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among them being marked with the letter C. We have not limited the number of hymns to the number of tunes, nor to the number that would occupy the page set opposite to the musical arrangement; but to make the selection sufficiently wide and various, we have enlarged the volume by some ninety pages of additional hymns, besides those accompanied with an appropriate melody. For these additional hymns one tune is in every case pointed out as particularly adapted to each, and the page is referred to, so that it can be used or not, at discretion. The volume is commended, trusting in the divine blessing, to churches, households, and Christian hearts.

We take this opportunity to offer our grateful acknowledgments to Mr. Lowell Mason and others, for permission to use their popular and valuable tunes.

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1. FROM all who dwell below the skies,
Let the Creator's praise arise;

Let the Redeemer's name be sung
Through every land, by every tongue.

2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord;
Eternal truth attends thy word:

Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore,
Till suns shall rise and set no more.

Watts.

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1. COME, O my soul, in sacred lays
Attempt thy great Creator's praise;
But O, what tongue can speak his fame!
What verse can reach the lofty theme!
2. Enthroned amid the radiant spheres,
He glory, like a garment, wears;
To form a robe of light divine,
Ten thousand suns around him shine.
3. In all our Maker's grand designs,
Almighty power, with wisdom shines;
His works, through all this wondrous frame,
Declare the glory of his name.

4. Raised on devotion's lofty wing,

Do thou, my soul, his glories sing;

And let his praise employ thy tongue,

Till listening worlds shall join the song. Blacklock.

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1. JEHOVAH reigns; his throne is high;
His robes are light and majesty;

His glory shines with beams so bright,
No mortal can sustain the sight.

2. His terrors keep the world in awe;
His justice guards his holy law;
His love reveals a smiling face;
His truth and justice seal the

grace.

3. Through all his works his wisdom shines,
And baffles Satan's deep designs;
His power is sovereign to fulfill
The noblest counsels of his will.
4. And will this glorious Lord descend
To be my Father and my Friend?
Then let my songs with angels join!
Heaven is secure, if God be mine.

3.

L. M.

Praise for the Gospel.
1. NOW let my soul, eternal King!
To thee its grateful tribute bring;
My knee with humble homage bow;
My tongue perform its solemn vow.
2. All nature sings thy boundless love,
In worlds below, and worlds above;
But, in thy blessed word, I trace
Diviner wonders of thy grace.

3. There what delightful truths I read!
There I behold the Saviour bleed;
His name salutes my listening ear,
Revives my heart, and checks my fear.
4. There Jesus bids my sorrows cease,
And gives my laboring conscience peace;
Raises my grateful passions high,
And points to mansions in the sky.
5. For love like this, O, let my song,
Through endless years, thy praise prolong;
Let distant climes thy name adore,

Watts.

Till time and nature are no more. Heginbotham.

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4.

L. M.

Nature and Scripture compared.

1. THE heavens declare thy glory, Lord,
In every star thy wisdom shines;
But when our eyes behold thy word,
We read thy name in fairer lines.

2. The rolling sun, the changing light,

And nights and days thy power confess;
But the blest volume thou hast writ
Reveals thy justice and thy grace.

3. Sun, moon, and stars convey thy praise
Round the whole earth, and never stand;
So, when thy truth began its race,

It touched and glanced on every land.

4. Nor shall thy spreading gospel rest,

Till through the world thy truth has run;
Till Christ has all the nations blest

That see the light or feel the sun.

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