THE PLEASANTNESS OF RELIGION.

25

Their joy is all sadness, Their mirth is all vain, Their laughter is madness, Their pleasure is pain.

5 O might they at last, With sorrow return, The pleasures to taste, For which they were born;

Our Jesus receiving, Our happiness prove, The joy of believing, The heaven of love! HYMN 20.

6-7's.

¹W From the central point of bliss, wander wide

Turn to Jesus crucified,

Fly to those dear wounds of his:[ God. Sink into the purple flood: Rise into the life of 2 Find in Christ the way of peace,

Peace unspeakable, unknown: By his pain he gives you ease, Life by his expiring groan:[ all in all. Rise, exalted by his fall; Find in Christ your 3 0 believe the record true,

God to you his Son hath given! Ye may now be happy too;

Find on earth the life of heaven:

Live the life of heaven above, All the life of glorious love.

4 This the universal bliss,

Bliss for every soul design'd; God's original promise this,

God's great gift to all mankind; Blest in Christ this moment be! Blest to all eternity!

S. M.

HYMN 21.

1

YE E simple souls that stray

Far from the path of peace, ( That lonely, unfrequented way To life and happiness,)