5 For love like this, O let my song, Through endless years, thy praise prolong, Let distant climes thy Name adore, Till time and nature are no more. 689 Their universal diffusion. ESUS, the word bestow, JESU The true immortal seed; S. M. Thy gospel then shall greatly grow, Destroy the works of self and pride, 2 Its energy exert In the believing soul; Diffuse thy grace through every part, And sanctify the whole; Its utmost virtue show In pure consummate love, And fill with all thy life below, 690 H Revelation welcomed and disseminated. C. M. [AIL, sacred truth! whose piercing rays Dispel the shades of night; Diffusing o'er a ruin'd world The healing beams of light. 2 Thy word, O Lord, with friendly aid, Converts the sorrows of the mini 3 O send thy light and truth abroad, And bid the' admiring world adore The universal bond of love. THE glorious universe around, C. M. The heavens with all their train, Sun, moon, and stars, are firmly bound In one mysterious chain. 2 The earth, the ocean, and the sky, 3 God in creation thus displays While all his works with all his ways 4 In one fraternal bond of love, 5 Here, in their house of pilgrimage, 6 Lord, may our union form a part Derive its pulse from thee, the heart, 692 One in Christ Jesus. ET party names no more LET S. M. The Christian world o'erspread ; Gentile and Jew, and bond and free, Are one in Christ their Head. 2 Among the saints on earth Let mutual love be found; Heirs of the same inheritance, With mutual blessings crown'd. 3 Thus will the church below Resemble that above; Where streams of bliss forever flow, 693 OUR Love the test of discipleship. C. M. UR God is love; and all his saints The heart with love to God inspired, 2 None who are truly born of God Then may we love each other, Lord, 3 Heirs of the same immortal bliss, 694 Sweet communion. LEST are the sons of peace, BLEST S. M. Whose hearts and hopes are one; Whose kind designs to serve and please Through all their actions run. 2 Blest is the pious house Where zeal and friendship meet; Their songs of praise, their mingled vows, Make their communion sweet. 3 Thus on the heavenly hills The saints are blest above, Where joy like morning dew distils, 695 THE The bond of perfectness. HE sacred bond of perfectness O let us, Lord, we pray, possess 2 Grant this, and then from all below C. M Our souls the change shall scarcely know, 3 With ease our souls through death shall glide Into their paradise ; And thence on wings of angels ride 4 Yet when the fullest joy is given, In earth, in paradise, in heaven, 696 7th P. M. 8 lines 7s. Sweet counsel. LORY be to God above, God, from whom all blessings flow; Make we mention of his love; We are met in Jesus' name; Foll'wers of the bleeding Lamb. 2 Let us then sweet counsel take, How to make our calling sure; Our election how to make, Past the reach of hell, secure : Build we each the other up; Constant joy, and lasting peace. Of our paradise possess'd:- To his image here restored, Soon he takes us up to heaven. 697 L All-uniting faith. ET all in whom the Spirit glows, In whom God's word hath place, The all-uniting faith disclose, The all-endearing grace. C. M. 2 Then shall the world, admiring, view The gather'd flock at rest; And own the Son divinely true, The saints divinely blest. 698 One fold and one shepherd. NIVER of peace and unity, L. M. UT Send down thy mild, pacific Dove; And breathe the spirit of thy love. |