I had none to save me, I am lost without Thee; May I see Thee bleeding Teach me to confess See me humbly kneeling; O'er me from above, With a holy fear, In each sore temptation Be my strength in weakness, Come, with Thine own meek- Quieting my life. Bring Thy comfort near; Where Thy steps are seen. Hold me fast, and guide me I shall never stray. To the Heavenly shore; I with Thee may share. Day by day prepare me, As Thou seest best, To Thy promised rest. From my mortal sight, When the world for ever Bring me where I never How can I seek Thy Presence, My Father, I have learned that only Thou Canst help me from Thy store of love divine. Thou art my only hope: I have no claim Upon Thy mercy; I am so defiled: But I will dare to call Thee I am a prodigal, but still My Father, I have sinned, and How can I hope that Thou wilt pardon me? Thou knowest all the paths of I sin I trod, In my long wandering away How can I meet Thine eye, All covered as I am with I was Thy child, Thou madest me Thine own, The holy sign was marked upon my brow; By daily gifts Thy love to me I In bitter shame, and all my sin deplore; only long to serve Thee till I die, And never leave Thee, never pain Thee more. know Thy love will follow to the last Thy children who have wandered far away. Thy love has taught me now to hate the past, And in my shame it teaches me to pray. My Father, for the sake of Pardon me-wash me clean And let me never wander from Thy side, Or fail in faithfulness and love again. T. B. P. Before the door of every heart Oppressed with sin and care, A loving Saviour stands and | Holy JESU! I have crowned And gently knocketh on. The frost has chilled those bleeding wounds, Thee With a crown of piercing thorn, And have stood with those around Thee, Who have loaded Thee with scorn. Oh! how oft with sin I've That tell us of His Love,-Up dark Calvary's hill I've All borne that we might dwell with Him In happy homes above. How weary are those tender feet, How sad that loving face, How numbed those hands that long to clasp Us in a fond embrace! O heart of mine, and can'st thou bid urged Thee To Thy death of deep disgrace. I have nailed Thee, faint and bleeding, To the tree, the shameful tree, All Thy pangs and woes unheeding, Pitying not Thy misery. I have made the blood flow streaming From Thy sacred hands and feet; Not one act of love redeeming All my cruelty complete. JESU! grant me true contri tion By Thy Cross, Thy bitter Pas- | Light where the path is sha sion, By Thy suff'rings all for me, By Thy great, Thy sweet compassion, Hear, O LORD, my Litany. Saviour most loving, bending before Thee, Sinful and mourning, Thy mercy we crave; Leave us not hopeless, LORD we implore Thee, Thou hast redeemed us, O hear and save. dowed and dreary, Friend of the hearts that in loneliness pine; Help of the poor, and strength of the weary, Where is the love that is LORD, Thou dost love us, for Fountain, where sinners find LORD, we would trust Theo, ever flowing Streams that wash all their defilement away; doubting Thee never ; Help us in faith on Thy Word to recline: To those pure waters thank- LORD, we would love Thee; fully going, We would for mercy and cleansing pray. Gentle physician, mortal ills healing, Bending in love o'er each sin-stricken soul; Come, all Thy care and goodness revealing, Strengthen our weakness and make us whole. Shepherd most careful, warn us when straying, Guide us in paths where Thine own feet have trod; Led by Thy call, Thy dear voice obeying, Bring us in peace to the fold of GOD. keep us for ever Near to that tenderest heart PART III.-HOLY COMMUNION. "Arise, O LORD GOD, into Thy Resting-place."-2 Chronicles vi. 41. 39. GOING TO CHURCH. Many people think that they need not go to Church. They sit at home, and perhaps read a little in their Bibles. This, they tell us, is all that GOD asks from them. This is a great sin. For, you know, we are not saved by going straight to GOD the Father. JESUS CHRIST says, We You will find the Services of the Church in your Prayer Book. Morning Prayer or Mattins, Litany, and Evening Prayer or Evensong, are the "No man cometh unto the chief services that are in conFather, but by Me." stant use. Most of the Prayers must come to JESUS, or we and portions of Holy Scripneed not try to come at all. ture in them have been in the And JESUS has told us how Church Services for many to come to Him. We "must hundred years. It is a very be born again" of water and good thing for you to go to of the Spirit. It is only as Church and join in the prayers, members of His Church that as often as you can-and that the LORD JESUS CHRIST renot on Sundays only, but on ceives us. When we are bap-week-days too. Take care to tized into the Church of CHRIST, then CHRIST Owns us as His people. It is very plain that we must act like members of CHRIST'S Church, or we lose the blessings we have got by being born into it. Even though there were no special blessings to be got at Church, we would lose our place in the Church of CHRIST, if we never came to claim it. Keep in mind those words of D join in the service with your heart and your lips. [Prayers before and after Service, p. 80.] Divine Service. Only one of the Services used at Church has GOD as its author, and is in this sense Divine. The Sacrament of the Altar was ordained by the LORD JESUS CHRIST Himself. He did not appoint any other Service. He gave us one |