CONVICTION. 9. 9. 6. 6. 6. 5.

PHILIP P. BLISS (1838-1876),

D. S.

For

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Christ's Forever.

2 I've found a Friend; O such a Friend! He bled, He died to save me;

And not alone the gift of life,
But His own self He gave me.

Naught that I have my own I call,

I hold it for the Giver:

My heart, my strength, my life, my all, Are His, and His forever.

GREENWOOD. S. M.

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JOSEPH EMERSON SWEETSER (1825-1873), 1849.

The Issues of Life and Death.

2 The world can never give

The bliss for which we sigh;
'Tis not the whole of life to live,

Nor all of death to die.

3 Beyond this vale of tears

There is a life above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love.

4 There is a death, whose pang
Outlasts the fleeting breath:
O what eternal horrors hang
Around the second death!

5 Lord God of truth and grace,

Teach us that death to shun,

Lest we be banished from Thy face,
And evermore undone.

James Montgomery (1771-1854), 1819, 1853. Ab.

3 My lips with shame my sins confess,
Against Thy law, against Thy grace;
Lord, should Thy judgments grow severe,
I am condemned, but Thou art clear.
4 Yet save a trembling sinner, Lord,
Whose hope, still hovering round Thy
Word,

Would light on some sweet promise there,
Some sure support against despair.
Rev. Isaac Watts (1674-1748), 1719. Ab.

1 GOD calling yet! shall I not hear?
Earth's pleasures shall I still hold dear?
Shall life's swift passing years all fly,
And still my soul in slumber lie?

2 God calling yet! and shall He knock,
And I my heart the closer lock?
He still is waiting to receive,
And shall I dare His Spirit grieve?

3 God calling yet! and shall I give
No heed, but still in bondage live?
I wait, but He does not forsake;
He calls me still; my heart, awake
4 God calling yet! I cannot stay;
My heart I yield without delay:
Vain world, farewell, from thee I part;
The voice of God hath reached my heart.
Gerhard Tersteegen (1697-1769), 1730
Tr. by Miss Jane Borthwick (1825- ), 1854. Ab. and alt