Title: For Tract Distributors.

The author wrote verse two, line three:

"And where the sons of penury pine."

One stanza, the third of the original, has been omitted:

3" Urge, with a tender zeal,

The erring child along,

Where peaceful congregations kneel,
And pious teachers throng."

This is found in Select Hymns Adapted to the Devotional Exercises of the Baptist Denomination, by James H. Linsley and Gustavus F. Davis, 1836.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 287.

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Attend the trumpet's sound; Stand to your arms, the foe is nigh, The powers of hell surround. Who bow to Christ's command,

Your arms and hearts prepare; The day of battle is at handGo forth to glorious war.

2 See on the mountain-top

The standard of your God; In Jesus' name I lift it up,

All stained with hallowed blood. His standard-bearer, I

To all the nations call:
Let all to Jesus' cross draw nigh;
He bore the cross for all.

3 Go up with Christ your Head;
Your Captain's footsteps see;
Follow your Captain, and be led
To certain victory.

All power to him is given;

He ever reigns the same: Salvation, happiness, and heaven, Are all in Jesus' name.

CHARLES WESLEY.

One of several pieces that the author entitled Hymns for the Watch-night. It contains twelve stanzas. These are the first, second, and fourth, verbatim.

From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

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Courage-victory.

RGE on your rapid course,

URGE

S. M.

Ye blood-besprinkled bands;
The heavenly kingdom suffers force;
'Tis seized by violent hands:
See there the starry crown

That glitters through the skies; Satan, the world, and sin, tread down, And take the glorious prize.

2 Through much distress and pain, Through many a conflict here, Through blood, ye must the entrance gain, Yet, O disdain to fear:

"Courage!" your Captain cries,

Who all your toil foreknew; "Toil ye shall have, yet all despise; I have o'ercome for you."

3 The world cannot withstand
Its ancient Conqueror;

The world must sink beneath the hand
Which arms us for the war:

This is the victory,

Before our faith they fall;

Jesus hath died for you and me;

Believe, and conquer all.

3 The battle soon will yield,
If thou thy part fulfill;
For strong as is the hostile shield,
Thy sword is stronger still.

4 Thine armor is divine,

Thy feet with victory shod; And on thy head shall quickly shine The diadem of God.

LEONARD SWAIN.

Contributed to the Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858. The author's name was omitted at his special request. It has not been altered.

The Rev. Leonard Swain, D.D., was born in Concord, N. H., 1821; was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1841, and completed his theological course at Andover in 1846. Ilis last pastorate was that of the Central Congregational church, Providence, R. I., and continued from 1851 to his death in 1869.

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"I

THE good fight have fought,"
O when shall I declare ?

The victory by my Saviour got,
I long with Paul to share.

2 O may I triumph so,

When all my warfare's past;
And, dying, find my latest foe
Under feet at last!
my

3 This blessed word be mine,
Just as the port is gained,
"Kept by the power of grace divine,
I have the faith maintained."

4 The apostles of my Lord,

To whom it first was given,

They could not speak a greater word, Nor all the saints in heaven.

2 Control my every thought,
My whole of sin remove;
Let all my works in thee be wrought,
Let all be wrought in love.

3 O arm me with the mind,
Meek Lamb, that was in thee;
And let my knowing zeal be joined
With perfect charity.

4 With calm and tempered zeal
Let me enforce thy call;
And vindicate thy gracious will,
Which offers life to all.

5 O may I love like thee;
In all thy footsteps tread;
Thou hatest all iniquity,

But nothing thou hast made.

6 O may I learn the art,

With meekness to reprove;
To hate the sin with all my heart,
But still the sinner love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: The Lord's Controversy.

This hymn is made up of verses two, three, and seven of a long hymn of twenty-six double stan

zas.

The hymn begins with the second stanza of the original, and cannot well be understood without the first.

"O ALL-ATONING Lamb,

O Saviour of mankind,

If every soul may in Thy name
With me salvation find;
If Thou hast chosen me
To testify Thy grace,
(That vast unfathomable sea
Which covers all our race,)

"Equip me for the war," etc.

Charles Wesley had a most intense aversion to the doctrine of unconditional election and reprobation, as taught by many in his day. This is well shown in the eighth stanza of this same composition. He says:

"Increase (if that can be)
The perfect hate I feel
To Satan's HORRIBLE DECREE,
That genuine child of hell;
Which feigns Thee to pass by

The most of Adam's race,

And leave them in their blood to die
Shut out from saving grace."

There is more of the same sort, but this will suffice. Slight verbal changes have been made in three lines.

From Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, 1741.

Believe that Jesus reigns;

All power to him is given: Believe, till freed from sin's remains; Believe yourselves to heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Part second is composed of verses seven_and eight of the same hymn as the preceding. It is written on Eph. vi, 16:

"Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked."

The first line the author wrote:

"But above all, lay hold."

Otherwise it is unaltered.

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PRAY,

THIRD PART.

The well-fought day.

without ceasing pray,

Your Captain gives the word;

His summons cheerfully obey,
And call upon the Lord:

To God your every want

In instant prayer display;

S. M.

Pray always; pray, and never faint;
Pray, without ceasing pray.

2 In fellowship, alone,

To God with faith draw near;

Approach his courts, besiege his throne With all the power of prayer:

His mercy now implore,

And now show forth his praise;
In shouts, or silent awe, adore
His miracles of grace.

3 From strength to strength go on;
Wrestle, and fight, and pray;

Tread all the powers of darkness down, And win the well-fought day:

Still let the Spirit cry

In all his soldiers, "Come!"

Till Christ the Lord descend from high, And take the conquerors home.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is made up of the twelfth, the first half of the thirteenth, the last half of the fourteenth, and the sixteenth stanzas of the original poem, verbatim. It is founded on Eph. vi, 18:

"Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, by Charles Wesley, 1749.

2 Help us, through good report and ill,
Our daily cross to bear;
Like thee, to do our Father's will,
Our brother's grief to share.

3 Let grace our selfishness expel,
Our earthliness refine;

And kindness in our bosoms dwell
As free and true as thine.

4 If joy shall at thy bidding fly,
And grief's dark day come on,
We, in our turn, would meekly cry,
"Father, thy will be done!"

5 Kept peaceful in the midst of strife, Forgiving and forgiven,

O may we lead the pilgrim's life,
And follow thee to heaven!

JOHN H. GURNEY.

4 Then learn to scorn the praise of men, And learn to lose with God;

For Jesus won the world through shame, And beckons thee his road.

FREDERICK W. FABER.

Composed of verses ten to thirteen, inclusive, of a poem of eighteen stanzas. No 596 of this book is a part of the same.

Faber wrote the first word of this hymn in the plural:

"Workmen of God," etc.

From the author's Hymns. London, 1862. For biographical sketch, see No. 125.

Careless through outward care I go, From all distraction free; My hands are but engaged below, My heart is still with thee.

5 O when wilt thou, my life, appear? Then gladly will I cry,

'Tis finished, Lord," and die!

C. M.

CHARLES WESLEY.