The Year crowned with Divine Goodness. Ps. 65. 1 ETERNAL Source of every joy, Well may thy praise our lips employ, Whose goodness crowns the circling year. No more a face of horror wear. 4 Seasons, and months, and weeks, and days 68. C. M. HEGINBOTHAM. Praising God in all Changes. 1 FATHER of mercies, God of love, I'll sing the honors of thy name, 69 DEVOUT AFFECTIONS. 2 In every period of my life Thy thoughts of love appear; Nor let the gifts thy grace bestows 4 Teach me in time of deep distress 5 In every changing state of life, 6 Then will I close my eyes in death, Safety of trusting in God. 1 UNSHAKEN as the sacred hill, And firm as mountains stand ; Firm as a rock the soul shall rest, That trusts th' almighty hand. 2 Not walls nor hills could guard so well As those eternal arms of love, 3 Deal gently, Lord, with souls sincere, Oh may we reach the blest abode, 70. L. M. MRS. BARBAuld. The Righteous blessed in Death. 1 How bless'd the righteous when he dies! 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys; 4 Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears, 5 Life's duty done, as sinks the clay, While heaven and earth combine to say, 71. 8 & 7s M. J. NEWTON. The City of God. 1 GLORIOUS things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! He whose word cannot be broken, Formed thee for his own abode. 2 On the Rock of Ages founded, ? What can shake thy sure repose 72 PUBLIC WORSHIP. 3 See! the streams of living waters, 4 Who can faint while such a river ? Ever flows their thirst to assuage Grace, which, like the Lord the Giver, Never fails from age to age. On opening a place of worship. 1 GREAT father of mankind, We bless that wondrous grace, Our God displays, A house of prayer! 2 Though once estranged afar, And makes our cause his own: To thee we come, 3 May all the nations throng Till earth conspire 73. L. M. → BROWNE. For the Guidance of the Holy Spirit. 1 COME, gracious Spirit, heavenly Dove, And make us know and choose thy way; 3 Lead us to holiness, the road That we must take to dwell with God; Lead us to Christ, the living way, Nor let us from his precepts stray. 4 Lead us to God, our final rest, In his enjoyment to be blest ; Lead us to heaven, the seat of bliss, Where pleasure in perfection is. 74. 7s M. SPIRIT OF THE PSALMS. Birth of Christ. 1 HAIL, all hail the joyful morn! Tell it forth from earth to heaven, That to us a child is born, That to us a Son is given. 2 Angels bending from the sky 3 Join we then our feeble lays, |