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2 E'en now, when tempests round us fall,
And wintry clouds o'ercast the sky,
Thy words with pleasure we recall,
And deem that our redemption's nigh.

3 0! come, and reign o'er every land;
Let Satan from his throne be hurl'd,-
All nations bow to thy command,
And grace revive a dying world.
4 Teach us, in watchfulness and prayer,
To wait for thine appointed hour;
And fit us, by thy grace, to share
The triumphs of thy conqu'ring power.

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19th P. M. 664, 6664. Let there be light.

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HOU, whose almighty word
Chaos and darkness heard,
And took their flight;
Hear us, we humbly pray,
And where the Gospel day
Sheds not its glorious ray,
Let there be light.

2 Thou, who didst come to bring,
On thy redeeming wing,

Healing and sight,—

Health to the sick in mind,

Sight to the inly blind,

O now, to all mankind,
Let there be light.

3 Spirit of truth and love,
Life-giving, holy Dove,

Speed forth thy flight; Move on the waters' face, Bearing the lamp of grace; And in earth's darkest place, Let there be light.

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The Redeemer's triumphant reign.
THOU whom we adore,

To bless our earth again,
Assume thine own almighty power,
And o'er the nations reign.
The world's Desire and Hope,
All power to thee is given;
Now set the last great empire up,
Eternal Lord of heaven.

2 Where all thy laws are spurn'd,
Thy holy name profaned,

S. M.

And where the ruin'd world has mourn'd,

With blood of millions stain'd:

Reveal the glorious scene;

The heathen claim for thine;

And there the endless reign begin
With majesty divine.

3 A gracious Saviour, thou

Wilt all thy creatures bless; And every knee to thee shall bow,

And every tongue confess.

According to thy word,

Now be thy grace reveal'd;

And with the knowledge of the Lord,
Let all the earth be fill'd.

990

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Missionary meeting.

L. M.

SSEMBLED at thy great command,
Before thy face, dread King, we stand:
The voice that marshall'd every star,
Has call'd thy people from afar.

2 We meet through distant lands to spread
The truth for which the martyrs bled;
Along the line-to either pole—
The anthem of thy praise to roll.

3 Our prayers assist; accept our praise;
Our hopes revive; our courage raise;
Our counsels aid;-to each impart
The single eye, the faithful heart.

4 Forth with thy chosen heralds come;
Recall the wand'ring spirits home;
From Zion's mount send forth the sound,
To spread the spacious earth around.
991

God's wondrous way among the heathen.

10 bless thy chosen race,
In mercy, Lord, incline;

And cause the brightness of thy face
On all thy saints to shine;—
2 That so thy wondrous way
May through the world be known;
While distant lands their homage pay,
And thy salvation own.

3 Let all the nations join

To celebrate thy fame;

And all the world, O Lord, combine
To praise thy glorious Name.

992

Light for those who sit in darkness.

S. M.

L. M.

THOUGH now the nations sit beneath
The darkness of o'erspreading death;
God will arise with light divine,
On Zion's holy towers to shine.

2 That light shall shine on distant lands,
And wand'ring tribes, in joyful bands,
Shall come, thy glory, Lord, to see,
And in thy courts to worship thee.
3 O light of Zion, now arise!
Let the glad morning bless our eyes;
Ye nations, catch the kindling ray,
And hail the splendours of the day.

993

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3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 8s.

One shall chase a thousand.

AVIOUR, we know thou art
In every age the same:

Now, Lord, in ours exert

The virtue of thy Name,
And daily, through thy word, increase
Thy blood-besprinkled witnesses.

2 As thy command ordains,
Thy people, saved below
From all their sinful stains,

Shall multiply and grow;

And one into a thousand rise,

To spread thy praise through earth and skies.

994

The glorious Gospel.

S. M.

HE nations of the earth,

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Almighty Lord, are thine;

And in thy works, from nature's birth,
The radiant glories shine.

2 Thy love hath also sent
Thy gospel to our race;
Unveiling thy divine intent
Of rich redeeming grace.

3 When shall these tidings roll
The spacious earth around,
And every tribe and every soul
Receive the joyful sound?

4 When shall the wand'rers meet,
That now in darkness rove,
And, gather'd round Immanuel's feet,
Sing of his saving love?

5 O Lord, our efforts own,

To spread the gospel rays;

And rear, on sin's demolish'd throne,
The temples of thy praise.

995

Triumphs of mercy.

L. M.

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RM of the Lord, awake, awake!

Put on thy strength-the nations shake, And let the world, adoring, see

Triumphs of mercy wrought by thee.
2 Say to the heathen, from thy throne,
I am Jehovah-God alone:

Thy voice their idols shall confound,
And cast their altars to the ground.

3 No more let creature blood be spilt-
Vain sacrifice for human guilt!
But to each conscience be applied
The blood that flow'd from Jesus' side.
4 Almighty God, thy grace proclaim,
In every land, of every name;
Let adverse powers before thee fall,
And crown the Saviour Lord of all.

996

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5th P. M. 4 lines 7s.

Christ's universal reign.

ASTEN, Lord, the glorious time,
When, beneath Messiah's sway,

Every nation, every clime,

Shall the gospel call obey.

2 Mightiest kings his power shall own; Heathen tribes his Name adore; Satan and his host, o'erthrown,

Bound in chains, shall hurt no more.
3 Then shall wars and tumults cease;
Then be banish'd grief and pain;
Righteousness, and joy, and peace,
Undisturb'd, shall ever reign.

4 Bless we, then, our gracious Lord;
Ever praise his glorious Name;
All his mighty acts record,-

All his wondrous love proclaim.

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