Here to our waiting hearts proclaim
The sweetness of thy saving name.
4 Here may we prove the power of pray r
To strengthen faith and sweeten care
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heaven before our eyes.
5 Behold, at thy commanding word,
We stretch the curtain and the cord ;.
Come thou, and fill this wider space,
And bless us with a large increase.
6 Lord, we are few, but thou art near ;
Nor short thine arm, nor deaf thineear;
rend the heavens, come quickly down,
And make a thousand hearts thine own !
45.
The Lord s Day.
1 How welcome to the saints, when press d
With six days noise and care and toil,
Is the returning day of rest,
Which hides them from the world awhile !
2 Now from the throng withdrawn away,
They seem to breathe a difFrent air ;"
Composed and soften d by the day,
All things another aspect wear.
3 How happy if their lot is cast
Where statedly the gospel sounds !
The word is honey to their taste,
Renews their strength, and heals their wounds!
4 Though pinch d with poverty at home,
With sharp afflictions daily fed,
It makes amends, if they can come
To God s own house for heav nly bread!
5 With joy they hasten to the place
Where they their Saviour oft have met ;
And while they feast upon his grace,
Their burdens and their griefs forget.
