f4 Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel;
Win and conquer-never cease
May thy lasting, wide dominions
Multiply, and still increase:
Sway thy sceptre,
Saviour, all the world around!
HOW wondrous and great
Thy works, God of praise!
How just, King of saints,
And true are thy ways!
Oh, who shall not fear thee,
And honor thy name'
Thou only art holy,
Thou only supreme!
2 To nations long dark
Thy light shall be shown,
Their worship and vows
Shall come to thy throne:
Thy truth and thy judgments
Shall spread all abroad,
Till earth's ev'ry people
Confess thee their God.
Influences of the Spirit necessary.
WHO, but thou, almighty Spirit,
Can the heathen world reclaim?
Men may preach-but till thou favor,
Heathens will be still the same:
Mighty Spirit!
Witness to the Saviour's name.
2 Thou hast promised, by the prophets,
Glorious light in latter days:
Corie, and bless bewildered nations,
Change our prayers and tears to praise:
Promised Spirit!
Round the world diffuse thy rays.
3 All our hopes, and prayers, and labors
Must be vain without thine aid:
But thou wilt not disappoint us-
All is true that thou hast said:
Faithful Spirit!
O'er the world thine influence shed
ALMIGHTY Spirit, now behold
A world by sin destroyed:
Creating Spirit, as of old,
Move on the formless void!
2 Give thou the word-that healing sound
Shall quell the deadly strife,
And earth again, like Eden crowned,
Bring forth the tree of life.
3 If sang the morning stars for joy,
When nature rose to view,
What strains will angel-harps employ,
When thou shalt all renew!-
4 And if the sons of God rejoice
To hear a Saviour's name,
How will the ransomed raise their voice,
To whom the Saviour came!
5 Lo, every kindred, every tribe,
Assembling round the throne,
The new creation shall ascribe
To sovereign love alone.
497 Prayer for the Conversion of the World.
INDULGENT Sovereign of the skies,
And wilt thou bow thy gracious ear?
While feeble mortals raise their cries,
Wilt thou, the great Jehovah, hear?
2 Look down, O God, with pitying eye,
And view the desolations round;
See what wide realms in darkness lie,
What scenes of wo and crime abound!
3 Loud let the gospel trumpet blow,
And call the nations from afar;
Let all the isles their Saviour know,
And earth's remotest ends draw near.
O GOD of sovereign grace,
We bow before thy throne,
And plead, for all the human race,
The merits of thy Son.
2 Spread through the earth, O Lord,
The knowledge of thy ways;
And let all lands with joy record f The great Redeemer's praise! 499
GREAT God! the nations of the earth
Are by creation thine;
Thy power and glory shine.
2 But, Lord, thy greater love has sent
Thy gospel to mankind;
Unvailing what rich stores of
Are treasured in thy mind.
3 Oh when shall these glad tidings spread
The spacious earth around,
Till every tribe-and every soul,
Shall hear the joyful sound?
4 Smile, Lord, on each divine attempt
To spread the gospel's rays,
And build on sin's demolished throne
A temple to thy praise.
The cause of truth maintain ;
And wide o'er all the peopled world
Extend her blessed reign.
2 Thou Prince of life, arise,
Nor let thy glory cease;
Far spread the conquests of thy grace,
And bless the earth with peace.
3 Thou Holy Ghost, arise,
Extend thy healing wing,
And o'er a dark and ruined world
Let light and order spring.
4 Let all on earth arise,
To God the Saviour sing,
From shore to shore-from earth to heaven,
L. M. St. Paul's. Duke Streete
Prayer for the Jews.
ARISE, great God! and let thy grace
Shed its glad beams on Jacob's race;
Restore the long-lost, scattered band,
And call them to their native land.
2 Their misery let thy mercy heal,
Their trespass hide-their pardon seal;
O God of Israel! hear our prayer,
And grant them still thy love to share.
3 How long shall Jacob's offspring prove
The sad suspension of thy love?
Say-shall thy wrath forever burn?
And shall thy mercy ne'er return?
4 Thy quickening Spirit now impart,
And wake to joy each grateful heart,
While Israel's rescued tribes in thee
Their bliss and full salvation see.
MAY the glorious day of promise
Come, and spread its cheerful ray,
When the scattered sheep of Israel
Shall no longer go astray;
When hosannas
With united voice they cry.
2 Lord! how long wilt thou be angry ?
Shall thy wrath forever burn?
Rise! redeem thine ancient people;
Their transgressions from them turn.
King of Israel!
Come, and set thy people free!
LORD! visit thy forsaken race,
Back to thy fold the wanderers bring;
Teach them to seek thy slighted grace,
And hail in Christ their promised King.
2 That vail of darkness rend in twain
Which hides their Shiloh's glorious light;
That severed olive-branch again
Firm to its parent stock unite.
3 Hail, glorious day-expected long!
When Jew and Greek one prayer shall pour,
With eager feet one temple throng,
With grateful praise one God adore.
510 False Religions supplanted by Christianity.
O FATHER, let thy kingdom come,
Thy kingdom, built on love and grace!
In every nation give it room,
In every heart afford it place:
The earth is thine-set up thy throne,
And claim the kingdoms as thine own.
2 Still nature's awful darkness reigns,
And sinners scorn thy holy fear;
Still Satan holds the heart in chains,
Where'er thy messengers appear:
Oh rise, great God, in love, and bless
All nations with thy righteousness.
Sterling. Duke Street.
ALL power is to our Saviour given;
O'er earth's rebellious sons he reigns;
He mildly rules the hosts of heaven,
And holds the powers of hell in chains.
2 Soon the redeemed in every clime,
Yea, all that breathe, and move, and live,
To Christ, through every age of time,
Shall kingdom, power, and glory give.
O'ER the realms of pagan darkness,
Let the eye of pity gaze;
See the kindreds of the people
Lost in sin's bewildering maze:
Darkness brooding
On the face of all the earth.
2 Light of them that sit in darkness!
Rise and shine-thy blessings bring:
Light to lighten all the Gentiles!
Rise with healing in thy wing;
To thy brightness
Let all kings and nations come.
3 May the heathen, now adoring
Idol gods of wood and stone,
Come, and, worshipping before him,
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