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615,616 HYMNS. [PART 1
4 Then, while between our ranks he walks,
And all our state surveys,
His smiles shall with new lustre deck
The people of bis praise.
615.
On opening a new Place.
1 TAEAR Shepherd of thy people hear.
Thy presence now display;
As thou hast giv’n a place for pray’r.
So give us hearts to pray.
2 Show us some token of thy love,
Our fainting hope to raise ;
And pour thy blessings from above,
That we may render praise.
3 Within these walls let holy peace,
And love and concord dwell;
Here give the troubled conscience ease.
The wounded spirit heal.
4 And may the gospel’s joyful sound.
Enforc’d by mighty grace.
Awaken many sinners round.
To come and fill the place.
616.
The same. 1 Kings viii. 27. Psal. cxxxii. 13—16
1 TN sweet exalted strains
The King of glory praise ;
O’er heav’n and earth he reigns
Thro’ everlasting days:
He with a nod the world controls.
Sustains or sinks the distant poles.
2 To earth he bends Iris throne.
His throne of grace divine;