Humility in service

Fill me with an over-flowing ocean of compassion,
the reign of love my motive,
the law of love my rule.

Things needful

Fill the garden of my soul with the wind of love,
that the scents of the Christian life may be
wafted to others;
then come and gather fruits to thy glory.
So shall I fulfil the great end of my being –
to glorify thee and be a blessing to men.

Service and equipment

Fit me to pray with a sense of joy
of divine communion,
to find happy seasons to me soul,
to see my own nothingness,
and wonder that I am allowed to serve thee.

God's cause

To the eye of reason everything respecting
the conversion of others is as dark as midnight,
But thou canst accomplish great things;
the cause is thine,
and it is to thy glory that men should be saved.

Sincerity

May I learn the holy art of abiding in thee,
of being in the world and not of it,
of making everything not only consistent with
but conducive to my religion.

Calvary's Anthem

The blood of the Lamb is like a great river;
of infinite grace
with never any diminishing of its fullness
as thirsty ones without number drink of it.

The Grace of the Cross

O my Lord and Saviour,

Thou hast also appointed a cross for me
to take up and carry,
a cross before thou givest me a crown.

Thou hast appointed it to be my portion,
but self-love hates it,
carnal reason is unreconciled to it;
without the grace of patience I cannot bear it,
walk with it, profit by it.

O blessed cross, what mercies dost thou bring with thee?

Thou art only esteemed hateful by my rebel will,
heavy because I shirk my load.

Teach me Lord and Saviour,
that with my cross thou sendest promised grace
so that I may bear it patiently,
that my cross is thy yoke which is easy,
and thy burden which is light.

Grace in Trials

Thou hast disarmed me of the means
in which I trusted,
and I have no strength but in thee.
Thou alone can hold back my evil ways,
but without thy grace to sustain me I fall.
Satan’s darts quickly enflame me,
and the shield that should quench them
easily drops from my hand:
Empower me against his wiles and assaults.
Keep me sensible of my weakness,
and of my dependence upon thy strength.

Truth in Jesus

Teach me that Christ cannot be the way
if I am the end,
the he cannot be Redeemer
if I am my own saviour,
that there can be no true union with him
while the creature has my heart,
that faith accepts him as Redeemer and Lord
or not at all.

Vocation

I am a tree of the vineyard thou hast planted,
Grant me not to be barren, with worthless,
leaves and wild grapes;
Prune me of useless branches;
Water me with dews of blessing.

Happiness

Teach me that there is no greater truth than this,
that in myself I can do nothing.

Fullness

Help me to know that he hopes for nothing
but thee,
and for all things only in thee, hopes truly,
and that I musy place all my happiness in holiness,
if I hope to be filled with all grace.

Sleep

Help me when I sleepless lie,
when my conscience accuses me of sin,
when my mind is harassed by foreboding
thoughts,
when my eyes are held awake by personal
anxieties.

Repose

Keep my wishes from growing into willings,
my willings from become fault-finding
with thy providences,
and have mercy on me.

Contentment

...in myself I am a dying, condemned wretch,
but in Christ I am reconciled and live;
in myself I find insufficiency and no rest,
but in Christ there is satisfaction and peace;
that in myself I am feeble and unable to do good,
but in Christ I have the ability to do all things.

Love

Lord Jesus ...
Love brought thee from heaven to earth,
from earth to the cross,
from the cross to the grave.

Faith

When faith sleeps, my heart becomes
an unclean thing,
the fount of every loathsome desire,
the cage of unclean lusts
all fluttering to escape,
the noxious fruit,
the open wayside of earthly tares.

Lord, awake faith to put forth its strength
until all heaven fills my soul
and all impurity is cast out.