For Him shall endless prayer be made,
And princes throng to crown His head;
His name, like sweet perfume, shall rise
With every morning sacrifice.
2 People and realms of every tongue
Dwell on His love with sweetest song;
And infant voices shall proclaim
Their early blessings on His name.
Blessings abound where'er He reigns;
The prisoner leaps to lose his chains,
The weary find eternal rest,
And all the sons of want are blest.
3 Where He displays His healing power,
Death and the curse are known no more;
In Him the tribes of Adam boast
More blessings than their father lost.
Let every creature rise and bring
Peculiar honours to our King;
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud-Amen!
SMILE, Lord, on every effort made
To spread the gospel's rays;
And build, on sin's demolished throne,
The temple of Thy praise.
2 Send forth Thy word, and let it fly,
Armed with Thy Spirit's power:
Then thousands shall confess its sway,
And bless the saving hour.
True holiness shall strike its root
In each regenerate heart! Shall, in a growth divine, arise, And heavenly fruits impart.
Lord, for those days we wait; those days
Are in Thy word foretold:
Fly swifter, sun and stars, and bring
This promised age of gold!
"Amen!" with joy divine, let earth's
Unnumbered myriads cry;
"Amen!" with joy divine, let heaven's
Unnumbered choirs reply.
LL ye Gentiles, praise the Lord; All ye lands, your voices raise: Heaven and earth with loud accord, Praise the Lord, for ever praise.
For His truth and mercy stand,
Past, and present, and to be,
Like the years of His right hand,
Like His own eternity,
Praise Him, ye who know His love:
Praise Him from the depths beneath;
Praise Him in the heights above:
Praise your Maker, all that breathe.
REAT God Thy watchful care we bless, Which gives our feeble plans success; Here may we oft delight to meet
Our youthful charge at Jesus' feet.
2 Here let the great Redeemer reign,
With all the graces of His train;
While truth divine His word imparts
To conquer youthful sinners' hearts.
3 And in the great decisive day,
When God the nations shall survey,
May it, before the world, appear
That crowds were born for glory here.
ESUS, where'er Thy people meet, There they behold Thy mercy-seat; Where'er they seek Thee, Thou art found, And every place is hallowed ground.
2 For Thou, within no walls confined,
Inhabitest the humble mind;
Such ever bring Thee where they come,
And going, take Thee to their home.
3 Dear Shepherd of Thy chosen few!
Thy former mercies here renew;
Here to our waiting hearts proclaim
The sweetness of Thy saving name.
4 Here may we prove the power of prayer,
To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heaven before our eyes.
5 Behold, at Thy commanding word,
We stretch the curtain and the cord:
Come Thou, and fill this wider space,
And bless us with a large increase.
6 Lord, we are few, but Thou art near,-
Nor short Thine arm, nor deaf Thine ear;
O rend the heavens, come quickly down,
And make a thousand hearts Thine own!
(TRENGTHEN thy stakes,-extend thy cords,
"Stretch forth the curtains of thy tent!"
Such were the sacred prophet's words,-
The prophet by Jehovah sent.
2 Encouraged by this high command,
And trusting in the promised grace,
Thy people, Lord, assembled stand,
To found a building to Thy praise.
3 Nerve every hand, enlarge each heart,
Assist the work we now design;
Thy blessing to the whole impart :-
The honour and the glory Thine.
4 Here may the young, hosannas sing
To David's Son and Lord alone;
And children thus their witness bring
To Him-the precious Corner stone.
5 And here, by pious teachers won To love "the house where prayer is made," Be led to fix their hopes upon
That sure Foundation Thou hast laid.
6 Thus bless Thy cause, Eternal King, Throughout all time-in every place; Till with one anthem heaven shall ring,— Grace to the Head-stone-glorious grace!
glorious universe around,
The heavens, with all their train,
Sun, moon, and stars, are firmly bound
In one mysterious chain.
2 God, in creation, thus displays
His wisdom and His might;
While all His works, with all His ways,
Harmoniously unite.
3 In one fraternal bond of love,
One fellowship of mind,
The saints below, and saints above,
Their bliss and glory find.
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