5 O Thou who givest life and breath, In childhood, manhood, age, and death, 1011 COM 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. Sanctified knowledge. YOME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, To train and bring them up for heaven. Their blindness, both of heart and mind: Give them the wisdom from above,Spotless, and peaceable, and kind: In knowledge pure their minds renew, And store with thoughts divinely true. 3 Learning's redundant part and vain Be here cut off and cast aside: But let them, Lord, the substance gain; In every solid truth abide; Swiftly acquire, and ne'er forego The knowledge fit for man to know. 4 Unite the pair so long disjoin'd, Knowledge and vital piety: Learning and holiness combined, And truth and love, let all men sec In those whom up to thee we give, Thine, wholly thine, to die and live. 1012 C. M. Anniversary; the children's jubilee. OSANNA, be the children's song, To Christ, the children's King; His praise, to whom our souls belong, Let all the children sing From little ones to Jesus brought, Let little infants now be taught 3 Hosanna, sound from hill to hill, 4 Hosanna, on the wings of light, Till morn to eve, and noon to night, 5 Hosanna, then, our song shall be; This is the children's jubilee; Let all the children sing. 1013 Children recalling the example of Jesus. C. M. THEN Jesus left his Father's throne, WHEN He chose an humble birth; And, all unhonour'd and unknown, 2 Like him, may we be found below 3 Sweet were his words, and kind his look, When mothers round him press'd; Their infants in his arms he took, And on his bosom blest. 4 Safe from the world's alluring charms, Beneath his watchful eye, Thus, in the circle of his arms, May we forever lie. 1014 WE 26th P. M. 76, 76, 76, 76. Grateful praise. E bring no glitt'ring treasures, Our song of grateful praise. To guide our steps in youth; And sweeter numbers swelling, 1015 Hosanna to the Son of David. L. M. HAT are those soul-reviving strains WHAT What anthems loud, and louder still, 3 Nor these alone their voice shall raise 5 Proclaim hosannas, loud and clear; 1016 Children in heaven. C. M. THERE is a glorious world of light, TH Where saints departed, clothed in white, 2 And hark, amid the sacred songs Ten thousand thousand infant tongues 3 These are the hymns that we shall know, If Jesus we obey; That is the place where we shall go, 4 Soon will our earthly race be run- Children and teachers, one by one, 5 Great God, impress this serious thought, To-day, on every breast; That both the teachers and the taught MISCELLANEOUS. 1017 PUBLIC FASTS. 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 3 We have not, Lord, thy gifts improved, 1018 Deprecating the anger of God. BEHO C. M. EHOLD, O Lord! before thy throne 'Tis on thy sov'reign grace alone Oar humble hopes depend. 2 Tremendous judgments from thy hand Thy dreadful power display; Yet mercy spares this guilty land, |