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OPENING AND CLOSE OF PUBLIC WORSHIP.

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L. M.

*WATTS.

Public Adoration. Ps. 100

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 honors shall we rear,
Almighty Maker, to thy name?

songs;

4 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful
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.

11s & 8s M.

MONTGOMERY.

Public Praise. Ps. 100.

1 BE joyful in God, all ye lands of the earth; O serve him with gladness and fear; Exult in his presence with music and mirth; With love and devotion draw near.

2 Jehovah is God, and Jehovah aloneCreator and Ruler o'er all;

And we are his people-his sceptre we ownHis sheep, and we follow his call.

3 0 enter his gates with thanksgiving and song; Your vows in his temple proclaim;

His praise with melodious accordance prolong ;
And bless his adorable name.

4 For good is the Lord, inexpressibly good,
And we are the work of his hand;
His mercy and truth from eternity stood,
And shall to eternity stand.

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L. M.

*TATE & BRADY.

Public Worship. Ps. 95.

1 O COME, loud anthems let us sing,
Loud thanks, to our almighty King;
For we our voices high should raise
When our salvation's Rock we praise.

2 Into his presence let us haste
To thank him for his favors past;
To him address, in joyful songs,
The praise that to his name belongs.

3 For God, the Lord, enthroned in state,
Is with unrivalled glory great-
The King eternal over all

Whom by the title gods we call.

4 The depths of earth are in his hand-
Her secret wealth at his command;
The strength of hills that threat the skies
Subjected to his empire lies.

5 The rolling ocean's vast abyss
By the same sovereign right is his;
"Tis moved by his almighty hand,
That formed and fixed the solid land.

60 let us to his courts repair,

And bow in adoration there-
With joy and fear, devoutly, all
Before the Lord, our Maker, fall.

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S. M.

WATTE

Public Worship. Fs. 95.

1 COME, Sound his praise abroad,
And hymns of glory sing:
Jehovah is the sovereign God
The universal King.

2 He formed the deeps unknown;
He gave the seas their bound;
The watery worlds are all his own,
And all the solid ground.

3 Come, worship at his throne;
Come, bow before the Lord.

We are his works, and not our own:
He formed us by his word.