4 3 Though men your hope deride, Nor will themselves believe; Yet in his word confide, Who never can deceive; in Advent. When heaven and earth shall pass away, 4 For you the Lord intends A bright abode on high; The place where sorrow ends, And nought is known but joy: Spread of the Gospel. Isa. ii, 18. Acts xv, 3. Rom. xiii, 12. Darkness flies at his command. 8.7.4. 2 Let us hail the joyful season, At his presence Gloom and darkness haste away. in Advent. 5 3 Oh! 'tis pleasant, 'tis reviving To our hearts, to hear each day Who in death and darkness lay. At Jehovah's dread command! Christ's peaceful reign. Isa. ii, 1-5. 1 BEHOLD, the temple of the Lord In latter days shall rise Above the mountains and the hills, And draw our wond'ring eyes. 2[To this the joyful nations round, All lands and tongues, shall flow: Up to the hill of God," they'll cry, "And to his house we'll go."] 66 3 The beam, that shines on Zion's hill, Shall lighten ev'ry land; C. M. The King, who reigns in Zion's towers, 6 in Advent. 4 No strife shall wound Messiah's reign, To ploughshares now they beat their swords, 5 No longer hosts encount'ring hosts The clanging trumpet silent hangs, 6 Come then, O come, from ev'ry land, And, walking in the light of God, Christ's second coming. Rev. xi, 15-17. L. M. 1 HE COMES! He comes! the Judge on high! in Advent. 4 Shout! all ye people of the sky, 2nd Sunday in Advent. 7 Christ's glorious advent. Luke xxi, 25-27. Rev. vi, 15-17. L. M. 1 THE Lord will come! the earth shall quake, The hills their fixed seat forsake; And, with'ring, from the vault of night 2 The Lord will come! but not the same A silent lamb to slaughter led, The bruis'd, the suff'ring, and the dead. 4 Can this be He, once wont to stray in Advent. 5 While sinners to the rocks complain, 8 Consolation found in God's word. John v, 39. Rom. xv, 4. 1 FATHER of mercies, in thy word 2 Here springs of consolation rise C. M. 3[When guilt and terror, pain and grief, And conscience turns from all relief, 4 Here the Redeemer's welcome voice |