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God the Dwelling-Place of his People through all Generations.

1 THOU, Lord, through every changing scene,
Hast to thy saints a refuge been;
Through every age, eternal God,
Their pleasing home, their safe abode.

2 In thee our fathers sought their rest;
In thee our fathers still are blest;
And while the tomb confines their dust,
In thee their souls abide and trust.

3 Lo, we are risen,
a feeble race,
Awhile to fill our fathers' place;
Our helpless state with pity view,
And let us share their refuge too.

4 Through all the thorny paths we trace,
In this uncertain wilderness,

When friends desert, and foes invade,
Revive our heart, and guard our head.

5 So, when this pilgrimage is o'er,
And we must dwell in flesh no more,
To thee our separate souls shall come,
And find in thee a surer home.

6 To thee our infant race we leave;
Them may their fathers' God receive,
That voices yet unformed may raise
Succeeding hymns of humble praise.

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Faith encouraged.

DODDRIDGE.

1 SING to the Lord, who loud proclaims
His various and his saving names;
O, may they not be heard alone,
But by our sure experience known.

2 Let great Jehovah be adored,

The eternal, all-sufficient Lord,

He through the world most high confessed,
By whom 'twas formed, and is possessed.

3 Awake, our noblest powers, to bless
The God of Abram, God of peace;
Now by a dearer title known, -
Father and God of Christ his Son.

4 Through every age his gracious ear
Is open to his servants' prayer;
Nor can one humble soul complain
That it hath sought its God in vain.

5 What unbelieving heart shall dare
In whispers to suggest a fear,

While still he owns his ancient name?
The same his power, his love the same.

6 To thee our souls in faith arise,
To thee we lift expecting eyes,

And boldly through the desert tread,
For God will guard where God shall lead.

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SIR W. SCOTT.

Imploring the constant Presence of God.

1 WHEN Israel, of the Lord beloved,
Out of the land of bondage came,
Her fathers' God before her moved,
An awful guide, in smoke and flame.
2 By day, along the astonished lands
The cloudy pillar glided slow;
By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands
Returned the fiery column's glow.

3 Thus present still, though now unseen,
When brightly shines the prosperous day,
Be thoughts of thee a cloudy screen,
To temper the deceitful ray!

4 And, O, when stoops upon our path,
In shade and storm, the frequent night,
Be thou, long-suffering, slow to wrath,
A burning and a shining light.

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BOOK II.

CHRIST AND CHRISTIANITY.

SECTION I.

(p 153.)

INCIDENTS IN THE HISTORY AND LIFE OF

CHRIST CELEBRATED.

SECTION II.

(p. 199.)

CHRISTIANITY.

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