Love divine, all love excelling,
  Joy of heaven, to earth come down;
Fix in us thy humble dwelling;
  All thy faithful mercies crown;
Jesus, thou art all compassion;
  Pure, unbounded love thou art;
Visit us with thy salvation;
  Enter every trembling heart.

2 Breathe, oh, breathe thy Holy Spirit
  Into every troubled breast,
Let us all thy grace inherit;
  Let us find thy promised rest;
Take away the love of sinning;
  Take our load of guilt away;
End the work of thy beginning;
  Bring us to eternal day.

3 Carry on thy new creation;
  Pure and holy may we be;
Let us see our whole salvation
  Perfectly secured by thee: 
Change from glory into glory,
  Till in heaven we take our place,
Till we cast our crowns before thee,
  Lost in wonder, love, and praise.

     Charles Wesley, 1747.

268 Autumn. 8s & 7s.  Double.

Union with Jesus. (700)

In thy service will I ever,
  Jesus, my Redeemer, stay;
Nothing me from thee shall sever,
  Gladly would I go thy way. 
Yes, Lord Jesus, I am ever
  Thine in sorrow and in joy;
Death the union shall not sever,
  Nor eternity destroy.

2 Let thy light on me be shining
  When the day is almost gone,
When the evening is declining,
  And the night is drawing on: 
Bless me, oh, my Savior! laying
  Thy hands on my weary head;
“Here thy day is ended,” saying,
  “Yonder live the faithful dead.”

3 Stay beside me, when the stillness
  And the icy touch of death
Fill my trembling soul with chillness,
  Like the morning’s frosty breath;
As my failing eyes grow dimmer,
  Let my spirit grow more bright,
As I see the first faint glimmer
  Of the everlasting light.

     P. Spitta, 1833.

269 Even Me. 8s & 7s.

Pass Me Not. (523)

Lord!  I hear of showers of blessing,
  Thou art scattering, broad and free;
Showers, the thirsty land refreshing;
  Let their fullness fall on me.

Ref.—­Even me, even me,
      Let their fullness fall on me.

2 Pass me not, oh, gracious Father! 
  Sinful, though my heart may be;
Thou might’st curse me, but the rather
  Let thy mercy fall on me.

3 Pass me not, oh, tender Savior! 
  Let me love and cling to thee;
I am longing for thy favor;
  When thou comest, call for me.

4 Pass me not, oh, mighty Spirit! 
  Thou canst make the blind to see;
Witnesser of Jesus’ merit,
  Speak the word of power to me.

5 Have I long in sin been sleeping,
  Long been slighting, grieving thee? 
Has the world my heart been keeping? 
  Oh! forgive and rescue me.

6 Love of God, so pure and changeless,—­
  Blood of God, so rich and free,—­
Grace of God, so strong and boundless,—­
  Magnify them all in me.