If now the Judge is at the door, And all mankind must stand before The inexorable throne!

4 No matter which my thoughts employ, A moment's misery, or joy;

But 0 when both shall end, Where shall I find my destined place? Shall I my everlasting days

With fiends or angels spend?

DESCRIBING DEATH.

5 Nothing is worth a thought beneath But how I may escape the death That never, never dies;

How make mine own election sure, And, when I fail on earth, secure A mansion in the skies.

6 Jesus, vouchsafe a pitying ray, Be thou my guide, be thou my way To glorious happiness; Ah, write the pardon on my heart, And whensoe'er I hence depart, Let me depart in peace.

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1 HRINKING from the cold hand of death,

up my Shall soon resign this fleeting breath, nd die, my fathers' God to meet. 2 Numbered among thy people, I

Expect with joy thy face to see; Because thou didst for sinners die, Jesus, in death remember me! 30 that without a lingering groan

I may the welcome word receive! My body with my charge lay down, And cease at once to work and live.

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2 Nipt by the wind's unkindly blast, Parched by the sun's directer ray, The momentary glories waste,

The short- lived beauties die away.

3 So blooms the human face divine, When youth its pride of beauty shows; Fairer than spring the colours shine, And sweeter than the virgin rose.

4 Or worn by slowly- rolling years, Or broke by sickness in a day, The fading glory disappears,

Isaiah xl. 6-8.

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HE morning flowers display their sweets,

And gay their silken leaves unfold, As careless of the noontide heats, As fearless of the evening cold.

The short- lived beauties die away.

5 Yet these, new rising from the tomb, With lustre brighter far shall shine; Revive with ever- during bloom, Safe from diseases and decline.

6 Let sickness blast, let death devour, If heaven must recompense our pains: Perish the grass, and fade the flower, If firm the word of God remains.

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HOME, let us anew Our journey pursue,

Roll round with the year,

And never stand still till the Master appear. 2 His adorable will

Let us gladly fulfil,

And our talents improve,

[ love.

By the patience of hope, and the labour of 3 Our life is a dream;

Our time as a stream

Glides swiftly away,

And the fugitive moment refuses to stay.

4 The arrow is flown,

The moment is gone;

The millennial year

Rushes on to our view, and eternity's here.

5 5 5 11.

5 0 that each in the day

Of his coming may say,

" I have fought my way through,

I have finished the work thou didst give me to do!"

6 O that each from his Lord

May receive the glad word,

" Well and faithfully done![ throne." Enter into my joy, and sit down on my

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ASS a few swiftly- fleeting years,

Shall quit, like me, the vale of tears, Their righteous sentence to receive.

2 But all, before they hence remove, May mansions for themselves prepare In that eternal house above; And, 0 my God, shall I be there?

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EJOICE for a brother deceased,

A soul out of prison released,

And freed from its bodily chain; With songs let us follow his flight, And mount with his spirit above, Escaped to the mansions of light, And lodged in the Eden of love.

2 Our brother the haven hath gained, Out- flying the tempest and wind, His rest he hath sooner obtained, And left his companions behind, Still tossed on a sea of distress,

Hard toiling to make the blest shore, Where all is assurance and peace,

And sorrow and sin are no more. 3 There all the ship's company meet Who sailed with the Saviour beneath, With shouting each other they greet, And triumph o'er trouble and death: The voyage of life's at an end,

The mortal affliction is past; The age that in heaven they spend, For ever and ever shall last.

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LESSING, honour, thanks, and praise,

Thou, in thine abundant grace, Givest us the victory; True and faithful to thy word, Thou hast glorified thy Sou,