HYMNS. MORNING HYMNS. HYMN 1. AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Wake, and lift up thyself, my heart, Glory to Thee, who safe hast kept, Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, Lord, I my vows to Thee renew ; Scatter my sins as morning dew ; Guard my first springs of thought and will, And with Thyself my spirit fill. B Direct, controul, suggest this day, That all my pow'rs, with all their might, HYMN 2. LORD of my life, O may Thy praise Preserv'd by Thy Almighty arm, I passed the shades of night, While many spent the night in sighs, When sleep, death's semblance, o'er me spread, And I unconscious lay, Thy watchful care was round my bed, To guard my feeble clay. O let the same Almighty care Smile on my minutes as they roll, HYMN 3. MY GOD, how endless is Thy love! Thou spread'st the curtains of the night, I yield my pow'rs to Thy command; EVENING HYMNS. HYMN 4. GLORY to Thee, my God, this night, For all the blessings of the light; Keep me, O keep me, King of kings, Beneath Thine own Almighty wings. Forgive me, Lord, for Thy dear Son, The ills that I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and Thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be. PREFACE. "THE singing of Psalms and Hymns has ever constituted a delightful part of Divine Worship. In the lowest state of the Church of Christ, when the sufferings of our blessed Saviour were at hand, Himself and the company of His disciples followed the custom of adding praise to their devotions; and from the practice of Paul and Silas, as well as from the very explicit instructions recorded in the New Testament, and from the testimony of the younger Pliny, we find, that the first Christians were wont to edify themselves in Psalms and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs.'" At the era of the Reformation, when the Gospel, long hid, was to be restored to us,-when, rescued from the motley and meretricious disguisements of the Romish ceremonial, it was to shine forth afresh in all the pure and primitive beauty of holiness, the Reformers found in Psalmody the most elevating of virtuous excitements, and the strongest bond of congregational union. But highly valuable as the compositions of the sweet Psalmist of Israel confessedly are, yet it has been long and generally acknowledged that to a Christian Congregation, something was still wanting in this department of Public worship, which," in addition to the holy effusions of the Old Testament, may convey that |