In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strewn ; Bows down to wood and stone. Has learnt MESSIAH's name, It spreads from pole to pole;- In bliss returns to reign. BP. HEBER. 419 (1st P.) L.M. Chard 175. Gloucester 12. Prospect of Success; or, Encouragement to use Means. BEHOLD th' expected time draw near, Behold the wilderness assume The beauteous tints of Eden's bloom. 5 Let us improve the heavenly gale, Spread to each breeze our hoisted sail, Till north and south, and east and west, Shall be, as favour'd Britain, blest. 6 Invite the globe to come and prove A Saviour's condescending love, And humbly fall before his feet, Assur'd they shall acceptance meet. 7 [Our hearts exult in songs of praise, That we have seen these latter days, When our Redeemer shall be known Where Satan long has held his throne.] 8 Where'er his hand hath spread the skies, Sweet incense to his name shall rise; * And Tyre, and Egypt, Greek, and Jew,! By sovereign grace be form'd anew. 419 (2d P.) C. M. Cambridge New 74. Evans's 190. Irish 171. Missionary 257, The Increase of the Church promised and pleaded. 1 FATHER, is not thy promise pledg'd To thine exalted Son, That thro' the nations of the earth 2 Ask, and I give the Heathen lands And to the world's remotest shores 3 Hast thou not said, The blinded Jews. While Gentiles to his standard crowd, 4 When shall th' untutor'd Indian tribes, Sit down at our IMMANUEL's feet, 5 Are not all kingdoms, tribes, and tongues, Under th' expanse of heaven, J To the dominion of thy Son Without exception given? 6 From east to west, from north to south, 7 Asia and Africa, resound From shore to shore his fame; 420 (1st P.) C. M. Otford 106. Michael's 119. Prayer for Missionaries. 1 GREAT GOD, the nations of the earth Are by creation thine; And in thy works, by all beheld,.. 2 But, LORD, thy greater love has sent Unveiling what rich stores of grace 3 LORD, when shall these glad tidings spread The spacious earth around, Till every tribe and every soul Shall hear the joyful sound? 4 O when shall Afric's sable sons And vassals, long enslav'd, become 5 When shall th' untutor'd Heathen tribes, Sit down at our IMMANUEL's feet, 6 Haste, sovereign mercy, and transform Soften the tiger to a lamb, 7*Smile, Lord, on each divine attempt The temples of thy praise.. Verses 8, 9, and 10, of this Hymn, in substance, were written off Margate, by Mr. WILLIAM WARD, one of the Baptist Missionaries, on their departure for India, May 28, 1709. 8 [0 charge the waves to bear our friends Let the rough tempest speed their way, 9 Whene'er thy sons proclaim good news, 10. O let the heavenly Shaster+ spread; PAUSE. 11 Send forth thy word, and let it fly,: 12 Beneath the influence of thy grace With sudden greens and fruits array'd, 13 True holiness shall strike its root Shall in a growth divine arise, er 10 13 14 Peace, with her olives crown'd, shall stretch Her wings from shore to shore ; • Verses 7, 9, and 10, of this Hymn, may be sung alone, The Shasters are the religious books of the Hindoos, the Brahmans are their Priests, and the Casts are the different classes of the people. !... No trump shall rouse the rage of war, No murd'rous cannon roar. 15 LORD, for those days we wait; those days 16 Amen, with joy divine, let earth's CONTINUATION.BY MR. LAWSON. C. M. Walsal 237. Bangor 231. 17 While in the howling shades of death 18 Darkly they roam, enslav'd by lust, 19 The gushing blood from Calvary It wash'd my soul-then still I'll cry, 20 I hear the lonely widow's wail! But, while the dreadful fire they hail, 21 Oft as thy servants, far and near, Lest they should yield to cold despair, 22 And, oh! when heathens bend the knee, To call upon thy name, Stretching their willing hands to thee, |