DEDICATION OF A CHURCH.

Oh, enter then His gates with praise,
Approach with joy His courts unto;
Praise, laud, and bless His Name always,
For it is seemly so to do.

For why? the Lord our God is good,
His mercy is for ever sure;

His truth at all times firmly stood,
And shall from age to age endure.

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Miscellaneous Bymus.

HYMN I,

How pleasant is Thy dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts, to me,
The tabernacles of Thy grace,

How pleasant, Lord, they be.

My thirsty soul full sore doth long,
Yea, faints Thy courts to see,
My very heart and flesh cry out,
O living God for Thee.

Bless'd are they in Thy house that dwell,

They ever give Thee praise,

Bless'd is the man, whose strength Thou art, In whose heart are Thy ways.

From strength to strength they walk full fast, No faintness there shall be;

And so the God of Gods at last,

In Sion they shall see.

MISCELLANEOUS HYMNS.

HYMN II.

O LORD of hosts, return again,
From heav'n do Thou look down ;
Behold, and with Thy help sustain,
Thy Vineyard overthrown.

Thy pleasant Vine, thy Israel,

Which Thy right hand hath set,
The same which Thou didst love so well,
O Lord, do not forget.

And so when Thou hast set us free,

And saved us from shame,

Then will we never fall from Thee,

But call upon thy Name.

O Lord of hosts, through Thy good grace,

Convert us unto Thee;

Behold us with a pleasant face,
And thus full safe are we.

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HYMN III.

O HELP us Lord; each hour of need,
Thy heav'nly 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 power 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.

HYMN IV.

I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE Life.
S. John, xiv. 6.

HOLY JESUS, Saviour blest,

As by passion strong possessed,
Through this world of sin we stray,
Thou to guide us art the Way.

Holy JESUS, when the night
Of error blinds our clouded sight,
Round the cheering day to throw,
Saviour, then the Truth art Thou.

MISCELLANEOUS HYMNS.

Holy JESUS, when our power Fails us in temptation's hour, - All unequal to the strife, Thou to aid us art the Life.

Who would reach his heavenly home,
Who would to the Father come,
Who the Father's presence see,

JESUS, he must come by Thee.

Channel of the Father's grace,
Image of the Father's face,
Saviour blest, Incarnate Son,
With the Father Thou art one.

HYMN V.

To GOD in Whom I trust,
I lift my heart and voice ;
O let me not be put to shame,
Nor let my foes rejoice.

To me Thy truth impart,

And lead me in Thy way;

For Thou art He that brings me help,
On Thee I wait all day.

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