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Praise for Mercies.

C. M.

LORD, I would own thy tender care,
And all thy love to me;

The food I eat, the clothes I wear,
Are all bestowed by thee.
2 And thou preservest me from death
And dangers, every hour:
I cannot draw another breath,
Unless thou give the power.

3 My health, and friends, and parents dear, To me by God are given;

I have not any blessings here,

But what are sent from heaven.

4 Such goodness, Lord, and constant care, A child can ne'er repay;

But may it be my daily prayer
To love thee and obey.

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Praise to the Saviour.

TO praise the Saviour's name,

Let little children try;

S. M.

While saints and angels do the same
In the bright world on high.
2 His love in heaven is sung,
His name is there adored;
And children here, however young,
May learn to praise the Lord.

The wonders of that love
No earthly tongue can tell,

Which brought the Saviour from above,
To save our souls from hell.

4

For us he wept and bled,

And suffered all his pain;

For us was numbered with the dead,
And rose to life again.

5 And still for us he prays,

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And makes our souls his care;
He loves to hear our feeble praise,
And listens to our prayer.
Lord Jesus! grant that we
May know thy saving grace:

On earth thy humble followers be;
In heaven benold thy face.

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A

LMIGHTY God! while earth and heaver
Thy power and skill proclaim;

Wilt thou permit a child to sing
The honours of thy name?

2 The early dawn of opening life
Has proved thy guardian care,
And may I through all future years
Thy grace and goodness share.
3 Now may I give myself to thee,
And in thy name confide;
Most gracious God! O deign to be
My Father, Friend, and Guide.

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זי

The Christian Birth.

C. M.

THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days A highly favoured child.

2 I was not born as thousands are,
Where Jesus is unknown,

And taught to pray a useless prayer
To blocks of wood or stone.

3 I was not born a little slave,
To labour in the sun,

And wish that I were in my grave,
And all my labour done.

4 I was not born without a home,
Or in a broken shed;

A wretched outcast, taught to roam,
And steal my daily bread.

5 My God! I thank thee, who hast planned A better lot for me;

And placed me in this happy land,
Where I may hear of thee.

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Praise to Christ.

AWAKE, and sing the song

Moses and the Lamb;

S. M.

Wake, every heart and every tongue,
To praise the Saviour's name.

2 Sing of his dying love;
Sing of his rising power;
Sing how he intercedes above
For those whose sins he bore.
Sing on your heavenly way,
Ye ransomed sinners, sing;
Sing on, rejoicing every day

3

In Christ the exalted King.
4 Soon we shall hear him say,
"Ye blessed children, come;
Soon will he call us hence away,
And take his wanderers home.
Soon shall our raptured tongue
His endless praise proclaim;
And sweeter voices tune the song
Of Moses and the Lamb.

&

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Praise to Jehovah.

S. M.

COME, sound his praise abroad,
And hymns of glory sing;

Jehovah is the sovereign God,
The universal King.

2 He formed the deeps unknown
He gave the seas their bound;
The watery worlds are all his own,
And all the solid ground.

3 Come worship at his throne;
Come bow before the Lord;

1

We are his works, and not our own;
He formed us by his word.

To-day attend his voice,
Nor dare provoke his rod;
Come, like the people of his choice,
And own your gracious God!

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all that dwell below the skies,
Let the Creator's praise arise;

Let the Redeemer's name be sung,
Through every land, by every tongue.

2 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord;
Eternal truth attends thy word;

Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore Till suns shall rise and set no more.

PRAYER.

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Child's Prayer.

L. M.

CHILDREN as young and weak as I,
Did Jesus love, when here below;
And on his Father's throne on high,
O with what love he loves them now!

2 Though I am young, yet I have sinned, Forgotten God, transgressed his laws; And holy angels could not gain

Pardon for me, nor plead my cause. 3 To Jesus then I'll meekly go;

My penitence these tears will prove; And he who wept for human wo, Will take me to his arms of love. 4 Then will I sing, while life shall last, Glory to God for pardoning love; And when the hour of death is passed, Join in immortal praise above.

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Sincerity in Prayer.

C. M.

WHEN daily I kneel down to pray,

As I am taught to do,

God does not care for what I say,
Unless I feel it too.

2 Yet foolish thoughts my heart beguile;
And when I pray or sing,
I'm often thinking all the while
About some other thing.

30 let me never, never dare
To act a trifler's part,

Or think that God will hear a prayer
That comes not from the heart.

4 But if I make his ways my choice,
As holy children do,

Then, while I seek him with my voice, My heart will love him too.

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For the Holy Spirit.

L. M.

'MY Father, when I come to thee,
I would not only bend the knee,
But with my spirit seek thy face,-
With my whole heart desire thy grace.