3 Grant us Thy peace upon our homeward way; With Thee began, with Thee shall end the day; Guard Thou the lips from sin, the hearts from shame,

That in this house have called upon Thy Name.

4 Grant us Thy peace throughout our earthly life, Our balm in sorrow, and our stay in strife; Then, when Thy voice shall bid our conflict cease,

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Call us, O Lord, to Thine eternal peace.

ALMIGHTY Father, bless the word

L. M.

Which through Thy grace we now have
heard ;

Oh, may the precious seed take root,
Spring up, and bear abundant fruit.

2 We praise Thee for the means of grace,
Thus in Thy courts to seek Thy face:
Grant, Lord, that we who worship here
May all, at last, in heaven appear.

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8.7.8.7.4.7.

LORD, dismiss us with Thy blessing;
Fill our hearts with joy and peace;

Let us each, Thy love possessing,
Triumph in redeeming grace:
Oh, refresh us,

Travelling through this wilderness.

2 Thanks we give and adoration

For Thy Gospel's joyful sound :
May the fruits of Thy salvation
In our hearts and lives abound:
May Thy presence

With us evermore be found;

3 So that when Thy love shall call us,
Saviour, from the world away,
Fear of death shall not appall us,
Glad Thy summons to obey.
May we ever

Reign with Thee in endless day.

II. THE CHRISTIAN YEAR.

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Η

Advent.

ARK! the voice eternal,

Robed in majesty,

Calling into being

Earth and sea and sky;

Hark! in countless numbers

All the angel-throng

Hail creation's morning

With one burst of song.

High in regal glory,

'Mid eternal light,

Reign, O King immortal,
Holy, infinite.

6.5.

2 Bright the world and glorious,
Calm both earth and sea,
Noble in its grandeur
Stood man's purity;

Came the great transgression,
Came the saddening fall,
Death and desolation

Breathing over all.

Still in regal glory,

'Mid eternal light, Reigned the King immortal, Holy, infinite.

3 Long the nations waited,
Through the troubled night,
Looking, longing, yearning,
For the promised light.
Prophets saw the morning
Breaking far away,
Minstrels sang the splendor
Of that opening day.
Whilst in regal glory,
'Mid eternal light,

Reigned the King immortal,
Holy, infinite.

4 Brightly dawned the Advent
Of the new-born King,
Joyously the watchers
Heard the angels sing.
Sadly closed the evening
Of His hallowed life,
As the noontide darkness
Veiled the last dread strife.

Lo! again in glory,
'Mid eternal light,

Reigns the King immortal,
Holy, infinite.

5 Lo! again He cometh,

Robed in clouds of light,
As the Judge eternal,

Armed with power and might.
Nations to His footstool

Gathered then shall be;
Earth shall yield her treasures,
And her dead, the sea.
Till the trumpet soundeth,
'Mid eternal light,

Reign, Thou King immortal,
Holy, infinite.

6 Jesu! Lord and Master,
Prophet, Priest and King,
To Thy feet, triumphant,
Hallowed praise we bring.
Thine the pain and weeping,
Thine the victory;
Power, and praise, and honor,
Be, O Lord, to Thee.

High in regal glory,

'Mid eternal light,

Reign, O King immortal,
Holy, infinite.

This hymn may be sung with or without the refrain, as desired.

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DAY

AY of wrath! oh, day of mourning!
See fulfilled the prophets' warning,
Heaven and earth in ashes burning!

2 Oh, what fear man's bosom rendeth, When from heaven the Judge descendeth, On Whose sentence all dependeth.

3 Wondrous sound the trumpet flingeth ; Through earth's sepulchres it ringeth; All before the throne it bringeth.

4 Death is struck, and nature quaking, All creation is awaking,

To its Judge an answer making.

5 Lo! the Book exactly worded, Wherein all hath been recorded: Thence shall judgment be awarded.

6 When the Judge His seat attaineth, And each hidden deed arraigneth, Nothing unavenged remaineth.

7 What shall I, frail man, be pleading?
Who for me be interceding,
When the just are mercy needing?

8 King of majesty tremendous, Who dost free salvation send us, Fount of pity, then befriend us!

8s.