5. Bestow on every joyous thrill Thy deeper tones of reverent awe; John Sterling. C.M. 23. I. 24. Inexhaustible Love. THY ceaseless, unexhausted love, Unmerited and free, Delights our evil to remove, And helps our misery. 2. Thy goodness and Thy truth to me, A vast unfathomable sea, Where all our thoughts are drowned. 3. Its streams the whole creation reach, 4. Faithful, O Lord, Thy mercies are, A thousand promises declare 5. Throughout the universe it reigns, And while the truth of God remains, The Manifold Grace of God. 1. THOU Grace divine, encircling all, C. Wesley. C.M. Wherein at last our souls must fall: O Love of God most free. 2. When over dizzy heights we go, 3. And though we turn us from Thy face, Thou hold'st us still in kind embrace : 4. The saddened heart, the restless soul, 5. But not alone Thy care we claim, O Love of God within. 6. And filled and quickened by Thy breath, To rise o'er sin and fear and death; Eliza Scudder. 25. I. God is Wisdom, God is Love. OD is Love: His mercy brightens GOD All the path in which we rove; God is wisdom, God is love. 2. Chance and change are busy ever; 8.7.8.7. 26. But His mercy waneth never: God is wisdom, God is love. }. E'en the hour that darkest seemeth 4. He with earthly cares entwineth Eternal Light. Sir J. Bowring. 1. ETERNAL Light! Eternal Light! How pure the soul must be, 8.6.8.8.6. When, placed within Thy searching sight, 2. The spirits that surround Thy throne, But that is surely theirs alone, 3. O how shall I, whose native sphere 4. There is a way for man to rise 5. These, these prepare us for the sight The sons of ignorance and night Thomas Binney. 27. I. THOU Whom have I but Thee? IOS. Life within my life, than self more dear, 2. Below all depths Thy saving mercy lies," 3. Take part with me against those doubts that rise 4. How can I call Thee, who art always here,— Eliza Scudder. 28. I. I The Unsearchable God. II.IO.II.IO. CANNOT find Thee! still on restless pinion My spirit beats the void where Thou dost dwell: I wander lost through all Thy vast dominion, And shrink beneath Thy light ineffable.. 2. I cannot find Thee! E'en when most adoring Before Thy shrine. I bend in lowliest prayer, Beyond these bounds of thought my thought upsoaring [there! From furthest quest comes back: Thou art not 3. Yet high above the limits of my seeing, And folded far within the inmost heart, 4. I cannot lose Thee! Still in Thee abiding, Eliza Scudder. 29. He is not far from any one of us. C.M. I. 1. THOU, in all Thy might so far, Beyond the range of sun and star, And yet beside us here,― 2. What heart can comprehend Thy name 3. Yet though I know Thee but in part, 4. O sweeter than aught else besides, That like a veil of shadow hides |