905.

MISCELLANEOUS.

C. M.

The Mourner comforted.

KNOWLES

1 O, WEEP not for the joys that fade
Like evening lights away,

For hopes that, like the stars decayed,
Have left thy mortal day;
The clouds of sorrow will depart,
And brilliant skies be given;
For bliss awaits the holy heart,

Amid the bowers of heaven.

2 O, weep not for the friends that
Into the lonely grave,

pass

As breezes sweep the withered grass
Along the restless wave;

For though thy pleasures may depart,
And mournful days be given;
Yet bliss awaits the holy heart,
When friends rejoin in heaven.

906.

8 & 7s. M.

COWPER.

Future Peace and Glory of the Church.

1 HEAR what God, the Lord, hath spoken:
O my people, faint and few,
Comfortless, afflicted, broken,

Fair abodes I build for you;
Scenes of heartfelt tribulation

Shall no more perplex your ways;
You shall name your walls salvation,
And your gates shall all be praise.

2 There, like streams that feed the garden,
Pleasures without end shall flow;
For the Lord, your faith rewarding,
All his bounty shall bestow;
Still in undisturbed possession

45

Peace and righteousness shall reign;

529

MISCELLANEOUS.

Never shall you feel oppression,
Hear the voice of war again.

3 Ye, no more your suns descending,
Waning moons no more shall see ;
But, your griefs for ever ending,
Find eternal noon in me;

God shall rise, and, shining o'er you,
Change to day the gloom of night;
He, the Lord, shall be your glory,
God your everlasting light.

907.

C. M.

The Departed.

S. F. SMITH.

1 WHEN spirits from their cumbering clay
Ascend to heaven's bright shore,
Our hoping hearts with triumph say,-
"Not lost, but gone before."

2 Then calmly may our spirits bow
Beneath affliction's rod;

Who, who would murmur that his friend
Is safe in joy and God?

908.

H. M.

Close of Service.

BY us the seed is sown,

Thy blessing, Lord, bestow;
The power is thine alone

To make it spring and grow:

ANONYMOUS

Do thou the gracious harvest raise,
And thou alone shalt have the praise.

APPENDIX.

THE following hymns are here inserted as originally written by the author, Rev. R. Palmer.