They for us fight, they watch and duly ward,
And their bright squadrons round about us plant,
And all for love, and nothing for reward:

O why should heavenly God to man have such regard!

29.

St. Michael and All Angels.

AND every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Rev. v. 13.

Ye stars that round the Sun of Righteousness
In glorious order roll,

With harps for ever strung, ready to bless
God for each rescued soul,

Ye eagle spirits, that build in light divine,
Oh! think of us to-day,

Faint warblers of this earth, that would combine
Our trembling notes with your accepted lay.

30.

O SING praises, sing praises unto our

God: O sing praises, sing praises unto our

King.

Ps. xlvii. 6.

Let all the world in every corner sing

My God and King!

The heavens are not too high,
His praise may thither fly:
The carth is not too low,

His praises there may grow.

Let all the world in every corner sing
My God and King!

The Church with psalms must shout,
No door can keep them out :
But, above all, the heart

Must bear the longest part.

Let all the world in every corner sing
My God and King!

October.

1.

WHERE is God my Maker, who giveth

songs in the night?

Job xxxv.

My soul, when I shake off this dust,
Lord, in Thy arms I will entrust:
O make me Thy peculiar care;
Some mansion for my soul prepare!
Give me a place at Thy saints' feet,
Or some fall'n angel's vacant seat!
I'll strive to sing as loud as they,
Who sit above in brighter day.

2.

10.

LET the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Col. iii. 16.

Much reading may thy spirits wrong,
Refresh them therefore with a song;

And that thy music praise may merit,
Sing David's Psalms with David's spirit;
That as thy voice doth pierce men's ears,
So shall thy prayer and vows the spheres.

3.

HIDE not Thy face from me in the day

when I am in trouble.

Ps. cii. 2.

Temptations sore obstruct my way;

And ills I cannot flee:

O, give me strength, Lord, as my day;
For good remember me!

the

way which thou shalt go;

thee with Mine eye.

I will guide Ps. xxxii. 8.

As every day Thy mercy spares
Will bring its trials and its cares,
O Saviour, till my life shall end,
Be Thou my counsellor and friend;
Teach me Thy precepts all divine,
And be Thy great example mine.

6.

I HAVE loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee. Jer. xxxi. 3.

:

For I have loved thee with a love

No mortal heart can show;

A love so deep, My saints in Heaven
Its depths can never know.

When pierced and wounded on the cross
Man's sin and doom wére Mine,

I loved thee with undying love,

Immortal and divine.

7.

PEACE I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth,