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783.

I.

Though dark may be our lot,

Our eyes be dim with care,

These saddening thoughts shall trouble not
This holy hour of prayer.

Evening Hymn.

AGAIN, as evening's shadow falls,

We gather in these hallowed walls;
And evening hymn and evening prayer
Rise mingling on the holy air.

L.M.

2. May struggling hearts that seek release,
Here find the rest of God's own peace;
And, strengthened here by hymn and prayer,
Lay down the burden and the care!

3. O God, our light! to Thee we bow;
Within all shadows standest Thou :
Give deeper calm than night can bring;
Give sweeter songs than lips can sing.

4. Life's tumult we must meet again;
We cannot at the shrine remain;
But in the spirit's secret cell

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I.

May hymn and prayer for ever dwell.

God our Strength.

Samuel Longfellow.

8.8.6.8.8.6.

NOW have we met that we may ask

Recruited vigour for the task

Of living as we would:

For we would live by that same word
Which all the honoured men have heard,

Who by their faith have stood.

2. An inner light, an inner calm,

Have they who trust God's mighty arm,

And hearing do His will:

For things are not as they appear,

In death is life, in trouble cheer,
So faith is conqueror still.

3. Thus would we live and therefore pray.
For strength renewed, that we may say,
Our life it upward tends;

If we who sing must sometimes sigh,

Yet life, beginning with a cry,

In hallelujah ends.

785.

T. T. Lynch.

8.7.8.7.

God in His Temple.

I. GOD is in His holy temple:

Earthly thoughts be silent now,
While with reverence we assemble,
And before His presence bow.
He is with us now and ever,

When we call upon His name,
Aiding every good endeavour,
Guiding every upward aim.

2. God is in His holy temple,—
In the pure and holy mind;
In the reverent heart and simple;
In the soul from sense refined:
Then let every low emotion

Banished far and silent be,
And our souls in pure devotion,
Lord, be temples worthy Thee.

786.

I.

The Light of Life.

LIGHT of life, O Saviour dear,

L.M.

Before we sleep bow down Thine ear : Through dark and day, o'er land and sea,

We have no other hope but Thee.

2. Oft from Thy royal road we part,
Lost in the mazes of the heart;

Our lamps put out, our course forgot,
We seek for God, and find Him not.
3. What sudden sunbeams cheer our sight!
What dawning risen upon the night!
Thou giv'st Thyself to us, and we
Find guide and path and all in Thee.

4. Through day and darkness, Saviour dear,
Abide with us, more nearly near,
Till on Thy face we lift our eyes,
The Sun of God's own Paradise.

5. Praise God, our Maker and our Friend;
Praise Him, through time, till time shall end,
Till psalm and song His name adore,
Through heaven's great day of Evermore.

787.

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Evening Hymn.

AT even, ere the sun was set,

F. T. Palgrave.

The sick, O Lord, around Thee lay ;
O, in what divers pains they met !

O, with what joy they went away!

2. Once more 'tis eventide, and we,

Oppress'd with various ills, draw near:
What if Thy form we cannot see?

We know and feel that Thou art here.

L.M.

3. O Saviour Christ, our woes dispel :

For some are sick, and some are sad,
And some have never loved Thee well,
And some have lost the love they had;
4. And some have found the world is vain,
Yet from the world they break not free;
And some have friends who give them pain,
Yet have not sought a friend in Thee;

5. And none, O Lord, have perfect rest,
For none are wholly free from sin ;
And they who fain would serve Thee best,
Are conscious most of wrong within.

6. O Saviour Christ, Thou too art Man;

Thou hast been troubled, tempted, tried;
Thy kind but searching glance can scan
The very wounds that shame would hide;
7. Thy touch has still its ancient power ;
No word from Thee can fruitless fall;
Hear, in this solemn evening hour,

And in Thy mercy heal us all.

H. Twells.

788.

Evening Hymn.

10.4.10.4.

1. FATHER supreme! Thou high and holy One,

To Thee we bow;

Now, when the service of the day is done,
Devoutly now.

2. From age to age unchanging, still the same
All good Thou art;

Hallowed for ever be Thy holy name
In every heart!

3. When the glad morn upon the hills was spread,
Thy smile was there ;

Now, as the darkness gathers over head,
We feel Thy care.

4. Night spreads her shade upon another day
For ever past;

So o'er our faults, Thy love, we humbly pray,
A veil may cast.

5. Thou, through the dark, wilt watch above our sleep With eye of love,

And Thou wilt wake us when the sunbeams leap
The hills above.

6. O may each heart its gratitude express
As life expands,

And find the triumph of its happiness
In Thy commands !

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Grant us Thy Peace.

IOS.

SAVIOUR! again to Thy dear name we raise,
With one accord, our parting hymn of praise;
We stand to bless Thee ere our worship cease,
Then, lowly kneeling, wait Thy word of peace.

2. 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.

3. Grant us Thy peace, Lord, thro' the coming night, Turn Thou for us its darkness into light;

From harm and danger keep Thy children free,
For dark and light are both alike to Thee.

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