436. L. M. J. TAYLOR. True Length of Life. 1 LIKE shadows gliding o'er the plain, Or clouds that roll successive on, Man's busy generations pass, And while we gaze, their forms are gone. 2 "He lived, he died;" behold the sum, The abstract of the historian's page! Alike in God's all-seeing eye, The infant's day, the patriarch's age. 4 To crowd the narrow span of life We are Pilgrims on the Earth. Ps. 39. 10 LET me, heavenly Lord, extend 2 Our life advancing to its close, While scarce its earliest dawn it knows, 3 O, how thy chastisements impair 4 As when the fretting moths consume 5 God of my fathers! here, as they, A transient guest, thy works admire, 6 O spare me, Lord, awhile, O spare, 438. L. M. SPIRIT OF THE PSALMS. Numbering our Days. Ps. 39. 1 THE term of life assigned to man 2 He walks but in an empty show, To unknown heirs his wealth must flow, And he to dust return again. 3 So let us number, then, our days, That we may know how frail we are; 439. C. M. H. K. WHITE. Journeying through Death to Life. 1 THROUGH Sorrow's night, and danger's path, 2 There, when the turmoil is no more, 3 Our labors done, securely laid The storms of life shall beat. 4 Yet not thus lifeless, thus inane, The vital spark shall lie; For o'er life's wreck that spark shall rise, To seek its kindred sky. 440. S. M. DODDRIDGE. Uncertainty of Life. 1 TO-MORROW, Lord, is thine, 2 The present moment flies, 3 One thing demands our care; Lest, slighted once, the season fair 4 To Jesus may we fly Swift as the morning light, Lest life's young golden beams should die, 441. C. M. MONTGOMERY. Heaven and Earth. 1 WHILE through this changing world we roam, From infancy to age, Heaven is the Christian pilgrim's home, 2 Thither his raptured thought ascends, There his adoring spirit bends, 3 From earth his freed affections rise, 4 Ah! there may we our treasure place, 5 Henceforth our conversation be Protection, Victory, and Deliverance. Ps. 91. 1 YE sons of men, a feeble race, Exposed to every snare, Come, make the Lord your dwelling-place, 2 He'll give his angels charge to keep 4 "My grace shall answer when they call; My power shall help them when they fall, And raise them when they die. 5 Those that on earth my name have known, I'll honor them in heaven; There my salvation shall be shown, 443. S. M. DODDRIDGE. Tracing the Steps of the pious Dead. 1 How swift the torrent rolls, That bears us to the sea! The tide that bears our thoughtless souls |