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No cloud those regions know,
Forever bright and fair;

For sin, the source of mortal woe,
Can never enter there.

There's no alternate night,
Nor sun's faint sickly ray;
But glory from th' eternal throne
Spreads everlasting day.

7 Oh! may this prospect fire

Our hearts with ardent love; And lively faith and strong desire Bear ev'ry thought above.

MRS. STEELE.

HYMN 527. 61. L. M.

Thanksgiving for National Prosperity.
TOW rich thy gifts, almighty king!

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From thee our public blessings spring:
The extended trade, the fruitful skies,
The treasures liberty bestows,
Th' eternal joys the gospel shows,

All from thy boundless goodness rise.
2 Here commerce spreads the wealthy store,
Which pours from ev'ry foreign shore;
Science and art their charins display;
Religion teaches us to raise

Our voices to our maker's praise,
As truth and conscience point the

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3 With grateful hearts, with joyful tongues,
To God we raise united songs.

Here still may God in mercy reign;
Crown our just counsels with success,
With peace and joy our borders bless,
And all our sacred rights maintain.

HYMN 528. H, M.

KIPPIS.

God our Preserver in a sickly Season. Ps. cxxi.

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God is the tow'r

His grace is nigh

To which we dy ;
In ev'ry hour.

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Our feet shall never slide,

Nor fall in fatal snares,

Since God, our guard and guide,

Defends us from our fears.

Those wakeful eyes, That never sleep,

Thy servants keep

When dangers rise.

No burning heats by day,
Nor blasts of ev'ning air,
Shall take our health away
If God be with us there.
Thou art our sun,
To guard our bead

And thou our shade,
By night or noon.

Hast thou not giv'n thy word
To save our souls from death?"
And we can trust thee, Lord,
To keep our mortal breath :

We'll go and come, Nor fear to die,

Till from on high

Thou call us bome. WATTS.

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Meditations in the Night Season.

WHAT though downy slumbers flee,

Strangers to my couch and me;

While with God's protection blest,
Cares and fears ne'er haunt my breast.
2 While the empress of the night
Scatters mild her silver light;
While the vivid planets stray
Various through their mystic way:
While the stars unnumber'd roll
Round the ever-constant pole;
Far above these spangled skies,
All my soul to God shall rise.
4 Midst the silence of the night
Mingling with those angels bright,
Whose harmonious voices raise
Ceaseless love and ceaseless praise;

5 Midst the throng his gentle ear
Shall my grateful accents hear:
From on high will he impart
Secret comfort to my heart;

6 Lifting all my thoughts above
On the wings of faith and love.
Blest alternative to me,

Thus to sleep, or wake, with thee!

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HYMN 530. P. M.

Concluding Hymn of General Praise.

NE general song of praise arise

DODDRIDGE.

To him whose goodness ceaseless flows;
Who dwells enthron'd beyond the skies,
And life, and breath, on all bestows.
Great source of intellect, thine ear
Benign receives our vows sincere ;

Rise then, our active powers, your task fulfil,
And give to him your praise, responsive to our will.

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Let all of good theis bosom fires,

To him, sole good, give praises due :
Let all the truth himself inspires,
Unite to sing him only true.

To him our every thought ascend,

To him our hopes, our wishes bend.

From earth's wide bounds let louder hymns arise,

And his own word convey the pious sacrifice.

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In ardent adoration join'd,

Obedient to thy holy will,
Let all our faculties combin'd,
Thy just desires, O God, fulfil.
From thee deriv'd, eternal king,

To thee our noblest powers we bring :

O may thy hand direct our wandering way, Obid thy light arise, and chase the clouds away.

FF

HYMN 531. S. M.

"As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”

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Shall there a day arise,

When all that's born of men shall be

With Jesus in the skies.

As night before the rays
Of morning flees away,

Sin shall retire before the blaze

Of God's eternal day.

As music fills the grove,
When stormy clouds are past,
Sweet anthems, of redeeming love,
Shall all employ at last.

Redeem'd from death and sin,
Shall Adam's num'rous race,

A ceaseless song of praise begin,
And shout redeeming grace.

HYMN 532. C. M.

A Prayer.

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THOU, whose pow'r the mountains form'd,
And made the sea his bed;

Who sat his raging waves their bound,
And all his caverns hid.

2 The mountains thy commands obey,
The seas thy pow'r confess;

Thou dost their caverns deep survey,
And every dark recess.

3 O'er mountains of our sins, O Lord,
Wilt thou thy hand extend,
And to thy gracious, pardoning word
Their lofty summits bend.

4 And o'er the raging seas of guilt,
May thy rich grace abound,
While in the blood which Jesus spilt,
Each angry wave is drown'd,

5 In darkest caverns of the heart,
Wilt thou thy light display;
And to the visual pow'r impart,
Thy own eternal day.

HYMN 533. C. M.

The Success of the Gospel.

THE thirsty earth receives the rain,

And drinks the cooling show'rs;
Fresh verdure re-adorns the plain,
And wakes the drooping flow'rs.
2 The blushing mead, the fertile field
Shall be with blessings fill'd,
And seed to him in plenty yield,
Who has its bosom till'd.

3 Rich harvest round the world shall spread,
God's goodness all shall see ;

And every mouth with finest bread,
Sball satisfied he.

4 The living word of life divine,
Its conquests shall extend;
Till every heart, in every clime,
Shall in submission bend,

5. Uninterrupted hymns shall flow,
From every creature's tongue :
And praise harmonious below,
In concert shall be sung.

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HYMN 534. L. M.

The Pleasures of Public Worship.

N social temples here we meet,
Our God to worship as we please:
We find the blest occasion sweet,
And happy in supreme degrees.
2 In this our highly favour'd land,
No civil power can interfere:

H.

WALLACE.

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