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The Redeemer's triumphant reign.
THOU whom we adore,

To bless our earth again,
Assume thine own almighty power,
And o'er the nations reign.
The world's Desire and Hope,
All power to thee is given;
Now set the last great empire up,
Eternal Lord of heaven.

2 Where all thy laws are spurn'd,
Thy holy name profaned,

And where the ruin'd world has mourn'd, With blood of millions stain'd:

Reveal the glorious scene;

The heathen claim for thine;

And there the endless reign begin
With majesty divine.

3 A gracious Saviour, thou

Wilt all thy creatures bless; And every knee to thee shall bow,

And every tongue confess.

According to thy word,

Now be thy grace reveal'd;

And with the knowledge of the Lord,
Let all the earth be fill'd.

990

Missionary meeting.

L. M.

ASSEMBLED at thy great command,
Before thy face, dread King, we stand
The voice that marshall'd every star,
Has call'd thy people from afar.

2 We meet through distant lands to spread The truth for which the martyrs bled;

Along the line-to either pole

The anthem of thy praise to roll.

3 Our prayers assist; accept our praise;
Our hopes revive; our courage raise;
Our counsels aid;-to each impart
The single eye, the faithful heart.
4 Forth with thy chosen heralds come;
Recall the wand'ring spirits home;
From Zion's mount send forth the sound,
To spread the spacious earth around.

991

S. M.

God's wondrous way among the heathen.

To bless thy chosen race,

Tin mercy, Lord, incline;

And cause the brightness of thy face
On all thy saints to shine;-

2 That so thy wondrous way
May through the world be known;
While distant lands their homage pay,
And thy salvation own.

8 Let all the nations join

To celebrate thy fame;

And all the world, O Lord, combine
To praise thy glorious Name.

992

L. M.

Light for those who sit in darkness. THOUGH now the nations sit beneath

THOUGHT nows of P'erspreading death;
God will arise with light divine,
On Zion's holy towers to shine.

2 That light shall shine on distant lands,
And wand'ring tribes, in joyful bands,
Shall come, thy glory, Lord, to see,
And in thy courts to worship thee.
3 O light of Zion, now arise!
Let the glad morning bless our eyes;
Ye nations, catch the kindling ray,
And hail the splendours of the day.

993

3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 88.

One shall chase a thousand.

SAVIOUR, we know thou art
In every age the same:
Now, Lord, in ours exert

The virtue of thy Name,
And daily, through thy word, increase
Thy blood-besprinkled witnesses.

2 As thy command ordains,
Thy people, saved below
From all their sinful stains,
Shall multiply and grow;
And one into a thousand rise,

To spread thy praise through earth and skies.

994

The glorious Gospel.

THE nations of the earth,

Almighty Lord, are thine;

S. M.

And in thy works, from nature's birth,
Thy radiant glories shine.

2 Thy love hath also sent
Thy gospel to our race;
Unveiling thy divine intent
Of rich redeeming grace.

3 When shall these tidings roll
The spacious earth around,
And every tribe and every soul
Receive the joyful sound?

4 When shall the wand'rers meet,
That now in darkness rove,

And, gather'd round Immanuel's feet,
Sing of his saving love!

O Lord, our efforts own,
To spread the gospel rays;

And rear, on sin's demolish'd throne,

The temples of thy praise.

995

Triumphs of mercy.

ARM of the Lord, awake, awake!

L. M.

Put on thy strength-the nations shake, And let the world, adoring, see Triumphs of mercy wrought by thee.

2 Say to the heathen, from thy throne,
I am Jehovah-God alone:

Thy voice their idols shall confound,
And cast their altars to the ground.
3 No more let creature blood be spilt-
Vain sacrifice for human guilt!

But to each conscience be applied
The blood that flow'd from Jesus' side.

4 Almighty God, thy grace proclaim,
In every land, of every name;

Let adverse powers before thee fall,
And crown the Saviour Lord of all.

996

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Christ's universal reign.

ASTEN, Lord, the glorious time,
When, beneath Messiah's sway,

Every nation, every clime,

Shall the gospel call obey.

2 Mightiest kings his power shall own; Heathen tribes his Name adore; Satan and his host, o'erthrown,

Bound in chains, shall hurt no more.
8 Then shall wars and tumults cease;
Then be banish'd grief and pain;
Righteousness, and joy, and peace,
Undisturb'd, shall ever reign.

4 Bless we, then, our gracious Lord;
Ever praise his glorious Name;
All his mighty acts record,

All his wondrous love proclaim.

997

The time to favour Zion.

L. M..

NOV'REIGN of worlds! display thy power; So is the worldavy

Bid the bright morning star arise,
And point the natious to the skies.

2 Set up thy throne where Satan reigns,
On Afric's shore, on India's plains,
On lonely isles and lands unknown,
And make the nations all thine own.

3 Speak! and the world shall hear thy voice
Speak and the desert shall rej ice;
Scatter the gloom of heathen night,
And bid all nations hail the light.

998

Christ, the Conqueror.

JESUS, immortal King, arise;

Assert thy rightful sway;

C. M.

Till earth, subdued, its tribute brings,
And distant lands obey.

2 Ride forth, victorious Conqu❜ror, ride,
Till all thy foes submit,

And all the powers of hell resign
Their trophies at thy feet.

3 Send forth thy word, and let it fly
The spacious earth around,
Till every soul beneath the sun
Shall hear the joyful sound.

4 O may the great Redeemer's Name
Through every clime be known,
And heathen gods, forsaken, fall,
And Jesus reign alone. -

5 From sea to sea, from shore to shore,
Be thou, O Christ, adored,

And earth, with all her millions, shout
Hosannas to the Lord.