5 Let those that sow in sadness wait Till the fair harvest come,
They shall confess their sheaves are great, And shout the blessings home.
Heavenly Joy on Earth.
1 COME, ye that love the Lord, And let your joys be known; Join in a song with sweet accord, And thus surround the throne. 2 The sorrows of the mind Be banished from the place! Religion never was designed To make our pleasures less. 3 Yes, now, before we rise To the immortal state, The thoughts of that amazing bliss Should constant joys create.
4 The men of grace have found Glory begun below;
Celestial fruits on earthly ground From faith and hope may grow.
5 The hill of Sion yields
A thousand sacred sweets, Before we reach the heavenly fields, Or walk the golden streets.
6 Then let our songs abound, And every tear be dry;
We're marching through Immanuel's ground, To fairer worlds on high.
LIFE, DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND
God eternal, and Man mortal. Ps. 90.
1 THROUGH every age, eternal God, Thou art our rest, our safe abode ! High was thy throne ere heaven was made, Or earth thy humble footstool laid.
2 Long hadst thou reigned ere time began, Or dust was fashioned into man;
And long thy kingdom shall endure, When earth and time shall be no more. 3 But man, weak man, is born to die, Made up of guilt and vanity:
Thy dreadful sentence, Lord, was just, 'Return, ye sinners, to your dust.' 4 A thousand of our years amount Scarce to a day in thine account; Like yesterday's departed light, Or the last watch of ending night. 5 Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away; our life's a dream, An empty tale, a morning flower Cut down and withered in an hour.
1 OUR God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come! Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home!
2 Before the hills in order stood, Or earth received her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. 3 A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun.
4 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day.
5 Like flowery fields the nations stand, Pleased with the morning light; The flowers beneath the mower's hand Lie withering ere 'tis night.
6 Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come,
Be thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home!
The steady Lapse of Time.
1 GOD of eternity! from thee
Did infant time his being draw;
Moments, and days, and months, and years, Revolve by thine unvaried law.
2 Silent and slow they glide away; Steady and strong the current flows, Lost in eternity's wide sea-
The boundless gulf from whence it rose. 3 With it the thoughtless sons of men, Before the rapid streams, are borne On to the everlasting home,
Whence not one soul can e'er return. 4 Yet, while the shore on either side Presents a gaudy, flattering show, We gaze, in fond amazement lost, Nor think to what a world we go.
5 Great Source of wisdom! teach my heart To know the price of every hour; That time may bear me on to joys Beyond its measure and its power.
The rapid Flow of Time.
1 How swift the torrent rolls
That bears us to the sea!
The tide that bears our thoughtless souls
To vast eternity!
2 Our fathers, where are they,
With all they called their own
Their joys and griefs, and hopes and cares, And wealth and honor, gone.
3 God of our fathers! hear;
Thou everlasting Friend!
While we, as on life's utmost verge, Our souls to thee commend.
4 Of all the pious dead
May we the footsteps trace,
Till with them in the land of light We dwell before thy face.
Scenes of Time, transient; of Futurity, endless. 1 How long shall earth's alluring toys Detain our hearts and eyes, Regardless of immortal joys, And strangers to the skies!
2 These transient scenes will soon decay; They fade upon the sight;
And quickly will their brightest day Be lost in endless night.
3 Their brightest day, alas, how vain! With conscious sighs we own; While clouds of sorrow, care and pain O'ershade the smiling noon.
4 O, could our thoughts and wishes fly Above these gloomy shades,
To those bright worlds beyond the sky, Which sorrow ne'er invades !
5 There joys, unseen by mortal eyes, Or reason's feeble ray, In ever-blooming prospects rise, Unconscious of decay.
6 Thither, on faith's sublimest wing, Our ardent wishes rise,
To those bright scenes where pleasures spring Immortal in the skies.
The Shortness of Time, and Frailty of Man. Ps. 39.
1 ALMIGHTY Maker of my frame, Teach me the measure of my days! Teach me to know how frail I am, And spend the remnant to thy praise.
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