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6 Then gave he gems of hope to shine Around this goblet's brim:

Then dropp'd a pearl into this wine,-
THE MEMORY OF HIM.

HYMN XI. L. M.

1 OUR Father! we approach thy board As children, that would be forgiven; Rememb❜ring him, thy Son, who pour'd

His blood, to seal our hope of heaven.

2 O God, our Saviour! while we thus Remember him who made us free, Who agonized and died for us,

Our grateful hearts would rise to thee.

3 In him, whose bursting heart the cloud
Of sorrow chilled, and wretchedness;
In him, whose fainting head was bowed
In his unspeakable distress ;

4 O listen to our fervent prayer;
That he who hung on Calvary's hill,
And gave thee back his spirit there,
May live in our affections still.

HYMN XII. L. M.

1 His hour had come !—and darkness roll'd Across the ocean's heaving waves:

Earth shook ;-the dead came forth, and told The secrets of their shuddering graves.

2 His hour had come! and forth there strode
Ten thousand cloud-borne cherubim,
Who hung beneath their bright abode,
On countless wings to welcome him.

3 Archangels rode the winds :—and through Yon vault, that swells to endless day, And rolls in everlasting blue,

They bore his spotless soul away.

4 The wreathed thorns no longer press

His reverend head: but, rob'd in light, And thron'd in power, he sits to bless The observers of this sacred rite.

HYMN XIII. C. M.

1 ART thou unhappy ?-in thy grief
Recall the sorrows Jesus bore:

And are thy joys but few and brief?
Remember him, and weep no more.

2 The blooms of friendship death will blight:
But, when the gathering clouds combine,
Let faith their summits gild with light,
And check the tear that dares repine.

3 When flatteries soothe, and hopes allure,
And pleasures woo with Siren tone,
Like him unmov'd the test endure,
And bow thy heart to God alone.

4 When foes assail, or friends betray,
Of hatred, of revenge beware:
With kindness all their wrongs repay:

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Father, forgive them :" be thy prayer.

5 Remember Jesus: how he bore

Affliction's weight, temptation's power: Remember Jesus' life: and more :Remember Jesus' dying hour.

HYMN XIV. S. M.

God glorified in the death of his Son.

1 "On the dreadful moments roll When my foes attain the power; Deep distress o'erwhelms my soul, Father, save me from this hour!

2 "Save me, for the cross appears;
I must suffer, I must die.
God, behold my flowing tears,
Hear my supplicating cry!

3 "Save me- -But I plead in vain,
For thy Son is doomed to death;
Mid contempt, reproach, and pain,
I resign to thee my breath.

4 "Thou art just, and I obey;

Father, glorify thy name."Thus to God did Jesus pray; Then a voice in thunder came:

5 "God has glory in his Son,

When his precious blood is shed;

Glory in the conquest won,

When he rises from the dead."

HYMN XV. L.M.

The earthquake at the death of Jesus.

1 "My God, the mighty work is done;
Receive the spirit of thy Son!"

Loud from the cross the Saviour cries,
Then humbly bows his head and dies.

2 The temple shudders at the sound;
With horror quakes the conscious ground;
The shock awakes the sleeping dead;
The sun in terror hides his head.

3 And nature sympathizing feels,
While earth's eternal basis reels,
And rocks are rent, and mountains nod,
Around the expiring Son of God.

HYMN XVI. L. M.

1 THY majesty, O God, appears
In those stupendous orbs of light,
Which, rolling in harmonious spheres,
Adorn the day or crown the night.

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