156

June 4.

7s.

Nuremburg.

INVITATIONS OF JESUS.

"Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear and your soul shall live."-Isa. lv. 3.

1 COME! said Jesus' sacred voice,

Come, and make my paths your choice:

I will guide you to your home

Weary pilgrim! hither come.

2 Thou hast long withstood his grace;
Long provoked him to his face;
Wouldst not hear his gracious calls;
Grieved him by a thousand falls.

3 Yet how great his mercies are!
Yet he still delights to spare;
Yet he cries, "Oh, turn and live,
I thy sins will still forgive."

4 Oh! then come-for here is found
Balm for every bleeding wound,
Peace, which ever shall endure-
Rest, eternal-sacred-sure!

157

June 5.

C. M.

Coronation.

THE JOYFUL REIGN OF CHRIST.

"With righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity."-Ps. xcviii. 9.

1

JOY

to the world,

the Lord is come;

Let earth receive her King;

Let every heart prepare him room,

And heaven and nature sing.

2 Joy to the earth,-the Saviour reigns;

Let men their songs employ;

While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.

3 No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;

He comes to make his blessings flow,
As far as sin is found.

4 He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness,
And wonders of his love.

158

June 6.

C. M.

Arlington.

THE SPIRIT'S INFLUENCE INVOKED.

"And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever." John xiv. 16.

1

GREAT Father of each perfect gift!

Behold thy children wait;

With longing eyes, and lifted hands,
We flock around thy gate.

2 Oh, shed abroad that choicest gift,—
Thy Spirit from above,

To bless our eyes with sacred light,
And fire our hearts with love.

3 Oh, be thy sacred law fulfilled
In every act and thought;
Each angry passion far removed,
Each selfish view forgot.

4 Blest earnest of eternal joy!
Declare our sins forgiven;
And bear, with energy divine,
Our raptured thoughts to heaven.

159

June 7. H.M.

Lenox.

SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL.

"I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."-Ps. ii. 8.

1

ZION, tune thy voice,

And raise thy hands on high;

Tell all the earth thy joys,

And boast salvation nigh.

Cheerful in God, arise and shine,

While rays divine stream all abroad.

2

3

4

He gilds thy mourning face

With beams that cannot fade;
His all-resplendent grace

He pours around thy head;

The nations round thy form shall view,
With lustre new divinely crowned.

In honor to his name,

Reflect that sacred light;

And loud that grace proclaim,

Which makes thy darkness bright:

Pursue his praise, till sovereign love
In worlds above the glory raise.

There on his holy hill

A brighter sun shall rise,
And with his radiance fill

Those fairer, purer skies:

While round his throne, ten thousand stars,
In nobler spheres, his influence own.

160

June 8.

C. M.

Jordan.

GOD'S AID IMPLORED.

"O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes: then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments."—Ps. cxix. 5, 6.

1

PERPETUAL Source of light and grace,
We hail thy sacred name;

Through every year's revolving round
Thy goodness is the same.

2 Yet, oh, what poor returns we pay!
Our vows how oft renew!

Those vows as false as morning's cloud,
And transient as the dew.

3 As by thy power the morning sun
Pursues his radiant way,

Brightens, each moment, in his course,
And shines to perfect day;

4 So thou, O God, on this new morn
Bestow on us thy grace,

To bear our feeble footsteps on
In all thy righteous ways.

5 Armed with this energy divine,

Our souls shall steadfast move, And with increasing transports press On to thy courts above.

161

June 9.

L. M.

Duke Street.

THE JOY IN WORSHIPPING GOD.

"The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly."-Ps. lxxxiv. 11.

GREAT God, attend while here we sing
The joys that from thy presence spring;
To spend one hour with thee on earth,
Exceeds a thousand days of mirth.

2 God is our Sun, he makes our day;
God is our Shield, he guards our way
From all the assaults of hell and sin,
From foes without and foes within.

3 All needful grace will God bestow,
And crown that grace with glory too;
He gives us all things, and withholds
No real good from upright souls.

4 Then let us walk with growing strength,
Till all shall meet in heaven at length;
Till all before thy face appear,

And join in nobler worship there.

162

June 10.

C. M.

VIRTUE.

Warwick.

"According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue."-2 Pet. i. 3.

1

THE

'HE dove, let loose in Eastern skies,
When hastening fondly home,

Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies
Where idle warblers roam;

2 But high she shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay,

Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dims her way.

3 So grant me, Lord, from every snare
And stain of passion free,
Aloft, through virtue's purer air,
To urge my course to thee:

4 No sin to cloud, no lure to stay
My soul, as home she springs ;
Thy sunshine on her joyful way,
Thy freedom in her wings!

163

June 11.

S. M.

THE PRAISE OF GOD SWEET.

Silver Street.

"It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High: to show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night."Ps. xcii. 1, 2.

1

SWEET is the work, O Lord!

Thy glorious name to sing,

To praise and pray, to hear thy word,
And grateful offerings bring.

2

Sweet at the dawning light,

Thy boundless love to tell;

3

4

And, when approach the shades of night,
Still on the theme to dwell.

Sweet-on thy day of rest,
To join, in heart and voice,

With those who love and serve thee best,
And in thy name rejoice.

To songs of praise and joy

May here our time be given, That such may be our blest employ Eternally in heaven.

164

June 12.

7s.

CHRIST OUR STRENGTH.

Sabbath.

"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."-Phil. iv. 13.

1 FEEBLE, helpless, how shall I

Learn to live and learn to die? Who, O God, my guide shall be? Who shall lead thy child to Thee?