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22. FREE GRACE.

1. THE voice of free grace
Cries, escape to the mountain,
For Adam's lost race,
Christ has opened a fountain,
For sin and transgression
And every pollution,
The blood it flows freely
In streams of salvation.
Hallelujah to the Lamb,
Who purchased our pardon,
We'll praise him again,
When we pass over Jordan.

2. This fountain so clear,
In which all may find pardon,
From Jesus' side flows
In plenteous redemption:
Though your sins they were
raised

As high as a mountain,
The blood it flows freely
From Jesus the fountain.
Hallelujah, &c.

3. O Jesus! ride on,

Thy kingdom is glorious,
Over sin. death and hell
Thou wilt make us victorious,
Thy name shall be praised
In the great congregation,
And saints shall delight
Ascribing salvation."
Hallelujah, &c.

4. When on Zion we stand,
Having gain'd the blest shore,
With our harps in our hands
We will praise him evermore,
We will range the blest fields
On the banks of the river,
And sing hallelujahs
For ever and ever.

Hallelujah, &c.

23. WAKE, ISLES OF THE SOUTH. Composed by W. B. Tappan, and

sung on the wharf, in New Haven, at the embarkation of the missionaries for the Sandwich Islands, in 1822.

1. WAKE, Isles of the South!
Your redemption is near,
No longer repose

In the borders of gloom;
The strength of his chosen,
In love will appear,
And light shali arise
On the verge of the tomb.

2. The billows that girt ye,
The wild waves that roar,
The zephyrs that play

Where the ocean storms cease, Shall bear the rich freight To your desolate shore, Shall waft the glad tidings Of pardon and peace. 3. On the islands that sit In the regions of night, The lands of despair, To oblivion a prey, The morning will open With healing and light; The young Star of Bethlehem Will ripen to-day.

4. The altar and idol,

In dust overthrown,

The incense forbade

That was hallowed with blood,
The Priest of Melchizedec,
There shall atone,
And the shrines of Atooi
Be sacred to God.

5. The heathen will basten
To welcome the time,
The day-spring, the prophet
In vision once saw,

When the beams of Messiah
Will 'lumine each clime,
And the isles of the ocean

Shall wait for his law.

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24. Farewell dear friends

1. FAREWELL, dear friends, I must be gonɔ,
1 have no home or stay with you;
I'll take my staff and travel on,
Till I a better world do view.
I'll march to Canaan's land,
I'll land on Canaan's shore;
Where pleasures never end,
Where troubles come no more.
Farewell, farewell, farewell,
My loving friends farewell.

2. Farewell, my frien ls, time rolls along,
Nor waits for mortals' care or biiss;
I leave you here, and travel on,
Till I arrive where Jesus is.
I'll march, &c.

3. Farewell, my brethren in the Lord,
To you I'm bound in cords of love;
Yet we believe his gracious word,
That soon we all shall meet above.
I'll march, &c.

4. Farewell, old soldiers of the cross,

You've struggled long and hard for heaven,
You've counted all things here but dross,
Fight on, the crown shall soon be given
I'll march, &c.
Fight on, &c.

5 Farewell, poor careless sinners too,
It grieves my heart to leave you here
Eternal vengeance waits for you;
and find salvation near
I'll march, &c.

O turn,

O turn, &c.

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