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WONDERFUL SAVIOUR.-Concluded.

kingdom, power and glo- ry, Now and for-ever, world without end.

No. 109. LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT.

JOHN H. NEWMAN.

JOHN B. DYKES.

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1. Lead, kindly Light, amid th'encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! I was not ev-er thus, nor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me on; 3. Solong Thy pow'r hath bless'd me, sure it still Will lead me on,

The night is

I lov'd to O'er moor and

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No. 110. NEVER ALONE.

J. C. H. and V. A. WHITE.

V. A. W.

May be sung as a Duet and Chorus.

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1. Lone-ly? no, not lone - ly While Jesus standeth by;
2. Wea- ry? no, not wea ry While leaning on His breast;
3. Waiting? O yes, waiting; He bade me watch and wait;

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cheers me; I know that He is nigh. joy- ment, 'Tis His e-ter-nal rest. en, What makes my Lord so late.

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Friendless? no, not friend-less, For Jesus
Help-less? yes, so help - less; But I am
Joy- ful? yes, so joy ful; With joy too

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No. 112. BEAUTY FOR ASHES.

(First Prize Song.)

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the love of God, my Father, Whose Spirit a-bides with-in; the love of Christ, my Sav-iour, Who suffer'd up-on the tree; the beauty of the Gos- pel That scatters, not thorns, but flow'rs;

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1. Be-neath the cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand; The shadow of a 2. Up- on that cross of Jesus, Mine eye at times can see The very dy - ing 3. I take, O cross, thy sha-dow, For my a- bid-ing place; I ask no oth

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might-y rock With-in a wea-ry land. A home within the wilder-ness, A form of One Who suffered there for me. And from my smitten heart, with tears, Two sunshine than The sun-shine of His face: Content to let the world go by, To

rest upon the way, From th’burning of the noontide heat, And th’burden of the day. won-ders I con-fess,-The wonders of His glorious love, And my own worthlessness. know no gain nor loss,—My sinful self, my only shame,—My glory, all the cross.

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