51. Driving to port.

1 THOUGH hard the winds are blowing, And loud the billows roar; Full swiftly we are going,

To our dear native shore.

2 The billows breaking o'er us,
The storms that round us swell,
Are aiding to restore us,

To all we loved so well.

3 So sorrow often presses,
Life's mariner along;
Afflictions and distresses,
Are gales and billows strong.

4 The sharper and severer

The storms of life we meet,
The sooner and the nearer
Is Heaven's eternal seat.

5 Come then, afflictions dreary, Sharp sickness pierce my breast; You only bear the weary

More quickly home to rest.

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THE GOSPEL POOL. S. M.

Here at this pool, the poor, The wither'd

52. The Gospel Pool.

2 Here streams of virtue flow,
To heal a sin-sick soul;

To wash the filthy white as snow,
And make the wounded whole.

3 The dumb break forth in praise, The blind their sight receive; The cripple run in wisdom's ways, The dead revive and live.

4 Not bound to case or time,
These waters always move;
Sinners, in every age and clime,
Their vital influence prove.

5 Yet numbers near them lie,
Who meet with no relief;

With life in view they pine and die,
In hopeless unbelief.

6 'Tis strange they will not bathe,
And yet frequent the pool;
But none can have a saving faith,
While love of sin bears rule.

7 Their conscience sin has seal'd,
And stupified their thought;
For were they willing to be heal'd,
The cure would soon be wrought.

8 Dear Savior, interpose,

Their stubborn will constrain ;
Or else to them the waters flow,
And grace is preach'd in vain.

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LOVEST THOU ME. 78.

Hark, my soul, it is the Lord! 'Tis thy

53. "Lovest thou me ?" 7s.

1 Hark, my soul,-it is the Lord! 'Tis thy Savior, hear his word. Jesus speaks, he speaks to thee: Say, poor sinner, lovest thou me?"

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2 "I deliver'd thee when bound,

And when bleeding, heal'd thy wound,
Sought thee wandering, set thee right
Turn'd thy darkness into light.

3 "Can a mother's tender care
Cease towards the child she bare?
Yes, she may forgetful be,
Yet will I remember thee.

4 "Mine is an unchanging love,
Higher than the heights above,
Deeper than the depths beneath,
Free and faithful, strong as death.

5 "Thou shalt see my glory soon,
When the work of faith is done,-
Partner of my throne shalt be:
Say, poor sinner, lovest thou me?'

6 Lord, it is my chief complaint
That my love is still so faint,
Yet I love thee, and adore:
O for grace to love thee more!