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CHURCH MEETINGS.
The women were fearful of nothing but sin.
Their hearts were all cheerful, their con­
sciences clean.
6 Wrapt up in the Lord, his service and love,
They lived and adored like angels above;
And blest with his presence, their lives they
laid down,
And now with their Saviour inherit the
crown.
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Desiriny to live over jtrhnitive days.
1 /A WHERE are the men with virtue en-
dowed
To live as did then the servants of God ?
The ancient example who show us again,
Corageous to trample on pleasure and pain?
2 O Jesus, on us the blessings bestow,
We little ones choose thy glories to show ;
In this generation thy witnesses raise,
The heirs of salvation, the vessels of grace
3 Accept our desire, and give us thy love,
Thy children inspire with faith from above
Purge out the old leaven and early convert,
And open a heaven of grace in our heart.
4 Begotten again and principled right,
Good works to maintain and walk in thy
light;
We then shall recover that vigor of grace
And gladly live over those primitive days’
5 Our moments below shall pleasantly glide
While nothing we know but Christ cruci­
fied ;
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