S. M.

472.

SCOTT, ALT.

"Doth not Wisdom cry?"

1 'TIS Wisdom's earnest cry,
Wisdom, the voice of God;

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To young and old, to low and high,
She speaks his will abroad.

Within the human breast
Her strong monitions plead;
She thunders her divine protest
Against the unrighteous deed.

Within the holy place,

She calls, with open arms,

"How long, ye fools, will you embrace
Folly's deceiving charms?

4 "My joys unsensual taste;
Come, drink of wisdom's wine;
No sorrow poisons my repast,
The banquet is divine.

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5 My ways are ways of

My pleasures never cloy;

peace;

The bliss I give will never cease,
But lead to endless joy."

C. M.

473.

MRS. STEELE.

The True Riches.

1 WHEN Fancy spreads her boldest wings, And wanders unconfined

Amidst the unbounded scene of things
Which entertain the mind:

2 In vain we trace creation o'er,
In search of sacred rest;
The whole creation is too poor
To make us fully blest.

3 In vain would this low world employ
Each false and flattering wile;
For what can yield a real joy,
But our Creator's smile?

4 Let earth with all her charms depart,
Unworthy of the mind;

In God alone this restless heart
An equal bliss can find.

5 Thy favor, Lord, is all we want;
Here would our spirit rest:

O seal the rich, the boundless grant,
And make us fully blest.

L. M.

474.

CH. REFORMER.

"Lord, to whom shall we go?"

1 FROM Christ, my Lord, shall I depart,
And rase his image from my heart?
Forsake the beams of heavenly day,
And follow nature's feeble ray?

2 Treasures of power, and grace divine,
United, in my Saviour shine;
No other name but his is given,
To lead us to the joys of heaven.

3 The living bread his hands bestow;
The living waters round him flow;
And shall I from the fountain fly,
And in the parching desert die?

4 Forbid it, Author of my frame, Great God, from whom my spirit came; Thy Son can endless life bestow;

To whom but him, then, should I go?

L. M.

475.

BARBAULD.

Christian Friendship.

1 How blest the sacred tie that binds

In union sweet according minds!

How swift the heavenly course they run,
Whose hearts, and faith, and hopes are one!

2 To each, the soul of each how dear!
What jealous love, what holy fear!
How doth the generous flame within
Refine from earth and cleanse from sin!

3 Their streaming eyes together flow
For human guilt and mortal woe;
Their ardent prayers together rise
Like mingling flames in sacrifice.

4 Together both they seek the place
Where God reveals his awful face:
How high, how strong, their raptures swell,
There's none but kindred souls can tell.

5 Nor shall the glowing flame expire
When droops at length frail nature's fire;
For they shall meet in realms above,-
A heaven of joy, because of love.

H. M.

476.

Christian Unity.

1 How beautiful the sight
Of brethren who agree

MONTGOMERY.

In friendship to unite,

And bonds of charity :

'Tis like the precious ointment shed O'er all his robes, from Aaron's head.

2 'T is like the dews that fill

The cups of Hermon's flowers,
Or Zion's fruitful hill,

Bright with the drops of showers,
When mingling odors breathe around,
And glory rests on all the ground.

3 For there the Lord commands
Blessings, a boundless store,
From his unsparing hands,
Yea, life for evermore :

Thrice happy they who meet above
To spend eternity in love.

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Union and Peace.

1 BLEST are the sons of peace,
Whose hearts and hopes are one,
Whose kind designs to serve and please
Through all their actions run.

Blest is the pious house,

Where zeal and friendship meet;
Their songs of praise, their mingled vows,
Make their communion sweet.

3 From those celestial springs
Such streams of pleasure flow,
As no increase of riches brings,
Nor honors can bestow.

4 Thus, when on Aaron's head
They poured the rich perfume,
The oil o'er all his raiment spread,
And fragrance filled the room.

5 Thus, on the heavenly hills,
The saints are blest above,
Where joy, like morning dew, distils,
And all the air is love.

S. M.

478.

Beddome.

1

All one in Christ.

LET party names no more

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 crowned.

3 Let envy and ill-will

Be banished far away;

Those should in holy friendship dwell Who the same Lord obey.

4 Thus will the Church below

Resemble that above;

Where streams of pleasure always flow, And every heart is love.

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