JESUS IS GOD! THE SOLID EARTH.

Backward our thoughts through ages stretch,

Onward through endless bliss;

For there are two eternities,

And both alike are His!

Jesus is God! let sorrow come,
And pain and every ill;

All are worth while, for all are means
His glory to fulfil;

Worth while a thousand years of life
To speak one little word,

If by our Credo we might own
The Godhead of our Lord.

Jesus is God! oh, could I now
But compass land and sea,
To teach and tell this single truth,
How happy should I be !

Oh, had I but an angel's voice,

I would proclaim so loud,Jesus, the good, the beautiful, Is everlasting God!

Jesus is God! if on the earth
This blessed faith decays,

More tender must our love become,
More plentiful our praise.

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We are not angels, but we may
Down in earth's corners kneel,
And multiply sweet acts of love,
And murmur what we feel.

KING OF KINGS, AND WILT THOU DEIGN?

W. A. MUHLENBERG, D.D., author of "I would not live alway." 1859.

KING

ING of kings, and wilt Thou deign
O'er this wayward heart to reign?
Henceforth take it for Thy throne,1
Rule here, Lord, and rule alone.

Then, like heaven's angelic bands,
Waiting for Thine high commands,
All my powers shall wait on Thee,
Captive, yet divinely free.

At Thy Word my will shall bow,
Judgment, reason, bending low;
Hope, desire, and every thought,
Into glad obedience brought.

So reads the written copy, kindly furnished me by the author. In the printed volume of his poems, this line is changed

thus:

"Other Sovereign, none I'll own."

O CHRIST, THE LORD OF HEAVEN!

Zeal shall haste on eager wing,
Hourly some new gift to bring;
Wisdom, humbly casting down
At Thy feet her golden crown.

Tuned by Thee in sweet accord,
All shall sing their gracious Lord;
Love, the leader of the choir,
Breathing round her seraph fire.

Be it so my heart's Thy throne,
All my powers Thy sceptre own,
And, with them on Thine own hill,
Live rejoicing in Thy will.

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O CHRIST, THE LORD OF HEAVEN!

RAY PALMER, D.D., May 9, 1867. Praise to Christ. Rev. xix. 16.

O

CHRIST, the Lord of heaven, to Thee,
Clothed with all majesty divine,

Eternal power and glory be,

Eternal praise of right is Thine!

Reign, Prince of Life! that once Thy brow
Didst yield to wear the wounding thorn;
Reign throned beside the Father now,

Adored the Son of God first-born!

From angel hosts that round Thee stand, With forms more pure than spotless snow, From the bright, burning seraph band,

Let praise in loftiest numbers flow!

To Thee, the Lamb, our mortal songs,
Born of deep, fervent love shall rise;
All honor to Thy name belongs,

Our lips would sound it to the skies.

Jesus! all earth shall speak the word;
Jesus! all heaven resound it still;
Immanuel, Saviour, Conqueror, Lord,
Thy praise the universe shall fill!

CHRIST JUDGING THE WORLD.

"WHEN the Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Hir, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory. And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.”. MATT. XXV. 31, 32.

"We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body."-2 COR. v. 10.

JUDEX mundi quum sedebit,

Quidquid latet apparebit,

Nil inultum remanebit.

Quid sum, miser, tunc dicturus,

Quem patronum rogaturus,
Quum vix justus sit securus!

Rex tremenda majestatis,
Qui salvandos salvas gratis,
Salva me, Fons pietatis !

Recordare, JESU pie,
Quod sum causa tuæ viæ;
Ne me perdas illa die !

Quærens me sedisti lassus,
Redemisti crucem passus;

Tantus labor non sit cassus !

Justæ Judex ultionis,

Donum fac remissionis

Ante diem rationis !

Oro supplex et acclinis,

Cor contritum, quasi cinis;

Gere curam mei finis. Amen.

From the Dies Ira.