4. O Thou whose paths are sown with stars, 5. Be Thou about us all our years, May all good works through Thee increase, From earth's brief war Thy perfect peace. F. A. Rollo Russell. 91. Exalt His Name Together. 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4. I. YE people of the Lord Who in His love abide; Your treasure do not hoard, Your costly store! Together soar ! 2. Glad heart, repeat to heart The story of thy peace: 3. In love together meet; For joy together sing; With mingled voices greet Each triumph of your King; The Lord's dear praise Together seek! 4. In linkéd praise and prayer Of hastening glory win: In Heaven at length T. H. Gill. 92. Longing for the House of God. 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4. I. LORD of the worlds above, How pleasant and how fair, The dwellings of Thy love, Thine earthly temples are! To Thine abode My heart aspires With warm desires To see my God. 2. O happy souls that pray Where God appoints to hear! O happy men that pay Their constant service there! They praise Thee still: And happy they That love the way To Sion's hill. 3. They go from strength to strength Through this dark vale of tears, 93. Till each o'ercomes at length, Thou God our King Shalt thither bring Our willing feet. Isaac Watts. The praise of the Eternal. 12.13.12.12. I. BRING, O morn, thy music! bring, O night, thy silence! Oceans, chant the rapture to the storm-clouds coursing free! Sun and stars are singing,-Thou art our Creator, Who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be! 2. Life and death, Thy creatures, praise Thee, Mighty Giver ! Praise and prayer are rising in Thy beast and bird and tree; Lo! they praise and vanish, vanish at Thy bidding, Who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be! 3. Light us! lead us! love us! cry Thy groping nations, Pleading in the thousand tongues, but calling only Thee, Weaving blindly out Thy holy, happy purpose, Who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be! 4. Life nor death can part us, O Thou Love eternal, Shepherd of the wandering star and wayward souls that flee ! Homeward draws the spirit to Thy Spirit yearning, Who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be! W. C. Gannett. 94. Sanctify this Congregation. 8.7.8.7.7.7.8.8. 1. COME, immortal Lord of gladness! From the immeasurable height Scatter all our sin and sadness, Move upon our hearts in light! 2. Come and bring with Thee Thy treasure! . Thirst for holiness and light. Hear our contrite supplication, 3. Come, abide in us for ever ; In the world's great congregation. Stopford A. Brooke. C.M. 95. The Lord Jesus Christ: His Advent and Birth. The Saviour comes. I. HARK the glad sound, the Saviour comes, Let every heart prepare a throne, And every voice a song. 2. He comes the prisoners to release, The gates of brass before Him burst, 3. He comes from thickest films of vice And on the eye-balls of the blind 4. He comes the broken heart to bind, And with the treasures of His grace, 5. Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace, P. Doddridge. |