-4 Return, O blissful Sun, and bring This mental winter shall be spring, o 5 O happy state-divine abode, g 6 Great Source of light, thy beams display; My drooping joys restore; And guide me to the seats of day, Where winters frown no more. HYMN 212. C. M. Canterbury. [b*] Swiftness of Time. New Year. 1 REMARK, my soul, the narrow bound Of the revolving year; e How swift the weeks complete their round! How short the months appear. d 2 So fast eternity comes on- When all that mortal life hath done, e 3 Yet, like an idle tale, we pass And study artful ways t' increase -4 Waken, O God, my careless heart, And give the year to thee. o 5 So shall their course more grateful roll, If future years arise; Or this shall bear my waiting soul To joy beyond the skies. HYMN 213. L. M. Doddridge Castle-Street. [*] Help obtained of God. New Year. GREAT God, we sing that mighty hand, By which supported still we stand! The opening year thy mercy shews; e 2 By day, by night, at home, abroad, By his unerring counsel led. -3 With grateful hearts the past we own; g Our Helper, God, in whom we trust, [Col In better worlds our souls shall boast. Rippon's 1 HYMN 214. 10 & 11. Goodness of God. Walworth. [*] [OUSE of our God, with cheerful anthems Hring, While all our lips and hearts his graces sing; The opening year his graces shall proclaim, And all its days be vocal with his name; The Lord is good-his mercy never ending; His blessings in perpetual showers descending. 2 The heaven of heavens he with his bounty fills; Ye seraphs bright, on ever-blooming hills, His honours sound; you to whom good alone, Unmingled, ever-growing, has been known: Through your immortal life, with love increasing, Proclaim your Maker's goodness-never ceasing. 3 Thou earth, enlighten'd by his rays divine, Pregnant with grass, and corn, and oil, and wine, Crown'd with his goodness, let thy nations meet, And lay their crowns at his paternal feet; With grateful love that lib'ral hand confessing, Which through each heart diffuses ev'ry blessing e 4 Zion, enrich'd with his distinguish'd grace, Blest with the rays of thine Emmanuel's faceZion, Jehovah's portion and delight, Grav'n on his hands, and hourly in his sight, • In sacred strains, exalt that grace excelling, Which makes thy humble hill his chosen dwelling -5 His mercy never ends-the dawn, the shade Still see new beauties thro' new scenes display'd; Succeeding ages bless this sure abode, And children lean upon their father's God, e The deathless soul through its immense duration, Drinks from this source immortal consolation. s 6 Burst into praise, my soul; all rature, join; Angels and men, in harmony combine: e While human years are measur'd by the sun, And while Eternity its course shall rung His goodness, in perpetual showers descending, Exalt in songs and raptures never ending. 1 Doddridge. HYMN 215. C. M. Sunday. [*] AV Close of the Year. WAKE, ye saints, and raise your eyes, • Awake, and praise that sovereign love, -2 On all the wings of time it flies, Each moment brings it near; o Then welcome, each declining day! Welcome, each closing year! -3 Not many years their rounds shall run, Nor many mornings rise, Ere all its glories stand reveal'd To our admiring eyes. o 4 Ye wheels of nature speed your course; e Ye mortal powers decay; --Fast as ye bring the night of death, e l Ye bring eternal day. Doddridge. HYMN 216. L. M. Carthage. [b] TIME, how few thy value weigh: e Days, months, and years, are rolling on, e 3 Was it for this, ye mortal race, -5 This season of your being, know, e 1 HYMN 217. C. P. M. Pilgrim. [b] LO on a narrow neck of land, Scott "Twixt two unbounded seas I standYet how insensible! A point of time-a moment's spaceo Removes me to you heavenly place, Or-shuts me up in hell! e -2 O God, my inmost soul convert, And deeply in my thoughtless heart Eternal things impress; Give me to feel their solemn weight, Wake ine to righteousness. -3 Before me place, in bright array, -4 Be this my one great business here,→ To make my calling sure! Thine utmost counsel to fulfil, And suffer all thy righteous will, And to the end endure ! ( o 5 Then, Saviour, then my soul receive, g Where faith is sweetly lost in sight, 1 Rippon's Col. HYMN 218. 8 & 7. Sicilian. [*] IN this world of sin and sorrow, Compass'd round with many a care, From eternity we borrow Hope that can exclude despair. 2 Thee, triumphant God and Saviour, In the glass of faith we see O assist each faint endeavour! Raise our earth-born souls to thee. e 3 Place that awful scene before us Of the last tremendous day,— -When to life thou wilt restore us: Lingering ages, haste away! 4 When this vile and sinful nature Incorruption shall put on : -Life renewing, glorious Saviour, 1 Let thy glorious will be done. Madan's Col. HYMN 219. C. M. Plymouth. [b] ETERNAL God, enthron'd on high! Whom angel hosts adore; Who yet to suppliant dust art nigh, 2 O guide me down the steep of age, 3 My flying years time urges on, e My friends, my young companions goneCan I expect to stay? e 4 Can I exemption plead, when death Projects his awful dart? |