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WEEP not, mourn not o'er this bier, Such death as this hath nought for fear; He died as dies a Christian man,

And with his death true life began.

2 Coffin and grave we deck with care,
His body reverently we bear;
It is not dead, but rests in God,
And softly sleeps beneath the sod.

3 It seems as all were over now,
The heavy limbs, the soulless brow:
Yet through these rigid limbs once more
A nobler life, ere long, shall pour.

4

God breathed into this house of clay
The spirit that hath passed away;
Christ gave the true courageous mind,
The noble heart, ye no more find.

5 Now earth has hid it from our eyes
Till God shall bid it wake and rise,
Who ne'er the creature will forget
On whom His image He hath set.

6 Ah! would that promised day were come, When Christ shall take us to our home:

Then shall He call, nor one be lost,

From earth and sea His buried host.

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RIEF life is here our portion,
Brief sorrow, short-lived care:
The life that knows no ending,

The tearless life is there.

2 O happy retribution—

Short toil, eternal rest!
For mortals and for sinners

A mansion with the blest!

3 Midst power that knows no limit,
And wisdom free from bound,
The Beatific Vision

4

Shall glad the saints around;

And peace, for war is needless;
And rest, for storm is past;
And goal from finished labour,
An anchorage at last.

5 There God, our King and Portion,
In fulness of His grace

Shall we behold for ever,

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And worship face to face!

ESUS died for us and rose again :

Therefore are our hopes no longer dim ;
Therefore know we that to die is gain,
For we sleep in Him.

2 Therefore father, mother, sister, brother,
Still are ours, for all are still the Lord's:
Wherefore let us comfort one another

With these blessed words.

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TERNAL Father, strong to save,

Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;

O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.

2 O Christ, whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy word,
Who walkedst on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.
3 Most Holy Spirit, who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea.

4 O Trinity of love and power,
Our brethren's shield in danger's hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them wheresoe'er they go:

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Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.
Psalm XLVI.

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OD, our Hope and Strength abiding,
Soothes our dread, exceeding nigh:

Fear we not the world subsiding,

Roots of mountains heaving high,

Darkly heaving,

Where in Ocean's heart they lie.

2 Let them roar, his awful surges ;-
Let them boil-each dark-brow'd hill
Tremble, where the proud wave urges :
Here is yet one quiet rill;
Her calm waters,

Sion's joy, flow clear and still:

3 Joy of God's abode, the station
Where th' Eternal fixed His tent :-
God is there a strong salvation;
On her place she towers unbent:
God will aid her

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Ere the stars of Morn be spent.

Heathens rage,

dominions tremble, God spake out, earth melts away: God is where our hosts assemble, Jacob's God, our Rock and Stay : Come, behold Him

O'er the wide earth wars allay.

5 Come, behold God's work of wonder,
Scaring, wasting earth below;
How He knapped the spear in sunder,
How He brake the warrior's bow:
Wild war-chariots

Burn before Him, quenched as tow.

6 "Silence-for th' Almighty know me; "O'er the heathen throned am I, "Throned where earth must crouch below me"

Lord of hosts! we know Thee nigh:

God of Jacob,

Thou art still our Rock on high!

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Psalm XCIX.

OD is King; the nations quiver;
Cherub-throned; the wide earth cowers:

God in Sion, great for ever,

High o'er mortal thrones and towers;
High and dreadful

Own ye this great Lord of ours.

2 They have owned Thy Name-'tis Holy,
Might of our all-glorious King:
Thou hast loved to right the lowly,
Equity on high to bring:

3

Truth and pureness,

At Thy word, in Israel spring.
Praise the Lord our God, and lowly
At the footstool of His feet

Fall ye down, for He is Holy :-
Who to call on God are meet?
Whose deep sighing

Will His answering mercy greet?
4 From His pillared cloud of brightness
Gently speaks He when we weep,
If in truth and heart's uprightness
We His love and law will keep.
God our Saviour!

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Thy kind answer will not sleep.

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REAT King of nations, hear our prayer, while at Thy feet we fall,

[call: And humbly, with united cry, to Thee for mercy The guilt is ours, but grace is Thine-O turn us [when we pray. But hear us from Thy lofty throne, and help us

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