3 Its cheering beams, spread wide abroad,
Point out the wildered Christian's way:
Still, as he goes, he finds the road,
Enlightened with a constant day.
4 Thus, when the eastern wise men brought
Their royal gifts, a star appears—
Directs them to the babe they sought,
And guides their steps, and calms their fears
5 When shall we reach the heavenly place
Where this bright star shall brightest shine?
Leave far behind these scenes of night,
And view a lustre so divine?
1 SONS of men, behold from far,
Hail the long-expected star!
Jacob's star, that gilds the night,
Guiding wildered men aright.
2 Mild it shines on all beneath,
Piercing through the shades of death,
Scattering error's wide-spread night,
Kindling darkness into light.
3 Nations all, remote and near,
Haste to see your Lord appear;
Haste, for him your hearts prepare,
Meet him manifested there!
4 There behold the day-spring rise,
Pouring light on mortal eyes;
See it chase the shades away,
Shining to the perfect day.
The Sun of Righteousness.
1 WHAT heavenly light is that which shines In soft refulgence from the east,
And, pouring splendor through all climes,
Makes every child of sorrow blest?
2 It is the Sun of Righteousness,
The brightness of the great I AM!
In him Jehovah manifests
His mercy, love, and grace to man.
3 God made from darkness light to shine;
And, through the mighty Savior's grace,
Will give the light of life divine
Το every child of Adam's race.
4 Immortal Source of light and life,
In brighter flames of brilliance move,
Till all are turned from sin and strife,
To sing the deathless song of love.
1 My dear Redeemer, and my Lord,
I read my duty in thy word;
But in thy life the law appears
Drawn out in living characters.
2 Such was thy truth, and such thy zeal,
Such deference to thy Father's will,
Such love, and meekness so divine,
I would transcribe, and make them mine.
3 Cold mountains, and the midnight air,
Witnessed the fervor of thy prayer;
The desert thy temptations knew,
Thy conflict, and thy victory too.
4 Be thou my pattern; make me bear
More of thy gracious image here;
Then God, the judge, shall own my name Among the followers of the Lamb.
Imitating Christ in Duties and Sufferings.
1 IN duties and in sufferings too,
Thy path, my Lord, I'd trace;
As thou hast done, so would I do,
Depending on thy grace.
2 Inflamed with zeal, 'twas thy delight
To do thy Father's will;
0 may that zeal my soul excite
Thy precepts to fulfil.
3 Meekness, humility, and love,
Through all thy conduct shine;
O may my whole deportment prove
A copy, Lord, of thine.
1 AND is the gospel peace and love?
So let our conversation be;
The serpent blended with the dove,
Wisdom and meek simplicity.
2 Whene'er the angry passions rise
And tempt our thoughts or tongues to strife, 1 To Jesus let us lift our eyes,
Bright pattern of the Christian life!
30 how benevolent and kind!
How mild, how ready to forgive!
Be this the temper of our mind,
And these the rules by which we live.
4 To do his heavenly Father's will
Was his employment and delight;
Humility and holy zeal
Shone through his life divinely bright
5 Dispensing good where'er he came,
The labors of his life were love:
If then we bear the Savior's name,
By his example let us move.
6 Thy fair example may we trace
To teach us what we ought to be;
Make us, by thy transforming grace,
O Savior, daily more like thee.
Christ our Example in Sufferings.
1 Go to dark Gethsemane,
Ye that feel temptation's power,
Your Redeemer's conflict see,
Watch with him one bitter hour.
Turn not from his griefs away,
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
2 Follow to the judgment-hall,
View the Lord of life arraigned:
O the wormwood and the gall!
O the pangs his soul sustained!
Shun not suffering, shame or loss;
Learn of him to bear the cross.
3 Calvary's mournful mountain climb;
There, admiring at his feet,
Mark that miracle of time,
God's own sacrifice complete :
"It is finished,' hear him cry;
Learn of Jesus Christ to die.
4 Early hasten to the tomb
Where they laid his breathless clay;
All is solitude and gloom;
-Who has taken him away ?
Christ is risen; he meets our eyes-
Savior, teach us so to rise.
Christ's Example in Forgiving.
1 TEACH us to feel as Jesus prayed,
When on the cross he bleeding hung;
When all his foes their wrath displayed,
And with their spite his bosom stung.
2 Till death he loved his foes, and said,
'Father, forgive,'-then groaned and died;
And when arisen from the dead,
His mercy to their souls applied.
3 For such a heart and such a love,
O Lord, we raise our prayer to thee;
O pour thy spirit from above,
That we may like our Savior be.
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