2. When earth and heaven in liquid flame,
Shall melt and burn to dross,
O'er all that ruin shall remain
The standard of the Cross.
8. There shall the radiant armies flock,
Whom Jesus calls his own;
Nor tremble at the mighty shock
That hurls creation down.
4. Firm as the everlasting hills,
Remains the sinner's Friend;
The Faith, which now our bosom fills,
Shall there in glory end.
341 L. M. Hardness of Heart lamented. WESLEY.
LORD! shed a beam of heavenly day,
To melt this stubborn stone away;
Now thaw, with rays of love divine,
This heart-this frozen heart of mine.
2. The rocks can rend; the earth can quake;
The seas can roar; the mountains shake;
Of feeling all things show some sign,
But this unfeeling heart of mine.
3. To hear the sorrows Thou hast felt,
What but an adamant would melt!
Goodness and wrath in vain combine,
To move this stupid heart of mine.
4. But ONE can yet perform the deed;
That One is all the grace I need;
Thy Spirit can from dross refine,
And melt this stubborn heart of mine.
2. Sequestered from the noise and strife,
The lust, the pomp, and pride of life;
Prepared for Heaven, my noblest care,
And have my conversation there.
3. Nothing, save Jesus, would I know!
My Friend, and my Companion, Thou:
Lord, take my heart, assert thy right,
And put all other loves to flight.
4. Detach from sublunary joys
One that would only hear Thy voice,
Thy beauty see, thy grace admire,
Nor glow but with celestial fire.
5. Larger communion let me prove
With Thee, blest object of my love!
But oh! for this no power have I ;—
My strength is at THY feet to lie.
FAITH is the brightest evidence
Of things beyond our sight,
Breaks through the clouds of flesh and sense,
And dwells in heavenly light.
2. It sets time past in present view,
Brings distant prospects home;
Of things a thousand years ago,
Or thousand years to come.
3. By faith we know the worlds were made,
By God's almighty Word;
Abra'm, to unknown countries led,
By faith obeyed the Lord.
4. He sought a city fair and high,
Built by the eternal hands:
And Faith assures us, though we die,
That heavenly building stands.
FAITH!-'tis a precious grace,
Where'er it is bestowed!
It boasts of a celestial birth,
Jesus it owns a King,-
An all-atoning Priest:
It claims no merit of its own,
But looks for all in Christ.
To Him it leads the soul,
When filled with deep distress,
Flies to the fountain of his blood,
And trusts his righteousness.
Since 'tis Thy work alone,
And that divinely free;
Lord, send the Spirit of thy Son,
To work this faith in me.
L. M. Walking by Faith.
LORD, we adore thy vast designs,
The obscure abyss of Providence;
Too deep to sound with mortal lines,
Too dark to view with feeble sense.
2. Now thou array'st thine awful face
In angry frowns, without a smile;
We through the cloud believe thy grace,
Secure of thy compassion still.
3. Through seas and storms of deep distress,
We sail by faith, and not by sight;
Faith guides us in the wilderness,
Through all the briers, and the night.
4. Dear Father, if thy lifted 10d
Resolve to scourge us here below;
Still we must lean upon our God;
Thine arm shall bear us safely through.
339 L. M. Faith the Way to Salvation. DoDDRIDGE.
AND is salvation brought so near,
Where sinful men expiring lie?
Triumph, my soul, the sound to hear,
And shout it joyous to the sky.
2. I ask not who to heaven shall scale,
That Christ the Saviour thence may come?
Or who earth's inmost depths assail,
To bring him from the dreary tomb.
3. From heaven on wings of love he flew,
And Conqueror from the tomb he sprung:
My heart believes the witness true,
And dictates to my faithful tongue.
4. I sing salvation brought so near,
No more on earth expiring lie;
I teach the world my joys to hear,
And shout them to the echoing sky.
C. M. Triumph of Faith,
YE saints, that bow at Jesus feet,
In heart and tongue the same,
Hosannas sing, in concord sweet,
To our atoning Lamb!
2. When earth and heaven in liquid flame,
Shall melt and burn to dross,
O'er all that ruin shall remain
The standard of the Cross.
3. There shall the radiant armies flock,
Whom Jesus calls his own;
Nor tremble at the mighty shock
That hurls creation down.
4. Firm as the everlasting hills,
Remains the sinner's Friend;
The Faith, which now our bosom fills,
Shall there in glory end.
341 L. M. Hardness of Heart lamented. WESLEY. LORD! shed a beam of heavenly day,
To melt this stubborn stone away;
Now thaw, with rays of love divine,
This heart-this frozen heart of mine.
2. The rocks can rend; the earth can quake;
The seas can roar; the mountains shake;
Of feeling all things show some sign,
But this unfeeling heart of mine.
3. To hear the sorrows Thou hast felt,
What but an adamant would melt!
Goodness and wrath in vain combine,
To move this stupid heart of mine.
4. But ONE can yet perform the deed;
That One is all the grace I need;
Thy Spirit can from dross refine,
And melt this stubborn heart of mine.
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