3 Long as I live beneath, In thanks and praises give: 4 My soul and all its powers I consecrate to thee: Me to thine image now restore, 5 I wait thy will to do, 6 Then, when the work is done, In death's triumphant hour: Like Moses, to thyself convey, 657 Smarting under the rod. L. M. CHI would the kind chastisement feel; HASTISED by an indulgent God, Ι But never faint beneath the rod, Nor desp❜rate, nor insensible :— 2 From each extreme divinely kept, I would with thankful awe accept, 658 Secret communion with God. C. M. WEET is the prayer whose holy stream In earnest pleading flows; Devotion dwells upon the theme, And warm and warmer glows. 2 Faith grasps the blessing she desires; 3 But sweeter far the still small voice, When God has made the heart rejoice, 4 No accents flow, no words ascend; 659 FULL 9th P. M. 87, 87. In deep affliction. ULL of trembling expectation, Mighty God of my salvation, I thy timely aid implore. 2 Suff'ring Son of man, be near me, 660 C. M. In time of peril. MY Saviour from the wrath to come, From present evil save; Avert the deep impending gloom,- 2 Still hold my soul in life, I pray; And let me all my lengthen'd day 3 Now, Lord, I have to thee made known 4 Secure, in danger's darkest hour, 661 In sickness: Praying for recovery. ANGEL, of covenanted grace, L. M. Come, and thy healing power infuse ; Descend in thine own time, and bless, And give the means their hallow'd use. 2 Obedient to thy will alone, To thee in means I calmly fly: If thou on earth detain me still, I bow, and bless the grace divine,— 4 I come, if thou my strength restore, Grant me but this, I ask no more To spend and to be spent for God. 662 C. M. Consolations in sickness. WHEN languor and disease invade This trembling house of clay, "Tis sweet to look beyond my pains, And long to fly away; 2 Sweet to look inward, and attend Sweet to look upward, to the place 3 Sweet to look back, and see my name 4 Sweet to reflect how grace divine Sweet to remember that his blood 6 If such the sweetness of the stream, What must the fountain be, Where saints and angels draw their bliss Directly, Lord, from thee. 663 Recovery from sickness. C. M. MY God, thy service well demands The remnant of my days; Why was this fleeting breath renew'd, 2 Thine arms of everlasting love 3 I calmly bow'd my fainting head And waited for my Father's call 4 Into thy hands, my Saviour God, In firm dependence on that truth 5 Back from the borders of the grave, 6 Where thou appointest mine abode, 664 0 6th P. M. 6 lines 7s. The gates of death. THOU God who hearest prayer, Listen to my feeble breath, 2 Hear and save me, gracious Lord, |