4 Christ is born, the great anointed, Heaven and earth His praises sing! O receive whom God appointed For your Prophet, Priest, and King. 5 Hasten, mortals, to adore Him; Learn His name and taste His joy; 6 Let us learn the wondrous story 150. Missionary Labours. L.M. HAVE we not heard the joyful sound? And shall we not to all proclaim His boundless grace, His mighty name? 2 Hath God to us His glory shewn, 3 O Saviour, who for all hast died! 4 Send forth Thy light, display Thy power: Let all confess, let all adore; In every land Thy word be sown, 151. Providence. P.M. HOW wondrous is God in His dealings with men, When He speaks to the conscience within ; In what numberless ways He compels us to praise, Or convinces the sinner of sin : Sometimes in a whisper that wins us away From sins that our lives would deform, He melts in His plan, the proud hard heart of man, Or breaks it in twain with a storm. 2 Sometimes by His word, or the death of a friend; By a dream in the lone midnight hour; By a providence kind, or a glance of the mind; By the sunshine, the shade, or the shower: Sometimes, on a sudden, He darts thro' the soul, And smites the proud spirit with fears; While with others He bides, and with tenderness guides Their feet through a number of years. 3 Whate'er be the way, 'tis His Spirit that speaks Of righteousness, judgment, and sin; 'Till we feel ourselves weak, and then eagerly seek For strength that we have not within. Then trembling, despairing of all we can do, We hasten to Christ and His word; We fly to the cross, and deem all things but loss, Compar'd with our Saviour and Lord. 152. Let there be light. THOU, whose Almighty word Hear us, we humbly pray; Let there be light! 2 Thou who didst come to bring, Health to the sick in mind, Let there be light! 3 Spirit of truth and love, Life-giving holy Dove, Speed forth thy flight; Move on the water's face 4 Blessed and Holy Three, Glorious Trinity! Wisdom, love, might! Boundless as ocean's tide, Rolling in fullest pride Thro' the world far and wide, Let there be light! 6,4. 153. For a Friendly Society. L.M. OH! bright and blessed be the bands, Shall hail us to their home of love; 154. Missionary Exertions. FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes 7,6. In vain, with lavish kindness, Has learned Messiah's name. It spreads from pole to pole : 155. Numbers XXI. 9. AS when the Hebrew prophet rais'd C.M. The wounded look'd and straight were heal'd, The people ceas'd to die. 2 So from the Saviour on the cross, And all, who raise the eye of faith, 3 Thus may we seek Thy mercy-seat, Help us in faith to look to Thee, |