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The Christian's Treasure.

1 How vast the treasure we possess!
How rich Thy bounty, King of Grace!
This world is our's, and worlds to come:
Earth is our lodge, and heav'n our home.
2 All things are ours; the gifts of God;
The purchase of a SAVIOUR'S blood;
While the good SPIRIT shows us how
To use, and to improve them too.
3 If peace and plenty crown my days,
They help me, LORD, to speak Thy praise:
If bread of sorrows be my food,
Those sorrows work my lasting good.
4 I would not change my bless'd estate
For all the world calls good or great:
And while my faith can keep her hold,
I envy not the sinner's gold.

5 FATHER, I wait Thy daily will;
Thou shalt divide my portion still:
Grant me on earth what seems Thee best,
Till death and heav'n reveal the rest.

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Conflicts not expected by young Christians. 1 THE new-born child of gospel-grace, Like some fair tree when summer's nigh, Beneath IMMANUEL'S shining face, Lifts up his blooming branch on high. 2 No fears he feels, he sees no foes, No conflict yet his faith employs, Nor has he learnt to whom he owes The strength and peace his soul enjoys,

3 But sin soon darts it's cruel sting,
And comforts sinking day by day;
What seem'd his own, a self-fed spring,
Proves but a brook that glides away.

4 When Gideon arm'd his num'rous host, The LORD soon made his numbers less; And said, lest Israel vainly boast,

"My arm procured me this success.' 5 Thus will He bring our spirits down,

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And draw our ebbing comforts low, That sav'd by grace, but not our own, We may not claim the praise we owe.

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Persecution.Welcome Cross.

"TIS my happiness below

Not to live without the cross, But the SAVIOUR's pow'r to know, Sanctifying ev'ry loss:

Trials must and will befal;

But with humble faith to see
Love inscrib'd upon them all,
This is happiness to me.

2 GOD, in Israel, sows the seeds
Of affliction, pain, and toil;
These spring up, and choke the weeds
Which would else o'erspread the soil:

Trials make the promise sweet;

Trials give new life to pray'r; Trials bring me to His feet,

Lay me low, and keep me there.

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Persecution. Reproach for Christ.

1 AND art Thou, gracious Master, gone,
A mansion to prepare for me?
Shall I behold Thee on the throne,
And there for ever sit with Thee?
Then let the world approve or blame,
I'll triumph in Thy glorious Name.

2 Should I to gain the world's applause,
Or to escape it's harmless frown,
Refuse to countenance Thy cause,
And make Thy people's lot my own;
What shame would fill me in that day,
When Thou Thy glory wilt display!
3 And what is man, or what his smile?
The terror of his anger what?
Like grass he flourishes a while,

But soon his place shall know him not:
Through fear of such a one shall I
The LORD of heaven and earth deny?

4 No! let the world cast out my name,
And vile account me, if they will:
If to confess the LORD be shame,
I purpose to be viler still.

For Thee, my GOD, I all resign,
Content if I can call Thee mine.

5 What transport then shall fill my heart,

When Thou my worthless name wilt own;
When I shall see Thee as Thou art,
And know as I myself am known!
From sin and fear and sorrow free,
My soul shall find it's rest in Thee.

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Satan's Devices.

1 I HATE the tempter and his charms,
I hate his flatt'ring breath;
The serpent takes a thousand forms
To cheat our souls to death.

2 He feeds our hopes with airy dreams, Or kills with slavish fear;

And holds us still in wild extremes,
Presumption, or despair.

3 Now he persuades, "How easy 'tis
To walk the road to heaven!"
Anon he swells our sins, and cries,
"They cannot be forgiven."

4 He bids young sinners,

"Yet forbear

To think of GOD or death;
For pray'r and devotion are
But melancholy breath."

5 He tells the aged, "They must die,
And 'tis too late to pray:
In vain for mercy now they cry,
For they have lost their day."

4 While thus he props his cruel throne By mischief and deceit,

His full devices, LORD, make known,
And bruise him 'neath our feet.

7 Stedfast in faith, we look to Thee
To save from Satan's thrall:
And let us, LORD, his kingdom see
From heav'n like lightning fall.

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Christian warfare.-Christ's strength.

1 BY whom was David taught To aim the dreadful blow, When he Goliath fought,

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And laid the Gittite low?

No sword nor spear the stripling took, But chose a pebble from the brook.

'Twas Isr'el's GOD and King,

Who sent him to the fight;
Who gave him strength to sling,
And skill to aim aright.

Ye feeble saints, your strength endures,
Because young David's GOD is yours.

3 Who order'd Gideon forth,

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To storm th' invaders' camp,
With arms of little worth,

A pitcher and a lamp?
The trumpets made his coming known,
And all the host was overthrown.

Oh! I have seen the day,
When with a single word,
GOD helping me to say,

My trust is in the LORD;

My soul has quell'd a thousand foes,
Fearless of all that could oppose.

But unbelief, self-will,

Self-righteousness, and pride,

How often do they steal

My weapon from my side?

Yet David's LORD, and Gideon's Friend,

Will help his servant to the end.