2 Soon will the storm of life be o'er,
And I shall enter endless rest:
There I shall live to sin no more,
And bless thy name for ever blest.
3 Bid me possess sweet peace within;
Let childlike patience keep my heart;
Then shall I feel my heaven begin,
Before my spirit hence depart.

4 Hasten thy chariot, God of love!

And fetch me from this world of wo;
I long to reach those joys above,
And bid farewell to all below.

5 There shall my raptured spirit raise
Still louder notes than angels sing,—
High glorics to Immanuel's grace,—
My God, my Saviour, and my King!

649.

L. M.

Mourning with Submission.

1 THE God of love will sure indulge
The flowing tear, the heaving sigh,
When righteous persons fall around,-
When tender friends and kindred die.
2 Yet not one anxious, murm'ring thought
Should with our mourning passions blend;
Nor would our bleeding hearts forget
Th' almighty, ever-living Friend.

3 Beneath a numerous train of ills,

Our feeble flesh and heart may fail;
Yet shall our hope in thee, our God,
O'er every gloomy fear prevail.

4 Our Father-God! to thee we look,
Our Rock, our Portion and our Friend;
And on thy covenant-love and truth,
Our sinking souls shall still depend.

650.

C. M.

The Death of a Youth.

1 WHEN blooming youth is snatethed away,

By death's resistless hand,

Our hearts the mournful tribute pay,

That pity must demand.

2 While pity prompts the rising sigh,
Oh! may this truth, impressed
With awful power,-"I too must die!"
Sink deep in every breast.

3 Let this vain world engage no more;
Behold the gaping tomb!

It bids us seize the present hour,—
To-morrow death may come.

4 Oh! let us fly-to Jesus fly-
Whose powerful arm can save;
Then shall our hopes ascend on high,
And triumph o'er the grave.

5 Great God! thy sovereign grace impart,
With cleansing, healing power;
This only can prepare the heart,
For death's surprising hour.

651.

C. M.

Death and the Resurrection.

1 THROUGH sorrow's night, and danger's path,
Amid the deepening gloom,
We, soldiers of an injured king,
Are marching to the tomb.

2 There, when the turmoil is no more,
And all our powers decay,
Our cold remains, in solitude,
Shall sleep the years away.
3 Our labors done securely laid
In this our last retreat,
Unheeded, o'er our silent dust,
The storms of life shall beat.

4 Yet not thus lifeless, thus inane,
The vital spark shall lie;

For, o'er life's wreck, that spark shall rise
To seek its kindred sky.

5 These ashes too,-this little dust,-
Our Father's care shall keep,
Till the last angel rise and break
The long and dreary sleep.

6 Then love's soft dew, o'er every eye,
Shall shed its mildest rays,

And the long-silent dust shall burst,
With shouts of endless praise.

652.

C. M.

Death dreadful or delightful.

1 DEATH!—'t is a melancholy day,
To those who have no God,-
When the poor soul is forced away
To seek her last abode.

2 In vain, to heaven she lifts her eyes,-
But guilt a heavy chain,

Still drags her downward from the skies,
To darkness, fire, and pain.

3 Awake, and mourn, ye heirs of wo!
Let stubborn sinners fear;

Why will ye sink to flames below,
And dwell for ever there?

4 See how the pit gapes wide for you,
And flashes in your face;

And thou, my soul! look downward too,
And sing recovering grace.

653.

C. M.

Death and Judgment appointed to al

1 HEAVEN has confirmed the dread decree, That Adam's race must die;

One general ruin sweeps them down,
And low in dust they lie.

2 Ye living men! the tomb survey,
Where you must shortly dwell;

Hark! how the awful summons sounds,
In every funeral-knell !

3 Once you must die-and once for all,-
The solemn purport weigh;

For know, that heaven and hell are hung,
On that important day.

4 Those eyes, so long in darkness veiled,
Must wake the Judge to see;

And every word, and every thought,
Must pass his scrutiny.

5 Oh! may I, in the Judge, behold
My Saviour and my Friend;
And, far above the reach of death,
With all thy saints ascend.

JUDGMENT.

654.

73.

Christ coming to save his People.

1 HARK—that shout of rapturous joy,
Bursting forth from yonder cloud!
Jesus comes-and, through the sky
Angels tell their joy aloud.

2 Hark! the trumpet's awful voice
Sounds abroad through sea and lana :
Let his people now rejoice,

Their redemption is at hand.

3 See! the Lord appears in view;
Heaven and earth before him fly;
Rise, ye saints! he comes for you,—
Rise, to meet him in the sky.

4 Go and dwell with him above,
Where no foe can e'er molest;
Happy in the Saviour's love,
Ever blessing, ever blest.

655.

C. M.

God, the awful Judge.

1 SING to the Lord, ye heavenly hosts!
And thou, O earth! adore;

Let death and hell, through all their coasts,
Stand trembling at his power.

2 His sounding chariot shakes the sky,
He makes the clouds his throne:
There all his stores of lightning lie,
Till vengeance darts them down.

3 Think, O my soul! the dreadful day,
When this incensed God

Shall rend the sky, and burn the sea,
And send his wrath abroad.

4 What shall the wretch, the sinner do? He once defied the Lord;

But he shall dread the thunderer now
And sink beneath his word.

5 Tempests of angry fire shall roll
To blast the rebel-worm,
And beat upon his naked soul,
In one eternal storm.

656.

8s, 7s and 4.

Christ coming to Judgment.

1 LO! he comes, in clouds descending, Once for favored sinners slain; Thousand thousand saints attending Swell the triumph of his train :

Hallelujah ;

Jesus shall for ever reign.

2 Every eye shall now behold him,
Robed in dreadful majesty;

Those who set at nought, and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to the tree,
Deeply wailing,-

Shall the great Messiah see.

3 Every island, sea, and mountain, Heaven, and earth shall flee away; All who hate him, must, confounded, Hear the trump proclaim the day; Come to judgment !—

Come to judgment,-come away. 4 Now the Saviour, long-expected, See, in solemn pomp, appear! All his saints, by man rejected, Now shall meet him in the air. Hallelujah!

657.

See the day of God appear.

8s, 7s and 4.

The Judgment welcomed.

1 LO! he cometh,-countless trumpets
Wake to life the slumbering dead;
Mid ten thousand saints and angels,
See their great exalted Head:
Hallelujah!

Welcome, welcome, Son of God!