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3 Teach all the nations my commands,
I'm with you till the world shall end;
All power is trusted in my hands,-
I can destroy, and I defend.

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The joyful sound.

TOW beauteous are their feet

HWbstated on Zion's hill,

S. M.

Who bring salvation on their tongues,
And words of peace reveal!
2 How charming is their voice,-
So sweet the tidings are;
Zion, behold thy Saviour King;
He reigns and triumphs here.
3 How happy are our ears,
That hear the joyful sound,
Which kings and prophets waited for,
And sought, but never found.
4 How blessed are our eyes,
That see this heavenly light;
Prophets and kings desired it long,
But died without the sight.
5 The watchmen join their voice,
And tuneful notes employ;
Jerusalem breaks forth in songs,
And deserts learn the joy.

6 The Lord makes bare his arm
Through all the earth abroad:
Let every nation now behold
Their Saviour and their God.

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The pastoral office.

ET Zion's watchmen all awake,

C. M.

Now let them from the mouth of God Their awful charge receive.

2 'Tis not a cause of small import,
The pastor's care demands;

But what might fill an angel's heart,
And fill'd a Saviour's hands.

3 They watch for souls for which the Lord Did heavenly bliss forego;

For souls, which must forever live

In raptures, or in wo.

4 May they in Jesus, whom they preach, Their own Redeemer see;

And watch thou daily o'er their souls,
That they may watch for thee.

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The labourers are few,

S. M.

ORD of the harvest, hear
Thy needy servants' cry;
Answer our faith's effectual prayer,
And all our wants supply.
2 On thee we humbly wait,-
Our wants are in thy view;
The harvest, truly, Lord, is great,
The labourers are few.

8 Convert and send forth more
Into thy Church abroad,

And let them speak thy word of power, As workers with their God.

40 let them spread thy name,
Their mission fully prove;

Thy universal grace proclaim,-
Thine all-redeeming love.

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L. M.

Pastors after thine own heart. JESUS, thy wand'ring sheep behold! See, Lord, with yearning bowels, see, Poor souls that cannot find the fold, Till sought and gather'd in by thee.

2 Lost are they now, and scatter'd wide,
In pain, and weariness, and want:
With no kind shepherd near, to guide
The sick, and spiritless, and faint.

8 Thou, only thou, the kind, and good,
And sheep-redeeming, Shepherd art;
Collect thy flock, and give them food,
And pastors after thine own heart."

4 Give the pure word of gen'ral grace,
And great shall be the preachers' crowd:
Preachers who all the sinful race
Point to the all-atoning blood.

5 Thine only glory let them seek;
O let their hearts with love o'erflow;
Let them believe, and therefore speak,
And spread thy mercy's praise below.

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L. M.

Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
COMFORT, ye ministers of grace,
Comfort the people of your Lord;
O lift ye up the fallen race,

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And cheer them by the Gospel word.

Go into every nation, go;

Speak to their trembling hearts, and cry,Glad tidings unto all we show:

Jerusalem, thy God is nigh.

8 Hark! in the wilderness a cry,

A voice that loudly calls,-Prepare; Prepare your hearts, for God is nigh, And waits to make his entrance there.

4 The Lord your God shall quickly come;
Sinners, repent, the call obey:

Open your hearts to make him room;
Ye desert souls, prepare the way.

5 The Lord shall clear his way through all;
Whate'er obstructs, obstructs in vain;
The vale shall rise, the mountain fall,
Crooked be straight, and rugged plain.
The glory of the Lord display'd
Shall all mankind together view;
And what his mouth in truth hath said,
His own almighty hand shall do.

210

C. M.

Let thy priests be clothed with salvation.
JESUS, the word of mercy give,
And let it swiftly run;

And let the priests themselves believe,
And put salvation on.

2 Jesus, let all thy servants shine
Illustrious as the sun;

And, bright with borrow'd rays divine,
Their glorious circuit run.

3 Beyond the reach of mortals, spread
Their light where'er they go;
And heavenly influences shed

On all the world below.

4 As giants may they run their race, Exulting in their might;

As burning luminaries chase

The gloom of hellish night.

5 As the bright Sun of righteousness,
Their healing wings display;

And let their lustre still increase
Unto the perfect day.

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Labourers together with God.

L. M.

THUS saith the Lord-'tis God commands Workers with God, the charge obey; Remove whate'er his work withstands,Prepare, prepare his people's way.

2 Lift up, for all mankind to see,

The standard of their Saviour God,
And point them to the shameful tree,-
The cross, all stain'd with hallow'd blood.
3 Himself prepares his people's hearts,-
Breaks and binds up, and wounds and heals;
A mystic death and life imparts;

Empties the full, the emptied fills:
4 He fills whom first he hath prepared;
With him the perfect grace is given:
Himself is here our great reward,-
Our future and our present heaven.

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Sow beside all waters.

OW in the morn thy seed;

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At eve hold not thy hand;

S. M.

To doubt and fear give thou no heed,-
Broad-cast it o'er the land.

2 Thou know'st not which shall thrive,-
The late or early sown;
Grace keeps the precious germ alive,
When and wherever strown:

3 And duly shall appear,

In verdure, beauty, strength,
The tender blade, the stalk, the ear,
And the full corn at length.

4 Thou canst not toil in vain :
Cold, heat, and moist, and dry,
Shall foster and mature the grain
For garners in the sky.

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The angels of the churches.

DRAW

L. M.

RAW near, O Son of God, draw near;
Us with thy flaming eye behold;

Still in thy Church do thou appear,
And let our candlestick be gold.

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