THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER, GRACES,

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*WATTE,

The Beatitudes.

1 BLEST are the men of broken heart,
Who mourn for sin with inward smart;
The love of Christ divinely flows,
A healing balm for all their woCS.

2 Blest are the meek, who stand afar From rage and passion, noise and war; God will secure their happy state,

And plead their cause against the great.

3 Blest are the souls that thirst for grace,
Hunger and long for righteousness;
They shall be well supplied and fed
With living streams and living bread.

4 Blest are the pure, whose hearts are clean
From the defiling power of sin;
With endless pleasure they shall see
A God of spotless purity.

5 Blest are the men of peaceful life,
Who quench the coals of growing strife;
They shall be called the heirs of bliss,
The sons of God, the God of peace.

6 Blest are the sufferers, who partake
Of pain and shame for Jesus' sake;
Their souls shall triumph in the Lord,
Glory and joy are their reward.

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WATTS.

God dwells with the Humble and Contrite.

1 Thus saith the high and lofty One,
'I sit upon my holy throne;
My name is God, I dweil on high,
Dwell in my own eternity!

2 But I descend to worlds below!-
On earth I have a mansion too;
The humble spirit and contrite
Is an abode of my delight.

3 The humble soul my words revive;
I bid the mourning sinner live;
Heal all the broken hearts I find,
And ease the sorrows of the mind.

4 'When I contend against their sin,
I make them know how vile they've been;
But should my wrath forever smoke,
Their souls would sink beneath my stroke.'

50 may thy pardoning grace be nigh,
Lest we should faint, despair, and die;
Thus shall our better thoughts approve
The methods of thy chastening love.

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C. M.

TATE & BRADY.

Who shall abide in thy Tabernacle? Ps. 15.

1 LORD, who's the happy man, that
To thy blest courts repair,
Not, stranger-like, to visit them,
But to inhabit there?

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2 'Tis he whose every thought and deed
By rules of virtue moves;

Whose generous tongue disdains to speak
The thing his heart disproves ;

3 Who never did a slander forge,
His neighbor's fame to wound;
Nor hearken to a false report,
By malice whispered round;

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4 Who vice, in all its pomp and
Can treat with just neglect;
And piety, though clothed in rags,
Religiously respect;

5 Who to his plighted vows and trust
Has ever firmly stood;

And though he promise to his loss,
He makes his promise good.

6 The man who by this steady course
Has happiness ensured,

When earth's foundations shake, shall stand By Providence secured.

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MERRICK.

The Same. Ps. 15.

1 Who shall towards thy chosen seat

Turn, O Lord, his favored feet?

Who shall at thine altar bend?

Who shall Zion's hill ascend?
Who, great God, a welcome guest,
On thy holy mountain rest?

2 He whose heart thy love has warmed; He whose will, to thine conformed, Bids his life unsullied run;

He whose word and thought are one;
Who, from sin's contagion free,

Lifts his willing soul to thee.

3 He who thus, with heart unstained,
Treads the path by thee ordained,
He shall towards thy chosen seat
Turn, O Lord, his favored feet;
He thy ceaseless care shall prove,
He shall share thy constant love.

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MONTGOMERY.

Who shall stand in his Holy Place? Ps. 24. 1 THE earth is thine, Jehovah; thine Its peopled realms and wealthy stores; Built on the floods by power divine, The waves are ramparts to the shores. 2 But who shall reach thy holy place, Or who, O Lord, ascend thy hill? The pure in heart shall see thy face, The perfect man that doth thy will.

3 He who to bribes hath closed his hand, To idols never bent the knee,

Nor sworn in falsehood, he shall stand
Redeemed, and owned, and kept by thee.

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L. M.

SIR H. WOTTON.

The Independent and Happy Man.
1 How happy is he born or taught,
Who serveth not another's will;
Whose armor is his honest thought,
And simple truth his highest skill;

2 Whose passions not his masters are;
Whose soul is still prepared for death;
Not tied unto the world with care
Of prince's ear or vulgar breath;

3 Who God doth late and early pray
More of his grace than goods to lend,
And walks with man, from day to day,
As with a brother and a friend.

4 This man is freed from servile bands
Of hope to rise, or fear to fall;
Lord of himself, though not of lands,
And having nothing, yet hath all.

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ANONYMOUS.

The True Riches. Ps. 37.

1 WITH mines of wealth are sinners poor, Unblessing and unblessed;

But rich the man, whate'er his store,
Of inward peace possessed.