4 All sin and sorrow from each heart, Shall then forever fly;
Nor shall a thought that we must part, Once interrupt our joy.
HYMN 533. S. M.
1 LEST be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds,
Is like to that above.
2 Before our Father's throne
We pour our ardent pray'rs;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares,
3 We share our mutual woes;
Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.
4 When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be join'd in heart,
And hope to meet again.
5 This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way;
While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.
6 From sorrow, toil and pain,
And sin, we shall be free;
And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity.
THRO Christ when we together came
In singleness of heart,
We met, O Jesus, in thy name;
And in thy name we part.
2 We part in body, not in mind,
Our minds continue one;
And each to each, in Jesus join'd,
We happily go on.
3 Present in spirit still we are,
And intimately nigh;
While on the wings of faith and pray'r
We Abba, Father! cry.
4 Oh, may thy Spirit, dearest Lord,
In all our travels still
Direct and be our constant guard
To Zion's holy hill.
5 Oh! what a joyful meeting there,
Beyond these changing shades;
White are the robes we then shall wear,
And crowns upon our heads.
6 Haste, Lord, and bring us to the day
When we shall dwell at home;
Come, O Redeemer, come away;
O Jesus, quickly come.
HYMN 535. L. M. H. K. WHITE.
COME, christian brethren!ere we part
Join every voice and every heart,
One solemn hymn to God we raise,
One final song of grateful praise.
2 Christians, we here may meet no more,
But there is yet a happier shore;
And there, releas'd from toil and pain,
Dear brethren, we shall meet again.
LEST be the dear, uniting love,
That will not let us parti
Our bodies may far off remove-
We still are one in heart.
2 Join'd in one Spirit to our Head,
Where he appoints we go;
And still in Jesus' footsteps tread,
And show his praise below.
3 Partakers of the Saviour's grace,
The same in mind and heart,
Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
Nor life, nor death can part.
4 But let us hasten to the day,
Which shall our flesh restore ; When death-shall all be done away, And christians part no more!
FAREWELL, dear friends, a short farewell,
Till we shall meet again above In the sweet groves where pleasures dwell, And trees of life bear fruits of love.
2 There glory sits on ev'ry face ;There friendship smiles in ev'ry eye; There shall our tongues proclaim the
That led us homeward to the sky.
HYMN 538. с. м.
OME, let us now forget our mirth,
And think that we must die;
What are our best delights on earth,
Compar'd with those on high !
2 Our pleasures here will soon be past-
Our brightest joys decay;
But pleasures there forever last,
And cannot fade away.
3 Here sins and sorrows we deplore,
With many cares distrest,
But there the mourners weep no more,
And there the weary rest.
4 Our dearest friends, when death shall call,
At once must hence depart;
But there we hope to meet them all,
And never, never part.
5 Then let us love and serve the Lord,
With all our youthful pow'rs;
And we shall gain this great reward,
This glory shall be ours.
thy morning;-flattering hope
Thy sprightly step attends;
But soon the tempest howls behind,
And the dark night descends!
2 Before its splendid hour, the cloud
Comes o'er the beam of light;
A pilgrim in a weary land,
Man tarries but a night!
3 Determin'd are the days that fly
Successive o'er thy head;
The number'd hour is on the wing,
That lays thee with the dead.
HYMN 540. S. M.
1 Chron. xxviii. 9.
Mother to the
Y son, know thou the Lord,
Seek his protecting care by night,
His guardian hand by day.
2 Call, while he may be found,
And seek him while he's near;
Serve him with all thy heart and mind,
And worship him with fear.
3 If thou wilt seek his face,
His ear will hear thy cry;
Then shalt thou find his mercy sure,
His grace forever nigh.
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