2. Has thy night been long and mournful!
Have thy friends unfaithful proved?
Have thy foes been proud and scornful,
By thy sighs and tears unmoved?
Cease thy mourning;
Zion still is well beloved.
3. God, thy God, will now restore thee;
He Himself appears thy Friend;
All thy foes shall flee before thee;
Here their boasts and triumphs end;
Great deliverance
Zion's King will surely send.
4. Peace and joy shall now attend thee;
All thy warfare now is past;
God thy Saviour will defend thee;
Victory is thine at last;
All thy conflicts
End in everlasting rest.
1. ZION stands with hills surrounded-
Zion, kept by power divinę;
All her foes shall be confounded,
Though the world in arms combine;
Happy Zion,
What a favored lot is thine!
2. Every human tie may perish;
Friend to friend unfaithful prove;
Mothers cease their own to cherish;
Heaven and earth at last remove;
But no changes
Can attend Jehovah's love.
3. In the furnace God may prove thee,
Thence to bring thee forth more bright,
But can never cease to love thee;
Thou art precious in His sight;
God is with thee-
God, thine everlasting light.
1. SEE, from Zion's sacred mountain,
Streams of living water flow;
God has opened there a fountain
That supplies the world below;
They are blessed
Who its sovereign virtues know.
2. Through ten thousand channels flowing
Streams of mercy find their way:
Life, and health, and joy bestowing,
Waking beauty from decay.
O, ye nations,
Hail the long-expected day.
3. Gladdened by the flowing treasure,
All-enriching as it goes,
Lo! the desert smiles with pleasure,
Buds and blossoms as the rose;
Lo! the desert
Sings for joy where'er it flows.
1. MEN of God, go take your stations,
Darkness reigns o'er all the earth-
Go, proclaim among the nations
Joyful news of heavenly birth-
Bear the tidings,
Tell the Saviour's matchless worth.
2. Go-and when exposed to dangers,
Jesus will your souls defend;
Go, and when 'mid foes and strangers,
He will still appear your
Shall be with you to the end.
1. CHEEK grow pale, but heart be vigorous;
Body fail, but soul have peace;
Welcome, pain! thou searcher rigorous,
Slay me, but my faith increase.
2. Sin, o'er sense so softly stealing;
Doubt, that would my strength impair;
Hence at once from life and feeling-
Now my cross I gladly bear.
3. Up, my soul! with clear sedateness
Read heaven's law, writ bright and broad,
Up! a sacrifice to greatness,
Truth, and goodness-up to God! 4. Up to labor! from thee shaking
Off the bonds of sloth, be brave!
Give thyself to prayer and waking;
Toil some fainting heart to save!
1. YES! we trust the day is breaking,
Joyful things are near at hand;
God, the mighty God, is speaking
By His word in every land;
God is speaking—
Darkness flies at His command.
2. With the voice of joy and singing
Let us hail the dawning ray;
Lo! the blessed day-star, bringing
O'er the earth a glorious day;
At his rising
Gloom and darkness flee away.
1. HARK! what mean those lamentations,
Rolling sadly through the sky?
'Tis the cry of heathen nations-
"Come and help us, or we die!"
2. Hear the heathen's sad complaining!
Christians! hear their dying cry;
And, the love of Christ constraining,
Haste to help them, ere they die.
1. O'ER the realms of pagan darkness
Let the eye of pity gaze;
See the thronging, wandering nations,
Lost in sin's bewildering maze :
Darkness brooding
On the face of all the earth.
2. Light of them that sit in darkness,
Rise and shine! Thy blessings bring:
Light to lighten all the Gentiles!
Rise with healing in Thy wing;
To Thy brightness
Let all kings and nations come.
3. May the millions now adoring
Idol-gods of wood and stone
Come, and worshiping before Him,
Serve the living God alone:
Let Thy glory
Fill the earth as floods the sea.
4. Thou, to whom all power is given,
Speak the word; at Thy command
Let the heralds of Thy mercy
Spread Thy name from land to land;
Lord, be with them,
Always, to the end of time.
1. O'ER the gloomy hills of darkness,
Cheered by no celestial ray,
Sun of righteousness! arising,
Bring the bright, the glorious day;
Send the Gospel
To the earth's remotest bound.
2. Kingdoms wide that sit in darkness-
Grant them, Lord! the glorious light;
And, from the eastern coast to western,
May the morning chase the night;
And redemption,
Freely purchased, win the day.
3. Fly abroad, thou mighty Gospel!
Win and conquer, never cease;
May thy lasting, wide dominions,
Multiply and still increase;
Sway Thy scepter,
Saviour! all the world around.
1. THE morning light is breaking,
The darkness disappears;
The sons of earth are waking
To penitential tears.
Each breeze that sweeps
Brings tidings from afar
Of nations in commotion,
Prepared for Zion's war.
2. Rich dews of grace come o'er us
In many a gentle shower;
And brighter scenes before us
Are opening every hour:
Each cry to heaven going
Abundant answer brings;
And heavenly gales are blowing,
With peace upon their wings.
3. See heathen nations bending
Before the God we love,
And thousand hearts ascending
In gratitude above;
While sinners, now confessing,
The Gospel call obey,
And seek the Saviour's blessing—
A nation in a day.
4. Blest river of salvation,
Pursue thine onward way;
Flow thou to every nation,
Nor in thy richness stay:
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