571.

I.

572.

Eden a Prophecy.

ALL before us lies the way;

Give the past unto the wind.

All before us is the day;

Night and darkness are behind.

2. Eden, with its angels bold,

Love, and flowers, and purity,
Is not ancient story told,
But a glowing prophecy.

3. In the spirit's perfect air,

In the passions deep and kind,
In the life that has no care,
Purest Eden we shall find.

4. When the soul to sin hath died,
True and beautiful, and sound,
Then all earth is sanctified,

And our Paradise is found.

75.

Eliza T. Clapp.

I.

The City of God.

N Thee my powers, my treasures, live ;

IN

To Thee my life must tend;

Giving Thyself, Thou all dost give,

O soul-sufficing Friend!

2. And wherefore should I seek above
The City in the sky,

Since firm in faith, and deep in love,
Its broad foundations lie?

3. Since in a life of peace and prayer,
Nor known on earth nor praised,
By humblest toil, by ceaseless care,
Its holy towers are raised.

C.M.

4. Where pain the soul hath purified,
And penitence hath shriven,
And truth is crowned and glorified,

573.

There-only there-is heaven.

Kingdom of our God.

1. COME, kingdom of our God!

Sweet reign of light and love,

Eliza Scudder.

Shed peace, and hope, and joy abroad,

And wisdom from above.

2. Over our spirits first

Extend Thy healing reign;

There raise and quench the sacred thirst

That never pains again.

3. Come, kingdom of our God!

And make the broad earth Thine;
Stretch o'er her lands and isles the rod
That flowers with grace divine.

4. Soon may all tribes be blest

With fruit from Life's glad tree;
And in its shade like brothers rest,
Sons of one family.

S.M.

574.

I.

Heaven is Here.

J. Johns.

8.7.8.7.

HEAVEN is here: where hymns of gladness
Cheer the toiler's rugged way

In this world, where clouds of sadness

Often change to night our day.

2. Heaven is here: where misery lightened Of its heavy load is seen;

Where the face of sorrow brightened

By the deed of love hath been ;—

3. Where the sad, the poor, despairing,
Are uplifted, cheered, and blest :
Where, in others' labours sharing,

We can find our surest rest ;

4. Where we heed the voice of duty,
Tread the path that Jesus trod ;
This is heaven,-its peace, its beauty,
Radiant with the love of God.

BLES

And blest the way the light has shown;

We welcome now the brighter day,

And every faithless fear disown.

2. A tyrant God, the soul's despair,

No more beclouds our earthly lives;
The heavens are wide, and room is there
For every soul that upwards strives.

3. In love to God and love to man

Our simple creed finds ample scope;
Secure in God's unerring plan,

We walk by faith, are saved by hope.

4. Then vanish, spectres of the night,
That once enthralled the darkened soul;
Our watchword be the inward light,
The onward march, the endless goal."

LIFE of ages richly poured,

F. H. Hedge.

Love of God unspent and free,

Flowing in the prophets' word,
And the people's liberty!

7S.

2. Never was to chosen race

That unstinted tide confined:
Thine is every time and place,

Fountain sweet of heart and mind.

3. Breathing in the thinker's creed,
Pulsing in the hero's blood,
Shaping noblest thought and deed,
Still inspiring truth and good.

4. Consecrating heart and song,
Holy book and pilgrim way,
Quelling strife and tyrant wrong,
Widening freedom's sacred sway.

5. Life of ages richly poured,

Love of God unspent and free,

Flow still in the prophets' word,
And the people's liberty!

S. Johnson.

577.

The Descent of God on Man.

S.M.

SEND down Thy truth, O God!

Too long the shadows frown,

Too long the darkened way we've trod :
Thy truth, O Lord, send down!

2. Send down Thy Spirit free,

Till wilderness and town

One temple for Thy worship be:
Thy Spirit, O send down!

3. Send down Thy love, Thy life,
Our lesser lives to crown,

And cleanse them of their hate and strife:
Thy living love send down!

578.

4. Send down Thy peace, O Lord!

Earth's bitter voices drown
In one deep ocean of accord:
Thy peace, O God, send down!

Thy Kingdom Come.

1. FATHER, let Thy kingdom come,

Let it come with living power;

Speak at length the final word,

Usher in the triumph hour.

2. As it came in days of old,

In the deepest hearts of men,
When Thy martyrs died for Thee,
Let it come, O God, again.

3. Tyrant thrones and idol shrines,

E. R. Sill.

Let them from their place be hurled;
Enter on Thy better reign,

Wear the crown of this poor world.

4. O what long, sad years have gone

Since Thy Church was taught this prayer;
O what eyes have watched and wept
For the dawning everywhere.

5. Break, triumphant day of God,

Break at last, our hearts to cheer;
Eager souls and holy songs

"Wait to hail Thy dawning here.

6. Empires, temples, sceptres, thrones,
May they all for God be won;

And, in every human heart,
Father, let Thy kingdom come.

75.

J. P. Hopps.