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Sel. 155.

(Stanza 1 in Music, 5 omitted.)
2. There everlasting spring abides,
And never-withering flowers;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.

3. Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dress'd in living green;
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between.

4. But timorous mortals start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea;

And linger, shivering on the brink,
And fear to launch away.

6. Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er,

Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood,

Should fright us from the shore.

Let the whole race

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Sel. 158.

(Stanza 1 in Music.)

2. Thy throne eternal ages stood, Ere seas or stars were made; Thou art the ever-living God, Were all the nations dead.

3. Eternity, with all its years,

And our devotion dies.

4. Dear Lord, and shall we ever live
At this poor dying rate;
Our love so faint, so cold to thee,
And thine to us so great?

5. Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all thy quick'ning powers,
Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love,
And that shall kindle ours.

Sel. 160.

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[Ps. 40, P. 1.

(Stanzas 5, 6 omitted.)
WAITED patient for the Lord,
He bow'd to hear my cry;
He saw me resting on his word,
And brought salvation nigh.

2. He raised me from a horrid pit,
Where mourning long I lay,
And from my bonds released my feet-
Deep bonds of miry clay.

3. Firm on a rock He made me stand,
And taught my cheerful tongue
To praise the wonders of his hand,
In a new thankful song.

4. I'll spread his works of grace abroad;
The saints with joy shall hear,
And sinners learn to make my God
Their only hope and fear.

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