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CHRISTIAN EXERCISES.
How dark, how mournful are my days,
If thy enlivening beams depart?
2 Scarce through the shades a glimpse of day
Appears to these desiring eyes ;
But shall my drooping spirit say,
The cheerful morn shall never rise 1
3 O let me not despairing mourn,
Though gloomy darkness spreads the sky:
My glorious Sun will yet return,
And night with all its horrors, fly.
4 O for the bright, the joyful day,
When hope shall in fruition die ;
So tapers lose their feeble ray,
Beneath the sun’s refulgent eye.
372 S. M.
Desiring to be found ready.
1 DREPARE me, gracious God,
F To stand before thy face ;
Thy Spirit must the work perform,
For it is all of grace.
2 In Christ’s obedience clothe,
And wash me in his blood ;
So shall I lift my head with joy
Among tne sons of God.
3 Do thou my sins subdue,
Thy sovereign love make known,
The Spirit of my mind renew,
And save me in thy Son.
4 L,et me attest thy power,
Let me thy goodness prove,
Till my full soul can hold no more
Of everlasting love.
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