PSALM CXIX.-Part II.

How shall the young preserve their ways
From all pollution free?

By making still their course of life
With thy commands agree.

With hearty zeal for Thee I seek,
To Thee for succour pray;
O! suffer not my careless steps,
From thy right paths to stray.
Safe in my heart, and closely hid,
Thy word, my treasure, lies;
To succour me with timely aid,
When sinful thoughts arise.
Secur'd by that, my grateful soul
Shall ever bless thy name:
O teach me then by thy just laws
My future life to frame.

Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity.

HYMN LXIII.

O LORD, our God, arise,

The cause of truth maintain;

And wide o'er all the peopled world
Extend her blessed reign.

Thou Prince of Life, arise,

Nor let thy conquests cease: Far spread the glory of thy name, And bless the earth with peace.

Thou Holy Ghost, arise,

Expand thy quickening wing; And o'er a dark and ruined world

Let light and order spring.

All on the earth, arise,

To God the Saviour sing

From shore to shore, from earth to heaven, Let the loud anthem ring.

PSALM XIX.

HEAV'N declares its Maker's glory,
And the firmament his might;
Day to day the wondrous story
Echoes on, and night to night.
All is silence, yet Creation

Knows and hears that voiceless speech, Which, to every tribe and nation,

Doth their Maker's glory teach.

From his chamber bright in Heaven,

So the bridegroom of the earth Gladness by his smile hath given,

And hath woke the morn to mirth. Not less full of life and pleasure

Is God's truth, nor less complete : "Tis more precious than all treasure,— Than the honeycomb more sweet.

It rejoices, heals, and teaches,
Ever holy, just, and good:
To the inmost feeling reaches,
And leads up the heart to God.
Warned by that, thy servant turneth
To the path that leads to bliss ;
Yet who all his faults discerneth?
Cleanse me, if I err in this.

Let not pride be ruler in me,
But deliver, cleanse, forgive:
Thus, corruption quench'd within me,
I shall be upright, and live.

Let

my words and meditation, Ever pleasing in thy sight, Meet with gracious acceptation, My Redeemer, and my might!

Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity.

HYMN LXIV.

O PURIFY my soul from stain,

All tendencies to ill restrain;

My soul with warm devotion fire,
Which may with sighs and groans aspire;
Invigorate me when afraid,

When weak, vouchsafe me heav'nly aid.
Truth sacred in my memory keep,
For sin create contrition deep;
All filial grace in me excite;
Be witness that I walk aright;
Seal pardon for transgressions past;
Support me, when I breathe my last!

HYMN LXV.

GREAT the joy when Christians meet;
Christian fellowship, how sweet,
When (their theme of praise the same)
They exalt Jehovah's name.

Sing we then eternal love,

Such as did the Father move :
He beheld the world undone ;
Loved the world, and gave his Son.

Sing the Son's unbounded love;

How he left the realms above;

Took our nature and our place;

Lived and died to save our race.

Sing we to the Spirit's love;
With our stubborn hearts he strove;
Chased the mists of sin away;
Turned our night to glorious day.
Great the joy, the union sweet,
When the saints in glory meet;
Where the theme is still the same,
Where they praise Jehovah's name.

Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity.

HYMN LXVI.

Lo, He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favour'd sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of his train.

Every eye

Hallelujah, Amen.

shall now behold Him

Robed in dreadful majesty ;

They who set at nought and sold him,

Pierced and nail'd him to the tree.

Hallelujah, Amen.