3 Teach me then betimes to' obey
Those who under God bear sway;
Masters, Ministers, to love,
All their just commands approve.
4 Let me to my betters bend,
Never wilfully offend;

By my meek submissiveness

Strive both God and them to please.

5 Thy humility impart,

Give me Thy obedient heart,
Free and cheerful to fulfil
All my heavenly Father's will.

6 Keep me thus to God resign'd,
Till His love delights to find,
Fairly copied out in me,

All the mind which was in Thee.

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Sixth Commandment.

C. M.

GOD, the only Source of Life,

May none in malice or in strife
Lift up a murd'rous hand.

2 Let not revenge or hatred swell,
Or in our breast remain;

But there may meek forgiveness dwell,
A gentle spirit reign.

3 And ever, as Thou giv'st us power,
May we the sinking save;

From men avert the fatal hour,
And snatch them from the grave.

Seventh Commandment.

C. M.

1HE Lord is great in majesty,
And holy are His ways;

No unclean soul can shun His eye,
Or stand before His face.

2 'Tis not enough from outward sin
The body is kept free;

The bosom must be pure within,
And clean the heart must be.

3 'Tis not enough the tongue is purged
From filthy words and vile;
No wanton eye or wanton thought
The conscience must defile.

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WH

Eighth Commandment.

87,87.

73.

74.

WHY should I deprive my neighbour
Of his goods against his will ?
Hands were made for honest labour,
Not to plunder or to steal.

2 'Tis a foolish self-deceiving,

By such tricks to hope for gain : All that's ever got by thieving, Turns to sorrow, shame, and pain. 3 Theft will not be always hidden! Though we fancy none can spy; When we take a thing forbidden, God beholds it with His eye.

4 Guard my heart, O God of heaven! Lest I covet what's not mine;

Lest I steal what is not given,

Guard my heart and hands from sin.

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Ninth Commandment.

L. M.

[APPY the well-instructed youth,

Hwho, in his earliest infancy,

Loves from his heart to speak the truth, And, like his God, abhors a lie.

2 He that hath practised no deceit With false, equivocating tongue; Nor ever durst o'erreach or cheat, Or sland'rously his neighbour wrong: 3 He in the house of God shall dwell, He on His holy hill shall rest, The comforts of religion feel,

And then be number'd with the blest. 4 But who or guile or falsehood use,

Or take God's name in vain, or swear, Or ever lie, themselves to' excuse,

They shall their dreadful sentence bear. 5 The Lord, the true and faithful Lord, Himself hath said that Shall surely meet his just reward Assign'd him in eternal fire.

every

liar

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THE

HE liar who the truth denies,
To cover his offence,

And by deceit and falsehood tries
To gain his base pretence:

2 Abhorr'd of all that man shall be,
None shall a liar trust:

His name is stain'd with infamy,
And trampled in the dust!

3 The Lord abhors the lying tongue,
Addicted to defame;

He sees the base deceit and wrong,
And brings the cheat to shame.
4 He will the guilty liar shake
In His most dreadful ire,
And fix his portion in the lake
Of everlasting fire.

Tenth Commandment.

87,87.

77.

1 CHRISTIAN children, high and lowly,
Try like little flowers to be!
Day by day the tall tree-blossom
Gives to God its fragrance free.
2 Day by day the little daisy

Looks up with its yellow eye,
Never murmurs, never wishes
It were hanging up on high.
3 God has given each his station;

Some have riches and high place;
Some have lowly homes and labour,-
All may have His precious Grace.
4 You must be content and quiet,
Your appointed stations in;
For to envy, or to covet

Others' goods, is grievous sin.
5 And the air is just as pleasant,
And as bright the sunny sky,
To the daisy by the footpath,

As to flowers that bloom on high. 6 And God loveth all His children, Rich and poor, and high and low; And they all shall meet in heaven, Who have served Him here below.

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REDEMPTION: PRAISE FOR.

C. M.

JOW sad our state by nature is!

Hussin, how deep it stains I

And Satan binds our captive souls
Fast in his slavish chains.

2 But there's a voice of sovereign grace
Sounds from the sacred Word:
"Ho, ye despairing sinners, come,
And trust upon the Lord!"

3 My soul obeys the' Almighty's call,
And runs to this relief:

I would believe Thy promise, Lord;
O help my unbelief!

4 To the blest fountain of Thy blood,
Incarnate God, I fly:

Here let me wash my spotted soul
From sins of deepest dye.

5 A guilty, weak, and helpless worm,
Into Thy hands I fall;

Be Thou my strength and righteousness,
My Saviour, and my all!

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SAVIOUR from sin, from death, from hell,

Thee, Jesus Christ, with joy we own, The Man who loved our souls so well,

The Father's everlasting Son.

2 Thou, for our sake, a man wast made, The burden of a virgin's womb; Didst live, and suffer in our stead,

And rise triumphant from the tomb.