4 Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands, 5 He, the great Lord, the sovereign Judge, That sits enthroned above, Wisely commands the worlds He made, In justice and in love. 6 Earth shall obey her Maker's will, Our God will crown His chosen isle 7 God the Redeemer scatters round C.M. 758 Our help is in the name of the 1 Lord. Ps. 124, 8. LORD, while for all mankind we pray, Of every clime and coast, O hear us for our native land, The land we love the most. 2 Our father's sepulchres are here, And here our kindred dwell: Our children too;-how should we love 3 O guard our shores from every foe, 4 Unite us in the sacred love Of knowledge, truth, and Thee; 5 Here may religion pure and mild And bless our native isle. 6 Lord of the nations, thus to Thee Be Thou her Refuge and her Trust, 759 2 148th. O let the nations be glad, and sing for joy.-Ps. 67, 4. RISE, gracious God, and shine, In all Thy saving might; And prosper each design, To spread Thy glorious light: Let healing streams of mercy flow, That all the earth Thy truth may know. O bring the nations near, That they may sing Thy praise, And learn Thy righteous ways; And earth present her store God, our own God, His church will bless, And earth will teem with fruitfulness. 8.7.4 760 The people which sat in darkness 1 O' saw great light.-Matt. 4, 16. 'ER the gloomy hills of darkness Look, my soul, be still, and gaze: All the promises do travail With a glorious day of grace: Let thy glorious morning dawn. Let the Gospel Loud resound from pole to pole. 3 Kingdoms wide, that sit in darkness, Grant them, Lord, Thy glorious light; And from eastern coast to western, Freely purchased, win the day. 4 May the glorious day approaching, Spread abroad Thy holy name, Of the great Immanuel's land. Saviour, all the world around. L.M. 761 And where is the fury of the op 10 pressor.-Isa. 51, 13. HOLY Father, just and true Are all Thy works, and words, and ways: And unto Thee alone are due Thanksgiving and eternal praise. 2 As children of Thy gracious care, We veil the eye, we bend the knee; With broken words of praise and prayer, Father and God! we come to Thee. 3 For thou hast heard, O God of right! The sighing of the helpless slave; And stretched for him the arm of might, Not shortened that it could not save. 4 Speed on Thy work, Lord God of hosts! And when the bondman's chain is riven, And swells from every country's coasts The anthem of the free to heaven:-5 Oh, not to those whom Thou hast led, As with Thy cloud and fire before. But unto Thee, in fear and dread, Be praise and glory evermore! C.M. 762 Boast not against the branches. 1 Rom. 11, 18. JERUSALEM, Jerusalem! Enthroned once on high, Thou favoured home of God on earth, Now brought to bondage with thy sons, Our tears shall flow for thee. 2 O hadst thou known thy day of grace, 3 "And who art thou that mournest me?" Jerusalem may say. 4 "And fear'st not rather that thyself I am a dried and abject branch, But woe to every barren graft Our day of grace is sunk in night, For heavy was my children's crime, Who spared not His chosen seed, 5 Our day of grace is sunk in night, L.M. 763 God is able to graft them in again. 10 -Rom. 11, 23. WHY should Israel's sons, once blest, Still roam the scorning world around, Disowned of heaven, by man opprest, Outcasts from Zion's hallowed ground? 2 O God of Israel, view their race; g Back to Thy fold the wanderers bring: Teach them to seek Thy slighted grace, To hail in Christ their promised King. 3 The veil of darkness rend in twain, Which hides their Shiloh's glorious light: The severed olive-branch again Back to its parent stock unite. 4 While Judah views his birthright gone, C.M. 764 They shall look upon Me whom they have pierced.-Zech. 12, 10. 1 CHILDREN of Zion, know your king, Your own Messiah hail; Hosanna in His temple sing, 2 Himself the sacrifice for sin, 3 Behold Him on the mercy-seat, Now cast yourselves before His feet, 4 So shall your hearts within you burn, 5 At His great name bow every knee, Christ whom your fathers slew is He, C.M. 765 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt.-Ps. 80, 8. 1 AND is the day of mercy set, Israel's fallen line? And canst Thou, gracious Lord, forget The long-regarded vine? |