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DARLEY. L. M.

W. H. W. Darley.

Come, happy souls, adore the Lamb, Who loved our race ere time be-gan, Who vailed his Godhead

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COME, happy souls, adore the Lamb,
Who loved our race ere time began,
Who vailed his Godhead in our clay,
And in an humble manger lay.

2 To Jordan's stream the Spirit led,
To mark the path his saints should tread;
With joy they trace the sacred way,
To see the place where Jesus lay.

3 Baptized by John in Jordan's wave,
The Saviour left his watery grave;
Heaven owned the deed, approved the way,
And blessed the place where Jesus lay.
4 Come, all who love his precious name,
Come, tread his steps, and learn of him;
Happy beyond expression they
Who find the place where Jesus lay.

1013 "Buried with Him."

Thomas Baldwin.

BURIED in baptism with our Lord,
We rise with him, to life restored;
Not the bare life in Adam lost,
But richer far, for more it cost.

2 Water can cleanse the flesh, we own,
But Christ well knows, and Christ alone,
How dear to him our cleansing stood,
Baptized in fire, and bathed in blood.

3 He by his blood atoned for sin;
This precious blood can wash us clean;
And he arrays us in the dress
Of his unspotted righteousness.

Moravian.

1014

The Pleasant Path.

OUR Saviour bowed beneath the wave,
And meekly sought a watery grave;
Come, see the sacred path he trod,
A path well pleasing to our God.

2 His voice we hear, his footsteps trace,
And hither come to seek his face,
To do his will, to feel his love,
And join our songs with songs above.
3 Hosanna to the Lamb divine!
Let endless glories round him shine!
High o'er the heavens for ever reign,
O Lamb of God, for sinners slain!
Adoniram Judson.

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COME, Holy Spirit, Dove divine,
On these baptismal waters shine,
And teach our hearts, in highest strain,
To praise the Lamb for sinners slain.

2 We love thy name, we love thy laws,
And joyfully embrace thy cause;
We love thy cross, the shame, the pain,
O Lamb of God, for sinners slain!

3 We sink beneath thy mystic flood,
Oh, bathe us in thy cleansing blood;
We die to sin, and seek a grave
With thee, beneath the yielding wave.

4 And as we rise, with thee to live,
Oh, let the Holy Spirit give
The sealing unction from above,
The breath of life, the fire of love!
Adoniram Judson.

DOMINUS REGIT. P. M.

J. B. DYKES.

This rite our blest Redeemer gave To all in him be-lieving; He leads us thro' this hallowed wave, To his example cleaving.

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O THOU who in Jordan didst bow thy meek 3 O Jesus, our Saviour, O Jesus, our Lord, head,

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By the life of thy passion, the grace of thy

word,

Accept us, redeem us, dwell ever within, To keep, by thy Spirit, our spirits from

sin.

4 Till crowned with thy glory, and waving the palm,

2 Thy footsteps we follow, to bow in the tide,
And are buried with thee in the death thou Our
hast died,

Then wake in thy likeness to walk in the

way

That brightens and brightens to shadowless day.

garments all white from the blood of the Lamb,

We join the bright millions of saints gone before,

And bless thee, and wonder, and praise

evermore.

George W. Bethune.

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IN all my Lord's appointed ways

My journey I'll pursue;

Hinder me not, ye much-loved saints,
For I must go with you.

2 Through floods and flames, if Jesus lead,
I'll follow where he goes;
Hinder me not! shall be my cry,

Though earth and hell oppose.

3 Through duties, and through trials too, I'll go at his command;

Hinder me not! for I am bound

To my Immanuel's land.

4 And when my Saviour calls me home,
Still this my cry shall be,

Hinder me not! come, welcome death;
I'll gladly go with thee!

John Ryland.

1021

Jesus' Baptism.

MEEKLY in Jordan's holy stream
The great Redeemer bowed;
Bright was the glory's sacred beam
That hushed the wondering crowd.

2 Thus God descended to approve
The deed that Christ had done;
Thus came the emblematic Dove,
And hovered o'er the Son.

3 So, blesséd Spirit, come to-day
To our baptismal scene;
Let thoughts of earth be far away,
And every mind serene.

4 This day we give to holy joy;
This day to heaven belongs;
Raised to new life, we will employ
In melody our tongues.

Samuel Francis Smith.

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I BURIED with Christ by baptism unto death,- || We rise in the likeness of his res-ur- rection.

2 If ye then be | risen with | Christ, || Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the | right hand of God.

3 For as many as have been baptized into Christ, have put on | Christ. || Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spir-it, | which are | God's.

4 Reckon ye yourselves to be dead in- | deed

through Je-sus | Christ our Lord.

unto | sin,- || But alive unto God

5 If we be dead with him, we shall also | live with him; | If we suffer with him, we shall al-so reign with him.

6 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose | sin is covered. || Blessed is the man to whom the Lord im- | pu-teth | not in- | iquity.

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1025 "Happy Day.”—Ps. 56:12.

Он, happy day that fixed my choice
On thee, my Saviour, and my God!
Well may this glowing heart rejoice,
And tell its raptures all abroad.

2 Oh, happy bond, that seals my vows
To him who merits all my love!
Let cheerful anthems fill his house,
While to that sacred shrine I move.

3 Now rest, my long-divided heart!
Fixed on this blissful center, rest;
Here have I found a nobler part,
Here heavenly pleasures fill my breast.

Philip Doddridge.

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