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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... THE OHUfRCH. THE THRESHOLD. Thou, whom the former precepts havfc Sprinkled and taught, how to behave Thyself in church; approach, and taste The Church's mystical repast. THE ALTAR.t A broken altar, Lord, thy servant rears. Made of a heart, and cemented with tears; Whose parts are as thy hand did frame; No workman's tool hath touched the same. A heart alone Is such a stone, As nothing but Thy pow'r doth cut. Herbert has Superliminare, which means Threshold. + Editor's Note.--Though an altar was a significant and important article of furniture in connection with Jewish worship and sacrifice, and for which there is no use in the Christian Church, the word should not be applied to the communion-table, much less to the chancel or to the communion-rail or balustrade, as it sometimes and unfortunately is in some Protestant Churches, as it also is in the Roman Catholic Church; yet there can be no objection to the significance and use given in this gem of a poem. A modem 'jioet writes, " the mean altar of my heart." Wherefore each part Of my hard heart Meets in this frame, To praise thy name: That, if I chance to hold my peace, These stones to praise thee may not cease. O let thy blessed Sacrifice be mine, And sanctify this Altar to be thine. THE REPRISAL. I have considered it, and find There is no dealing with thy mighty passion; For though I die for thee, I am behind; My sins deserve the condemnation. O make me innocent, that I May give a disentangled state and free; And yet thy wounds still my attempts defy, For by thy death I die for thee. Ah! was it not enough that thou By thy eternal glory did'st outgo me? Couldst thou not grief's sad conquests me allow, But in all vict'ries overthrow me? Yet by confession will I come Into the conquest....