 | A book of hymns for public and private devotion |  |
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ORDINATION.
1
Christ to the young man said: “Yet one thing more,If thou wouldst perfect be;
Sell all thou hast and give it to the poor,
And come and follow me!”
2
Within this temple, Christ again, unseen,Those sacred words has said;
And his invisible hands to-day have been
Laid on a young man's head.
3
And evermore beside him on his way,The unseen Christ shall move,
That he may lean upon his arm and say,
“Dost thou, dear Lord, approve?”
4
Beside him at the marriage feast shall be,To make the scene more fair;
Beside him in the dark Gethsemane
Of pain and midnight prayer.
5
O holy trust! O endless sense of rest!Like the beloved John,
To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast,
And thus to journey on!
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