The Nativity.

Hail to the Saviour, descending from Heaven,

To build him a kingdom which never shall cease;
The Child that is born and the Son that is given,
Is God everlasting, the great Prince of Peace.
Praise Him with grateful lays,

Pour forth the soul in praise;
The government rests on His shoulders alone:
In Him the Godhead dwells

Which has subdued the hells;

And God the Creator, as Jesus is known.

True Worship.

TRUE WORSHIP,

THE SACRIFICE OF THE HEART.

How shall we sinners come before*

Our blessed Saviour's dazzling throne;

Or how acceptably adore

The great redeeming God we own?

Shall fatlings on His altar burn,

Or oil in bounteous rivers flow?
Will God be pleased with such return,
For all the mighty debt we owe?

Or shall we burst the tenderest tie
That binds the throbbing seat of sense,
And with our body's offspring buy,
A pardon for our soul's offence?

*Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old? Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath showed thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah vi. 6 to 8.

True Worship.

Ah! no-a humble, contrite heart,
Is all the offering God requires ;
Our only sacrifice, to part

With evil loves and false desires.

O let us, then, no longer stray

Along the dangerous paths we've trod; For he has plainly show'd the way Which will conduct us back to God.

'Tis but to regulate the mind

By the pure precepts of His word; To act with truth and love combined, And humbly imitate the Lord.

True Worship.

SEEK YE THE LORD.

Ye sons of men, come, seek the Lord,
While yet He may be found ;*
He'll meet you in His holy word,
Where love and truth abound.

Call on Him while He yet is near
To hear a sinner's call;
A humble penitential tear
Will never vainly fall.

Let man forsake the sinner's road,
Discard each vicious thought,

Return to Jesus, as his God,
And be by Jesus taught;

Then will the Lord his mercy

His pardon freely give;

show ;

Then man his only good will know,
And in that knowledge live.

* Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mer. ey upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Isa. lv. 6, 7.

True Worship.

Ah! no-a humble, contrite heart,
Is all the offering God requires ;
Our only sacrifice, to part

With evil loves and false desires.

O let us, then, no longer stray
Along the dangerous paths we've trod;
For he has plainly show'd the way
Which will conduct us back to God.

'Tis but to regulate the mind

By the pure precepts of His word; To act with truth and love combined, And humbly imitate the Lord.

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