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Then we shall mount above the skies,

And reach the wish'd for land.
6 The time is short !-the moment near,

When we shall dwell above;
And be for ever happy there,
With Jesus, whom we love.
HYMN 577. C. M. Logan.
Elgin. Standish. Aldridge.

Ps. xc. 5,9.
1
THF. mighty flood, that rolls along

Its torrents to
The waters lost can ne'er recal,

From that abyss again.
2 The days, the years, the ages dark,

Descending down to night,
Can never, never be redeemid,

Back to the gates of light.
3 Where are our Fathers ?-Whither gone

The mighty men of old !
The patriarchs, prophets, princes, kings,

In sacred books enrollid?
4 Gone to the resting place of man

His long, his silent home;
Where ages past have gone before,
Where future ages come!

HYMN 578. 8s.
Lambeth. Uxbridge.

Job xvi. 22. xvii. 1, 11.
II

WAIT a few sorrowful years,

And then I no longer shall mourn,
But flee from the valley of tears,

A way I shall never return;
My days are all vanish'd away,
Broke off the designs of my heart,

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No longer on earth I delay,

Or linger as loath to depart.
2 My days are extinguish'd and gone-

My time as a shadow is fled,
And gladly I lay myself down

To rest with the peaceable dead:
The dead ever-living attend,

Whose dust is all safe in the tomb,
And many a glorifi'd friend
Is ready to welcome me home.

HYMN 579. L. M,
Surry. Norfolk.

Eternity.
· ETERNITY is just at hand:-

And shall I waste my ebbing sand;
And careless view departing day,

And throw my inch of time away? 2 But an eternity there is

Of endless wo, or endless bliss;
And swift as time fulfils its round,

We to eternity are bound.
3 What countless millions of mankind

Have left this fleeting world behind!
They're gone! but where!--ah, pause and see,

Gone to a long eternity.
4 Sinner! canst thou for ever dwell

In all the fiery deeps of hell;
And is death nothing, then to thee;
Death, and a dread eternity?
HYMN 580. C. P. M. C. WESLEY.

Penitent. Pilgrim. Woods.
1
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4 'Twixt two unbounded seas I stand,
Yet how insensible!

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Removes me to yon heav'nly place,

Or--shuts me up in hell!
2 O God, my inmost soul convert,
And deeply on my thoughtless heart,

Eternal things impress;
Give me to feel their solemn weight,
And save me, ere it be too late-

Wake me to righteousness.
3 Before me place, in bright array,

The pomp of that tremendous day,

When thou with clouds shalt come,
To judge the nations at thy bar;
And tell me, Lord, shall I be there,

To meet a joyful doom?
4 Be this my one great business here,
With holy trembling, holy fear,

To make my calling sure !
Thine utmost counsel to fulfil,
And suffer all thy righteous will,

And to the end endure!

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HYMN 581. C. M.

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1 THE winter past, reviving flowers

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2 Shall man depart this earthly scene,
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HYMN 585. C. M. ADDISON.

Martyr's. Windsor. Colchester.
1
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O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear,
I see my Maker face to face-

Oh, how shall I appear!
2 If yet, while pardon may be found,

And mercy may be sought,
My heart with inward horror shrinks,

And trembles at the thought:
3 When thou, O Lord! shalt stand disclos'd

In Majesty severe,
And sit in judgment on my soul,

Oh, how shall I appear!
4 Prepare me, Lord, to meet that day,

Ere yet it be too late,
When I shall view these solemn scenes,
And feel their awful weight.
HYMN 586. C. M. WATTS.

Elgin. Windsor.
Everlasting absence of God intolerable.
THAT awful day will surely come,

Th' appointed hour makes hasteWhen I must stand before my Judge,

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3 The thunder of that dismal word

Would so torment my ear, 'Twould tear my soul asunder, Lord,

With most tormenting fear.
4 What-to be banish'd from my life,

And yet forbid to die !
To linger in eternal pain,

Yet death for ever fly!
5 Oh, wretched state of deep despair,

To see my God remove
And fix my doleful station where

I must not taste his love!
6 Oh, tell me that my worthless name

Is graven on thy hands;
Show me some promise in thy book,
Where my salvation stands.

HYMN 587. 8, 7,4.
Littleton. Jordan.

Luke xiii. 28.
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View him seated on his throne!
Now, poor sinner, now lamenting,
Stand and hear thy awful doom-

Trumpets call thee!

Stand and hear thy awful doom. 2 Hear the cries he now is venting,

Fill'd with dread of fiercer pain; While in anguish thus lamenting, That he ne'er was born again,

Greatly mourning,

That he ne'er was born again:
3 “Yonder sits my slighted Saviour,

With the marks of dying love;
Oh, that I had sought his favor,
When I felt his Spirit move-

Golden moments,
When I felt his Spirit move."

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