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EMILY BRONTE.

God Omnipresent.

GOD, within my breast,

Life

As I

Almighty, ever-present Deity!
that in me has rest,

undying life—have power in thee!

2 With all-embracing love

Thy spirit animates eternal years, Pervades and broods above,

Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and

rears.

3 Though earth and man were gone,

And suns and universes ceased to be, And thou wert left alone,

Every existence would exist in thee.

4 There is no room for Death,

Nor atom that his might could render void; Thou- thou art being and breath,

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And what thou art may never be destroyed.

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God's Constant Care.

MY God! how endless is thy love!

WATTS.

Thy gifts are every evening new;

And morning mercies from above
Gently distil, like early dew.

2 Thou spread 'st the curtains of the night, Great Guardian of my sleeping hours ;

Thy sovereign word restores the light,
And quickens all my drowsy powers.

3 I yield my powers to thy command;
To thee I consecrate my days;
Perpetual blessings from thy hand
Demand perpetual songs of praise.

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The Endwelling God.

DRENNAN

THE heaven of heavens cannot contain

THE

The universal Lord:

Yet he in humble hearts will deign
To dwell, and be adored.

2 Where'er ascends the sacrifice
Of fervent praise and prayer,
Or on the earth, or in the skies,
The God of heaven is there.

3 His presence is diffused abroad,

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Through realms, through worlds unknown: Who seek the mercies of our God

Are ever near his throne.

“En whose Hand are all thy Ways."

YOD of my life, whose gracious power
Through varied deaths my soul hath led,

Or turned aside the fatal hour,

Or lifted up my sinking head!

In all my ways thy hand I own,
Thy ruling providence I see:
Assist me still my course to run,
And still direct my paths to thee.

Whither, O, whither should I fly,
But to my loving Father's breast;
Secure within thine arms to lie,

And safe beneath thy wings to rest!

I have no skill the snare to shun,
But thou, O God! my wisdom art;
I ever into ruin run,

But thou art greater than my heart.

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L. M.

WALKER'S COLL.

A

"God, with whom is no Variableness."

LL-POWERFUL, self-existing God,
Who all creation dost sustain !
Thou wast, and art, and art to come,
And everlasting is thy reign!

2 Fixed and eternal as thy days,

Each glorious attribute divine,
Through ages infinite, shall still
With undiminished lustre shine.

3 Fountain of being! Source of good!
Immutable thou dost remain !
Nor can the shadow of a change
Obscure the glories of thy reign.

4 Earth may, with all her powers, dissolve, If such the great Creator's will;

But thou forever art the same,

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I AM, is thy memorial still.

EVER

VERY human tie may perish;
Friend to friend unfaithful prove;

Mothers cease their own to cherish;
Heaven and earth at last remove;
But no changes

Can avert the Father's love.

2 In the furnace God may prove thee,
Thence to bring thee forth more bright;
But can never cease to love thee;
Thou art precious in his sight:
God is with thee,-

God, thine everlasting light.

Faith in the Envisible God.

ALMIGHTY and immortal King,

Thy peerless splendors none can bear;

But darkness veils seraphic eyes,
When God with all his glory's there.

2 Yet faith can pierce the awful gloom,
The great Invisible can sce,
And with its tremblings mingle joy,
In fixed regards, great God, to thee.

3 This one petition would it urge, To bear thee ever in its sight;

In life, in death, in worlds unknown,
Its only portion and delight.

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The Divine Majesty.

HE Lord Jehovah reigns;
His throne is built on high;

The garments he assumes
Are light and majesty :
His glories shine

With beams so bright,
No mortal eye

Can bear the sight.

2 The thunders of his hand

Keep the wide world in awe;

His truth and justice stand
To guard his holy law;
And where his love
Resolves to bless,
His truth confirms
And seals the grace.

3 And can this mighty King
Of glory condescend?
And will he write his name
"My Father and my Friend"?
I love his name,

I love his word:
Join, all my powers,

And praise the Lord!

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