NEW YEAR'S DAY.

509 8.7. Jewin Street 222.

Welsh 210.

Grateful Recollection-Ebenezer. 1 Sam. vii. 12.

ICOME, thou fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace,
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above:
Praise the mount-O fix me on it,
Mount of God's unchanging love.
2 Here I raise my Ebenezer,

Hither by thy help 1 come;
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home:
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wand'ring from the fold of God;
He, to save my soul from danger,
Interpos'd his precious blood.
3 0! to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrain❜d to be!
Let thy grace, LORD, like a fetter,
Bind my wand'ring heart to thee
Prone to wander, LORD, I feel it;
Prone to leave the GoD I love-
Here's my heart, LORD, take and seal it,
Seal it from thy courts above.

ROBINSON.

510 (1stP.) L.M. New Sabbath 122. Antigua 120. Help of God. Acts xxvi. 22. New Year's Day.

1 GREAT GOD, we sing that mighty hand, By which supported still we stand:

The opening year thy mercy shows;
Let mercy crown it till it close.

2 By day, by night, at home, abroad,
Still we are guarded by our God:

By his incessant bounty fed,

By his unerring counsel led.

3 With grateful hearts the p
past we own;
The future, all to us unknown,
We to thy guardian care commit,
And peaceful leave before thy feet.
4 In scenes exalted or depress'd,

Be thou our joy, and thou our rest;
Thy goodness all our hopes shall raise,
Ador'd through all our changing days. ́·
5 When death shall interrupt these songs,
And seal in silence mortal tongues,~
Our Helper Gop, in whom we trust,
In better worlds our souls shall boast.
510 (2dP.) L.M. Limehouse 242. Virginia 234.
At the Beginning of the Year.

LORD, we are spared, and yet are found
In thy own house on praying ground;
Many are gone who near us stood,

Gone to the awful bar of God.

2 We'll think of time's uncertain date,
Consider our eternal state;

We'll think of our immortal soul,
Ere Jordan's waves around us roll.

3 Now soon in heaven, or soon in.hell,
We shall with God or Satan dwell;
O may we with intense desire,

To Christ, and grace, and heaven aspire.

4 Thus if, our pious race begun,
We in Jehovah's strength go on,
We need nor life nor death to fear,
"Twill be to us a happy year.

MEDLEY.

511 L.M. Ailie Street 241. Langdon 217. The barren Fig-Tree. Luke xiii. 6, 9, }

1 GOD of my life! to thee belong ́yin The thankful heart, the grateful song;

Touch'd by thy love, each tuneful chord Resounds the goodness of the LORD. 2 Thou hast preserv'd my fleeting breath, And chas'd the gloomy shades of death; The venom'd arrows vainly fly,

When GOD our great deliverer's nigh. 3 Yet why, dear LORD! this tender care? Why does thy hand so kindly rear A useless cumb'rer of t'e ground, . On which no pleasant fruits are found? 4 Still may the barren fig-tree stand! And, cultivated by thy hand,

Verdure, and bloom, and fruit afford,
Meet tribute to its bounteous LORD.
5 So shall thy praise employ my breath
Thro' life, and in the arms of death
My soul the pleasant theme prolong,
Then rise and aid th' angelic song.

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512 7s. Alcester 213. Bath Abbey 147.

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A Birth-Day Hymn. Acts xxvi. 22.
MY Ebenezer raise ·

To my kind Redeemer's praise;
With a grateful heart I own,
Hitherto thy help I've known.
2 What may be my future lot,

Well I know concerns me not;
This should set my heart at rest,
What thy will ordains is best.
3 I my all to thee resign;
Father! let thy will be mine;
May but all thy dealings prove
Fruits of thy paternal love.

4 Guard me, Saviour! by thy pow'r,
Guard me in the trying hour :
Let thy unremitted care

Save me from the lurking snare.

5 Let my few remaining days to zao za s
Be directed to thy praise;
So the last, the closing scenery
Shall be tranquil and serene.

G To thy will I leave the rest,

Grant me but this one request,
Both in life and death to prove
Tokens of thy special love.

DR. FAWCETT.

513 C. M. New York 33. Miall 240, A Wedding Hymn.

1 SINCE JESUS freely did appear duri To grace a márriage feast;

O LORD! we ask thy presence here
To make a wedding guest...

2 Upon the bridal pair look down,
Who now have plighted hands;
Their union with thy favour crown,
And bless their nuptial bands.

3 With gifts of grace their hearts endow,
Of all rich dowries best!

Their substance bless, and peace bestow
all the rest.

To sweeten all

4 In purest love their souls unite,na
That they, with Christian care,
May make domestic burdens light,
By taking mutual share..

5 [True helpers may they prove indeed,
In prayer, and faith, and hope;
And see with joy a godly seed
To build their household up.]

6 As Isaac and Rebekah gives

A pattern chaste and kind ; a
So may this married couple live,
And die in friendship join'd.

7 On every soul assembled here,"
O make thy face to shine ;

Thy goodness more our hearts can cheer
Than richest food or wine.

514 L. M. Bramcoate 8.

Rowles 73.

A Welcome to Christian Friends-At Meeting.

1 KINDRED in CHRIST, for his dear sake
A hearty welcome here receive:
May we together now partake
The joys which only he can give.
2 To you and us by grace 'tis given
To know the Saviour's precious name;
And shortly we shall meet in heaven,
Our hope, our way, our end the same.
3 May he by whose kind care we meet,
Send his good Spirit from above,
Make our communications sweet,
And cause our hearts to burn with love.
4 Forgotten be each worldly theme,
When Christians see each other thus ;
We only wish to speak of him,

Who liv'd and died, and reigns for us.
5 We'll talk of all he did, and said,
And suffer'd for us here below;
The path he mark'd for us to tread,
And what he's doing for us now.

6 Thus, as the moments pass away,
We'll love, and wonder, and adore:
And hasten on the glorious day,
When we shall meet to part no more.

515 7s. Cookham 36.

At Parting.

NEWTON:

Hotham 224. '.

1 FOR a season call'd to part,

Let us now ourselves commend
To the gracious eye and heart
Of our ever-present Friend.

2 JESUS! hear our humble prayer!
Tender Shepherd of thy sheep!