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His holy life.
And is the gospel peace and love?
Such let our conversation be:
The serpent blended with the dove—
Wisdom and meek simplicity.
2 Whene’er the angry passions rise,
And tempt our thoughts or tongues to strife
On Jesus let us fix our eyes,
Bright pattern of the Christian life.
3 O how benevolent and kind!
How mild! how ready to forgive!
Be his the temper of our mind,
And his the rules by which we live.
4 To do his heavenly Father’s will
Was his employment and delight;
Humility, and love, and zeal,
Shone through his life divinely bright.
5 Dispensing good where’er he came,
The labors of his life were love—
O! if we love the Saviour’s name,
Let his divine example move.
6 But ah! how blind, how weak we are!
How frail, how apt to turn aside!
Lord, we depend upon thy care;
O may thy spirit be our guide!
7 Thy fair example may we trace,
To teach us what we ought to be;
Make us, by thy transforming grace,
Lord Jesus, daily more like thee.
Mrs. Steele.