INVOCATION OF THE ALMIGHTY.

HOLY, holy, holy Lord!

Thy guiding heavenly Grace afford,

To know the leadings of Thy Word,
That bear me safely up to God.

Oh thus, Almighty Saviour, guide me,
And in the secret of Thy Presence hide me!
Lord God of such Redeeming Power,

Be with me in my dying hour.

Thy guiding shining grace afford,
To know the footsteps of my Lord,
My once lost nature to restore;
Thy Promise Infinite, divine,
How glorious doth its radiance shine,
Each word a diamond of God's mine!
And the dear likeness of God's Son,

A daily heaven in me begun!

Be with me thus, O God of Love!
Send Thy good Spirit from above;
My daily wanderings forgive,

My ruined nature to restore,

From Thee and heaven to part no more,

And so Thy pardoning grace receive,

The Faith for Him alone to live,
Who for my soul His life did give!
Oh, what a world if guilt and grief,
The work of sin, were dead,

And all but Love in human hearts.

From God's remembrance fled!
Oh, what a world where Sun and Moon
Had no more need to shine,
Because all being lives and moves
By breath of Love Divine!
Oh, what a world if I were there
Among its sons to dwell!

Oh, what a world if Thou be there
Whom I have loved so well!

And what a world if some were there
Whom I on earth had known,
And sought to lead in earnest prayer
Before Jehovah's throne!

To whom on earth, in humble faith,
My Saviour's words expressed,

Had taught some trembling heart upon
His dying love to rest!

His blissful words from Heaven revealed,

"In Paradise with Me,"

Wide opening thus the gates unsealed

Of blest Eternity!

O blest Eternity revealed!

O work of grace to sinners given,

From earth transported thus to Heaven!

Lord, sanctify me by Thy grace,
Till I in Heaven behold Thy face.

Oh, who can chant such ecstasy,
Such joy through all Eternity,
Of gratitude each soul unfolding,
God's Paradise of Love upholding;
A Paradise that ne'er began,
But through the wickedness of man
Rejecting God's Eternal Plan!

O Mystery of Iniquity,

That endless ages cannot scan! But oh the glorious Grace that rises. In the soul of Fallen Man!

Oh, the overwhelming prizes

Of the Life that thus began!
Sweetest thoughts in loveliest language,

Colors drawn from sunset skies,
Always blending, never ceasing,
Fill the soul with glad surprise;
Prisms newly formed, unfolding
All the scenes of Paradise,
Man's first sin, and first forgiving;
Angels, gratefully beholding
New-created Planets rise;
Comets their career unfolding

Where the forked lightning flies;

And God's thunder-peals, resounding,

Shake the Universe around,

With sublimest peals of sound, Echoing through Eternal Ages. Filling Angels with surprise, Through new-created azure skies, Universes that arise;

Defying all created Plan,

One attribute of God to scan,
But only Love to guilty man.

FEAR NOTHING, O TRUE BELIEVER!

GOD of grace and mercy, hear me!

Thy words in darkest midnight cheer me;

All evils fly when Thou art near me.

Thine is the Heaven in which I learn

The thoughts that breathe, the words that burn;
The light by which my soul doth live,
And all its faculties receive;

The endless blessings Thou dost give.

Thou art the Life of all delight;
The mysteries of Heaven are Thine,
Supreme, Eternal, and Divine.

All joys creation can believe

Doth Thine all-blissful Presence give;

Eternity of being Thine,

Without beginning or decline,

Who can such mysteries divine,

By which such boundless glories shine,
Vast and Eternal their Design?

O God of Mercy! make them mine;
Omniscient and Almighty Power,