2. Life's poor distinctions vanish here:
To-day the young, the old,
Our Saviour and His flock appear,→
One Shepherd and one fold.

3. Toil, trial, suffering, still await
On earth the pilgrim throng ;
Yet learn we, in our low estate,
The Church triumphant's song.

4. "Worthy the Lamb, for sinners slain,"
Cry the redeemed above,

“ Blessing and honour to obtain,
And everlasting love."

5. "Worthy the Lamb," on earth we sing,
"Who died our souls to save;

Henceforth, O Death, where is thy sting?
Thy victory, O Grave?"

6. Now hallelujah, power and praise,
To God in Christ be given,

By all who tread these earthly ways,
And all the blest in heaven.

James Montgomery.

694.

I.

The Master's Prayer.

MET here in peace to think of Him

Whose latest thoughts were ours;

No selfish love shall come to dim

The prayer devotion pours.

2. "No, not for these alone I pray !"
Our dying. Master said;

Though on His breast that moment lay
The loved disciple's head;

C.M.

3. Though to His eye that moment sprung
The kind, the pitying tear

For those that eager round Him hung,
His words of love to hear.

4. No, not for these alone: He prayed,
For all of mortal race,

Whene'er their fervent prayer is made,
Where'er their dwelling-place.

5. Sweet is the thought, when thus we meet
His meal of love to share ;

And 'mid the toils of life, how sweet
The memory of His prayer!

Emily Taylor and S. A. Brooke.

695.

I.

Fo

ORTH from the dark and stormy sky,
Lord, to Thine altar's shade we fly;
Forth from the world, its hope and fear,
Saviour, we seek Thy shelter here;
Weary and weak, Thy grace we pray ;
Turn not, O Lord, Thy guests away.

2. Long have we roamed in want and pain,
Long have we sought for rest in vain :
Wildered in doubt, in darkness lost,
Long have our souls been tempest-tost:
Low at Thy feet our sins we lay;
Turn not, O Lord, Thy guests away.

696.

I.

BREAD of the world, in mercy broken,

Wine of the soul in mercy shed,

By whom the words of life were spoken,
And in whose death our sins are dead :
2. Look on the heart by sorrow broken,
Look on the tears by sinners shed,
And be Thy feast to us the token,
That by Thy grace our souls are fed.

697.

698.

I.

The Mind of Christ.

1. FATHER of eternal grace,
Glorify Thyself in me;

Meekly beaming in my face,

Reginald Heber.

May the world Thine image see.

2. Humble, holy, all resigned

To Thy will,-Thy will be done!
Give me, Lord, the perfect mind
Of Thy well-beloved Son.

3. Counting gain and glory loss,
May I tread the path He trod;
Die with Jesus on the Cross,
Rise with Him to Thee, my God.

Discipleship.

75.

J. Montgomery.

GOD, accept the sacred hour

Which we to Thee have given ;

And let this hallowed scene have power

To raise our souls to heaven.

2. Still let us hold till life departs,

The precepts of Thy Son,

Nor let our thoughtless, thankless hearts
Forget what He has done.

C.M.

3. His true disciples may we live,
From all corruption free,

And humbly learn like Him to give
Our powers, our wills to Thee.

S. Gilman.

699.

I.

Abide in me.

ABIDE in me, O Lord, and I in Thee!

IOS.

From this good hour, O leave me never more! Then shall the discord cease, the wound be healed, The life-long bleeding of the soul be o’er.

2. Abide in me; o'ershadow by Thy love

Each half-formed purpose, and dark thought of

sin;

Quench, ere it rise, each selfish, low desire,

And keep my soul as Thine, calm and divine.

3. Abide in me; there have been moments blest,
When I have heard Thy voice and felt Thy power,
Then evil lost its grasp, and passion hushed
Owned the divine enchantment of the hour.

4. These were but seasons, beautiful and rare ;
Abide in me, and they shall ever be ;
Fulfil at once Thy precept and my prayer—
Come, and abide in me, and I in Thee!

700.

Walk in the Light.

Harriet B. Stowe.

1. WALK in the light, so shalt thou know

That fellowship of love

His Spirit only can bestow,
Who reigns in light above.

C.M.

701.

2. Walk in the light, and thou shalt find
Thy heart made truly His,

Who dwells in cloudless light enshrined,
In whom no darkness is.

3. Walk in the light, and thou shalt own
Thy darkness passed away,

Because that light hath on thee shone,
In which is perfect day.

4. Walk in the light, thy path shall be
Peaceful, serene, and bright ;

For God, by grace, shall dwell in thee,
And God Himself is Light.

Holy Baptism.

B. Barton

Baptism of a Child.

S.M.

1. To Thee, O God in heaven,

I.

This little one we bring,

Giving to Thee what Thou hast given,

Our dearest offering.

2. Into a world of toil

These little feet will roam,

Where sin its purity may soil,

Where care and grief may come.

3. O then let Thy pure love,

With influence serene,

Come down, like showers, from above,

To freshen and make clean.

James Freeman Clarke.