1 Who yet to suppliant dust art nigh, 2 Oh, guide me down the steep of age, 3 My flying years time urges on, My friends, my young companions, gone, 4 Ah! No-then sooth the mortal hour, HYMN 551. C. M. Public Fast. Joel i. 14. STEELE. SEE, gracious Lord, before thy throne, Thy mourning people bend! "Tis on thy sov'reign grace alone, Our humble hopes depend. 2 Tremendous judgments, from thy hand, Yet mercy spares this guilty land, et w chang'd, alas! are truths divine, r error, guilt, and shame! Wempious numbers, bold in sin, ce the Christian name. 40% And 40 turn us, turn us, mighty Lord, Then shall our hearts obey thy word, 5 Then, should insulting foes invade, HYMN 552. C. M. NEWTON. Afflictions needful. Heb. xii. 5—11. 1 BREAK thro' the clouds, dear Lord, and shine, Let us perceive thee nigh! And to each mourning child of thine, 2"Let not my children slight the stroke Nor faint beneath my kind rebuke, 3 "The wicked I perhaps may leave But all the children I receive, 4 "I see your hearts at present fill'd HYMN 553. L. M. ONG unafflicted, undismay'd, In pleasure's path, secure I stray'd; 2 What tho' it pierc'd my fainting heart- 3 Oh, hadst thou left me unchastis'd, HYMN 554. C. M. 17 HY should the Christian waste in sighs The breath that God hath giv'n; Whom ev'ry passing hour that flies 2 Why should he wish for perfect bliss, Or seek, amidst the wilderness, Our Father God! be ours the grief, We et let us share in their relief, Ant HYMN 555. C. M. ERE once our vain desires subdu'd, In ev'ry scene we should conclude 2 Lord, we expect to suffer here, 1 W TOPLADY. Affliction sweetened. Ps. civ. 34. 2 Sweet to look inward, and attend 3 Sweet to reflect, how grace divine Sweet to remember that his blood 4 Sweet on his faithfulness to rest, 5 Sweet, in the confidence of faith, 6 If such the sweetness of the streams, HYMN 557. C. M. Joy in sorrow. 1 AND let this feeble body fail, And let it faint or die; 2 Shall join the disembody'd saints, 3 In hope of that immortal crown, 4 I travel my appointed years, And wipe away his servant's tears, |