4 Thy gracious eye is watchful still;
Thy potent arm can save

From threatening danger and disease,
And the devouring grave.

5 Eternal Source of life and health,
And every bliss we feel!
In sorrow and in joy to thee
Our grateful hearts appeal.

355. L. M.

Christ's Kingdom.

1 To God let fervent prayers arise With every daily sacrifice,

Jervis

The great Messiah's reign to spread,
And with new honours crown his head.

2 Soon may he reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.

3 Great God! may realms of every tongue Dwell on thy love with grateful song; And with united hearts proclaim,

That grace

and truth by Jesus came.

4 Blessings abound where'er he reigns: The prisoner leaps to lose his chains; The contrite heart with peace is blessed; The weary find eternal rest.

5 Where he displays his healing power, The sting of death is known no more; He points our views and hopes on high, To regions of eternal joy.

6 Parent of good! to thee we trace
These boundless stores of richest grace;
All have their source in love divine,
And be the praise and glory thine!

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The Shortness and Uncertainty of Life.
TO-MORROW, Lord, is thine,
Lodg'd in thy sovereign hand;
And if its sun arise and shine,
It shines by thy command.

The present moment flies,
And bears our lives away:
O make thy servants truly wise,
That they may live to-day!

Since on this winged hour
Eternity is hung,

Waken, by thy almighty power
The aged and the young.

One thing demands our care;
Still may this be pursued!

Lest, slighted once, the season fair
Should never be renewed.

357. L. M.

Doddridge.

Divine Love displayed in the Blessings of the Gospel.

1 To thee, my heart, eternal King!
Would now its thankful tribute bring;
To thee its humble homage raise,
In songs of ardent, grateful praise.

2 All nature shows thy boundless love,
In worlds below, and worlds above;
But in thy blessed word, I trace
The richer glories of thy grace.

3 There, what delightful truths are given;
There Jesus shows the way to heaven;
His name salutes my listening ear,
Revives my heart, and checks my fear.

4 There Jesus bids our sorrows cease,
And gives the labouring conscience peace;
Raises our grateful feelings high,
And points to mansions in the sky.

5 For love like this, O may our song
Through endless years thy praise prolong;
And distant climes thy name adore,
Till time and nature are no more!

358. c. M.

† Exeter Coll.

The Ways of the Righteous known to God. Ps. xxxvii. 18.

1 To thee, O God! my days are known;
My soul enjoys the thought:
My actions are before thy face,

Nor are my wants forgot.

2 Each secret wish devotion breathes,
Is vocal to thine ear;

My vacant hours, my active scenes,
Before thine eye appear.

3 Each well-spent moment of my life
Thy mercy will approve;

And every pang of sympathy,
And every care of love.

4 Each golden hour of beaming light
Is gilded by thy rays;

And dark affliction's midnight gloom
A present God surveys.

5 Full in thy view through life I pass,
And in thy view I die:

And when all earthly scenes are o'er,
Thou, Lord, wilt still be nigh!

359. L. M.

Doddridge.

Christ the Sun of Righteousness. Mal. iv. 2.

1 To thee, O God! we homage pay,
Source of the light that rules the day!
Who, while he gilds all nature's frame,
Reflects thy rays, and speaks thy name..

2 In louder strains we sing that grace
Which gives the Sun of righteousness;
Whose nobler light salvation brings,
And scatters healing from his wings.

3 O may his glories stand confessed, From north to south, from east to west!. Successful may his gospel run

Wide as the circuit of the sun!

4 When shall that radiant scene arise,
When, fixed on high in purer skies,
Christ all his lustre shall display
On all his saints, through endless day!

Doddridge.

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Divine Protection. Ps. cxxi.

i To those bright realms I lift mine eyes,
Those realms of bliss beyond the skies,
Whence all her help my soul derives;
There my almighty Refuge lives.

2 He lives, the everlasting God,

Who built the world, who spread the flood:
The heavens, with all their hosts, he made,
And the dark regions of the dead.

3 He guides our feet, he guards our way;
His morning smiles bless all the day;
He spreads the evening veil, and keeps
The silent hours while Israel sleeps.

4 His servants, thus divinely blessed
May rise secure, securely rest;
Their holy Guardian's wakeful eyes
Admit no slumber nor surprise.

5 With grateful hearts his care we own;
Still may we go, and still return,
Safe in the Lord; still may his care
Defend our lives from every snare!

361. c. M.

The Power of God.

Watts, alt'd.

1 'Twas God who formed the rolling spheres,
And stretched the boundless skies;

Who formed the plan of endless years,
And bade the ages rise.