XXXIX.
THE MIGHTY NAME.
Emmanuel's name
Shall win wider fame,
Through vales and o'er hills it shall sound:
Great Jericho's wall,
Before it shall fall;
The trumpets re-echo around.
XL.
COMING TO ZION.
All tribes and tongues together come,
The scattered Jews and Gentiles, home;
Throughout the host a chorus runs,
Of special praise for Ethiop sons.
Hark, hark! the tide of song,
Rolls onward from the throng:
Soon Zion shall obtain
The purchase of Messiah's pain.
XLI.
"ABIDE WITH US."
Fix a dwelling, Lord, in Goshen--
Shall thine Israel be denied?
From thy shining exaltation,
Deign to bow, and here abide:
Dwell among thy pilgrim people,
Where the tribes to praise Thee come,
Nor depart, Redeemer, from us,
Till the final day of doom.
XLII.
THE HOUSE OF GOD.
In thine abode
Sweet peace and gladness reign;
While left below
My soul would here remain:
Among thy sons
Whom sacred wisdom guides,
Within whose breast
The love of God presides.
Here milk and wine
To cheer the fainting flow,
And living streams
That whiter make than snow.
Unto all men
The wisdom, Lord, be given,
To seek thy house,
And learn the work of heaven.
XLIII.
COMMENCEMENT OF WORSHIP.
He who darts the winged lightning,--
Walks upon the foaming wave,--
Send forth arrows of conviction
Here,--exert his power to save:
Burst the bars of Satan's prison:
Snatch the firebrand from the flame,
Fill the doubting with assurance:
Teach the dumb to sing His name!
XLIV.
ZION ASLEEP.
O that now mine eyes were fountains,
That I night and day might weep,
To see Zion in the desert,
On her journey gone asleep.
In its sin the wide world lying,
Zion halted--sleeping fast:
With thy breath to wake the valley,
Come, eternal Spirit, haste!
Zion, wak
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