3 4 So fresh the dreaming world awoke Before yon sun arose, Stars clustered through the skyBut oh! how dim, how pale, were those To his one burning eye. So truth lent many a ray, To bless the pagan's night But, Lord, how weak, how cold, were they 155 June 3. L. M. 6 lines. Eaton. ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD. "For of him, and through him, and to him are all things; to whom be glory for ever."-Rom. xi. 36. 1 THOU art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see; Are but reflections caught from thee; 3 When night, with wings of starry gloom, 4 When youthful spring around us breathes, 156 June 4. 7s. INVITATIONS OF JESUS. Nuremburg. "Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear and your soul shall live."Isa. lv. 3. 1 COME! said Jesus' sacred voice, Come, and make my paths your choice: I will guide you to your home Weary pilgrim! hither come. 2 Thou hast long withstood his grace; 3 Yet how great his mercies are! 4 Oh! then come-for here is found 157 June 5. C. M. Coronation. THE JOYFUL REIGN OF CHRIST. "With righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity."-Ps. xcviii. 9. 1 JOY Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth,-the Saviour reigns; Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains Repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, He comes to make his blessings flow, 4 He rules the world with truth and grace, 158 June 6. C. M. Arlington. THE SPIRIT'S INFLUENCE INVOKED. "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever."-John xiv. 16. 1 YREAT Father of each perfect gift! G Behold thy children wait; With longing eyes, and lifted hands, 2 Oh, shed abroad that choicest gift,- To bless our eyes with sacred light, 3 Oh, be thy sacred law fulfilled 4 Blest earnest of eternal joy! 159 June 7. H. M. SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL. Lenox. "I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."-Ps. ii. 8. 1 ZION, tune thy voice, And raise thy hands on high; Tell all the earth thy joys, And boast salvation nigh. Cheerful in God, arise and shine, While rays divine stream all abroad. 2 He gilds thy mourning face With beams that cannot fade; His all-resplendent grace 3 4 He pours around thy head; The nations round thy form shall view, In honor to his name, Reflect that sacred light; And loud that grace proclaim, Which makes thy darkness bright: There on his holy hill A brighter sun shall rise, Those fairer, purer skies: While round his throne, ten thousand stars, 160 June 8. C. M. Jordan. GOD'S AID IMPLORED. "O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes: then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments."-Ps. cxix. 5, 6. PERPETUAL Source of light and grace, 2 Yet, oh, what poor returns we pay! Those vows as false as morning's cloud, 3 As by thy power the morning sun Brightens, each moment, in his course, 4 So thou, O God, on this new morn To bear our feeble footsteps on In all thy righteous ways. 5 Armed with this energy divine, Our souls shall steadfast move, And with increasing transports press On to thy courts above. 161 June 9. L. M. Duke Street. THE JOY IN WORSHIPPING GOD. "The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly."-Ps. lxxxiv. 11. 1 GREAT God, attend while here we sing 2 God is our Sun, he makes our day; 3 All needful grace will God bestow, 4 Then let us walk with growing strength, And join in nobler worship there. 162 June 10. C. M. VIRTUE. Warwick. "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue."-2 Pet. i. 3. 1 THE dove, let loose in Eastern skies, When hastening fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies 2 But high she shoots through air and light, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, |