5 And if through this revolving year
Thou shouldst my life prolong,
O may thy wisdom guide my steps,
Thy praise employ my tongue.
THIS year is hastening too away,
The hours are closing fast;
My heart, alas! has much to say
About the time that's past.
2 How oft I've risen from my bed,
And not remembered prayer;
Or if the words of prayer I've said,
My thoughts have been elsewhere.
3 Ill temper, passions, hateful pride,
Have grieved my friends and Thee;
And seldom I've sincerely tried,
Gentle and good to be.
4 But, Lord, thou hast already known
More of my guilt than I;
There's not a fault that I can own
Too small for God to spy.
332 God has preserved us.
GREAT God! we sing that mighty hand
By which supported still we stand;
The opening year thy mercy shows;
Let mercy crown it, till it close.
2 By day, at night, at home, abroad,
Still we are guarded by our God.
By his incessant bounty fed,
By his unerring counsel led.
4 In scenes exalted or depressed,
Be thou our joy, and thou our rest;
Thy goodness all our hope shall raise,
Adored through all our changing days.
5 When death shall interrupt our songs,
And seal in silence mortal tongues;
Thy praises shall our lips employ
In the eternal world of joy.
333 The Bible for the Heathen.
that heathen mother stand Where the sacred currents flow; With her own maternal hand,
'Mid the waves her infant throw!
2 Hark! I hear the piteous scream;
Frightful monsters seize their prey;
Or the dark and bloody stream
Bears the struggling child away.
3 Fainter now, and fainter still,
Breaks the cry upon the ear;
But the mother's heart is steel,'
She, unmoved, that cry can hear.
4 Send, O send, the Bible, there;
Let its precepts reach the heart;
She may then her children spare,
She may act the mother's part.
heathen perish,-day by day, Thousands on thousands pass away
O Christians, to their rescue fly,
Preach Jesus to them ere they die.
e Wealth, talents, labour, freely give,
Spend and be spent, that they may live;
What hath your Saviour done for you?
And what for Him would you not do?
335 Salvation for the Heathen.
FROM Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain.
2 What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile:
In vain with lavish kindness
The gifts of God are strown;
The heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and stone.
Shall we, whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high,
Shall we, to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?
Salvation! O, salvation!
The joyful sound proclaim;
Till earth's remotest nation
Has learnt Messiah's name!
4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story,
And you, ye waters, roll,-
Till, like a sea of glory,
It spreads from pole to pole;
Till o'er our ransomed nature,
The Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator,
In bliss returns to reign.
'ER the gloomy hills of darkness
Look, my soul, be still and gaze;
All the promises do travail
With a glorious day of grace;
Blest jubilee,
Let thy glorious morning dawn.
2 Let the Indian, let the negro,
Let the rude barbarian see
That divine and glorious conquest
Once obtained on Calvary;
Loud resound from pole to pole.
3 Kingdoms wide, that sit in darkness,
Let them have the glorious light;
Ana from eastern coast to western
May the morning chase the night;
And redemption,
Freely purchased, win the day.
4 May the glorious day approaching,
On their fearful darkness shine;
And the everlasting gospel
Spread abroad thy holy name;
To the borders
Of the great Immanuel's land.
5 Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel,
Win and conquer, never cease;
May thy lasting wide dominions,
Multiply and still increase;
May thy sceptre
Over all the earth be swayed.
THY kingdom come! thus, day by day,
We lift our hands to God and pray;
But who has ever duly weighed
The meaning of the words he said
2 Thy kingdom come! O day of joy,
When praise shall every tongue employ;
When hatred, strife, and battles cease,
And man with man shall be at peace.
3 Then bears and wolves, no longer wild, Obey the leading of a child;
The lions with the oxen eat,
And dust shall be the serpent's meat.
4 Then all shall know and serve the Lord,
And walk according to his word;
His glory spread around shall be,
As waters cover o'er the sea.
5 God's holy will shall then be done
By all who live beneath the sun;
And every evil will remove,
For God will reign, and " God is Love.
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