[SUNDAY MORNING HYMN.]
Ye are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
1 St. Pet. ii. 5.
Encumber’d heart! lay by thy sorrow,
My head! be thou no longer bowed,
For yonder dawns the welcome morrow,
Which God for rest to man allowed;
Which God for rest to man commended,
That rest Himself had sanctified.
Rise up! much time thou’st misapplied,
For God’s own sacred work intended.