3 The guilt of twice ten thousand sins
Thy mercy takes away:

Thy promise, when the war begins,
Secures the crowning day.

4 Comfort through all this vale of tears,
In rich profusion flows:

The glory of unnumbered years
Eternity bestows.

5 Drawn by such cords, we onward move,
Till round thy throne we meet,

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And, captives in the chains of love,
Fall at our Conqueror's feet.

1 COME, thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above;
Sacred mount, O fix me on it,-

Mount of God's unchanging love.
2 Here I find my richest treasure,
Hither by thy grace I'm come,
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to save my soul from danger,
Interposed his precious blood.
3 0, to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy grace, Lord, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering soul to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,

Prone to leave the God of love:
Here's my heart, Lord, take and seal it,
Seal it for thy courts above.

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The Triumph of Christ.

H. BALLOU.

1 BEHOLD the long-expected Light!
'Tis Jacob's Star and Jesse's Root;
The sun itself is not so bright,

Nor bears a tree such heavenly fruit.
2 With spreading glories, lo, he comes,
And gloomy darkness flies apace;
He's brighter than ten thousand suns,
With beams of mercy in his face.

3 Sin, now condemned, shall cease to be,
The righteous judge shall bear the sway,
Shall set our race from bondage free,.
And take all guilt and woe away.

4 Roll on, thou glorious Star of Light,
Display thy matchless grace abroad,
And chase the darkness of our night,
And bring the nations home to God.

1 0 THE delights, the heavenly joys,
The glories of the place

WATTS.

Where Jesus sheds the brightest beams
Of his o'erflowing grace.

2 Sweet majesty and perfect love
Sit smiling on his brow,

And all the glorious ranks above
At humble distance bow.

3 Princes, to his imperial name,

Bend their bright sceptres down;
Dominions, thrones, and powers rejoice,
To see him wear the crown.

4 Archangels sound his lofty praise
Through every heavenly street,
And lay their highest honors down
Submissive at his feet.

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ANONYMOUS.

Christ a Chosen Servant.

1 THUS saith the Lord who built the heavens, And bade the planets roll,

Who peopled all the climes of earth,
And formed the human soul,-

2 Behold my Servant: see him rise,
Exalted in my might;

Him have I chosen, and in him
I place supreme delight.

3 On him, in rich effusion poured,
My spirit shall descend;

My truth and judgment he shall show
To earth's remotest end.

4 The progress of his zeal and power
Shall never know decline,
Till foreign lands and distant isles
Receive the law divine.

1 0 FOR a thousand tongues, to sing
My dear Redeemer's praise,
The glories of my Lord and King,
The triumphs of his grace!

WATTS.

2 Jesus, the name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease,-

'Tis music in the sinner's ears,
"Tis life, and health, and peace.

3 He speaks, and, listening to his voice,
New life the dead receive;

The mournful, broken hearts rejoice,
The humble poor believe.

4 Hear him, ye deaf: his praise, ye dumb,
Your loosened tongues employ:

Ye blind, behold your Saviour come,
And leap, ye lame, for joy.

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1 MARK the soft-falling snow,
And the descending rain!
To heaven, from whence it fell,
It turns not back again;
But waters earth through every pore,
And calls forth all her secret store.

2 Arrayed in beauteous green
The hills and valleys shine,
And man and beast are fed
By providence divine:

The harvest bows its golden ears,
The copious seed of future years.
3 "So," saith the God of grace,
"My gospel shall descend,

Almighty to effect

The purpose I intend;

Millions of souls shall feel its power,
And bear it down to millions more."

Universal Blessedness.

1 IN God's eternity

There shall a day arise,

When all the race of man shall be

With Jesus in the skies.

2 As night before the rays

Of morning flees away,

Sin shall retire before the blaze
Of God's eternal day.

3 As music fills the grove,

When stormy clouds are past,
Sweet anthems of redeeming love
Shall all employ at last.

4 Redeemed from death and sin,
Shall Adam's numerous race
A ceaseless song of praise begin,
And shout redeeming grace.

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Fulness of the Gentiles.

ANONYMOUS.

1 "GIVE us room, that we may dwell,"
Zion's children cry aloud:

See their numbers how they swell!
How they gather like a cloud!

2 0, how bright the morning seems!
Brighter from so dark a night:
Zion is like one that dreams,

Filled with wonder and delight.

3 Lo! thy sun goes down no more:
God himself will be thy light:
All that caused thee grief before
Buried lies in endless night.

4 Zion, now arise and shine;

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Lo! thy light from heaven is come,
These that crowd from far are thine;
Give thy sons and daughters room.

10 BLEST are they who feel the love
A Saviour's grace bestows!
The fountain springs in worlds above,
And freely here it flows.

2 O blest are they who now believe
The promise of his word!

Their hearts in joyous faith receive
The blessing of the Lord.

3 0 blest are they who worship here,
Who sing, and praise, and pray!
To them who thus their Lord revere,
Appears a heavenly day.

4 But O how blest, divinely blest,
Are they in courts above,

Who now enjoy his heavenly rest,
The rest of endless love!