Arabia's desert-ranger

To Him shall bow the knee; The Ethiopian stranger

His glory come to see;
With offerings of devotion,

Ships from the Isles shall meet
To pour the wealth of ocean
In tribute at His feet.

Kings shall fall down before Him,
And gold and incense bring;
All nations shall adore Him,
His praise all people sing;
For He shall have dominion
O'er river, sea, and shore,
Far as the eagle's pinion,

Or dove's light wing can soar.

For Him shall prayer unceasing,
And daily vows, ascend;
His kingdom still increasing,
A kingdom without end:

The mountain-dews shall nourish
A seed in weakness sown,
Whose fruit shall spread and flourish,

And shake like Lebanon.

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.

IV.-GO TO DARK GETHSEMANE.

O dark Gethsemane,

Go to that feel the tempter's power;

Your Redeemer's conflict see,

Watch with Him one bitter hour:
Turn not from His griefs away,
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
Follow to the judgment-hall,
View the Lord of Life arraigned
O the wormwood and the gall!
O the pangs His soul sustained !
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;
Learn of Him to bear the cross.
Calvary's mournful mountain climb,
There, adoring at His feet,
Mark that miracle of time,-
God's own sacrifice complete :
It is finished!-hear the cry;
Learn of Jesus Christ to die.
Early hasten to the tomb,

Where they laid His breathless clay:

All is solitude and gloom :

Who hath taken Him away?

Christ is risen !-He meets our eyes.

Saviour, teach us so to rise.

V.-AT HOME IN HEAVEN.

PART I.

OR ever with the Lord!"

"FOR Amen; so let it be;

Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality.

Here in the body pent,

Absent from Him I roam;
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.

My Father's house on high,
Home of my soul, how near,
At times, to faith's foreseeing eye,
Thy golden gates appear!

Ah! then my spirit faints

To reach the land I love,
The bright inheritance of saints,
Jerusalem above.

Yet clouds will intervene,
And all my prospect flies;
Like Noah's dove, I flit between
Rough seas and stormy skies.

Anon the clouds dispart,

The winds and waters cease, While sweetly o'er my gladden'd heart Expands the bow of peace.

Beneath its glowing arch,

Along the hallow'd ground, I see cherubic armies march, A camp of fire around.

I hear at morn and even,

At noon and midnight hour, The choral harmonies of heaven

Earth's Babel-tongues o'erpower.

Then, then I feel that He,

(Remember'd or forgot,)

The Lord, is never far from me,

Though I perceive Him not.

PART II.

In darkness as in light

Hidden alike from view,

I sleep, I wake within His sight
Who looks all nature through.

From the dim hour of birth,
Through every changing state
Of mortal pilgrimage on earth,
Till its appointed date;

All that I am, have been,

All that I yet may be,

He sees at once, as He hath seen
And shall for ever see.

How can I meet His eyes?

Mine on the cross I cast,

And own my life a Saviour's prize, Mercy from first to last.

"For ever with the Lord !"

-Father, if 'tis Thy will, The promise of that faithful word, Even here to me fulfil.

Be Thou at my right hand,

Then can I never fail ;

Uphold Thou me, and I shall stand,

Fight, and I must prevail.

So when my latest breath

Shall rend the veil in twain,

By death I shall escape from death,

And life eternal gain.

Knowing as I am known,
How shall I love that word,
And oft repeat before the throne,
"For ever with the Lord!"

Then, though the soul enjoy
Communion high and sweet,
While worms this body must destroy,

Both shall in glory meet.

The trump of final doom

Will speak the self-same word,

And Heaven's voice thunder through the tomb, "For ever with the Lord!"

The tomb shall echo deep

That death-awakening sound;

The saints shall hear it in their sleep

And answer from the ground.

Then, upward as they fly,

That resurrection-word Shall be their shout of victory, "For ever with the Lord!"

The resurrection-word,

That shout of victory,

Once more,-"For ever with the Lord!

Amen; so let it be.