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2 When he first the work begun, Small and feeble was his day: Now the word doth swiftly run,

Now it wins its winding way;
More and more it spreads and grows,
Ever mighty to prevail;

Sin's strongholds it now o'erthrows,
Shakes the trembling gates of hell.

3 Saw ye not the cloud arise,
Little as a human hand?
Now it spreads along the skies,
Hangs o'er all the thirsty land:
Lo! the promise of a shower,
Drops already from above;
But the Lord will shortly pour,
All the spirit of his love!

HYMN 586. L. M. [254]

"TIS now the time of strife and war, The contest sounds on every side: Nations are bound to Satan's car,

And who shall meet him in his pride? 2 Is there no arm his power to break? Are there no hearts that deeply feel? Sons of the kingdom! rise, awake! Obey at length your Saviour's will. 3 Go, bear the Gospel banner forth, Its glittering web of light unroll, To gleam sublime from south to north, And scatter light from pole to pole. 4 Hark! tis the trumpet's warning cry! Lo, o'er the earth the banners wave; The Lord of glory comes from high, To rule, to conquer and to save.

HYMN 587. 78. & 6s. [254]

FROM Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand;
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver

Their land from error's chain.

2 What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle-
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile-
In vain, with lavish kindness,
The gifts of God are strown;
The heathen in his blindness,
Bows down to wood and stone.

3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted
By wisdom from on high,--
Shall we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?—
Salvation, oh, salvation!

The joyful sound proclaim,
Till earth's remotest nation,
Has learned Messiah's name.

4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story,
And you, ye waters, roll,
Till, like a sea of glory,

It spreads from pole to pole;
Till o'er our ransomed nature,
The Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator,-
Returns in bliss to reign.

HYMN 588. 7. & 6s.

FROM o'er the Rocky Mountains, Where prairies wide are spread,

Where streams from forest fountains
Flow west to ocean's bed,-
See savage men descending

To Mississippi's vale,
Their eager eyes still bending
An eastern light to hail.
2 For they have heard a story
Of God's most holy Book,
All full of light and glory,
On which their eyes may look;
And they, like eastern sages,
Who journeyed from afar,
Have travelled weary stages,

To find the Saviour's star.

3 "Have you that Book from heaven?" These western wise men say;

"To us shall it be given,

To guide us on our way?
We're wanderers, all our nation,
Deep lost in gloomy night:
O, let us know salvation!

O, give us heaven-born light!"

HYMN 589. 7s & 6s. [256]

THE morning light is breaking,
The darkness disappears,
The sons of earth are waking
To penitential tears.

Each breeze that sweeps the ocean,
Brings tidings from afar;

The nations are in motion,

To find Messiah's star.

2 Rich dews of grace come o'er us,
In many a gentle shower,
And brighter scenes before us
Are opening every hour;
Each cry, to heaven going,

Abundant answers brings,
And heavenly gales are blowing,
With peace upon their wings.
3 See heathen nations bending
Before the God of love,
And thousand hearts ascending
In gratitude above;
While sinners now confessing
The Gospel call obey,

And seek the Saviour's blessing,
A nation in a day.

HYMN 590. C. M.

BEHOLD, the mountain of the Lord,
In latter days, shall rise
Above the mountains and the hills,
And draw the wondering eyes.
2 To this the joyful nations round,
All tribes and tongues shall flow;
Up to the hill of God," they say,
"And to his courts, we'll go."

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3 The beams that shine on Zion's hill
Shall lighten every land;

The King who reigns in Zion's towers
Shall all the world command.

4 No strife shall vex Messiah's reign,
Or mar the peaceful years;

To plough-shares men shall beat their swords, To pruning-hooks their spears.

5 Come, then, O, come from every land, To worship at his shrine;

And, walking in the light of God,

With holy beauty shine.

HYMN 591. L. M. [258]

ARM of the Lord, awake, awake;
Put on thy strength, the nations shake;

Now let the world, adoring, see
Triumphs of mercy wrought by thee.
2 Say to the heathen, from thy throne,
“I am Jehovah, God alone:"

Thy voice their idols shall confound,
And cast their altars to the ground.

3 Let Zion's time of favor come;
O, bring the tribes of Israel home:
Soon may our wondering eyes behold
Gentiles and Jews in Jesus' fold.

4 Almighty God, thy grace proclaim
Through every clime of every name;
Let adverse powers before thee fall,
And crown the Saviour Lord of all.

HYMN 592. L. M. [258]

ARISE, arise, with joy survey
The glory of the latter day;
Already is the dawn begun
Which marks at hand a rising sun.
2 “Behold the way," ye heralds, cry;
Spare not, but lift your voices high;
Convey the sound from pole to pole,
"Glad tidings" to the captive soul.
3 "Behold the way to Zion's hill,
Where Israel's God delights to dwell:
He fixes there his lofty throne,
And calls the sacred place his own."

4 The north gives up; the south no more
Keeps back her consecrated store;
From east to west the message runs,

And either India yields her sons.

HYMN 593. C. M. [250]

DAUGHTER of Zion, from the dust
Exalt thy fallen head ;

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