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JESUS, Son of David, hear,
Thou whom angels glorify,
Bless Thine infant worshipper,
Me who now Hosanna cry.
Hardly understand the word;
Yet I humbly pray for grace;
Teach my heart to call Thee Lord,
Teach my heart to mean Thy praise.
2 Me, they say, Thy hands have made,
Me Thy precious blood hath bought;
But without Thy Spirit's aid

This surpasses all my thought:
Saviour, to my heart explain,
Maker both of earth and sky,
How could God become a man?

How could God for sinners die?
3 Take me young into Thy school;
Me, in my simplicity,
By Thy word and Spirit rule;
Thou my kind Instructor be:
Then I shall my Master prize,
Then I shall my Saviour love,
Till on angels' wings I rise,
Rise, and sing Thy praise above.

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JESUS, Saviour, pity me;

Hear me when I cry to Thee!

I've a very naughty heart,
Full of sin in ev'ry part;
can never make it good;

Wilt Thou wash me in Thy blood?
Jesus, Saviour, pity me:
Hear me when I cry to Thee!

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2 Short has been my pilgrim way,
Yet I'm sinning ev'ry day;
Though I am so young and weak,
Lately taught to run and speak,
Yet in evil I am strong,-
Far from Thee I've lived too long:
Jesus, Saviour, pity me:
Hear me when I cry to Thee!

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HAVE an evil heart within,
A heart that's often prone to sin :
What can a feeble infant do,
His naughty tempers to subdue?
2 This will I do when first I find
An evil thought within my mind,
I'll go to Jesus, and I'll say,

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"Lord take this sinful thought away!" 3 Does not the name of Jesus mean, One that has power to save from sin? O Lamb of God, take mine away, And give me a new heart, I pray!

THE LORD JESUS CHRIST:

HIS LIFE, EXAMPLE, MINISTRY, AND DEATH.

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HRIST is merciful and mild-
He was once a little child;
He whom heavenly hosts adore,
Lived on earth amongst the poor.
2 Thus He laid His glory by,
When for us He stoop'd to die;
How I wonder when I see
His unbounded love to me!

3 He the sick to health restor❜d,
To the poor He preached the word:

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Even children had a share

Of His love and tender care.

4 Every bird can build its nest;
Foxes have their place of rest:
He, by whom the world was made,
Had not where to lay His head.
5 He who is the Lord most high,
Then was poorer far than I:
That I might hereafter be
Rich to all eternity.

WE

WHILE shepherds watched their flocks by night,

All seated on the ground,

The angel of the Lord came down,

And glory shone around.

"Fear not," said he, (for mighty dread

Had seized their troubled mind ;) "Glad tidings of great joy I bring

To you and all mankind.

2" To you, in David's town, this day,
Is born of David's line,

The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord,
And this shall be the sign:

The heavenly Babe you there shall find
To human view displayed,

All meanly wrapt in swathing-bands,
And in a manger laid."

3 Thus spake the Seraph, and forthwith
Appeared a shining throng
Of angels praising God, and thus
Addressed their joyful song:

"All glory be to God on high,

And to the earth be peace;

Goodwill henceforth from heaven to nen

Begin, and never cease.'

JESUS, who lived above the sky,

Came down to be a man, and die;
And in the Bible we may see,
How very good He used to be.

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2 He went about, He was so kind, To cure poor people who were blind; And many who were sick and lame, He pitied them, and did the same. 3 And more than that, He told them, too, The things that God would have them do ; And was so gentle and so mild,

He would have listened to a child.

4 But such a cruel death He died-
He was hung up and crucified !

And those kind hands that did such good,
They nailed them to a cross of wood.

5 And so he died :-and this is why
He came to be a man and die;

The Bible says, He came from heaven, That we might have our sins forgiven. 6 He knew how wicked men had been, And knew that God must punish sin: So, out of pity, Jesus said,

He'd bear the punishment instead.

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HEN mothers of Salem
Their children brought to Jesus,
The stern disciples drove them back,
And bade them depart :

But Jesus saw them, ere they fled,
And sweetly smiled, and kindly said,
"Suffer little Children to come unto Me."

2 For I will receive them,

And fold them to My bosom,
I'll be a Shepherd to these lambs,
O, drive them not away!

And if their hearts to Me they give,
They shall with Me in glory live.
Suffer the children to come unto Me.

3 How kind was our Saviour

To bid those children welcome!
But there are many thousands who
Have never heard His name;
The Bible they have never read,
They know not that the Saviour said,
"Suffer the children to come unto Me."

4 O! soon may the heathen,
Of every tribe and nation,
Fulfil Thy blessed word, and cast
Their idols all away.

O! shine upon them from above,

And show Thyself a God of love:

Teach them, dear Saviour, to come unto Thee.

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THINK, when I read that sweet story of old,

When Jesus dwelt here among men, And call'd little children, as lambs to His fold, I should like to have been with them then. I wish that His hands had been placed on my head,

That His arms had been thrown around me, And that I might have seen His kind look when He said,

"Let the little ones come unto Me."