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?

4 Surely thou didst unite
Our kindred spirits here,
That all hereafter might

Before thy throne appear;
Meet at the marriage of the Lamb,
And all thy gracious love proclaim.

5 Then let us ever bear

The blessed end in view,
And join, with mutual care,

To fight our passage through; And kindly help each other on, Till all receive the starry crown.

6 O may thy Spirit seal

Our souls unto that day,
With all thy fullness fill,

And then transport away,—

Away to our eternal rest,
Away to our Redeemer's breast!

CHARLES WESLEY.

One of the Hymns for Christian Friends. Charles Wesley was betrothed to Miss Sarah

The third stanza has been omitted:

the next April. From internal evidence we judge that most of these hymns were written for "A Christian Friend," and that friend was the lady who became his wife. They must have been written during his engagement, or soon after, for they were published in the year of his marriage-1749. This hymn has been edited twice, and its original design somewhat obscured, but not obliterated. There is an additional stanza:

7 "There, only there, we shall
Fulfil Thy great design,
And in Thy praise with all
Our elder brethren join;
And hymn, in songs which never end,
Our heavenly, everlasting Friend."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

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HILE we walk with God in light,
God our hearts doth still unite;

Dearest fellowship we prove,
Fellowship in Jesus' love:
Sweetly each, with each combined,
In the bonds of duty joined,
Feels the cleansing blood applied,
Daily feels that Christ hath died.

2 Still, O Lord, our faith increase,
Cleanse from all unrighteousness;
Thee the unholy cannot see,
Make, O make us meet for thee;
Every vile affection kill,
Root out every seed of ill,
Utterly abolish sin,

Write thy law of love within.

3 Hence may all our actions flow,
Love the proof that Christ we know;
Mutual love the token be,
Lord, that we belong to thee:
Love, thine image, love impart;
Stamp it now on every heart:
Only love to us be given;
Lord, we ask no other heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: The Love-Feast.

Taken from a long hymn of twenty-two stanzas, in five parts. This is part four, with the first verse omitted:

1 "Partners of a glorious hope,
Lift your hearts and voices up;
Jointly let us rise and sing,

Christ our Prophet, Priest, and King.
Monuments of Jesus' grace,

Speak we by our lives His praise,

Walk in Him we have received,

Show we not in vain believed."

"Thy" has been changed to "thine" in the fifth line of the last stanza.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

804 of one heart and mind.

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ESUS, Lord, we look to thee; Let us in thy rame agree; Show thyself the Prince of peace; Bid our jars forever cease.

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 for each 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 the family above;

7.

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

Author's title: For a Family.

This is one of the Hymns for Believers. The author wrote the first couplet of the fourth stanza thus:

"Let us each for other care,

Each his brother's burden bear."

It was changed for the Collection of 1780. For a hundred years it has been used in various editions of our hymn book without a word of change. The editors evidently agree that it is all right. It certainly adds to the value of this excellent hymn to know that it was written "for a family."

From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

805 Witnesses for Jesus.

YOME, 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 glowed,
Dying champions for their God:
We like them may live and love;
Called we are their joys to prove,
Saved with them from future wrath,
Partners of like precious faith.

3 Sing we, then, in Jesus' 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 Jesus' witnesses.

Title: The Love-Feast.

7.

CHARLES WESLEY.

YHRIST, from whom all blessings flow,
Perfecting the saints below,

Hear us, who thy nature share,
Who thy mystic body 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 Move, and actuate, and guide,
Divers gifts to each divide;
Placed according to thy will,
Let us all our work fulfill;
Never from our office move;
Needful to each other prove;
Let us daily growth receive,
More and more in Jesus live.

3 Sweetly may we all agree,
Touched with softest sympathy;
Kindly for each other care;
Every member feel its share.

Many are we now and one,
We who Jesus have put on;
Names, and sects, and parties fall:
Thou, O Christ, art all in all.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The author wrote a hymn of thirty-nine stanzas, divided into six parts, entitled The Communion of Saints.

Part four has five stanzas, each of which contributes to make up this hymn. We give the last two entire :

4 "Sweetly now we all agree,
Touched with softest sympathy,
Kindly for each other care;
Every member feels its share:
Wounded by the grief of one,
All the suffering members groan:
Honored if one member is,
All partake the common bliss.

5 "Many are we now, and one,
We who Jesus have put on;
There is neither bond nor free,
Male nor female, Lord, in Thee.
Love, like death, hath all destroyed,
Rendered all distinctions void :
Names, and sects, and parties fall;
Thou, O Christ, art all in all."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

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When shall we meet again?

HEN shall we meet again,

W Meet ne'er to sever?

6, 5.

When will peace wreathe her chain
Round us forever?

Our hearts will ne'er repose,
Safe from each blast that blows,
In this dark vale of woes,

Never-no, never!

2 When shall love freely flow Pure as life's river?

When shall sweet friendship glow
Changeless forever?

Where joys celestial thrill,
Where bliss each heart shall fill,
And fears of parting chill
Never-no, never!

3 Up to that world of light
Take us, dear Saviour;
May we all there unite,
Happy forever;
Where kindred spirits dwell,
There may our music swell,
And time our joys dispel
Never-no, never!

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He giveth the increase. IGH on his everlasting throne, The King of saints his work surveys; Marks the dear souls he calls his own, And smiles on the peculiar race.

2 He rests well pleased their toils to see;
Beneath his easy yoke they move;
With all their heart and strength agree
In the sweet labor of his love.

3 See where the servants of the Lord,
A busy multitude, appear;
For Jesus day and night employed,
His heritage they toil to clear.

4 The love of Christ their hearts constrains,
And strengthens their unwearied hands;
They spend their sweat, and blood, and pains,
To cultivate Immanuel's lands.

5 Jesus their toil delighted sees,
Their industry vouchsafes to crown;
He kindly gives the wished increase,
And sends the promised blessing down.

AUGUSTUS G. SPANGENBERG.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.

Title: God's Husbandry.

This hymn is a part of a poem of thirteen double stanzas, which the author presented to Count Zinzendorf on his birthday, in 1734. John Wesley published his translation of the whole hymn in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

This hymn is made up of the first, third, and the first half of the eighth stanzas.

Wesley wrote the first line of the third verse:

"See where the servants of their God."

This hymn came into the Methodist Episcopal hymn book in one of the editions of the Pocket Hymn Book, between the ninth edition (1788) and the eighteenth edition, (1793.)

Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg lived from 1704 to 1792. In 1722 he entered the University of Jena as a law student, but soon gave up the law for theology. After graduating at Jena, he made the acquaintance of Count Zinzendorf, and in 1735 began his ministry at Herrnhut. Subsequently he did useful work in visiting the churches of the Brethren in England and America. In 1744 he was ordained Bishop in the Moravian Church, at Herrnhut. Spangenberg wrote some theological works, and a few very fine hymns.

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HE Saviour, when to heaven he rose,
In splendid triumph o'er his foes,
Scattered his gifts on men below,
And still his royal bounties flow.

2 Hence sprang the apostles' honored name, Sacred beyond heroic fame:

In humbler forms, before our eyes,
Pastors and teachers hence arise.

3 From Christ they all their gifts derive,
And, fed by Christ, their graces live;
While, guarded by his mighty hand,"
'Midst all the rage of hell they stand.

4 So shall the bright succession run
Through all the courses of the sun;
While unborn churches, by their care,
Shall rise and flourish large and fair.
5 Jesus, now teach our hearts to know
The spring whence all these blessings flow;
Pastors and people shout thy praise,
Through the long round of endless days.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE, ALT.