3 Come, Lord, thy love alone can raise In us the heavenly flame;

Then shall our lips resound thy praise,
Our hearts adore thy name.

4 Now, Saviour, let thy glory shine,
And fill thy dwellings here,

Till life, and love, and joy divine,
A heaven on earth appear.

5 Then shall our hearts, enraptured, say,
"Come, great Redeemer, come,
And bring the bright, the glorious day,
That calls thy children home."

65

ANNE STEELE.

Invoking divine blessings.

1 WITHIN thy house, O Lord our God, In majesty appear;

Make this a place of thine abode,
And shed thy blessings here.

2 As we thy mercy-seat surround,
Thy Spirit, Lord, impart;
And let thy gospel's joyful sound,
With power reach every heart.

3 Here let the blind their sight obtain;
Here give the mourner rest;
Let Jesus here triumphant reign,
Enthroned in every breast.

4 Here let the voice of sacred joy
And fervent prayer arise,

Till higher strains our tongues employ, In realms beyond the skies.

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:
Thy saints adore thy holy name;
Thy creatures bend the obedient knee,
And humbly now thy presence claim.

2 Eternal Source of truth and light,
To thee we look, on thee we call;
Lord, we are nothing in thy sight,
But thou to us art all in all.

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,
We leave our mortal hopes and fears;
Accept our prayers and bless our vows,
And dry our penitential tears.

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,
Sing ye the Lord Jehovah's praise;
His glorious name let all adore,
From age to age, for evermore.

2 Blest be that name, supremely blest,
From the sun's rising to its rest;
Above the heavens his power is known,
Through all the earth his goodness shown.

3 Who is like God? so great, so high,
He bows himself to view the sky;
And yet, with condescending grace,
Looks down upon the human race.
4 He hears the uncomplaining moan
Of those who sit and weep alone;
He lifts the mourner from the dust;
In him the poor may safely trust.

5 O then, aloud, in joyful lays,
Sing to the Lord Jehovah's praise;
His saving name let all adore,
From age to age, for evermore.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

GILEAD.

L. M.

ETIENNE HENRI MEHUL.

69

Joy of public worship.

1 GREAT God, attend, while Zion sings
The joy that from thy presence springs;
To spend one day with thee on earth
Exceeds a thousand days of mirth.

2 Might I enjoy the meanest place
Within thy house, O God of grace,
Not tents of ease, nor thrones of power,
Should tempt my feet to leave thy door.

3 God is our sun, he makes our day;
God is our shield, he guards our way
From all assaults of hell and sin,
From foes without, and foes within.

4 All needful grace will God bestow,
And crown that grace with glory too;
He gives us all things, and withholds
No real good from upright souls.

5 O God, our King, whose sovereign sway
The glorious hosts of heaven obey,
And devils at thy presence flee;
Blest is the man that trusts in thee.

71. Hosanna to the living Lord.
1 HOSANNA to the living Lord!
Hosanna to the incarnate Word!
To Christ, Creator, Saviour, King,
Let earth, let heaven, hosanna sing.
2 "Hosanna, Lord!" thine angels cry,
"Hosanna, Lord!" thy saints reply;
Above, beneath us, and around,
The dead and living swell the sound.

3 O Saviour, with protecting care,
Return to this, thy house of prayer,
Assembled in thy sacred name,
Where we thy parting promise claim.
4 But chiefest in our cleansed breast,
Eternal, bid thy Spirit rest,
And make our secret soul to be
A temple pure, and worthy thee.

5 So, in the last and dreadful day,
When earth and heaven shall melt away.
Thy flock, redeemed from sinful stain,
Shall swell the sound of praise again.

REGINALD HEBER.

MENDEBRAS.

7, 6.

GERMAN MELODY, ARR. BY LOWELL MASO

72 Day of rest and gladness.
1 0 DAY of rest and gladness,
O day of joy and light,
O balm of care and sadness,

Most beautiful, most bright:
On thee, the high and lowly,
Through ages joined in tune,
Sing "Holy, holy, holy,'

To the great God Triune.
2 On thee, at the creation,
The light first had its birth;
On thee, for our salvation,

Christ rose from depths of earth;
On thee, our Lord, victorious,
The Spirit sent from heaven;
And thus on thee, most glorious,
A triple light was given.

3 To-day on weary nations
The heavenly manna falls;
To holy convocations

The silver trumpet calls,
Where gospel light is glowing
With pure and radiant beams,
And living water flowing
With soul-refreshing streams.
4 New graces ever gaining
From this our day of rest,
We reach the rest remaining
To spirits of the blest;
To Holy Ghost be praises,
To Father, and to Son;
The Church her voice upraises
To thee, blest Three in One.

CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH.

THOMAS CLARE.

73

Joyful homage.
1 AWAKE, ye saints, awake!
And hail this sacred day:
In loftiest songs of praise

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,
Which God has called his own;
With joy the summons we obey,
To worship at his throne.

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
Within thy Church below;

Make her in holiness excel,
With pure devotion glow.

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,
Which thou hast called thine own;
With joy the summons we obey
To worship at thy throne.

'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;
Hosanna to our King!

2 The Stone the builders set at naught,
That Stone has now become
The sure foundation and the strength
Of Zion's heavenly dome.

3 Christ is that Stone, rejected once,
And numbered with the slain;
Now raised in glory, o'er his Church
Eternally to reign.

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
Awakes the kindling ray,
Dispels the darkness of the night,
And pours increasing day.

2 O what a night was that which wrapt A guilty world in gloom!

O what a sun, which broke this day
Triumphant from the tomb!

3 This day be grateful homage paid,
And loud hosannas sung;

Let gladness dwell in every heart,
And praise on every tongue.

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,