EVENING. 6s & 5s. 1. See, the light is fading From the western sky; Day, thou art departing, Night is drawing nigh. 6 28 1356. 6s & 5s. 2. Evening winds are breathing Through the forest green, Crimson clouds are wreathing In the sky serene. SUMMER MORNING. 7s, 6s & 8s. 3. See the stars appearing All around so bright, Emblems ever cheering Of eternal light. 1. How beautiful the morning, When summer days are long; O L. MASON. we will rise be times, and hear The wild-bird's happy song-For when the sun pours down his ray, The bird will cease to sing; She'll seek the cool and silent shade, And sit with folded wing. 1357. 7s, 6s & 8s. 1. How beautiful the morning, When summer days are long; For when the sun pours down his ray, She 'll seek the cool and silent shade, 2. Up in the morning early- While pearls of dew adorn the grass, Up in the morning early, And we will bound abroad, And fill our hearts with melody, And raise our songs to God. YOUTH. 7s. Hymn 1358. J. ZUNDEL. 1. Young and hap-py while thou art, Not a fur-row on thy brow, Not a sorrow in thy 2. Life will have its evil years, When its skies are overcast, All the present, thronged with 9:3 24 9: heart, Seek the Lord thy Saviour now. In its freshness bring the flower, While the fears, And with vain re-grets, the past. Let him trem ble, who his heart Brings not dew up on it lies, In the cool and cloudless hour Of the morn-ing sa-cri-fice. in en hour like this, Lest Je-ho-vah say-"Depart, You shall never taste my bliss. Ever lightly, Ev er brightly, Every hour doth joy im- part. 2. Angels standing, where we're wandering, Like the showers on the flowers, 3. Day 's declining, stars are shining, Gleaming through the tranquil night; Eyelids closing, safe reposing, 4. Father! holy, pure and lowly, 1360. Ss & 7s. 2. All this day Thy hand has led us, And we thank Thee for Thy care; Thou hast clothed us, warmed us, fed us, Listen to our evening prayer! 3. May our sins be all forgiven; Bless the friends we love so well; MARY LUNDIE DUNCAN. 1361. 8s & 7s. Cradle Hymn. 1. HUSH, my dear, lie still and slumber, 2. Sleep, my babe, thy food and raiment, Coarse and hard the Saviour lay, 5. Blessed Babe, what glorious features, To receive the heavenly Stranger? How the Jews abused their King; 9. See the kinder shepherds round Him, 10. See the lovely Babe a-dressing, Lovely Infant, how He smiled! 11. Lo, He slumbers in His manger, Where the horned oxen feed- 13. Mayst thou live to know and fear Him, 14. I could give thee thousand kisses, WATTE. SWEET STORY. 11s & 93. 1. I think when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How He 9:5 called little children as lambs to His fold, I should like to have been with them then. 1. Our Father in heaven, We hallow Thy name! May Thy kingdom holy On earth be the same! O give to us daily Our portion of bread, It is from Thy bounty That all must be fed. still might be ! 2. All my nature is un holy, Pride and pas-sion dwell with-in; known to sin. D. C. 1364. 8s & 7s. 1. JESUS Christ, my Lord and Saviour, 2. All my nature is unholy, Pride and passion dwell within; 3. While I'm often vainly trying Some new pleasure to possess, 4. Let me never be forgetful Of His precepts any more: As I've often been before. 5. Help me, by Thy word to measure Every deed and every thought, Thinking it my greatest pleasure There to learn what Thou hast taught. And let nothing ever please us 3. For we know the Lord of glory 4. Let our sins be all forgiven; Make us fear whate'er is wrong; Lead us on our way to heaven, There to sing a nobler song. 1366. 8s & 7s. 1. WHAT a strange and wondrous story, 2. How He left His throne in heaven, 3. Father! let Thy Holy Spirit Glory where He reigns above; 4. There, with saints and angels dwelling, |