3 All our hopes, and prayers, and labours,
Must be vain without thine aid;
But thou wilt not disappoint us-
All is true that thou hast said:
Faithful Spirit!
O'er the world thine influence shed.
HYMN 384. 7s. Wilmot. [*]
The Gospel advancing.
EE how great a flame aspires,
Kindled by a spark of grace!
Jesus' love the nations fires,
Sets the kingdoms in a blaze!
o 2 Sons of God, your Saviour praise!
He the door hath opened wide;
He hath given the word of grace,
Jesus' word is glorified.
3 Jesus, mighty to redeem,
He alone the work hath wrought;
Worthy is the work of him,-
Him who spake a world from nought.
4 Saw ye not the cloud arise,
Little as a human hand?
Now it spreads along the skies,
Hangs o'er all the thirsty land:
s 5 Lo! the promise of a shower
Drops already from above;
u But the Lord will shortly pour All the Spirit of his love.
HYMN 385. 8, 7, & 4. Tamworth. [*]
Restoration and Glory of the Church.
N the mountain's top appearing,
Ο Lo! the sacred herald stands;
Welcome news to Zion bearing,
Zion long in hostile lands.
Drooping captive!
God himself will loose thy bands.
-2 God, thy God, will now restore thee:
He himself appears thy friend :
All thy foes shall flee before thee;
Here their boasts and triumphs end:
Great deliverance-
Zion's King vouchsafes to send.
3 Enemies no more shall trouble,
All thy wrongs shall be redressed:
"For thy shame thou shalt have double,"
In thy Maker's favour blessed:
All thy conflicts-
End in one eternal rest.
AUGHTER of Zion! from the dust
Exalt thy fallen head;
Again in thy Redeemer trust;
He calls thee from the dead.
s 2 Awake, awake, put on thy strength,
Thy beautiful array:
The day of freedom dawns at length,
The Lord's appointed day.
-3 Rebuild thy walls, thy bounds enlarge,
And send thy heralds forth:
Say to the south, "Give up thy charge,
And keep not back, O north."
s 4 They come, they come-thine exiled bands, Where'er they rest or roam,
Have heard thy voice in distant lands,
And hasten to their home.
HYMN 387. 8, 7, & 4. Tamworth. [*]
ES! we trust the day is breaking;
Joyful times are near at hand;
God-the mighty God is speaking
By his Word, in every land;
When he chooses,
Darkness flies at his command.
2 While the foe becomes more daring,
While he enters like a flood,
God, the Saviour, is preparing
Means to spread his truth abroad:
Every language
Soon shall tell the love of God.
3 God of Jacob, high and glorious, Let thy people see thy hand:
Let the gospel be victorious,
Through the world-in every land;
Then shall idols
Perish, Lord-at thy command.
HYMN 388. H. M. Darwell's. 1 ZION, tune thy voice,
10 And raise thy hands on high;
Tell all the earth thy joys,
And boast salvation nigh.
Cheerful in God,
Arise and shine,
While rays divine
Stream all abroad.
2 He gilds thy mourning face
With beams that cannot fade;
His all-resplendent grace
He pours around thy head.
The nations round
Thy form shall view,
With lustre new
Divinely crowned.
3 In honour to his name,
Reflect that sacred light;
And loud that grace proclaim,
Which makes thy darkness bright:
Pursue his praise,
Till sovereign love
In worlds above
The glory raise.
4 There on his holy hill
A brighter sun shall rise,
And with his radiance fill
Those fairer, purer skies;
While round his throne,
Ten thousand stars,
In nobler spheres,
His influence own.
HYMN 389. 7 & 6. Romaine. [*]
。 1 HALL to the Lord's anointed!
Great David's greater son ;
Hail in the time appointed,
His reign on earth begun!
He comes to break oppression,
To set the captive free,
To take away transgression,
And rule in equity.
2 He comes, with succor speedy
To those who suffer wrong;
To help the poor and needy,
And bid the weak be strong;
To give them songs for sighing,
Their darkness turn to light,
Whose souls, condemned and dying,
Were precious in his sight.
3 For him shall prayer unceasing,
And daily vows ascend;
His kingdom still increasing,
A kingdom without end:
The mountain-dews shall nourish
A seed in weakness sown,
Whose fruit shall spread and flourish,
And shade like Lebanon.
s 4 O'er every foe victorious,
He on his throne shall rest,
From age to age more glorious,
All-blessing and all-blest:
The tide of time shall never
His covenant remove;
His name shall stand for ever;
That name to us is-Love. Montgomery.
HYMN 390. 7s. Pilgrim. [*]
81 HARK! the Song of Jubilee,
Loud-as mighty thunders roar :
Or the fulness of the sea,
When it breaks upon the shore-
2 Hallelujah! for the Lord,
God Omnipotent, shall reign:
Hallelujah! let the word
Echo round the earth and main.
3 Hallelujah! hark! the sound,
From the centre to the skies,
Wakes, above, beneath, around,
All creation's harmonies!
4 See Jehovah's banners furled,
Sheathed his sword! He speaks-'tis done,
And the kingdoms of this world
Are the kingdom of his Son.
5 He shall reign from pole to pole
With illimitable sway:
g He shall reign, when, like a scroll,
Yonder heavens have passed away!
-6 Then the end-beneath his rod,
Man's last enemy shall fall:
s Hallelujah! Christ in God,
God in Christ, is All in All.
HYMN 391. L. M. Park Street. [*]
The Redeemer reigns.
ING, for the blest Redeemer reigns,
Thro' distant lands his triumphs spread;
And sinners, freed from endless pains,
Own him their Saviour and their Head.
-2 His sons and daughters from afar,
Daily at Zion's gates arrive;
Those who were dead in sin before,
By sovereign grace are made alive.
u 3 Oh may his conquests still increase,
And every foe his arm subdue ;
While angels celebrate his praise,
And saints his glowing glories shew.
s 4 Loud hallelujahs to the Lamb,
From all below and all above;
In lofty songs exalt his name,
In songs as lasting as his love.
HYMN 392. 7s. Alcester.
Jesus reigns.
WAKE the song of jubilee,
Let it echo o'er the sea!
Now is come the promised hour;
Jesus reigns with sovereign power!
2 All ye nations, join and sing,
Christ, of lords and kings, is King;
Let it sound from shore to shore,
Jesus reigns for evermore.
3 Now the desert lands rejoice;
And the islands join their voice:
Yea, the whole creation sings,
Jesus is the King of kings.
HYMN 393. 8, 7, & 4. Tamworth. [*]
Encouragement to Missionaries.
EN of God! go take your stations!
Darkness reigns throughout the earth:
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