Which in Heaven's sight He did present O happy pledge of pardon sure, Lord, raise our sinking minds therefore, To fit us for those regions clear. That when He shall return again And so may mount to His bright hosts Henry Moore LI НЕ CHRIST OUR GOD E, who on earth as man was known, And bore our sins and pains, Now, seated on the eternal Throne, The God of Glory reigns. His hands the wheels of Nature guide And countless worlds, extended wide, Obey His sovereign will. While harps unnumbered sound His praise In yonder world above, And glory in His love. His righteousness, to faith revealed, This land through which His pilgrims go, Is desolate and dry; But streams of grace from Him o'erflow, Their thirst to satisfy. When troubles, like a burning sun, Beat heavy on their head, To this Almighty Rock they run, And find a pleasing shade. How glorious He! how happy they In such a glorious Friend! Whose love secures them all the way, And crowns them at the end. LII 7. Newton W THE MEDIATOR HERE high the heavenly temple stands, A great High Priest our nature wears, He who for man in mercy stood, Though now ascended up on high, Our fellow-sufferer yet retains In every pang that rends the heart He sympathises in our grief, And to the sufferer sends relief. With boldness, therefore, at the throne, III THE WRITTEN WORD LIII THE BIBLE DIM as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers Is reason to the soul and as on high, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, LIV THE GOSPELS ND so the Word had breath, and wrought AND so the Word had heereed of creeds, In loveliness of perfect deeds, Which he may read that binds the sheaf, And those wild eyes that watch the wave A. Tennyson |