⚫ HYMN 273. H. M.

LET earth and heaven agree,
Angels and men be join'd,

To celebrate with me

The Saviour of mankind: T'adore the all-atoning Lamb, And bless the sound of Jesus' name. 2 Jesus! transporting sound! The joy of earth and heaven : No other help is found,

No other name is given,

By which we can salvation have; But Jesus came the world to save. 3 Jesus! harmonious name!

It charms the hosts above; They evermore proclaim,

And wonder at his love! "Tis all their happiness to gaze, "Tis heaven to see our Jesus' face. 4 His name the sinner hears,

And is from sin set free;

"Tis music in his ears;

"Tis life and victory :

New songs doth now his lips employ,
And dances his glad heart for joy.
5 Stung by the scorpion sin,
My poor expiring soul,

The balmy sound drinks in,

And is at once made whole:
See there my Lord upon the tree!
I hear, I feel, he died for me.
6 O unexampled love!

O all-redeeming grace!
How swiftly didst thou move
To save a fallen race!

What shall I do to make it known,
What thou for all mankind hast done?

7 O for a trumpet voice,

On all the world to call!
To bid their hearts rejoice

In him who died for all!
For all my Lord was crucify'd;
For all, for all my Saviour died.

HYMN 274. L. M. [101]

LORD, how secure and blest are they
Who feel the joys of pardon'd sin!
Should storms of wrath shake earth and sea,
Their minds have heaven and peace within.
2 The day glides sweetly o'er their heads
Made up of innocence and love;
And soft, and silent as the shades,
Their nightly minutes gently move.

3 Quick as their thoughts, their joys come on;
But fly not half so swift away :
Their souls are ever bright as noon,
And calm as summer evening's be..
4 How oft they look to heavenly hills,
Where groves of living pleasure grow!
And longing hopes, and cheerful smiles,
Sit undisturb'd upon their brow.

5 They scorn to seek our golden toys,
But spend the day and share the night,
In numbering o'er the richer joys

That heaven prepares for their delight.

HYMN 275. C. M.

THY ceaseless, unexhausted love,
Unmerited and free,

Delights our evil to remove,

And help our misery.

2 Thou waitest to be gracious still,
Thou dost with sinners bear;
That, sav'd we may thy goodness feel,
And all thy grace declare.

3 Thy goodness and thy truth to me,
To every soul, abound;

A vast, unfathomable sea,

Where all our thoughts are drown'd.

4 Its streams the whole creation reach,
So plenteous is the store;
Enough for all, enough for each,
Enough for evermore.

5 Faithful, O Lord, thy mercies are!
A rock that cannot move :
A thousand promises declare
Thy constancy of love.

6 Throughout the universe it reigns,
Unalterably sure;

And while the truth of God remains,
His goodness must endure.

HYMN 276. 10s. & 11s. [102]

O TELL me no more of this world's vain store,
The time for such trifles with me now is o'er;
A country I've found where true joys abound,
To dwell I'm determined on that happy ground.
2 The souls that believe in paradise live,
And me in that number will Jesus receive:
My soul, don't delay, he calls thee away,
Rise, follow thy Saviour, and bless the glad
day.

3 No mortal doth know what he can bestow, What light, strength, and comfort-go after him, go;

Lo, onward I move to a city above,

None guesses how wond'rous my journey will

prove.

[sin, 4 Great spoils I shall win from death, hell, and 'Midst outward afflictions shall feel Christ within:

And when I'm to die, receive me, I'll cry,
For Jesus hath lov'd me, I cannot tell why.
5 But this I do find, we two are so join'd,
He'll not live in glory and leave me behind :
So this is the race I'm running through grace,
Henceforth-till admitted to see my Lord's face.

HYMN 277. C. M. [103]

MY God, the spring of all my joys,
The life of my delights,
The glory of my brightest days,
And comfort of my nights!

2 In darkest shades, if thou appear,

My dawning is begun;

Thou art my soul's bright morning star,
And thou my rising sun.

3 The opening heavens around me shine,
With beams of sacred bliss,

If Jesus shows his mercy mine,

And whispers I am his.

4 My soul would leave this heavy clay,
At that transporting word,
Run up with joy the shining way,
To see and praise my Lord.

5 Fearless of hell and ghastly death,
I'd break thro' every foe;

The wings of love, and arms of faith,
Would bear me conqu'ror through.

HYMN 278. L. P. M. [104]

I'LL praise my Maker while I've breath,
And when my voice is lost in death,

Praise shall employ my nobler powers; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.

2 Happy the man whose hopes rely On Israel's God; he made the sky,

And earth, and seas, with all their train; His truth for ever stands secure:

He saves th' oppressed, he feeds the poor, And none shall find his promise vain.

3 The Lord pours eyesight on the blind; The Lord supports the fainting mind;

He sends the lab'ring conscience peace; He helps the stranger in distress, The widow and the fatherless,

And grants the prisoner sweet release. 4 I'll praise him while he lends me breath, And when my voice is lost in death,

Praise shall employ my nobler powers; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.

HYMN 279. C. M. [105]

LET every tongue thy goodness speak,
Thou sovereign Lord of all,

Thy strengthening hands uphold the weak,
And raise the poor that fall.

2 When sorrows bow the spirit down,
When virtue lies distress'd;

Beneath the proud oppressor's frown,
Thou giv'st the mourner rest.