4 Father! our souls would still abide The Delights of Worship. SWEET is the task, O Lord, SPIRIT OF THE PSALMS To praise thy name, and hear thy word, 2 Sweet, at the dawning hour, 3 And when the night-wind shuts the flower, Sweet, on this day of rest, With those who love and serve thee best, 4 To songs of praise and joy That such may be our blest employ, 1 The Temples of Worship. GREAT is the Lord our God! He makes his churches his abode, 2 These temples of his grace, 3 A refuge in distress, To Zion God is known; 4 Oft have our fathers told, 5 In every new distress, We'll to his house repair; We'll think upon his wondrous grace, L. M. 48. For Faith and Love. FROTHINGHAM 1 O GOD, whose presence glows in all Within, around us, and above! Thy word we bless, thy name we call, 2 That truth be with the heart believed 3 That love its holy influence pour, 4 Send down its angel to our side; 1 Longing for the House of God. LORD of the worlds above, To thine abode With warm desires 2 The sparrow for her young Ty spirit faints, With equal zeal, To rise and dwell Among thy saints. 3 O happy souls that pray Where God appoints to hear! O happy men that pay Their constant service there! They praise thee still; That love the way And happy they To Zion's hill! 4 They go from strength to strength, Through this dark vale of tears, Till each arrives at length, Till each in heaven appears : O glorious seat, When God, our King, Our willing feet! L. M. 50. RAFFLES. The Hour of Prayer. 1 BLEST hour, when mortal man retires 2 Blest hour, when earthly cares resign 3 Blest hour, when God himself draws nigh, And wipe away the mourner's tear. 4 Blest hour! for where the Lord resorts Subjection to the Father of our Spirits. 1 ETERNAL Source of life and thought! Whilst thee, great Parent-mind, we own, 2 Whilst in themselves our souls survey They, wondering, to their Father rise: 3 O may we live before thy face, 1 OUR Father, throned above the sky! 2 With cheerful hope and filial fear, Doth not an earthly parent hear Or mock him with a cake of stone? Our Heavenly Father, how much more 5 Yes, we will ask, and seek, and press For Jesus, in his faithful word, |