THY KINGDOM COME. JESUS, thy Church with longing eyes For thy expected coming waits; When will the promised light arise, And glory beam from Zion's gates? Even now, when tempests round us fall, And wintry clouds o'ercast the sky, Thy words with pleasure we recall, And deem that our redemption 's nigh. Come, gracious Lord, our hearts renew, Our foes repel, our wrongs redress, Man's rooted enmity subdue, And crown thy gospel with success. Oh, come, and reign o'er every land; Let Satan from his throne be hurled; All nations bow to thy command, And grace revive a dying world! Yes, thou wilt speedily appear! The smitten earth already reels; And not far off we seem to hear The thunder of thy chariot-wheels. Thou art the glorious gift of God, To sinners weary and distressed; The first of all his gifts bestowed, And certain pledge of all the rest. Could I but say, "This gift is mine!" This precious jewel I would keep, 1787. CHRIST'S KINGDOM AND JUDG- WHEN came in flesh the Incarnate Word, When comes the Saviour at the last, Then shall the pure in heart be blest; As mild to meek-eyed love and faith, THOMAS HORNBLOWER GILL is a layman now living in England. He was born in 1819. His hymns are the expression of his religious experience. The following, he says, was written when fresh from the contemplation of the misery and anarchy of Shelley's life. The blessing that has gone with it is wonderful." The Rev. F. M. Bird said of Mr. Gill's hymns: "Wesley, in 1739, was scarcely more an innovator on the then established precedents of hymn-writing than was Mr Gill ten years ago His hymns, though little known now, will, we believe, be well known and widely used hereafter." These stanzas are based upon the following verses from the fifteenth chapter of Second Corinthians: "The second man was the Lord from heaven." "As we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." OH! mean may seem this house of clay, This fleshly robe the Lord did wear; This watch the Lord did keep; This world the Master overcame; He bore our sins, he took our shame, O vale of tears no longer sad, Wherein the Lord did dwell! O happy robe of flesh that clad Our own Emmanuel! Our very frailty brings us near But not this fleshly robe alone We shall be reckoned for thine own 1860. Thou to our woe who down didst come, Thou who wast clothed in our clay O mighty grace, our life to live, Yes, strange the gifts and marvellous THOMAS HORNBLOWER CHL. THE MASTER'S CALL. RISE, said the Master, come unto the feast. Full often to her chamber-door, and oft and soft; But she hath made no answer; and the day From the clear west is fading fast away. HENRY ALFORD, D. D. FOR GRACE TO RETURN. The REV. WILLIAM HILEY BATHURST lives on his paternal estate, Lydney Park, Gloucestershire. He was born Aug. 28, 1796, and was educated at Oxford. He took orders in 1819. His "Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Use" was published in 1830. He has produced " Metrical Musings: or, Thoughts on Sacred Subjects in Verse" (1849), and a translation of the Georgics of Virgil. Oн for a beam of heavenly light Where dwells my Father and my God. JAMES BODEN was a Congregational minister, born at Chester, in the house in which Matthew Henry once lived, April 13, 1757He was one of the founders of the London Missionary Society, and died at Chesterfield, June 4, 1841. Seven hymns by him were contributed to a collection that he edited in 1801, in connection with the Rev. Edward Walliams, D.D. YE dying sons of men, Immerged in sin and woe, No longer now delay, Nor vain excuses frame : Though poor and blind and lame; All things are ready; sinner, come; For every trembling soul there's room. Believe the heavenly word And faithful is his name. Backsliding souls, return and come; Cast off despair, there yet is room. Compelled by bleeding love, Ye wandering sheep, draw near! Christ calls you from above; His charming accents hear! Let whosoever will now come, In mercy's breast there yet is room. JAMES BODEN. 1777. LORD JESUS, GOD AND MAN. INVITATION. COME, says Jesu's sacred voice, Thou who, houseless, sole, forlorn, Long hast borne the proud world's scorn, Ye who, tossed on beds of pain, Ye, by fiercer anguish torn, In strong remorse for guilt who mourn, 1812. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD. LORD JESUS, GOD AND MAN. LORD Jesus, God and man, For love of men a child, The very God, yet born on earth Lord Jesus, God and man, In this our festal day To thee for precious gifts of grace We pray for simple faith, For hope that never faints, On friends around us here, Oh, let thy blessing fall; We pray for grace to love them well, Oh, joy to live for thee! Oh, joy in thee to die! Lord Jesus, God and man, We praise thee and adore, Who art with God the Father one, And Spirit evermore. 609 SIR HENRY WILLIAMS BAKER THOU BRIGHTNESS OF THE FATHER'S RAY. "Splendor Paternæ gloriæ.” SAINT AMBROSE, Bishop of Milan, was born at Treves, Gaul, in the year 340, and died April 3, 397- He is known as the Father of Latin hymnology. Saint Augustine, his spiritual son, speaks with much feeling of him as the introducer into the Western Church of responsive or antiphonal singing and of the singing of psalms Twelve unrhymed, but simple and vigorous hymns of a churchly spirit, are attributed to him, of which are the Te Deum, called the Ambrosian Hymn (p. 465), and others. THOU brightness of the Father's ray, Glide in, thou very Sun divine; Our acts with courage do thou fill : Our spirits, whatsoe'er betide, WORTHY THE LAMB! JAMES ALLEN, a zealous itinerant preacher in connection with the Countess of Huntingdon, was born at Gayle, Yorkshire, June 24, 1734, and died at the same place in 1804. In 1752 he became a Sandemanian, but subsequently preached in a chapel that he built on his estate at Gayle until his death. He was the editor and chief contributor to The Kendall Hymn-Book" (1757, 1761), which contains seventy-one of his productions. His hymn, "Sweet the moments, rich in blessing," was much altered by the Rev. Walter Shirley for the Countess of Huntingdon's collection, and made one of the best. The following is sometimes attributed to Christopher Batty or James Boden, and is usually given with great variation from the original. 1761. GLORY to God on high! All they around the throne To him our hearts we raise,- We praise with one accord, - If we should hold our peace, Join, all the human race, In him we will rejoice, Though we must change our place, Praising his name: To him we'll tribute bring, Laud him our gracious King, JAMES ALLEN. "Je te salue, mon certain Rédempteur !" The REV. D. D. Bannerman is minister of the Free Church at Perth, Scotland The following hymn, together with eleven others mostly translations of Psalms), written in French, was discovered by Felix Bovet, of Neuchatel, in an old Genevese prayer-book, and first published in the sixth volume of the new edition of the works of Calvin by Baum, Cunitz, and Reuss, 1868. It reveals a poetic vein, and a devotional fervor and tenderness, which one would hardly have suspected in the severe logician. I GREET thee, my Redeemer sure, I trust in none but thee, Thou who hast borne such toil and shame Our hearts from cares and cravings vain Thou art the King compassionate, Thou reignest everywhere, Almighty Lord, reign thou in us, Rule all we have and are: Enlighten us and raise to heaven, Amid thy glories there. Thou art the life by which we live; Our stay and strength 's in thee; |