Yet there are mild enlivening rays
Diffused around us here;-
And the kind tokens he conveys
Make his remembrance dear.
▲ O let us, then, his praise repeat
In our most grateful strains,
Till with his people we shall meet
In glory, where he reigns.
1 O GOD, accept the sacred hour
Which we to thee have given;
And let this hallowed scene have power
To raise our souls to heaven.
2 Still let us hold, till life departs,
The precepts of thy Son,
Nor let our thoughtless, thankless hearts
Forget what he has done.
a His true disciples may we live,
From all corruption free,
And humbly learn, like him, to give
Our powers, our wills, to thee.
1 FROM the table now retiring,
Which for us the Lord hath spread, May our souls, refreshment finding, Grow in all things like our Head.
2 His example by beholding,
May our lives his image bear;
Him our Lord and Master calling,
His commands may we revere.
3 Love to God and men displaying,
Walking steadfast in his way,
Joy attend us in believing,
Peace from God through endless day.
"He bowed his head, and gave up the ghost."
O SACRED Head, now wounded,
With grief and shame weighed down,
So scornfully surrounded,
With thorns thine only crown,
How art thou pale with anguish,
With sore abuse and scorn!
How do those features languish,
Which once were fair as morn!
2 What language shall I borrow
To thank thee, dearest Friend,
For this thy dying sorrow,
This love that knew no end?
O make me thine for ever!
And should I fainting be,
Lord, let me never, never
Outlive my love to thee!
1 JESUS, we thy promise claim;
We are met in thy dear name;
In the midst do thou appear,
Manifest thy presence here!
2 Sanctify us, Lord, and bless ;
Breathe thy spirit, give thy peace;
Thou thyself within us move;
Make our feast a feast of love!
3 Give to us thy humble mind,
Patient, fearless, just, and kind;
Meek and lowly let us be,
Full of goodness, full of thee.
4 Still, O Lord, our faith increase,
Give to us the fruits of peace,
And may love the token be,
That we have communed with thee.
5 Make us all in thee complete;
Make us all for glory meet, -
Meet to appear before thy sight,
Partners with the saints in light.
1 WHILE to lips with praise that glow
This communion cup we press,
Holy Father, let us grow
More like Him we here confess.
2 Reconcile us by thy Son,
In whose name on thee we call;
Make us perfect, all in one,
We in him, and thou in all.
3 While we here remember thee,
Who wast for our ransom slain,
Let thy love, thy purity,
Saviour, in our souls remain.
Father, while we break this bread,
And thy Christ remember thus,
Make us one with him, our Head,
Thou in him, and he in us.
1 THROUGH thee as we together came,
In singleness of heart,
And met, O Jesus! in thy name,
So in thy name we part.
2 Nearer to thee our spirits lead,
And still thy love bestow,
Till thou hast made us free indeed,
And spotless here below.
3 When to the right or left we stray,
Leave us not comfortless,
But guide our feet into the way
Of everlasting peace.
1 WHEN God, of old, came down from heaven,
In power and wrath he came;
Before his feet the clouds were riven
Half darkness and half flame.
2 But when he came the second time,
He came in power and love;
Softer than gales at morning prime
Hovered his holy Dove.
3 The fires that rushed on Sinai down
In sudden torrents dread,
Now gently light, a glorious crown,
On every sainted head.
Like arrows went those lightnings forth,
Winged with the sinner's doom;
But these, like tongues, o'er all the earth
Proclaining life to come.
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