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DODDRIDGE.

The Wilderness transformed. Is. xli. 18, 19.

1 AMAZING, beauteous change!
A world created new !

My thoughts with transport range,
The lovely scene to view :
In all I trace.
Savior divine,

The work is thine;
Be thine the praise.

2 See crystal fountains play
Amidst the burning sands;
The river's winding way

Shines through the thirsty lands;
New grass is seen,

And o'er the meads

Its carpet spreads

Of living green.

3 Where pointed brambles grew, Entwined with horrid thorn,

Gay flowers, forever new,

The painted fields adorn;
The blushing rose,
And lily there,

In union fair,

Their sweets disclose.

4 Where the bleak mountain stood,
All bare and disarrayed,

See the wide-branching wood
Diffuse its grateful shade;

Tall cedars nod,

And oaks and pines,
And elms and vines,
Confess the God.

5 The tyrants of the plain
Their savage chase give o'er;
No more they rend the slain,
And thirst for blood no more;
But infant hands

Fierce tigers stroke,
And lions yoke
In flowery bands.

6 O, when, Almighty Lord,
Shall these glad scenes arise,
To verify thy word,

And bless our wondering eyes?
That earth may raise,

With all its tongues,
United songs

Of ardent praise.

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THE HOLY SPIRIT.

SECTION I

(p. 231.)

WHITSUNDAY, OR THE DESCENT OF THE SPIRIT.

SECTION II.
(p. 235.)

THE SCRIPTURES, THE INSPIRED WORD.

SECTION III.
(p. 247.)

DIVINE INFLUENCES AND AIDS DESCRIBED,

SOUGHT, AND CELEBRATED.

SECTION IV.

(p. 268)

"THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT."