it guides me in the peaceful way;
I think upon it all the day.

2 What are the mines of shining wealth?
The strength of youth, the bloom of health?-
What are all joys, compared with those,
Thine everlasting word bestows?

e 3 Long unafflicted, undismayed,
In pleasure's path secure I strayed:
-Thou mad'st me feel thy chastening rod,
o And straight I turned unto my God.

e 4 What though it pierced my fainting heart-
o I bless the hand that caused the smart;

e It taught my tears awhile to flow,

o But saved me from eternal woe.
e 5 Oh! hadst thou left me unchastised,
Thy precepts I had still despised;
And still the snare in secret laid,
Had my unwary feet betrayed.
o 6 I love thee, therefore, O my God,
And breathe towards thy dear abode;
Where, in thy presence, fully blest,
Thy chosen saints forever rest.

COWPER.

HYMN 70. C. M. Barby. [*]

Submission.

LORD, my best desire fulfill,
And help me to resign
Life, health, and comfort to thy will,
And make thy pleasure mine.

e 2 Why should I shrink at thy command,
Whose love forbids my fears?
Or tremble at the gracious hand,
That wipes away my tears?
-3 No, let me rather freely yield
What most I prize, to thee,
Who never hast a good withheld,
Or wilt withhold from me.

4 Thy favour, all my journey through,
Thou art engaged to grant;

What else I want, or think I do, 'Tis better still to want.

o 5 Wisdom and mercy guide my way; Shall I resist them both?

e A poor blind creature of a day?

And crushed before the moth?
SELECT. 5

-6 But ah! my inward spirit cries,

Still bind me to thy sway;

Else the next cloud that veils my skies,
Drives all these thoughts away.

COWPER.

HYMN 71. C. M. Bedford. [* b]
Resignation. It is the Lord. 1 Sam. iii. 18.
is the Lord-enthroned in light,
Whose claims are all divine;

Who has an undisputed right,
To govern me and mine.

2 It is the Lord--who governs all—
My wealth, my friends, my ease;
And of his bounties may recall
Whatever part he please.

e 3 It is the Lord-should I distrust,
Or contradict his will?
-Who cannot do but what is just,
And must be righteous still?

4 It is the Lord-who can sustain
Beneath the heaviest load,

o From whom assistance I obtain, To tread the thorny road.

-5 It is the Lord-whose matchless skill Can from afflictions raise

o Matter, eternity to fill

With ever-growing praise.

-6 It is the Lord-my covenant God,
Thrice blessed be his Name !-

Whose gracious promise, sealed with blood,
Must ever be the same.

o 7 His covenant will my soul defend,

Should nature's self expire;

g And the great Judge of all descend In awful, flaming fire.

GREEN

HYMN 72. C. M. Tunbridge. [*]

Self-denial; or, Bearing the Cross. Mark viii. 38.

e 1

IDST thou, dear Jesus, suffer shame,

And bear the cross for me?

And shall I fear to own thy name,

Or thy disciple be?

-2 Inspire my soul with life divine,
And make me truly bold;

Let knowledge, faith, and meekness shine,
Nor love, nor zeal, grow cold.

o 3 Let mockers scoff, the world defame,
And treat me with disdain ;
Still may I glory in thy name,
And count reproach my gain.

o 4 To thee I cheerfully submit,
And all my powers resign;

Let Wisdom point out what is fit,
And I'll no more repine.

KIRHAM.

HYMN 73. C. M. Reading. [*]

Contentment. Phil. iv. 11.

Fas tempests vex the sea;

IERCE passions discompose the mind,

But calm content and peace we find,
When, Lord, we trust in thee.

2 In vain by reason, and by rule,
We try to bend the will;

For none, but in the Saviour's school,
Can learn the heavenly skill.
3 Since at his feet my soul has sat,
His gracious words to hear;
Contented with my present state,
I cast on him my care.

4"Art thou a sinner, soul?" he said,
"Then how canst thou complain?
"How light thy troubles here, if weighed
"With everlasting pain!

5 "If thou of murmuring wouldst be cured,
"Compare thy griefs with mine;
"Think what my love for thee endured-
"And thou wilt not repine.

6""Tis I appoint thy daily lot,

"And I do all things well;

"Thou soon shalt leave this wretched spot, "And rise with me to dwell.

7" In life my grace shall strength supply, "Proportioned to thy day;

"At death thou still shalt find me nigh, "To wipe thy tears away."

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8 Thus I, who once my wretched days
In vain repining spent ;

Taught in my Saviour's school of grace,
Have learned to be content.

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COWPER.

HYMN 74. C. M. St. Ann's. [*]

The Lord will provide. Gen. xxii. 14.

THE saints should never be dismayed,
Nor sink in hopeless fear;

For when they least expect his aid,

The Saviour will appear.

2 This Abra'am found: he raised the knife, God saw, and said, " Forbear ;

"Yon ram shall yield his meaner life:

"Behold the victim there."

-3 Once David seemed Saul's certain prey; But hark! the foe's at hand:

d

-Saul turns his arms another way,

To save the invaded land.

4 When Jonah sunk beneath the wave, He thought to rise no more;

o But God prepared a fish, to save,

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And bear him to the shore.

-5 Blest proofs of power and grace divine,
That meet us in his word!
May every deep-felt care of mine

Be trusted with the Lord.

6 Wait for his seasonable aid,
And though it tarry, wait:

The promise may be long delayed;
But cannot come too late.

COWPER.

HYMN 75. H. M. Allerton. [*]

The Lord my Banner. Exod. xvii. 15.

1BY whom was David taught

To aim the dreadful blow,

When he Goliah fought,

And laid the Gittite low?

-No sword nor spear the stripling took,

But chose a pebble from the brook.

2 'Twas Israel's God and King,
Who sent him to the fight;
Who gave him strength to sling,
And skill to aim aright:

-Ye feeble saints, your strength endures,
Because young David's God is yours.

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3 Who ordered Gideon forth,

To storm the invader's camp,-
With arms of little worth,

A pitcher and a lamp?

The trumpets made his coming known;
And all the host was overthrown.

4 Oh! I have seen the day,

When, with a single word-
God helping me to say,

"My trust is in the Lord,"

o My soul has quelled a thousand foes, Fearless of all that could oppose.

e 5 But unbelief, self-will,

Self-righteousness and pride-
How often do they steal

My weapons from my side!

o Yet David's Lord, and Gideon's Friend,

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Will help his servant to the end.

HYMN 76. C. M.

The Lord that healeth.

HEA

Cowper.

York. [*]

Exod. xv.

EAL us, EMMANUEL ;-here we are,
Waiting to feel thy touch:

Deep wounded souls to thee repair;
And, Saviour, we are such.

-2 Our faith is feeble, we confess,
We faintly trust thy word;

e But wilt thou pity us the less?Be that far from thee, Lord!

d

-3 Remember him who once applied,

With trembling, for relief;

d "Lord, I believe," with tears he cried; "O help my unbelief."

-4 She, too, who touched thee in the press, And healing virtues stole,

d Was answered, " Daughter, go in peace; Thy faith hath made thee whole."

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-5 Concealed amidst the gathering throng,
She would have shunned thy view;
And if her faith was firm and strong,
Had some misgivings too.