A ROCK FOR A FOUNDATION.

O seek a rock to build on,
My soul! wilt thou not prove
That strong and deep Foundation
Which Earth, nor Hell, can move?

How sweet in yonder River
That Rock beneath my feet,
When every doubt and terror
Shall on my spirit beat!

IX.
A ROCK HIGHER THAN I.

(MEASURE ALTERED.)

I turn when afflicted with grief
To the joy which thy presence bestows;
When my pain is deprived of relief,
And my heart well nigh sinks with its woes:
I cry from the ends of the earth,
Unto Thee, O my God, do I cry,
For help from the flood to come forth
To the Rock that is higher than I.

When foes to assault me unite,
As wild torrents when swollen with rain,
And hide from my spirit thy light,
Deriding my bitterest pain;
I call on the Father of love,
Who for sinners gave Jesus to die,
In mercy my feet to remove
To the Rock that is higher than I.

Amid Jordan's boisterous stream,
When the roar of the tempest is high,
I'll sing of his might to redeem,--
Of the Rock that is higher than I:
I'll triumph o'er death and the grave,
The proud legions of darkness defy--
The foam my firm foot shall just lave
On the Rock that is higher than I.

When far o'er all grief I ascend
To the souls who survive every shock,
Whose path that sweet stream did attend
Which flowed forth from their famed smitten Rock:
With millions who sing grateful lays,
When their anthems encircle the sky,
My voice shall unite in the praise
For the Rock that is higher than I.

X.
"YET THERE IS ROOM."

Cry, faithful messengers of God,
"Behold the great Redeemer's blood;"
Urge unto Him all men to come,
For Jesus saith there yet is room.

Ye naked, poor, oppressed, appear,
Unto Messiah's door draw near:
Obey the call, undoubting come,
For Jesus saith there yet is room.

Who doth on Jesus Christ believe,
That favoured soul shall ever live;
Shall taste below of joys to come,
And Jesus saith there yet is room.

XI.
"IT IS GOOD TO BE HERE."

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