TERNAL fource of every joy, While as the wheels of nature roll Seasons renew'd and years and days And may we with harmonious tongue ANIMA B ANIMATION. EGIN the high celestial ftrain Ye circling mountains as ye roll Retain it long ye echoing rocks; Bear it ye winds on all your wings And round the wide extended world Take the glad burden of his name, Let harmless thunder roll along And anfwer from the chryftal vault, To every flying strain, Long Long let it warble round the spheres, While we with facred rapture fir'd THE LAST DAY. feal the univerfal doom The Son of Man fhall bow the sky; With all his holy angels come, All nations in that day fhall meet, Ere the righteous judge appear, Purchafed with eternal pains. When When my foul its body leaves When the pit thy foul receives What is all the world to thee? He comes; the heav'nly bridegroom comes, SUNDAY SCHOOLS. LEST be the man whofe lib'ral heart To train the youth in virtue's path, If ought on earth could merit praife, To lead the youth in wifdom's ways The fabbath keep, in virtue's caufe be wife; Hail Hail chriftian fabbath! hail: fince it was on thee, Death loft its fting: the grave its victory. THE SABBATH. HE Lord of fabbath let us praise Who joyful in harmonious lays Thus, Lord, while we remember thee, We bleft and pious grow: On this glad day a brighter fcene By God, th'eternal word, than when He rifes, who mankind hath bought, With grief and pain extreme: 'Twas great to fpeak the world from nought, 'Twas greater to redeem. CHRIST |