A New Hymnal for Sunday Schools

1. The world is grown old, and her plea-sures are past; 2. The sun in the heaven is lan-guid and pale; 3. The king on his throne, and the bride in her bower, 4. The world is grown old, but

should we com-plain Who have tried her and know that her promise is vain?

The world is grown old,

and

The

trem-bles for fear; For sor-rows abound, and judgment is near. 2 And the hearts of the na- tions fail them for fear; For the world is grown old, and judgment is near. roses are fad - ed, and tasteless the cheer; For the world is grown old, and judgment is near.

3d and 4th lines for 4th verse only.

4 Our heart is in heav-en, our home is not here, And we look for our crown when judgment is near.

3 The Lord will come: a dreadful form,
With wreath of flame, and robe of storm,
On cherub wings, and wings of wind,
Anointed Judge of human-kind.

4 Can this be he who wont to stray
A pilgrim on the world's highway;
By power opress'd, and mock'd by pride,
O God! is this the Crucified?
5 Go, tyrants, to the rocks complain;
Go, seek the mountain's cleft in vain;
But faith, victorious o'er the tomb,
Shall sing for joy, The Lord is come.

1 THAT day of wrath, that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
What power shall be the sinner's stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?

2 When, shrivelling like a parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll;
When louder yet, and yet more dread,
Swells the high trump that wakes the dead.
3 0! on that day, that dreadful day,
When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away.

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