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LEWIS EDSON.

76 Abba, Father.-Rom. 8:15. 1 ARISE, my soul, arise; Shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding Sacrifice

behalf

appears:

In my
Before the throne my Surety stands,
My name is written on his hands.

2 He ever lives above,
For me to intercede;

His all-redeeming love,

His precious blood, to plead ;
His blood atoned for all our race,
And sprinkles now the throne of
grace.

3 The Father hears him pray,
His dear anointed One:
He cannot turn away

The presence of his Son :
His Spirit answers to the blood,
And tells me I am born of God.

name;

By thee the joyful news

Of our salvation came;

The joyful news of sins forgiven,
Of hell subdued, and peace with
heaven.

3 Jesus, our great High Priest,
Has shed his blood and died;
The guilty couscience needs

No sacrifice beside:
His precious blood did once atone,
And now it pleads before the throne.

4 0 thou almighty Lord,

Our Conqueror and King,
Thy scepter and thy sword,

Thy reigning grace, we sing:
Thine is the power; behold we sit
In willing bonds beneath thy feet.

Isaac Watts.

Than all the golden fancies
Of all our golden dreams.

I love to tell the story,

It did so much for me;
And that is just the reason
I tell it now to thee.
Ref.-

3 I love to tell the story;
"Tis pleasant to repeat
What seems, each time I tell it,
More wonderfully sweet.
I love to tell the story;

For some have never heard
The inessage of salvation
From God's own holy word.
Ref.-
Catharine Hankey.

1 Love divine, all love excelling, Joy of heaven, to earth come down! Fix in us thy humble dwelling;

All thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion, Pure unbounded love thou art; Visit us with thy salvation;

Enter every trembling heart.

2 Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit

Into every troubled breast! Let us all in thee inherit,

Let us find that second rest.
Take away our bent to sinning;

Alpha and Omega be;
End of faith, as its beginning,

Set our hearts at liberty.

3 Come, almighty to deliver, Let us all thy life receive; Suddenly return, and never,

Never more thy temples leave: Thee we would be always blessing, Serve thee as thy hosts above, Pray,and praise thee without ceasing, Glory in thy perfect love.

Charles Wesley.

81

The cross accepted

1 JESUS, I my cross have taken,
All to leave, and follow thee;
Naked, poor, despised, forsaken,
Thou, from hence, my all shalt be:
Perish every fond ambition,

All I've sought, and hoped, and
known;

Yet how rich is my condition,

God and heaven are still my own! 2 Let the world despise and leave me, They have left my Saviour, too; Human hearts and looks deceive me; Thou art not, like man, untrue; And, while thou shalt smile upon me,

God of wisdom, love, and might, Foes may hate, and friends may shun me;

Show thy face, and all is bright. 3 Haste thee on from grace to glory, Armed by faith, and winged by