3

'Twas wisdom, pow'r, and love That earth's foundation laid, And to restore the world to God, An off'ring kindly made.

4

Salvation's wond'rous plan
Was wisdom's sure device;
Ere morning stars creation sang,
In elder Paradise.

5

Then praise the gracious Lamb
And justice of the Lord;
Raise high hosannas to his name,
The matchless silken cord.

6

He will our sins destroy,
And all our guilt remove;

And ev'ry ransom'd soul employ,

In hymning songs of love.

20. L. M.

S. STREETER.

All things speak the glory of God. Psalm, xix. 1--5.

THE heav'ns declare thy glory, Lord,
And firmament thy skill displays;
Ten thousand twinkling worlds record
The boundless province of thy grace.

2

Day unto day aloud proclaims
The testimonies of thy word;

And night succeeding night maintains
The order of thy goodness, Lord.

3

Their words thro' all the earth have gone;
From north to south, from east to west,
And all that dwell beneath the sun
Are by their heav'nly lectures blest.
4

The sun, the lucid king of day,
Comes from the chambers of the east,
He chases darkness all away,

And makes a vast creation blest.

5

All nature doth rejoice and sing,
When he performs his glorious race;
Nor, from the most ignoble thing,
Doth he withhold his brightest rays.

6

So shall the Sun of Righteousness,
Who hath with healing beams aris'n;
Each groping child of darkness bless,
With more substantial joys in heav'n.

21. S. M.

The blessings of the sun.

S. STREETER.

Psalm xix. 5, 6:

BEHOLD the brilliant sun,

Like to a bridegroom drest, Come from the curtains of the east,

And shine unto the west!

2

All nature doth rejoice,

At his refulgent rays;

The teeming earth, the fruitful trees,

Attune their voice to praise.

3

Hark! hear the tuneful birds

Begin their morning lay;

The bleating flocks, the lowing herds,
Welcome the king of day.

4

Nor man of nobler form,

Nor creeping things more mean, Doth he refuse to bless and warm, With his enliv'ning beam.

5

So shall God's only Son,
In lucid beams of grace;
Arise with healing in his wings,
And all the nations bless.

6

The woodlands shall rejoice,
The vernal warblers sing;
But melody of praise from man,
Thro' earth, shall louder ring.

22. L. M.

H. BALLOU.

If God governs the natural world, why not the moral ?

IF sun and moon, and stars of light
Are govern'd by Jehovah's might;
If water, air, and earth, and fire,
In truth, fulfil his vast desire;

2

If birds and beasts, of every form,
Fish of the sea, and ev'ry worm;

If days, and months, and years combine,
All to fulfil the Lord's design;

3

If seas, and lands, and clouds, and rain,
And brooks, that water all the plain,
And light and darkness all fulfil
His great decree, his sov'reign will;

4

Shall man, whose breath is nought but air,
His independence loud declare?

That life and death are in his pow'r?
No! Humble be and God adore!

23. P. M.

S. BALLOU.

The Great First Cause.

THE first Almighty Cause,
Who did all things create,
Gave nature all her laws,
Unchangeable as fate:

The Source of life, the Spring of springs,
His praise, all heav'n, and näture sings.

2

Where'er I cast mine eyes,
With raptures I behold,

Below, or in the skies,

Wonders that can't be told! In nature's book, in ev'ry line, His wisdom and perfections shine.

3

On him all worlds depend,
To him all bend the knee :
But none can comprehend
The boundless Deity.

He fills all space, lives ev'ry where,
Sustains the whole, makes all his care.

24. C. M.

S. BALLOU.

The wisdom of God in Creation and Providence.

GOD, by his wisdom, mark'd the way
For all his orbs of light;

The sun to guide the light by day,
The moon and stars by night.

2

To men, to beasts, fish, fowls, and worms,
He is supremely good;

He, tho' he made ten thousand forms,
Supplies them all with food.

3

God, over all his works, has plac'd
His providential care;

Each living thing, of diff'rent taste,

He feeds with diff'rent fare.

He oversees his vast estate,
One purpose to fulfil;

On him shall his creation wait,
And do his holy will.

25. L. M.

S. BALLOU.

The knowledge of God.

THY knowledge, Lord, is most sublime,
Coeval with thy pow'r and might;
All the events of future time,
At first, lay open to thy sight.

2

All knowledge springs from God alone;
So perfect is the Deity,

What was to be, to him was known;
Whatever is, was so to be.

3

His boundless knowledge none can mete,
No angel's eye can search it through;
No strange event his plan defeat;

To him there's nothing old nor new.