With offerings of devotion,

Ships from the isles shall meet,
To pour the wealth of ocean
In tribute at his feet.

5 O'er every foe victorious,

He on his throne shall rest,
From age to age more glorious,
All-blessing and all-blest:
The tide of time shall never
His covenant remove;
His name shall stand for ever;
That name to us is Love.

110.

CHRIST'S SECOND COMING.

C. M.

St. Ann's-Winchester Old-Canterbury.

1 The Lord will come, and not be slow; His footsteps cannot err:

Before him righteousness shall go,
His royal harbinger.

2 Truth from the earth, like to a flower, Shall bud and blossom then;

And justice from her heavenly bower
Look down on mortal men.

3 Rise, Lord, judge thou the earth in might, This longing earth redress;

For thou art he who shall by right
The nations all possess.

4 The nations all whom thou hast made
Shall come, and all shall frame
To bow them low before thee, Lord,
And glorify thy name.

5 For great thou art, and wonders great
By thy strong hand are done:
Thou in thine everlasting seat
Remainest God alone.

111.

THE LORD SHALL COME.
Soldau-Advent-St. Chad-Munich.

L. M.

1 The Lord shall come! the earth shall quake;
The mountains to their centre shake:
And, withering from the vault of night,
The stars withdraw their feeble light.
2 The Lord shall come! but not the same
As once in lowliness he came-

A silent Lamb before his foes,
A weary man, and full of woes.

3 The Lord shall come! a glorious form,
With wreath of flame and robe of storm,
On cherub wings, and wings of wind,
Appointed Judge of all mankind.

4 Can this be he, once wont to stray,
A pilgrim on the world's highway,
Oppressed by power, and mocked by pride,
The Nazarene The Crucified?

5 While sinners, in despair, shall call, Rocks, hide us; mountains, on us fall! The saints ascending from the tomb, Shall joyful sing-The Lord is come! 112.

THE LAST DAY.

Luther's Hymn2

8. 7. 8.7. 8.8.7.

1 Great God! what do I see and hear?
The end of things created!
Behold the Judge of man appear,
On clouds of glory seated!

The trumpet sounds, the graves restore
The dead which they contained before:
Prepare, my soul, to meet him!

2 The dead in Christ shall first arise,
At the last trumpet's sounding,
Caught up to meet him in the skies,
With joy their Lord surrounding;
No gloomy fears their souls dismay;
His presence sheds eternal day

On those prepared to meet him.
3 But sinners, filled with guilty fears,
Behold his wrath prevailing;

For they shall rise, and find their tears
And sighs are unavailing;
The day of grace is past and gone;
Trembling they stand before the throne,
All unprepared to meet him!

4 Great God, what do I see and hear?
The end of things created!
Behold the Judge of man appear,
On clouds of glory seated!
Low at his cross I wait the day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
And thus prepare to meet him!

113. REDEMPTION Drawing Near.

Alma-Emperor's Hymn-Lewes.

8. 7. 8. 7.

4. 7.

1 Lo! he comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain! Thousand thousand saints attending, Swell the triumph of his train: Hallelujah!

Jesus shall for ever reign.

2 Every eye shall now behold him
Robed in dreadful majesty;

Those who set at nought and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to the tree,
Deeply wailing,

Shall the true Messiah see.

3 Now redemption, long expected,
See in solemn pomp appear!
All his saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet him in the air!
Hallelujah!

See the day of God appear!

4 Yea! Amen! let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne!
Saviour, take the power and glory;
Claim the kingdom for thine own!
O come quickly!

Hallelujah! come, Lord, come.

114.

"DIES IRE."

L.M.

Soldau-Advent-Calvin-Submission-Ely.

1 The day of wrath! that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away! What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day? 2 When shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll;

When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead; 3 Oh on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay; Be thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.

115.

THE JUDGMENT.

St. Werbergh's-Linden-Lewes.

8.7.8.7.

1 Day of judgment, day of wonders! Hark! the trumpet's awful sound,

4.7.