ISE, my soul, and stretch thy wings,
Thy better portion trace;
Rise from transitory things,
Tow'rds heaven thy native place.
2 Sun, and moon, and stars decay,
Time shall soon this earth remove;
Rise, my soul, and haste away,
To seats prepar❜d above.
3 Cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn!
Press onward to the prize;
Soon your Saviour will return
Triumphant in the skies.
4 Yet a season, and we know
Happy entrance will be giv'n;
All our sorrows left below,
And earth exchang'd for heaven.
OCK of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy riven side that flow'd,
Be of sin the double cure,
Cleanse me from its guilt and pow'r.
2 Not the labours of my hands Can fulfil Thy law's demands;
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears for ever flow,
All for sin could not atone,
Thou must save, and Thou alone.
3 Nothing in my hand I bring;
Simply to Thy cross I cling;
Naked, come to Thee for dress;
Helpless, look to Thee for grace;
Vile, I to the fountain fly;
Wash me, Saviour, or I die.
4 While I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eyelids close in death,
When I soar to worlds unknown,
See Thee on Thy judgment throne,-
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee.
ALVATION! Oh, the joyful sound!
Tis pleasure to our ears;
A sov'reign balm for every wound,
A cordial for our fears.
2 Buried in sorrow and in sin,
At hell's dark door we lay;
But we arise, by grace divine,
To see a heav'nly day.
3 Salvation! let the echo fly
The spacious earth around,
While all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound.
4 Salvation! O, Thou bleeding Lamb,
To Thee the praise belongs;
Salvation shall inspire our hearts,
And dwell upon our tongues.
Glory, honour, praise and power,
Be unto the Lamb for ever!
Jesus Christ is our Redeemer ;
Hallelujah! Amen.
AVIOUR, breathe an ev'ning blessing,
Ere repose our spirits seal;
Sin and want we come confessing,—
Thou canst save, and Thou canst heal.
Though destruction walk around us,
Though the arrows past us fly,
Angel-guards from Thee surround us;
We are safe, if Thou art nigh.
2 Though the night be dark and dreary,
Darkness cannot hide from Thee;
Thou art He who, never weary,
Watchest where Thy people be.
Should swift death this night o'ertake us,
And our couch become our tomb;
May the morn in heav'n awake us,
Clad in light and deathless bloom.
SAVIOUR divine! my hope and trust,
Thy blood hath cleans'd my guilt away;
In life and death Thou art my stay.
2 Fainting with thirst, and worn with toil,
I trod the desert's burning soil;
The heat oppress'd my aching head,
Till at Thy cross I found a shade.
3 As orient beams, at dawn of day,
In golden light the clouds array,
So now Thy gracious rays illume
My spirit, once engulfed in gloom.
4 And now on Thee, in all my ways,
I seek to fix my constant gaze;
In heav'n above, on earth below,
Apart from Thee no joy I know.
AY, sinner, hath a voice within,
Oft whisper'd to thy secret soul,
Urg'd thee to leave the ways of sin,
And yield thy heart to God's control?
2 Hath something met thee in the path
Of worldliness and vanity,
And pointed to the coming wrath,
And warn'd thee from that wrath to flee?
3 Sinner, it was a heav'nly voice,
It was the Spirit's gracious call; It bade thee make the better choice,
And haste to seek in Christ thine all.
4 Spurn not the call to life and light;
Regard in time the warning kind;
That call thou may'st not always slight,
And yet the gate of mercy find.
5 God's Spirit will not always strive
With harden'd self-destroying man;
Ye who persist His love to grieve,
May never hear His voice again.
6 Sinner-perhaps this very day
Thy last accepted time may be ;
Oh! shouldst thou grieve Him now away,
Then hope may never beam on thee.
ERVANT of God, well done!
Rest from thy lov'd employ;
The battle fought, the victory won,
Enter thy Master's joy."
The voice at midnight came,
He started up to hear;
A mortal arrow pierced his frame,
He fell, but felt no fear.
Tranquil amidst alarms,
It found him on the field;
A veteran slumbering on his arms,
Beneath his red-cross shield.
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