Assured that Thou through life shalt save,
And show thyself, beyond the grave,
My everlasting Friend.

329

(See also Hymn 119.)

C. M. The same.

I'M not ashamed to own my Lord,
Or to defend his cause,

Maintain the honour of his word,
The glory of his cross.

2. Jesus, my God, I know his name,
His name is all my trust,

Nor will he put my soul to shame,
Nor let my hope be lost.

3. Firm as his throne his promise stands,
And He can well secure

What I've committed to his hands,
Till the decisive hour.

4. Then will he own my worthless name,
Before his Father's face;

And in the new Jerusalem
Appoint my soul a place.

WATTS.

WATTS.

WHAT different powers of grace and sin

Attend our mortal state !

I hate the thoughts that work within,
And do the works I hate.

2. Now I complain, and groan, and die,
While sin and Satan reign:

Now raise my songs of triumph high,
For grace prevails again.

3. So darkness struggles with the light,
Till perfect day arise;

Water and fire maintain the fight,
Until the weaker dies.

4. Thus will the flesh and spirit strive,
And vex and break my peace;
But I shall quit this mortal life,
And sin for ever cease.

331 C. M. Conflict and Pilgrimage. GISBORNE.

A

SOLDIER'S course,

from battles won

To re-commencing strife;

A Pilgrim's, restless as the sun,—
Behold the Christian's life!

2. The hosts of Satan pant for spoil-
How can our warfare close?
Lonely we tread a foreign soil-
How can we hope repose?

3. O let us seek our heavenly home,
Revealed in sacred lore;

The land where pilgrims never roam,
Where soldiers war no more;

4. Where grief shall never wound, nor death,
Beneath the Saviour's reign;
Nor sin, with pestilential breath,
His holy realm profane ;-

5. Where they who meet shall never part,
Where grace achieves its plan;

And God, uniting every heart,
Dwells face to face with man!

332

L. M. Contentment.

MY God and Father, ever blest,
Enriching all, of all possest,

BEDDOME.

By whom the whole creation's fed; Give me, each day, my daily bread. 2. To Thee my very life I owe;

From Thee do all my comforts flow;
And every blessing which I need,
Must from thy bounteous hand proceed,
3. Great things are not what I desire,
Nor dainty food, nor rich attire ;
Content with little would I be ;

That little, Lord, must come from Thee. 4. While wicked men, with all their store, Are ever grasping after more;

With Agur's wish I'm satisfied,
Nor grudge them all the world beside.

AMI a soldier of the cross,

A follower of the Lamb?

And shall I fear to own his cause,
Or blush to speak his name?

2. Must I be carried to the skies,
On flowery beds of ease,

While others fought to win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas?

3. Sure I must fight, if I would reign;
Increase my courage, Lord!
I'll bear the toil, endure the pain,
Supported by Thy word.

* Prov. xxx. 7-9.

WATTS.

4. When that illustrious day shall rise,
And all thy armies shine

In robes of victory through the skies,
The glory shall be mine.

334

C.M. The same, or Taking up the Cross.

NEEDHAM,

ASHAMED of Christ !-my soul disdain
The mean ungenerous thought:

Shall I disown that Friend, whose blood
To man salvation brought?

2. With the glad news of love and peace,
From heaven to earth he came;
For us endured the painful cross-
For us despised the shame.

3. At HIS command we must take up
Our cross, without delay!

Our lives-and thousand lives of ours-
Can ne'er his love repay.

4. To bear his name-his cross to bear-
Our highest honour this!

Who nobly suffers now for him,
Shall reign with him in bliss.

5. But should we in the evil day,
From our profession fly-

Jesus, the Judge, before the world,
The traitor will deny.

335

L. M. Dedication.

TOPLADY.

EMPTIED of earth I fain would be,

Of sin, of self, of all but Thee; Reserved for Christ, that bled and died,— Surrendered to the Crucified.

3. Through seas and storms of deep distress,
We sail by faith, and not by sight;
Faith guides us in the wilderness,
Through all the briers, and the night.
4. Dear Father, if thy lifted 10d
Resolve to scourge us here below;
Still we must lean upon our God;
Thine arm shall bear us safely through.
339 L. M. Faith the Way to Salvation. DoDDRIDGE.
AND is salvation brought so near,
Where sinful men expiring lie?
Triumph, my soul, the sound to hear,
And shout it joyous to the sky.

2. I ask not who to heaven shall scale,
That Christ the Saviour thence may come?
Or who earth's inmost depths assail,
To bring him from the dreary tomb.
3. From heaven on wings of love he flew,
And Conqueror from the tomb he sprung:
My heart believes the witness true,
And dictates to my faithful tongue.
4. I sing salvation brought so near,
No more on earth expiring lie;
I teach the world my joys to hear,
And shout them to the echoing sky.
340

C. M. Triumph of Faith,
YE saints, that bow at Jesus feet,
In heart and tongue the same,
Hosannas sing, in concord sweet,
To our atoning Lamb!