5 For faith, and peace, and mighty love,
That from the Godhead flow,

Showed them the life of heaven above
Springs from the life below.

6 They live with God, their homes are dust; But here their children pray,

And, in this fleeting lifetime, trust
To find the narrow way.

7 On him who by the altar stands,
On him thy blessing fall!

Speak through his lips thy pure commands,
Thou Heart that lovest all!

L. M.

XXX.

WATTS.

1 YE nations round the earth rejoice
Before the Lord, your sovereign king;
Serve him with cheerful heart and voice,
With all your tongues his glory sing.

2 The Lord is God; 't is he alone

Doth life and breath and being give;
We are his work and not our own,
The sheep that on his pastures live.

3 Enter his gates with songs of joy,
With praises to his courts repair;
And make it your divine employ
To pay your thanks and honours there.

4 The Lord is good, the Lord is kind;
Great is his grace, his mercy sure;
And the whole race of man shall find
His truth from age to age endure.

L. M.

XXXI.

WATTS.

1 BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations, bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone,
He can create, and he destroy.

2 His sovereign power without our aid
Made us of clay, and formed us men;
And when like wandering sheep we strayed,
He brought us to his fold again.

3 We are his people, we his care,

Our souls and all our mortal frame;
What lasting honours can we rear,
Almighty Maker, to thy name?

4 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs; High as the heavens our voices raise;

And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.

5 Wide as the world is thy command;
Vast as eternity thy love;

Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.

P. M.

XXXII.

EXETER COLL.

1 Sovereign Lord of light and glory!

Author of our mortal frame!

Joyfully we bow before thee,
And extol thy holy name;

Hallelujah!

Ever sacred be the theme!

2 Kind dispenser of each blessing

Which surrounds the human race!

May we, gratefully possessing,

Still adore thy boundless grace :
Hallelujah!

Praise to God, immortal praise!

3 Thus, with humble adoration,

We attend before thy throne, And with grateful exultation Thy abundant mercy own: Hallelujah !

Praise belongs to thee alone!

4 In thy every dispensation

Love and mercy we descry:
Thou, the God of our salvation,
To preserve us, still art nigh:
Hallelujah!

Glory be to God on high!

P.M.

XXXIII.

J. TAYLOR.

1 FAR from mortal cares retreating,
Sordid hopes and fond desires,
Here our willing footsteps meeting,
Every heart to heaven aspires.
From the fount of glory beaming,
Light celestial cheers our eyes;
Mercy from above proclaiming

Peace and pardon from the skies.

2 Who may share this great salvation?
Every pure and humble mind,
Every kindred, tongue, and nation,
From the dross of guilt refined:
Blessings all around bestowing,

God withholds his care from none;
Grace and mercy ever flowing

From the fountain of his throne.

3 Every stain of guilt abhorring,
Firm and bold in virtue's cause,
Still thy providence adoring,
Faithful subjects to thy laws;
Lord, with favour still attend us,
Bless us with thy wondrous love;
Thou, our sun and shield, defend us :
All our hope is from above.

L. M.

XXXIV.

SIR J. E. SMITH.

1 WHO shall a temple build for him Who fills the heaven of heavens alone? Who shall exalt his glorious name,

Fixed in his everlasting throne?