1 Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day!

Sons of men and angels say: Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply! 2 Love's redeeming work is done, Fought the fight, the battle won: Lo! our sun's eclipse is o'er; Lo! he sets in blood no more.

3 Lives again our glorious King!

Where, O death, is now thy sting? Once he died our souls to save; Where thy victory, O grave?

4 Hail the Lord of earth and heaven! Praise to thee by both be given; Thee we greet triumphant now, Hail! the resurrection thou.

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1 Angels, roll the rock away! Death, yield up the mighty prey! See, the Saviour quits the tomb, Glowing with immortal bloom!

2 Shout, ye seraphs! Gabriel, raise Fame's eternal trump of praise! Let the earth's remotest bound Echo to the joyful sound.

3 Now, ye saints, lift up your eyes; See the Conq'ror mount the skies; When he comes, ye conquer too: He has triumphed thus for you.

1 With joy we meditate the grace
Of our High Priest above;
His heart is made of tenderness,
His bosom glows with love.

2 Touched with a sympathy within,
He knows our feeble frame;
He knows what sore temptations mean,
For he hath felt the same.

3 He, in the days of feeble flesh,

Poured out his cries and tears;
And in full measure feels afresh
What every member bears.

4 Then let our humble faith address
His mercy and his power;
We shall obtain delivering grace
In the distressing hour.

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1 O let triumphant faith dispel
Our fear and guilt and woe;
If God be for us, God the Eord,
Who, who shall be our foe?

2 He who his only Son gave up

To death, that we might live;
Shall he not all things freely grant
That boundless love can give?

3 Who now his people shall accuse?
'Tis God hath justified ;

Who now his people shall condemn?
The Lamb of God hath died.

4 And he who died hath risen again,
Triumphant from the grave;

At God's right hand for us he pleads,
Omnipotent to save.

For I myself have died;"

And then he shows his open veins, And pleads his wounded side.

This blessed hope we owe:

O let thy mercies plead above,

While we implore below.

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ROCKINGHAM. L. M.

L. MASON.

1 He lives, the great Redeemer lives;
What joy the blest assurance gives!
And now, before his Father God,
Pleads the full merit of his blood.

2 Repeated crimes awake our fears,
And justice, armed with frowns, appears ;
But in the Saviour's lovely face
Sweet mercy smiles, and all is peace.

3 In every dark, distressful hour,

When sin and Satan join their power, Let this dear hope repel the dart, That Jesus bears us on his heart. 4 Great Advocate, Almighty Friend! On him our humble hopes depend; Our cause can never, never fail, For Jesus pleads, and must prevail.

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1 Oft we, alas, forget the love

A. STEELE.

Of him who bought us with his blood ; Who now, as our High Priest above,

E'er intercedes for us with God.

2 Oft we forget the woe, the pain,

The bloody sweat, th' accursed tree, The wrath his soul did once sustain, From sin and death to set us free.

3 Oft we forget that we are one
With every saint that loves his name;
United to him on the throne;

Our life, our hope, our Lord, the same.
J. G. DECK.

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1 Where high the heavenly temple stands, The house of God not made with hands,

2

A great High Priest our nature wears, The Guardian of mankind appears.

He who for men their surety stood,
And poured on earth his precious blood,
Pursues in heaven his mighty plan,
The Saviour and the Friend of man.
3 In every pang that rends the heart,
The Man of sorrows had a part;
He sympathizes with our grief,
And to the sufferer sends relief.

4 With boldness, therefore, at the throne
Let us make all our sorrows known,
And ask the aid of heavenly power,
To help us in the evil hour.

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M. BRUCE.

1 Ah, not like erring man is God,
That man to answer him should dare!
Condemned, and into silence awed,
They helpless stand before his bar.

2 There must a mediator plead,

Who God and man may both embrace,
With God for man to intercede
And offer man the purchased grace.

3 And, lo! the Son of God is slain,
To be this mediator crowned;
In him, my soul, be cleansed from stain,
In him thy righteousness be found.