The Book of Praise for Children.

PART I.-PRAISE.

I.

SING them, my children, sing them still
Those sweet and holy songs!
Oh! let the psalms of Zion's hill
Be heard from youthful tongues.

Oh! sing them at the cheerful dawn,
The rising morn to cheer;

And sing them round the evening hearth,
When fires are blazing clear.

Sing them when Sabbath schools are met,
And your young voices raise
Their Sabbath evening melodies,
To their Redeemer's praise.

So shall each unforgotten word,
When distant far you roam,

Call back your hearts when once it stirred,
To childhood's blessed home.

II.

COME, let us join the hosts above,
Now in our youngest days;
Remember our Creator's love,
And sing our Father's praise.

His majesty will not despise
. The day of feeble things;
Grateful the songs of children rise,
And please the King of kings.

He loves to be remembered thus,
And honoured for His grace;
Out of the mouths of babes like us
His wisdom perfects praise.

Glory to God, and praise and power,
Honour and thanks be given;

Children and cherubim adore

The Lord of earth and heaven.

Charles Wesley, M.A.

III,

DAY by day we magnify Thee

When our hymns in school we raise;

Daily work begun and ended

With the daily voice of praise.