X. Let all the world rejoice, The great Jehovah reigns; The thunders are His awful voice; Our life His will ordains; The glories of His Name The lightnings, floods, and hail proclaim. He rules by sea and land, O'er boundless realms He sways; He holds the oceans in His hand, And mighty mountains weighs : Unequalled and alone In majesty He fills His throne. The universe He made When the bright orb of day And earth's fair form was seen, With flowers and blossoms drest; And trees, and fields, and meadows green, Adorned her youthful breast, Hung out in boundless space, Amid the ocean's cool embrace; Glad was the angel throng To see His might prevail; While yet in youth it stood; But this fair world shall die, Its glory passed away: Soon shall the day be o'er His race of glory run; And soon, alas! all soon Shall fade the stars, and yon pale moon. But ever fix'd, the throne Of the Eternal One Shall stand, when all creation's gone, Unequalled and alone; New worlds to make at will, And His own wise designs fulfil. John Hunt. 1853. XI. PSALM CXV. Not unto us, Almighty Lord, Where is their God? the heathen cry, And calls ten thousand worlds his own. Vain gods! vain men! the Lord alone Who lean on Him, from strength to strength, Henry Francis Lyte. 1834. XII. PSALM CXLVI. Happy the man, whose hopes rely He saves the opprest, He feeds the poor; The Lord hath eyes to give the blind; He sends the labouring conscience peace; He helps the stranger in distress, The widow and the fatherless, And grants the prisoner sweet release. I'll praise Him while He lends me breath, Praise shall employ my nobler powers: Isaac Watts. 1719. XIII. PSALM XIX. The spacious firmament on high, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And spread the truth from pole to pole. What, though in solemn silence all XIV. There is a book, who runs may read, And all the lore its scholars need, The works of God, above, below, The glorious sky, embracing all, The moon above, the Church below, But all their radiance, all their glow, The Saviour lends the light and heat The saints, like stars, around His seat The saints above are stars in Heaven; Like trees they stand, whom God has given, Faith is their fix'd unswerving root, Hope their unfading flower; Fair deeds of charity their fruit, The glory of their bower. |