2 What news the gospel brings, To drive away our fears!

Grand, true, important, glorious things Salute our ears!

We hear that Christ was born,

Liv'd, dy'd, and rose again,
To save the race of man forlorn

From sin and pain.

3 Ascending up on high,

That he might intercede,

The Saviour who for man did die,

Now lives to plead.

He lives for evermore,

Our souls to heav'n he'll bring;

We shall eternally adore

Our Lord and King.

Winchester.

XXXV. HYMN. C. M.

1 Soon shall be past this age of night,
And Salem shall descend,
Endu'd with uncreated light,
Whilst saints her courts attend.

2 In her is fix'd Jehovah's throne,
There Jesus shews his face;

And there his first-born shall make known
The wonders of his grace.

3 There pain and sickness never come,
And grief no more complains;
Health triumphs in eternal bloom,
And endless pleasure reigns.

4 There no alternate night is known,
Nor sun's faint sickly ray,
But glory from Jehovah's throne
Spreads everlasting day.

5 No cloud shall that blest city know,
But ever bright and fair,

For sin, the source of mortal woe,
Can never enter there.

6 O may the glorious prospect fire
Our hearts with ardent love,

Till wings of faith, and strong desire,
Bear ev'ry thought above.

7 Prepare us Lord, by grace divine,
For Salem's blest abode,

Then bid our spirits rise and join
The first-born sons of God.

XXXVI. HYMN.-C. M.

1 WHEN shall the glorious day arise, That all shall praise thy name? When all in heaven, earth, air, sea, skies, Shall join to bless the Lamb?

2 When with a loud united voice
The universe shall ring;

And every creature shall rejoice,
And God's high praises sing?

$ All tongues and hearts with joy shall join, Without a jarring sound,

To circle with a joy divine

The glorious throne around.

4 Blessing and honour, glory, power,
To God upon the throne,
And to the Lamb for evermore,
All voices join in one.

5 With joy we now anticipate
The glories of that day,
When all Jehovah did create
Shall willing homage pay.

Winchester.

XXXVII. HYMN.-C. M.

1 SALVATION! O the joyful sound!
'Tis music to our ears;

A sovereign balm for every wound,
A cordial for our fears.

2 Salvation! O the power and grace That here triumphant reign,

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To raise from death our sinful race
To life and God again!

3 Salvation! let the echo fly,
The spacious earth around;
And all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound.

XXXVIII. HYMN.-P. M.

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.

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!

XXXIX. HYMN.—s M.

Let party-strife no more

The Christian world o'erspread; Gentile, and Jew, and bond, and free, Are one in Christ their head.

2 Among the saints on earth

Let mutual love be found-
Heirs of the same inheritance,
With mutual blessings crown'd.

3 Envy and strife be gone,

And kindness only known,
Where all one common Father have,
One common Master own,

4 Thus of the joys of heaven.
Some foretaste shall we prove,
Where purest pleasures will arise,
And every heart be love.