4 But there's forgiveness, Lord, with thee; Thy nature is benign:

Thy pard'ning mercy I implore,
For mercy, Lord, is thine.

5 O let thy boundless mercy shine
On my benighted soul!

Correct my passions, mend my heart,
And all my fears control.

6 And may I taste thy richer grace,
In that decisive hour

When Christ to judgment shall descend, And time shall be no more.

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H. H. MILMAN.

The last Harvest.

1 THE angel comes; he comes to reap
The harvest of the Lord!

O'er all the earth with fatal sweep
Wide waves his flaming sword.

2 And who are they, in sheaves to bide
The fire of vengeance bound?
The tares, whose rank luxuriant pride
Choked the fair crop around.

3 And who are they, reserved in store
God's treasure-house to fill?

The wheat, a hundred fold that bore
Amid surrounding ill.

4 O King of mercy! grant us power
Thy fiery wrath to flee!

In thy destroying angel's hour,
O gather us to thee!

480.

C. M.

BUTCHER.

The Light of Eternity.

1 "STAND Still, refulgent orb of day!"
The Jewish victor cries:
So shall at last an angel say,
And tear it from the skies.

2 A flame intenser than the sun
Shall melt his golden urn;

Time's empty glass no more shall run,
Nor human years return.

3 Then, with immortal splendor bright,
That glorious orb shall rise,
Which through eternity shall light
The new created skies.

4 On the bright ranks of happy souls
Those blissful beams shall shine;
While the loud song of triumph rolls,
In harmony divine.

5 O let not sordid, base desire,
The soul's dark rayless night,
Unfit us for heaven's sacred choir,
Or God's eternal light!

481.

S. M.

MONTGOMERY.

The Issues of Life and Death.

1 0 WHERE shall rest be found,

Rest for the weary soul?

"T were vain the ocean depths to sound, Or pierce to either pole :

2 The world can never give

The bliss for which we sigh;
'Tis not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.

3 Beyond this vale of tears,
There is a life' above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love :-

4 There is a death, whose pang
Outlasts the fleeting breath;
O what appalling horrors hang
Around the "second death!"

5 Lord God of truth and grace,
Teach us that death to shun,
Lest we be banished from thy face,
And utterly undone.

6 Here would we end our quest;
Aione are found in thee,

The life of perfect love,—the rest
Of immortality.

482.

C. P. M.

C. WESLEY.

Contemplation of Judgment.

1 O God, mine inmost soul convert, And deeply on my thoughtful heart Eternal things impress;

Give me to feel their solemn weight,
And tremble on the brink of fate,
And wake to righteousness.

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2 Before me place, in dread array,
The pomp of that tremendous day,
When thou with clouds shalt come
To judge the nations at thy bar;
And tell me, Lord, shall I be there
To meet a joyful doom?

3 Be this my one great business here,
With serious industry and fear,
Eternal bliss to insure;
Thine utmost counsel to fulfil,
And suffer all thy righteous will,
And to the end endure.

4 Then, Father, then my soul receive, Transported from this vale, to live And reign with thee above; Where faith is sweetly lost in sight, And hope in full supreme delight, And everlasting love.

483.

7s. M.

BP. HEBER.

The Last Judgment.

1 IN the sun and moon and stars

Signs and wonders there shall be;
Earth shall quake with inward wars,
Nations with perplexity.

2 Soon shall ocean's hoary deep,
Tossed with stronger tempests, rise;
Darker storms the mountain sweep,
Redder lightning rend the skies.

3 Evil thoughts shall shake the proud,
Racking doubt and restless fear;
And, amid the thunder-cloud,
Shall the Judge of men appear.

4 But though from that awful face
Heaven shall fade and earth shall fly,
Fear not ye, his chosen race,
Your redemption draweth nigh.

484.

P. M.

LUTHER.

Luther's Judgment Hymn.

1 GREAT God! what do I see and hear!
The end of things created!

The Judge of mankind doth appear
On clouds of glory seated.

The trumpet sounds; the graves restore
The dead which they contained before;-
Prepare, my soul, to meet him!

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