780 The golden chain.

1 How sweet, how heavenly is the sight,
When those who love the Lord
In one another's peace delight,
And so fulfill his word!

2 When each can feel his brother's sigh, And with him bear a part!

When sorrow flows from eye to eye,
And joy from heart to heart!

3 When, free from envy, scorn, and pride, Our wishes all above,

Each can his brother's failings hide,
And show a brother's love!

4 Let love, in one delightful stream,
Through every bosom flow,
And union sweet, and dear esteem,
In every action glow.

5 Love is the golden chain that binds
The happy souls above;

And he's an heir of heaven who finds
His bosom glow with love.

Stand but in him as those have stood Whose faith the victory won.

4 And when, by turns, we pass away, As star by star grows dim,

May each, translated into day,
Be lost and found in him.

782

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

United-though separate.

1 BLEST be the dear uniting love,
That will not let us part:
Our bodies may far off remove,
We still are one in heart.

2 Joined in one spirit to our Head,
Where he appoints we go;
And still in Jesus' footsteps tread,
And show his praise below.

3 0 may we ever walk in him,
And nothing know beside;
Nothing desire, nothing esteem,
But Jesus crucified.

4 Closer and closer let us cleave
To his beloved embrace;
Expect his fullness to receive,
And grace to answer grace.

5 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.

6 Then let us hasten to the day
Which shall our flesh restore;
When death shall all be done away,
And bodies part no more.

CHARLES WESLEY,

CORNELL.

C. M.

JOHN HENRY CORNELL.

783 Love, the test of discipleship.

1 OUR God is love; and all his saints
His image bear below:
The heart with love to God inspired,
With love to man will glow.

2 Teach us to love each other, Lord,
As we are loved by thee;
None who are truly born of God
Can live in enmity.

3 Heirs of the same immortal bliss,
Our hopes and fears the same,
With bonds of love our hearts unite,
With mutual love inflame.

4 So may the unbelieving world
See how true Christians love;
And glorify our Saviour's grace,
And seek that grace to prove.

Increase our faith, confirm our hope,
And perfect us in love.

5 Up into thee, our living Head,
Let us in all things grow,

Till thou hast made us free indeed,
And spotless here below.

6 Then, when the mighty work is wrought, Receive thy ready bride:

Give us in heaven a happy lot
With all the sanctified.

785

CHARLES WESLEY.

The loadstone of His love.

1 JESUS, united by thy grace,
And each to each endeared,
With confidence we seek thy face,
And know our prayer is heard.
2 Still let us own our common Lord,
And bear thine easy yoke;

A band of love, a threefold cord,
Which never can be broke.

3 Make us into one spirit drink;
Baptize into thy name;

And let us alway kindly think,
And sweetly speak, the same.

Touched by the loadstone of thy love,
Let all our hearts agree,

And ever toward each other move,
And ever move toward thee.

Doxology.

CHARLES WESLEY.

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
The God whom we adore,
Be glory, as it was, is now,
And shall be evermore!

TATE AND BRADY,

HUMMEL.

C. M.

HEINRICH CHRISTOPHER ZEUNER.

786 Rejoicing in hope.

1 LIFT up your hearts to things above, Ye followers of the Lamb,

And join with us to praise his love,
And glorify his name.

2 To Jesus' name give thanks and sing,
Whose mercies never end:
Rejoice! rejoice! the Lord is King;
The King is now our friend!

3 We for his sake count all things loss;
On earthly good look down;
And joyfully sustain the cross,
Till we receive the crown.

4 0 let us stir each other up,

Our faith by works to approve,

By holy, purifying hope,

And the sweet task of love.

5 Let all who for the promise wait,
The Holy Ghost receive;

And, raised to our unsinning state,
With God in Eden live:-

6 Live, till the Lord in glory come,
And wait his heaven to share:
He now is fitting up your home;
Go on, we'll meet you there.

3 Behold the innumerable host
Of angels clothed in light!
Behold the spirits of the just,
Whose faith is turned to sight!

4 Behold the blest assembly there,
Whose names are writ in heaven,
And God, the Judge of all, declare
Their vilest sins forgiven!

5 The saints on earth and all the dead But one communion make;

All join in Christ, their living Head, And of his grace partake.

6 In such society as this

My weary soul would rest:

The man that dwells where Jesus is, Must be forever blest.

1 THE glorious universe around,
The heavens with all their train,
Sun, moon, and stars, are firmly bound
In one mysterious chain.

2 In one fraternal bond of love,
One fellowship of mind,

The saints below and saints above
Their bliss and glory find.

3 Here, in their house of pilgrimage, Thy statutes are their song;

There, through one bright, eternal age,
Thy praises they prolong.

4 Lord, may our union form a part
Of that thrice happy whole;
Derive its pulse from thee, the heart,
Its life from thee, the soul.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.