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Sabbath School Hymn.

1Suppliant, lo! thy children bend,

Father, for thy blessing now;

Thou canst teach us, guide, defend,--

We are weak, almighty thou.

2With the peace thy word imparts,

Be the taught and teacher blest;

In their lives and on their hearts,

Father, be thy laws imprest.

3Pour into each longing mind

Light and knowledge from above:

Charity for all mankind--

Trusting faith, enduring love.

Opening of the School.

1We have met in peace together

In this house of God again;

Constant friends have led us hither,

Here to chant the solemn strain,

Here to breathe our adoration,

Here the Saviour's praise to sing:

May the Spirit of salvation

Come with healing in his wing.

2We have met, and Time is flying;

We shall part, and still his wing,

Sweeping o'er the dead and dying,

Will the changeful seasons bring:

Let us, while our hearts are lightest,

In our fresh and early years,

Turn to Him whose smile is brightest,

And whose grace will calm our fears.

3He will aid us, should existence

With its sorrows sting the breast;

Gleaming in the onward distance,

Faith will mark the land of rest:

There, 'midst day-beams round him playing,

We our Father's face shall see,

And shall hear him gently saying,

"Little children, come to me."