4 Then will I read and pray While I have life and breath; 295 Questions and Prayer. C. M. WHY should I love my sport so well, So constant at my play; And lose the thoughts of heaven and hell, 2 What do I read my Bible for, 3 How senseless is my heart, and wild, And pardon all my faults. 4 Make me thy heavenly voice to hear, Since God will lend a gracious ear 296 1 Hope of Heaven. WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, C. M 2 Should earth against my soul engage, Then I can smile at Satan's rage, 3 Let cares like a wild deluge come, 4 There shall I bathe my weary soul And not a wave of trouble roll 297 Hope of Heaven. P.M. RISE, my soul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things Towards heaven, thy native place; 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course; 3 Cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn; Happy entrance will be given; All our sorrows left below, And earth exchanged for heaven. 298 1ΟΝ Jordan's stormy banks I stand, To Canaan's fair and happy land, 20 the transporting, rapturous scene Sweet fields, arrayed in living green, 3 On all those wide-extended plains There God the Son for ever reigns, 4 No chilling winds, nor poisonous breath, 5 When shall I reach that happy place, When shall I see my Father's face, 299 1 WH The Young in Heaven. C. M. HAT souls are those that venture near Ten thousand happy ones, who here 2 Their sins the Saviour washed away, 3 Now under many a grassy mound But safe their happy souls are found 4 0 may we travel, as they trod, 5 Dear Saviour! hear our humble cry, 1 2 390 Who shall live in Heaven. S. M. THERE is a land above All beautiful and bright, And those who love and seek the Lord There sin is known no more, There good and happy beings dwell, 301 1 THERE is a glorious world of light Above the starry sky, Where saints departed, clothed in white, Adore the Lord most high. 2 And hark! amid the sacred songs Those heavenly voices raise, Ten thousand, thousand infant tongues Unite and sing his praise. 3 These are the hymns that we shall know, If Jesus we obey; That is the place where we shall go, |