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Now, freed from the bondage of hell and destruction,

Fly forth to the comfort of all in distress; And tell, for the rescue of lost dying sinners,

His all-healing mercy and pardoning grace!

By the light of the face of the Lord of such glory, With the flames of his love kindled up in thy

heart,

Go, tell in Decapolis Jesus' sweet story,

Fly swiftly the Life of such Love to impart !

ALIVE TO GOD ETERNALLY.

FOR the reign of Heavenly Peace!
Lord, bid my angry passions cease.
Speak to the tempest, and control
The strife of sin within my soul.
The darkness and the guilt dispel,
Such passions sweeping down to hell,—
The clouds of envy, malice, pride,
That turn the lights of heaven aside.
Oh let my nature wholly be

Absorbed in Love Divine through Thee,
O Lamb of God, dying for me,
My bliss through all Eternity.

O thus may I in Jesus rest,

His Love Divine within my breast,
My every thought by Him possest;
My dreams by night, my plans by day,
And every turning of my way,
Whate'er I think, or do, or say,
Be Thou in every wish supreme,
Inspiring each unconscious dream;
That morning, noon, and night may be
The same sweet Paradise for me,
Of radiant Life and Light in Thee;

THE LIFE OF LOVE DIVINE ON EARTH. 329

That, crucified to self, and dead,

But made alive in Christ, my Head,

I dead indeed to sin may be,

Alive to God eternally.

THE LIFE OF LOVE DIVINE ON EARTH.

DEAR Lord! to live this life of Love,

Shall bring us all to heaven above.

Our souls, renewed by Thy blest Word,
The voice of our Incarnate God,
Shall then behold Thy blissful Face,
In us reflected by such grace;

Thine own indwelling makes our heaven;
And fitness for Thy Presence there,

By thine own gracious Spirit given,
Alone can save us from despair,
Alone can make us fit to shine

In likeness of such Love divine.

Thy love can make a heaven on earth,

The treasure of eternal worth.

Thy life below of perfect Love

Is that which makes our Heaven above;
O Power divine, with Love's control
Bind every impulse of my soul,
And by the bliss of sins forgiven
Make known the certainty of heaven!

THE DEATH OF CHRIST OUR ONLY PLEA.

GOD, my Redeemer, set me free

In Heaven's Eternal liberty!

Teach me to trust alone in Thee.
God, my Redeemer, Thou art nigh,
From sin and death to Thee I fly.
Oh, rescue me from guilt and pain,
Never to make this world my gain.
Jesus, my Life, my Love, my all,
On Thee at Thy dear cross I call.
Thy dying grace my only plea,
Thy latest prayer to God for me,
That all my sins forgiven might be.
God's only Son, the Crucified,
The Lamb of God for me hath died,
That all my guilt might be forgiven,
And I His saint be found in heaven;
An outcast once, but now Love's crown,
Through the Eternal ages known!

BLOSSOMING AND BEARING FRUIT.

IN

a world so full of beauty,

Why am I a barren thing?

By the Law of Truth and Duty,
I too should be blossoming.
Every flower fulfils the season
Of its natural pursuit ;
By the right of useful reason

I too should be bearing fruit.

Fruit for whom but Him who made me,
For the joy of Life Divine,

For the glory of my Saviour,

Through Eternity to shine.

Such the Law, the Life, the Reason,

Of mine immortality;

Such the seed, the fruit, the season,

For perfection, given to me.

Oh Thou Merciful Creator!

Of a treasure so divine,

Take me, love me, new create me,

Seed and fruit forever Thine!

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