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3 Creation's mighty fabric all
Shall be to atoms riven,-

The skies consume, the planets fall,
Convulsions rock this earthly ball;-

There's nothing firm but heaven.

4 A stranger, lonely here I roam,

From place to place am driven;
My friends are gone, and I'm in gloom,
This earth is all a dismal tomb;-

I have no home but heaven.

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Triumphant grace hath quelled my fears
Roll on, thou sun! fly swift, my years!
I'm on my way to heaven.

HYMN 689, C. M.

Heaven in Prospect.

1 ON Jordan's stormy banks I stand,

And cast a wishful eye

To Canaan's fair and happy land,
Where my possessions lie.

mf 2 Oh! the transporting, rapturous scene,
That rises to my sight!

Sweet fields, arrayed in living green,
And rivers of delight!

mƒ 3 O'er all those wide-extended plains,
Shines one eternal day;

There, God, the Son, for ever reigns,
And scatters night away.

4 No chilling winds, no pois'nous breath,
Can reach that healthful shore;
Sickness and sorrow, pain and death,
Are felt and feared no more.

5 When shall I reach that happy place,
And be for ever blest?

When shall I see my Father's face,
And in his bosom rest?

6 Filled with delight, my raptured soul

Would here no longer stay;

"Though Jordan's waves should round me roll,Fearless I'd launch away.

HYMN 690, 8s and 7s.

The Christian's Flight to Heaven.
HAT is life? 't is but a vapor;
Soon it vanishes away;

WHAT

Life is but a dying taper;

O my soul! why wish to stay!
Why not spread thy wings, and fly
Straight to yonder world of joy?

f" 2 See that glory-how resplendent!
Brighter far than fancy paints;
There, in majesty transcendent,

Jesus reigns-the King of saints :—
Spread thy wings, my soul! and fly
Straight to yonder world of joy.

3 Joyful crowds, his throne surrounding,
Sing with rapture of his love;

Through the heavens his praises sounding,
Filling all the courts above:

Spread thy wings, my soul! and fly
Straight to yonder world of joy.

4 Go, and share his people's glory,

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Mid the ransomed crowd appear;-
Thine a joyful, wondrous story,
One that angels love to hear:
Spread thy wings, my soul! and fly
Straight to yonder world of joy.

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HYMN 691, C. M.

The blessed Society in Heaven.

AISE thee, my soul! fly up, and run
Through every heavenly street;

And say,--there 's nought below the sun,
That's worthy of thy feet.

2 There, on a high majestic throne,
Th' almighty Father reigns;

And sheds his glorious goodness down,
On all the blissful plains.

3 Bright, like the sun, the Saviour sits,
And spreads eternal noon :

No evenings there, nor gloomy nights,
To want the feeble moon.

mf 4 Amid those ever-shining skies,
Behold the sacred Dove!

While, banished sin, with sorrow, flies
From all the realms of love.

5 The glorious tenants of the place
Stand bending round the throne;
And saints and seraphs sing, and praise.
The infinite Three-One.

6 Jesus!-and when shall that dear day,
That joyful hour, appear,

When I shall leave this house of clay,
To dwell among them there!

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HYMN 692, C. M.

The everlasting Song.

ARTH has engrossed my love too long;
'Tis time, I lift mine eyes

Upward, dear Father! to thy throne,
And to my native skies.

2 There, the blest man, my Saviour, sits;-
The God!-how bright he shines!
And scatters infinite delights

On all the happy minds.

3 Seraphs, with elevated strains,
Circle the throne around;

And move and charm the starry plains,
With an immortal sound.

4 Jesus, the Lord, their harps employs,-
Jesus, my love, they sing!

Jesus, the life of all our joys,

Sounds sweet from every string.

5 Now let me mount, and join their song,
And be an angel too;

My heart! my hand! my ear! my tongue!
Here's joyful work for you.

6 I would begin the music here,

And so my soul should rise;

Oh! for some heavenly notes to bear
My passions to the skies!

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HYMN 693, C. M.

Victory through the Lamb.

IVE me the wings of faith, to rise
U Within the veil, and see

The saints above,-how great their joys,-
How bright their glories be.

2 I ask them,—whence their vict'ry came?
They, with united breath,

Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,-
Their triumph to his death.

3 They marked the footsteps he had trod;
His zeal inspired their breast;

And foll'wing their incarnate God,
Possess the promised rest.

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For his own pattern given,-

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While the long cloud of witnesses
Show the same path to heaven.

HYMN 694, C. M.

The Worship of Earth and Heaven.
'ATHER! I long, I faint, to see
The place of thine abode;

I'd leave thine earthly courts, and flee
Up to thy seat, my God!

2 Here I behold thy distant face,
And 't is a pleasing sight;

But, to abide in thine embrace
Is infinite delight.

3 I'd part with all the joys of sense,
To gaze upon thy throne;

Pleasure springs fresh for ever thence,
Unspeakable, unknown.

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In shining ranks they move;
And drink immortal vigor in,

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With wonder and with love.

5 Then at thy feet, with awful fear,
Th' adoring armies fall;

With joy they shrink to nothing there,
Before th' eternal All.

6 Father! I long, I faint to see
The place of thine abode;

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I'd leave thine earthly courts to be
For ever with my God.

HYMN 695, 11s.

Longing for Heaven.

1 I WOULD not live always; I ask not to stay,

Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the

way;

The few lucid mornings, that dawn on us here, Are followed by gloom, and beclouded with fear. 2 I would not live always; no,-welcome the tomb;

Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom;
There, sweet be my rest, till he bid me arise,
To hail him in triumph descending the skies.
3 Who-who would live always, away from his

God;

Away from yon heaven, that blissful abode,
Where the rivers of pleasure flow o'er the bright

plains,

And the noontide of glory eternally reigns?

4 There saints of all ages in harmony meet,
Their Saviour and brethren transported to greet;
While anthems of rapture unceasingly roll,
And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul.

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HYMN 696, C. M.

The Martyrs glorified.

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Whence all their white array?

How came they to the happy seats
Of everlasting day?"

2 From torturing pains to endless joys,

On fiery wheels they rode;

And strangely washed their raiment white,
In Jesus' dying blood.

3 Now they approach a spotless God,

And bow before his throne;

Their warbling harps, and sacred songs,
Adore the Holy One.