3 Before the hills in order stood,

Or earth received her frame, From everlasting Thou art God, To endless years the same.

4 A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone;

5 The busy tribes of flesh and blood,
With all their lives and cares,
Are carried downward by Thy flood,
And lost in following years.

6 Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.

7 Our God, our Help in ages past,
Our Hope for years to come;

Short as the watch that ends the night Be Thou our Guard while troubles last,

Before the rising sun.

And our eternal Home.

Psalm xc. Rev. Isaac Watts, 1719

118 (ST. MAGNUS) C. M.

10 God, my Strength and Fortitude,
Of force I must love Thee;
Thou art my Castle and Defence
In my necessity;

4 The Lord descended from above
And bowed the heavens high,
And underneath His feet He cast
The darkness of the sky.

2 My God, my Rock, in whom I trust, 5
The Worker of my wealth,
My Refuge, Buckler, and my Shield,
The Horn of all my health.

3 I, when beset with pain and grief,
Did pray to God for grace;
And He forthwith did hear my plaint
Out of His holy place.

On cherub and on cherubim

Full royally He rode,
And on the wings of all the winds
Came flying all abroad.

6 Unspotted are the ways of God,
His word is purely tried;
He is a sure Defence to such
As in His faith abide.

Psalm xviii. Thomas Sternhold, publ. 1561

Un-com-pre-hend - ed and un-bought, Be-yond all knowledge and all thought. A MEN.

2 O love of God, how deep and great!
Far deeper than man's deepest hate;
Self-fed, self-kindled like the light,
Changeless, eternal, infinite.

3 O heavenly love, how precious still,
In days of weariness and ill,
In nights of pain and helplessness,
To heal, to comfort, and to bless!

5 We read thee best in Him who came
To bear for us the cross of shame;
Sent by the Father from on high,
Our life to live, our death to die.

6 We read thy power to bless and save,
E'en in the darkness of the grave;
Still more in resurrection light
We read the fulness of thy might.

4 O wide-embracing, wondrous love!
We read thee in the sky above,
We read thee in the earth below,
In seas that swell, and streams that flow. For ever safe, for ever blest.

7 O love of God, our shield and stay
Through all the perils of our way!
Eternal love, in thee we rest,

WARE L. M.

Rev. Horatius Bonar, 1861

George Kingsley, 1838

1 High in the heavens, E- ter- nal God, Thy good-ness in ##3

Thy truth shall break through every cloud That veils and darkens Thy designs. A - MEN.

120 MIGDOL L. M.

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Lowell Mason, 1840

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1 Praise, Lord, for Thee in Zi- on waits; Prayer shall be siege Thy tem- ple gates:

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All flesh shall to Thy throne re-pair, And find, through Christ, salvation there.

ancient foe Doth seek to work us woe; His craft and

power are great, And, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his

2 Did we in our own strength confide,
Our striving would be losing;
Were not the right man on our side,
The man of God's own choosing:
Dost ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is He;

Lord Sabaoth His Name,

From age to age the same,

And He must win the battle.

3 And though this world, with devils filled,
Should threaten to undo us;

We will not fear, for God hath willed
His truth to triumph through us:

The prince of darkness grim, —
We tremble not for him;
His rage we can endure,
For lo! his doom is sure,

One little word shall fell him.

4 That word above all earthly powers,
No thanks to them, abideth;
The Spirit and the gifts are ours

Through Him who with us sideth
Let goods and kindred go,

This mortal life also;
The body they may kill:
God's truth abideth still,

His kingdom is for ever.

Martin Luther, 1529. Trans. by Rev Frederick H. Hedge. 1853

1 Lord, with glowing heart I'd praise Thee For the bliss Thy love be-stows,

For the pardoning grace that saves me, And the peace that from it flows: