3. Their streaming tears together flow
For human guilt, and mortal woe;
Their ardent prayers united rise,
Like mingling flames in sacrifice.

4. Though death the earthly bond shall rend,
Their severed spirits then ascend,

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And in the blissful realms above,
Again unite in endless love.

Anna L. Barbauld.

The Purpose of a Church.

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TO Light, that shines in stars and souls;

To Law, that rounds the worlds with calm; To Love, whose equal triumph rolls

Through martyrs' prayer and angels' psalm,-These walls are wed with unseen bands,

In holier shrines not built with hands.

2. Here be the wanderers homeward led;
Here living streams in fulness flow ;
And every hungering soul be fed

That yearns the Eternal Will to know ;
Here conscience hurl her stern reply
To Mammon's lust and slavery's lie.

3. Speak, Living God, Thy full command,
Through prayer of faith and word of power,
That we with girded loins may stand

To do Thy work and wait Thine hour;
And sow, mid patient toils and tears,
For harvests in serener years.

Samuel Johnson.

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Catholic Love.

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I. WEARY of all this wordy strife,

These notions, forms, and modes, and names,

To Thee, the Way, the Truth, the Life,
Whose love my simple heart inflames,
Divinely taught at last I fly,

With Thee and Thine, to live and die.

2. Forth from the midst of Babel brought,
Parties and sects I leave behind;
Enlarged my heart, and free my thought,
Whene'er the latent truth I find ;

The latent truth with joy to own,
And bow to Jesus' name alone.

3. My brethren, friends, and kinsmen these,
Who do my Heavenly Father's will;
Who aim at perfect holiness,

And all Thy counsels to fulfil ;

Athirst to be whate'er Thou art,

And love their God with all their heart.

4. From these, howe'er in flesh disjoined,
Where'er dispersed on earth abroad,
Unfeigned, unbounded love I find,

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And constant as the life of God-
Fountain of life from whence it sprung,
As pure, as even, and as strong.

The Faithful.

C. Wesley.

COME, let us join with faithful souls

Our song of faith to sing,

One brotherhood in heart are we,

And one our Lord and King.

2. Faithful are all who love the truth

And dare the truth to tell,

Who steadfast stand at God's right hand,
And strive to serve Him well.

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3. And faithful are the gentle hearts
To whom the power is given,

Of every hearth to make a home,
Of every home a heaven.

4. Oh mighty host! no tongue can tell
The numbers of its throng;

No words can sound the music vast
Of its grand battle-song.

5. From step to step it wins its way
Against the hosts of sin;

Part of the battlefield is won,

And part is yet to win.

6. Then join with faithful heart and strong,
And bravely onward go;

The triumphs that await us yet

Are greater than we know.

W. S. Tarrant.

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Our Heritage.

EIR of all the ages, I—

HEIR

Heir of all that they have wrought!

All their store of emprise high,

All their wealth of precious thought!

2. Every golden deed of theirs

Sheds its lustre on my way;
All their labours, all their prayers,
Sanctify this present day.

3. Heir of all that they have earned

By their passion and their tears;
Heir of all that they have learned

Through the weary, toiling years;

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4. Heir of all the faith sublime

On whose wings they soared to heaven ; Heir of every hope that time

To earth's fainting sons hath given ;

5. Aspirations pure and high;

Strength to do and to endure ;
Heir of all the ages, I-

Lo, I am no longer poor !

Το

Bequeathed their noblest thought;

For us have holy sages

God's hidden wisdom sought;

The truth of ancient teachers

Is precious to us still,

The words of ancient preachers
With sacred passion thrill.,

2. Not dear their lives accounting,

The martyrs' blood hath flowed;
Their spirits heavenward mounting,
The path to light have showed;
Sublime their holy daring,

Its fruits to us belong--
Their faith and freedom sharing,
Their triumph and their song.

3. Bright are their deeds in story!
We hail, with homage due,

The imperishable glory

Of the brave, the good, the true;

In love their names enshrining,
We take the blessing given;
Our lives, with theirs entwining,
We give to truth and heaven.

S. Wolcott.

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A Prayer for Unity.

LORD, from whom all blessings flow,
Perfecting the church below,

Steadfast may we cleave to Thee,

Love the mystic union be.

Join our faithful spirits, join

Each to each, and all to Thine;
Lead us through the paths of peace,
On to perfect holiness.

2. Move, and actuate, and guide;
Divers gifts to each divide :
Placed according to Thy will,
Let us all our work fulfil;
Never from our office move;
Needful to each other prove;
Use the grace on each bestowed,
Tempered by the art of God.

3. Sweetly may we all agree,
Touched with softest sympathy:
There is neither bond nor free,
Great nor servile, Lord, in Thee:
Love, like death, hath all destroyed,
Rendered all distinctions void :

Names, and sects, and parties fall,

Thou, O Christ, art All in all.

7S. D.

C. Wesley.