Sin, death, the world, and hell o'erthrew ; And Jesus is the Conqueror's name! 4 Lo! His triumphal chariot waits, And angels chaunt the solemn lay; 5 Who is the King of Glory? who? 25. What is Prayer? PRAYER is the soul's sincere desire, The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The upward glancing of an eye, 3 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, His watchword at the gates of death; 4 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, While angels in their songs rejoice, 5 Oh Thou, by whom we come to God, C.M. 26. God's Works. P.M. WHAT wisdom is shewn, what power display'd, In all that God's hand hath fashion'd and made; The earth full of riches, 'tis beauty complete, The fathomless ocean, with wonders replete. 2 By knowledge supreme, by wisdom divine, God governs the world with gracious design; O'er beast, bird, and insect, his Providence reigns, Whose will first created, whose love still sustains. 3 Exalted, O Lord, in glory secure, The works Thou hast made thro' ages endure ! To life's latest moment, my soul ever raise The song of thanksgiving, the chorus of praise. 27. Christmas Day. SEVENS. BRIGHT and joyful is the morn, For to us a child is born; From the highest realms of heaven 2 On His shoulder He shall bear On His vesture and His thigh, Sire of ages ne'er to cease, 28. The Bible. L.M. HOLD the sacred Book of God, 2 With steady faith in Christ alone, 3 In heaven with palms they triumph now; We love to speak their honour'd names ; O may our lips and lives avow The truth they kept through blood and flames! 4 We bear, we'll hold, the Christian name, Though hell oppose, and earth deride; We'll keep the faith thro' fear and shame; That faith for which our fathers died. 29. Resignation. C.M. WHEN musing sorrow weeps the past, 'Tis sweet to think of peace at last, 2 "Tis not that murmuring thoughts arise, 3 It is that heaven-taught faith surveys 4 It is that hope with ardour glows, Whose dying love no language knows 5 Oh! let me wing my hallow'd flight And soar beyond these realms of night, My Saviour's bliss to share! 30. The Bible. L.M. SEND God's holy Book where'er 2 Send it to where expanded wide Make known the Saviour's grace and power. 3 Send it to ev'ry dungeon's gloom, Send it to ev'ry poor man's room, Nor cease the woe-worn to befriend, Nor cease the heavenly gift to send. 4 May ev'ry suffering child of woe Its truth believe, its comforts know; May every hand the treasure hold, And error's cloud away be roll'd. 5 O Holy Ghost! who gav'st the word, With Thine own truth Thy light afford, Give Thou the quickening, saving power, On all the earth Thy blessings shower. 31. Destruction of the Assyrians. P.M. THE Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 2 Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. 3 For the angel of death spread his wings. on the blast, And breath'd on the face of the foe as he pass'd, And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heav'd, and for ever grew still. |