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4 With cheerful heart I close mine eyes,

Since thou wilt not remove; And, in the morning, let me rise,

Rejoicing in thy love.

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OPENING AND CLOSING YEAR.

84.

C. M.
REMARK, my soul, the narrow bounds

Of the revolving year!
How Bwist the weeks complete thir

rounds!

How short the months appear! 2 Eternity comes quickly on,

And that important day,
When all, which mortal life as done,

God's judgment shall surrey.
3 Waken, O God! my languid hoart,

Its great concern to see ;
I.ead me to act the Christian part,

And give the year to thee.
4 So shall their course more grateful roll,

If future years arise,
And they shall bear my weary soul

To joy that never dies,

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85.

L. M. GREAT God, we sing that mighty hand, By which, supported still, we stand: The opening year thy mercy shows;

Let mercy crown it till it close.
2 By day, by night, at home, abroad,

Still we are guarded by our God;
By his incessant bounty fed,

By his unerring counsel led.
3 In scenes exalted depressid,

Be thou our joy, and thou our rest;
Thy goodness all our hopes shall raise,
Ador'd through all our changing days.
86.

L. M.
When all my follies I recount,
I tremble at the great amount!
In judgment, think on mercy, Lord,

And still thy sparing grace afford. 2 Jesus, the great redeeming God,

Prevails by his atoning blood:
And now another year I sce,
And Inercy

still extends to me!
3 To thee, my God, my voice I'll raise,

In humble songs record thy praise,
While I survey thy gracious store,
My heart shall love and praise thee more,

87.

: S. M. ANOTHER fleeting year

Has fled and past away,
Since we were taught to worship hore,

On this most holy day, 2 Years hurry quickly by,

And we are fading too ;
And soon the year when we shall die,

Will come upon our view. 3 If we are ready thon,

For us it will be well;
Remov'd from this low earth of pain,

With God in heaven to dwell. 4 But if we spurn at all,

Then each departing year, Dreaded by us, will be the call Of death and judgment near. 88.

C. M. WHILE, through another rolling year,

The care of God we trace; What bounties of his hand have crown'a

Each moment of its space! 2 Hus mercy loads each passing hour,

With some new mark of good; And gives us, as our wants return,

Our home, and clothes, and food.

3 Our lives, our health, and all we have,

Our parents, and our friends,
Are all amor.g the bountsous store

Of blessings that he sends.
4 Yet the rich treasures of his grace

Aro better far than they;
O let us, from our inmost hearts,

For these best blessings pray.

89.

C. M.
This year is hastening away,

The hours are closing fast;
My heart, alas ! has much to say

About the time that's past.
2 How oft I've risen from my bed,

And not remember'd prayer;
Or if a something I have said,

My thoughts have been elsewhere. 3 Ill temper, passions, hateful pride,

Havo griov'd my friends and Theer And seldom I've sincerely tried,

Gentle, ard good to be. 4 But, Lurd, thou hast already known

More of my guilt than I;
Thero's not a fault that I can own

Too small for God to spy.

FOR TEACHERS.

90.

C. M. Mear, descending from above,

In noftest accents pleads;
Oh, may each tender bosom move,

Whun mercy intercedes.
2 Be ours the bliss, in Wisdom's way,

To guide untutor'd youth;
And lead the mind that went astray,

To piety and truth.
3 Children our kind protection claim

And God will well approve,
When infants learn to praise his pamo,

And their Creator love. 4 Almighty God! thine influence shed

To aid this good design:
The honours of tiy name bo spread,

And all the glory thinc.

91.

S. M.
DESCEND, O God of love!

And bless our kind design ;
Senu tey good Spirit from abova,

And make these childron thine.

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