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We rise to bless Thee ere our wor-ship cease, Then, low- ly kneeling, wait Thy word

of peace.

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"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, through the coming night;
Turn Thou for us its darkness into light;

From harm and danger keep Thy children free:
Darkness and light are both alike to Thee.

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.

Rev. John Ellerton (1826

), 1868.

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the day of holy rest, Which, when He made the world, Je-ho-vah blest,

When, like His own, He bade our la-bors cease, And all be piety, and all be peace.

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"The Day of holy Rest."

2 Let us devote this consecrated day
To learn His will, and all we learn obey;
So shall He hear, when fervently we raise
Our supplications and our songs of praise.

3 Father of Heaven, in whom our hopes confide,
Whose power defends us, and whose precepts guide,
In life our Guardian, and in death our Friend,
Glory supreme be Thine, till time shall end.

Rev. William Mason (1725-1797), 1811.

MENDEBRAS. 7.6. D.

German Melody. Arr. by LOWELL MASON (1792-1872), 1839.

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DAY of rest and glad-ness, O day of balm of care and sad- ness, Most beau-ti

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On thee, the high and low-ly,

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ges joined in tune, Sing "Holy, holy, holy," To the Great God Tri- une.

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