HYMN CXXI. P. M.
Ebenezer.

1.

COM

NOME, thou fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing thy grace, Streams of mercy never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise: Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung by flaming tongues above: Praise the Mount-O fix me on it, Mount of God's unchanging love.

II.

Here I raise my Ebenezer,

Hither by thy help I'm come:
And I hope by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home:
JESUS Sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of GOD;
He to save my soul from danger,
Interpos'd his precious blood,

III.

O! to grace how great a debtor,
Daily I'm constrain'd to be!
Let that grace, LORD, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee;
Prone to wander, LORD, I feel it;
Prone to leave the God I love-
Here's my heart, LORD, take and seal it,
Seal it from thy courts above.

HYMN CXXII. L. M.

A lovely youth forsaking Christ.

I.

MUST all the charms of nature then,
So hopeless to salvation prove?

Can hell command, can heaven condemn
The man whom JESUS deigns to love?—

The man who sought the ways of truth,
Paid friends and neighbours all their due;
A modest, sober, lovely youth,

Who thought he wanted nothing now?

III.

But mark the change: thus spake the LORD, "Come part with earth for heaven to-day :" The youth, astonish'd at the word,

In silent sadness went his way.

IV.

Poor virtues, that he boasted so,
This test unable to endure,

Let CHRIST, and grace, and glory, go,
To make his land and money sure.

V.

Ah, foolish choice of treasures here!
Ah, fatal love of tempting gold!
Must this base world be bought so dear,
And life and heaven so cheaply sold.

VI.

In vain the charms of nature shine,

If this vile passion governs me:

Transform my soul, O love divine!
And make me part with all for thee.

HYMN CXXIII.

L. M.

Children in the arms of Jesus.

I.

THY life I read, my dearest LORD,
With transport all divine;

Thine image trace in every word,
Thy love in every line.

II.

Methinks I see a thousand charms
Spread o'er thy lovely face,
While infants in thy tender arms
Receive the smiling grace.

III.

"I take these little lambs," said he,
"And lay them in my breast;
"Protection they shall find in me,
"In me be ever blest.

IV.

"Death may the bands of life unloose,
"But can't dissolve my love:
"Millions of infant-souls compose
"The family above.

V.

"Their feeble frames my pow'r shall raise, "And mould with heavenly skill:

"I'll give them tongues to sing my praise, "And hands to do my will."

VI.

His words the happy parents hear,
And shout with joys divine,
Dear SAVIOUR, all we have and are
Shall be for ever thine.

HYMN CXXIV.

L. M.

Christ a Guide thro' Death to Glory.

G

I.

UIDE me, O thou great JEHOVAH ! Pilgrim thro' this barren land; I am weak, but thou art mighty, Hold me with thy powerful hand, Bread of heaven,

Feed me till I want no more.

II.

Open thou the crystal fountain,
Whence the healing streams do flow;
Let the fiery cloudy pillar

Lead me all my journey thro',

Strong deliverer,

Be thou still my strength and shield.

III.

When I tread the verge of Jordan,
Bid my anxious fears subside;

Death of deaths, and hell's destruction,
Land me safe on Canaan's side:

Songs of praises,

I will ever give to thee.

HYMN CXXV. L. M.

Sinners and Saints in the Wreck of Nature.

W

I.

How great how terrible that GOD

Who shakes creation with his nod? He frowns-earth, sea, all nature's frame, Sink in one universal flame.

II.

Where now, O where shall sinners seek
For shelter in the general wreck;
Shall falling rocks be o'er them thrown?
See rocks, like snow, dissolving down.

II.

In vain for mercy now they cry;
In lakes of liquid fire they lie;
There on the flaming billows tost,
For ever-O for ever lost.

IV.

But saints, undaunted and serene,
Your eyes shall view the dreadful scene;
Your SAVIOUR lives, the worlds expire,

And earth and skies dissolve in fire.