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3 Sing we then in Jesus' Name,
Now as yesterday the same;
One in every time and place,
Full for all of truth and grace :
We for Christ, our Master, stand,
Lights in a benighted land:
We our dying Lord confess;
We are Jesus' witnesses.

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The feast of endless love.

COME, thou high and lofty Lord,

meek, incarnate Word;

Humbly stoop to earth again;
Come, and visit abject man.
Jesus, dear expected guest,
Thou art bidden to the feast:
For thyself our hearts prepare;
Come, and sit, and banquet there.

2 Jesus, we thy promise claim :
We are met in thy great name:
In the midst do thou appear;
Manifest thy presence here.
Sanctify us, Lord, and bless;
Breathe thy Spirit, give thy peace;
Thou thyself within us move:
Make our feast a feast of love.

3 Let the fruits of grace abound;
Let us in thy bowels sound;
Faith, and love, and joy increase, -
Temperance and gentleness;
Plant in us thy humble mind,
Patient, pitiful, and kind :
Meek and lowly let us be,-
Full of goodness, full of thee.

4 Make us all in thee complete;
Make us all for glory meet;
Meet to' appear before thy sight,
Partners with the saints in light.
Call, O call us each by name,
To the marriage of the Lamb:
Let us lean upon thy breast;
Love be there our endless feast.

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Mutual love the bond of union.
HILE we walk with God in light,
God our hearts doth still unite:

Dearest fellowship we prove, -
Fellowship in Jesus' love:
Sweetly each, with each combined,
In the bonds of duty join'd,
Feels the cleansing blood applied,--
Daily feels that Christ hath died.

2 Still, O Lord, our faith increase;
Cleanse from all unrighteousness :
Thee the' unholy cannot see ;
Make, O make us meet for thee:
Every vile affection kill;
Root out every seed of ill;
Utterly abolish sin;

Write thy law of love within.

3 Hence may all our actions flow;
Love the proof that Christ we know;
Mutual love the token be,
Lord, that we belong to thee:
Love, thine image, love impart;
Stamp it now on every heart:
Only love to us be given;
Lord, we ask no other heaven

OUTIES AND TRIALS.

THE WARFARE.

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The panoply of truth.

L. M.

EHOLD the Christian warrior stand
In all the armour of his God;
The Spirit's sword is in his hand,

His feet are with the Gospel shod ;

2 In panoply of truth complete,

Salvation's helmet on his head;
With righteousness a breast-plate meet,
And faith's broad shield before him spread ;-

3 Undaunted to the field he goes;
Yet vain were skill and valour there,
Unless, to foil his legion foes,

He takes the trustiest weapon, prayer.

4 Thus, strong in his Redeemer's strength, Sin, death, and hell, he tramples down; Fights the good fight, and wins at length, Through mercy, an immortal crown.

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The sword and shield.

L. M.

RM me with thy whole armour, Lord; Support my weakness with thy might; Gird on my thigh thy conqu'ring sword, And shield me in the threat'ning fight; From faith to faith, from grace to grace, So in thy strength shall I go on; Till heaven and earth flee from thy face, And glory end what grace begun.

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The standard of the cross.

HARK, how the watchmen cry!

S. M.

Attend the trumpet's sound;
Stand to your arms, the foe is nigh,-
The powers of hell surround.
Who bow to Christ's command,
Your arms and hearts prepare;
The day of battle is at hand,—
Go forth to glorious war.

2 See on the mountain top
The standard of your God;
In Jesus' name 'tis lifted up,
All stain'd with hallow'd blood.
His standard-bearers, now
To all the nations call:
To Jesus' cross, ye nations, bow;
He bore the cross for all.

3 Go up with Christ your Head;
Your Captain's footsteps see;
Follow your Captain, and be led
To certain victory.
All power to him is given;
He ever reigns the same:
Salvation, happiness, and heaven,
Are all in Jesus' Name.

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Continued. Spiritual enemies to be encountered.
NGELS our march oppose,
Who still in strength excel,-

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Our secret, sworn, eternal foes,
Countless, invisible;
From thrones of glory driven,

By flaming vengeance hurl'd,
They throng the air, and darken heaven,
And rule this lower world.

2 But shall believers fear?
But shall believers fly?
Or see the bloody cross appear,
And all their powers defy?
By all hell's host withstood,

We all hell's host o'erthrow; And, conqu'ring them through Jesus' blood, We on to conquer go.

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The whole armour of God.

OLDIERS of Christ, arise,

Strong in the strength which God supplies
Through his eternal Son;
Strong in the Lord of Hosts,
And in his mighty power,
Who in the strength of Jesus trusts,
Is more than conqueror.

2. Stand then in his great might,
With all his strength endued;
But take, to arm you for the fight,
The panoply of God:
That having all things done,

And all your conflicts past,
Ye may o'ercome, through Christ alone,
And stand entire at last.

3 Leave no unguarded place, —
No weakness of the soul;
Take every virtue, every grace,
And fortify the whole:
Indissolubly join'd,

To battle all proceed;

But arm yourselves with all the mind
That was in Christ your Head.

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