2 Bulwarks of mighty grace defend
The city where we dwell!

The walls, of strong salvation made,
Defy the assaults of hell.

3 Lift up the everlasting gates,
The doors wide open fling;
Enter, ye nations, who obey
The statutes of our King.

4 Here shall you taste unmingled joys,
And live in perfect peace;
You, who have known Jehovah's name,
And tasted of his grace.

5 Trust in the Lord, forever trust,
And banish all your fears;

Strength in the Lord Jehovah dwells,
Eternal as his years.

S. M.

Brotherly Love.

1 BLEST are the sons of peace,

WATTS.

Whose hearts and hopes are one;
Whose kind designs to serve and please
Through all their actions run!

2 Blest is the pious house,

Where zeal and friendship meet;

Their songs of praise, their mingled vows,
Make their communion sweet.

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3 Thus on the heavenly hills
The saints are blest above;

Where peace like morning dew distils,
And all the air is love.

8 & 7s. M.

COWPER.

Future Peace and Glory of the Church.

1 HEAR What God, the Lord, hath spoken:
O my people, faint and few,
Comfortless, afflicted, broken:
Fair abodes I build for you:
Scenes of heartfelt tribulation

Shall no more perplex your ways;
You shall name your walls salvation,
And your gates shall all be praise.

2 There, like streams that feed the garden,
Pleasures without end shall flow;
For the Lord, your faith rewarding,
All his bounty shall bestow:
Still in undisturbed possession

Peace and righteousness shall reign;
Never shall you feel oppression,
Hear the voice of war again.

3 Ye, no more your suns descending,
Waning moons no more shall see;
But your griefs forever ending,
Find eternal noon in me:

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God shall rise, and shining o'er you,
Change to-day the gloom of night;
He, the Lord, shall be your glory,
God your everlasting light.

8 & 7s. M.

J. NEWTON.

The City of God.

1 GLORIOUS things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God!

He whose word cannot be broken,
Formed thee for his own abode.

2 On the Rock of Ages founded,

What can shake thy sure repose?
With salvation's walls surrounded,
Thou mayst smile at all thy foes.

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3 See! the streams of living waters,
Springing from eternal love,

Well supply thy sons and daughters,
And all fear of want remove.

4 Who can faint while such a river
Ever flows their thirst to assuage?
Grace, which, like the Lord the Giver,
Never fails from age to age.

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7 & 6s. M.

Joy and Peace in Believing.

1 SOMETIMES a light surprises
The Christian while he sings;
It is the Lord, who rises

With healing on his wings:
When comforts are declining,
He grants the soul again
A season of clear shining,
To cheer it after rain.

2 In holy contemplation,

We sweetly then pursue
The theme of God's salvation,
And find it ever new;

Set free from present sorrow,

We cheerfully can say,

E'en let the unknown to-morrow
Bring with it what it may!

3 It can bring with it nothing
But he will bear us through;
Who gives the lilies clothing
Will clothe his people too;
Beneath the spreading heavens
No creature but is fed;
And he who feeds the ravens

Will give his children bread.

COWPER.

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1 THE heaven of heavens cannot contain
The universal Lord!

Yet he in humble hearts will deign
To dwell and be adored.

2 Where'er ascends the sacrifice
Of fervent praise and prayer,
Or on the earth or in the skies,
The God of heaven is there.

3 His presence is diffused abroad

Through realms, through worlds unknown : Who seek the mercies of our God

Are ever near his throne.

7s. M.

ANCIENT HYMNS.

Commendatory of Social Worship.

1 EVER sounds with holy hymns
The abode of saints on high,
Echoing to the seraphim's

Holy, holy, holy cry:

Joining that great psalm of praise,
We our humbler voices raise.

2 O'er our temple, Lord of all,

Thy benignant light extend;
Here be present at our call;

Here thy people's vows attend;