My heart the wise pursuit approved,
But oh! what toils oppose!

3 For see, while yet her unknown ways
With doubtful step 1 tread,
A hesti e world its terrors raise,
Its snares delusive spread.

4 O how shall I, with heart prepared,
Those terrors learn to meet?
How, from the thousand snares to guard
My inexperienced feet?

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
Its just restraints to give;
Attentive to behold my woes,
And faithful to relieve.

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
To sheltering caverns fly,
And justly dread the vengeful fate,
That thunders through the sky.

3 Protected by that hand, whose law
The threatening storms obey,
Intrepid virtue smiles secure
As in the blaze of day,

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;
By different ways pursue !,
The one eternal end of Heaven,
Is universal good.

5 With like beneficient effect
O'er flaming ether glows,

As when it tunes the linnet's voice,
And blushes in the rose.

6 When through creation's vast expanse, The last dread thunders roll,

Untune the concord of the spheres,
And shakes the guilty soul,

7 Unmoved may we the final storm
Of jaring worlds survey,
That ushers in the tranquil morn
Of life's eternal day.

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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,
Thro' the realms of death resound!
How the summons

Will the scoffer's heart confound.

3 At that call, the dead awaking,
Rise to life from earth and sea;
All the powers of wondering nature,
At his voice prepare to flee.

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,

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Dry and withered to the ground; Thus to thoughtless mortals calling, In a sad and solemn sound.

2 "Sons of Adam, (once in Eden,
Where, like us, he blighted fell.).
Hear the lesson we are reading;
Mark the awful truth to tell.

8 "Youth on length of days presuming,
Who the paths of pleasure tread;
View us, late in beauty blooming,
Numbered now among the dead.

"What though yet no losses grieve you, Gay with health and many a grace,

Let not cloudless skies deceive you;
Summer give to autumn place.

5 "Yearly in our course returning,
Messengers of shortest stay,
Thus we preach this truth concerning,
Heaven and earth shall pass away.

6 "On the tree of life, eternal,
O let all our hopes be laid;
This alone, for ever vernal,
Bears a leaf that shall not fade"

HYMN 43.-7, 6.

Missionary Hymn.

ROM Greenland's icy mountains,

For India's coral strand,

Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their gol den sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a balmy plain,
They call us to deliver

Their land from error's chain.

2 What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only may is vile;
In vain with lavish kindness