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1168. 7s & Ss.

2. Pour not thou the bitter tear;

Heaven its book of comfort opeth;
Bids thee sorrow not, nor fear,

But as one who always hopeth;
Humbly here in faith relying,
Peacefully in Jesus dying,
Heavenly joy her eye is flushing,
Why should thine with tears be gushing?

3. They who die in Christ are blest;

Ours then be no thought of grieving;
Sweetly with their God they rest,

All their toils and troubles leaving;
So be ours the faith that saveth,
Hope, that every trial braveth,
Love, that to the end endureth,

And, through Christ, the crown secureth.

1169. 7s & 8s.*

DOANE.

1. JESUS lives! thy terrors now
Can no longer, Death, appall me;
Jesus lives! and well I know,
From the dead he will recall me;

• Omit the repeat.

Better life will then commenceThis shall be my confidence.

2. Jesus lives! to Him the throne Over all the world is given:

I shall go where He is gone,

Live and reign with Him in heaven; God is pledged, weak doubtings, hence! This shall be my confidence.

3. Jesus lives! I know full well,

Nought from Him my heart can sever;
Life, nor death, nor powers of hell,
Joy, nor grief, henceforth, for ever.
God will power and grace dispense-
This shall be my confidence.

4. Jesus lives! henceforth is death Entrance into life immortal; Calmly I can yield my breath;

Fearless tread the frowning portal; Thou, when faileth flesh and sense, Lord, wilt be my confidence!

GERMAN TR. COX

ALL'S WELL. 8s & 3s.

Western Me'ody.

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AUTUMN. 88 & 7s.

1.

Fine.

2. Youth, on length of days presuming,
Who the paths of pleasure tread,
View us, late in beauty blooming,
Numbered now among the dead.
3. Though as yet no losses grieve you,
Gay with health and many a grace,
Let no cloudless skies deceive you;
Suminer gives to autumn place.
4. Yearly in our course appearing,
Messengers of shortest stay,
Thus we preach in mortal hearing-
Ye, like us, shall pass away.

5. On the tree of life eternal,

O let all our hopes be laid!

This alone, for ever vernal,

Bears a leaf that shall not fade.

1174. 8s & 7s.

HORNE.

1. CEASE, ye mourners, cease to languish O'er the grave of those you love; Pain, and death, and night and anguish, Enter not the world above.

2. While our silent steps are straying

Lonely through night's deepening shade,
Glory's brightest beams are playing
Round the happy Christian's head.
3. Light and peace at once deriving
From the hand of God most high,
In His glorious presence living,
They shall never, never die.
44. Endless pleasure, pain excluding,

Sickness, there, no more can come;
There, no fear of woe intruding,
Shed's o'er heaven a moment's gloom.

COLLYER.

1175. 8s & 7s.

1. CEASE here longer to detain me,
Fondest mother, drowned in woe,
Now thy kind caresses pain me,
Morn advances, let me go.

2. See yon orient streak appearing,
Harbinger of endless day;
Hark! a voice beyond thy hearing,
Calls my new-born soul away.

3. Yet to leave thee sorrowing pains me
Hark! that voice again I hear;
Now thine arms no more detain me-
Follow me, my mother dear.

1176. 7s & 4s.*

1. WHEN the vale of death appears,
Faint and cold this mortal clay-
Kind Forerunner, soothe my fears,
Light me through the darksome way;
Break the shadows,
Usher in eternal day.

2. Upward from this dying state,
Bid my waiting soul aspire;
Open Thou the crystal gate,
To Thy praise attune my lyre;
Then, triumphant,

I will join the immortal choir.

3. When the mighty trumpet blown,
Shall the judgment dawn proclaim,
From the central, burning throne,
'Mid creation's final flame,

With the ransomed,

Thou wilt own my worthless name!