Help obtained of God. New Year.

YREAT God, we sing that mighty
hand,

By which supported still we stand!
The opening year thy mercy news
Let mercy crown it till it close.

e 2 By day, by night, at home, abroad,
Still we are guarded by our God;
By his incessant bounty fed,
By his unerring counsel led.

-3 With grateful hearts the past we own;
The future-all to us unknown,
We to thy guardian care commit,
And peaceful leave before thy feet.

4 In scenes exalted or depress'd,
Be thou our joy, and thou our rest;
Thy goodness all our hopes shall raise,
Ador'd through all our changing days.

e 5 When death shall interrupt our songs,
And seal in silence mortal tongues,
g Our Helper, God, in whom we trust,
In better worlds our souls shall boast.
CASTLE STREET.

e 3 Tho', your young branches torn away,
Like withered trunks ye stand,
With fairer verdure shall ye bloom,
Touch'd by the Almighty's hand.

4 T'll give the mourner," saith the "In my own house a place: [Lord, "No names of daughters and of sons

"Could yield so high a grace.

5 "Transient and vain is every hope
"A rising race can give;
"In endless honour and delight
"My children all shall live.

6 We welcome, Lord, those rising
Thro' which thy face we see; [tears,
And bless those wounds which, thro'
Prepare a way to thee. [our hearts,
CANTERBURY.