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CHRISTIAN EXERCISES.
7 Nor can I willing be
Thy bounty to conceal
From others, who, like me,
Their wants and hunger feel.
I’ll tell them of thy mercy’s store,
And try to send a thousand more.
8 Thv thoughts, thou only wise,
Our thoughts and ways transcend,
Far as the arched skies
Above the earth extend.
Such pleas as mine men would not hear,
But God receives a beggar’s prayer.
387 7, 6.
Lontying for and encouraging others in the way to heaven
1 WHEN shall I see Jesus,
And reign with him above,
And drink the flowing fountain
Of everlasting love ?
When shall I be delivered
From this vain world of sin ?
And with my blessed Jesus
Drink endless pleasures in?
2 But now I am a soldier ;
My Captain’s gone before ;
Has given me my orders,
And tells me not to fear :
For since he’s gained the victory,
It to his own he ’ll give,
And all his valiant soldiers
Eternally shall live.
3 Through grace I feel determined’.
To conquer, though I die,
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