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6 Oh! may I bear some humble part,
In that immortal song ;

Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love command my tongue.

Omnipresence.-Ps. 139.

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1 BEYOND, beyond the boundless sea,
Above that dome of sky,
Further than thought itself can flee,
Thy dwelling is on high:
Yet dear the awful thought to me,
That thou, my God! art nigh:-

2 Art nigh, and yet my laboring mind
Feels after thee in vain-

Thee in these works of power to find,
Or to thy seat attain;

Thy messenger-the stormy wind;
Thy path-the trackless main.

3 These speak of thee with loud acclaim;
They thunder forth thy praise-
The glorious honor of thy name,
The wonders of thy ways;
But thou art not in tempest-flame,
Nor in the noon-day blaze.

4 We hear thy voice, when thunders roll
Through the wide fields of air:
The waves obey thy dread control;
Yet still thou art not there:

Where shall I find him, O my soul !
Who yet is everywhere?

5 Oh, not in circling depth or height,
But in the conscious breast,

Present to faith, though vailed from sight,
There does his Spirit rest:

Oh, come, thou Presence infinite '

And make thy creature blest.

L. M.

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Eternity.-Dan. 7: 9.

1 GREAT Former of this various frame,
Our souls adore thine awful name,
And bow and tremble, while they praise
The Ancient of eternal days.
2 Our days a transient period run,
And change with every circling sun;
And, in the firmest state we boast,
Before the moth we sink to dust.
3 But let the creatures fall around ;
Let death consign us to the ground;
Let the last general flame arise,

And melt the arches of the skies;—
4 Calm as the summer's ocean, we
Can all the wreck of nature see,
While grace secures us an abode
Unshaken as the throne of God.

Love.-Ephesians 3: 17-19.

1 Он, for a shout of joy,
Worthy the theme we sing;
To this divine employ

Our hearts and voices bring;

Sound, sound, thro' all the earth abroad,
The love, th' eternal love of God.

2 Unnumbered myriads stand,
Of seraphs bright and fair,
Or bow at thy right hand,

And pay their homage there;
But strive in vain with loudest chord,
To sound thy wondrous love, O Lord.

3 Yet sinners saved by grace,

In songs of lower key,

In every age and place,

Have sung the mystery,

Have told in strains of sweet accord,
Thy love, thy sovereign love, O Lord.

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4 Though earth and hell assail,
And doubts and fears arise,
The weakest shall prevail,

And grasp the heavenly prize,

And through an endless age record
Thy love, thy changeless love, O Lord.

Condescension.-Psalm 8.

1 O LORD, our heavenly King,
Thy name is all divine;

Thy glories round the earth are spread,
And o'er the heavens they shine.

2 When I survey the stars,

And all their shining forms,
Lord, what is man, that worthless thing,
Akin to dust and worms?

3 Lord, what is worthless man,

That thou shouldst love him so?
Next to thine angels is he placed,
And lord of all below.

4 How rich thy bounties are,

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And wondrous are thy ways;

Of dust and worms thy power can frame
A monument of praise.

5 O Lord, our heavenly King,

Thy name is all divine;

Thy glories round the earth are spread,
And o'er the heavens they shine.

Trinity.

1 To him that chose us first,

Before the world began;
To him that bore the curse

To save rebellious man;

To him that formed

Our hearts anew,

Is endless praise

And glory due.

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2 The Father's love shall run
Through our immortal songs;
We bring to God the Son

Hosannas on our tongues;

Our lips address

The Spirit's name

With equal praise

And zeal the same.

3 Let every saint above,

And angel round the throne,
Forever bless and love

The sacred Three in One;

Thus heaven shall raise! When earth and time

His honors high,

Grow old and die.

In the Seasons.-Psalm 147.

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1 WITH Songs and honors sounding loud,
Address the Lord on high;

Over the heavens he spreads his cloud,
And waters vail the sky.

2 He sends his showers of blessings down,
To cheer the plains below;

He makes the grass the mountains crown,
And corn in valleys grow.

3 His steady counsels change the face
Of the declining year;

He bids the sun cut short his race,
And wintry days appear.

4 His hoary frost, his fleecy snow,
Descend and clothe the ground;
The liquid streams forbear to flow,
In icy fetters bound.

5 H sends his word and melts the snow,
The fields no longer mourn;

He calls the warmer gales to blow,
And bids the spring return.

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6 The changing wind, the flying cloud,
Obey his mighty word:

With songs and honors sounding loud,
Praise ye the sovereign Lord.

Trinity.

1 BLEST Trinity! from mortal sight
Vailed in thine own eternal light!
We thee confess, in thee believe;
To thee with loving hearts we cleave.
2 O Father! thou Most Holy One!
O God of God! Eternal Son!
O Holy Ghost! thou Love Divine!
To join them both is ever thine.
3 The Father is in God the Son,
And with the Father he is one;
In both the Spirit doth abide,
And with them both is glorified.
4 Eternal Father! thee we praise;
To thee, O Son! our hymns we raise;
O Holy Ghost! we thee adore!
One mighty God forevermore.

Love.

1 My God, thy boundless love I praise;
How bright on high its glories blaze!
How sweetly bloom below!

It streams from thy eternal throne;
Through heaven its joys forever run,
And o'er the earth they flow.

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2 'Tis love that paints the purple morn,
And bids the clouds, in air upborne,
Their genial drops distill!

In

every vernal beam it glows,

It breathes in every gale that blows,
And glides in every rill.

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