Casting down their golden crowns around 4 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! All thy works shall praise thy name, in earth and sky and sea; Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty; God in three persons, blesséd Trinity! Reginald Heber. gain returns the day of holy rest, Which, when he made the world, Je-ho-vah blessed; When, like his own, he bade our la-bors cease, And all be pi ty and all be peace. 2 The Lord's Day. AGAIN returns the day of holy rest, Which, when he made the world, Jehovah blessed; When, like his own, he bade our labors cease, 2 Let us devote this consecrated day 3 For by his word the heaven and earth were made, The earth's foundation also firmly laid; And shall throughout all ages surely stand. Penitent prayer. Anon. Ps. 95. 4 FATHER, again in Jesus' name we meet, And bow in penitence beneath thy feet; Again to thee our feeble voices raise, To sue for mercy, and to sing thy praise. 2 Lord, we would bless thee for thy ceaseless care, And all thy work from day to day declare : Is not our life with early mercies crowned ? Does not thine arm encircle us around? 3 Alas! unworthy of thy boundless love, 4 Oh,by that name in which all fullness dwells, Lucy E. G. Whitmore. FAROON. 10s. J. BARNBY. As pants the wearied hart for cooling springs, That sinks ex-hausted in the summer's chase, So pants my soul for thee, great King of kings, So thirsts to reach thy sacred dwelling-place. AS PANTS the wearied hart for cooling 3 Lord, thy sure mercies, ever in my sight, GLADNESS. 7s, 6s. D. J. BARNBY. The dawn of God's new Sabbath Breaks o'er the earth again, As some sweet summer As some.... morn-ing After a night of pain. It comes as cooling showers To cheer a thirsting THE dawn of God's new Sabbath To cheer a thirsting land, 2 Lord, we would bring our burden Of sinful thought and deed, In thy pure presence kneeling From bondage to be freed; Our heart's most bitter sorrow For all our work undone, So many talents wasted, So few true conquests won. 3 Yet still, O Lord long-suffering, Still grant us in our need Here in thy holy presence The saving name to plead ; Within thy temple walls, 4 Until in joy and gladness Ada C. Cross. |