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2 Jesus, friend of human kind,
Let us in thy name be joined
Each to cach unite and bless ;
Keep us still in perfect peace.

3 Heavenly, all-alluring Dove,
Shed thy overshadowing love;
Love, the sealing grace impart;
Dwell within our single heart.

Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest,
Improve the day which God hath blest.

2 O that our thoughts and thanks may rise,
As grateful incense, to the skies,

And draw from heaven that sweet repose,
Which none but he that feels it knows!

3 This heavenly calm within the breast
Is the dear pledge of glorious rest,
Which for the church of God remains,
The end of cares, the end of pains.

4 In holy duties let the day

In holy pleasures-pass away:
How sweet, a Sabbath thus to spend,
In hope of one that ne'er shall end!

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C. M.

Love of Sabbath Service.

MRS. FOLLEN.

Ho OW sweet upon this sacred day,

The best of all the seven,

To cast our earthly thoughts away,
And think of God and heaven!

2 How sweet to be allowed to pray
Our sins may be forgiven!
With filial love and trust to say,
"Father, who art in heaven!"

3 How sweet the words of peace to hear
From him to whom 't is given
To wake the penitential tear,
And lead the way to heaven

4 And if, to make our sins depart,
In vain the will has striven,
He who regards the inmost heart
Will send his grace from heaven.

SAFE

7's M.

Sabbath Morning.

NEWTON.

AFELY through another week
God has brought us on our way;

Let us now a blessing seek,
Waiting in his courts to-day:
Day of all the week the best,
Emblem of eternal rest.

2 While we seek supplies of grace Through the dear Redeemer's name,

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Show thy reconciling face--
Take away our sin and shame;
From our worldly cares set free,
May we rest this day in thee.

WE

S. M.

The Sabbath Welcomed.

ELCOME, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
Welcome to this reviving breast
And these rejoicing eyes.

2 The King himself comes near,
And feasts his saints to-day;
Here we may sit, and see him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.

3 One day, amid the place

Where my dear Lord hath been,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
Of folly and of sin.

4 My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this,

Till called to rise and soar away
To everlasting bliss.

WATTS.

ANONYMOUS.

The Day of Prayer and Rest.

ARTH'S busy sounds and ceaseless din
Wake not this morning air!

A holy calm should welcome in
This solemn hour of prayer.

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2 Now peace, be still, unhallowed care,
And hushed within the breast!
A holy joy shall welcome there
This happy day of rest.

3 Each better thought the spirit knows,
This hour, the spirit fill!

And Thou, from whom its being flows,
O, teach it all thy will!

4 Then shall the day indeed be blest,
And send its hallowing power,
Its sacred calm and inward rest.
Through many a busy hour.

H. M.

Enbocation for Lord's Day Morning.

WE

ELCOME, delightful morn,
Thou day of sacred rest!

We hail thy glad return :

Lord, make these moments blest.
From low delights and mortal toys
We soar to reach immortal joys.

2 Now may the King descend, And fill his throne of grace; Thy sceptre, Lord, extend,

HAYWARD.

While we address thy face.
O, let us feel thy quickening word,
And learn to know and fear the Lord.

3 Descend, celestial Dove,

With all thy quickening powers;

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Disclose a Saviour's love,

And bless these sacred hours:

Then shall our souls new life obtain,
Nor Sabbaths be enjoyed in vain.

HOW

C. M.

A Sabbath Morning.

ANONYMOUS.

OW sweet, how calm, this Sabbath morn!
How pure the air that breathes,

And soft the sounds upon it borne,

And light its vapor wreaths!

2 It seems as if the Christian's prayer,
For peace and joy and love,
Were answered by the very air
That wafts its strain above.

3 Let each unholy passion cease,
Each evil thought be crushed,
Each anxious care that mars thy peace
In faith and love be hushed.

Sabbath Worship.

[AIL to the Sabbath day!

HALL The day divinely given,

BULFINCH,

When men to God their homage pay,
And earth draws near to heaven.

2 Lord, in this sacred hour,

Within thy courts we bend,

And bless thy love, and own thy power,
Our Father and our Friend.