6. Great source of my comforts restor❜d! 1. HYMN 439. L. M. FIRM was my health, my day was bright, And I presum'd 'twould ne'er be night. Fondly I said within my heart, Pleasure and peace shall ne'er depart. 2. But I forgot, thine arm was strong, Which made my mountain stand so long; And, when thy face was turn❜d aside, My health was gone, my comforts died. 3. Hear me, O God of grace! I said, And raise me from among the dead. Thy word rebuk'd the pains I felt; Thy pard'ning love remov'd my guilt. 4. I will extol thee, Lord, on high: At thy command diseases fly. Who but a God can speak and save From the dark borders of the grave? 5. Thine anger but a moment stays; Thy love is life and length of days. Though grief and tears the night employ, The morning-star restores the joy. I HYMN 440. c.. M.. love the Lord; he heard my cries, Long as I live, when troubles rise, 2. I love the Lord; he bow'd his ear, O let my heart no more despair, 3. Among the saints that fill thine house, There shall my zeal perform the vows 4. The Lord beheld me sore distrest; 1. Return, my soul, to God, thy rest; HYMN 441. c. M. SOVREIGN of life, I own thy hand 2. To thee in my distress I cried, 3. Unfold the gates of righteousness, 4. Praise to the Lord, whose gentle hand Renews our lab'ring breath! Praise to the Lord, who makes his saints 5. My God! in thine appointed hour, Where pain and sin, and fear and death, 6. There, while the nations of the bless'd With raptnres bow around; My anthems to deliv'ring grace W HYMN 442. c. M. HEN o'er the trodden paths of life What varied scenes throughout the road 2. Thousands, to whom my natal hour Just look'd on life, and clos'd their eyes 3. Thousands, who climb'd to manhood's stage, 5. Ten thousand thousand thanks to thee O may I join those endless songs, 7. ON THE DEATH OF RELATIVES OR FRIENDS. HYMN 443. L. M. 1. THE God of love will sure indulge 3. Parent, Protector, Guardian, Guide! And comfort seek from thee alone. 4. Our Father God, to thee we look, Our rock, our portion, and our Friend! Our sinking souls shall still depend. 1. MUST friends and kindred droop and die, While sorrow, with a weeping eye, 3. O may our feet pursue the way 4. Let us be wean'd from earthly joys; 1. HYMN 445. c. M. On the death of a young person. WHEN blooming youth is snatch'd away By death's resistless hand : Our hearts the mournful tribute pay, 2. While pity prompts the rising sigh, 3. Let this vain world delude no more; It bids us seize the present hour; 4. The voice of this alarming scene Nor be the heav'nly warning vain, On the death of a child. 1.IFE is a span, a fleeting hour; Man is a tender transient flow'r, 1 2. Death spreads like winter's frozen arms, Ah! where are now those rising charms, 3. The once lov'd form, now cold and dead, 4. But wait the interposing gloom, And drest in beauty's fairest bloom, 5. Hope looks beyond the bounds of time, Shall rise in full immortal prime, 6. Then cease, fond nature! cease thy tears; There everlasting spring appears, HYMN 447. c. M. 1. YE mourning saints, whose streaming tears Flow o'er your children dead: 2. While, cleaving to that darling dust, Rise, and with joy and rev'rence view 3. "I'll give the mourner," saith the Lord, "No names of daughters and of sons 4. "Transient and vain is ev'ry hope "In endless honour and delight, 'My children all shall live.' 5. We welcome, Lord! those rising tears, Through which thy face we see; |