And drooping, lifeless nature seems of ov
An emblem of my heart

3 My heart, where mental winter reigns
In night's dark mantle clad,9]

Confin'd in cold inactive chains,

How desolate and sad! (200

4 Return, O blissful sun! and bring
Thy soul-reviving ray;

This mental winter shall be spring,
This darkness cheerful days

50 happy state, divine abode, uod of em B00 Where spring eternal reigns;

And perfect day, the smile of GoD,Y
Fills all the heavenly plains, out of
6 Great source of light! thy beams display,
My drooping joys restore,

507 L. M. New Sabbath 122. Rothwell 174. gulor Winter. to nivo)

1 SEE, how rude winter's icy hand Has stripp'd the trees and seal'd the ground; But spring shall soon his rage withstand, And spread new beauties all around. 2 My soul a sharper winter mourns, Barren and fruitless I remain: uols at When will the gentle spring return, And bid my graces grow again? 3 JESUS! my glorious sun, arise! .M.D 002 "Tis thine the frozen heart to move; O! hush these storms, and clear my skies, And let me feel thy vital love!giloo 4 Dear LORD! regard my feeble cry!ld wall I faint and droop till thou appear: Wilt thou permit thy plant to die? Must it be winter all the year? gil

5 Be still, my soul, and wait his hour
With humble prayer and patient faith;
Till he reveals his gracious power,
Repose on what his promise saith.
6 He, by whose all-commanding word
Seasons their changing course maintain,
In every change a pledge affords,
That none shall seek his face in vain.

NEWTON.

508 L. M. Gloucester 12. Coombs's 45. T The Seasons crowned with Goodness, Psalm lxv. 11.

ETERNAL source of every joy! wo

Well may thy praise our lips employ,/.

While in thy temple we appear

To hail thee Sovereign of the year, noe pomal

2 Wide as the wheels of nature roll,
Thy hand supports and guides the whole!
The sun is taught by thee to rise,
And darkness when to veil the skies.
3 The flowery spring, at thy command,
Perfumes the air and paints the land;
The summer rays with vigour shine
To raise the corn and cheer the vine.

4 Thy hand in autumn richly poursu
Thro' all our coast redundant stores;2
And winters, softened by thy care,
No more the face of horror wear.

5 Seasons, and months, and weeks, and days,
Demand successive songs of praise;
And be the grateful homage paid,
With morning light and evening shade.

6 Here in thy house let incense rise, od!)
And circling Sabbaths bless our eyes,
Till to those lofty heights we soar,
Where days and years revolve no more.

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NEW YEAR'S DAY.

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Grateful Recollection-Ebenezer, 1 Sam. vii. 12.

1 COME, thou fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace,
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise:
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above:
Praise the mount-O fix me on it,
Mount of God's unchanging love.
2 Here I raise my Ebenezer,

Hither by thy help I come;
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home:
JESUS sought me when a stranger,"
Wandering from the fold of GOD;
He, to save my soul from danger,
Interposed his precious blood.
3 0! to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrain'd to be!
Let thy grace, LORD, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee:
Prone to wander, LORD, I feel it;
Prone to leave the GoD I love

Here's my heart, LORD, take and seal it,

Seal it from thy courts above.

ཧྰུྃ་ ROBINSON.

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1 GREAT GOD, we sing that mighty hand,^ By which supported still we stand if The opening year thy mercy shows;

it till it close.

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By his incessant bounty fed, but not By his unerring counsel ledercorsří 3 With grateful hearts the past we own; The future, all to us unknown, edɔ burż. We to thy guardian care commit, And peaceful leave before thy feet. 77 4 In scenes exalted or depressid, Be thou our joy, and thou our rest Thy goodness all our hopes shall raise, Ador'd thro' all our changing days, 10 5 When death shall interrupt these songs, A And seal in silence mortal tongues, Our Helper, Gon, in whom we trust,,/ In better worlds our souls shall boast.

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510 (2d P.) L.M. Limehouse 242. Virginia 234. At the Beginning of the Year. LORD, we are spar'd, and yet are for In thy own house on praying ground ; one who near us stood, the awful bar of God.

Many are

2 We'll think of time's uncertain date,

Consider our eternal state;

We'll think of our immortal soul,

Ere Jordan's waves around us roll. 77
3 Now soon in heaven, or soon in hell, it ¶
We shall with God or Satan dwell;77 &
O may we, with intense desire, IW #7
To Christ, and grace, and heaven aspire.
4 Thus if, our pious race begun,
We in Jehovah's strength go on,
We need nor life nor death to fear, 1

MEDLEY.

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The barren Fig-Tree, Luke xiii, 6. 9.
OD of my life! to thee belong
The thankful heart, the grateful song;

Touch'd by thy love, each tuneful chord Resounds the goodness of the LORD! 2 Thou hast preserv'd my fleeting breath, And chas'd the gloomy shades of death, The venom'd arrows vainly fly,

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When Gop our great deliverer's nigh. 3 Yet why, dear LORD this tender care? ¡. Why does thy hand so kindly rear A useless cumberer of the ground, On which no pleasant fruits are found? 4 Still may the barren fig-tree stand!! And, cultivated by thy hand,

Verdure, and bloom, and fruit afford,
Meet tribute to its bounteous LORD.!!
5 So shall thy praise employ my breath.
Thro' life, and in the arms of death
My soul the pleasant theme prolong,
Then rise and aid th' angelic song.

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To my kind Redeemer's praise; if
With a grateful heart I own, biel sil
Hitherto thy help I've known.

MY Ebenezer raise quo

2 What may be my future lot, a
Well I know concerns me not;
This should set my heart at rest,
What thy will ordains is best,ut
3 I my all to thee resign

Father! let thy will be mine;

May but all thy dealings provei alterat
Fruits of thy paternal love.

4 Guard me, Saviour! by thy pow'r,
Guard me in the trying hour:
Let thy unremitted care

Save me from the lurking snare.