2 In one communion we adore,

With worthies who have gone before,
With saints whose earthly course is run,
With soldiers who have fought and won.

3 Prophets, and kings, and men of might,
The warriors of the Christian fight,
The noble martyr-host who stood
Resisting, fearless, unto blood.

4 We call to memory ancient days,
That witness our Redeemer's praise;
And, though our love be cold and faint,
We glory in the name of saint.

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[SARAH FARMER.]

901 So in Christ shall all be made alive.

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1 Cor. xv. 22.

THAT though thy sons be sleeping,
Beneath the earth's cold sod;

Yet cease thy wail and weeping,

Church of the Living God.

2 What though on earth thou drinkest
The cup of shame and grief;
'Tis nearer than thou thinkest,
The hour of thy relief.

3 Thy Lord on high hath risen,
The firstborn from the dead;
And soon from death's dark prison
The captives shall be led.

4 Then hush thy tones of sadness,
Thy sackcloth cast aside;

Prepare to meet with gladness
Him raised and glorified.

886,886.

JOSIAH CONDER.

902 Whose faith follow.-Heb. xiii. 7.

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GOD, in whom the happy dead
Yet live, united to their Head,
Their Lord and ours the same;
For all Thy saints to memory dear,
Departed in Thy faith and fear,
We bless Thy holy name.

2 By the same grace upheld, may we
So follow those who followed Thee,
As with them to partake

The free reward of heavenly bliss:
O, gracious Father, grant us this,
For our Redeemer's sake.-Amen.

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S. WOLCOTT.* *

903 I have considered the days of old, the years of

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ancient times--Ps. lxxvii. 5.

O us have distant ages

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 has 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 hall, with homage dne,
The imperishable glory

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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.

C.M.

Psalm xliv.

REAT God of hosts, our ears have heard,

Gour fathers oft have told,

What wonders Thou hast done for them-
Thy glorious deeds of old.

2 Not by their might was safety wrought,
Nor victory by their sword;

But Thou didst guard the chosen race,
Who Thy great name adored.

3 Great God of hosts! their God, and ours;
Our only Lord and King;

Let that right arm which fought for them
To us salvation bring.

4 To Thee the glory we'll ascribe
By whom the conquest came,
And in triumphant songs of praise,
Will celebrate Thy name.

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Psalm lxxviii.

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ET children hear the mighty deeds
Which God performed of old,
Which in our younger years we saw,
And which our fathers told.

2 He bids us make His glories known,
His works of power and grace;
And we'll convey His wonders down
Through every rising race.

3 Our lips shall tell them to our sons,
And they again to theirs ;
That generations yet unborn

May teach them to their heirs.

4 Thus they shall learn in God alone
Their hope securely stands;
That they may ne'er forget His works,
But practise His commands.

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C.M.

T. H. GILL.

906 The household of God.—Eph. ii. 19.

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EATH has no bidding to divide

The souls that dwell in Thee:

Yes, all who in the Lord abide

Are of one family.

2 They mingle still their songs, their prayers;
Thy people, Lord, are one,
Thy people in the vale of tears,
Thy people near the throne.
3 Midst cherubim and seraphim

They mind their Lord's affairs;
O! if we bring our work to Him,

Our work is one with theirs.

Our bears to theirs are kit;
The Bome below, the bone above,
By the same lig

5 Yet Bere their rapture may not burn,
Their peace may not prevail;
Thy household here doth sometimes mourn,
Doth sometimes faint and fail.

6 O, unmixed sweetness of their song!
O, fulness of their love!
Lord! hallow us to join ere long
Thy family above.

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One body.-Eph. ii. 16.

C. WESLEY.

APPY the souls to Jesus joined,
And saved by grace alone:

Walking in all His ways they find
Their heaven on earth begun.

2 The church triumphant in Thy love-
Their mighty joys we know :
They sing the Lamb in hymns above,
And we in hymns below.

3 Thee, in Thy glorious realm they praise,
And bow before Thy throne:
We, in the kingdom of Thy grace—
The kingdoms are but one.

4 The holy to the holiest leads,

From thence our spirits rise;
And he that in Thy statutes treads
Shall meet Thee in the skies.