86.

IN the hour of trial,

Jesu, pray for me; Lest by base denial

I depart from Thee; When thou seest me waver, With a look recall,

Nor for fear or favour

Suffer me to fall.

With its witching pleasures

Would this vain world charm,

Or its sordid treasures

Spread to work me harm; Bring to my remembrance

Sad Gethsemane,

Or in darker semblance
Cross-crowned Calvary.

If with sore affliction

Thou in love chastise, Pour Thy benediction

On the sacrifice: Then, upon Thine altar

Freely offered up,

Though the flesh may falter,

Faith shall drink the cup.

JAMES MONTGOMERY, 1834.

87.

O HELP us, Lord; each hour of need
Thy heavenly succour give;

Help us in thought and word and deed,
Each hour on earth we live.

O help us when our spirits bleed
With contrite anguish sore;

And when our hearts are cold and dead,

O help us, Lord, the more.

O help us through the prayer of faith
More firmly to believe;

For still the more the servant hath,
The more shall he receive.

O help us, Jesu, from on high:
We know no help but Thee;

O help us so to live and die

As Thine in heaven to be.

HENRY HART MILMAN, 1827.

88.

JUST as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidd'st me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come.

Just as I am, and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot,

To Thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come.

Just as I am, though tossed about
With many a conflict, many a doubt,
Fightings and fears within, without,
O Lamb of God, I come.

Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind;
Sight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need, in Thee to find,
O Lamb of God, I come.

Just as I am; Thou wilt receive,
Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve,
Because Thy promise I believe;
O Lamb of God, I come.

Just as I am; Thy love unknown
Has broken every barrier down;
Now to be Thine, yea, Thine alone,
O Lamb of God, I come.

Just as I am, of that free love

The breadth and depth and height to prove,
Here for a season, then above,

O Lamb of God, I come.

CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT, 1836.

O THOU to whose all-searching sight
The darkness shineth as the light,
Try us, and prove our treacherous heart,
And bid the power of sin depart.

As through this vale of tears we stray,
Be Thou our Light, be Thou our Stay;
Mark out the pilgrim's heavenly road,
That leads us to the mount of God.

If rough and thorny be our way,
Our strength proportion to our day:
Nor storms nor tempests need we fear,
If Thou, our Sun and Shield, be near.

Guide and uphold us with Thy hand,
Till we arrive at Canaan's land,

The land where sin and death shall cease,
The land of rest and joy and peace.

Translation by JOHN WESLEY, 1738,

from the German of COUNT VON ZINZENDORF, 1721.

90.

O THOU from whom all goodness flows,
I lift my heart to Thee :

In all my sorrows, conflicts, woes,
Dear Lord, remember me.

When on my aching, burdened heart

My sins lie heavily,

Thy pardon grant, Thy peace impart ;
In love remember me.

When trials sore obstruct my way,

And ills I cannot flee,

O let my strength be as my day;
For good remember me.

If on my face for Thy dear name
Shame and reproaches be,

All hail reproach, and welcome shame,
If Thou remember me.

And O, when in the hour of death

I own Thy just decree,

Be this the prayer of my last breath,

Dear Lord, remember me.

THOMAS HAWEIS, 1790,

varied by JAMES MONTGOMERY, 1819.