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HYMN LX.

THAT great Day of wrath and terror,
That last Day of woe and doom,
Like a thief, that comes at midnight,

On the sons of men shall come:
When the pride and pomp of ages
All shall utterly have past,
And men stand in anguish, owning
That the end is here at last.
Then the King of heavenly glory
Shall assume His throne on high,
And the bands of all His angels
Shall be near Him in the sky.
Brethren, let our loins be girded,
Lives be pure, and hearts be right,
At the coming of the Bridegroom
That our lamps may glitter bright.

HYMN LXI.

DAY of judgment! Day of wonders!
Hark! the trumpet's awful sound,
Louder than ten thousand thunders,

Shakes the vast creation round!

8.7.

P. M.

How the summons Will the sinner's heart confound!

See the Judge our nature wearing,

Clothed in Majesty Divine!

Ye, who long for His appearing,

Then shall say, "This GOD is mine.'

Gracious SAVIOUR, Own us in that day for Thine.

At His call the dead awaken,

Rise to life from earth and sea;

All the powers of nature, shaken,
From His Face prepare to flee.

Careless sinner, What will then become of Thee?

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But to those, who have confessed,
Loved, and served, the Lord below,
He will say, 'Come near, ye blessed,
See the kingdom I bestow;

You for ever Shall my Love and Glory know.'

HYMN LXII.

Lo! He comes, with clouds descending,
Once for favoured sinners slain!
Thousand, thousand, saints, attending,
Swell the triumph of His train!
Hallelujah Hallelujah! Amen!

Every eye shall now behold Him,
Robed in dreadful majesty ;

They, who set at nought and sold Him,
Pierced, and nailed Him to the tree,

P. M.

Deeply wailing, Shall the true Messiah see.

When the summons shall be sounded,
Heaven and earth shall flee away;
All, who hate Him, must, confounded,
Hear the trump proclaim the day;

Come to judgment! Come to judgment !
come away!'

Hail! Redemption, long expected!
See, His solemn pomp to share,
All His saints, by man rejected,
Rise to meet Him in the air!

Hallelujah! See the Day of GOD appear!

Yea, Amen! let all adore Thee,
High on Thy eternal Throne:
SAVIOUR, lo! we bow before Thee-
Take the Kingdom for Thine own!
Hallelujah Hallelujah! Amen!

THE SAVIOUR comes! ye saints, rejoice!
Let earth and heaven unite their voice
To swell the lofty strain:
Proclaim the joyful news abroad;
The Mighty King! the Glorious GOD!
He comes on earth to reign.

High o'er the pomp of worldly state,
On chosen Sion's peaceful seat,
JEHOVAH Sets His throne :

Now shall the lands confess His power,
And all the earth His Name adore,
And serve the LORD alone.

Before the terrors of His Face,
Let mortal man His pride abase,
And every idol fall;

Prostrate be every haughty foe,
The pomp and power of earth lie low,
And GOD be all in all !

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HYMN LXIV.

THE LORD of Might from Sinai's brow
Gave forth His Voice of thunder;
And Israel lay on earth below,

Outstretched in fear and wonder:
Beneath His Feet was pitchy night,
And, at His left Hand and His right,
The rocks were rent asunder.

The LORD of Love on Calvary,
A meek and suffering stranger,
Upraised to Heaven His languid eye,
In nature's hour of danger:
For us He bore that weight of woe;
For us He gave His Blood to flow,
And met His Father's anger.

8.8. 6.

P. M.

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The LORD of Love, the LORD of Might,
The King of all created,

Shall back return to claim His right,
On clouds of glory seated-

With trumpet-sound and angel-song,
And hallelujahs loud and long
O'er death and hell defeated.

HYMN LXV.

GREAT GOD! what do I see and hear!
The end of things created!

The Judge of mankind doth appear,
On clouds of glory seated!

The trumpet sounds-the graves restore
The dead, which they contained before:
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him.

The dead in CHRIST shall first arise
At the last trumpet's sounding-
Caught up to meet Him in the skies,
With joy their Lord surrounding:
No gloomy fears their souls dismay;
His Presence sheds eternal day

On those prepared to meet Him.
But sinners, filled with guilty fears,
Behold His wrath prevailing;
For they shall rise, and find their tears
And sighs are unavailing :
The day of Grace is past and gone;
Trembling, they stand before the Throne,
All unprepared to meet Him.

Great GOD! what do I see and hear!
The end of things created!

The Judge of mankind doth appear,
On clouds of glory seated!
Low at His Cross I'll view the day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
And thus prepare to meet Him.

P. M.

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HYMN LXVI.

L. M.

ERE the blue heavens were stretched abroad,
From everlasting was the WORD:
With GOD He was the WORD was GOD,
And must divinely be adored.

By His own Power were all things made;
By Him supported all things stand;
He is the whole Creation's Head,
And angels fly at His Command.

But lo! He leaves those heavenly forms,
The WORD descends and dwells with clay,
That He may hold converse with worms,
Drest in such feeble flesh as they.
Archangels leave their high abode,
To learn new mysteries here, and tell
The Love of our redeeming GOD,
The glories of IMMANUEL.

WHILE shepherds watched their flocks by night,
All seated on the ground,

The angel of the LORD came down,

And glory shone around.

'Fear not,' said he, (for mighty dread
Had seized their troubled mind,)
'Glad tidings of great joy I bring
To you and all mankind.

To you in David's town this day
Is born, of David's line,

A Saviour, which is CHRIST the Lord,
And this shall be the sign:

The heavenly Babe you there shall find,
To human view displayed,

All meanly wrapt in swaddling bands,
And in a manger laid.'

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