HYMN LXIX. Remember the Sabbath day. Exod. xxii. 8. SABBATH days were ne'er intended "Tis no time for thoughtless leisure, With the Lord in praise and prayer; "Tis the time of holy resting; God looks down from heav'n above; Meets his favour'd saints in feasting 'Neath the banners of his love. "Tis the time in mercy given, Gospel truth to hear and learn; Jesus now invites from heaven, Wand'ring sinners to return. Let us then avoid for ever, All the Sabbath-breaker's ways; From them, O Lord, our souls deliver, By thine all-sufficient grace. HYMN LXX. 1 will pay my vows. Ps. cxvi. 18. SEND down, O Lord, on all our youth Soon to appear before thy sight, The cross that mark'd their infant brow, Lord! teach them to remember thee, In wisdom, knowledge, virtue, truth. Thy sons and daughters, may they be Confirm'd and strengthen'd by thy grace; Preserv'd through life, O Lord! by thee, May they in heav'n behold thy face. HYMN LXXI. Heaven and earth shall pass away. Mat. xxiv. 35. THE day of wrath! that dreadful day! When shriv'lling like a parched scroll, Oh! on that day, that dreadful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be thou, O Christ! the sinner's stay, Though heav'n and earth shall pass away. PSALM LXXII. He shall feed me in a green pasture. Ps. xxiii. 2. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Though in the paths of death I tread, HYMN LXXIII. The heavens declare the glory of God. Ps. xix. 1. THE spacious firmament on high, And spangled heavens a shining frame, Soon as the ev'ning shades prevail, While all the stars that round her burn, What, though in solemn silence, all |