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DODDRIDGE.

Rof the revolving year:

EMARK, my soul, the narrow bounds

How swift the weeks complete their rounds,
How short the months appear!

2 So fast eternity comes on,

And that important day,
When all that mortal life has done,
God's judgment shall survey.

3 Yet, like an idle tale we spend
The swift-advancing year,
And study artful ways to mend
The speed of its career.

4 Waken, O God, my trifling heart,
Its great concern to see;
That I may act a faithful part,
And give the year to Thee.

5 So shall their course more grateful roll,
If future years arise;
Or this shall bear my happy soul
To joy that never dies.

DAYS OF HUMILIATION.

809 Deut. xl. 10-17. C. M. WREFORD.

1 LORD, while for all mankind we pray,

Of every clime and coast,

O hear us for our native land,

The land we love the most.

2 Our fathers' sepulchres are here,
And here our kindred dwell:

Our children too ;-how should we love
Another land so well?

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3 O guard our shores from every foe,
With peace our borders bless;
With prosperous times our cities crown,
Our fields with plenteousness.

4 Unite us in the sacred love

Of knowledge, truth, and Thee;
And let our hills and valleys shout
The songs of liberty.

5 Here may religion pure and mild,
Upon our Sabbaths smile;
And piety and virtue reign,
And bless our native isle.

6 Lord of the nations, thus to Thee
Our country we commend;
Be Thou her refuge and her trust,
Her everlasting friend.

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Jonah iii. 9. C. M.

ORD, look on all assembled here,
Who in Thy presence stand,

To intercede with vow sincere
For this our sinful land.

2 Oh may we all, with one consent,
Fall low before Thy throne;
With tears the nation's sins lament,
The church's, and our own.

HART.

3 Great God of Hosts, deliverance bring; Guide those who hold the helm ; Support the state, preserve the king, And spare the guilty realm.

4 Or, should the dread decree be past,
And we must feel the rod,

Let faith and patience hold us fast
To our correcting God.

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2 Sam. xxiv. 25. C. M. MONTGOMERY. ET the land mourn through all its

1 coasts,

The king lay by his state,

Princes and rulers at their posts
Awhile sit desolate.

2 Let the whole people, high and low,
Rich, poor, and great and small,
Invoke in fellowship of woe,

The Maker of them all.

3 For God hath summoned from his place Death, in a direr form,

To waken, warn, and scourge our race,
Than earthquake, fire, or storm.

4 Let churches weep within their pale,
And families apart:

Let each in secrecy bewail

The plague of his own heart.

5 So, while the land bemoans its sin,
The pestilence may cease;

And mercy, tempering wrath, bring in
God's saving health and peace.

OPENING PLACES OF WORSHIP.

812 Psalm 1xxxvii. 5. L. M. DODDRIDGE.

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ND will the great eternal God

A on earth establish His abode ?

And will He, from His radiant throne,
Avow our temples for His own?

2 We bring the tribute of our praise,
And sing that condescending grace,
Which to our notes will lend an ear,
And call us, sinful mortals, near.

3 These walls we to Thine honour raise;
Long may they echo with Thy praise!
And Thou, descending, fill the place
With choicest tokens of Thy grace.

4 Here let the great Redeemer reign,
With all the graces of His train ;
While power divine His word attends,
To conquer foes, and cheer His friends.
5 And in the great decisive day,
When God the nations shall survey,
May it before the world appear,
Thousands were born to glory here.

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THOU, who didst the temple fill
With Thy resplendent, awful train,
The glory of Thine Israel still,
Appear in those bright robes again.

2 In us, and round about us, shine:
Here cause us to behold Thy face.
O make this tabernacle Thine;
O sanctify this lowly place.

3 Now send the promised unction down,
And all our waiting hearts inspire:
Lord Jesus, make Thy goings known,
Thy ministers a flame of fire.

4 Work with them, and confirm Thy word To all who worship in this place.

O pour upon us, holy Lord,
Unceasing showers of saving grace.

5 So shall Thy servants' hopes be crowned,
And glory to Thy name be given,
While this Bethesda shall be found
The house of God, the gate of heaven.

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1 Kings viil. 29. L. M. LEEDS SEL. THOU, before whose piercing eye Naked and open all things lie,

Now may our hearts Thy praise confess,
Humbly rejoicing in Thy grace.

2 For ever let Thine eye of love
Upon this house look from above;
And in Thy watchful, gracious care,
O that it may indulgent share.

3 Under Thine eye, long may it stand,
A sacred blessing to the land;

That children's children here may sing
Glory to Jesus, Zion's king.

4 In all the changes here below,
By night or day, it e'er may know,
Still let Thine eye upon it rest,
Of all its joys the first and best.

5 To listening sinners here around
Long may the gospel trumpet sound,
In strongest, sweetest, clearest strains,
"Jesus the Lord for ever reigns."

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THE perfect world by Adam trod,

Was the first temple,-built by God:

His flat laid the corner-stone,

And heaved its pillars one by one.

2 He hung its starry roof on high, The broad illimitable sky:

He spread its pavement, green and bright, And curtained it with morning light.

3 The mountains in their places stood, The sea, the sky,-and "all was good;" And when its first pure praises rang, The morning stars together sang.

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