S. M.

103.

Doddridge.

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Evening Admonition

THE Swift-declining day,

How fast its moments fly!

While evening's broad and gloomy shade.

Gains on the western sky.

Ye mortals! mark its pace;

And use the hours of light;

And know, your Maker can command

An instantaneous night.

His word blots out the sun

In its meridian blaze,

And cuts from smiling, vigorous youth

The remnant of its days.

On the dark mountain's brow
Your feet shall quickly slide;
And from its airy summit dash
Your momentary pride.

5 Give glory to the Lord,
Who rules the rolling sphere;
Submissive at his footstool bow,
And seek salvation there.

6 Then shall new lustre break

Through horror's darkest gloom, And lead you to unchanging light In a celestial home.

7s. M.

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SPIRIT OF THE PSALMS.

Safety in God. - Morning or Evening.

1 THEY who on the Lord rely
Safely dwell though danger's nigh;
Lo, his sheltering wings are spread
O'er each faithful servant's head.

2 Vain temptation's wily snare;
Christians are Jehovah's care:
Harmless flies the shaft by day,
Or in darkness wings its way.

3 When they wake, or when they sleep,
Angel guards their vigils keep;
Death and danger may be near,
Faith and love have naught to fear.

"Abide with us, for it is toward evening."

1 'Tis gone, that bright and orbed blaze,
Fast fading from our wistful gaze;
Yon mantling cloud has hid from sight
The last faint pulse of quivering light.

2 Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear!
It is not night, if thou be near;
O may no earth-born cloud arise
To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.

3 When the soft dews of kindly sleep
My wearied eyelids gently steep,
Be my last thought, how sweet to rest
For ever on my Saviour's breast.

4 Abide with me from morn till eve,
For without thee I cannot live;
Abide with me when night is nigh,
For without thee I dare not die.

L. M.

106.

An Evening Hymn.

COLLYER.

1 ANOTHER fleeting day is gone!
Slow o'er the west the shadows fly;
Swift the soft-stealing hours have flown,
And night's dark mantle veils the sky.

2 Another fleeting day is gone!
Swept from the records of the year;
And still, with every setting sun,
Life's fading visions disappear.

3 Another fleeting day is gone!
But soon a fairer shall arise ;-
A day, whose never-setting sun
Shall pour his light o'er cloudless skies.

4 Another fleeting day is gone!
In solemn silence rest, my soul,
And bow before His awful throne,
Who bids the morn and evening roll.

C. M.

107.

MONTGOMERY.

Introduction to Evening Worship.

I ON the first Christian Sabbath eve,

When his disciples met

O'er his lost fellowship to grieve,
Nor knew the Scripture yet,

Lo! in their midst his form was seen,
The form in which he died;

Their Master's marred and wounded mien,-
His hands, his feet, his side.

Then were they glad their Lord to know,
And hailed him, yet with fear;-
Jesus, again thy presence show;

Meet thy disciples here.

Be in our midst; let faith rejoice
Our risen Lord to view,

And make our spirits hear thy voice
Say, "Peace be unto you!"

And while with thee, in social hours,
We commune through thy word,
May our hearts burn, and all our powers
Confess, "It is the Lord."

PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING.

L. M.

108.

BROWNE.

Praise to the only true God. Psalm 86.

1 ETERNAL God, almighty Cause

Of earth and seas and worlds unknown;
All things are subject to thy laws;
All things depend on thee alone.

2 Thy glorious being singly stands,
Of all within itself possessed:
Controlled by none are thy commands;
Thou in thyself alone art blessed.

3 Worship to thee alone belongs;
Worship to thee alone we give;

Thine be our hearts, and thine our songs,
And to thy glory may we live.

4 Lord, spread thy name through heathen lands; Their idol deities dethrone;

Subdue the world to thy commands,

And reign, as thou art, God alone.