222. C. M. MRS. STEELE. 1. WHEN gloomy thoughts and boding fears 2. Religion's dictates can assuage And every storm shall cease to rage, 3. Through life's bewildered, darksome way 4. When feeble reason, tired and blind, Thou blest supporter of the mind, 5. O let my heart confess thy power, To brighten every gloomy hour, 223. C. M. MRS. BARBAULD. 1. AGAIN the Lord of life and light 2. O what a night was that, which wrapp'd 3. This day be grateful homage paid, 4. Ten thousand differing lips shall join 224. P. M. WATTS. The pleasure of public worship. [Psalm 84.] 1. LORD of the worlds above, To thine abode 2. O happy souls, that pray And happy they 3. They go from strength to strength When God our king 4. The Lord his people loves: O God of hosts, 225. L. M. WATTS. The pleasure of public worship. 1. How pleasant, how divinely fair, 2. Blest are the saints who sit on high 3. Blest are the souls that find a place 4. Blest are the men whose hearts are set God is their strength, and through the road 5. Cheerful they walk with growing strength, [The Son shall make you free. John viii.] 1. YE slaves to time and sense, Whose minds their bondage see; The gospel breaks your servile chain, And sets the captive free. 2. Gross darkness shall no more Enslave the trembling soul; Before the cheering rays of truth Its gloomy vapours roll. 3. With Aaron's costly rites, Lo! David's greater son The ceremonial law revokes, And publishes his own. 4. His hand removed the veil Which hid the mercy-seat, And leads the child of penitence Before his Father's feet. 5. From soul-debasing vice He frees the troubled mind; And such as bear his gentle yoke True liberty shall find. 6. But, oh, triumphant thought! |