Hew Morrison Collection > Reminiscences of the life and labours of Dugald Buchanan, formerly teacher and evangelist at Rannock, Perthshire

DUGALD BUCHAXAK S SPIRITUAL SOXGS. 18o
obedience true to render, and submission to all the
precepts of His law. All this I truly owe to Him.
He it was that 'neath the dreadful load of all my sins
His back did bend to lay it on. All which He did to
raise my bowed broken spirit up to God. The many
gifts that I enjoy — the man}^ precious benefits I have
cost Him — each one of them— many a piercing pang,
and many a heavy sigh.
Raise my earthly thoughts. To heaven them
elevate. Fix them on heavenly things. Confer on
me the earnest of Thy love — that love which banishes
my fear — that love that with sweet assurance fills my
soul, and gives me comfort, when thinking of the gloom}^
hour of death. Then let ocean's turgid billows roll.
Let heaven's thunder peal along the sky. Let earth
with earthquakes quake and tremble. Come famine, or
come plague that carries death whithersoever it goes.
If Thou shalt be ray God all these in loving friendship
shall remain. Ko pc^wer the fire has to consume-^ —
nor can the ocean swallow^ up — nor can the plague
destroy without permission from Thy throne. While
power almighty with my God remains, from every evil
I'm secure. Nor will 1 fear that ever want I'll have —
or that the fulness of Thy stores shall fail. All my
desires do centre in my God. My will is in subjection
to His word. M}^ fears are subject to Him — all meet
in Him. For heaven, and earth, and hell beneath,
are under His control who is mv Kincr.