Idols before his name shall fall,
And Christ our God be Lord of all.

4

Thus every land and clime shall hear The Lord is God, his name revere ; From sin, and death, and darkness rise, And join the concert of the skies.

HYMN 254. S. M.

LONG have the infernal band In bondage held the mind; Darkness and lies spread o'er the land, And made the nations blind.

2

The christian world has lain
In error, sin, and night;

But heav'n's bright sun appears again,
And beams celestial light.

3

Now living waters flow,

To cheer the humble soul; From sea to sea the rivers go, And spread from pole to pole.

4.

Now righteousness shall spring,
And grow on earth again ;

Jesus Jehovah be our King,

And o'er the nations reign.

5

Jesus shall rule alone,

The world shall hear his word;

By one bless'd name shall he be known, The universal Lord.

BEHOLD the God of truth and might,

Jehovah, Jesus, Lord;

Around him beams celestial light,
And be our God ador'd!

2

The Son of man, and God of heav'n,
On clouds he makes his way :
To him are pow'r and glory giv'n,
And boundless is his sway.

3

His holy kingdom is begun,

And will divinely grow;

Nations and lands, from sun to sun,
Their God and Saviour know.

4

People of ev'ry name confess

Jehovah, Jesus, Lord,

Serve him in truth and righteousness,
And glory in his word.

5

His kingdom must for ever stand,
Our God for ever reign :

His church, supported by his hand,
Eternal shall remain.

HYMN 256. L. M.

ESUS, thou Sun of love divine, Thy rays through boundless nature shine; In thee with bright effulgence meet Wisdom and love, and light and heat.

2

Through heaven thy glory is display'd
In one bright day without a shade:

Angels from thee supremely prove
The nameless, endless joys of love.

3

With thee they dwell in fervid light,
Nor feel nor fear the shades of night;
Thy heavenly beams will never fail,
But one eternal day prevail.

4

Be darkness known on earth no more,
But truth display'd from shore to shore;
Till men of every land shall see
Thy glory, Lord, and worship thee.

5

'Tis done the Sun of love appears,
The shades withdraw, the morning clears;
Now love and truth prevails again,
And one eternal day shall reign.

HYMN 257. C. M.

How shall we praise thy dear-lov'd Name?

Our Saviour and our God ;
Fain would we all thy love proclaim,
And sound thy pow'r abroad.

2

But ah! our noblest accents die,
So weak and mean they prove;
In vain our warmest praises try
To speak thy boundless love.

3

So vast the subject, angels' tongues
Can never speak its worth ;

Not all their soul-enchanting songs
Can ever set it forth.

4.

Unfathomable are its deeps,
Its height no angel knows ;

Open this fountain ever keeps,
And unto all it flows.

5

For love is Deity alone,

'Tis heav'n, and all divine ; It beams refulgent from the throne; And will forever shine.

HYMN 258. C. M.

WHEN Jesus shed compassion's tear

O'er Israel's fallen iace, "I will (said he) again appear, And with superior grace."

2

The Jews were faithless, and his word
They treated with disdain :
But faithful is the mighty Lord,
And, lo! he comes again.

3

But not the man of sorrow now,
He bears the cross no more ;

No more sharp thorns disgrace his brow;
But heav'n and earth adore.

4

The mighty God of all appears,
The only God is be;

He comes to dry his Zion's tears,
And set the captive free.

HYMN 259. C. M.

Now blessing, honour, glory, praise
By angel hosts are sung;
The saints below their voices raise,
And join the heav'nly throng.

2

Ador'd be he who comes to bless
The nations with his love;

To shew his truth and righteousness,
And ev'ry cloud remove.

3

Blessed be he who comes to reign
In Zion's happy land :
Jerusalem is built again,

And shall forever stand.

4

No more this kingdom shall decay,
No more the temple fall;
Here Jesus reigns with endless sway,
The King and Lord of all.

HYMN 260. P. M.

WHAT blessings below we daily receive !
There's nothing too great for Jesus to give ;
Ten thousand rich mercies encircle us round,
And we in this desert with goodness are crown'd.

2

Though common our gifts, no less do they prove The Giver is kind and free in his love;

The more they are common, the more may we see How kind to poor sinners Jehovah can be.

3

Our health,strength, and ease, our clothing and food, Jehovah gives these, and all that is good;

The earth, teems with plenty our wants to supply, And millions of cattle to feed us must die.

4

For us must the rain in showers descend,
The vast orbs of light our footsteps attend ;
The sun beams around us in glory by day,'
The moon and stars nightly direct us our way.