46 Dear Saviour! to thy cross...
I bring my sacrifice;

Ting'd with thy blood, it shall ascendi
With fragrance to the skies.

7 My life I would anew

Devote, O LORD, to thee;

And in thy service I would spend
A long eternity.....

495 L. M. Madan's 107. Ulverston 179. An Evening Hymn.

1 GREAT GOD! to thee my evening song With humble gratitude I raise:

O let thy mercy tune my tongue, And fill my heart with lively praise. 2 My days unclouded as they pass, And every gentle rolling hour, Are monuments of wondrous grace, And witness to thy love and power. 3 And yet this thoughtless wretched heart, Too oft regardless of thy love, Ungrateful, can from thee depart, And, fond of trifles, vainly rove. 4 Seal my forgiveness in the blood Of JESUS; his dear name alone I plead for pardon, gracious GoD! And kind acceptance at thy throne. 5 Let this blest hope mine eye-lids close, With sleep refresh my feeble frame Sa.e in thy care may I repose. T

And wake with praises to thy name..

496 L. M.! Magdalene 214. Ailie Street 241. An Evening Hymn.

1 GLORY to thee, my Gon! this night, For all the blessings of the light; Keep me, O keep me, KING of KINGS! Beneath thy own Almighty wings."

2 Forgive dear Son,
me, LORD! for thy
The ill that I this day have done;

Ourhat, with the world, myself, and thee, Ob
I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.

3 Teach me to live, that I may dread I The grave as little as my bed; ch? Teach me to die, that so I may

Rise glorious at the awful days all lik

4. O let my soul on thee repose, na oril 77 2
And may sweet sleep mine eyelids close;
Sleep that shall me more vigorous make
To serve my Gon when I awake.

5 If in the night I sleepless lie,

My soul with heavenly thoughts supply:
Let no ill dreams disturb my rest,

No powers of darkness me molest.

Praise God, &cbiddad Boy, to eBP, KEN!

497 C. M. Irish 17]. Great Milton 212.

An Evening Hymn.

1 NOW from the altar of our hearts Let flames of love arise; 20 och Marks!I Assist us, LORD! to offer up Our evening sacrifice.

2 Minutes and mercies multiply'd

Have made up all this day;
but mercies were

Minutes came quick, but

More swift and free than they. gonty to gold you soon!

3 New time, new favour, and new joys

Do a new song, requires you vodi guT Till we should praise thee as we would Accept our heart's desire.

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4 LORD of our days! whose hand hath set
New time upon the scores
Thee may we praise for all our time,
When time shall be no more l

THE SEASONS OF THE:

YEAR.

498 CM. Michael's 119, Evans's 190.

On the Spring, -quoia I 219 I

1 THE icy chains that bound the earth Are now dissolv'd and gone?

Wak'd by the sun, the blooming spring! Puts his new livery on. In a cute 5 in 2 Where awful desolation reign'd Bless'd plenty rears her head; Exulting with a smile to see. Her late destroyer fled.

3 Teeming with

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Protracts e, th' advancing sun ni?!

the falling day;

Grand light of heaven! he seems to wish
To make a longer stay.”
4 In clouds of gold behold him set,
Beyond the west he flies :

Short is his nightly course, and soon
He gilds the eastern skies. A

5 My soul, in every scene admire
The wisdom and the power

Behold the Gop in every plant, in!

In every opening flower,

6 Yet in his word, the GoD of grace
Has wrote his her name:

The wonders of redeeming love
My noblest songs shall claim.

7 With warmest beams, thou GOD of grace, Shine on this heart of mine

Turn thou my winter into SPRING,
And be the glory thine.

NEEDHAM

499 S. M. Mansfield 154. Finsbury 155.

The return of Spring celebrated.

1 FROM winter's barren clodsyst From winter's joyless waste,

The spring in sudden youth appears L &
suddeauty gracd.ro
With blooming beauty grac dve ha

2.04 How balmy is the air!quel vorodent O
How warm the solar beams!old bu
And to refresh the ground, the rains
Descend in gentle streams.

3 Great Gop, at thy command
seasons in order rise:

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and love in concert reign

Thro' earth, and seas, and skies.

4 The With
With grateful praise we own ne tu
Thy providential hand,

While grass for kine, and herbs and corn
For men, enrich the land.

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5 But greater still the gift Of thine incarnate Son;

By him forgiveness, peace, and joy, zil
Thro endless ages run.
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500 C. M. Braintree 25. Foster 96. Salem 139.

1' BEHOLD! long-wish'd-for Spring is come,

How alter'd is the scene

The trees and shrubs are dress'd in bloom, i
The earth array'd in green.

2 Where'er we tread, the clust ring flowers
Beauteous around us spring;

The birds with joint ha harmonious powers yil ə Invite our hearts to sing The tow

3 But, ah! in vain I strive to join, rods OnA
Opprest with sin and doubt;

I feel 'tis winter still, within, .16.5 906
Tho' all is spring without.

4.0 would my Saviour, from on high,
Break thro' these clouds and shine,

No creature then more blest than Iyong A

5 LORD, let thy word my liopes revives And overcome my foes;

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O make my languid graces thrive, mle 1
And blossom like the rose ! I

501 C. M. Abridge 201. Bangor 231.
On a Year of threatening Drought.
HE spring, great GOD, at thy command,
Leads forth the smiling year;

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Gay verdure, foliage, blooms, and flowers,
Tadorn her reign appear.

2 But soon canst thou in righteous wrath
Blast all the promis'd joy
And elements await thy nod,
To bless or to destroy..

3 The sun, thy minister of love,
That, from the naked ground,

Calls forth the t

hidden scenes to birth,"

And spreads their beauties round;

4 At the dread order of his GOD
Now darts destructive fires;

Hills,plains, and vales, are parch'd with drought,
And blooming life expires.

5 Like burnish'd brass, the heaven around.

In angry terror burns,

While the earth lies a joyless waste,

And into iron turns.

6 Pity us, LORD, in our distress,
Nor with our land contend;

Bid the avenging skies relent,
And showers of mercy send!

DR. GIBBONS.

502 C. M. Ann's 58. Worksop 31. [ On a Year of threatening Rain.

1 HOW hast thou, LORD, from year to year, ̧! Our land with plenty crownid!

And generous fruit and golden grain su
Have spread their riches round.

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