4 He lives, to silence all my fears;
He lives, to stop and dry my tears;
He lives, my kind, wise, heav'nly friend;
He lives, and loves me to the end;
He lives, my Prophet, Priest, and King;
He lives, and while he lives, I'll sing.

5 He lives, to grant me daily breath;
He lives, and I shall conquer death;
He lives, my mansion to prepare;
He lives, to bring me safely there.
O, the sweet joy this sentence gives,—
"I know that my Redeemer lives!"

XXXVIII.

"He knoweth the way that I take.”—Job. xxiii. 10.

1 THY ways, O Lord! with wise, design, Are framed upon thy throne above; And every dark or bending line

Meets in the centre of thy love.

2 With feeble light, and half obscure,

Poor mortals thy arrangements view;
Not knowing that the least are sure,

The most mysterious just and true.

3 My favour'd soul shall meekly learn
To lay her reason at thy throne:
Too weak thy secrets to discern,
I'll trust thee for my guide alone.

XXXIX.

"Where is God, my Maker, who giveth songs in the night?"—Job xxxv. 10.

1 SUN of my soul! Thou Saviour dear,
It is not night if Thou art near;
Oh, may no earth-born cloud arise
To hide Thee from Thy servant's eyes.

2 When the soft dews of kindly sleep, My wearied eyelids gently steep,

Be

my last thought, how sweet to rest For ever on my Saviour's breast.

3 Abide with me from morn till eve,
For without Thee I cannot live;
Abide with me when night is nigh,
For without Thee I dare not die.

4 Come near, and bless us when we wake, Ere through the world our way we take; Till in the ocean of thy love,

We lose ourselves in Heaven above.

XL.

"O that the salvation of Israel were come out of

Zion."-Ps. xiv. 7.

1 IN ancient times our fathers made

Vain gods of wood and stone,
And all the earth to idols bow'd,
Save Judah's land alone:
Around that blest and happy land
The light of Heaven shone;
For there the True and Living God
Had made his statutes known.

2 And Israel's sons, a favoured race,
Were chosen by the Lord;

His own peculiar worshippers,-
The guardians of his word.
The Lord to them his prophets sent,
To them his law was given;
He would have led them as a flock,

And brought them safe to Heaven.

3 But they rebell'd, and would not fear
Their own Almighty King;

They spurn'd the blessings of his love,-
The shelter of his wing.

His word, whose deep prophetic tone
In solemn warning rose,
Proclaimed in vain the awful truth

Of Judah's coming woes.

4 And now their land is desolate-
Their cities overthrown,

And Israel's wand'ring exil'd sons
'Mong all the nations sown :
The light that led their fathers on,
Shines not around their path;
For love despis'd and mercy spurn'd,
Have kindled into wrath.

5 O Lord, incline our hearts to pray For Israel's scatter'd race;

Remove the veil that hides from them

Their own Messiah's face;

O banish from their darken'd hearts

Their unbelief and pride;

May they behold their promised King
In Jesus crucified.

and thine

6 Thine only is the power,
The grace that can renew,
In mercy do thou look

upon

The lone and outcast Jew; Fulfil the promise of thy word,

Bring the dispers'd again,

Nor let the house of Jacob seek
Their fathers' God in vain.

7 Oh! when shall Judah's Christian bands
To Zion's hills return,

And prayer arise like incense sweet,
And contrite spirits mourn?

Crown'd with her fairest hope, the Church

Shall glory in her Lord,

And earth her jubilee shall keep

When Israel is restor❜d.

XLI.

"My flesh shall rest in hope."—Ps. xvi. 9.

1 JESUS, I cast my soul on thee,

Mighty and merciful to save;

Thou wilt to death go down with me,
And gently lay me in the grave.