2 By thy reconciling love,
Every stumbling-block_remove;
Each to each unite, endear;

Come, and spread thy banner here.

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

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

5 Free from anger and from pride,
Let us thus in God abide ;
All the depths of love express,
All the heights of holiness.

6 Let us then with joy remove
To thy family above;

On the wings of angels fly;
Show how true believers die.

Hymn 226. C. M.

1 JESUS, united by thy grace,

And each to each endear'd: With confidence we seek thy face, And know our prayer is heard. 2 Still let us own our common Lord, And bear thine easy yoke,

A band of love, a three-fold cord,
Which never can be broke.

3 Make us into one spirit drink:
Baptize into thy name;

And let us always kindly think,
And sweetly speak the same.

4 Touch'd by the loadstone of thy love,
Let all our hearts agree;
And ever tow'rds each other move,
And ever move tow'rds thee.

5 To thee inseparably join'd,
Let all our spirits cleave:
O may we all the loving mind
That was in thee receive!

6 This is the bond of perfectness,
Thy spotless charity;

O let us still, we pray, possess
The mind that was in thee!

7 Grant this, and then from all below, Insensibly remove;

Our souls their change shall scarcely know, Made perfect first in love.

8 With ease, our souls thro' death shall glide Into their paradise,

And thence on wings of angels ride
Triumphant thro' the skies.

9 Yet when the fullest joy is given,
The same delight we prove:

In earth, in paradise, in heaven,
Our All in All is love.

Hymn 227.

Love Feast.

P. M.

COME, and let us sweetly join,

Christ to praise in hymns divine; Give we all with one accord, Glory to our common Lord: Hands, and hearts, and voices raise, Sing as in the ancient days; Antedate the joys above; Celebrate the feast of love. 2 Strive we, in affection strive! Let the purer flame revive; Such as in the martyrs glow'd, Dying champions for their God: We like them may live and love, Call'd we are their joys to prove : Sav'd with them from future wrath Partners of like precious faith. 3 Sing we then in Jesu's name, Now as yesterday the same, One in every time and place, Full for all of truth and grace: We for Christ our Master stand, Lights in a benighted land: We our dying Lord confess:

We are Jesu's witnesses.

4 Witnesses that Christ hath died; We with him are crucified:

Christ hath burst the bands of death:

We his quick'ning Spirit breathe:
Christ is now gone up on high:
Thither all our wishes fly:

Sits at God's right hand above;
There with him we reign in love.

Hymn 228. P. M.

COM

Love Feast.

YOME, thou high and lofty Lord!
Lowly, meek, incarnate Word;

Humbly stoop to earth again;
Come, and visit abject man!

Jesus, dear expected guest,
Thou art bidden to the feast!
For thyself our hearts prepare;
Come, and sit, and banquet there. }
2 Jesus, we thy promise claim;
We are met in thy great name;
In the midst do thou appear,
Manifest thy presence here!
Sanctify us, Lord, and bless,
Breathe thy Spirit, give thy peace;
Thou thyself within us move!
Make our feast a feast of love.
3 Let the fruits of grace abound;
Let us in thy bowels sound;
Faith, and love, and joy increase,
Temperance and gentleness;
Plant in us thy humble mind,
Patient, pitiful, and kind:
Meek and lowly let us be,
Full of goodness, full of thee.
4 Make us all in thee complete:
Make us all for glory meet:
Meet t' appear before thy sight:
Partners with the saints in light:
Call, O call us each by name,
To the marriage of the Lamb;
Let us lean upon thy breast;
Love be there our endless feast.

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Hymn 229. C. M.
COME, let us use the grace divine,

And all with one accord,

In a perpetual cov❜nant join

Ourselves to Christ the Lord..

2 Give up ourselves thro' Jesu's power,
His name to glorify;

And promise in this sacred hour,
For God to live and die.

3 The cov❜nant we this moment make
Be ever kept in mind;

We will no more our God forsake,
Or cast his words behind.

4 We never will throw off his fear,
Who bears our solemn vow;
And if thou art well pleas'd to hear,
Come down and meet us now!
5 Thee, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Let all our hearts receive;
Present with the celestial host,
The peaceful answer give.

6 To each the cov'nant blood apply,
Which takes our sins away;
And register our names on high,
And keep us to that day.
Hymn 230. L. M.

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Admitting a Member.

BROTHER in Christ, and well-belov'd,

To Jesus and his servants dear,

Enter, and show thyself approv'd;
Enter, and find that God is here.