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Our day is spent in doing good,

Our night in praise and prayer.
2 With us no melancholy void,
No moment lingers unemploy'd,
Or unimprov❜d below:

Our weariness of life is gone,
Who live to serve our God alone,
And only thee to know.

3 The winter's night and summer's day Glide imperceptibly away.

Too short to sing thy praise; Too few we find the happy hours, And haste to join those heavenly powers, In everlasting lays.

4 With all who chant thy name on high, And holy, holy, holy, cry,

A bright harmonious throng!-
We long thy praises to repeat,
And ceaseless sing around thy seat,
The new, eternal song.

HYMN 260. C. M. [93]

JESUS, to thee I now can fly,

On whom my help is laid;
Opprest by sins, I lift my eye,
And see the shadows fade.
2 Believing on my Lord, I find
A sure and present aid:
On thee alone my constant mind
Be every moment stay'd!

3 Whate'er in me seems wise or good, Or strong, I here disclaim;

I wash my garments in the blood
Of the atoning Lamb.

4 Jesus, my strength, my life, my rest,
On thee will I depend,

Till summon'd to the marriage feast,
When faith in sight shall end.

HYMN 261. L. M. [94]

JESUS, thou everlasting King,
Accept the tribute which we bring!
Accept thy well-deserv'd renown,
And wear our praises as thy crown.
2 Let every act of worship be,
Like our espousals, Lord, to thee;
Like the blest hour, when from above,
We first received the pledge of love.
3 The gladness of that happy day,
O, may it ever, ever stay!

Nor let our faith forsake its hold,
Nor hope decline, nor love grow cold:
4 Each following minute, as it flies,
Increase thy praise, improve our joys,
Till we are rais'd to sing thy name,
At the great supper of the Lamb.

HYMN 262. Double 8s. [94]
THOU Shepherd of Israel and mine,
The joy and desire of my heart,
For closer communion I pine,

I long to reside where thou art: The pasture I languish to find, Where all who their Shepherd obey, Are fed, on thy bosom reclin'd,

And screen'd from the heat of the day. 2 Ah! show me that happiest place, The place of thy people's abode; Where saints in an ecstacy gaze, And hang on a crucified God: Thy love for a sinner declare;

Thy passion and death on the tree;

My spirit to Calvary bear,

To suffer and triumph with thee.

3 "Tis there with the lambs of thy flock,
There only I covet to rest;
To lie at the foot of the rock,

Or rise to be hid in thy breast:
"Tis there I would always abide,
And never a moment depart :
Conceal'd in the cleft of thy side,
Eternally held in thy heart.

HYMN 263. Double 8s. [95]

HOW tedious and tasteless the hours,
When Jesus no longer I see;

Sweet prospects, sweet birds and sweet flowers,
Have all lost their sweetness to me:
The midsummer sun shines but dim,
The fields strive in vain to look gay;
But when I am happy in him,

December's as pleasant as May.
2 His name yields the richest perfume,
And sweeter than music his voice;
His presence disperses my gloom,

And makes all within me rejoice:
I should, were he always thus nigh,
Have nothing to wish or to fear,
No mortal so happy as I,

My summer would last all the year.
3 Content with beholding his face,
My all to his pleasure resign'd;
No changes of season or place

Would make any change in my mind:
While blest with a sense of his love,
A palace a toy would appear;
And prisons would palaces prove,

If Jesus would dwell with me there.

4 Dear Lord, if indeed I am thine,
If thou art my sun and my song,
Say why do I languish and pine?
And why are my winters so long?
O drive these dark clouds from my sky,
Thy soul-cheering presence restore:
Or take me to thee upon high,

Where winter and clouds are no more.

HYMN 264. L. M.

HAPPY the man that finds the grace,
The blessing of God's chosen race;
The wisdom coming from above,
The faith that sweetly works by love.

2 Happy beyond description, he
Who knows" the Saviour died for me!"
The gift unspeakable obtains,

And heavenly understanding gains.

3 Wisdom divine! who tells the price Of wisdom's costly merchandize? Wisdom to silver we prefer,

And gold is dross compared to her.

4 Her hands are filled with length of days, True riches, and immortal praise;

Riches of Christ, on all bestowed,
And honor that descends from God.

5 To purest joys she all invites,
Chaste, holy, spiritual delights;
Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all her flowery paths are peace.
6 Happy the man who wisdom gains;
Thrice happy who his guest retains!
He owns, and shall for ever own,
Wisdom, and Christ, and heaven are one.

HYMN 265. 8s. & 7s. [97]

COME, thou fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace:
Streams of mercy never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise:
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above:
Praise the mount-I'm fix'd upon it:
Mount of thy redeeming love!
2 Here I'll raise my Ebenezer,
Hither by thy help I'm come;
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wand'ring from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interpos'd his precious blood!

3 O! to grace how great a debtor,
Daily I'm constrained to be?
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wand'ring heart to thee:
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it;
Prone to leave the God I love-
Here's my heart, O take and seal it;
Seal it for thy courts above.

HYMN 266. H. M.

REJOICE, the Lord is King,

Your Lord and King adore;

Mortals give thanks and sing,
And triumph evermore:

Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice,
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice.
2 Jesus, the Saviour reigns,
The God of truth and love,

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