Lo! where He cometh! the Messiah comes !

The King ! the Comforter ! the Christ ! He comes
To burst the bonds of death, and overturn

The power of time.-Hark! the trumpet's blast
Rings o'er the heavens! They rise-the myriads rise,
Even from their graves they spring, and burst the chains
Of torpor. He has ransom'd them.

And hark! those strains, how solemnly serene
They fall-as from the skies-at distance fall-
Again more loud-The hallelujah's swell;
The newly-risen catch the joyful sound;
They glow, they burn; and now with one accord
Bursts forth sublime from every mouth the song
Of praise to God on high, and to the Lamb
Who bled for mortals.

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KIRKE WHITE.

Great God! what do I see and hear!

The end of things created!

The Judge of mankind doth appear,
On clouds of glory seated.

The trumpet sounds! the graves restore
The dead which they contain'd before;
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him.

The dead in Christ shall first arise,
At the last trumpet's sounding,
Caught up to meet Him in the skies,

With joy their Lord surrounding;

No gloomy fears their souls dismay ;
His presence sheds eternal day

On those prepar`d to meet Him.

But sinners fill'd with guilty fears,
Behold His wrath prevailing ;
For they shall rise, and find their tears
And sighs are unavailing ;

The day of grace is past and gone ;
Trembling they stand before the throne,
All unprepar'd to meet Him.

Great God! what do I see and hear!
The end of things created!
The Judge of mankind doth appear
On clouds of glory seated:
Beneath His cross I view the day
When heaven and earth shall pass away,

And thus prepare to meet Him.

Luther.

The slumbering dust of Christ's elect shall wake,
Roused by the trump of God before the change
Shall pass on those surviving. Oh, the strange
Transporting scene! A moment then shall make
These glorious as their peers, that all may take
Their upward path at once in bright array
Of jubilant procession, while the day
Of doom upon the astonished earth shall break.
As, when a king, leaving his regal seat,

Some distant province seeks, the city's flower,

And reverend chiefs come forth, their liege to greet,
Then swell his royal escort; at that hour,
So, in mid-air the saints their Lord shall meet,

Descending in the glory of His

power.

JOSIAH CONder.

How unlike the Man

That groan'd on Calvary! yet He it is;

That Man of sorrow! O how changed! what pomp!
In grandeur terrible all heav'n descends!
And gods, ambitious, triumph in His train.
A swift archangel, with his golden wing,
As blots and clouds, that darken and disgrace
The scene divine, sweep stars and suns aside.
And now, all dross remov'd, heav'n's own pure day,
Full on the confines of our ether, flames.

'Tis present to my thought!-and yet where is it?
Angels can't tell me : angels cannot guess

The period; from created beings lock'd
In darkness.

YOUNG.

Christ in His glory! Oh, the thought
With bliss ineffable is fraught!

And when the soul holds fast

That blessed hope which He has given,
Of endless life with Him in heaven,

Aside all fears are cast.

"INVALID'S HYMN BOOK.

LII. THE LOVE of god FOR HIS ANCIENT PEOPLE, THE ISRAELITES. THEIR REPENTANCE, CONVERSION, AND FINAL RESTORATION TO THEIR NATIVE LAND.

THE Lord hath chosen Jacob unto Himself, and Israel for His peculiar treasure.- PSALM CXXXV. 4.

The redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads.-ISAIAH li. 11.

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them.— JER. XXXI. 9.

And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me.-JER, xxxiii. 8.

Gen. xii. 1-7-xiii. 14-17-xv. 4-7-xvii. 1-10-xxii. 17, 18xxvi. 1-4-xxviii. 10-15-Exod. ii. 24, 25-vi. 8-xix. 3-6— Levit. xxvi. 38-45-Num. xxiii. 19, 20—xxiv. 9-Deut. iv. 27-31 -xxiii. 3, 4—xxviii. 37—xxx. 1–6, 8, 9—xxxii. 36—xxxiii. 27-29 -1 Sam. xii. 22—1 Kings viii. 46-53-2 Chron. xxxvi. 15— Psalm xxv. 22—xlviii. 2, 8, 11-14—1. 2—liii. 6—lxviii. 22, 24-35 -lxix. 34-36-lxxx.-xcvii. 1, 8-cii. 13-16, 21, 22, 28—cv. 5-11 -cxv. 12, 14, 15-cxxii. 2-9-cxxv. 2—cxxvi.-cxxx. 7,8-cxxxii. 13-18-cxxxv. 4—cxxxvii. 5, 6—cxlvii. 2—cxlviii. 14—Isaiah i. 25-27—ii. 2-5—iv. 2, 3, 5, 6—vi. 11-13—ix. 6, 7—x. 17, 20-22— xi. 6-13, 15, 16—xii.—xiv. 1-3——xvi. 5—xvii. 6, 7—xviii. 3, 4, 7— xix. 24, 25—xxiv. 13-15, 22, 23—xxv. 6-10—xxvi. 1, 2, 12-17, 19 -xxvii. 3, 6, 12, 13—xxviii. 5, 6—xxix. 7-19, 22-24—xxx. 18-21, 23-26, 29-xxxi. 6—xxxii. 13-18-xxxiii. 17, 20-24-xxxv.-xl. 1, 2, 9-11—xli. 8-20—xliii. 1-21, 25, 26—xliv. 1-7, 21-23—xlv. 17, 19, 25-xlvi. 13-xlviii. 10, 12, 15-20-xlix.—li. 2-4, 10, 11,

14-22-lii. 1-3, 6-10, 12-liv. 1-17-lv. 11-13-lvi. 7, 8-lviii. 12, 14-lix. 20, 21—lx.-lxi.—lxii.—lxiii. 17-19-lxiv. 8-12lxv. 9, 10, 16-25-lxvi. 8-13, 18-23-Jer. iii. 12-25—iv. 1, 2-xii. 7, 14, 15—xiv. 7-9, 19-22—xv. 5, 11, 14-16, 19-21-xvi. 14-17— xvii. 13-15, 25, 26–xxiii. 3-8—xxiv. 6, 7—xxix. 11-14—xxx. 3, 7-11, 17-22-xxxi. 1-22, 23-28, 31-40-xxxii. 37-44-xxxiii. 6-26-xlvi. 27, 28-1. 4-7, 19, 20-li. 5-Lam. ii. 15, 16—iii. 31-33, 40, 41, 48-50—iv. 1, 2, 22—v. 1-3, 5, 7, 15-21-Ezek. vi. 8-10-xi. 13-20-xiv. 22, 23-xvi. 60-63-xx. 34-37, 40-44xxviii. 25, 26-xxix. 21-xxxiv. 6-16, 23-31-xxxvi. 8-12, 15, 23-38-xxxvii.-xxxix. 25-29-xliii. 1-5-xliv. 1-3-xlvi. 2, 8— xlvii. 13-23-xlviii. 29-35-Dan. ix. 24-Hos. i. 10, 11—ii. 14-16, 18-22-iii. 4, 5—vi. 1-3, 11-xi. 1-4, 8-11-xii. 9-xiv. 4-8-Joel ii. 12, 18, 19, 21-29, 32-iii. 1, 2, 16-21—Amos iv. 12— vii. 1-6-ix. 8-15—Obad. 17-21-Mic. ii. 12, 13—iv.—v. 1-8— vii. 18-20—Nah. i. 12, 13, 15—Hab. ii. 14—iii. 13—–Zeph. ii. 7iii. 9-20-Hag. i. 2—ii. 3, 5, 7, 9, 19—iii. 9, 10-Zech. i. 12-17ii.—viii. 3-8, 12-15, 20-23-ix. 12-14, 16, 17-x. 6-12-xii. 6-11xiii. 1, 9-xiv. 4, 7-11, 16, 17, 20, 21-Mal. i. 1, 2—iii. 4, 6, 12, 17.

Matt. ii. 2-x. 5, 6—xv. 24—xxiii. 37-39-xxvii. 11-Luke i. 68-75-ii. 32-xiii. 34, 35-xix. 41–xxi. 24-xxii. 28-30—–xxiv. 47-John iv. 22-Acts i. 6-8-ii. 30, 36, 39-iii. 21-v. 31-vii. 4, 5—xv. 16, 17-xxvi. 6,7-Rom. i. 16-ii. 10—iii. 1, 2—iv. 16— ix. 1-5, 27-x. 1—xi. 1, 2, 5, 12, 15, 23-32-2 Cor. iii. 14-16— Gal. vi. 16-Eph. ii. 14-19—1 Tim. ii. 4-6-Heb. xi. 8-13-Jas. i. 1-1 Pet. ii. 9-Rev. xi. 2-xvi. 12-xxi.

Light for the ancient race

Exiled from Zion's rest!

Homeless they roam from place to place,
Benighted and oppress'd;

They shudder at Sinai's fearful base ;—

Guide them to Calvary's breast!

MRS. SIGOURNEY.