DEDICATION CHANT. L.M. L. MARSHALL (by permission).

298.

Watchfulness. EXETER COL. 2 Though every earthly trust may break,

1 GREAT God, my Father and my Friend,
On whom I cast my constant care,
On whom for all things I depend,
To thee I raise my humble prayer.

2 Endue me with a holy fear;
The frailty of my heart reveal:
Sin and its snares are always near;
Thee may I always nearer feel.

3 Oh that to thee my constant mind
May with a steady flame aspire;
Pride in its earliest motions find,
And check the rise of wrong desire!
4 Oh that my watchful soul may fly
The first perceived approach of sin;
Look up to thee when danger's nigh,
And feel thy fear control within!

Infinite might belongs to thee;
Though every earthly friend forsake,
Unchangeable thou still wilt be.

3 Though clouds may gather darkly round,
They cannot veil us from thy sight;
Though vain all human aid be found,
Thou every grief canst turn to light.

4 All things thy wise designs fulfil,
In earth beneath, and heaven above,
And good breaks out from every ill,
Through faith in thine encircling love.

300. For Steadiness of Principle. HENET MOQD1.

1 AMIDST a world of hopes and fears.
A wild of cares and toils and tears,
Where foes alarm, and dangers threat,
And pleasures kill, and glories cheat;

2 Shed down, O Lord! a heavenly ray
To guide me in the doubtful way;
And o'er me hold thy shield of power,
To guard me in the dangerous hour.