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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;
Till in heaven ye sing before Him,
Glory be to God Most High.

6 Let us learn the wondrous story
Of our great Redeemer's birth;
Spread the brightness of His glory,
'Till it cover all the earth.

150.

Missionary Labours.

L.M.

HAVE we not heard the joyful sound?
Have we the only Saviour found?

And shall we not to all proclaim

His boundless grace, His mighty name?

2 Hath God to us His glory shewn,
Oh, not for merits of our own;
And shall not love constrain our heart
This blessed knowledge to impart.

3 O Saviour, who for all hast died!
Be Thou our teacher, help, and guide;
Inflame our hearts with Christian love,
And bless our labours from above.

4 Send forth Thy light, display Thy power: Let all confess, let all adore;

In every land Thy word be sown,
By ev'ry soul Thy truth be known.

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
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,
Oh! 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 water's face
Bearing the lamp of grace,
And in earth's darkest place
Let there be light!

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,
That link in love our sister hands;
True servants we of Him in heav'n,
To mark the "New Commandment" given.
2 Be ours the olive-branch to strow,
And quell the tares of want and woe,
Affliction's brows with palm to twine,
And round the cottage coil the vine.
3 Our feet shall smooth the slope of age,
Our hands the pangs of pain assuage;
And e'en this life shall bloom with hours
Of blessed fruits and balmy flow'rs.
4 So angels, sisters from above,

Shall hail us to their home of love;
When death our fading band untwines,
And Heav'n's eternal sabbath shines.

154.

Missionary Exertions.

FROM Greenland's icy mountains,

From India's coral strand,

Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver

Their land from error's chain.

2 What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile;

7,6.

In vain, with lavish kindness,
The gifts of God are strewn,
The heathen, in their blindness,
Bow down to wood and stone.
3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted
By wisdom from on high;
Shall we, to man benighted,
The lamp of life deny ?-
Salvation! O salvation!
The joyful sound proclaim,
Till each remotest nation

Has learned Messiah's name.
4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story;
And you, ye waters, roll;
Till, like a sea of glory,

It spreads from pole to pole :
Till o'er our ransom'd nature,
The Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator,
In bliss returns to reign.

155.

Numbers XXI. 9.

AS when the Hebrew prophet rais'd
The brazen serpent high,

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,
A healing virtue flows:

And all, who raise the eye of faith,
Are saved from endless woes.

3 Thus may we seek Thy mercy-seat,
O God, the blessing give;

Help us in faith to look to Thee,
And bid the dying live.

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