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The Church's Felicity.

L. M.

WITH

Or who like Israel happy are?

O people saved by the Lord,

He is thy shield and great reward!

2 Upheld by everlasting arms,

Thou art secure from foes and harms;
In vain their plots, and false their boasts,
Our refuge is the Lord of hosts.

414 The Church Revived by God.

NEWTON.

"BY whom shall Jacób now arise ?"

For Jacob's friends are few:
And (what might fill us with surprise)
They seem divided too.

2 "By whom shall Jacob now arise ?"
For Jacob's foes are strong;
I read their triumph in their eyes,
They think he'll fail ere long.

3 "By whom shall Jacob now arise ?"
Can any tell by whom?

C. M.

Say, shall this branch that wither'd lies,
Again revive and bloom?

4 Lord, Thou can'st tell-the work is thine
The help of man is vain :

On Jacob now arise and shine,
And he shall live again.

KELLY.

415 Future Peace of the Church. 8.7.8.7.8.7.8.7.

EAR what God the Lord hath spoken,

HEA

O my people faint and few!

Comfortless, afflicted, broken,

Fair abodes I build for you :
Thorns of heart-felt tribulation
Shall no more perplex your ways,
You shall name your walls Salvation,
And your gates shall all be Praise.

2 There, like streams that feed the garden,
Pleasures without end shall flow;
For the Lord, your faith rewarding,
All his bounty shall bestow.
Still in undisturbed possession,
Peace and righteousness shall reign,
Never shall you feel oppression,
Hear the voice of war again.

3 Ye no more your suns descending,
Waning moons, no more shall see ;
But your griefs for ever ending,
Find eternal noon in me :
God shall rise, and shining o'er you,
Change to day the gloom of night;
He, the Lord, shall be your glory,

God your everlasting light.

COWPER.

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Future Glory of the Church.

SHO

HOUT, ye people, clap your hands,
To the Saviour's glory sing;
Wake, ye dark and distant lands,

Wake to hail your God and King. 2 Lo! his Church shall flourish on,

Till the world shall own his sway.
Forth to conquest Christ is gone ;
Who his glorious course shall stay?
3 Praise, then, to the mighty Lord,

Praise to our Triumphant King!
All that live, with glad accord,
To his feet your honours bring.
4 Princes, humbly bow the knee,
Nations, to his footstool flow,
Lord He is in heaven, and He
Shall be Lord of all below!

LYTE.

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VII.-EXTENSION OF THE CHURCH.

417

CHRISTIAN MISSIONS.

Sion's Triumph. 11.10. 11.10.

HAIL to the brightness of Sion's glad

morning!

Joy to the lands that in darkness have lain ; Hush'd be the accents of sorrow and mourning; Sion, in triumph, begins her mild reign. 2 Hail to the brightness of Sion's glad morning! Long by the prophets of Israel foretold : Hail to the millions from bondage returning! Gentiles and Jews the glad vision behold.

3 Lo in the desert, the rich flowers are springing;

Streams ever copious are gliding along :

Loud from the mountain-tops echoes are ringing;

Wastes rise in verdure and mingle in song.

4 Hark, from all lands-from the isles of the ocean,

Praise to Jehovah ascending on high!

Fallen are the regions of war and commotion Shouts of salvation are rending the sky.

AMERICAN.

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Spread of the Gospel. 8.7.8.7. 4.7.

'ER the gloomy hills of darkness,
Look, my soul, be still and gaze ;

All the promises do travail
With a glorious day of grace,
Blessed jubilee !

Let thy glorious morning dawn.

2 Let the Indian, let the Negro,
Let the rude Barbarian see
That divine and glorious conquest,
Once obtained on Calvary :

Let the Gospel

Loud resound from pole to pole.

3 Kingdoms wide that sit in darkness,
Grant them, Lord, the glorious light;
And from eastern coast to western,
May the morning chase the night,
And redemption,

Freely purchased, win the day.

4 Fly abroad, thou mighty-Gospel!
Win and conquer, never cease;
May thy lasting wide dominions
Multiply and still increase :
Sway thy sceptre,

Saviour, all the world around.

WILLIAMS.