Now, poor sinner, now, lamenting,
Stand and hear thy awful doom
Trumpets call thee;

Stand and hear thy awful doom.

2 Hear the cries he now is venting,
Filled with dread of fiercer pain;
While in anguish thus lamenting,
That be ne'er was born again-
Greatly mourning,

That he ne'er was born again

3 Yonder sits my slighted Savior,
With the marks of dying love;
O, that I had sought his favor,
When I felt his spirit move-
Golden moments,

When I felt his spirit move!

4 Now despisers, look and wonder;
Hope and sinners here must part;
Louder than a peal of thunder,

Hear the dreadful sound, "Depart!"
Lost forever,-

Hear the dreadful sound, "Depart."

WAKE, my soul, to joyful lays,

And sing the great Redeemer's praise

He justly claims a song from me:
His loving kindness, O how free!

Ye saw me ruined by the fall,

Yet loved me, notwithstanding all ;

He saved me from my lost estate
His loving kindness, O how great!

3 Though numerous hosts of mighty foes, Though earth and hell, my way oppose, He safely leads my soul along:

His loving kindness, O how strong?

4 When trouble like a gloomy cloud,
Has gathered thick and thunder'd loud,
He near my soul has always stood:
His loving kindness, O how good!

5 I often feel my sinful heart

Prone from my Jesus to depart;
But though I oft have him forgot,
His loving kindness changes not.

6 Soon shall I pass the gloomy vale;
Soon all my mortal powers must fail,
O, may my last, expiring breath
His loving kindness sing in death.

7 Then let me mount and soar away
To the bright world of endless day,
And sing with rapture and surprise,
His loving kindness in the skies.

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COME

C. M.

1OME, let us use the grace divine,
And all with one accord,

In a perpetual cov'nant, join
Ourselves to Christ the Lord.

2 Give up ourselves through Jesus' power; His name to glorify;

And promise in this sacred hour,
For God to live and die.

3 The cov'nant we this moment make
Be ever kept in mind;

We will no more our God forsake,
Or cast his words behind.

4 We never will throw off his fear,
Who hears our solemn vow;
And if thou art well pleased to hear,
Come down and meet us now!

CARELESS sinner, come,
Pray now attend;

This world is not your home,
It soon will end.

Jehovah calls aloud,

Forsake the thoughtless crowd;
Pursue the road to God,
And happy be.

2 No happiness you'll find,
While thus you go;
No peace unto your mind,
But pain and wo

Attend you every day,

While far from God you stray;
O sinner, come away,

And ever live.

As to refuse that voice,
Which calls you to rejoice,
In making heaven your choice,
And shunning hell?

4 Nor do I call alone;
The Savior too,

E'en with his dying groan,
Cries, bid adieu,

To all your lovers now,
And to his sceptre bow,
And he will tell you how
To live anew.

5 But if you will refuse,

Down, down you'll go,
And with the wicked choose
The road to wo;
Alas, how can you slight
The rays of Gospel light,
And sink in endless night,
Where silence reigns?

LORD, when together here we meet,

And taste thy heavenly grace,

Thy smiles are so divinely sweet,
We're loth to leave the place.

2 But, Father, since it is thy will
That we must part again,

O may thy precious presence still,
With every one remain.

3 And let us all in Christ be one,
Bound with the cords of love;
Till we before thy glorious throne
Shall joyful meet above.

4 All sin and sorrow from each heart
Shall then forever fly;

Nor shall a thought that we must part
Once interrupt our joy.

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HAI

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AIL! thou once despised Jesus,
Hail! thou everlasting king;
Thou didst suffer to redeem us!
Thou didst free salvation bring.
Hail! thou agonizing Savior,
Bearer of our sin and shame!
By thy merits we find favor;
Life is given through thy name.

2 Paschal Lamb, by God appointed,
All our sins on thee were laid;
By almighty love anointed,

Thou hast full atonement made;
All thy people are forgiven,

Through the virtue of thy blood;

Opened is the gate of heaven!

Peace is made 'twixt man and God.

3 Jesus, Hail! enthroned in glory, There forever to abide!