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PRAYER FOR DIVINE PROTECTION.

C.M.

1 O GOD of ages, by whose hand
Thy people still are fed;

Who through this weary pilgrimage
Hast all our fathers led!

DODDRIDGE.

2 Our vows, our prayers we now present
Before thy throne of grace;
God of our fathers! be the God
Of their succeeding race.

3 Through each perplexing path of life
Our wandering footsteps guide;
Give us by day our daily bread,
And raiment fit provide.

4 O spread thy covering wings around
Till all our wanderings cease;
And at our Father's loved abode,
Our feet arrive in peace.

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WORK.

1 WORK, for the night is coming!
Work, through the morning hours;
Work, while the dew is sparkling,
Work, 'mid springing flowers:
Work, when the day grows brighter,
Work, in the glowing sun;
Work, for the night is coming,
When man's work is done.

2 Work, for the night is coming;
Work, through the sunny noon;
Fill brightest hours with labour,
Rest comes sure and soon.
Give every flying minute

Something to keep in store;
Work, for the night is coming,
When man works no more.

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THE SOUL IMMORTAL.

P.M.

MONTGOMERY.

1 THERE is a calm for those who weep,
A rest for weary pilgrims found;
And while the mouldering ashes sleep
Low in the ground,

2 The soul, of origin divine,

God's glorious image, freed from clay
In heaven's eternal sphere shall shine,
A star of day!

3 The sun is but a spark of fire,
A transient meteor in the sky;
The soul, immortal as its Sire,
Shall never die!

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3 Keep our haughty passions bound;
Save us from our foes around;
Going out, and coming in.
Keep us safe from every sin.

4 When our work of life is past,
O receive us then at last;

Night and sin will be no more,
When we reach the heavenly shore.

AN EVENING HYMN.

8 & 7s. M.

1 FATHER: breathe an evening blessing
Ere repose our spirits seal ;
Sin and want we come confessing:

Thou canst save and thou canst heal.

2 Though destruction walk around us,
Though the arrow past us fly;
Angel-guards from thee surround us;
We are safe if thou art nigh.

3 Though the night be dark and dreary,
Darkness cannot hide from thee;
Thou art he, who, never weary,
Watches where thy people be.

EDMESTON.

4 Should swift death this night o'ertake us,
And our couch become our tomb,

May the morn in heaven awake us,
Clad in light and deathless bloom.

SOW IN FAITH.

S.M.

1 Sow in the morn thy seed,

At eve hold not thy hand;

MONTGOMERY.

To doubt and fear give thou no heed,
Broad-cast it o'er the land.

2 Beside all waters sow,

The highway furrows stock;

Drop it where thorns and thistles grow,
Scatter it on the rock.

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3 The good, the fruitful ground
Expect not here nor there;
O'er hill and dale, by plots 'tis found:
Go forth, then, everywhere.

4 And duly shall appear,

In verdure, beauty, strength,
The tender blade, the stalk, the ear,
And the full corn at length.

5 Thou canst not toil in vain !
Cold, heat, and moist, and dry,
Shall foster and mature the grain
For garners in the sky.

6 Thence when the glorious end,
The day of God is come,

The angel-reapers shall descend,
And heaven cry-" Harvest home!"

TRUST IN GOD.

8 & 7s. M.

1 GRACIOUS Source of every blessing!
Guard our breasts from anxious fears;
May we still, thy love possessing,
Sink into the vale of years.

2 All our hopes on thee reclining,
Peace, companion of our way;
May our sun, in smiles declining,
Rise in everlasting day.

ESTLIN.

BLANCHARD.

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HUMAN LOVE UNDYING.

1 OUR God is love, and would he doom
The likeness of himself to die?
No! love on earth may bud,-its bloom
Is for the more congenial sky.

2 And breathed from the serener sphere,
Like odours o'er the desert blown,
May not its fragrance reach us here
Who are not yet too earthly grown?

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3 Ye dear departed of our love!
What ministry so fit could be,
Of all the shining ones above,

As theirs who once were such as we?

4 The ways we travel ye have trod,

And where ye dwell our souls are bound;
Sure it is worthy of our God

With such to gird our paths around.

EARNEST PRAYER. C. L. V. RICHMOND.

7s.

1 THE true voice of earnest prayer
Is the earnest work ye do,
For each spirit has a sphere,
Ever keeping truth in view.

2 Pray with spirit, mind, and heart,
Pray with hands, and feet, and will,
That in striving through the dark,
You may pray and labour still.

KRISHNA'S COUNSEL.

16s or L.M.

W. OXLEY.

BHAGAVAT GÍTÁ.

He who by mental power subdues
all things, to which the senses tend,

And sees that all existent things,

are centred in the Life Supreme :

I never vanish from that man,

nor does he disappear from Me:

For Me he sees in all that is,

and all created things in Me.

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NEARER TO THEE.

S. F. ADAMS.

P.M.

1 NEARER, my God, to thee,

Nearer to thee!

E'en though it be a cross

That raiseth me;

Still all my song shall be,—
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee.