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3 The earth with its store
Of wonders untold,
Almighty! Thy power
Hath founded of old:
Hath stablished it fast
By a changeless decree,
And round it hath cast,
Like a mantle, the sea.
4 Thy bountiful care
What tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air,
It shines in the light;
In streams from the hills,
It descends to the plain,
And sweetly distils

In the dew and the rain.
5 Frail children of dust,
And feeble as frail,
In Thee do we trust,
Nor find Thee to fail:
Thy mercies how tender,
How firm to the end,
Our Maker, Defender,
Redeemer, and Friend!
6 O measureless Might!
Ineffable Love!
While angels delight

To hymn Thee above,
The humbler creation,
Though feeble their lays,
With true adoration

Shall sing to Thy praise.

C. M.

21 The works of the Lord are great.—

Ps. 111, 2.

GREAT is the Lord; His works of might

Demand our noblest songs;

Let His assembled saints unite
Their harmony of tongues.

2 Great is the mercy of the Lord;
He gives His children food;
And ever mindful of His word,
He makes His promise good."

3 His Son, the great Redeemer, came
To seal His covenant sure:
Holy and reverend is His name,
His ways are just and pure.

4 They that would grow divinely wise
Must with His fear begin :

Our fairest proof of knowledge lies
In hating every sin.

L.M.

22 Be Thou exalted, O God, above the

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MY

heavens.-Ps. 57, 5.

Y God, in whom are all the springs
Of boundless love, and grace un-
known,

Hide me beneath Thy spreading wings.
Till the dark cloud is overblown.
2 Up to the heavens I send my cry,
The Lord will my desires perform;
He sends His angels from the sky,
And saves me from the threatening
storm.

3 High o'er the earth His mercy reigns,
And reaches to the utmost sky;
His truth to endless years remains,
When lower worlds dissolve and die.
4 Be Thou exalted, O my God!

Above the heavens, where angels dwell
Thy power on earth be known abroad,
And land to land Thy wonders teil.

L.M.

23 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and

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ever.-Heb. 1, 8.

REAT Former of this variousframe,

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And bow and tremble, while they
The Ancient of eternal days.

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2 Before Thine infinite survey,
Creation rose as yesterday:
And as to-morrow shall Thine eye
See earth and stars in ruin lie.

3 Beyond the highest angel's sight,
Thou dwellest in eternal light,

Which shines with undiminished ray, While suns and systems waste away. 4 Our days a transient period run, And change with every circling sun; And, while to lengthened years we trust,

Before the moth we sink to dust.

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5 But let the creatures fall around;
Let death consign us to the ground;
Let the last general flame arise,
And melt the arches of the skies ;-
6 Calm as the summer's ocean, we
Shall all the wreck of nature see,
While grace secures us an abode
Unshaken as the throne of God.

C.M.

24 Holy and reverend is His name.-Ps.

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111, 9.

HOLY and reverend is the name

Of our eternal King:

And Holy, Holy, Holy, cry

The angels when they sing.

2 Till in white robes we worship Thee
Among those heavenly ranks,
In memory of Thy holiness,

Lord, we would all give thanks.
3 Holy art Thou in all Thy works,
And truth is Thy delight,
Cleanse us, renew, and sanctify,
And make our darkness light.

4 Partakers of Thy holiness
O Father, let us be;

And make us all so pure in heart,
That we our God may see.

L.M.

25 0 Lord thou hast searched me, and

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known me. - Ps. 139, 1.

ORD, thou hast searched and seen me through;

Thine eye commands with piercing view My rising and my resting hours,

My heart and flesh with all their powers 2 My thoughts, before they are my own, Are to my God distinctly known;

He knows the words I mean to speak. Ere from my opening lips they break. 3 Within Thy circling power I stand, On every side I find Thy hand: Awake, asleep, at home, abroad. I am surrounded still with God

4 Amazing knowledge! vast and great!
What large extent! what lofty height!
My soul, with all the powers I boast,
Is in the boundless prospect lost.
5 O may these thoughts possess my
breast,

Where'er I rove, where'er I rest!
Nor let my feeble passions dare
Consent to sin, for God is there!

L.M.

26 Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith

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the Lord.-Jer. 23, 24.

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ATHER and Friend! Thy light, Thy
love,

Beaming through all Thy works we see,
Thy glory gilds the heavens above,
And all the earth is full of Thee.

2 Thy voice we hear-Thy presence feel, Whilst Thou, too pure for mortal sight, Involved in clouds-invisible,

Reignest the Lord of life and light. 3 We know not in what hallowed part Of the wide heavens Thy throne may be: But this we know, that where Thou art, Strength, wisdom, goodness, dwell with Thee.

4 Thy children shall not faint nor fear, Sustained by this delightful thought, Since Thou their God art everywhere, They cannot be where Thou art not.

S.M.

27 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and

worship at His footstool.-Ps. 99, 5.

XALT the Lord our God,

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And worship at His feet;

His nature is all holiness,

And mercy is His seat.

When Israel was His church,
When Aaron was His priest,

When Moses cried, when Samuel prayed,
He gave His people rest.

3 Oft He forgave their sins,

Nor would destroy their race;

And oft He made His vengeance known,
When they abused His grace.

4 Exalt the Lord our God,
Whose grace is still the same;
Still He's a God of holiness,
And jealous for His name.

C.M.

28 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord

for ever.-Ps. 89, 1.

1MY never-ceasing song shall show

The mercies of the Lord,

And make succeeding ages know
How faithful is His word.

2 The sacred truths His lips pronounce
Shall firm as heaven endure;
And, if He speak a promise once,
The eternal grace is sure.

3 How long the race of David held
The promised Jewish throne!
But there's a nobler covenant sealed
To David's greater Son. *

4 Lord God of hosts, Thy wondrous ways Are sung by saints above;

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And saints on earth their honours raise To Thine unchanging love.

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God is love.-1 John 4, 8.

OD is love: His mercy brightens

G All the path in which we rove

Bliss He wakes, and woe He lightens:
God is wisdom, God is love.

2 Death and change are busy ever,
Man decays, and ages move;
But His mercy waneth never:
God is wisdom, God is love.

3 E'en the hour that darkness seemeth Will His changeless goodness prove; From the cloud His brightness stream

eth:

God is wisdom, God is love.

4 He with earthly cares entwineth
Hope and comfort from above;
Every where His glory shineth:
God is wisdom, God is love.

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