1 E HYMN 78. L. M. Eternity. TERNITY! stupendous theme! Compar'd herewith our life's a dream: Eternity! O awful sound, "A deep, where all our thoughts are drown'd!” 2 Eternity! the dread abode, And habitation of our God; His glory fills the vast expanse, 3 But an eternity there is Of dreadful woe, or joyful bliss: 4 What countless millions of mankind They're gone; but where?-ah! pause and see, Gone to a long eternity. 5 Sinner, can'st thou for ever dwell And is death nothing, then, to thee; 6 Ye gracious souls, with joy look up; HYMN 79. L. M. Eternal life. life! how the sound To sinners, who deserve to die! Proclaim the bliss the world around, nd shout the joys, ye worlds, on high. 2 Eternal life! how will it reign, When, mounting from this breathless clod, 3 Eternal life! how will it bloom The joy! the triumph how divine! 'L HYMN 80. P. M. Time and Eternity. O! on a narrow neck of land, A point of time, a moment's space, 2 O God, my inmost soul convert, Give me to feel their solemn weight, 3 Before me place, in bright array, To judge the nations at thy bar: 4 Be this my one great bus'ness here, 5 Then Saviour, then my soul receive, T HYMN 81. L. M. The Seasons. HY providence, great God, we praise; How good and great are all thy ways! Thy bounty crowns our passing years, And dissipates our anxious fears. 2 Thy promise stands for ever fast, While sun, and moon, and earth shall last; The laws of seasons shall endure, Till time and stars are known no more. 3 Summer and winter, cold and heat, And night and day in order meet; Seed-time and harvest, each succeed, To prove thy love-supply our need. 4 When years are past, and seasons o'er, We still shall prove thy cov❜nant sure; And in the shining realms of bliss, Adore thy goodness and thy grace. 1 T HYMN 82. C. M. Summer-an Harvest song. O praise the ever bounteous Lord, He calls, and at his voice come forth 2 His cov❜nant with the earth he keeps; 3 Well pleas'd the toiling swains behold The waving yellow crop; With joy they bear the sheaves away, 4 Thus teach me, gracious God, to sow 5 Then in the last great harvest, I HYMN 83. C. M. Winter. 1 TERN winter throws his icy chains, Encircling nature round; How bleak, how comfortless the plains, 2 The sun withdraws his vital beams, 3 My heart, where mental winter reigns, 4 Return, O blissful Sun, and bring This mental winter shall be spring, 5 O happy state, divine abode, Where spring eternal reigns; 6 Great Source of light, thy beams display, 1 HYMN 84. L. M. The seasons crowned with goodness. TERNAL Source of ev'ry joy! Thy praise shall ev'ry voice employ, While in thy temple we appear E To hail thee, Sov'reign of the year. 2 Wide as the wheels of nature roll, |