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2 What Thou shalt to-day provide,
Let me as a child receive;
What to-morrow may betide,
Calmly to Thy wisdom leave;
'Tis enough that Thou wilt care,
Why should I the burden bear?

3 As a little child relies

On a care beyond his own;
Knows he's neither strong nor wise,
Fears to stir a step alone;
Let me thus with Thee abide,
As my Father, Guard, and Guide.

HYMN

303.

III. 1.

W Perfectly resign'd to Thee?

THEN, my Saviour, shall I be

Poor and vile in mine own eyes,
Only in Thy wisdom wise?

2 Only Thee content to know,
Ignorant of all below?
Only guided by Thy light?
Only mighty in Thy might?

3 Fully let my life express
All the heights of holiness;
Sweetly let my spirit prove
All the depths of humble love.

HYMN

304.

C. M.

IN

N tears and trials we must sow
To reap in joy and love,

We cannot find our home below,
And look for one above.

2 Children of God have ever thus
In wisdom learn'd to grow;
Yea, He who gave Himself for us
Was perfected by woe.

3 Thou, Man of Sorrows, Thou didst not
The bitter cup decline;
Why should I claim a better lot,
A smoother path than Thine?

4 Intent the guiltless blood to shed,
That should for guilt atone,
Thou didst the mighty wine-press tread,
Unshrinking, though alone.

5 And shall I murmur or repine
At aught Thy hand may send?
Nay, I my all to Thee resign,
My ever-ruling Friend.

HYMN

305.

C. M.

H! for a heart to praise my God,
A heart from sin set free!

A heart that always feels Thy blood
So freely shed for me;

2 A heart resign'd, submissive, meek,
My great Redeemer's throne;
Where only Christ is heard to speak,
Where Jesus reigns alone;

3 An humble, lowly, contrite heart,
Believing, true, and clean!
Which neither life nor death can part
From Him that dwells within ;

4 A heart in every thought renewed,
And full of love divine;

Perfect, and right, and pure, and good,
A copy, Lord, of Thine.

5 Thy nature, gracious Lord, impart;
Come quickly from above;

Write Thy new name upon my heart,
Thy new, best name of Love.

HYMN

306.

C. M.

HERE is a fold whence none can stray,

THE

And pastures ever green,

Where sultry sun, or stormy day,
Or night is never seen.

2 Far up the everlasting hills,
In God's own light it lies;
His smile its vast dimension fills
With joy that never dies.

3 One narrow vale, one darksome wave,
Divides that land from this;

I have a Shepherd pledg'd to save,
And bear me home to bliss.

4 Soon at His feet my soul will lie,
In life's last struggling breath;
But I shall only seem to die,
I shall not taste of death.

5 Far from this guilty world, to be
Exempt from toil and strife ;
To spend eternity with Thee,
My Saviour, this is life!

HYMN

TRIALS.

307.

P. M.

W

HEN I can trust my all with God,
In trial's fearful hour,

Bow, all resign'd, beneath His rod,
And bless His sparing power;
A joy springs up amid distress,
A fountain in the wilderness.

20 to be brought to Jesus' feet,
Though sorrows fix me there,
Is still a privilege; and sweet
The energies of prayer;

Though sighs and tears its language be,
If Christ be nigh, and smile on me.

3 0 blessed be the hand that gave, Still blessed when it takes,

Blessed be He who smites to save,

Who heals the heart He breaks; Perfect and true are all His ways, Whom heaven adores, and earth obeys.

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LMIGHTY God! I call to Thee, By sore temptation shaken; Incline Thy gracious ear to me, And leave me not forsaken; For who that feels the power within Of past remorse and present sin, Can stand, O Lord, before Thee?

2 On Thee alone my stay I place,
All human help rejecting,
Relying on Thy sovereign grace,
Thy sovereign aid expecting;
I rest upon Thy sacred word,
That Thou 'It repel him not, O Lord,
Who to Thy mercy fleeth.

3 And though I travail all the night,
And travail all the morrow,
My trust is in Jehovah's might,
My triumph in my sorrow;
Forgetting not that Thou of old,
Didst Israel, though weak, uphold;
When weakest, then most loving!

4 What though my sinfulness be great,
Redeeming love is greater;

What though all hell should lie in wait,
Supreme is my Creator;

And He my Rock and Fortress is,
And when most helpless, most I'm His,
My Strength and my Redeemer.

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