3 So blooms the human face divine, When youth its pride of beauty shows; The short-liv'd beauties die away. Safe from diseases and decline. 1 HY mournest thou, my anxious soul, WH As if the Lord o'erlook'd thy cares, Or pitied not thy grief? 2 Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, That firm remains on high, The everlasting throne of Him 4 Supreme in wisdom as in power The Rock of ages stands; Thou canst not search his mind, nor trace 5 He gives the conquest to the weak, And courage in the evil hour 6 Mere human energy shall faint, 7 They, with unwearied step, shall tread With growing ardour onward move, 8 On eagles' wings they mount, they soar Till, past the sphere of earth and sin, HUS speaks the High and Lofty One- There, through eternity, I hear The praises of the sky: 2 Yet, looking down, I visit oft 3 My presence heals the wounded heart, 4 I dwell with all my humble saints. 1 A LTHOUGH the vine its fruit deny, Yet will I trust me in my God, 2 Though fields, in verdure once array'd, 3 Though from the fold the flock decay, My soul above the wreck shall rise, 4 In God my strength, howe'er distrest, 'T HYMN 209. St. John xiv. 6. HOU art the way-to thee alone Thou only canst inform the mind 1 3 Thou art the life-the rending tomb And those who put their trust in thee 4 Thou art the way, the truth, the life; That truth to keep, that life to win, 1 H HYMN 210. Philippians ii. 12, 13. With might before unknown; Q (C. M.) (S. M.) 1 3 "Tis he that works to will, His is the pow'r by which we act, HYMN 211. Ephesians v. 14-17. (III. 1.) WINNER! rouse thee from thy sleep, Raise thy spirit dark and dead, 2 Wake from sleep, arise from death, Evil is the mortal day. 4 Be not blind and foolish still, L HYMN 212. Hebrews xii. 1, 2. O! what a cloud of witnesses Men once like us with suff'ring tried, 2 Let us, with zeal like theirs inspir'd, 3 Behold a witness nobler still, 4 He, for the joy before him set, Endur'd the cross, despis'd the shame; (C. M.) 5 Thither, forgetting things behind, XV. GLORIA PATRI. N. B. The metre marks, affixed to the preceding hymns, have reference to a division of the metres, founded on the nature of the verse, into four classes, marked-I. II. III. IV. CLASS I. includes common, long, and short metres, marked-C. M., L. M., S. M. CLASS II. includes the other Iambick metres, eight in number, marked-II. 1, II. 2, II. 3, II. 4, &c. which may be named; Two, one; Two, two; Two, three, &c. CLASS III. includes the Trochaick metres, being five in number, marked-III. 1, III. 2, III. 3, &c. which may be named; Three, one; Three, two, &c. CLASS IV. includes the metres consisting chiefly of triplets, being five in number, marked-IV. 1, IV. 2, IV. 3, &c. and may be named; Four, one; Four, two, &c. CLASS I. C. M. To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom we adore, L. M. To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom earth and heaven adore. Be glory, as it was of old, Is now, and shall be evermore. S. M. To God the Father, Son, And Spirit, glory be, As 'twas, and is, and shall be so To all eternity. CLASS II. II. 1. To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, The God whom heaven's triumphant host |