2 Were I inspired to preach and tell
All that is done in heaven and hell,
Or could my faith the world remove,
Still I am nothing without love.
3 Should I distribute all my store
To feed the cravings of the poor,
Or give my body to the flame,
To gain a martyr's glorious name,
4 If love to God and love to men
Be absent, all my hopes are vain ;
Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,
The works of love can e'er fulfil.

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C. M.

Love to God.

WATTS.

1 HAPPY the heart where graces reign,
Where love inspires the breast;
Love is the brightest of the train,
And strengthens all the rest.

2 Knowledge, alas! 'tis all in vain,
And all in vain our fear;

Our stubborn sins will fight and reign,
If love be absent there.

3 This is the grace that lives and sings
When faith and hope shall cease;
'Tis this shall strike our joyful strings
In the sweet realms of bliss.

4 Before we quite forsake our clay,
Or leave this dark abode,

The wings of love bear us away,
To see our smiling God.

1 DO not I love thee, O my Lord?
Behold my heart, and see;

And turn each worthless idol out,
That dares to rival thee.

2 Is not thy name melodious still
To my attentive ear?

DODDRIDGE.

Doth not each pulse with pleasure bound
My Savior's voice to hear?

3 Hast thou a lamb, in all thy flock,
I would disdain to feed?

Hast thou a foe, before whose face
I fear thy cause to plead?

4 Would not my heart pour forth its blood In honor of thy name,

And challenge the cold hand of death
To damp the immortal flame ?

5 Thou know'st I love thee, dearest Lord; But, O, I long to soar

Far from the sphere of mortal joys,
And learn to love thee more.

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L. M.

WATTS.

Love to God and our Neighbor.

1 THUS saith the first, the great command, "Let all thy inward powers unite To love thy Maker and thy God With utmost vigor and delight.

2 "Then shall thy neighbor next in place Share thine affections and esteem; And let thy kindness to thyself

Measure and rule thy love to him."
3 This is the sense that Moses spoke;
This did the prophets preach and prove;
For want of this the law is broke,

And the whole law's fulfilled by love.
4 But, O, how base our passions are!
How cold our charity and zeal!
Lord, fill our souls with heavenly fire,
Or we shall ne'er perform thy will.

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C. M.

Charity.

WATTS.

1 LET Pharisees of high esteem
Their faith and zeal declare,-

All their religion is a dream,
If love be wanting there.

2 Love suffers long with patient eye,
Nor is provoked in haste;
She lets the present injury die,
And long forgets the past.

3 She nor desires nor seeks to know
The scandals of the time,

Nor looks with pride on those below,
Nor envies those that climb.

4 Love is the grace that keeps her power
In all the realms above;

There faith and hope are known no more,
But saints forever love.

Communion of Saints. Ps. 133.

1 BLEST are the sons of peace,

WATTS.

Whose hearts and hopes are one, Whose kind designs to serve and please Through all their actions run.

2 Blest is the pious house

Where zeal and friendship meet; Their songs of praise, their mingled vows, Make their communion sweet.

3 Thus, when on Aaron's head

They poured the rich perfume,
The oil through all his raiment spread,
And pleasure filled the room.

4 Thus, on the heavenly hills,

The saints are blest above,

Where joy like morning dew distils,
And all the air is love.

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S. M.

PRINCE'S N. E. VERS.
OF PSALMS.

Brotherly Love. Ps. 133.

1 BEHOLD, how good it is,

And what a joy to see,

When brethren with each other dwell

In love and unity!

2 'Tis like the precious oil

They poured on Aaron's head,

Which down his hair and garment flowed,
And fragrant odors spread.

3 Or as refreshing dew

On Hermon's mount distils;
Or like the pearly drops that shine
On Zion's joyful hills.

4 For there the Lord commands,

And doth his blessing give
The foretaste of that blessedness
Which shall forever live.

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C. M.

Doddridge.

Christian Sympathy.

1 HAIL, everlasting Prince of Peace!
Hail, Governor divine!

How gracious is thy sceptre's sway!
What gentle laws are thine!

2 His tender heart with love o'erflowed;
Love spoke in every breath;
Vigorous it reigned through all his life,
And triumphed in his death.

3 All these united charms he shows
Our frozen souls to move,

This proof of love to him demands
That we each other love.

4 O, be the sacred law fulfilled
In every act and thought,
Each angry passion far removed,
Each selfish view forgot!

5 Be thou, my heart, dilated wide
By thy Redeemer's grace,
And in one grasp of fervent love
All earth and heaven embrace.