299. God heareth a Child's Cry. (7's.) O, MY Saviour, Thou didst heal Humbly unto Thee I pray, Thou canst ease me, though distrest; Thou Thyself wast once a child, If my sickness still should last, Fit me for Thyself above. 300. Be not far from me, O Lord. (C. M.) O LORD, how gracious is thine ear Thou knowest all our troubles here, Thou knowest well how weak and frail Our cottages of clay; If Thou but touch them, lo! they fail, In every faint and painful hour O soft and patient make our mind, DEATH AND AFTER DEATH. I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord even so, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours. 301. Christ hath abolished Death. (7's.) Death's strong grasp no man can flee, Though our bodies still must die, For a while in dust to lie ; Soon shall all creation shake; Christ shall bid our dust awake! Alleluia ! Joyful shall that morning be, All the earth our God shall see ; We shall see as we are seen; Live ye for that glorious day! Alleluia! 302. The Judgment Day. I SAW the dead, small and great, stand before God; And the books were opened: And another book was opened, which is the book of life: And the dead were judged Out of those things which were written in the books, According to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; And death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: And they were judged Every man according to their works. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life Was cast into the lake of fire. Rev. xx. 12, 13, 15. 303. The Heavens shall depart as a Scroll. THE Lord himself Shall descend from heaven with a shout, With the voice of the archangel, And with the trump of God: And the dead in Christ shall rise first : To meet the Lord in the air; And so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.-1 Thess. iv. 16. 304. Life will not wait for us. As the winged arrow flies, As the lightning through the skies Swiftly thus our fleeting days, Thanks for mercies past receive, Bless thy word to young and old, (7's.) 305. Enoch's Prophecy of Judgment Day. BEHOLD, the Lord cometh ! With ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, And to convince all that are ungodly among them Of all their ungodly deeds Which they have ungodly committed, Which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. Jude 14, 15. (C. M.) 306. The Books were opened. AT the Great Day, when you shall stand Before the judgment-seat, With quick and dead on every hand, The eye of God to meet, Then shall the Books be opened wide, Each thought and word and deed. Each idle word, each lie you've told, |