FOR VARIOUS

Winds may rise, and seas may roar, We on his love our spirits stay; Him with quiet joy adore.

Whom winds and seas obey.

1001 To be sung at Sea

L. M.

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¹LWhose power the wind, the sea, con­

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[ tain, Whose hand doth earth and heaven sus­Whose Spirit leads believing souls:

2 For thee we leave our native shore, ( We whom thy love delights to keep) In other climes thy works explore, And see thy wonders in the deep.

3' Tis here thine unknown paths we trace, Which dark to human eyes appear; While through the mighty waves we pass, Faith only sees that God is here.

4 Throughout the deep thy footsteps shine, We own thy way is in the sea, O'erawed by majesty divine,

And lost in thy immensity.

5 Thy wisdom here we learn to adore, Thine everlasting truth we prove; Amazing heights of boundless power, Unfathomable depths of love.

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6 TNFINITE God, thy greatness spanned

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Lo! in the hollow of thy hand The measured waters sink and rise! 7 Thee to perfection who can tell! Earth and her sons beneath thee lie, Lighter than dust within thy scale, And less than nothing in thine eye. 8 Yet, in thy Son, divinely great,

We claim thy providential care; Boldly we stand before thy seat, Our Advocate hath placed us there.

9 With him we are gone up on high, Since he is ours, and we are his; With him we reign above the sky, We walk upon our subject seas. 10 We boast of our recovered powers,

Lords are we of the lands and floods; And earth, and heaven, and all is ours, And we are Christ's, and Christ is God's!

1002 The Traveller's Hymn. C. M.

TOW are thy servants blest, O Lord!

sure is defence!

Eternal Wisdom is their guide,

Their help Omnipotence.

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2 In foreign realms, in lands remote,

Supported by thy care,

Through burning climes they pass unhurt, And breathe in tainted air.

3 When by the dreadful tempest borne High on the broken wave,

They know thou art not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save.

4 The storm is laid, the winds retire, Obedient to thy will; 228

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The sea, that roars at thy command, At thy command is still.

5 In midst of dangers, fears, and deaths, Thy goodness we'll adore;

We'll praise thee for thy mercies past, And humbly hope for more.

6 Our life, while thou preserv'st that life, Thy sacrifice shall be;

And death, when death shall be our lot, Shall join our souls to thee.

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1 THILE lone upon the furious waves, Where danger fiercely rides, There is a hand, unseen, that saves, And through the ocean guides.

2 Almighty Lord of land and sea, Beneath thine eye we sail;

And if our hope be fixed on thee, Our hearts can never quail.

3 Though tempests shake the angry deep. And thunder's voice appal;

Serene we wake, and calmly sleep,

Our Father governs all.

4 Still prove thyself through all the way. The guardian and the friend; Cheer with thy presence every day, And every night defend.

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Intercession for those 1004

at Sea.

Whose arm doth bind the restless

wave,

Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep:

O hear us when we cry to thee For those in peril on the sea!

2 0 Saviour! whose almighty word The winds and waves submissive heard, Who walkedst on the foaming deep, And calm amid its rage didst sleep: O hear us when we cry to thee For those in peril on the sea!

3 O Sacred Spirit! who didst brood Upon the chaos dark and rude, Who bad'st its angry tumults cease, And gavest light and life and peace: O hear us when we cry to thee For those in peril on the sea!

4 0 Trinity of love and power! Our brethren shield in danger's hour; From rock and tempest, fire and foe. Protect them wheresoe'er they go; And ever let there rise to thee Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.

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Jesus Christ, and,"& c. 2 Corinthians xiii. 14.

1 THE grace of Jesus Christ the Son

Jesus, through thy free grace alone We have access to God:

To favour now through thee restored, O may we still retain

The mercy of our pardoning Lord, And never sin again!