3 While I hearken to Thy law,
Fill my soul with humble awe,
Till Thy Gospel bring to me
Life and immortality.

4 While Thy ministers proclaim
Peace and pardon in Thy Name,
Through their voice, by faith, may I
Hear Thee speaking from the sky.

5 From Thy house when I return,
May my heart within me burn;
And at evening let me say,

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"I have walked with God to-day."

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LEST day of God! most calm, most bright,

The first, the best of days;

The laborer's rest, the saint's delight,
The day of prayer and praise.

2 My Saviour's face made thee to shine;
His rising thee did raise,

And made thee heavenly and divine
Beyond all other days.

3 The first-fruits oft a blessing prove
To all the sheaves behind;

And they the day of Christ who love,
A happy week shall find.

4 This day I must with God appear;
For, Lord, the day is Thine;

Help me to spend it in Thy fear,
And thus to make it mine.

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AVIOUR, 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 through this approaching 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.

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,
Call us, O Lord, to Thine eternal peace.

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LMIGHTY Father, bless the word

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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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ORD, 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.

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II. THE CHRISTIAN YEAR.

Advent.

HARK! 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.

6.5.

High in regal glory,

'Mid eternal light,

Reign, O King immortal,
Holy, infinite.

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.