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3 Though men your hope deride, Nor will themselves believe; Yet in his word confide,

Who never can deceive;

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When heaven and earth shall pass away,
The saints shall see a glorious day.

4 For you the Lord intends

A bright abode on high;

The place where sorrow ends,

And nought is known but joy:
With such a hope, ye saints, rejoice;
We soon shall hear th' archangel's voice.

Spread of the Gospel.

Isa. ii, 18. Acts xv, 3. Rom. xiii, 12.
1 YES, we trust the day is breaking;
Joyful times are near at hand;
God, the mighty God, is speaking
By his word in ev'ry land:
Mark his progress;

Darkness flies at his command.

8.7.4.

2 Let us hail the joyful season,
Let us hail the rising ray:
When the Lord appears, there's reason
To expect a glorious day;

At his presence

Gloom and darkness haste away.

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3 Oh! 'tis pleasant, 'tis reviving

To our hearts, to hear each day
Joyful news from far arriving,
How the gospel wins its way,
Those enlight'ning

Who in death and darkness lay.
4 God of Jacob, high and glorious,
Let thy people see thy hand;
Let the gospel be victorious,
Through the world, in ev'ry land;
Perish idols!

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."]

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3 The beam, that shines on Zion's hill, Shall lighten ev'ry land;

C. M.

The King, who reigns in Zion's towers,
Shall the whole world command.

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4 No strife shall wound Messiah's reign,
Or mar the peaceful years;

To ploughshares now they beat their swords,
To pruning hooks their spears.

5 No longer hosts encount'ring hosts
Their millions slain deplore;

The clanging trumpet silent hangs,
The war-note sounds no more!

6 Come then, O come, from ev'ry land,
To worship at his shrine;

And, walking in the light of God,
With peace and glory shine!

Christ's second coming.

Rev. xi, 15-17.

L. M.

1 HE COMES! He comes! the Judge on high!
The seventh trumpet speaks Him nigh;
The lightnings flash, the thunders roll-
He's welcome to the faithful soul.
2 From heav'n angelic voices sound,
See the Almighty Jesus crown'd!
Girt with omnipotence and grace!
And glory decks the Saviour's face.
3 Descending from his ancient throne,
He claims the kingdoms for his own:
The kingdoms all obey his word,
And hail Him their triumphant Lord.

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4 Shout! all ye people of the sky,
And all ye saints of God most high!
Jesus, who now his right obtains,
For ever and for ever reigns.

2nd Sunday in Advent.

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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
The stars withdraw their feeble light.

2 The Lord will come! but not the same
As once in lowly form He came,

A silent lamb to slaughter led,

The bruis'd, the suff'ring, and the dead.
3 The Lord will come! a dreadful form,
With wreath of flame, and robe of storm,
On cherub wings, and wings of wind,
Anointed Judge of human-kind!

4 Can this be He, once wont to stray
A pilgrim on the world's highway,
By power oppress'd, and mock'd by pride,
The Nazarene, the Crucified?

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5 While sinners to the rocks complain,
And seek the mountain's cleft in vain;
The saints, victorious o'er the tomb,
Shall sing for joy:-The Lord is come!

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Consolation found in God's word.

John v, 39. Rom. xv, 4.

1 FATHER of mercies, in thy word
What endless glory shines!
For ever be thy Name ador'd
For these celestial lines.

2 Here springs of consolation rise
To cheer the fainting mind;
Here thirsty souls receive supplies,
And sweet refreshment find.

C. M.

3[When guilt and terror, pain and grief,
United, rend the heart,

And conscience turns from all relief,
That springs from human art:]

4 Here the Redeemer's welcome voice
Spreads heav'nly peace around;
And life, and everlasting joys,
Attend the blissful sound.