Idols before his name shall fall,

And Christ our God be Lord of all.

4

Thus every land and clime shall hear The Lord is God, his name revere ; From sin, and death, and darkness rise, And join the concert of the skies.

HYMN 254. S. M.

LONG have the infernal band

In bondage held the mind; Darkness and lies spread o'er the land, And made the nations blind.

2

The christian world has lain
In error, sin, and night;

But heav'n's bright sun appears again,
And beams celestial light.

3

Now living waters flow,

To cheer the humble soul; From sea to sea the rivers go, And spread from pole to pole.

4

Now righteousness shall spring,
And grow on earth again;

Jesus Jehovah be our King,

And o'er the nations reign.

5

Jésus shall rule alone,

The world shall hear his word;

By one bless'd name shall he be known, The universal Lord.

HYMN 255. C. M.

BEHOLD the God of truth and might,
Jehovah, Jesus, Lord;
Around him beams celestial light,
And be our God ador'd!

2

The Son of man, and God of heav'n,
On clouds he makes his way :
To him are pow'r and glory giv❜n,
And boundless is his sway.

3

His holy kingdom is begun,

And will divinely grow;

Nations and lands, from sun to sun,

Their God and Saviour know.

4

People of ev'ry name confess

Jehovah, Jesus, Lord,

Serve him in truth and righteousness,
And glory in his word.

5

His kingdom must for ever stand,
Our God for ever reign:

His church, supported by his hand,
Eternal shall remain.

HYMN 256. L. M.

JESUS, thou Sun of love divine,
Thy rays through boundless nature shine;
In thee with bright effulgence meet
Wisdom and love, and light and heat.

2

Through heaven thy glory is display'd
In one bright day without a shade

Angels from thee supremely prove
The nameless, endless joys of love.

3

With thee they dwell in fervid light,
Nor feel nor fear the shades of night;
Thy heavenly beams will never fail,
But one eternal day prevail.

4

Be darkness known on earth no more,
But truth display'd from shore to shore;
Till men of every land shall see
Thy glory, Lord, and worship thee.

5

'Tis done the Sun of love appears,
The shades withdraw, the morning clears;
Now love and truth prevails again,
And one eternal day shall reign.

HYMN 257. C. M.

How shall we praise thy dear-lov'd Name?
Our Saviour and our God;
Fain would we all thy love proclaim,
And sound thy pow'r abroad.

2

But ah! our noblest accents die,
So weak and mean they prove;
In vain our warmest praises try
To speak thy boundless love.

3

So vast the subject, angels' tongues
Can never speak its worth ;

Not all their soul-enchanting songs,
Can ever set it forth.

4

Unfathomable are its deeps,
Its height no angel knows ;

Open this fountain ever keeps,
And unto all it flows.

5

For love is Deity alone,

'Tis heav'n, and all divine; It beams refulgent from the throne; And will forever shine.

HYMN 258. C. M.

WHEN Jesus shed compassion's tear

O'er Israel's fallen race,

"I will (said he) again appear, And with superior grace."

2

The Jews were faithless, and his word
They treated with disdain :
But faithful is the mighty Lord,
And, lo! he comes again.

3

But not the man of sorrow now,

He bears the cross no more;

No more sharp thorns disgrace his brow; But heav'n and earth adore.

4

The mighty God of all appears,

The only God is he ;

He comes to dry his Zion's tears,
And set the captive free.

Now blessing, honour, glory, praise

By angel hosts are sung;

The saints below their voices raise,
And join the heav'nly throng.

2

Ador'd be he who comes to bless
The nations with his love;

To shew his truth and righteousness,
And ev'ry cloud remove.

3

Blessed be he who comes to reign
In Zion's happy land :
Jerusalem is built again,

And shall forever stand.

4

No more this kingdom shall decay,
No more the temple fall;

Here Jesus reigns with endless sway,
The King and Lord of all.

WHAT blessings below we daily receive!
There's nothing too great for Jesus to give ;
Ten thousand rich mercies encircle us round,
And we in this desert with goodness are crown'd.

2

Though common our gifts, no less do they prove The Giver is kind and free in his love;

The more they are common, the more may we see How kind to poor sinners Jehovah can be.

3

Our health,strength, and ease, our clothing and food,
Jehovah gives these, and all that is good;
The earth teems with plenty our wants to supply,
And millions of cattle to feed us must die.

For us must the rain in showers descend,
The vast orbs of light our footsteps attend ;
The sun beams around us in glory by day,
The moon and stars nightly direct us our way.