1 2 4 Evening Admonition. THE Swift-declining day, How fast its moments fly! While evening's broad and gloomy shade Gains on the western sky. Ye mortals! mark its pace; And use the hours of light; And know, your Maker can command An instantaneous night. His word blots out the sun And cuts from smiling, vigorous youth On the dark mountain's brow Your feet shall quickly slide; And from its airy summit dash Your momentary pride. 5 Give glory to the Lord, Who rules the rolling sphere; Submissive at his footstool bow, And seek salvation there. 6 Then shall new lustre break Through horror's darkest gloom, And lead you to unchanging light In a celestial home. 7s. M. 104. SPIRIT OF THE PSALMS. Safety in God. - Morning or Evening. 1 THEY Who on the Lord rely 2 Vain temptation's wily snare ; 3 When they wake, or when they sleep, "Abide with us, for it is toward evening." 1 'T is gone, that bright and orbed blaze, 2 Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear! 3 When the soft dews of kindly sleep Be my 4 Abide with me from morn till eve, L. M. 106. An Evening Hymn. COLLYER. 1 ANOTHER fleeting day is gone! 2 Another fleeting day is gone! 3 Another fleeting day is gone! A day, whose never-setting sun 4 Another fleeting day is gone! C. M. 107. MONTGOMERY. Introduction to Evening Worship. 1 ON the first Christian Sabbath eve, When his disciples met O'er his lost fellowship to grieve, Nor knew the Scripture yet, 2 Lo! in their midst his form was seen, The form in which he died; Their Master's marred and wounded mien,His hands, his feet, his side. 3 Then were they glad their Lord to know, 4 Be in our midst; let faith rejoice And make our spirits hear thy voice 5 And while with thee, in social hours, PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING. L. M. 108. BROWNE. Praise to the only true God. Psalm 86. 1 ETERNAL God, almighty Cause Of earth and seas and worlds unknown; 2 Thy glorious being singly stands, Controlled by none are thy commands; 3 Worship to thee alone belongs; Thine be our hearts, and thine our songs, 4 Lord, spread thy name through heathen lands; Their idol deities dethrone; Subdue the world to thy commands, And reign, as thou art, God alone. |