138. Omniscience.

2 Thine all-surrounding sight surveys
My rising and my rest,

My public walks, my private ways,
And secrets of breast.
my

3 My thoughts lie open to the Lord,
Before they 're formed within;
And, ere my lips pronounce the word,
He knows the sense I mean.

4 Oh! wondrous knowledge, deep and high,
Where can a creature hide?
Within thy circling arms I lie,
Enclosed on every side.

5 So let thy grace surround me still,
And like a bulwark prove,
To guard my soul from every ill,
Secured by sovereign love.
139.
Providence.

1 GOD moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
2 Deep in unfathomable mines

Of never-failing skill,

He treasures up his bright designs,
And works his sovereign will.

3 Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take!
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and will break
In blessings on your head.

1 THE Lord our God is Lord of all; His station who can find?

I hear him in the waterfall;

I hear him in the wind.

2 If in the gloom of night I shroud,
His face I cannot fly;

I see him in the evening cloud,
And in the morning sky.

3 He smiles, we live! he frowns, we die!
We hang upon his word;
He rears his mighty arm on high,
We fall before his sword.

4 He bids his gales the fields deform
Then, when his thunders cease,
He paints his rainbow on the storm,
And lulls the winds to peace.

DUNDEE. C. M.

we!

141. Eternity.

2 Thy throne eternal ages stood,
Ere seas or stars were made:
Thou art the ever-living God,
Were all the nations dead.

3 Eternity, with all its years,

Stands present in thy view;
To thee there's nothing old appears-
Great God! there's nothing new.

4 Our lives thro' various scenes are drawn,
And vexed with trifling cares;
While thine eternal thought moves on
Thine undisturbed affairs.

5 Great God! how infinite art thou!
What worthless worms are we!
Let the whole race of creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee.
142.
Perfections.

1 I SING th' almighty power of God,
That made the mountains rise,
That spread the flowing seas abroad,
And built the lofty skies.

2 I sing the wisdom that ordained
The sun to rule the day;
The moon shines full at his command,
And all the stars obey.

3 I sing the goodness of the Lord,

That filled the earth with food;

He formed the creatures with his word,
And then pronounced them good.

2 Immortal glory forms his throne,
And light his awful robe;
While with a smile, or with a frown,
He manages the globe.

3 A word of his almighty breath

Can swell or sink the seas; Build the vast empires of the earth, Or break them as he please. 4 On angels, with unvailed face

His glory beams above;

On men, he looks with softest grace,
And takes his title, Love.

145.

Holiness.

1 HOLY and reverend is the name
Of our eternal King;
Thrice holy Lord! the angels cry;
Thrice holy let us sing.

2 The deepest reverence of the mind,
Pay, O my soul! to God;
Lift with thy hands a holy heart
To his sublime abode.

3 With sacred awe pronounce his name
Whom words nor thoughts can reach ;
A broken heart shall please him more
Than the best forms of speech.
4 Thou holy God! preserve our souls
From all pollution free;
The pure in heart are thy delight,
And they thy face shall see.

146.

In nature.

1 GREAT Ruler of all nature's frame!
We own thy power divine;
We hear thy breath in every storm,
For all the winds are thine.

2 Wide as they sweep their sounding way,
They work thy sovereign will;
And, awed by thy majestic voice,
Confusion shall be still.

3 Thy mercy tempers every blast
To them that seek thy face,
And mingles with the tempest's roar
The whispers of thy grace.
4 Those gentle whispers let me hear,
Till all the tumult cease;
And gales of paradise shall lull
My weary soul to peace.

2 "Fear not," said he,-for mighty dread Had seized their troubled mind,"Glad tidings of great joy I bring, To you and all mankind.

3 "To you, in David's town, this day,
Is born of David's line,

The Saviour, who is Christ, the Lord,
And this shall be the sign;—

4 "The heavenly babe you there shall find To human view displayed,

All meanly wrapped in swathing bands,
And in a manger laid."

5 Thus spake the seraph-and forthwith. Appeared a shining throng

Of angels, praising God, who thus Addressed their joyful song:6 "All glory be to God on high,

And to the earth be peace; Good-will henceforth from heaven to men Begin, and never cease!

149.

1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come!

Let earth receive her King;

Let every heart prepare

him room, And heaven and nature sing.

2 Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns! Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains,

Repeat the sounding joy.

3 No more let sin and sorrow grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground:

He comes to make his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.

4 He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness,
And wonders of his love.

NEWBOLD. C. M.

KINGSLEY.

1 ANGELS rejoiced and sweetly sung
At our Redeemer's birth';
Mortals! awake; let every tongue
Proclaim his matchless worth.

2 Glory to God, who dwells on high,
And sent his only Son

To take a servant's form, and die,
For evils we had done!

3 Good-will to men; ye fallen race!
Arise, and shout for joy;

He comes, with rich, abounding grace
To save, and not destroy.

4 Lord! send the gracious tidings forth,
And fill the world with light,
That Jew and Gentile, through the earth,
May know thy saving might.

152.

1 HARK, the glad sound! the Saviour comes,
The Saviour promised long;
Let every heart prepare a throne,
And every voice a song.

2 He comes, the prisoner to release,
In Satan's bondage held;
The gates of brass before him burst,
The iron fetters yield.

3 He comes, from thickest films of vice
To clear the mental ray,
And, on the eyes long closed in night,
To pour celestial day.

4 He comes, the broken heart to bind,
The bleeding soul to cure,
And, with the treasures of his grace,
Enrich the humble poor.

5 Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace,
Thy welcome shall proclaim,
And heaven's eternal arches ring
With thy beloved name.

153.

1 CALM on the listening car of night,
Come heaven's melodious strains,
Where wild Judea stretches far
Her silver-mantled plains.

2 Celestial choirs, from courts above,
Shed sacred glories there,
And angels, with their sparkling lyres,
Make music on the air.

3 The answering hills of Palestine
Send back the glad reply;
And greet, from all their holy heights,
The day-spring from on high.

4 O'er the blue depths of Galilee
There comes a holier calm,
And Sharon waves, in solemn praise,
Her silent groves of palm.

5 "Glory to God!" the sounding skies
Loud with their anthems ring-
"Peace to the earth, good-will to men,
From heaven's eternal King!"