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Teach them immortal souls to gain
Souls that will well reward their pain.
5 Let thronging multitudes around
Hear from their lips the joyful sound,
In humble strains thy grace implore,
And feel thy new-creating power.
6 Let sinners break their massy chains,
Distressed souls forget their pains;
Let light thro' distant realms be spread,
And Zion rear her drooping head.

BEDDOME.

427 (1st P.) 8.7.4. Lewes 63. Helmsley 223.

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1 SAVIOUR, visit thy plantation;

Grant us, LORD, a gracious rain!

All will come to desolation,

Unless thou return again :

LORD, revive us,

All our help must come from thee! 2 Keep no longer at a distance, Shine upon us from on high, Lest, for want of thine assistance,

Every plant should droop and die. Lord, &c.

3 Surely once thy garden flourish'd,
Every part look'd gay and green;
Then thy word our spirit nourish'd,
Happy seasons we have seen!

4 [But a drought has since succeeded,
And a sad decline we see;

Lord, &c.

LORD, thy help is greatly needed,
Help can only come from thee:

Lord, &c.

5 Where are those we counted leaders,

Fill'd with zeal, and love, and truth?

Old professors, tall as cedars,

Lord, &c.

Bright examples to our youth?

6 Some in whom we once delighted, We shall meet no more below ;

Some, alas! we fear are blighted,
Scarce a single leaf they show :

Lord, &c.

7 Younger plants-the sight how pleasant!-
Cover'd thick with blossoms stood;
But they cause us grief at present,

Frosts have nipp'd them in the bud! Lord, &c.

8 Dearest Saviour, hasten hither,

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Thou canst make them bloom again;

O! permit them not to wither,

Let not all our hopes be vain: Lord, &c.]

9 Let our mutual love be fervent,

Make us prevalent in prayers;

Let each one, esteem'd thy servant,

Shun the world's bewitching snares: Lord,&c.

10 Break the tempter's fatal power,
Turn the stony heart to flesh ;
And begin from this good hour
To revive thy work afresh;

LORD, revive us,

All our help must come from thee.

Altered by DR. RYLAND.

427 (2d P.) L. M. Gould's 272. Bab. Streams 23.

For a Church in a low condition, Psalm li. 18.

10

GOD of Zion! from thy throne

Look with an eye of pity down;

Thy Church now humbly makes her prayer-
Thy church, the object of thy care,

2 We are a building thou hast rais'd,

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How kind thy hand, that hand be prais'd!
Yet all to utter ruin falls,

If thou forsake our tott'ring walls.

3 We call to mind the happier days
Of life and love, of prayer and praise,
When holy services gave birth

To joys resembling heaven on earth.
4 But now
the ways of Zion mourn,
Her gates neglected and forlorn;

Our life and liveliness are fled,
And many number'd with the dead.
5 We need defence from all our foes,
We need relief from all our woes :
If earth and hell should yet assail,
Let neither earth nor hell prevail.
6 Near to each other and to thee,
LORD, bring us all in unity;
Oh, pour thy Spirit from on high,
And all our numerous wants supply.
7 Oh, show that in our low estate,
No blessing for us is too great;
We plead thy Son, we plead thy word,
O Founder, Patron, bounteous LORD!

427 (3d P.) L. M. China 300. Rochford 22.

A holy Glance at happier Days.

1 ONCE more, O Lord, thy children meet To bow before thy mercy seat;

But we unite with lessen'd joy,
While former days our minds employ.
2 Ah! how we hasten'd to thy house;
Mingled our joys, our tears, our vows!
We throng'd to hear, and pray, and praise,
On Sabbath and on weekly days.

3 The young, the old, the rich, the poor,
Devoutly knock'd at mercy's door,
And plac'd on Jesus' head the crown;
But some are to the dust gone down.
4 Alas! those happy days are past,
Our smiling skies are overcast;
But shall we now despairing mourn?
No!-for we hear thee say, Return!
5 Return!-Oh kind inviting voice!
We hear, we gladden, we rejoice;
And pray thy Spirit, from on high,
May all our wants again supply.

6 Then shall we run thy heavenly ways
As in our holier, happier days;

Our following times the best shall be,
Sweet foretastes of eternity.

427 (4th P.) 11s. Geard 156. Broughton 172.

10

Comfort for the Church in Trouble.

ZION! afflicted with wave upon wave,

Whom no man can comfort, whom no man

can save;

With darkness surrounded, by terrors dismay'd, In toiling and rowing thy strength is decay'd. 2 Loud roaring the billows now nigh overwhelm, But skilful's the Pilot who sits at the helm, His wisdom conducts thee, his pow'r thee defends, In safety and quiet thy warfare he ends.

30 fearful! O faithless! in mercy he cries, My promise, my truth, are they light in thine eyes?

Still, still I am with thee, my promise shall stand, Thro' tempest and tossing I'll bring thee to land. 4 Forget thee, I will not, I cannot, thy name Engrav'd on my heart doth for ever remain; The palms of my hands whilst I look on, I see The wounds I received, when suff'ring for thee. 5 I feel at my heart all thy sighs and thy groans, For thou art most near me, my flesh and my bones, In all thy distresses thy Head feels the pain; Yet all are most needful, not one is in vain. 6 Then trust me, and fear not; thy life is secure, My wisdom is perfect, supreme is my power; In love I correct thee, thy soul to refine, To make thee at length in my likeness to shine. 7 The foolish, the fearful, the weak are my care, The helpless,the hopeless, I hear their sad pray'r; From all their afflictions, my glory shall spring, And the deeper their sorrows, the louder they'll sing.

L. H. C.

428 8.7.4. Trevecca 37. Kentucky 114,

10'E

Longing for the Spread of the Gospel.*
'ER the gloomy hills of darkness,
Look, my soul, be still and gaze;
All the promises do travail,
With a glorious day of grace,
Blessed jubilee,

May thy morning dawn apace !
2 Let the Indian, let the Negro,
Let the rude Barbarian, see
That divine and godlike conquest
Once obtain❜d on Calvary;

·And in millions

To our dear Redeemer flee.
Or-Let the Gospel

Loud resound from pole to pole.

3 Kingdoms wide, that sit in darkness,
Grant them, LORD, the saving light;
And from eastern coast to western
May the morning chase the night,
Pouring radiance,

As of one day sevenfold bright.
Or-And redemption,

Freely purchas'd, win the day.

4 Blessed Saviour, spread thy Gospel,
Ride and conquer, never cease;
May thy wide, thy vast dominions,
Multiply, and still increase,

Till all nations

HAIL and CROWN THEE PRINCE of PEACE.

Or-Sway thy sceptre,

Saviour, all the world around.

PAUSE.-Lewes 63,

Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord, Psa, cl. 6. 5 Every creature, living, breathing,

In divinely grateful lays,

• To avoid several repetitions in this much-loved Hymn, and to give familiar rhyme to the last lines of each verse, alterations are here made, which may be adopted or omitted as it shall seem proper.

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