A Call to Worship. Ps. 95.

1 COME, sound his praise abroad,
And hymns of glory sing:
Jehovah is the sovereign God,
The universal King.

WATTS.

2 He formed the deeps unknown;
He gave the seas their bound;
The watery worlds are all his own,
And all the solid ground.

3 Come, worship at his throne;
Come, bow before the Lord;
We are his works, and not our own;
He formed us by his word.

4 To-day attend his voice,

Nor dare provoke his rod;
Come, like the people of his choice,
And own your gracious God.

A Psalm before Prayer. Ps. 95.

1 SING to the Lord Jehovah's name,
And in his strength rejoice;

When his salvation is our theme,
Exalted be our voice.

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2 With thanks approach his awful sight, And psalms of honor sing;

The Lord's a God of boundless might, The whole creation's King.

3 Let princes hear, let angels know,
How mean their natures seem,
Those gods on high and gods below, -
When once compared with him.

4 Earth, with its caverns dark and deep,
Lies in his spacious hand;

He fixed the seas what bounds to keep,
And where the hills must stand.

5 Come, and with humble souls adore;
Come, kneel before his face:
O, may the creatures of his power
Be children of his grace!

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BROWNE.

Acceptable Worship.

1 WHEREWITH shall I approach the Lord,
And bow before his throne?
O, how procure his kind regard,
And for my guilt atone?

2 Shall altars flame, and victims bleed,
And spicy fumes ascend?

Will these my earnest wish succeed,
And make my God my Friend?

3 0 no, my soul; 'twere fruitless all;
Such offerings are vain:

No fatlings from the field or stall
His favor can obtain.

4 To men their rights I must allow,
And proofs of kindness give;

To God with humble reverence bow,
And to his glory live.

5 Hands that are clean, and hearts sincere,

He never will despise ;

And cheerful duty he'll prefer
To costly sacrifice.

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DRENNAN.

God may be worshipped in every Place.

1 THE heaven of heavens cannot contain

The universal Lord;

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Yet he in humble hearts will deign
To dwell and be adored.

2 Where'er ascends the sacrifice
Of fervent praise and prayer,
Or on the earth or in the skies,
The God of heaven is there.

3 His presence is diffused abroad

Through realms, through worlds unknown: Who seek the mercies of our God

Are ever near his throne.

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BOWRING.

Pure Worship.

1 THE offerings to thy throne which rise,
Of mingled praise and prayer,

Are but a worthless sacrifice
Unless the heart is there.

2 Upon thine all-discerning ear
Let no vain words intrude;
No tribute but the vow sincere,
The tribute of the good.

3 My offerings will indeed be blest,
If sanctified by thee;

If thy pure spirit touch my breast
With its own purity.

4 O, may that spirit warm my heart
To piety and love,

And to life's lowly vale impart
Some rays from heaven above.

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Sincerity in Worship.

MARTINEAU'S COL.

1 LORD, when we bend before thy throne,
And our confessions pour,

Teach us to feel the sins we own,
And shun what we deplore...

2 Our contrite spirits pitying see,
And penitence impart ;
And let a healing ray from thee
Beam hope upon the heart.

3 When our responsive tongues essay
Their grateful songs to raise,
Grant that our souls may join the lay,
And rise to thee in praise.

4 When we disclose our wants in prayer,
May we our wills resign,

And not a thought our bosoms share,
Which is not wholly thine.

5 Let faith each meek petition fill,
And waft it to the skies;

And teach our hearts 'tis goodness still
That grants it or denies.

Delight in Worship. Ps. 84.

1 MY soul, how lovely is the place
To which thy God resorts!
'Tis heaven to see his smiling face,
Though in his earthly courts.

WATTS.

2 There the great Monarch of the skies
His saving power displays,
And light breaks in upon our eyes
With kind and quickening rays.

3 With his rich gifts the heavenly Dove
Descends and fills the place,

While Christ reveals his wondrous love,
And sheds abroad his

grace.

4 My heart and flesh cry out for thee,
While far from thine abode :

When shall I tread thy courts, and see
My Savior and my God?

5 Could I command the spacious land,
And the more boundless sea,

For one blest hour at thy right hand
I'd give them both away.

1 COME, thou Almighty King!

Help us thy name to sing;
Help us to praise ;

ANONYMOUS.