2. Now may the King descend
And fill His throne with grace;
Thy scepter, Lord, extend,

While saints address Thy face:
Let sinners feel Thy quickening word,
And learn to know and fear the Lord.

3. Descend, celestial Dove,

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With all Thy quickening powers;
Disclose a Saviour's love,

And bless the sacred hours:

Then shall my soul new life obtain,
Nor Sabbaths be enjoyed in vain.

H. M.

1. ONE sole baptismal sign, One Lord, below, above

Zion, one faith is thine,

Only one watchword-Love.

From different temples though it rise,
One song ascendeth to the skies.

2. Our sacrifice is one;

One Priest before the throne

The slain, the risen Son,

Redeemer, Lord alone!

HAYWARD.

And sighs from contrite hearts that spring,
Our chief, our choicest offering.

3. Head of Thy church beneath!
The catholic, the true,

On all her members breathe,
Her broken frame renew!

Then shall Thy perfect will be done,
When Christians love and live as one.

G. ROBINSON.

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7s & 6s.

1. THE rosy light is dawning
Upon the mountain's brow:
It is the Sabbath morning,
Arise and pay thy vow.、

2. Lift up thy voice to heaven
In sacred praise and prayer,
While unto thee is given

The light of life to share.

3. The landscape, lately shrouded
By evening's paler ray,
Smiles beauteous and unclouded
Before the eye of day.

4. So let our souls, benighted
Too long in folly's shade,
By thy kind smiles be lighted
To joys that never fade.

5. O see those waters streaming
In crystal purity;

While earth, with verdure teeming,
Gives rapture to the

eye.

6. Let rivers of salvation
In larger currents flow,
every tribe and nation

Till

Their healing virtues know. T. HASTINGS.

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11s & 8s.

1. Be joyful in God, all ye lands of the earth!
Oh! serve Him with gladness and fear;
Exult in His presence with music and mirth,
With love and devotion draw near.

2. Jehovah is God, and Jehovah alone,
Creator and Ruler o'er all;

And we are His people-His scepter we own;
His sheep, and we follow His call.

3. Oh! enter His gates with thanksgiving and song, Your vows in His temple proclaim;

His praise in melodious accordance prolong,
And bless His adorable name.

4. For good is the Lord, inexpressibly good,
And we are the work of His hand;
His mercy and truth from eternity stood,
And shall to eternity stand.

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C. M.

MONTGOMERY.

1. WHAT glory gilds the sacred page,
Majestic like the sun;

It gives a light to every age;
It gives, but borrows none.

2. The hand that gave it still supplies
The gracious light and heat;
Its truth upon the nations rise-
They rise but never set.

3. Let everlasting thanks be Thine
For such a bright display,

As makes a world of darkness shine
With beams of heavenly day.

4. My soul rejoices to pursue
The steps of Him I love,

Till glory breaks upon my view,
In brighter worlds above.

C. M.

1. How precious is the book divine,
By inspiration given!

BARTON.

Bright as a lamp its doctrines shine,
To lead our souls to heaven.

2. O'er all the strait and narrow way
Its radiant beams are cast;
A light whose never weary ray
Grows brightest at the last.

3. It sweetly cheers our fainting hearts
In this dark vale of tears;

Life, light, and comfort it imparts,
And calms our anxious fears.

4. This lamp through all the dreary night Of life shall guide our way,

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Till we behold the clearer light
Of an eternal day.

C. M.

RIPPON'S COLL.

1. LAMP of our feet! whereby we trace
Our path, when wont to stray;

Stream from the Fount of heavenly grace!
Brook by the traveler's way!

2. Bread of our souls! whereon we feed;
True manna from on high!

Our guide, our chart! wherein we read
Of realms beyond the sky.

3. Pillar of fire, through watches dark!
Or radiant cloud by day!

When waves would whelm our tossing bark,
Our anchor and our stay!

4. Childhood's preceptor! manhood's trust!
Old age's firm ally!

Our hope, when we go down to dust,

Of immortality!

BARTON.

1. LADEN with guilt, and full of fears,
I fly to Thee, my Lord;

And not a ray of hope appears,
But in Thy written word.

2. The volume of my Father's grace
Does all my grief assuage;
Here I behold my Saviour's face
In almost ev'ry page.

3. This is the field where hidden lies
The pearl of price unknown;
That merchant is divinely wise
Who makes the pearl his own.

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4. This is the judge that ends the strife
Where wit and reason fail;
My guide to everlasting life
Through all this gloomy vale.

L. M.

WATTS.

1. THE heavens declare Thy glory, Lord! In every star Thy wisdom shines; But when our eyes behold Thy word, We read Thy name in fairer lines; 2. The rolling sun, the changing light, And night and day Thy power confess; But the blest volume Thou hast writ Reveals Thy justice and Thy grace. 3. Sun, moon, and stars convey Thy praise Round the whole earth, and never stand; So when Thy truth began its race,

It touched and glanced on every land.

4. Nor shall Thy spreading Gospel rest

Till through the world Thy truth has run;
Till Christ has all the nations bless'd
That see the light, or feel the sun.

5. Great Sun of Righteousness, arise;
Bless the dark world with heavenly light;
Thy Gospel makes the simple wise,
Thy laws are pure, Thy judgments right.

6. Thy noblest wonders here we view
In souls renewed, and sins forgiven;
Lord, cleanse my sins, my soul renew,
And make Thy word my guide to heaven.

1. UPON the Gospel's sacred page
The gathered beams of ages shine;
And, as it hastens, every age

But makes its brightness more divine.

WATTS.