From Zion's mount send forth the sound
To spread the spacious earth around.

L. M.

541. Prayer for the Success of Missions.
INDULGENT God, to thee we pray,
Be with us on this solemn day:

1

Smile on our souls, our plans approve, By which we seek to spread thy love. 2 Let party prejudice be gone,

And love unite our hearts in one;
Let all we have and are, combine
To aid this glorious work of thine.
3 [Point us to men of upright mind,
Devoted, diligent, and kind;

With grace be all their hearts endow'd,
And light to guide them in the road.
4 With cheerful steps may they proceed,
Where'er thy providence shall lead;
Let heaven and earth their work befriend,
And mercy all their paths attend.]

5 Great let the bands of those be found
Who shall attend the gospel sound:
And let Barbarians, bond and free,
In suppliant throngs resort to thee.
6 Where Pagan altars now are built,
And brutal blood, or human, spilt,
There be the bleeding cross high rear d,
And God, our God, alone rever❜d.

7 Where captives groan beneath their chain,
Let grace, and love, and concord reign;
The aged and the infant tongue

Unite in one harmonious song.

542.

L. M.

Prayer on the Scarcity of Gospel Missionaries. Luke x. 2.

LORD, when we cast our eyes abroad,

And see on heathen altars slain,

Poor helpless babes for sacrifice,
To purge their parents' dismal stain;
2 We can't behold such horrid deeds
Without a groan of ardent pray'r;
And while each heart in anguish bleeds
We cry, Lord, send thy gospel there.
3 For them we pray, for them we wait,
To them thy great salvation show;
Thy harvest, Lord, is truly great,
But faithful labourers are few.

4 O send out preachers, gracious Lord,
Among that dark, bewilder'd race;
Open their eyes, and bless thy word,
And call them by thy sov'reign grace.
5 Then shall they shout thy honour'd name,
And sound thy matchless praise abroad;
And we will join them in the theme,
Salvation to our risen God.

543.

L. M.

Prayer for the Success of Missiona Go, friends of Jesus, and proclaim

The kind Redeemer you have found;
And speak his ever precious name,
To all the wond'ring nations round.
2 Go, tell the unletter'd, wretched slave,
Who groans beneath a tyrant's rod,
You bring a pardon bought with blood,
The blood of an incarnate God.

3 Go, tell the panting, sable chief
On Ethiopia's scorching sand,
You come with a refreshing stream,
To cheer and bless his thirsty land.

4 Go, tell the distant isles afar,

Of Otaheite and Pelew,

That in the covenant of

grace,

Their unknown names are written too.

Go tell, on India's golden shores,
Of a rich treasure, more refin'd;

And tell them, tho' they'll scarce believe,
You come,
the friend of human kind.

6 Say, the religion you profess
Is all benevolence and love;
And by its own divine effects,
Its heavenly origin will prove.

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C. M.

and the Saviour's grace proclaim, Ye messengers of God;

Go, publish, thro' Immanuel's name,
Salvation bought with blood.

2 What tho' your arduous track may lie
Thro' regions dark as death;

What tho' your faith and zeal to try,
Perils beset your path:

s Yet, with determin'd courage, go,
And, arm'd with pow'r divine,
Your God will needful aid bestow,
And on your labours shine.

4 He who has call'd you to the war
Will recompense your pains;
Before Messiah's conqu'ring car,
Mountains shall sink to plains.

5 Shrink not tho' earth and hell oppose,
But plead your Master's cause;
Nor doubt that e'en your mighty foes
Shall bow before his cross.

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IGO, ye messengers of God,

Like the beams of morning fly;
Take the wonder-working rod,
Wave the banner cross on high!

2 Go to many a tropic isle
On the bosom of the deep;
Where the skies for ever smile,

And the blacks for ever weep.
3 Where the golden gates of day
Open on the balmy East,
Wide the bleeding cross display,
Spread the gospel's richest feast.

4 Visit ev'ry heathen soil,

Ev'ry barren, burning strand,—
Bid each dreary region smile,
Lovely as the promis'd land.

5 In yon wilds of stream and shade,
Many an Indian wigwam trace;
And with words of love persuade
Savages to sue for grace.

6 Circumnavigate the Ball-
Visit ev'ry soil and sea;

Preach the cross of Christ to all;
Jesus' love is full and free,

546.

L. M.

Missionaries. Dan. ii. 45.

EXERT thy pow'r, thy rights maintain,
Insulted, everlasting King!

The influence of thy crown increase,
And strangers to thy footstool bring.

2 We long to see that happy time,
That dear, expected, blessed day,
When countless myriads of our race
The second Adam shall obey.

3 The prophecies must be fulfill'd,

Tho earth and hell should dare oppose;
The stone cut from the mountain's side,
Tho' unobserv'd, to empire grows.

Soon shall the blended image fall,
Brass, silver, iron, gold, and clay,

And superstition's gloomy reign.
To light and liberty give way.

5 In one sweet symphony of praise,
Gentile and Jew shall then unite;
And infidelity, asham'd,

Sink in th' abyss of endless night.

6 Soon Afric's long enslaved sons
Shall join with Europe's polish'd race,
To celebrate, in diff'rent tongues,
The glories of redeeming grace.

7 From east to west, from north to south,
Immanuel's kingdom shall extend;
And ev'ry man, in ev'ry face,

Shall meet a brother, and a friend.

COMFORT, ye ministers of grace,
Comfort the people of your Lord;

O lift ye up the fallen race,

And cheer them by the gospel word,

2 Go into every nation, go;

Speak to their trembling hearts, and cry, Glad tidings unto all we show:

Jerusalem, thy God is nigh.

3 Hark! in the wilderness a cry,

A voice that loudly calls, prepare!
Prepare your hearts, for God is nigh,

And means to make his entrance there!

4 The Lord your God shall quickly come;
Sinners, repent, the call obey;
Open your hearts to make him room,
Ye desert souls prepare his way.

5 The Lord shall clear his way through all:
Whate'er obstructs, obstructs in vain;
The vale shall rise, the mountain fall,
Crooked be straight, and rugged plain.