4 Then, should the earth's firm pillars shake, And all the wheels of nature break,

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Our steady souls would fear no more
Than solid rocks when billows roar.

S. M.

SPIRIT OF THE PSALMS

The Delights of Sabbath Worship.
WEET is the task, O Lord,
Thy glorious acts to sing,

To praise thy name and hear thy word,
And grateful offerings bring.

2 Sweet, at the dawning hour,
Thy boundless love to tell;

And when the night-wind shuts the flower,
Still on the theme to dwell.

3 Sweet on this day of rest

To join in heart and voice

With those who love and serve thee best,
And in thy name rejoice.

4 To songs of praise and joy,
Be every Sabbath given,
That such may be our best employ
Eternally in heaven.

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Exalt the Lord. Ps. xcix.

EXALT the Lord, our God,

And worship at his feet;

His nature is all holiness,
And mercy is his seat.

WATTS

2 When Israel was his church,
When Aaron was his priest,

When Moses cried, when Samuel prayed, his people rest.

He

gave

3 Oft he forgave their sins,

Nor would destroy their race;
And oft he made his vengeance known
When they abused his grace.

4 Exalt the Lord our God,

Whose grace is still the same ;-
Still he's a God of holiness,
And jealous for his name.

SOFTLY

Of the holy Sabbath day;
Gently as life's setting sun,

When the Christian's course is run.

2 Night her solemn mantle spreads
O'er the earth, as daylight fades;
All things tell of calm repose
At the holy Sabbath's close.

3 Peace is on the world abroad;
'Tis the holy peace of God,
Symbol of the peace within,
When the spirit rests from sin.

4 Still the Spirit lingers near,
Where the evening worshipper
Seeks communion with the skies,
Pressing onward to the prize.

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SLOW

LOWLY, by God's hand unfurled,
Down around the weary world

Falls the darkness; O, how still
Is the working of his will!

2 Mighty Spirit, ever nigh!
Work in me as silently;

Veil the day's distracting sights,
Show me heaven's eternal lights.

3 Living stars to view be brought
In the boundless realms of thought;
High and infinite desires,
Flaming like those upper fires!

4 Holy truth, eternal right,

Let them break upon my sight;
Let them shine serene and still,
And with light my being fill.

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ANONYMOUS.

Sabbath Evening.

HERE is a time when moments flow

More happily than all beside;

It is, of all the times below,

A Sabbath at the eventide.

2 O then the setting sun shines fair,
And all below, and all above,
The various forms of Nature, wear
One universal garb of love.

3 And then the peace that Jesus brought,
The life of grace eternal beams,
And we, by his example taught,
Improve the life his love redeems.

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4 Delightful scene! a world at rest;
A God all love; no grief, no fear;
A heavenly hope, a peaceful breast,
A smile, unsullied by a tear.

AN

L. M.

Evening Recollections.

NOTHER fleeting day is gone;

COLLYER

Slow o'er the west the shadows rise; Swift the soft-stealing hours have flown, And night's dark mantle veils the skies.

2 Another fleeting day is gone

Swift from the records of the year;
And still, with each successive sun,
Life's fading visions disappear.

3 Another fleeting day is gone;
But soon a fairer day shall rise,
A day whose never-setting sun
Shall pour its light o'er cloudless skies.

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Morning and Evening.

BREVIARY.

REAT Framer of the earth and sky, Who dost the light and darkness give, And all the cheerful change supply

Of alternating morn and eve!

2 Awake us from false sleep profound,
And through our senses pour thy light ;
Be thy blest name the first we sound
At early dawn, the last at night.

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SOFTLY

7's M.

Evening pmn.

OFTLY now the light of day
Fades upon my sight away;
Free from care, from labor free,
Lord, I will commune with thee.

2 Thou, whose all-pervading eye
Nought escapes, without, within,
Pardon each infirmity,
Open fault and secret sin.

3 Soon, for me, the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with thee.

DOANE

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BOWRING.

Morning or Evening. All from God.

FATHER! Thy paternal care

Has my guardian been, my guide!