GRACE ABOUNDING.
The Lord's dispensational dealings in grace with his people, with the CHURCH OF Goo, in the first place—with ISRAEL next, and then with the GENTILES, all in their true order, are shown in these lines.—
THROUGH Israel's land, the Lord Of all
A homeless wanderer past,
Then closed his life of sorrow here,
On Calvary, at last.
O Zion! when thy Savior came
In grace and love to thee,
No beauty in thy royal Lord
Thy faithless eye could see.
Yet onward in his path of grace,
The holy sufferer went,
To feel, at last, that love on thee
Had all in vain been spent.
Yet not in vain—o'er Israel's land
The glory yet will shine;
And he, thy once rejected King,
Messiah, shall be thine.
His chosen Bride, ordain'd with him
To reign o'er all the earth,
Shall first be framed, ere thou shalt know
Thy Savior's matchless worth.
Then thou, beneath the peaceful reign
Of Jesus and his Bride,
Shalt sound his grace and glory forth,
To all the earth beside.
The nations to thy glorious light,
O Zion, yet shall throng,
And all the list'ning islands wait
To catch the joyful song.
The name of Jesus yet shall ring
Through earth and heaven above,
And all his ransom'd people know
The Sabbath of his love.