Sun of righteousness, arise! Warm our hearts, and bless our eyes: Let our prayer thy pity move; Make this year a time of love. 3 Thanks for mercies past receive, Bless thy word to old and young, 68 2 3 HYMN. 5's and 11's. COME, let us anew Our journey pursue, Roll round with the year, And never stand still, till the Master appear. Our life is a dream, Our time as a stream And the fugitive moment refuses to stay. The arrow is flown, The moment is gone; The millennial year Rushes on to our view, and eternity's here. 4 O that each in the day 5 Of his coming may say, "I've fought my way through, I've finish'd the work thou did'st give me to do!" O that each from his Lord Enter into my joy, and sit down on my throne!" FOR THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR. 69 HYMN. C. M. Reflections at the End of the Year. 1 AND now, my soul, another year I cannot long continue here, 2 Much of my dubious life is gone, And swift my passing moments run, 3 Awake, my soul-with utmost care What are thy hopes?-how sure? how fair? 4 Behold, another year begins! 5 Devoutly yield thyself to God, With zeal pursue the heav'nly road, 70 HYMN. S. M. 1 MY few revolving years, How swift they glide away! 2 A dark and cloudy day, Made up of grief and sin; A host of dang'rous foes without, 3 Lord, through another year, With watchful care may I pursue 71 HYMN. C. M. Praise for Providential Goodness. 1 GOD of our lives, thy various praise Our voices shall resound: Thy hand directs our fleeting days, And brings the seasons round. 2 To thee shall grateful songs arise, Our Father and our Friend; Whose constant mercies from the skies, In genial streams descend. 3 In ev'ry scene of life, thy care, And, constant as thy favours are, 4 Still may thy love, in every scene, And let the same compassion deign 72 HYMN. C. M. The House appointed for all living. 1 HOW still and peaceful is the grave, Where life's vain tumults past, Th' appointed house by heav'n's decree, 2 The wicked there from troubling cease- 3 All, levell'd by the hand of death, Till God in judgment calls them forth, To meet their final doom. Bright suns arise. Thro' earth and skies. 2 The morn, with glory crown'd, In flow'rs and trees. 3 With life he clothes the spring, 74 Thro' all appear; And round the year HYMN. L. M. 1 THE flow'ry spring, at God's command, 3 The changing seasons, months and days 1 WHEN verdure clothes the fertile vale, And blossoms deck the spray, And fragrance breathes in ev'ry gale, 2 Hark! how the feather'd warblers sing! 3 O God of nature, and of grace, 76 HYMN. S. M. The Spring. 1 SWEET is the time of spring, When children bless and praise their King 2 Sweet is the dawn of day, When light just streaks the sky; When shades and darkness pass away, And morning's beams are nigh: But sweeter far the dawn Of piety in youth; When doubt and darkness are withdrawn Before the light of truth. 3 Sweet is the early dew, Which gilds the mountain's tops, And decks each plant and flow'r we view, With pearly glitt❜ring drops: But sweeter far the scene On Zion's holy hill; When there the dew of youth is seen Its freshness to distil. |