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• Thou shalt take thy rest in safety.'
THROUGH the day Thy love has spared us;

Now we lay us down to rest.
Through the silent watches guard us,
Let no foe our peace

molest;
Jesus, Thou our Guardian be;

Sweet it is to trust in Thee.
2 Pilgrims here on earth, and strangers,

Dwelling in the midst of foes,
Us and ours preserve from dangers ;

In Thine arms may we repose,
And, when life's brief day is past,
Rest with Thee in heaven at last.

He that keepeth thee will not slumber.' mp

TOW God be with us, for the night is closing;

The light and darkness are of His disposing,
And 'neath His shadow here to rest we yield us,

For He will shield us.
2 Let evil thoughts and spirits flee before us;

Till morning cometh, watch, Protector, o'er us;
In soul and body Thou from harm defend us;

Thine angels send us.
m 3 Let pious thoughts be ours when sleep o'ertakes us;

Our earliest thoughts be Thine when morning wakes us;
All day serve Thee, in all that we are doing

Thy praise pursuing.
mp 4 We have no refuge, none on earth to aid us,

Save Thee, O Father, who Thine own hast made us;
But Thy dear Presence will not leave them lonely

Who seek Thee only.
mf 5 Father, Thy name be praised, Thy kingdom given,

Thy will be done on earth as 't is in heaven;
Keep us in life, forgive our sins, deliver

Us now and ever.

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• The Lord God giveth them light : and they shall reign for ever and ever.'

THE radiant morn hath passed away,

And spent too soon her golden store;
The shadows of departing day

Creep on once more.
2 Our life is but an autumn day,

Its glorious noon how quickly past !
Lead us, O Christ, Thou living Way,

Safe home at last.
m 3 O by Thy soul-inspiring grace

Uplift our hearts to realms on high:
mf Help us to look to that bright place,

Beyond the sky,
4 Where light, and life, and joy, and peace

In undivided empire reign,
And thronging angels never cease

Their deathless strain ;
5 Where saints are clothed in spotless white,

And evening shadows never fall;
Where Thou, Eternal Light of light,

Art Lord of all.

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mp THE Sreeps on the night;

'I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for Thou, Lord, only makest me

dwell in safety. NHE sun declines; o'er land and sea mp 2 Forgive the wrong this day we've done,

Or thought, or said ; The twinkling stars come one by one

Each moment with its good or ill
To shed their light;

To Thee has fled;
With Thee there is no darkness, Lord; O Father, in Thy mercy great
With us abide,

Will we confide;
And 'neath Thy wings we rest secure

Thy benediction now bestow
This eventide.

This eventide.

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‘At the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice.'
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THE sun is sinking fast,

Into His sacred charge
The daylight dies ;

In whom all spirits live,
Let love awake, and
pay

4 So now beneath His eye
Her evening sacrifice.

Would calmly restp 2 As Christ, upon the cross

Without a wish or thought
In death reclined,

Abiding in the breast,
Into His Father's hands

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Save that His will be done
His parting soul resigned,

Whate'er betidemp3

So
now herself my
soul

Dead to herself, and dead
Would wholly give

In Him to all beside.
m 6 Thus would I live; yet now

Not I, but He
In all His power and love
Henceforth alive in me,

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mf 7 One sacred Trinity,

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One Lord Divine;
Myself for ever His,
And He for ever mine.

men.

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