mf 4 Oh! wondrous knowledge-deep and high! Where can a creature hide? Within thy circling arms I lie, mf 5 So let thy grace surround me still, To guard my soul from every ill, 139 FIFTII PART. C. M. Spencer. LORD, where shall guilty souls retire, In hell they meet thy dreadful fire- 2 Should I suppress my vital breath, Thy voice would break the bars of death, 3 If, winged with beams of morning light, Thy hand, which must support my flight, 4 If o'er my sins I think to draw 5 The beams of noon-the midnight hour, Aff Oh may I ne'er provoke that power, 139 SIXTH PART. C. M. Medfield. WHEN I with pleasing wonder stand, Lord, 'tis thy work-I own thy hand That built my humble clay. 2 My flesh with fear and wonder stands, And hourly blessings from thy hands, 3 And when I count thy mercies o'er, 4 These on my heart by night I keep; Oh may the hour that ends my sleep 139 SEVENTH PART. C. M. Dundee. JEHOVAH, God! thy gracious power Oh may the blessings of each hour 2 If, on the wings of morn, we speed Thy hand will there our journey lead, 3 Thy power is in the ocean deeps, 4 From morn till noon-till latest eve, And all the blessings we receive 5 In all the varying scenes of time, In every age-in every clime, 140 S. M. Hudson. P Divine Protection acknowledged and implored JE EHOVAH, God most high! Oh let my supplicating cry 2 Great God, thy sovereign power Thy shield, in every dangerous hour, 3 Do thou my foes repel, Their dark designs restrain; f 141 L. M. Daily Devotion. Winchester. M Like morning incense in thine house; Y God, accept my early vows, And let my nightly worship rise, 2 Watch o'er my lips, and guard them, Lord, The guilty path, where sinners lead. 3 Oh may the righteous, when I stray, Smite, and reprove my wandering way: Their gentle words, like ointment shed, < Shall never bruise, but cheer my head. mp 4 When I behold them pressed with grief, I'll cry to heaven for their relief; <<And by my warm petitions, prove mf How much I prize their faithful love. 143 Aff L. M. Medway. Oh make thy truth and mercy known. 4 My thoughts in musing silence trace 5 Teach me, O Lord, thy holy will, Conduct me to thy courts above. 144 FIRST PART. C. M. Stamford. OREVER blessed be the Lord, My Saviour, and my shield; He sends his Spirit with his word, 2 When sin and hell their force unite, He makes the glorious victory mine, 144 f SECOND PART. C. M. Bether God's condescending Goodness to Man. His life a shadow-light and vain, 2 Oh! what is feeble, dying man, That God should make it his concern To visit him with grace! 3 That God who darts his lightnings down, Who shakes the worlds above, While terrors wait his awful frown- 145 FIRST PART. L. M. Winchester. MY All Praise due to God. Y God, my King, thy various praise f 2 The wings of every hour shall bear 3 Thy works with boundless glory shine, 4 Let distant times and nations raise 5 But who can speak thy wondrous deeds? f 145 SECOND PART. C. M. St. Ann's. f LONG as I live, I'll bless thy name, My work and joy shall be the same, 2 Great is the Lord-his power unknown, I'll sing the honors of thy throne, Thy works of grace repeat. 3 Thy grace shall dwell upon my tongue; The men who hear my sacred song, 4 Fathers to sons shall tell thy name, 5 The world is governed by thy hand, And thine eternal kingdom stands, |