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50.

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Thou God seest Me.

8.8.4.4.8.8.8.

LORD, in me there lieth nought
But to Thy search revealèd lies;
For when I sit

Thou markest it,

No less Thou notest when I rise;
The closest closet of my thought

Hath open windows to Thine eyes.

2. Thou walkest with me when I walk;
When to my bed for rest I go,
I find Thee there,

And everywhere;

Not youngest thought in me doth grow,
No, not one word I cast to talk,

But, yet unuttered, Thou dost know.

3. Do thou thy best, O secret night,
In sable veil to cover me;

The sable pall

Shall vainly fall,

With day unmasked my night shall be:
For night is day and darkness light,

O Father of all lights to Thee.

Sir Philip Sidney.

Love and Law.

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I.

NE Lord there is, all lords above;

ONE

His name is Truth, His name is Love,

His name is Beauty, it is Light,

His will is Everlasting Right.

2. But ah! to wrong what is His name? This Lord is a Consuming Flame

To every wrong beneath the sun;
He is One Lord, the Holy One.

3. Lord of the Everlasting Name,
Truth, Beauty, Light, Consuming Flame!
Shall I not lift my heart to Thee,
And ask Thee, Lord, to rule in me?

4. If I be ruled in other wise,

My lot is cast with all that dies,

With things that harm, and things that hate,
And roam by night, and miss the Gate,—

5. Thy happy Gate, which leads us where
Love is like sunshine in the air,
And Love and Law are both the same,
Named with the Everlasting Name.

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O Love of God.

W. B. Rands.

LOVE of God! how strong and true,
Eternal and yet ever new ;
Uncomprehended and unbought,
Beyond all knowledge and all thought.
O Love of God, how deep and great!
Far deeper than man's deepest hate:
Self-fed, self-kindled, like the light,
Changeless, eternal, infinite.

3. O wide-embracing, wondrous Love!
We read Thee in the sky above;
We read Thee in the earth below,
In seas that swell and streams that flow.

4. We read Thee best in Him who came
To bear for us the cross of shame;

L.M.

52.

Sent by the Father from on high,
Our life to live, our death to die.

5. O love of God, our shield and stay
Through all the perils of our way;
Eternal love, in Thee we rest,
For ever safe, for ever blest!

The Rock of Ages.

1. ROCK of Ages! shelter me!

Horatius Bonar.

Let me stay myself on Thee!
When the billows o'er me roll,
When temptations sweep my soul,
Save me in the evil hour!
Keep me, O Eternal Power!

2. Naught have I to offer Thee;
All I have Thou gavest me.
All my best desires are Thine;
Mine the sin, and only mine.
Thou who didst my life create,
Leave me not to meet my fate!

3. All in vain with sin I strive,
Till Thy will my will revive.
Find, O Father, find Thy child
Wandering in the darksome wild;
Let Thy light upon me shine;
Stir me with the love divine!

4. When I fail of mortal breath,
When my powers sink in death,
Then, Almighty to sustain,
Let not all my hope be vain;
Let me rise from that dread sea,
Rock of Ages, stayed on Thee!

7s. 6 lines.

Lyman Parsons,

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54,

I.

The Grace of God.

'MID life's strange vicissitude,

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Seeming evil mixed with good

'Mid its pleasure and its pain,
'Mid its losses and its gain,-
Be Thou still my staff and rod,
All-sustaining grace of God!

2. Like a pilgrim here I pass,
Darkly see as through a glass;
Little know I of the way,
What shall be I cannot say;
Let Thy light upon me shine,
All-sufficient grace divine !
3. 'Mid my ever-changing mood
One that changeth not is good;
And His word within I have,
He will guard the life He gave ;
Thus I sing along the road
Steadfast in the grace of God.

I.

God our Salvation.

GOD is my strong salvation ;

F. L. Hosmer.

What foe have I to fear?
In darkness and temptation,
My Light, my Help is near.
Though hosts encamp around me,
Firm in the fight I stand;
What terror can confound me
With God at my right hand?

2. Place on the Lord reliance;

My soul, with courage wait:
His truth be thine affiance

When faint and desolate.

7.6.7.6. D.

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I.

His might thy heart shall strengthen,

His love thy joy increase;
Mercy thy days shall lengthen,-
The Lord will give thee peace.

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LOVE that wilt not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in Thee ;
I give Thee back the life I owe,
That in Thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.

2. O Light that followest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to Thee,
My heart restores its borrowed ray,
That in Thy sunshine's blaze its day
May brighter, fairer be.

3. O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to Thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain
That inorn shall tearless be.

4. O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from Thee;
I lay in dust life's glory dead,

And from the ground there blossoms red

Life that shall endless be.

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I.

George Matheson.

L.M.

The Voice of God.

HATH not thy heart within thee burned

At evening's calm and holy hour,

As if its inmost depths discerned
The presence of a loftier power?

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