The Inextinguishable Blaze {Charles Wesley}

O Thou Who camest from above,
The pure celestial fire to impart,
Kindle a flame of sacred love
Upon the mean altar of my heart.

There let it for Thy glory burn
With inextinguishable blaze,
And trembling to its source return,
In humble prayer and fervent praise.

Jesus, confirm my heart’s desire
To work and speak and think for Thee;
Still let me guard the [...]

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Remain in Your Place {Sanborn}

If you’re discontented and unhappy
And your place and purpose grows dim,
There is always a ship at Joppa
If you don’t want to stay and win.

If you turn from the task of the present
To follow a beckoning star,
There is always a ship at Joppa
To take you from where you are.

But you’ll miss the blessing He gives you
If [...]

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Death Defeated {Bishop Taylor}

Death, the old serpent’s son,Thou hadst a sting once, like thy sire,
That carried hell and ever burning fire;
But those black days are done;
Thy foolish spite buried thy sting
In the profound and wide
Wound of our Saviour’s side;
And now thou art become a tame and harmless thing;
A thing we dare not fear,
Since we hear
That our triumphant God, [...]

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Freedom {Templin}

Within a well-made pasture fence
From cool shade of a tree,
Two horses viewed the world outside
And longed to be set free.
They did not realize the fence
Secured their freedom right
To eat, to drink, to rest, to run,
To their young hearts’ delight.
With wild abandonment they ran
Into the countryside,
Excited by the strange new sights
The pasture fence denied.
Before the evening [...]

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God Give Us Men {Babcock}

God give us men the time demands;
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, willing hands.
Men whom the lust of office does not kill,
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy,
Men who possess convictions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie.
Men who can stand before a demagogue,
And condemn his treacherous flatteries without winking:
Tall [...]

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The Four Calls {unknown}

The Spirit came in CHILDHOOD,
And pleaded, “Let me in.”
But oh! the door was bolted
By thoughtlessness and sin,
“I am too young,” the child replied,
“I will not yield today.
There’s time enough tomorrow.”
The Spirit went away.
Again He came and pleaded,
In YOUTH’S bright happy hour.
He came, but heard no answer,
For lured by Satan’s power,
The youth lay dreaming then,
And saying, [...]

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More Like Jesus Would I Be {Fanny Crosby}

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live;
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:
and the life which I now live in the flesh
I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20
 
More like Jesus when I pray,
more like Jesus day by day,
May I rest me by [...]

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