"Through many dangers, toils, and snares, Already I have come: 'Twas grace that brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home. "Yes, when this heart and flesh shall fail, And mortal life shall cease, I shall possess, within the veil, A life of joy and peace." A swelling Jordan rolls between-- A timid pilgrim, I; But grace shall order all the scene, And Christ himself be nigh. He shall roll back the foaming wave, Command the channel dry; No sting has death, no victory grave? With Jesus in my eye. "Come, thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of endless praise. "Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung by flaming tongues above; Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon it-- Mount of God's unchanging love. "Here I raise my Ebenezer, Hither by thy help I'm come, And I hope, by thy good pleasure, Safely to arrive at home. "Jesus sought me when a stranger, Wandering from the fold of God; He, to save my soul from danger, Interposed with precious blood. "Oh, to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be: Let that grace, Lord, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to thee. "Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here's my heart, O take and seal it, Seal it from thy courts above." _______________ Eternal God, I bless thy name, The same thy power, thy grace the same; The tokens of thy friendly care Open and crown and close the year. I mid ten thousand dangers stand, Supported by thy gracious hand; And see, when I survey thy ways, Ten thousand monuments of grace. Thus far thine arm has led me on; Thus far I make thy mercy known; And while I tread this desert land, New mercies shall new songs demand. My grateful soul on Jordan's shore Shall raise one sacred pillar more; Then bear, in thy bright courts above, Inscriptions of immortal love. _______________