2 In darkest shades, if thou appear, My dawning is begun;

Thou art my soul's bright morning star,
And thou my rising sun.

3 The opening heavens around me shine
With beams of sacred bliss,
If Jesus shows his mercy mine,
And whispers I am his.

4 My soul would leave this heavy clay
At that transporting word,
Run up with joy the shining way,
To see and praise my Lord.

5 Fearless of hell and ghastly death,
I'd break through every foe;
The wings of love and arms of faith
Would bear me conqu'ror through.

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Creating and redeeming love.

S. M.

ATHER, in whom we live,
In whom we are, and move,
The glory, power, and praise receive
Of thy creating love.

2 Let all the angel throng

Give thanks to God on high, While earth repeats the joyful song, And echoes through the sky.

3 Incarnate Deity,

Let all the ransom'd race
Render in thanks their lives to thee,

For thy redeeming grace.

4 The grace to sinners show'd,
Ye heavenly choirs proclaim,
And cry, Salvation to our God,
Salvation to the Lamb!

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Continued.-Unspeakable joy.

PIRIT of holiness,

Let all thy saints adore Thy sacred energy, and bless Thy heart-renewing power. 2 Not angel tongues can tell Thy love's ecstatic height,The glorious joy unspeakable, The beatific sight.

3 Eternal Triune Lord!

Let all the hosts above,
Let all the sons of men record,
And dwell upon, thy love:

4 When heaven and earth are fled

Before thy glorious face,

S. M.

Sing, all the saints thy love hath made,

Thine everlasting praise!

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Praise,-delightful.

C. M.

M when I begin thy praise,
Saviour, my almighty Friend,

Where will the growing numbers end,-
The numbers of thy grace ?

2 I trust in thy eternal word;
Thy goodness I adore:

Send down thy grace, O blessed Lord,
That I may love thee more.

3 My feet shall travel all the length

Of the celestial road;

And march, with courage in thy strength, To see the Lord my God.

4 Awake! awake! my tuneful powers,
With this delightful song;

And entertain the darkest hours,
Nor think the season long.

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All-sufficiency of Jesus.

OW tedious and tasteless the hours

HOW

When Jesus no longer I see!

Sweet prospects, sweet birds, and sweet flowers,

Have all lost their sweetness to me ;

The midsummer sun shines but dim,
The fields strive in vain to look gay;
But when I am happy in Him,

December's as pleasant as May.

2 His Name yields the richest perfume, And sweeter than music his voice; His presence disperses my gloom,

And makes all within me rejoice; I should, were he always thus nigh, Have nothing to wish or to fear; No mortal so happy as I,

My summer would last all the year.

3 Content with beholding his face,
My all to his pleasure resign'd,
No changes of season or place

Would make any change in my mind:
While blest with a sense of his love,
A palace a toy would appear;
And prisons would palaces prove,

If Jesus would dwell with me there.

4 My Lord, if indeed I am thine,
If thou art my sun and my song,
Say, why do I languish and pine?
And why are my winters so long?
O drive these dark clouds from my sky;
Thy soul-cheering presence restore ;
Or take me to thee up on high,

Where winter and clouds are no more.

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C. M.

M

God my all-sufficient portion.

Y God, my portion, and my love,
My everlasting All,

I've none but thee in heaven above,
Or on this earthly ball.

2 What empty things are all the skies, And this inferior clod!

There's nothing here deserves my joys, There's nothing like my God.

3 To thee I owe my wealth, and friends, And health, and safe abode :

Thanks to thy Name for meaner things;
But they are not my God.

4 How vain a toy is glitt'ring wealth,
If once compared to thee;
Or what's my safety, or my health,
Or all my friends to me?

5 Were I possessor of the earth,
And call'd the stars my own,
Without thy graces and thyself,
I were a wretch undone.

6 Let others stretch their arms like seas,
And grasp in all the shore;
Grant me the visits of thy grace,

And I desire no more.

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Heaven upon earth.

M To thee, to thee I call:

Y God, my life, my love,

I cannot live if thou remove,
For thou art all in all.

S. M.

2 Thy shining grace can cheer
This dungeon where I dwell:
'Tis paradise when thou art here;
If thou depart, 'tis hell.

3 The smilings of thy face, How amiable they are!

'Tis heaven to rest in thine embrace, And nowhere else but there.

4 To thee, and thee alone,

The angels owe their bliss;
They sit around thy gracious throne,
And dwell where Jesus is.

5 Not all the harps above
Can make a heavenly place,
If God his residence remove,
Or but conceal his face.

6 Nor earth, nor all the sky,
Can one delight afford,
Nor yield one drop of real joy,
Without thy presence, Lord.

7 Thou art the sea of love,
Where all my pleasures roll:
The circle where my passions move,
And centre of my soul.

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The rapture of love.

"TIS delight without alloy,
Jesus, to hear thy name:

My spirit leaps with inward joy;
I feel the sacred flame.

C. M.

2 My passions hold a pleasing reign, When love inspires my breast,Love, the divinest of the train,

The sov'reign of the rest.

3 This is the grace must live and sing, When faith and hope shall cease, And sound from every joyful string Through all the realms of bliss.