My heart the wise pursuit approved, 3 For see, while yet her unknown ways 4 O how shall I, with heart prepared, 5 Let faith suppress each rising fear, Each anxious doubt exclude; My Maker's will has placed me here, A Maker wise and good. 6 He to my every trial knows 7 Tho' griefs unnumbered throng thee round Still in thy God confide, Whose finger marks the seas their bound, And curbs the rolling tide. HYMN 46.-P. M. In a Thunder Storm. ET coward guilt, with pallid fear 3 Protected by that hand, whose law 3 In the thick cloud's tremendous gloom, The lightning's lurid glare, It views the same all-gracious Power, 'I bat breathes the vernal air. 4 Through nature's ever-varying scene; 5 With like beneficient effect As when it tunes the linnet's voice, 6 When through creation's vast expanse, The last dread thunders roll, Untune the concord of the spheres, 7 Unmoved may we the final storm L HYMN 47.-8, 7. The Judgment Day. O! he comes with clouds descending, Once for man's redem. tion slain; Countless hosts of saints and angels Swell the triumph of his train. Hallelujah! Jesus comes, and comes to reign. 2 Hark! the mountain's base is rending! Shakes the wide creation round! Hear the trump, the Judge proclaiming, Will the scoffer's heart confound. 3 At that call, the dead awaking, Careless sinner, What will then become of thee? 4 But ye blest, who pant to see him, Clothed in Majesty divine, Long his name who've loved and honor'd, Then may say--his God is mine. Gracious Saviour, Own us in that day for thine. HYMN 48.-7s. Funeral Hymn.- The emblems of Death. EE the eaves around us falling, S Dry and withered to the ground; Thus to thoughtless mortals calling, In a sad and solemn sound. 2 "Sons of Adam, (once in Eden, 8 "Youth on length of days presuming, "What though yet no losses grieve you, Gay with health and many a grace, Let not cloudless skies deceive you; 5 "Yearly in our course returning, 6 "On the tree of life, eternal, HYMN 43.-7, 6. Missionary Hymn. ROM Greenland's icy mountains, For India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes |