3 Come, Lord, thy love alone can raise In us the heavenly flame; Then shall our lips resound thy praise, 4 Now, Saviour, let thy glory shine, Till life, and love, and joy divine, 5 Then shall our hearts, enraptured, say, 65 ANNE STEELE. Invoking divine blessings. 1 WITHIN thy house, O Lord our God, In majesty appear; Make this a place of thine abode, 2 As we thy mercy-seat surround, 3 Here let the blind their sight obtain; 4 Here let the voice of sacred joy Till higher strains our tongues employ, In realms beyond the skies. 25 UNKNOWN. DUKE STREET. L. M. JOHN HATTON. 66 Jesus reigns. 1 COME, let us tune our loftiest song, And raise to Christ our joyful strain; Worship and thanks to him belong, Who reigns, and shall forever reign. 2 His sovereign power our bodies made; Our souls are his immortal breath; And when his creatures sinned, he bled, To save us from eternal death. 3 Burn every breast with Jesus' love; Bound every heart with rapturous joy; And saints on earth, with saints above, Your voices in his praise employ. 4 Extol the Lamb with loftiest song, Ascend for him our cheerful strain; Worship and thanks to him belong, Who reigns, and shall forever reign. 1 PRAISE waits in Zion, Lord, for thee: 2 Eternal Source of truth and light, 3 Still may thy children in thy word Their common trust and refuge see; O bind us to each other, Lord, By one great bond,-the love of thee. 4 Here, at the portal of thy house, 5 So shall our sun of hope arise, With brighter still and brighter ray, Till thou shalt bless our longing eyes With beams of everlasting day. 68 SIR J. K. SMITH. The praises of Jehovah. 1 SERVANTS of God, in joyful lays, 2 Blest be that name, supremely blest, 3 Who is like God? so great, so high, 5 O then, aloud, in joyful lays, JAMES MONTGOMERY. GILEAD. L. M. ETIENNE HENRI MEHUL. 69 Joy of public worship. 1 GREAT God, attend, while Zion sings 2 Might I enjoy the meanest place 3 God is our sun, he makes our day; 4 All needful grace will God bestow, 5 O God, our King, whose sovereign sway 71. Hosanna to the living Lord. 3 O Saviour, with protecting care, 5 So, in the last and dreadful day, REGINALD HEBER. WORSHIP-SABBATH. MENDEBRAS. 7, 6. GERMAN MELODY, ARR. BY LOWELL MASO 72 Day of rest and gladness. Most beautiful, most bright: To the great God Triune. Christ rose from depths of earth; 3 To-day on weary nations The silver trumpet calls, CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH. THOMAS CLARE. 73 Joyful homage. Your joyful homage pay: Come, bless the day that God hath blest, The type of heaven's eternal rest. He burst the bars of death, And vanquished all our foes; And now he pleads our cause above, And reaps the fruit of all his love. 3 All hail, triumphant Lord! Heaven with hosannas rings, And earth, in humbler strains, Thy praise responsive sings: MERTON. C. M. HENRY KEMBLE OLIVER. 74 Sabbath and sanctuary joys. 1 WITH joy we hail the sacred day, 2 Thy chosen temple, Lord, how fair! As here thy servants throng To breathe the humble, fervent prayer, And pour the grateful song. 3 Spirit of grace! O deign to dwell Make her in holiness excel, 4 Let peace within her walls be found; Let all her sons unite, To spread with holy zeal around Her clear and shining light. 5 Great God, we hail the sacred day, 'Twas great to speak the world from naught; 'Twas greater to redeem. 76 SAMUEL WESLEY, JR. We will rejoice, and be glad in it. 1 THIS is the day the Lord hath made: O earth, rejoice and sing; Let songs of triumph hail the morn; 2 The Stone the builders set at naught, 3 Christ is that Stone, rejected once, 4 This is the day the Lord hath made: O earth, rejoice and sing; With songs of triumph hail the morn; Hosanna to our King! 1 AGAIN the Lord of life and light 2 O what a night was that which wrapt A guilty world in gloom! O what a sun, which broke this day 3 This day be grateful homage paid, Let gladness dwell in every heart, 4 Ten thousand thousand lips shall join To hail this happy morn, Which scatters blessings from its wings On nations yet unborn. MRS. ANNA L. BARBAULD, |