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WORK while it is to-day!

This was our Saviour's rule;
With docile minds let us obey,
As learners in his school.

2 Lord Christ, we humbly ask
Of thee the power and will,
With fear and meekness, every task
Of duty to fulfill.

3 At home, by word and deed,
Adorn redeeming grace;
And sow abroad the precious seed
Of truth in every place:-

4 That thus the wilderness

May blossom like the rose,

And trees spring up of righteousness,
Where'er life's river flows.

5 For thee our all to spend,
Still may we watch and pray,
And, persevering to the end,
Work while it is to-day.

ABER. S. M.

James Montgomery.

902

Contribution.

WE give thee but thine own,
Whate'er the gift may be:
All that we have is thine alone,
A trust, O Lord, from thee.
2 May we thy bounties thus
As stewards true receive,
And gladly, as thou blessest us,
To thee our first-fruits give.

3 To comfort and to bless,
To find a balm for woe,
To tend the lone and fatherless-
Is angel's work below.

4 The captive to release,

To God the lost to bring, To teach the way of life and peaceIt is a Christ-like thing.

5 And we believe thy word,

Though dim our faith may be; Whate'er for thine we do, O Lord, We do it unto thee.

William W. How.

W. H. MONK.

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W. H. W. DARLEY.

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Go, la-bor on, while it is day; The world's dark night is hastening on; Speed,speed thy work,-cast

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way! It is not thus that souls are won-It is not thus that souls are won.

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Go, LABOR on, while it is day;

The world's dark night is hastening on; Speed, speed thy work,-cast sloth away! It is not thus that souls are won.

2 Men die in darkness at your side,
Without a hope to cheer the tomb:
Take up the torch and wave it wide-
The torch that lights time's thickest gloom.

3 Toil on,-faint not; keep watch and pray!
Be wise the erring soul to win;
Go forth into the world's highway;
Compel the wanderer to come in.
4 Go, labor on: your hands are weak;
Your knees are faint, your soul cast down;
Yet falter not; the prize you seek
-a kingdom and a crown!

Is near,

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Horatius Bonar.

Он, what stupendous mercy shines

Around the majesty of heaven! Rebels he deigns to call his sonsTheir souls renewed, their sins forgiven.

2 Go, imitate the grace divine—

The grace that blazes like the sun; Hold forth your fair, though feeble light, Through all your lives let mercy run. 3 When all is done, renounce your deeds, Renounce self-righteousness with scorn: Thus will you glorify your God,

And thus the Christian name adorn.

Thomas Gibbons.

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Liberality.

William H. Drummond.

911
WHEN Jesus dwelt in mortal clay,
What were his works from day to day,
But miracles of power and grace,
That spread salvation through our race?
2 Teach us, O Lord, to keep in view
Thy pattern, and thy steps pursue;
Let alms bestowed, let kindness done,
Be witnessed by each rolling sun.

3 That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives, but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank,
Creation's blot, creation's blank!

4 But he who marks, from day to day,
In generous acts his radiant way,
Treads the same path his Saviour trod,
The path to glory and to God.

Thomas Gibbons.

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