3 Dark hours, and days less bright may come, Again this wayward heart may roam; But thus to catch one living ray, Would thousand waiting hours repay. 4 Yet rather grant-where'er I rove, Whatever joys my spirit move,

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Still that my life be hid with Thee—
Centre of light and life to me!

310. S. M.

Here in a world of doubt,

A sorrowful abode,

O how my heart and flesh cry out

For Thee, the living God!

As for the water-brooks
The hart expiring pants,
So for my God my spirit looks,
Yea, for His presence faints.

I know thy joys, O Earth,
The sweetness of thy cup;
Oft have I mingled in thy mirth,
And trusted in thy hope.

But ah! how woes and fears
Those hollow joys succeed!

That cup of mirth is mixed with tears,
That hope is but a reed.

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What have I then below,
Or what but Thee on high!
Thee, Thee, O Father, would I know,
And in Thee live and die!

311. C. M.

1 Moses, the patriot fierce, became
The meekest man on earth,

To show us how Love's quickening flame
Can give our souls new birth.

2 Moses, the man of meekest heart,
Lost Canaan by self-will,

To show, where Grace has done its part,
How sin defiles us still.

3 Thou, who hast taught me in Thy fear,
Yet seest me frail at best,

O grant me loss with Moses here,
To gain his future rest!

1 O say not thou art left of God, Because His tokens in the sky

Thou canst not read; this earth Christ trod, To teach thee He was ever nigh.

2 He sees, beneath the fig-tree green,
Nathaniel con His sacred lore;

Shouldst thou the closet seek, unseen
He enters through the unopened door.

3 And, when thou liest, by slumber bound,
Outwearied in the Christian fight,
In glory, girt with saints around,

He stands above thee through the night. 4 When friends to Emmaus bend their course, He joins, although He holds their eyes; Or, shouldst thou feel some fever's force, He takes thy hand, He bids thee rise. 5 Or, on a voyage, when calms prevail, And prison thee upon the sea,

He walks the wave, He wings the sail,
The shore is gained, and thou art free.

313. C. M.

1 Lord, in this dust Thy sovereign voice
First quickened love divine;

I am all Thine,-Thy care and choice,
My very praise is Thine.

2 I praise Thee, while Thy providence
In childhood frail I trace,

For blessings given, ere dawning sense
Could seek or scan Thy grace.

3 Blessings in boyhood's marvelling hour,
Bright dreams, and fancyings strange;
Blessings, when reason's awful power
Gave thought a bolder range.

4 Yet, Lord, in memory's fondest place
I shrine those seasons sad,
When, looking up, I saw Thy face
In kind austereness clad.

5 I would not miss one sigh or tear,
Heart-pang or throbbing brow;
Sweet was the chastisement severe,
And sweet its memory now.

6 Yes! let the gracious scars abide;
They show the way Christ led,-
Faint shadows of the spear-pierced side,
And thorn-encompassed head.

7 And such Thy loving force be still,
When self would swerve or stray;
Shaping to Truth the froward will
Along Thy narrow way.

8 I ask not wealth; far, far remove
The lure of power or name;

Hope thrives in straits, in weakness Love, And Faith in this world's shame.

314. C. M.

1 What is the first and great command?
To love thy God above:

And what the second? As thyself
Thy neighbour thou shalt love.

2 Who is my neighbour? He who wants
The help which Thou canst give
And both the law and prophets say,
This do, and thou shalt live.

315. L. M.

1 Free, yet in chains, the mountains stand, The valleys, linked, run through the land; In fellowship the forests thrive,

And streams from streams, their strength derive.

2 The cattle graze in flocks and herds,
In choirs and concerts sing the birds;
Insects by millions ply the wing,
And flowers in peaceful armies spring.

3 All nature is society,

All nature's voices harmony,

All colours blend to form pure light,-
Why then should Christians not unite?
4 Thus to the Father prayed the Son,
"One may they be, as We are one,
That I in them, and Thou in me,
They one with us may ever be.”

5 Children of God! combine your bands;
Brethren in Christ! join hearts and hands,
And pray,-for so the Father willed,
That the Son's prayer may be fulfilled :