or Sharon's fields.

4 Love God and man-this great command
Doth on eternal pillars stand;

This did thine ancient prophets teach,
And this thy well-beloved preach.

93.

L. M.

REF. LITURGY.

1 If high or low our station be, Of noble or ignoble name,

By uncorrupt integrity,

Thy blessing Lord we humbly claim.

2 The upright man no want shall fear;
Thy providence shall be his trust;
Thou wilt provide his portion here,
Thou friend and guardian of the just.

3 May we, with most sincere delight,
To all the test of duty pay;
Regardful of each social right,
Obedient to thy righteous sway.

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1 LET Pharisees of high esteem Their faith and zeal declare, All their religion is a dream,

If love be wanting there.

2 Love suffers long with patient eye,
Nor is provoked in haste;
She lets the present injury die,
And long forgets the past.

WATTS.

3 She lays her own advantage by,
To seek her neighbor's good;
So God's own Son came down to die,
And save us by his blood.

4 Love is the grace that keeps her power
In all the realms above;

There faith and hope are known no more,
But saints forever love.

95.

L. M.

WATTS.

1 THUS saith the first, the great command,
'Let all thy inward powers unite
To love thy Maker and thy God,
With sacred fervor and delight.

2 Then shall thy neighbor next in place,
Share thine affections and esteem;
And let thy kindness to thyself
Define and rule thy love to him.'

3 This is the sense that Moses spoke,
This did the prophets preach and prove;
For want of this the law is broke,
And all the law's fulfill'd by love.

4 But O, how base our passions are!
How cold our charity and zeal !
Lord, fill our souls with heavenly fire,
Or we shall ne'er perform thy will.

96.

C. M.

COBB'S COL.

1 WHQ is thy neighbor? he whom thou
Hast power to aid or bless;
Whose aching heart or burning brow
Thy soothing hand may press.

2 Thy neighbor? 'tis the fainting poor,
Whose eye with want is dim;
O, enter thou his humble door,
With aid and peace for him.

3 Thy neighbor? 'tis the weary slave,
Fettered in mind and limb;

He hath no hope this side the grave;
Go thou, and ransom him.

4 Thy neighbor? pass no mourner by ;
Perhaps thou canst redeem

A breaking heart from misery;
Go, share thy lot with him.

97.

C. M.

NEEDHAM.

1 HAPPY the man, whose cautious steps
Still keep the golden mean;

Whose life, by wisdom's rules well formed,
Declares a conscience clean.

2 What blessings bounteous Heaven bestows,
He takes with thankful heart;
With temp'rance he both eats and drinks,
And gives the poor a part.

3 To sect or party his large soul
Disdains to be confined;

The good he loves of every name,
And prays for all mankind.

4 His business is to keep his heart;
Each passion to control;
Nobly ambitious well to rule
The empire of his soul.

5 Not on the world his heart is set,
His treasure is above;

Nor aught beneath the sovereign good
Can claim his highest love.

98.

VI. MEEKNESS AND HUMILITY.

L. M.

ENFIELD.

1 WHEREFORE should man, frail child of clay, Who from the cradle to the shroud, Lives but the insect of a day

O why should mortal man be proud?

2 Follies and crimes, a countless sum,
Are crowded in life's little span :
How ill, alas, does pride become
That erring, guilty creature, man!

3 God of my life, Father divine !
Give me a meek and lowly mind :
In modest worth, O let me shine,
And peace in humble virtue find.

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1 'BLEST are the meek,' he said,
Whose doctrine is divine;
The humble-minded earth possess,
And bright in heaven shall shine.

2 The God of peace is theirs;
They own his gracious sway;
And yielding all their wills to him,
His sovereign laws obey.

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