216 Goshen. 11s.

(470) Danger of Delay.

Delay not, delay not; oh, sinner! draw near;

The waters of life are now flowing for thee;

No price is demanded, the Savior is here,

Redemption is purchased, salvation is free.

2 Delay not, delay not; why longer abuse

The love and compassion of Jesus, thy God?

A fountain is opened,--how canst thou refuse

To wash, and be cleansed in his pardoning blood?

3 Delay not, delay not, oh, sinner! to come,

For mercy still lingers and calls thee to-day;

Her voice is not heard in the vale of the tomb,--

Her message, unheeded, will soon pass away.

4 Delay not, delay not; the Spirit of grace,

Long grieved and resisted, may take its sad flight;

And leave thee in darkness to finish thy race,--

To sink in the vale of eternity's night.

Thomas Hastings, 1831.

(477) Divine Sympathy.

There's a wideness in God's mercy,

Like the wideness of the sea;

There's a kindness in his justice,

Which is more than liberty.

REF.--He is calling, "Come to me;"

Lord, I'll gladly haste to thee.

2 There's no place where earthly sorrows

Are more felt than up in heaven;

There's no place where earthly failings

Have such kindly judgment given.

3 For the love of God is broader

Than the measure of man's mind,

And the heart of the Eternal

Is most wonderfully kind.

4 But we make his love too narrow,

By false limits of our own;

And we magnify his strictness

With a zeal he will not own.

5 Pining souls, come nearer Jesus;

Come, but come not doubting thus;

Come with faith that trusts more freely

His great tenderness for us.

6 If our love were but more simple,

We should take him at his word;

And our lives would be all sunshine

In the sweetness of our Lord.

Frederick Faber, ab.