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1. LORD! Thou didst arise and say,
To the troubled waters, "Peace!"
And the tempest died away,

Down they sank, the foaming seas;
And a calm and heaving sleep
Spread o'er all the glassy deep;
All the azure lake serene

Like another heaven was seen!

2. Lord! Thy gracious word repeat
To the billows of the proud;
Quell the tyrant's martial heat;
Quell the fierce and changing crowd:
Then the earth shall find repose
From oppressions and from woes;
And an imaged heaven appear
On our world of darkness here.

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MILMAN.

1. SONS of men, behold from far,
Hail the long-expected star!
Star of truth that gilds the night,
And guides bewildered men aright.

2. Mild it shines on all beneath,
Piercing through the shades of death;
Scattering error's wide-spread night;
Kindling darkness into light.

3. Nations all, remote and near,
Haste to see your Lord appear;
Haste, for Him your hearts prepare,
Meet Him manifested there!

4. There behold the day-spring rise,
Pouring light on mortal eyes;
See it chase the shades away,
Shining to the perfect day.

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2. Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad morn

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Long by the prophets of Israel foretold; Hail to the millions from bondage returning, Gentiles and Jews the blest vision behold.

3. Lo! in the desert rich flowers are springing,

Streams ever copious are gliding along;

Loud from the mountain-tops echoes are

ringing,

Wastes rise in verdure and mingle in song.

4. See, from all lands-from the isles of the ocean,

Praise to Jehovah ascending on high; Fallen are the engines of war and commotion,

Shouts of salvation are rending the sky.

T. HASTINGS.

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make the Saviour known! On earth ye knew His wondrous grace; His beauteous face In heaven ye view.

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1. We are living, we are dwell-ing, In a grand and aw-ful time, In an age on

ages tell-ing, To be living is sublime. Hark! the waking up of na-tions, Gog and

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Ma-gog to the fray. Hark! what soundeth? is creation Groaning for its latter da?

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2. Will ye play, then, will ye dally,
With your music and your wine?
Up! it is Jehovah's rally!

"God's own arm hath need of thine.
Hark! the onset! will ye fold your
Faith-clad arms in lazy lock?
Up, O up, thou drowsy soldier;

Worlds are charging to the shock.

3. Worlds are charging-heaven beholding;
Thou hast but an hour to fight;
Now the blazoned cross unfolding,
On-right onward, for the right.
On! let all the soul within you

For the truth's sake go abroad!
Strike! let every nerve and sinew
Tell on ages-tell for God!

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A. C. COXE.

1. GLORIOUS things of thee are spoken,

Zion, city of our God;

He, whose word can not be broken,
Formed thee for His own abode;

On the Rock of Ages foundedWhat can shake thy sure repose? With salvation's walls surrounded, Thou may'st smile on all thy foes.

2. See, the streams of living waters,
Springing from eternal love,
Well supply thy sons and daughters,
And all fear of want remove;
Who can faint while such a river
Ever flows thy thirst t' assuage?
Grace, which, like the Lord, the giver,
Never fails from age to age.

3. Round each habitation hovering, See the cloud and fire appear! For a glory and a covering,

Showing that the Lord is nearHe who gives them daily manna, He who listens when they cryLet him hear the loud hosanna Rising to His throne on high.

NEWTON.

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1. ONWARD, onward, men of heaven!
Bear the Gospel's banner high;
Rest not till its light is given,
Star of every pagan sky.
Send it where the pilgrim-stranger
Faints 'neath Asia's scorching ray;
Bid the red browed forest ranger
Hail it, ere he fades away.

2. Where the Arctic ocean thunders,
Where the tropics fiercely glow,
Broadly spread its page of wonders,
Brightly bid its radiance flow.
India marks its luster stealing,
Shiv'ring Greenland loves its rays,
Afric, 'mid her deserts kneeling,

Lifts the untaught strain of praise. 3. Rude in speech, or grim in feature, Dark in spirit tho' they be, Show that light to every creature, Prince or vassal-bond or free. Lo! they haste to every nation, Host on host the ranks supply, Onward!-Christ is your salvation, And your death is victory.

SIGOURNEY.

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2. Men, not now their hands imbruing,
Brother, in a brother's blood,
Sport with terror, death, and ruin,

Reckless borne on passion's flood;
Arts of peace, the nations blessing,

Clothe the hills, the valleys cheer; While the world, its wrongs redressing, Breathes a new, sabbatic year.

3. Lord of earth! its mournful story Hasten, in Thy grace, to close; Bring the days of brighter glory, Calm its tumults, heal its woes; All, around the cross uniting,

Blend in one harmonious throng; Peace, the rolls of time inditing, Love, the universal song.

MRS. GILBERT.

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