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A Prayer for Unity.

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TERNAL Ruler of the ceaseless round
Of circling planets singing on their way;
Guide of the nations from the night profound

Into the glory of the perfect day;
Rule in our hearts that we may ever be
Guided, and strengthened, and upheld by Thee.

2. We are of Thee, the children of Thy love,
The brothers of Thy well-beloved Son;
Descend, O Holy Spirit! like a dove,

Into our hearts, that we may be as one,—
As one with Thee, to whom we ever tend;
As one with Him, our Brother and our Friend.

3. We would be one in hatred of all wrong,

One in our love of all things sweet and fair,
One with the joy that breaketh into song,

One with the grief that trembles into prayer,
One in the power that makes Thy children free,
To follow truth, and thus to follow Thee.

4. O clothe us with Thy heavenly armour, Lord,— Thy trusty shield, Thy sword of love divine. Our inspiration be Thy constant word;

We ask no victories that are not Thine.
Give or withhold, let pain or pleasure be,
Enough to know that we are serving Thee.

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Ere lust of power had sown the seeds of strife, And quenched the new-born charities of life. 2. O never more may differing judgments part From kindly sympathy a brother's heart; But, linked in one, believing thousands kneel, And share with each the sacred joy they feel. 3. From soul to soul, quick as the sunbeam's ray, Let concord spread the universal day;

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And faith by love lead all mankind to Thee,
Parent of peace, and Fount of harmony!

The Work of the Church.

Marie Popple.

I. THOU, whose glad summer yields
Fit increase of the spring,

In faith we sow these living fields,

Bless Thou the harvesting.

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2. Thy Church must lead aright
Life's work, left all undone,
Till founded fast in love and light,
Earth home to heaven be won.

3. Grant, then, Thy servants, Lord,
Fresh strength from hour to hour;
Through speech and deed the living word
Find utterance with power,

4. To keep the child's faith bright,
To strengthen manhood's truth,
And set the age-dimmed eye alight
With heaven's eternal youth;

5. That in the time's stern strife,

With saints we speed reform,
Unresting in the calm of life,
Unshrinking in the storm.

S.M.

S. Johnson.

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A Prayer for all Teachers. 9.8.9.8.8.8.

LORD of hosts, all heaven possessing
Behold us from Thy sapphire throne,
In doubt and darkness dimly guessing,

We might Thy glory half have known;
But Thou in Christ hast made us Thine,
And on us all Thy beauties shine.
2. Illumine all, disciples, teachers,

Thy law's deep wonders to unfold;
With reverent hand let wisdom's preachers
Bring forth their treasures, new and old;
Let oldest, youngest, find in Thee

Of truth and love the boundless sea.

3. Let faith still light the lamp of science,
And knowledge pass from truth to truth;
And wisdom, in its full reliance,
Renew the primal awe of youth;

So holier, wiser, may we grow,

As time's swift currents onward flow.

4. Grant us, O Lord! in patience gleaning,
Thy truths in memory's shrine to store;
Reveal to us each secret meaning

Of all Thy Word's divinest lore;
When round us mists of evening rise,
Shine Thou upon our wistful eyes.

5. Bind Thou our life in fullest union

With all Thy saints from sin set free ;
Uphold us in that blest communion

Of all Thy saints on earth with Thee;
Keep Thou our souls, or there, or here,
In mightiest love, that casts out fear.
E. H. Plumptre.

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Home Missions.

LOOK from Thy sphere of endless day,
O God of mercy and of might;
In pity look on those who stray

Benighted, in this land of light.
2. In peopled vale, in lonely glen,

In crowded mart, by stream or sea,
How many of the sons of men

Hear not the message sent from Thee.
3. Send forth Thy heralds, Lord, to call
The thoughtless young, the hardened old,
A scattered homeless flock, till all

Be gathered to Thy peaceful fold.
4. Send them Thy mighty word to speak,
Till faith shall dawn, and doubt depart,
To awe the bold, to stay the weak,

And bind and heal the broken heart.
5. Then all these wastes, a dreary scene,
That make us sadden as we gaze,
Shall grow, with living waters, green,
And lift to heaven the voice of praise.

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God of our Salvation.

L.M.

W. C. Bryant.

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ORD of our life, and God of our salvation,

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Star of our night, and Hope of every nation,
Hear and receive Thy Church's supplication,
Lord God Almighty.

2. See round Thine ark the hungry billows curling ;
See how Thy foes their banners are unfurling ;
Lord, while their darts envenomed they are hurling,
Thou canst preserve us.

3. Lord, Thou canst help when earthly armour faileth,
Lord, Thou canst save when deadly sin assaileth,
Lord, o'er Thy Rock nor death nor hell prevaileth,
Grant us Thy peace, Lord.

4. Grant us Thy help till foes are backward driven,
Grant them Thy truth that they may be forgiven,
Grant peace on earth, and, after we have striven,
Peace in Thy heaven.

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Foreign Missions

Latin, tr. P. Pusey.

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I. THOU, whose almighty word,

Chaos and darkness heard,

And took their flight,

Hear us, we humbly pray;
And where the Gospel's day
Sheds not its glorious ray,
Let there be light.

2. Thou who didst come to bring,
On Thy redeeming wing,
Healing and sight,

Health to the sick in mind,
Sight to the inly blind,
O now, to all mankind,
Let there be light.

3. Spirit of truth and love,—

Life-giving, holy Dove,—
Speed forth Thy flight;
Move on the waters' face,
Bearing the lamp of grace,
And in earth's darkest place
Let there be light.

J. Marriott.

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