The world thy glories shall confess,
Decked in the robes of righteousness.

3 No more shall foes unclean invade,
And fill thy hallowed walls with dread;
No more shall hell's insulting host,
Their victory and thy sorrows boast.

4 God from on high thy groans will hear;
His hand thy ruins shall repair;

Reared and adorned by love divine,
Thy towers and battlements shall shine.

5 Grace shall dispose my heart and voice
To share, and echo back thy joys;
Nor will thy watchful Monarch cease
To guard thee in eternal peace.

298

“They may forget, yet will not I." 8s, 7s & 4.

1 ZION stands with hills surrounded

Zion, kept by power divine:

All her foes shall be confounded,

Though the world in arms combine:

Happy Zion,

What a favoured lot is thine.

2 Every 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 attend Jehovah's love.

3 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.

299

"Mercy and Truth are met together."

C. M.

1 THE Lord will come and not be slow;
His footsteps cannot err;
Before him righteousness shall go,
His royal harbinger.

2 Mercy and Truth, that long were missed,
Now joyfully are met;

Sweet Peace and Righteousness have kissed,
And hand in hand are set.

3 The nations all whom thou hast made
Shall come, and all shall frame
To bow them low before thee, Lord,
And glorify thy name.

4 Truth from the earth, like to a flower,
Shall bud and blossom then,

And Justice, from her heavenly bower,
Look down on mortal men.

5 Thee will I praise, O Lord, my God,
Thee honour and adore

With my whole heart; and blaze abroad
Thy name for evermore.

300

"The Lord shall arise upon Thee."

H. M.

1 RISE, Sun of glory, rise,

And chase the shades of night
Which now obscure the skies,
And hide thy sacred light:

O, chase those dismal shades away,
And bring the bright, millennial day.

2 Now send thy Spirit down.
On all the nations, Lord,
With great success to crown
The preaching of thy word;
That heathen lands may own thy sway
And cast their idol gods away.

3 Then shall thy kingdom come
Among our fallen race,

And all the earth become

The temple of thy grace;
Whence pure devotion shall ascend,
And songs of praise till time shall end.

301

The Universal King.

1 JESUS, immortal King, go on;

The glorious day will soon be won;
Thine enemies prepare to flee,

And leave a conquered world to thee.
2 Gird on thy sword, victorious Chief,
The captive sinner's sole relief;
Cast the usurper from his throne,
And make the universe thine own.

3 Thy footsteps, Lord, with joy we trace,
And mark the conquests of thy grace:
Finish the work thou hast begun,
And let thy will on earth be done.
4 Then shall contending nations rest,
For love shall reign in every breast;
Weapons for war designed shall cease,
Or then, be implements of peace.

5 Hark, how the host triumphant sing;
The Lord omnipotent is King!

Let all his saints rejoice at this,
The kingdoms of the world are his.

L. M.

302

“With great Mercies will I gather thee." 8s, 7s, & 4.

1 ON the mountain's top appearing,

Lo, the sacred herald stands, Welcome news to Zion bearing, Zion long in hostile lands: Mourning captive!

God himself will loose thy bands.

2 Has thy night been long and mournful?
Have thy friends unfaithful proved?
Have thy foes been proud and scornful,
By thy sighs and tears unmoved?
Cease thy mourning!

Zion still is well beloved.

3 God, thy God, will now restore thee;
He himself appears thy Friend;

All thy foes shall flee before thee;
Here their boasts and triumphs end:
Great deliverance

Zion's King vouchsafes to send.

4 Enemies no more shall trouble,-
All thy wrongs shall be redressed;
For thy shame thou shalt have double,
In thy Maker's favour blest:
All thy conflicts

End in everlasting rest.