232 PHIL. IV. 6.-" Be careful for nothing."

1 COMMIT thou all thy griefs

And ways into His hands,

To His most sure and tender care
Who earth and Heaven commands;
Who points the clouds their course,
Whom winds and seas obey,--
He shall direct thy wand'ring feet,
He shall prepare thy way.

2 Thou on the Lord rely,

So safe shalt thou go on;
Fix on His word thy stedfast eye,
So shall thy work be done:
No profit canst thou gain

By self-consuming care;

To Him commit thy cause; His ear
Attends the softest prayer.

3 Thy wisdom infinite,

Father, Thy ceaseless love

Sees all Thy children's wants, and knows
What best for each will prove;

And whatso'er Thou will'st

Thou dost, O King of kings;

What thine unerring wisdom chose
Thy power to being brings.

4 Thou everywhere hast way,

And all things serve Thy might,

Thy every act pure blessing is,
Thy path unsullied light:

When Thou arisest, Lord,

What shall Thy word withstand?

When all Thy children want Thou giv'st;

Who, who shall stay Thy hand?

233 PHIL. IV. 6.-" Make your requests known

unto God."

1 GIVE to the winds thy fears,
Hope and be undismay'd;

God hears thy sighs, and counts thy tears,
God shall lift up thy head.

Through waves, and clouds, and storms,
He gently clears the way;

Wait thou His time, so shall this night
Soon end in joyous day.

2 Still heavy is thy heart?

Still sink thy spirits down?
Cast off the weight, let fear depart,
And every care be gone;

What though thou rulest not?

Yet Heav'n, and earth, and hell,
Proclaim God sitteth on the throne,
And ruleth all things well.

3 Leave to His sov'reign sway
To choose and to command,

So shalt thou, wond'ring, own His sway,-
How wise, how strong His hand!

Far, far above thy thought

His counsel shall appear,

When fully He the work hath wrought,
That caus'd thy needless fear.

4 Thou seest our weakness, Lord,
Our hearts are known to Thee;
O, lift thou up the sinking hand,
Confirm the feeble knee:

Let us in life, in death,

Thy stedfast truth declare,

And publish with our latest breath
Thy love and guardian care.

234 COL. I. 20.-"Having made peace through the blood of His cross."

1 THE cross, the cross, O that's my gain!
Because on that the Lamb was slain;
'Twas there my Lord was crucified,
'Twas there my Saviour for me died.

2 See what a deep-dyed red it bears,-
Look how that nail my Saviour tears!
All over stained with blood divine,
There hangs the King from David's line!

3 The stony heart dissolves in tears
When to our view the cross appears;
Christ's dying love, when truly felt,
The vilest, hardest heart doth melt.

4 Here I will stay, and gaze awhile
Upon the friend of sinners vile;
Abased, I view what I have done
To God's eternal, gracious Son.

5 Here I behold, as in a glass,
God's glory with unveiled face;
And, by beholding, I shall be
Made like to Him who loved me,

235 COL. III. 3.-" Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God."

1 WITH Sweet contentment now we bid
Farewell to pleasures here;

With Christ in God our life is hid,
And all its springs are there.

2 'Tis now concealed and lodged secure
In God's eternal Son :

From age to age it shall endure,
Though to the world unknown.

3 Then, Lord, remove whate'er divides
Our lingering souls from Thee;
'Tis fit that where the Head resides
The members too should be.

236

COL. III. 11.-" Christ is all in all."

1 I'VE found the pearl of greatest price,
My heart doth sing with joy;

And sing I must, a Christ I have,
All gold without alloy.

Christ is a Prophet, Priest, and King,—
A Prophet full of light,

A Priest who stands 'twixt God and me,
A King who rules with might.

2 This Christ, He is the Lord of lords,
He is the King of kings,

He is the Sun of Righteousness
With healing in His wings.

Christ is my meat, Christ is my drink,
My med'cine, and my health,

My peace, my strength, my joy, my crown,
My glory, and my wealth.

3 Christ is my Saviour, and my friend,
My brother, yet my Lord,

My head, my hope, my counsellor,
My advocate with God.

My Saviour is the heaven of heaven,
And what shall I Him call?

My Christ is first, my Christ is last,
My Christ is ALL in ALL.

237

ANOTHER OF THE SAME.

1 JESUS is the chiefest good;
He hath sav'd us by His blood;
Let us value nought but Him,
Nothing else deserves esteem.

2 Jesus gives us life and peace,
Faith, and love, and holiness;
Ev'ry blessing, great or small,
Jesus for us purchas'd all.

3 Jesus, therefore, let us own,
Jesus we'll exalt alone;

Jesus has our sins forgiv'n;
Jesus' blood has bought us Heaven.

238 1 THESS. IV. 13.-" Ye sorrow not, even as others that have no hope."

1 MET around the sacred tomb,
Friends of Jesus. why those tears!
'Midst this sad sepulchral gloom
Shall your faith give way to fears!
He will soon, ev'n as He said,
Rise triumphant from the dead.

2 Hidden from all ages past
Was the cross's mystery,
Doubts awhile a veil had cast
O'er that first dear family;
Till they saw Him and believ'd,
And as Lord and God receiv'd.