174 "PRESENTING UNTO HIM GIFTS." R. Heber. HARVEY. IO-II. A. Harvey. I BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning! on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. 2 Say, shall we yield him, in costly devotion, Vainly with gold would his favor secure: Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor. 176 HOW OW sweetly flowed the gospel's sound 3 "Come, wanderers, to my Father's home; 4 Decay, then, tenements of dust; Pillars of earthly pride, decay: I PETER ii. 21-25. A-men. GERMANY. L. M. Beethoven. OW beauteous were the marks divine HOW That in thy meekness used to shine, That lit thy lonely pathway, trod In wondrous love, O Son of God! 2 O who like thee so calm and bright, 3 O who like thee so humbly bore 4 Ev'n death, which sets the prisoner free, 5 O in thy light be mine to go, A-men. WITH joy we meditate the grace Of our High Priest above; 2 Touched with a sympathy within, He knows what sore temptations mean, 3 He in the days of feeble flesh 4 Then let our humble faith address A-men. 178 OUR FRIEND. R. Grant. ST. PETERSBURG. L. M. 61. I WHEN gathering clouds around I view, And days are dark, and friends are few, On him I lean, who, not in vain, Experienced every human pain: He sees my wants, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears. 2 If aught should tempt my soul to stray Still he who felt temptation's power, 3 When, mourning, o'er some stone I bend, My Saviour marks the tears I shed, 4 And O! when I have safely passed, A-men. 180 NE there is, above all others, ONE Well deserves the name of Friend; His is love beyond a brother's, Costly, free, and knows no end. Which of all our friends, to save us, Could or would have shed his blood? But our Jesus died to have us Reconciled in him to God. 2 When he lived on earth abaséd, O for grace our hearts to soften! What a Friend we have above. OUR EXAMPLE. I. Watts. GRACE CHURCH. L. M From Pleyel. גוד MY Y dear Redeemer and my Lord, |