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If your death were his delight,
Would he you to life invite?
Would he ask, obtest, and cry,

Why will you resolve to die?"—Hymn 8.

November 23rd.

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of waters in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.-Isa. xxxii. 2.

"To the haven of thy breast,
O Son of Man, I fly!
Be my refuge and my rest,
For O the storm is high!

Save me from the furious blast;

A covert from the tempest be!
Hide me, Jesus, till o'erpast

The storm of sin I see."-Hymn 292.

November 24th.

But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him he had compassion on him.— Luke x. 33.

"O thou good Samaritan!
In thee is all my hope;
Only thou canst succour man,
And raise the fallen up :
Hearken to my dying cry;

My wounds compassionately see;
Me, a sinner, pass not by,

Who gasp for help to thee."

November 25th.

Hymn 112.

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.-Rom. xiii. 11.

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'Nearer, and nearer still,

We to our country come'
To that celestial hill,

The weary pilgrim's home,

The New Jerusalem above,
The seat of everlasting love."

November 26th.

Hymn 497.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.-Heb. xii. 6.

"Father, if thou must reprove
For all that I have done,
Not in anger, but in love

Chastise thine humbled son;
Use the rod, and not the sword:
Correct with kind severity;
Bring me not to nothing, Lord!
But bring me home to thee."

November 27th.

Hymn 179.

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.— Psalm lxix. 9.

"Enlarge, inflame, and fill my heart With boundless charity divine! So shall I all my strength exert,

And love them with a zeal like thine;

And lead them to thy open side,

The sheep for whom their Shepherd died."

November 28th.

Hymn 433.

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow

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