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Active, restless, it would pierce
Through the outward universe.
3 What is it? and whither, whence?
This unsleeping, secret sense,
Longing for its rest and food
In some hidden, untried good?
4 "T is the Soul! mysterious name!
Him it seeks from whom it came ;
It would, mighty God, like thee,
Holy, holy, holy be.

FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY.

319.

C. M.

WATTS.

Faith the Evidence of Things not seen.

1 FAITH is the brightest evidence
Of things beyond our sight;
It pierces through the veil of 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 world was made
By God's almighty word;

We know the heavens and earth shall fade
And be again restored.

4 Abra'm obeyed the Lord's command,
From his own country driven;

By faith he sought a promised land,
But found his rest in heaven.

5 Thus through life's pilgrimage we stray,
The promise in our eye;
By faith we walk the narrow way
That leads to joy on high.

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Prayer for strong Faith.

1 O, FOR a faith that will not shrink,
Though pressed by every foe,
That will not tremble on the brink
Of any earthly woe!

2 That will not murmur nor complain
Beneath the chastening rod,

But, in the hour of grief or pain,
Will lean upon its God;

BATH COLL.

3 A faith that shines more bright and clear When tempests rage without;

That when in danger knows no fear,

In darkness feels no doubt;

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4 That bears, unmoved, the world's dread frown, Nor heeds its scornful smile;

That seas of trouble cannot drown,
Nor Satan's arts beguile;

5 A faith that keeps the narrow way
Till life's last hour is fled,
And with a pure and heavenly ray
Lights up a dying bed.

6 Lord, give us such a faith as this,
And then, whate'er may come,

We'll taste, e'en here, the hallowed bliss
Of an eternal home.

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1 IF on a quiet sea

Toward heaven we calmly sail,

NOEL'S COLL.

With grateful hearts, O God, to thee,
We'll own the favoring gale.

2 But should the surges rise,
And rest delay to come,

Blest be the sorrow, kind the storm,
Which drives us nearer home.

3 Soon shall our doubts and fears
All yield at thy control;
Thy tender mercies shall illume
The midnight of the soul.

4 Teach us, in every state,

To make thy will our own,

And, when the joys of sense depart,
To live by faith alone.

322.

S. H. M.

Excellence of Faith.

CHRISTIAN WATCHMAN.

1 FAITH is the Christian's prop,
Whereon his sorrows lean;

It is the substance of his hope,
His proof of things unseen;

It is the anchor of his soul

When tempests rage and billows roll.

2 Faith is the polar star

That guides the Christian's way,
Directs his wanderings from afar
To realms of endless day;

It points the course, where'er he roam,
And safely leads the pilgrim home.
3 Faith is the rainbow's form

Hung on the brow of heaven,
The glory of the passing storm,
The pledge of mercy given;
It is the bright, triumphal arch,
Through which the saints to glory march.

4 The faith that works by love,
And purifies the heart,
A foretaste of the joys above
To mortals can impart;

It bears us through this earthly strife,
And triumphs in immortal life.

323.

C. M.

A living Faith.

WATTS.

1 MISTAKEN souls, that dream of heaven,
And make their empty boast
Of inward joys, and sins forgiven,
While they are slaves to lust!
2 How vain are fancy's airy flights,
If faith be cold and dead;
None but a living power unites
To Christ, the living Head.
3 'T is faith that purifies the heart;
"T is faith that works by love;
That bids all sinful joys depart,
And lifts the thoughts above.
4 This faith shall every fear control
By its celestial power,

With holy triumph fill the soul
In death's approaching hour.

324.

L. M.

Walking by Faith.

WATTS.

1 'T IS by the faith of joys to come
We walk through deserts dark as night;
Till we arrive at heaven, our home,

Faith is our guide, and faith our light.
2 The want of sight she well supplies;
She makes the pearly gates appear;
Far into distant worlds she pries,
And brings eternal glories near.

3 With joy we tread the desert through,
While faith inspires a heavenly ray,
Though lions roar, and tempests blow,
And rocks and dangers fill the way.
4 So Abra'm by divine command
Left his own house to walk with God;
His faith beheld the promised land,
And fired his zeal along the road.

325.

L. M.

Faith in the invisible God.

DODDRIDGE.

1 ALMIGHTY and immortal King,
Thy peerless splendors none can bear;
But darkness veils seraphic eyes,

When God with all his glory 's there.
2 Yet faith can pierce the awful gloom,
The great Invisible can see,
And with its tremblings mingle joy,
In fixed regards, great God, to thee.
3 This one petition would it urge,

To bear thee ever in its sight;
In life, in death, in worlds unknown,
Its only portion and delight.

326.

L. M.

Soaring by Faith.

1 THERE is a glorious world on high, 'Resplendent with eternal day;

Faith views the blissful prospect nigh,

STEELE.

While God's own word reveals the way. 2 There shall the servants of the Lord With never fading lustre shine; Surprising honor! vast reward! Conferred on man by love divine. 3 Rescued from that destructive way, Where erring folly thoughtless roves,

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