3 What strange, surprising grace is this, 4 Ye saints below, and hosts above! 482. C. M. The triumphal Feast. 1 COME, let us lift our voices high,- And join the songs above the sky, 2 Jesus, our God, invites us here, And brings immortal blessings down 3 Victorious God! what can we pay We would devote our hearts away, 4 We give thee, Lord! our highest praise- 483. C. M. The Gospel-Feast. 1 HOW sweet and awful is the place, With Christ within the doorsWhile everlasting love displays The choicest of her stores! 2 While all our hearts, and all our songs, Join to admire the feast; Each of us cry, with thankful tongues,"Lord! why was I a guest? 3 "Why was I made to hear thy voice, When thousands make a wretched choice, 4 "I was the same love that spread the feast, 5 Pity the nations, O our God! 6 We long to see thy churches full, May, with one voice, and heart, and soul, 484. C. M. Remembering Christ. 1 IF human kindness meets return If tender thoughts within us burn, 2 Oh! shall not warmer accents tell To him, who died, our fears to quell- 3 While yet his anguished soul surveyed What love his latest words displayed,- 4 Remember thee-thy death, thy shame, O mem'ry! leave no other name 1 FAR from my thoughts, vain world! be gone, Let my religious hours alone: Fain would mine eyes my Saviour see;- 2 My heart grows warm with holy fire, 3 Blest Saviour! what delicious fare- 486. C. M. 1 ACCORDING to thy gracious word,— This will I do, my dying Lord! 2 Thy body, broken for my sake, 3 Gethsemane can I forget? Or there thy conflict see,- 4 When to the cross I turn mine eyes, O Lamb of God, my sacrifice! I must remember thee : 5 Remember thee, and all thy pains, Yea, while a breath, a pulse remains, 6 And when these failing lips grow dumb, And mind and mem'ry flee; When, in thy kingdom, thou shalt come→ 487. SABBATH. 78. The Sabbath in the Sanctuary. 1 SAFELY through another week, God has brought us on our way;Let us now a blessing seek, Waiting in his courts to-day: 2 While we seek supplies of grace, Through the dear Redeemer's name, Show thy reconciled face, Take away our sin and shame; 3 Here we come thy name to praise; 4 May the gospel's joyful sound 488. The Lord's Day and public Worship. 2 The king himself comes near, 3 One day, amidst the place Where my dear God hath been, Is sweeter than ten thousand days, 4 My willing soul would stay, 489. H. M. Sabbath Morning. 1 WELCOME-delightful morn, Thou day of sacred rest! I hail thy kind return ; Lord! make these moments blest; And fill his throne of grace; While saints address thy face: 3 Descend, celestial Dove! With all thy quickening powers; And bless the sacred hours; 490. C. M. Dawn of the Sabbath. 1 AGAIN, the Lord of life and light Dispels the darkness of the night, 2 Oh! what a night was that which wrapt A sinful world in gloom! Oh! what a sun, which broke this day, 3 This day be grateful homage paid, Let gladness dwell in every heart, |