Service Book: For the Use of the Church of the Disciples, Taken Principally from the Old and New Testaments

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Page 120 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Page 151 - One army of the living God, To his command we bow ; Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now.
Page 170 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Page 172 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love ; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Page 66 - Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad ; Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof. Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein : Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice Before the LORD : for HE cometh, For HE cometh to judge the earth : HE shall judge the world with righteousness, And the people with his truth.
Page 127 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 74 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man : that He may bring forth food out of the earth ; and wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread •which strengtheneth man's heart.
Page 277 - I'll cheerful leave, And find my heaven in thee. CM Wachuaett. Princeton. Longing for a closer Walk with God. 1 OH ! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame : A light, to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb.
Page 161 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him : for whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.
Page 281 - COME, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, With all thy quickening powers ; Kindle a flame of sacred love » In these cold hearts of ours.

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