DORRNANCE. 8.7.

ISAAC BAKER WOODBURY (1819-1858), 1850.

169

His is love be

2 'Tis done, the great transaction's done;
I am my Lord's, and He is mine:
He drew me, and I followed on,
Charmed to confess the voice divine.

3 Now rest, my long divided heart,
Fixed on this blissful centre, rest;
With ashes who would grudge to part,
When called on angels' bread to feast?

4 High Heaven, that heard the solemn vow,
That vow renewed shall daily hear,
Till in life's latest hour I bow,
And bless in death a bond so dear.

4 Here at that cross where flows the blood
That bought my guilty soul for God,
Thee, my new Master now I call,
And consecrate to Thee my all.

2

I quit the hopes I held before,
To trust the mercies of Thy Son.
Now for the love I bear His name,
What was my gain I count my loss;
My former pride I call my shame,
And nail my glory to His cross.
3 Yes, and I must and will esteem
All things but loss for Jesus' sake;
O may my soul be found in Him,
And of His righteousness partake.

Rev. Isaac Watts (1674-1748), 1709. Ab.

420 The sweet Wonders of the Cross. 10 the sweet wonders of that cross Where my Redeemer loved and died; Her noblest life my spirit draws From His dear wounds, and bleeding side. 2 I would forever speak His name In sounds to mortal ears unknown; With angels join to praise the Lamb, And worship at His Father's throne.

Ab.

ST. JUDE. 8, 7, 8, 7.

CHARLES VINCENT (1852- ),

171

be, When I proudly

424

Show the same path to Heaven.

425

One Song.

1 HAPPY the souls to Jesus joined,
And saved by grace alone;
Walking in all Thy ways, we find
Our Heaven on earth begun.

2 The Church triumphant in Thy love.
Their mighty joys we know;

They sing the Lamb in hymns above, And we in hymns below.

3 Thee in Thy glorious realm, they praise, And bow before Thy throne;

We, in the kingdom of Thy grace:

The kingdoms are but one.

One Church, one Army.

1 LET saints below in concert sing

With those to glory gone;
For all the servants of our King
In earth and Heaven are one.
2 One family, we dwell in Him,

One Church above, beneath,
Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death.
3 One army of the living God,

To His command we bow;

Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.

4 Dear Saviour, be our constant Guide;
Then, when the word is given,
Bid Jordan's narrow stream divide,
And land us safe in Heaven.

Rev. Charles Wesley (1708-1788), 1759. Ab. and alt.

From hence our spirits rise;

And he that in Thy statutes treads Shall meet Thee in the skies.

426

Rev. Charles Wesley, 1745.

At Parting.

1 BLEST be the dear, uniting love,
That will not let us part;
Our bodies may far off remove,

We still are joined in heart.
2 Joined in one spirit to our Head,
Where He appoints we go,
And still in Jesus' footsteps tread,
And do His work below.

3 Partakers of the Saviour's grace,
The same in mind and heart,
Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
Nor life, nor death, can part.

Rev. Charles Wesley, 1742. Ab.

MONSELL. S. M.

JOSEPH BARNBY (1338- ), 1868.

173

1 I LOVE Thy kingdom, Lord, The house of Thine abode,

The Church our blest Redeemer saved With His own precious blood.

2 I love Thy Church, O God:

Her walls before Thee stand, Dear as the apple of Thine eye, And graven on Thy hand.

3 For her my tears shall fall,

For her my prayers ascend;

To her my cares and toils be given,
Till toils and cares shall end.

4 Beyond my highest joy

I prize her heavenly ways,
BOYLSTON. S. M.