5 Our eyes have seen the steps of age 6 Turn, mortal, turn! thy danger know; 7 Turn, Christian, turn! thy soul apply The boundless fields of light on high C. M. 637. Doddridge. Near Approach of Salvation. 1 AWAKE, ye saints, and raise your eyes, 2 On all the wings of time it flies; 3 Not many years their round shall run, Ere all its glories stand revealed 4 Ye wheels of nature, speed your course; Ye mortal powers, decay; Fast as ye bring the night of death, That bears us to the sea! The tide that bears our thoughtless souls To vast eternity! 2 Our fathers, where are they, With all they call their own? 3 4 Their joys and griefs, and hopes and cares, And wealth and honor, gone. God of our fathers! hear; Thou everlasting Friend! While we, as on life's utmost verge, Our souls to thee commend. Of all the pious dead May we the footsteps trace, Till with them, in the land of light, We dwell before thy face. L.M. 639. BARBAULD. Blessedness of the Righteous in Death. 1 How blest the righteous when he dies! 2 So fades a summer cloud away; 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys; And naught disturbs that peace profound, Which his unfettered soul enjoys. 4 Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears, Where lights and shades alternate dwell; How bright the unchanging morn appears! Farewell, inconstant world, farewell! 5 Life's duty done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies, While heaven and earth combine to say, "How blest the righteous when he dies!" "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.” 1 HEAR What the voice from heaven proclaims 2 They sleep in Jesus, and are blessed; 3 Far from this world of toil and strife, 454 L. P. M. 641. WATTS. Life, Death, and Resurrection. 1 Eternal God! how frail is man! 2 But let no murmuring heart complain, 3 Jesus hath made thy purpose known, L. M. 642. MRS. MACKAY. Sleeping in Jesus. 1 ASLEEP in Jesus! blessed sleep! 2 Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest, 3 Asleep in Jesus! time nor space 4 Asleep in Jesus! far from thee From which none ever wakes to weep. 1 O STAY thy tears; for they are blest, 2 How blest are they whose transient years 3 O cheerless were our lengthened way; 4 O stay thy tears; the blest above 456 |