CVII.

FROM EGYPT LATELY COME. (Words and Music by Rev. T. Kelly.)

1. FROM Egypt lately come,

Where death and darkness reign,
We seek a new, a better home,
Where we our rest shall gain.

Chorus{

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

We are on our way to God.

2. To Canaan's sacred bound

We haste with songs of joy;
Where peace and liberty are found,
And sweets that never cloy.

3. There sin and sorrow cease,
And every conflict's o'er ;
There we shall dwell in endless peace,

And never hunger more.

4. What are those distant sounds

That strike our listening ears?
They come from Canaan's happy bounds
Where God our king appears.

5. There in celestial strains

Enraptured myriads sing:

There

There love in

every bosom reigns

For God himself is king.

6. We soon shall join their throng
And all their pleasures share:
And sing the everlasting song
With all the ransom'd there.

CVIII.

LIGHT OF THOSE.
Music, St. Peter's.

1. LIGHT of those whose dreary dwelling

Borders on the shades of death;

Rise on us thyself revealing,

And disperse the clouds beneath.

2. The new heaven and earth's Creator,
In our deepest darkness rise;
Scattering all the night of nature,
Pouring eye-sight on our eyes!

3. Still we wait for thine appearing:
Life and joy thy beams impart,
Chasing all our fears, and cheering
Every poor benighted heart.

CIX.

WHILE WITH CEASELESS

COURSE.

(Newton.)

Music, same as 27th Hymn.

1. WHILE with ceaseless course the sun Hasten'd through the former year,

Many souls their race have run,
Never more to meet us here:
Fix'd in an eternal state

They have done with all below;
We a little longer wait,

But how little none can know.

2. As the winged arrow flies Speedily the mark to find;

As the lightning from the skies

Darts, and leaves no trace behind:

Swiftly thus our fleeting days

Bear us down life's rapid stream;
Upward, Lord, our spirits raise;
All below is but a dream!

3. Thanks for mercies past receive,
Pardon of our sins renew;

Teach us henceforth how to live
With eternity in view:

Bless Thy truth to young and old,
Fill them with their Saviour's love;
So, when life's short tale is told,
May they rest with thee above!

CX.

A HYMN FOR NIGHT.

(Toplady.)

1. WHAT though my frail eye-lids refuse
Continual watching to keep;
And, punctual as midnight renews,
Demand the refreshment of sleep:
A sovereign Protector I have,
Unseen, yet for ever at hand;
Unchangeably faithful to save,
Almighty to rule and command.

2. His minist'ring spirits descend
To watch while defenceless we sleep;
By day and by night they attend,
The heirs of salvation to keep:

Bright seraphs, dispatch'd from the throne, Repair to their stations assign'd; And Angels elect are sent down To guard the elect of mankind. 3. His worship no interval knows; Their fervour is still on the wing: And, while they protect our repose, They chaunt to the praise of their king. I too, at the season ordain'd, Their chorus for ever may join ; And love and adore, without end, Their faithful Creator, and mine.

CXI.

NOW I HAVE FOUND.

1. NOW I have found the blessed ground

Where my sure anchor may remain
The Lamb of God, who for my sin

Was a propitiation slain :

;

Whose mercy shall unshaken stay
When earth and heaven have pass'd away.

2. O love divine, Thou vast abyss,

My crimes are swallow'd up in Thee:

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