God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears,
God shall lift up thy head.

2 Through waves, and clouds, and storms,
He gently clears thy way:
Wait thou his time, so shall this night,
Soon end in joyous day.

3 Still heavy is thy heart?

Still sink thy spirits down?
Cast off the weight, let fear depart,
Bid every care begone.

4 What though thou rulest not?
Yet heaven, and earth, and hell,
Proclaim, God sitteth on the throne,
And ruleth all things well.

5 Leave to his sovereign sway,
To choose and to command;
So shalt thou, wondering, own his way,
How wise, how strong his hand!

REJOICING AND PRAISE.

HYMN 253. C. M. [88]

O FOR a thousand tongues to sing
My great Redeemer's praise!
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of his grace!

2 My gracious Master and my God,
Assist me to proclaim;

To spread through all the earth abroad,
The honors of thy name.

3 Jesus!-the name that charms our fears,

That bids our sorrows cease;

"Tis music in the sinner's ears,

"Tis life, and health, and peace.

He breaks the power of cancell❜d sin,
He sets the prisoner free;

His blood can make the foulest clean,
His blood avail'd for me.

5 He speaks and, listening to his voice,
New life the dead receive;
The mournful, broken hearts rejoice,
The humble poor believe.

SECOND PART.

HYMN 254. C. M.

HEAR him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb,
Your loosen'd tongues employ;
Ye blind, behold your Saviour come,
And leap, ye lame, for joy,

2 Look unto him, ye nations; own
Your God, ye fallen race;

Look, and be saved through faith alone,
Be justified by grace.

3 See all your sins on Jesus laid:
The Lamb of God was slain:
His soul was once an offering made
For every soul of man.

4 Awake from guilty nature's sleep,
And Christ shall give you light,
Cast all your sins into the deep,
And wash the Ethiop white.

5 With me, your chief, ye then shall know,
Shall feel, your sins forgiven;
Anticipate your heaven below,
And own that love is heaven.

HYMN 255. P. M. [88]

HOW happy are they,

Who their Saviour obey,

And have laid up their treasures above!
Tongue cannot express

The sweet comfort and peace
Of a soul in its earliest love!
2 That comfort was mine,
When the favor divine

I first found in the blood of the Lamb;
When my heart it believed,

What a joy I receiv'd,

What a heaven in Jesus' name!

3 "Twas a heaven below,

My Redeemer to know;

The angels could do nothing more,
Than to fall at his feet,
And the story repeat,
And the Lover of sinners adore.
4 Jesus all the day long

Was my joy and my song;
O, that all his salvation might see!
He hath lov'd me, I cried,

He hath suffer'd and died, To redeem such a rebel as me. 5. On the wings of his love,

I was carried above

All sin, and temptation, and pain;

I could not believe

That I ever should grieve, That I ever should suffer again.

6 I rode on the sky,

Freely justified I,

Nor did envy Elijah his seat:
My soul mounted higher,

In a chariot of fire,

And the moon it was under

my

feet.

7 O, rapturous height

Of that holy delight

Which I felt in the life-giving blood!

Of my Saviour possest,

I was perfectly blest,

As if fill'd with the fulness of God.

HYMN 256. C. M. [90]

THY presence, Lord, the place shall fill,
My heart shall be thy throne;
Thy holy, just and perfect will,
Shall in my flesh be done.

2 I thank thee for the present grace,
And now in hope rejoice,
In confidence to see thy face,

And always hear thy voice.

3 I have the things I ask of thee,
What shall I more require?
That still my soul may restless be,
And only thee desire.

4 Thy only will be done, not mine,
But make me, Lord, thy home;
Come when thou wilt, I that resign,
But oh, my Jesus, come!

HYMN 257. C. M. [91]

COME, let us who in Christ believe,
Our common Saviour praise :
To him, with joyful voices, give
The glory of his grace.

2 He now stands knocking at the door Of every sinner's heart;

The worst need keep him out no more, Or force him to depart.

3 Through grace we hearken to thy voice,
Yield to be sav'd from sin;
In sure and certain hope rejoice,
That thou wilt enter in.

4 Come quickly in, thou heavenly guest, Nor ever hence remove:

But sup with us, and let the feast
Be everlasting love.

HYMN 258. C. M. [91]

TALK with us, Lord, thyself reveal,
While here o'er earth we rove;
Speak to our hearts, and let us feel
The kindlings of thy love.
2 With thee conversing, we forget
All time, and toil, and care:
Labor is rest, and pain is sweet,
If thou, my God, art here.

3 Here then, my God vouchsafe to stay, And bid my heart rejoice;

My bounding heart shall own thy sway, And echo to thy voice.

4 Thou callest me to seek thy face;
"Tis all I wish to seek;

T' to attend the whispers of thy grace,
And hear thee inly speak.

5 Let this my every hour employ,

Till I thy glory see!

Enter into my Master's joy,

And find my heaven in thee.

HYMN 259. C. P. M. [92]

HOW happy, gracious Lord, are we!
Divinely drawn to follow thee,

Whose hours divided are

Betwixt the mount and multitude: