HYMN V.

CHRISTIANS brethren! ere we part, Join every voice and every heart; One solemn hymn to God we raise, One final song of grateful praise.

Christians, we here may meet no more,
But there is yet a happier shore;
And there, released from toil and pain,
Brethren, we shall meet again.

Now to God, the Three in One,
Be eternal glory done;

Raise, ye saints, the sound again:
Ye nations, join the loud Amen.

HYMN.

In Heaven we shall be purified, so as to be able to endure the splendours of the Deity.

I.

AWAKE, sweet harp of Judah, wake,
Retune thy strings for Jesus' sake;
We sing the Saviour of our race,
The Lamb, our shield, and hiding-place.

II.

When God's right arm is bared for war,
And thunders clothe his cloudy car,

Where, where, oh where, shall man retire,
To escape the horrors of his ire?

III.

'Tis he, the Lamb, to him we fly,
While the dread tempest passes by;

God sees his Well-beloved's face,

And spares us in our hiding-place.

IV.

Thus while we dwell in this low scene,

The Lamb is our unfailing screen;
To him, though guilty, still we run,
And God still spares us for his Son.

V.

While yet we sojourn here below,
Pollutions still our hearts o'erflow;

Fallen, abject, mean, a sentenced race,
We deeply need a hiding-place.

Yet courage

VI.

days and years will glide,

And we shall lay these clods aside;

Shall be baptiz'd in Jordan's flood,
And wash'd in Jesus' cleansing blood.

VII.

Then pure, immortal, sinless, freed,
We through the Lamb shall be decreed;
Shall meet the Father face to face,

And need no more a hiding-place.

The last stanza of this hymn was added extemporaneously, by Henry, one summer evening, when he was with a few friends on the Trent, and singing it as he was used to do on such occasions.

A HYMN

FOR FAMILY WORSHIP.

I.

O LORD, another day is flown,

And we, a lonely band,

Are met once more before thy throne, To bless thy fostering hand.

II.

And wilt thou bend a listening ear,

To praises low as ours?

Thou wilt! for Thou dost love to hear

And, Jesus, thou thy smiles will deign,

V.

Thus chasten'd, cleans'd, entirely thine,

A flock by Jesus led;

The Sun of Holiness shall shine,

In glory on our head.

VI.

And thou wilt turn our wandering feet,
And thou wilt bless our way;

Till worlds shall fade, and faith shall greet
The dawn of lasting day.

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.

I.

WHEN marshall'd on the nightly plain,

The glittering host bestud the sky;

One star alone, of all the trail,

Can fix the sinner's wandering eye.

II.

Hark! hark! to God the chorus breaks,

From every host, from every gem:

But one alone the Saviour speaks,

It is the Star of Bethlehem.