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5 Should pining sickness waste away
My life in premature decay :
My Father, still I'd strive to say,
"Thy will be done."

6 If but my fainting heart be blest
With Thy free Spirit for its guest;
My God, to Thee I leave the rest,—
"Thy will be done."

7 Renew my will from day to day;
Blend it with Thine, and take away
All that now makes it hard to say,
"Thy will be done."

8 Then, when on earth I breathe no more
The prayer, oft mixed with tears before,
I'll sing upon a happier shore,

"Thy will be done."

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5 Should pining sickness waste away
My life in premature decay:
My Father, still I'd strive to say,
"Thy will be done."

6 If but my fainting heart be blest
With Thy free Spirit for its guest;
My God, to Thee I leave the rest,-
"Thy will be done."

7 Renew my will from day to day;
Blend it with Thine, and take away
All that now makes it hard to say,
"Thy will be done."

8 Then, when on earth I breathe no more

The prayer, oft mixed with tears before,
I'll sing upon a happier shore,

"Thy will be done.”

ARRAN (6666).

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S. CECILIA (6666).

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FIRST TUNE.

Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Mus. D.

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"Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass."

1 However dark it be; Lead me by Thine own hand, Choose out the path for me. 2 Smooth let it be or rough, It will be still the best; Winding or straight, it leads Right onward to Thy rest. 3 I dare not choose my lot; I would not if I might: Choose Thou for me, my God; So shall I walk aright.

way, not mine, O Lord,

4 The kingdom that I seek Is Thine; so let the way

That leads to it be Thine,
Else I must surely stray.

5 Take Thou my cup, and it
With joy or sorrow fill,
As best to Thee may seem;
Choose Thou my good and ill;

6 Choose Thou for me my friends,
My sickness or my health;
Choose Thou my cares for me,
My poverty or wealth.

7 Not mine, not mine the choice
In things or great or small;
Be Thou my guide, my strength,
My wisdom, and my all.

Justin Heinrich Knecht.

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"They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."

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10 bury thy sorrow, the world has its share,
Go bury it deeply, go hide it with care.
Go think of it calmly, when curtained by night;
Go tell it to Jesus, and all will be right.

2 Go tell it to Jesus, He knoweth thy grief;
Go tell it to Jesus, He'll send thee relief;
Go gather the sunshine He sheds on the
He'll lighten thy burden-go, weary one, pray.

way;

3 Hearts growing a-weary with heavier woe,
Now droop 'mid the darkness-go, comfort them, go!
Go bury thy sorrows, let others be blest:

Go give them the sunshine, tell Jesus the rest.

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