#50The Law of God

WHEN God confirmed his law to men, To Israel's waiting flock, He spoke aloud his precepts ten, And graved them in the rock.

Within the Tent's most holy place The law of God was laid; Within the sacred Ark's embrace It was deposited.

But God well knew, perdition's son Would ne'er his precepts love; He gave a duplicate alone, And kept his own above.

There in the Tabernacle true, Pitched not by hands of men, The sacred law is kept in view, The holy precepts ten.

And when the seventh trump's behest Withdrew the vail between The holy and the holiest, The precious Ark was seen.

Then let us serve the law of love, And in it take delight; By day, obedience to prove, And meditate by night.