2 The day glides sweetly o'er their heads, And soft and silent as the shades, 3 Quick as their thoughts their joys come on, But fly not half so swift away! Their souls are ever bright as noon, 4 How oft they look to th' heavenly hills, 292. C. M. TATE & BRADY. The Good happy, the Wicked miserable. 1 How blest is he, who ne'er consents Nor stands in sinners' ways, nor sits 2 But makes the perfect law of God Devoutly reads therein by day, Ps. 1. 3 Like some fair tree, which, fed by streams, With timely fruit does bend, He still shall flourish, and success All his designs attend. 4 Ungodly men, and their attempts, Untimely blasted, and dispersed, 5 For God approves the just man's ways; But sinners, and the paths they tread, 293. C. M. TATE & BRady. Character of a Good Man. Ps. 15. 1 LORD, who's the happy man, that may Not strangerlike, to visit them, 2 'T is he, whose every thought and deed Whose generous tongue disdains to speak 3 Who never did a slander forge, 4 Who vice, in all its pomp and power, And piety, though clothed in rags, 5 Who to his plighted vows and trust And though he promise to his loss, 6 The man who by this steady course Has happiness ensu.ed, When earth's foundations shake, shall stand, By Providence secured. 294. 7s M. MERRICK. The Good Man blessed of God. Ps. 15. 1 WHO shall tow'rd thy chosen seat Turn in glad approach his feet? Who, great God, a welcome guest, On thy hallowed mountain rest? 2 He whose heart thy love has warmed; He whose will, to thine conformed, Bids his life unsullied run; He whose word and thought are one. 3 He who ne'er with cruel aim Seeks to wound an honest fame, 4 Who, from servile terror free, 5 What he swears, with steadfast will Nor can bribes his sentence guide 6 He who thus, with heart unstained, Qualifications of a Christian. 1 WHO shall inhabit in thy hill, O God of holiness? WATTS. Ps. 15. Whom will the Lord admit to dwell 2 The man that walks in pious ways, 3 He speaks the meaning of his heart, 4 The wealthy sinner he contemns, 5 His hands disdain a golden bribe, This man shall dwell with God on earth, 296. L. M. MONTGOMERY. Security and Happiness of the Righteous. Ps. 24. 2 But who shall reach thy holy place, 3 He who to bribes hath closed his hand, Nor sworn in falsehood,—he shall stand 297. C. M. TATE & BRady. The Man whom God approves. Ps. 24. 1 THIS spacious earth is all the Lord's; The world, and all that dwell therein, 2 But for himself, this Lord of all O! who shall to that sacred hill 3 The man whose hands and heart are pure, Whose thoughts from pride are free; Who honest poverty prefers To gainful perjury. 4 This, this is he, on whom the Lord |