Hymns for Christian Devotion Part 150

2 Still let us own our common Lord, And bear his easy yoke, A band of love, a three-fold cord Which never can be broke.

3 Make us into one spirit drink; Baptize into one name; And let us always kindly think, And sweetly speak the same.

4 Touched by the loadstone of thy love, Let all our hearts agree; And ever towards each other move, And ever move towards thee.

908. 7s. M. Wesley's Coll.

For Brotherly Love.

1 G.o.d of love, we look to thee; Let us in thy Son agree; Show to us the Prince of Peace; Bid our jars forever cease.

By thy reconciling love, Every stumbling-block remove; Each to each unite, endear; Come, and spread thy banner here.

2 Make us of one heart and mind, Courteous, pitiful, and kind; Lowly, meek, in thought and word, Altogether like our Lord.

Let us for each other care; Each the other's burden bear; To thy church the pattern give; Show how true believers live.

3 Free from anger and from pride, Let us thus in G.o.d abide; All the depths of love express, All the heights of holiness.

Let us, then, with joy remove To the family above; On the wings of angels fly; Show how true believers die.

909. L. M. Newton.

Meeting of Christian Friends.

1 Kindred in Christ, for his dear sake, A hearty welcome here receive; May we together now partake The joys which only he can give.

2 May he by whose kind care we meet, Send his good Spirit from above, Make our communications sweet, And cause our hearts to burn with love.

3 Forgotten be each worldly theme, When Christians meet together thus; We only wish to speak of him Who lived, and died, and reigns, for us.

4 We'll talk of all he did, and said, And suffered, for us here below, The path he marked for us to tread, And what he's doing for us now.

910. L. M. Cowper.

For Social Wors.h.i.+p.

1 Our G.o.d, where'er thy people meet, There they behold thy mercy-seat; Where'er they seek thee, thou art found, And every place is hallowed ground.

2 For thou, within no walls confined, Inhabitest the humble mind; Such ever bring thee where they come, And, going, take thee to their home.

3 Here may we prove the power of prayer To strengthen faith, and sweeten care; To teach our faint desires to rise, And bring all heaven before our eyes.

4 Lord, we are few, but thou art near; Nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine ear: O, rend the heavens, comes quickly down, And make a thousand hearts thine own!

911. L. M. Ancient Hymns.

Commendatory of Christian Union.

1 Blest with unearthly bliss were they Who saw the church's infant day, And strove their Christian part to bear, By sign and spirit joined with her.

2 The truth, which Christ's apostles taught, Then ruled each faithful convert's thought; Each aimed in unity to keep Unrent th' apostles' fellows.h.i.+p.

3 The bread, with rites harmonious broke, The union of all hearts bespoke; And prayer, with lips united prayed, The union of all minds displayed.

4 O thus that Christians still would live, And thus delightful witness give, How well the debt of love they know, To Christ and to his church they owe!

912. 6s. & 8s. M. Methodist Coll.

For Union.

1 Thou G.o.d of truth and love, We seek thy perfect way, Ready thy choice t' approve, Thy providence t' obey; Enter into thy wise design, And sweetly lose our will in thine.

2 Why hast thou cast our lot In the same age and place?

And why together brought To see each other's face?

To join with softest sympathy, And mix our friendly souls in thee?

3 Didst thou not make us one, That we might one remain, Together travel on, And bear each other's pain; Till all thy utmost goodness prove And rise renewed in perfect love?

913. 7s. M. Methodist Coll.

For Union of Heart.

1 G.o.d, from whom all blessings flow, Perfecting the saints below, Hear us, who thy nature share, Who thy loving children are.

Join us, in one spirit join, Let us still receive of thine: Still for more on thee we call, Thou who fillest all in all!

2 Closer knit us to our Head; Nourish us, in Christ, and feed; Let us daily growth receive, More and more in Jesus live.