L. MASON.

1 The Lord is coming in the clouds,
Is coming with angelic crowds;
A universal shout shall rend
|: The air, and Jesus will descend. :||
2 How grand the pomp of his descent!
What glory waits on the event!
The glory that to heaven belongs
1: Is his, and his the angels' songs.:||
3 Unlike to those who nothing see

Beyond the world, those men should be
Who look for Jesus in the air, [there. :||

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1 O Jesus, Lord! when shall we see And cast our longing eyes on thee; On thee, our light, our life, our love, ||: Our all below, our heaven above? :|| 2 O happy day! when we no more

Shall grieve him whom our souls adore; When sorrows, conflicts, fears shall cease, ||: And all our trials end in peace. :||

3 Come, Saviour, come! O quickly come, Take us, thy waiting people, home; We long to stand around thy throne,

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1 The Lord is coming! glad and free Proclaim the note of jubilee ; Arouse, ye nations, countless throng, : Ring out the tidings loud and long. :|| 2 This earth, with her ten thousand wrongs, Will soon be tuned to nobler songs; Our praise shall then, in realms of light, 1: With all his universe unite. :||

3 The trumpet sounds o'er land and sea, And heaven rolls back the melody; The sleeping nations of the dead ||: Awake, and leave their earth-dark bed. :|| 4 The Lord, our Saviour, Prince of heaven, Descends 'mid clouds all thunder riven; Look up, ye saints, behold your King, : He comes deliverance to bring. :||

M. A. STEWARD.

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MIGDOL. L. M.

L. MASON.

When will the promised light a-rise,

Zion's gates?

1 Lo, He, on whom all power is laid, Who sits at God's right hand on high, To judge the living and the dead,

In fire and tempest draweth nigh.

2 Awake, thou careless world, awake;
Sinners, behold his countenance
In beauty terrible, and quake
Condemn'd beneath his piercing glance.

3 But ye, O faithful souls, shall see

That morning rise in love and joy ; Your Saviour comes to set you free, Your Judge shall all your bonds destroy.

4 His people, with a mighty hand,

He, from earth's conflict, then shall Into their promised fatherland, [bring Where songs of victory they shall sing.

5 Arise, and let us haste to meet
The Bridegroom standing at the door,
That we may worship at his feet
With holy angels evermore.

J. RIST.

20 1 The Lord is coming! let this be The herald note of jubilee; And when we meet, and when we part, The salutation from the heart.

2 The Lord is coming! sound it forth, From East to West, from South to North.

Speed on! speed on the tidings glad, That none who love him may be sad. 3 The Lord is coming! watch and pray! Watch ye, and haste unto the day; So shalt thou then escape the snare, And Christ's eternal glory share.

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BOYLSTON. S. M.

L. MASON.

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1 Come, Lord, and tarry not:
Bring the long-looked-for day;
Oh! why these years of waiting here?
Oh! why this long delay?

2 Come, for creation groans,
Impatient of thy stay,

Worn out by these long years of ill,
These ages of delay.

3 Is not the field now ripe?

Come, with thy sickle, then,
Reap the great harvest of the earth,
Come, gather in the grain.

4 Come, and make all things new,
Build up this ruined earth,
Restore our faded paradise,-
Creation's second birth.

5 Come and begin thy reign
Of everlasting peace;
Come, take the kingdom to thyself,
Great King of Righteousness!

H. BONAR.

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THE COMING KING. 8s, 7s & 4s.

M. GRANT.

1 Christ is coming! let creation

Bid her groans and travail cease; Let the glorious proclamation Hope restore, and faith increase; |: Christ is coming! :|| Come, thou blessed Prince of peace!

2 Earth can now but tell the story
Of thy bitter cross and pain;
She shall yet behold thy glory
When thou comest back to reign:

||: Christ is coming! :||

Let each heart repeat the strain.

3 Long thy exiles have been pining, Far from rest, and home, and thee; But, in heavenly vesture shining, Soon they shall thy glory see; : Christ is coming! :|| Haste the joyous jubilee.

4 With that "blessed hope" before us, Let no harp remain unstrung;

Let the mighty advent chorus

1 Lo, the day of Christ's appearing, Day of life, and day of light, Day when death itself shall perish, Day which ne'er shall set in night. ||: Hallelujah! :||

Day which ne'er shall set in night. 2 Speedily that day is coming,

When the just shall find their rest, When the wicked cease from troubling, And the patient reign most blest. |: Hallelujah! :||

And the patient reign most blest.
3 See the King desired for ages,
By the just expected long;
Song implored, at length he hasteth;
Cometh with salvation strong.

||: Hallelujah! :||
Cometh with salvation strong.