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3 Come, Almighty to deliver,

Let us all thy life receive!
Suddenly return-and never-
Never more thy temples leave!
Thee we would be always blessing,
Serve thee as thy hosts above;
Pray, and praise thee without ceasing,
Glory in thy precious love.

4 Finish, then, thy new creation;
Pure, unspotted may we be ;
Let us see our whole salvation,
Perfectly secur'd by thee:
Chang'd from glory unto glory,
Till in heav'n we take our place;
Till we cast our crowns before thee,
Lost in wonder, love, and praise !

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HYMN 133. P. M. 8, 7.

Grateful Recollection.

OME, thou Fount of ev'ry blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount-I'm fix'd upon it-
Mount of God's unchanging love.

2 Here I raise my Eben-Ezer,
Hither by thy help I'm come;
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wand'ring from the fold of God;
He to rescue me from danger,
Interpos'd with precious blood.
3 Oh! to grace how great a debtor,
Daily I'm constrain❜d to be!
Let that grace now, like a fetter,
Bind my wand'ring heart to thee:
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it—
Prone to leave the God I love-
Here's my heart- O take and seal it;
Seal it from thy courts above.

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Monthly Concert.
HYMN 134. C. M.
Salvation.

ALVATION! O, the joyful sound!
Tis pleasure to our ears;

A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound,

A cordial for our fears.

2 Buried in sorrow, and in sin,
At hell's dark door we lay;
But we arise by grace divine
To see a heav'nly day.
3 Salvation! let the echo fly

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The spacious earth around,
While all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound.

HYMN 135. H. M.

Effects of the Gospel.

ARK the soft-falling snow,

M and the descending rain!

To heav'n, from whence it fell,
It turns not back again;

But waters earth thro' every pore
And calls forth all her secret store.

2 Array'd in beauteous green
The hills and vallies shine,

And man and beast are fed
By providence divine.

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The harvest bows its golden ears,
The copious seed of future years.
3 So, saith the God of grace,
My gospel shall descend,
Almighty to effect

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The purpose I intend :

Millions of souls shall feel its pow'r,
And bear it down to millions more.
HYMN 136. C. M.

Beauty and strength of the Church.

SAY, who is she that looks abroad
Like the sweet blushing dawn,
When with her living light she paints
The dew-drops of the lawn?

2 Fair as the moon when in the skies,
Serene her throne she guides,

And o'er the twinkling stars supreme
In full orb'd glory rides;

3 Clear as the sun, when from the east,
Without a cloud, he springs,
And scatters boundless light and heat
From his resplendent wings;

4 Tremendous as an host that moves
Majestically slow,

With banners wide display'd, all arm'd,
All ardent for the foe! 33

5 This is the church by heav'n array'd
With strength and grace divine;
Thus shall she strike her foes with dread,
And thus her glories shine.

HYMN 137. L. M.

Prayer for the spread of the Gospel.

1HY people, Lord, who trust thy word,

THY
And wait the smilings of thy face,

Assemble round thy mercy seat,
And plead the promise of thy grace.
2 We consecrate these hours to thee,
Thy sov'reign mercy to entreat;
And feel some animating hope,
We shall divine acceptance meet.
3 Hast thou not promis'd to thy Son,
That his dominion shall extend,
Till ev'ry tongue shall call him Lord,
And ev'ry knee before him bend?
4 Now let the happy time appear,
The time to favor Zion come;
Send forth thy heralds far and near,
To call thy banish'd people home.

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

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It spreads from pole to pole;
Till o'er our ransom'd nature,
The Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator,
In bliss returns to reign.

HYMN 139. L. M.

Prayer for Zion's increase.

ARM of the Lord, awake, awake!

Put on thy strength-the nations shake, And 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 No more let human blood be spilt-
Vain sacrifice for human guilt!
But to each conscience be applied,
The blood that flow'd from Jesus' side.
4 Almighty God, thy grace proclaim,
In ev'ry land, of ev'ry name;
Let adverse pow'rs before thee fall,
And crown the Saviour-Lord of all.
HYMN 140. C. M.

The latter day glory.

Bin latter days shall rise

EHOLD! the mountain of the Lord,

Above the mountains and the hills, And draw the wond'ring 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 ev'ry land:

The King who reigns in Zion's tow'rs,
Shall all the world command.

4 No longer hosts encount'ring hosts,
Their millions slain deplore :
They hang the trumpet in the hall,
And study war no more.

5 Come then-Oh, come from ev'ry land,
To worship at his shrine :

And walking in the light of God,
With holy beauties shine.

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HYMN 141. P. M. 7, 6.
Blessings of Christ's reign.
AIL to the Lord's anointed!

H Great David's greater Son :
Hail in the time appointed,
His reign on earth begun!
He comes to break oppression,
To set the captive free:
To take away transgression,
And rule in equity.

2 He comes, with succor speedy,
To those who suffer wrong;
To help the poor and needy,
And bid the weak be strong;
To give them songs for sighing,
Their darkness turn to light,
Whose souls condemn,d anddying,
Were precious in his sight.

3 He shall come down, like showers
Upon the fruitful earth,
And love and joy, like flowers,
Spring in his path to birth:
Before him on the mountains,
Shall peace the herald go,
And righteousness in fountains
From hill to valley flow.
4 For him shall pray'r unceasing,
And daily vows ascend;
His kingdom still increasing,
A kingdom without end:
The tide of time shall never
His covenant remove;
His name shall stand forever;
That name to us is-Love.

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HYMN 142. C. M.

The Prince of Peace

LEW saints one Saviour's grace:

ET saints on earth their anthems raise,

Let heathens too proclaim his praise,
And crown him" Prince of Peace."

2 Praise him, who laid his glory by,
For man's apostate race;

Praise him, who stocp'd to bleed and die,
And crown him "Prince of Peace."

3 Ye nations, lay your weapons down,
Let war forever cease;

Immanuel for your Sov'reign own,

And crown him "Prince of Peace."

4 We soon shall reach the heav'nly shore, To view his lovely face;

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