HYMN 446.-Continued.

5 As giants may they run their race, Exulting in their might; As burning luminaries, chase

The gloom of hellish night:

6 As the bright Sun of righteousness,
Their healing wings display;
And let their lustre still increase
Unto the perfect day.

HYMN 447.-Continued.

2 But shall he still devour
The souls redeemed by thee?

Jesus, stir up thy glorious power
And end the apostasy!

Come, Saviour, from above,
O'er all our hearts to reign;
And plant the kingdom of thy love
In every heart of man.

3 Then shall we exercise,
The hellish art no more,

While thou our long-lost paradise
Dost with thyself restore.
Fightings and wars shall cease,
And, in thy Spirit given,
Pure joy and everlasting peace

Shall turn our earth to heaven.

1 Eternal Lord of earth and skies, We wait thy Spirit's latest call: Bid all our fallen race arise,

Calcutta.

Thou who hast purchased life for all;
Whose only name, to sinners given,
Snatches from hell, and lifts to heaven.

2 The word thy sacred lips has past,
The sure irrevocable word,
That every soul shall bow at last,
And yield allegiance to its Lord;
The kingdoms of the earth shall be
For ever subjected to thee.

3 Jesus, for this we still attend,

Thy kingdom in the isles to prove; The law of sin and death to end,

We wait for all the power of love, The law of perfect liberty,

The law of life which is in thee.

4 O might it now from thee proceed,

With thee into the souls of men! Throughout the world thy gospel spread; And let thy glorious Spirit reign, On all the ransomed race bestowed: And let the world be filled with God!

HYMN 449.-Continued.

2 Visit us, bright morning Star,
And bring the perfect day!
Urged by faith's incessant prayer,
No longer, Lord, delay:
Now destroy the envious root;
The ground of nature's feuds remove;
Fill the earth with golden fruit,
With ripe, millenial love.

HYMN 454.-Continued.

2 We call thee Lord, thy faith profess, But do not from our hearts obey; In soft Laodicean ease

We sleep our useless lives away.

3 We live in pleasure, and are dead,
In search of fame and wealth we live :
Commanded in thy steps to tread,

We seek sometimes, but never strive.

4 A lifeless form we still retain ;

Of this we make our empty boast,
Nor know the name we take in vain;
The power of godliness is lost!

5 How long, great God, have we appeared
Abominable in thy sight!

Better that we had never heard

Thy word, or seen the gospel light.

6 Better that we had never known
The way to heaven through saving grace,
Than basely in our lives disown,
And slight and mock thee to thy face.

7 Thou rather wouldst that we were cold,
Than seem to serve thee without zeal;
Less guilty if, with those of old,
We worshipped Thor and Woden still.
S Less grievous will the judgment-day
To Sodom and Gomorrah prove,
Than us, who cast our faith away,
And trample on thy richer love.

HYMN 456.--Continued.

2 Our claim admit, and from above
Of holiness the Spirit shower,
Of wise discernment, humble love,
And zeal, and unity, and power.

3 The Spirit of convincing speech,
Of power demonstrative, impart,
Such as may every conscience reach,
And sound the unbelieving heart;

4 The Spirit of refining fire,

Searching the inmost of the mind,
To purge all fierce and foul desire,
And kindle life more pure and kind;

5 The Spirit of faith, in this thy day,
To break the power of cancelled sin,
Tread down its strength, o'erturn its sway,
And still the conquest more than win.

6 The Spirit breathe of inward life,
Which in our hearts thy laws may write ;
Then grief expires, and pain, and strife,
'Tis nature all, and all delight.

HYMN 458.-Continued.

2 Thou seest their wants, thou know'st names,

Be mindful of thy youngest care;
Be tender of thy new-born lambs,
And gently in thy bosom bear.

3 The lion roaring for his prey,

And ravening wolves on every side, Watch over them to tear and slay,

If found one moment from their guide.

4 Satan his thousand arts essays,

His agents all their powers employ,
To blast the blooming work of grace,
The heavenly offspring to destroy.
5 Baffle the crooked serpent's skill,
And turn his sharpest dart aside;
Hide from their eyes the devilish ill,
O save them from the demon, pride!

6 In safety lead thy little flock,

From hell, the world, and sin secure ; And set their feet upon the rock, And make in thee their goings sure.

HYMN 459.-Continued.

2 O wouldst thou end the storm, That keeps us still apart! The thing impossible perform, And make us of one heart, One spirit and one mind, The same that was in thee: O might we all again be joined In perfect harmony!

3 The soul-transforming word
In us, even us, fulfil;
Join to thyself, our common Lord,
And all thy servants seal.
Confer the grace unknown,
The mystic charity;

As thou art with the Father one,
Unite us all in thee.

4 So shall the world believe
Our record, Lord, and thine;
And all with thankful hearts receive
The Messenger divine,

Sent from his throne above, To Adam's offspring given, To join and perfect us in love, And take us up to heaven.

3 Beloved for Jesu's sake,
By him redeemed of old,

All nations must come in, and make
One undivided fold:

While gathered in by thee,
And perfected in one,

They all at once thy glory see
In thine eternal Son.