HYMN 291. L. M. [#]

Eternal Life by Grace.

1 ETERNAL life! how sweet the sound, To sinners who in bondage sigh: Publish the bliss the world around; Echo the joys, ye worlds on high. 2 Eternal life! how will it reign,

When, mounting from this breathless clod, The soul, discharged from sin and pain, Ascends to meet its Father, God!

3 Eternal life! O how refined

The joys, the triumphs how divine,
When we, in body and in mind,
Shall in the Saviour's image shine!

4 Holy and heavenly is the soul,

Where dwells a hope so bright as this;
We wish and long to reach the goal,
And seize the prize of endless bliss.

HYMN 292. H. M. [#]

Salvation of the World.

1 LET earth and heaven agree,
Angels and men be joined,

To celebrate with me

The Saviour of mankind :

To praise the all-redeeming Lamb,
And bless the sound of Jesus' name.

2 Jesus, transporting sound!

The joy of earth and heaven;

No other help is found,

No other name is given,

By which we can salvation have ;
But Jesus came the world to save.

3 0, for a trumpet's voice,
On all the world to call,
To bid their hearts rejoice
In him who died for all!
For all, my Lord was crucified,
For all, for all, my Saviour died!

HYMN 293. C. M. [#]

Faith in the Promise of Salvation.

1 BEGIN, my tongue, some heavenly theme,
And speak some boundless thing;
The mighty works, or mightier name,
Of our eternal King.

2 Tell of his wondrous faithfulness,
And sound his power abroad;
Sing the sweet promise of his grace,
And the performing God.

3 Proclaim salvation from the Lord
For wretched, dying men ;
His hand has writ the sacred word
With an immortal pen.

4 Engraved as in eternal brass,
The mighty promise shines;

Nor can the powers of darkness raze
Those everlasting lines.

HYMN 294. 7s. M. [#]

Salvation by Redeeming Love.

1 Now begin the heavenly theme,
Sing aloud in Jesus' name:
Ye, who his salvation prove,
Triumph in redeeming love.

2 Ye, who see the Father's grace
Beaming in the Saviour's face,
As to Canaan on ye move,
Praise and bless redeeming love.
3 Welcome, all by sin oppressed,
Welcome to his sacred rest :
Nothing brought him from above,
Nothing but redeeming love.

4 When his spirit leads us home,
When we to his glory come,
We shall all the fulness prove
Of our Lord's redeeming love.

5 Hither, then, your music bring,
Strike aloud each cheerful string;
Mortals, join the host above,
Join to praise redeeming love.

HYMN 295. 8 & 7s. M. [#]

God of Salvation.

1 HAIL, the God of our salvation,
Triumph in redeeming love!
Let us all, with exultation,
Imitate the blest above.

2 Light of those whose dreary dwelling Bordered on the shades of death, He hath, by his grace revealing, Scattered all the clouds beneath. 3 Father, Source of all compassion, Pure, unbounded Love thou art; Hail, the God of our salvation, Praise him, every thankful heart! 4 Joyfully on earth adore him,

Till in heaven we take our place; There, enraptured, fall before him, Lost in wonder, love, and praise.

HYMN 296. S. M. [#]

Celestial Grace.

1 RAISE your triumphant songs

To an immortal tune;

Let the wide earth resound the deeds
Celestial grace hath done.

2 Sing how eternal Love

Its brightest Image chose,
And bade him raise our sinful race
From their abyss of woes.

3 Now, sinners, dry your tears;
Let hopeless sorrow cease;
Bow to the sceptre of his love,
And take the offered peace.

4 Lord, we obey thy call;

We lay an humble claim
To the salvation thou hast brought,
And love and praise thy name.

HYMN 297. C. M. [#]

Grace perfected in Glory.

1 How rich thy favours, God of grace!
How various, how divine!
Full as the ocean they are poured,
And bright as heaven they shine.

2 God to eternal glory calls,

And points the wondrous way
To those bright realms of peace and joy,
Where reigns unclouded day.

3 The songs of everlasting years
That mercy shall attend,

Which leads, through sufferings of an hour,
To joys that never end.

HYMN 298. C.M. [#]

Nature and Grace.

1 INDULGENT Father, how divine,
How rich thy bounties are!
Through nature's ample round they shine,
Thy goodness to declare.

2 But in the nobler work of grace
Unbounded mercy smiles,

Reflected from the Saviour's face,
And every fear beguiles.

3 Such wonders, Lord, while we survey,
To thee our thanks shall rise,

When morning ushers in the day,
Or evening veils the skies.