We praise Thee with the glowing light of day:
All things that live and move, by sea and land,
For ever ready at Thy service stand.

2. Thy Christendom is singing night and day,
Glory to Him, the mighty God, for aye,

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By whom, through whom, in whom, all beings are!" Grant us to echo on the song afar.

3. Thy name supreme, Thy kingdom, in us dwell, Thy will constrain and feed and guide us well : Guard us, redeem us in the evil hour;

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For Thine the glory, Lord, and Thine the power! Johann Franck.

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Lift up your Hearts. 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6.

O God, most high, draw near !

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Let all bow down before Him,

And in a joyful psalm

With heart and voice adore Him!

The great and gracious Lord,

Who all to us hath given,

And whose high praise is sung

By angel-choirs in heaven.

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2. With upward look we leave

Our mortal cares behind us;
Why should earth's vain desires

To nobler things so blind us?
Come, faith and hope and love,
Your glories now unfold;

Lead us as ye have led

The holy men of old.

3. Like tender flowers of spring
Their faces upward turning,
And drinking sunbeams in
As by a secret yearning,
We'll lift our hearts on high

For that more blessed light,
Which cheers our hours of grief
And guides our steps aright.

4. Lift up your hearts to God,
For lowly service ready,

Pursue the upward way,

With footsteps strong and steady;

And when at last the grave

Receives the pilgrim's dust,

Then cometh joyful rest

With spirits of the just.

God is here.

Thomas Sadler.

I. LO, God is here! let us adore,

And own how awful is this place:

Let all within us feel His power,
And silent bow before His face.

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2. Lo, God is here! Him, day and night,
United choirs of angels sing:

To Him, enthroned above all height,
Heaven's host their noblest praises bring.

3. Being of beings! may our praise
Thy courts with grateful incense fill ;
Still may we stand before Thy face,
Still hear and do Thy sovereign will.

Gerhard Tersteegen, tr. John Wesley.

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I.

The Unchanging God.

8.8.6.8.8.6.

LORD God, by whom all change is wrought,
By whom new things to birth are brought,

In whom no change is known!

Whate'er Thou dost, whate'er Thou art,

Thy people still in Thee have part;
Still, still Thou art our own.

2. Spirit who makest all things new,
Thou leadest onward; we pursue
The heavenly march sublime.
With Thy renewing fire we glow,
And still from strength to strength we go,
From height to height we climb.

3. Darkness and dread we leave behind :
New light, new glory still we find,
New realms divine possess ;

New births of grace new raptures bring ;
Triumphant, our new song we sing,
The great Renewer bless.

T. H. Gill.

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I.

The Everlasting.
EVERLASTING Light,
Giver of dawn and day,
Dispeller of the ancient night

In which creation lay!

2. O Everlasting Health,

From which all healing springs,—
My bliss, my treasure, and my wealth,
To Thee my spirit clings!

3. O Everlasting Truth,

Truest of all that's true,

Sure guide for erring age and youth,
Lead me and teach me, too!

4. O Everlasting Strength,

Uphold me in the way;

Bring me, in spite of foes, at length
To joy, and light, and day!

5. O Everlasting Love,

Well-spring of grace and peace :
Pour down Thy fulness from above,
Bid doubt and trouble cease!

God our Light.

S.M.

Horatius Bonar.

LORD, of all being! throned afar,

Thy glory flames from sun and star
Centre and Soul of every sphere,
Yet to each loving heart how near!
2. Sun of our life! Thy quickening ray
Sheds on our path the glow of day:
Star of our hope! Thy softened light
Cheers the long watches of the night.

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3. Our midnight is Thy smile withdrawn,
Our noontide is Thy gracious dawn,
Our rainbow arch Thy mercy's sign,

All, save the clouds of sin, are Thine!

4. Lord of all life, below, above,

Whose light is truth, whose warmth is love:
Before Thy ever blazing throne

We ask no lustre of our own.

5. Grant us Thy truth to make us free,
And kindling hearts that burn for Thee;
Till all Thy living altars claim

One holy light, one heavenly flame.

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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I.

God in All

SOURCE divine, and Life of all,
The Fount of being's wondrous sea!

Thy depth would every heart appal

That saw not love supreme in Thee.

2. We shrink beneath Thy vast abyss,
Where worlds on worlds eternal brood:
We know Thee truly but in this,—
That Thou bestowest all our good.

3. And so, 'mid boundless time and space,
Oh, grant us still in Thee to dwell,
And through the ceaseless web to trace,
Thy presence working all things well!

4. Nor let Thou life's delightful play

Thy truth's transcendent vision hide;
Nor strength and gladness lead astray
From Thee, our nature's only guide.

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