4 For a season call'd to part
Let us then ourselves commend
To the gracious eye and heart
Of our ever present friend.
5 Jesus, hear our humble pray'r
Tender shepherd of thy sheep!
Let thy mercy and thy care
All our souls in safety keep.

6 In thy strength may we be strong!
Sweeten every cross and pain!
Give us if we live, ere long
Here to meet in peace again.

7 If thou bidst us hence depart
Forever where thou art to be;
We'll joyous meet, no more to part,
One with each other and with Thee.

75. 2 Cor. 13. 14.

MAY the grace of Christ our Saviour

And the Father's boundless love

With the holy Spirit's favor
Rest upon us from above!
Thus may we abide in union
With each other and the Lord;
And possess in sweet communion
Joys which earth cannot afford.

76. Their stay in the judgment.

THE

HE day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven & earth shall pass away! What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day? 2 When shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll, And louder yet and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead. 3 Oh, Jesus! on that wrathful day When man to judgment wakes from clay,

Be thou the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.

71. Scene after death.

`N vain the fancy strives to paint

IN

The moment after death

The glories that surround the saint
When he resigns his breath.

2 One gentle sigh his fetters breaks,
We scarce can say "he's gone,'
Before the willing spirit takes
Its mansion near the throne.
Faith strives, but all its efforts fail
To trace its heaven-ward flight:
No eye can pierce within the veil
Which hides that world of light.

4 Thus much (and this is all) we know, It is supremely blest,

Has done with sin and care and woe,
With Jesus still to rest.

5 On harps of gold his name to praise
His presence always view:
And, if we here his footsteps trace,
There we shall praise him too.

78. Conclusion.

SOME sweet savour
Of thy favor,

Shed abroad in every heart!
Heav'n-ward as to thee we go
Leaving guilt and fear below.
Blessing, praising,

Without ceasing,

Bid us Lord depart.

END OF PART THE SECOND.

APPENDIX TO MISSIONARY HYMNS.

Addressed to a Missionary going to the South Seas. Go, take the wings of morn,

And fly beyond the utmost sea:

Thou shalt not feel thyself forlorn,
Thy God is still with thee;

And where his Spirit bids thee dwell,
There, and there only, thou art well.

2 Forsake thy fathers' land,

Kindred, and friends, and pleasant home.
O'er many a rude barbarian strand
In exile though thou roam,

Walk there with God, and thou shalt find
Double for all thy faith resign'd.

3 Launch boldly on the surge;
And in a light and fragile bark,

Thy path through flood and tempest urge,
Like Noah in the ark-

Then tread, like him, a new world's shore,
Thine altar build, and God adore.

4 Leave OUR Jerusalem,

5

Jehovah's temple and his rest:

Go, where no Sabbath brake on them
Whom pagan gloom oppress'd,

'Till bright, though late, around their isles
The Gospel-dawn awoke in siniles :

Amidst that dawn from far,

Be thine expected presence shown,
Rise on them like the morning star,
In glory--not thine own;

And tell them, while they hail the sight,
Who turn'd thy darkness into light:

7 Tell them, his hovering rays
Already gild their ocean's brim,

Ere long o'er heaven and earth to blaze:
Direct all eyes to him,

The Sun of Righteousness, who brings
Mercy and healing on his wings.
8 Nor thou disdain to teach

To savage hordes, celestial truth-
To infant-tongues, thy mother's speech--
Ennobling arts, to youth;

Till warriors fling their arms aside,
O'er bloodless fields the plough to guide.

8 Train them by patient toil,

To rule the waves, subdue the ground,
Enrich themselves with nature's spoil,
With harvest-trophies crown'd,
Till coral-reefs 'midst desart seas
Become the true Hesperides.

9 Thus then in peace depart,

And angels guide thy footsteps!---No:
There is a feeling in the heart
That will not let thee go:

Yet, go--thy spirit stays with me;
Yet, go---my spirit goes with thee!
10 Though the wide world between
Our feet conglobe its solid mass;
Though lands and waters intervene
Which I must never pass;

Though day and night with thee be chang'd,
Seasons revers'd, and clime estrang'd---

11 Yet one in soul---and one

In faith, and hope, and purpose yet---
God's witness in the heavens, yon sun,
Forbid thee to forget

Those from whose eyes his orb retires, When thine his morning beauty fires! 12 When tropic gloom returns,

Mark what new stars their vigils keep;