Abbildungen der Seite
PDF
EPUB

2 Make channels for the streams of Love,
Where they may broadly run;
And Love has overflowing streams,
To fill them every one.

3 But if at any time we cease
Such channels to provide,
The very founts of Love for us
Will soon be parched and dried.

4 For we must share, if we would keep
That blessing from above;
Ceasing to give, we cease to have;
Such is the Law of Love.

330. C. M.

1 O sweeter than the fragrant flower
At evening's dewy close,
The will united with the power
To succour human woes!

2 And softer than the softest strain
Of music to the ear,
The placid joy we give and gain
By gratitude sincere.

3 T is he who scatters blessings round,
Adores his Maker best;

His walk through life is mercy-crowned, His bed of death is blest.

331. C. M.

1 Oh how can they look up to heaven, And ask for mercy there,

Who never soothed the

poor man's pang,

Nor dried the orphan's tear!

2 The dread omnipotence of heaven
We every hour provoke,
Yet still the mercy of our God
Withholds the avenging stroke.

3 And Christ was still the healing friend
Of poverty and pain,
And never did imploring wretch
His garment touch in vain.

4 May we with humble effort take
Example from above,

And thence the active lesson learn
Of charity and love.

5 But chiefly is the labour ours
To shade the early plant;

To guard from ignorance and guilt
The infancy of want:

6 To graft the virtues, ere the bud
The canker-worm has gnawed,
And teach the rescued child to lisp
Its gratitude to God.

[blocks in formation]

1 My hastening life admonishes
My often faltering soul to try
And yet perform some goodly work,
Ere the divine occasions fly.

2 What, in a world where cries for help
Must ever sound till sin shall cease,
Can be a goodlier work than this,
Griefs to assuage, and joys increase?

3 To fill with light some sunken eyes
When reason struggles with despair:
To bring sin's pallid prisoners forth
Into the free and wholesome air:

4 To cheer the oppressed with righteous words, And aid them with a labouring arm:

The slaves of tyrant ignorance

To rescue, and then shield from harm.

5 Let me remeditate the truth

That Christ did for and with us bleed,
Then, "He is good that doeth good,"
Shall be my dear and honoured creed.

6 Oh, if no partner in the pains
By which love labours for my race,

Death, that takes home and crowns the brave,
Can but insure my long disgrace.

[blocks in formation]

1 Father! at Thy footstool see Those who now are one in Thee! Each to each unite, and bless ; Keep us still in perfect peace!

2 Build us in one body up,

Called in one high calling's hope!
One with God, the Source of bliss,
Ground of our Communion this:

3 Life of all that live below,
Let Thine emanations flow!
Dwell in us, and we shall be
Thine through all eternity.

[blocks in formation]

1 Partners of a glorious hope,
Lift your hearts and voices up;
While we walk with God in light,
God our hearts doth still unite;
Dearest fellowship we prove,
Partners in our Father's love;
Sweetly each, with each combined,
In the bonds of duty joined.

2 Let us then as brethren love,
Faithfully His gifts improve,
Carry on the earnest strife,
Walk in holiness of life:

Still forget the things behind,
Follow Christ in heart and mind,
Toward the mark unwearied press,
Seize the crown of righteousness.

3 Mutual love the token be,
Lord, that we belong to Thee,
Hence may all our actions flow;
Love, the proof that Christ we know;
Love, Thine image, love impart !
Stamp it on our life and heart!
Only love to us be given!

Lord, we ask no other heaven.

335. P. M..

1 Jews were wrought to cruel madness;
Christians fled in fear and sadness;
Mary stood the Cross beside:
At its foot her foot she planted,
By the dreadful scene undaunted,
Till the gentle sufferer died.

2 Poets oft have sung her story,
Painters decked her brow with glory,
Priests her name have deified:
But no worship, song, or glory,
Touches like that simple story,-
Mary stood the Cross beside.

« ZurückWeiter »