2 The day glides sweetly o'er their heads,
Made up of innocence and love;

And soft and silent as the shades,
Their nightly minutes gently move.

3 Quick as their thoughts their joys come on, But fly not half so swift away!

Their souls are ever bright as noon,
And calm as summer evenings be.

4 How oft they look to th' heavenly hills,
Where groves of living pleasures grow!
And longing hopes and cheerful smiles
Sit undisturbed upon their brow.

292.

C. M.

TATE & BRADY.

The Good happy, the Wicked miserable.

1 How blest is he, who ne'er consents
By ill advice to walk;

Nor stands in sinners' ways, nor sits
Where men profanely talk:

2 But makes the perfect law of God
His business and delight;

Devoutly reads therein by day,
And meditates by night.

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,
No lasting root shall find;

Untimely blasted, and dispersed,
Like chaff before the wind.

5 For God approves the just man's ways;
To happiness they tend;

But sinners, and the paths they tread,
Shall both in ruin end.

293.

C. M.

TATE & BRady.

Character of a Good Man. Ps. 15.

1 LORD, who's the happy man, that may
To thy blest courts repair;

Not strangerlike, to visit them,
But to inhabit there?

2 'T is he, whose every thought and deed
By rules of virtue moves;

Whose generous tongue disdains to speak
The thing his heart disproves.

3 Who never did a slander forge,
His neighbour's fame to wound,
Nor hearken to a false report,
By malice whispered round.

4 Who vice, in all its pomp and power,
Can treat with just neglect;

And piety, though clothed in rags,
Religiously respect.

5 Who to his plighted vows and trust
Has ever firmly stood;

And though he promise to his loss,
He makes his promise good.

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,
Nor with gloomy joy possessed
Can a brother's peace molest.

4 Who, from servile terror free,
Spurns at those who spurn at thee,
And to each who thee obeys
Love and lowliest reverence pays.

5 What he swears, with steadfast will
To his loss he shall fulfil;

Nor can bribes his sentence guide
'Gainst the guiltless to decide.

6 He who thus, with heart unstained,
Treads the path by thee ordained,
He, great God, shall own thy care,
And thy constant blessing share

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
So near his throne of grace?

2 The man that walks in pious ways,
And works with righteous hands,
That trusts his Maker's promises,
And follows his commands.

3 He speaks the meaning of his heart,
Nor slanders with his tongue;
Will scarce believe an ill report,
Nor do his neighbour wrong.

4 The wealthy sinner he contemns,
Loves all that fear the Lord;
And though to his own hurt he swears,
Still he performs his word.

5 His hands disdain a golden bribe,
And never gripe the poor:

This man shall dwell with God on earth,
And find his heaven secure.

296.

L. M.

MONTGOMERY.

Security and Happiness of the Righteous.
1 THE earth is thine, Jehovah; thine
Its peopled realms and wealthy stores;
Built on the floods by power divine,
The waves are ramparts to the shores.

Ps. 24.

2 But who shall reach thy holy place,
Or who, O Lord, ascend thy hill?
The pure in heart shall see thy face,
The perfect man that doth thy will.

3 He who to bribes hath closed his hand,
To idols never bent the knee,

Nor sworn in falsehood,—he shall stand
Redeemed, and owned, and kept by thee.

297.

C. M.

TATE & BRady.

The Man whom God approves. Ps. 24.

1 THIS spacious earth is all the Lord's;
The Lord's her fulness is;

The world, and all that dwell therein,
By sovereign right are his.

2 But for himself, this Lord of all
One chosen seat designed:

O! who shall to that sacred hill
Deserved admittance find?

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
Shall shower his blessings down;
Whom God his Saviour shall vouchsafe
With righteousness to crown.