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His enemies with sore dismay,
Retire in haste and yield the day,
While trophies to the Lord abound.
3 Before him kings and tyrants fall,
Detest their crowns, and on him call,
And he a pardon freely gives;
The world, in sin, was dead before,
To life, the world, he will restore,

And in him all the world shall live.

4 O Lord, thy government shall be
Extended wide, from sea to sea,
And long thy sceptre thou shalt hold;
As long as sun or moon shall shine,
Thou King of all the earth shall reign,
The mysteries of thy grace unfold.

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HYMN 110. C. M.

The Reign of Christ. Ps.lxxii.

ESUS his empire shall extend;
Beneath his gentle sway,

Kings of the earth shall humbly bend,
And his commands obey.

2 From sea to sea, from shore to shore,
All nations shall be blest;

We hear the noise of war no more,
He gives his people rest.

3 As rain descends in gentle show'rs
In the returning spring,
And calls to life each fragrant flow'r,
Which makes the turtle sing;

4 So Jesus, by his heav'nly grace,
Descends on man below;

His blessings, on the human race,
In gentle currents flow,

5 Long as the sun shall rule the day,
Or moon shall cheer the night,

H. BALLOV.

The Saviour shall his sceptre sway
With uncontrolled might.

6 All that the reign of sin destroy'd
The Saviour shall restore ;

And, from the treasures of the Lord,
Shall give us blessings more.

H. BALLOU.

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Confidence in God. Is. xii. 2.

BEHOLD, the mighty God,

In whom I live and move,

Is my Salvation, and my Lord,
My life, my joy, my love.

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Nor e'er withdraw my confidence,

Nor will I be afraid.

The Lord Most High 's my strength;
In him my soul is strong;

I'll sing as with an angel's voice

Jehovah is my song.

To draw my soul from him,
In vain temptations roll;

Since He, in mercy, has become

Salvation to my soul.

S. STREETER.

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Viewing Christ by Faith. Heb. xii. 22, 23.

And humbly bend to thee;

While we, by faith, approach the mount,

And our Redeemer see.

Lo, in those brilliant courts,
Ten thousand angels sing;

And buman spirits, perfect made,
Their grateful tributes bring.

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So help thy children, Lord,

Who to this place have come;

To join their hearts and voice in praise,
For life, through Christ, thy Son.
Dear Lamb, come, manifest,
In every soul, thy love;

And make our penitential hearts
In swift obedience move.

Grant each of us, dear Lord,
Sufficiency of grace,

With reverence and godly fear
Acceptably to praise.

O help us, Lord, to pray;
Assist to hear and preach ;

And bless our worshipping this day,
We, humbly, thee beseech.

And when these days are o'er
Of worshipping below,

O may we learn to praise thee more,

And all thy councils know.

HYMN 113.

S. STREETER.

L: M.

Humiliation. Joel ii. 13--17.

IN Zion let the trumpet blow,
The congregation gather'd be ;
Let old and young together go,
To worship on the suppliant knee.
2 In one assembly let them bend,
Together hear the sacred word;

Their heart, and not their garments rend,
And turn their face to serve the Lord.

3 Let priests, the ministers of God,
Between the porch and altar weep;
And send their suppliant cries abroad,
That God would spare his wand'ring sheep.

4 The Lord is merciful and just,
His kindness he hath ever shown ;

In him let all the nations trust,

For in the Lord we live alone.

5 Who knows but that the Lord will send
His blessings down upon our race?
O trust in him! he is our friend;
A friend to souls when in distress.

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L. M.

The Sun of Righteousness.

[OW bright that sun that makes our day!
How powerful is each quick'ning ray!

To distant lands and worlds unknown
His life-creating beams have flown.
2 The light of Christ is brighter far;
Compar'd with him, the sun's a star
More brilliant are his rays divine,
And with a clearer lustre shine.
3 More dark the regions of the soul
By Christ illum'd, than the north pole,
When Sol's bright face is turn'd away,
And night and cold succeed the day-
4 And colder too are our dead hearts,
Till he his warming beams imparts;
When into love the passions flow,
Like limped streams from ice and snow.
5 No more impartial is the sun
To planets which around him turn,
Than Christ, whose universal love
Fills earth below, and heaven above.
6 See earth discharg'd from winter's cold,
Soft zephyrs breathe and buds unfold,
The fields and meadows drest in green,
Sweet birds are heard and flowers are seen..

7 But greater freedom do we find

When Christ unbars th' imprison'd mind,

And softer graces breathe within,

When grace subdues the power of sin.

8 And more melodious songs are sung,

And sweeter graces too among
The converts to the gospel theme,
Than lilies in the vallies green.

W

HYMN 115. L. M.

The power of Darkness.

H. BALLOU.

HEN the blest light of day declines,
And night with murky clouds combines,

The pilgrim oft his way mistakes;
For the wrong road, the right forsakes.
2 The toils of error now come on,
The pilgrim's hope of rest is gone,
Briers and thorns infest the ground,
And beasts of prey are howling round.
3 Grim spectres gleam before his eyes,
Despairing thoughts within him rise,
His useless eye-balls start and glare,
And fancy sees destruction there.
4 An ignis fatuus in the glen,
To the lone wand'rer proves a gin;
He follows the deceptive fire,
And helpless sinks in fatal mire.

5 But superstition's darker gloom

Has caus'd our wand'ring hearts to roam,
Far from the light of truth divine,
Where love and grace forever shine.
6 And more severe the toils we find,
Far more distress'd the fearful mind,
And ranker grow the briers of grief,
The thorns of strife and unbelief.

7 And far more horrid is the yell,
That stuns our ears with death and hell;
More frightful spectres too are scen
In error's wild disorder'd dream.

8 And more deceptive is the fire,
Which false religious views inspire;
And deeper mire is in the glen
Of error, unbelief, and sin.

H. BALLOU.

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