2 Amid ten thousand snares we stand, Close of the Year. DODDRIDGE. 1 AWAKE, ye saints, and raise your eyes, 2 On all the wings of time it flies; 3 Not many years their rounds shall run, Ere all its glories stand revealed 4 Ye wheels of nature, speed your course; Fast as ye bring the night of death, 1048. C. M. Close of the Year. DODDRIDGE. 1 REMARK, my soul, the narrow bound How swift the weeks complete their round! 2 So fast eternity comes on, And that important day When all that mortal life hath done God's judgment shall survey. 3 Yet like an idle tale we pass 4 Awake, O God, my careless heart 5 So shall their course more grateful roll, Or this shall bear my waiting soul 1049. 7s. New Year's Day. NEWTON. 1 WHILE, with ceaseless course, the sun Hasted through the former year, Many souls their race have run, Never more to meet us here: They have done with all below: We a little longer wait, But how little none can know. 2 As the winged arrow flies, Speedily the mark to find; 3 Thanks for mercies past receive; Teach us, henceforth, how to live, Bless thy word to old and young; -- 1050. 5s & 12s. C. WESLEY. The new Year. 1 COME, let us anew Roll round with the year, And never stand still till the Master appear; Let us gladly fulfil, And our talents improve By the patience of hope, and the labor of love. 2 Our life is a dream; And the fugitive moment refuses to stay: The moment is gone; Rushes on to our view, and eternity 's near. 3 0 that each, in the day Of his coming, may say, "I have fought my way through; I have finished the work thou didst give me to do;" "Well and faithfully done; Enter into my joy, and sit down on my throne." 1051. L. M. Doddridge. A Song for the opening Year. 1 GREAT God, we sing that mighty hand, 2 By day, by night, at home, abroad, 3 With grateful hearts the past we own; 4 In scenes exalted or depressed, 5 When death shall close our earthly songs, 1052. C. M. HEGINBOTHAM. New Year. Providential Goodness. 1 GOD of our lives, thy various praise 2 To thee shall grateful songs arise, 3 In every scene of life, thy care, 4 Still may thy love, in every scene, And let the same compassion deign 5 If mercy smile, let mercy bring In our affliction we shall sing, 1053. C. M. NEWTON. New Year. Prayer for a Blessing. 1 NOW, gracious Lord, thine arm reveal, 2 From all the guilt of former sin 3 Send down thy Spirit from above, 4 And when before thee we appear, May growing numbers worship here, SHORTNESS OF TIME. 1054. C. M. Brevity and Frailty of Life. 1 HOW short and hasty is our life! 2 Our days run thoughtlessly along, Just like a story, or a song, WATTS. 3 God from on high invites us home; And, ever hastening to the tomb, 4 Draw us, O God, with sovereign grace, That we may end this mortal race, |