3 Watchman, tell us of the night,
For the morning seems to dawn.
Trav'ler, darkness takes its flight;
Doubt and terror are withdrawn.
Watchman, let thy wand'ring cease;
Hie thee to thy quiet home.
Trav'ler, lo! the Prince of Peace,
Lo! the Son of God is come.

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The song of jubilee.

[ARK! the song of jubilee;
Loud as mighty thunders roar,

Or the fulness of the sea,

When it breaks upon the shore : Hallelujah! for the Lord

God omnipotent shall reign; Hallelujah! let the word

Echo round the earth and main.

2 Hallelujah!-hark! the sound,
From the centre to the skies,
Wakes above, beneath, around,
All creation's harmonies:
See Jehovah's banners furl'd;

Sheath'd his sword: he speaks-'tis done, And the kingdoms of this world

Are the kingdoms of his Son.

3 He shall reign from pole to pole
With illimitable sway;

He shall reign, when, like a scroll,
Yonder heavens have pass'd away :
Then the end;-beneath his rod,
Man's last enemy shall fall;
Hallelujah! Christ in God,
God in Christ, is all in all.

1005

L. M.

The song of triumph.

NOON may the last glad song arise,
Through all the millions of the skies-
That song of triumph which records
That all the earth is now the Lord's.

2 Let thrones, and powers, and kingdoms, be Obedient, mighty God, to thee;

And over land, and stream, and main,
Now wave the sceptre of thy reign.
3 O let that glorious anthem swell;
Let host to host the triumph tell,
Till not one rebel heart remains,
But over all the Saviour reigns.

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Alleluia, the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
ye the anthems of triumph, that rise
From the throng of the blest, from the hosts
of the skies:

Alleluia, they sing, in rapturous strains;
Alleluia, the Lord God omnipotent reigns.

2 He gave to the light its beneficent wings;
He controlleth the counsels of senates and kings:
From his throne in the clouds the lightnings are
hurl'd,

And he ruleth the factions that rage through the world.

3 Rejoice, ye that love him; his power cannot

fail;

His omnipotent goodness shall surely prevail;
The triumph of evil will shortly be past,
And omnipotent mercy shall conquer at last.
4 Though Satan now maketh the nations his prey
The dominion of darkness shall soon pass away:
Exulting, we join heaven's rapturous strains,-
Alleluia, the Lord God omnipotent reigns.

1007

C. M.

Blessedness of instructing the young.

ELIGHTFUL work! young souls to win,

DELIGH

Dand turn the rising race

From the deceitful paths of sin,

To seek redeeming grace.

2 Children our kind protection claim;
And God will well approve

When infants learn to lisp his name,
And their Redeemer love.

3 Be ours the bliss, in wisdom's way
To guide untutor❜d youth,

And show the mind which went astray
The Way, the Life, the Truth.
4 Almighty God, thine influence shed,
To aid this blest design:

The honours of thy Name be spread,
And all the glory thine.

1008

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A blessing invoked on teachers.

MIGHTY One, before whose face

Wisdom had her glorious seat,
When the orbs that people space
Sprang to birth beneath thy feet;
2 Source of truth, whose rays alone
Light the mighty world of mind;
God of love, who from thy throne
Kindly watchest all mankind;
3 Shed on those, who in thy Name
Teach the way of truth and right,
Shed that love's undying flame,-
Shed that wisdom's guiding light.

1009

C. M.

For a blessing on the children.
WISDOM! whose unfading power
Beside the' Eternal stood,

To frame, in nature's earliest hour,
The land, the sky, the flood;

2 Yet didst thou not disdain awhile
An infant form to wear,-

To bless thy mother with a smile,
And lisp thy falter'd prayer.

3 But in thy Father's own abode,
With Israel's elders round,
Conversing high with Israel's God,
Thy chiefest joy was found.
4 So may our youth adore thy Name!
And, Saviour! deign to bless

With fost'ring grace the timid flame
Of early holiness.

1010

BY

The Christian child.

Y cool Siloam's shady rill
How sweet the lily grows!

C. M.

How sweet the breath, beneath the hill, Of Sharon's dewy rose!

2 Lo! such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trodWhose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God.

3 By cool Siloam's shady rill

The lily must decay;

The rose that blooms beneath the hill

Must shortly fade away.

4 And soon, too soon, the wintry hour Of man's maturer age

Will shake the soul with sorrow's power, And stormy passion's rage.

5 O Thou who givest life and breath, We seek thy grace alone,

In childhood, manhood, age, and death, To keep us still thine own.

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Sanctified knowledge.

COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,

To whom we for our children cry, The good desired, and wanted most, Out of thy richest grace supply; The sacred discipline be given,

To train and bring them up for heaven. 2 Error and ignorance remove;

Their blindness, both of heart and mind: Give them the wisdom from above,Spotless, and peaceable, and kind: In knowledge pure their minds renew, And store with thoughts divinely true. 3 Learning's redundant part and vain Be here cut off, and cast aside: But let them, Lord, the substance gain; In every solid truth abide; Swiftly acquire, and ne'er forego The knowledge fit for man to know. 4 Unite the pair so long disjoin'd, Knowledge and vital piety: Learning and holiness combined,

And truth and love, let all men see In those whom up to thee we give, Thine, wholly thine, to die and live. 1012

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Anniversary; the children's jubilee.
[OSANNA, be the children's song,
To Christ, the children's King;
His praise, to whom our souls belong,
Let all the children sing.