2 Has thy night been long and mournful? Have thy friends unfaithful proved? Have thy foes been proud and scornful, By thy sighs and tears unmoved? Cease thy mourning;
Zion still is well beloved.
3 God, thy God, will now restore thee; He himself appears thy Friend; All thy foes shall flee before thee; Here their boasts and triumphs end; Great deliverance
Zion's King will surely send.
4 Peace and joy shall now attend thee; All thy warfare now is past; God thy Saviour will defend thee; Victory is thine at last;
All thy conflicts End in everlasting rest.
1 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 who sit in error!
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 Let the heathen, now adoring
Idol gods of wood and stone, Come, and, worshiping before him, Serve the living God alone: Let thy glory
Fill the earth, as floods the sea. 4 Thou! to whom all power is given, Speak the word; at thy command, Let the company of heralds Spread thy name from land to land: Lord! be with them, Always till time's latest end.
1 O'ER the gloomy hills of darkness, Cheered by no celestial ray, Sun of righteousness! arising, Bring the bright, the glorious day; Send the gospel
To the earth's remotest bound.
2 Kingdoms wide that sit in darkness,- Grant them, Lord! the glorious light; And, from eastern coast to western, May the morning chase the night; And redemption, Freely purchased, win the day.
3 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.
2 Hallelujah! hark, the sound, From the depths unto the skies, Wakes above, beneath, around, All creation's harmonies! See Jehovah's banners furled, Sheathed his sword, he speaks-'t is done!
And the kingdoms of this world
Are the kingdoms of his Son. 3 He shall reign' from pole to pole,
With illimitable sway;
He shall reign, when like a scroll Yonder heavens are passed away; Then the end: beneath his rod Man's last enemy shall fall: Hallelujah! Christ in God,
God in Christ, is all in all! 686.
1 HASTEN, Lord, the glorious time, When, beneath Messiah's sway, Every nation, every clime, Shall the gospel call obey.
2 Mightiest kings his power shall own, Heathen tribes his name adore; Satan and his host, o'erthrown, Bound in chains, shall hurt no more.
3 Then shall wars and tumults cease, Then be banished grief and pain; Righteousness, and joy, and peace, Undisturbed shall ever reign. 4 Bless we, then, our gracious Lord, Ever praise his glorious name; All his mighty acts record,
All his wondrous love proclaim.
1 SEE the ransomed millions stand,- Palms of conquest in their hands! This before the throne their strain,- "Hell is vanquished-death is slain !— 2 "Blessing, honor, glory, might, Are the Conqueror's native right; Thrones and powers before him fall,— Lamb of God, and Lord of all!"
3 Hasten, Lord! the promised hour; Come in glory and in power; Still thy foes are unsubdued- Nature sighs to be renewed: 4 Time has nearly reached its sum; All things with the bride, say, "Come!" Jesus! whom all worlds adore, Come, and reign forevermore.
2 Mild it shines on all beneath, Piercing through the shades of death; Scattering error's wide-spread night; Kindling darkness into light.
3 Nations all, remote and near, Haste to see your Lord appear; Hasto, for him your hearts prepare, Meet him manifested there!
4 There behold the day-spring rise, Pouring light on mortal eyes; See it chase the shades away, Shining to the perfect day.
1 COME, Desire of nations, come! Hasten, Lord, the general doom! Hear the Spirit and the Bride; Come, and take us to thy side.
2 Thon, who hast our place prepared," Make us meet for our reward; Then with all thy saints descend: Then our earthly trials end.
3 Mindful of thy chosen race,
Shorten these vindictive days; Hear us now, and save thine own, Who for full redemption groan. 4 Now destroy the man of sin,
Now thine ancient flock bring in! Filled with righteousness divine, Claim a ransomed world for thine.
5 Plant thy heavenly kingdom here; Glorious in thy saints appear: Speak the sacred number sealed; Speak the mystery revealed. 6 Take to thee thy royal power: Reign! when sin shall be no more; Reign! when death no more shall be Reign to all eternity!
1 SAW ye not the cloud arise, Little as the human hand? Now it spreads along the skies, Hangs o'er all the thirsty land. 2 Lo, the promise of a shower
Drops already from above; But the Lord will shortly pour All the blessings of his love. 3 When he first the work begun, Small and feeble was the day; Now the word doth swiftly run,
Now it wins its widening way.
4 More and more it spreads and grows, Ever mighty to prevail; Sin's strongholds it now o'erthrows, Shakes the trembling gates of hell.
5 Sons of God! your Saviour praise; He the door hath opened wide; He hath given the word of grace; Jesus' word is glorified.
The sweetness of thy soft low voice I am too deaf to hear.
2 I cannot feel thee touch my hand With pressure light and mild, To check me, as my mother did, When I was but a child; But I have felt thee in my thoughts Fighting with sin for me;
And when my heart loves God, I know The sweetness is from thee.
3 And when, dear Saviour! I kneel down
Morning and night to prayer, Something there is within my heart Which tells me thou art there; Yes! when I pray, thou prayest too- Thy prayer is all for me;
But when I sleep, thou sleepest not, But watchest patiently.
1 REMEMBER thy Creator now,
In these thy youthful days; He will accept thine earliest vow, And listen to thy praise.
2 Remember thy Creator now,
Seek him while he is near; For evil days will come, when thou Shalt find no comfort here.
3 Remember thy Creator now;
His willing servant be:
Then, when thy head in death shall bow, He will remember thee.
4 Almighty God! our hearts incline Thy heavenly voice to hear; Let all our future days be thine, Devoted to thy fear.
1 DEAR Jesus, let thy pitying eye Look kindly down on me: A sinful, weak, and helpless child, I come thy child to be.
2 O blesséd Saviour! take my heart, This sinful heart of mine, And wash it clean in every part; Make me a child of thine.
3 My sins, though great, thou canst forgive, For thou hast died for me; Amazing love! Help me, O God, Thine own dear child to be.
4 For thou hast said, "Forbid them not: Let children come to me:"
I hear thy voice, and now, dear Lord, I come thy child to be.
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