Till to those lofty heights we soar,
Where days and years revolve no more.
Rev. Philip Doddridge (1702-1851), 1755. Ab. and alt.
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Help obtained of God.
ACTS xxvi. 22.
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! GREAT God, we sing that mighty hand
By which supported still we stand:
The opening year Thy mercy shows;
Let mercy crown it till it close.

2 By day, by night, at home, abroad,
Still we are guided by our God;
By His incessant bounty fed,
By His unerring counsel led.

3 With grateful hearts the past we own;
The future, all to us unknown,
We to Thy guardian care commit,
And peaceful leave before Thy feet.
4 In scenes exalted or deprest,

Be Thou our joy, and Thou our rest; Thy goodness all our hopes shall raise, Adored through all our changing days.

Rev. Philip Doddridge, 1755. Ab. and alt.

LOWELL MASON (1792-1872), 1832.

The valleys

4 All that spring with bounteous hand
Scatters o'er the smiling land;
All that liberal autumn pours
From her rich o'erflowing stores:

ELLACOMBE. C. M. D.

5 These to Thee, my God, we owe, Source whence all our blessings flow; And for these my soul shall raise Grateful vows and solemn praise.

Mrs. Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743-1825), 1773. Ab. and alt.

St. Gall.

2 His steady counsels change the face
Of the declining year;

He bids the sun cut short his race,
And wintry days appear.
His hoary frost, His fleecy snow,
Descend and clothe the ground;
The liquid streams forbear to flow,
In icy fetters bound.

3 He sends His word and melts the snow, The fields no longer mourn;

He calls the warmer gales to blow,
And bids the spring return.
The changing wind, the flying cloud,
Obey His mighty word:

With songs and honors, sounding loud,
Praise ye the sovereign Lord.

Rev. Isaac Watts (1674-1748), 1719. Ab. ¡

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"The Voice of Praise." Ps. lxvi.