ALL SAINTS' DAY.
Thou art the golden mansion,
Where Saints for ever sing, The seat of GOD's own chosen, The palace of the King. There GOD for ever sitteth, Himself of all the Crown; The LAMB, the Light that shineth, And never goeth down. Nought to this seat approacheth Their sweet peace to molest; They sing their GOD for ever, Nor day nor night they rest. Sure hope doth thither lead us; Our longings thither tend; May short- lived toil ne'er daunt us For joys that cannot end.
To CHRIST the Sun that lightens His Church above, below, To FATHER, and to SPIRIT
All things created bow. Amen. The Hymns for this Festival may be used on other days.
The following Hymns are suitable for this Festival:
222 Ten thousand times ten thousand.
228 Jerusalem the golden.
233 Jerusalem on high.
235 Oh, what the joy and the glory must be. 435 Lo round the Throne, a glorious band. 436 Hark! the sound of holy voices. 438 How bright those glorious spirits shine! 447 Soldiers, who are CHRIST's below.
Feasts of Apostles.
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in h- m the names f 430 the twelve Apostles of the Lamb." THE eternal gifts of CHRIST the King, The Apostles' glory, let us sing; And all, with hearts of gladness, raise Due hymns of thankful love and praise . For they the Churches' princes are, Triumphant leaders in the war, In heavenly courts a warrior band, True lights to lighten every land. Theirs is the steadfast faith of saints, And hope that never yields nor faints, And love of CHRIST in perfect glow That lays the prince of this world low. in them the FATHER'S glory shone, In them the Will of GOD the SON, In them exults the HOLY GHOST, Through them rejoics the heavenly host.
To Thee, Redeemer, now we cry,[ high That Thou wouldst join to them on Thy servants, who this grace implore, For ever and for evermore. Amen.
" Their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world."
431
DISPOSER Supreme,
And Judge of the earth, Who choosest for Thine The weak and the poor; To frail earthen vessels And things of no worth Entrusting Thy riches Which aye shall endure; Those vessels soon fail, Though full of Thy light, And at Thy decree
Are broken and gone; Thence brightly appeareth Thy truth in its might, As through the clouds riven The lightnings have shone. Like clouds are they borne To do Thy great Will, And swift as the winds
About the world go;
The WORD with His wisdom Their spirits doth fill, They thunder, they lighten, The waters o'erflow. Their sound goeth forth, " CHRIST JESUS the LORD:" Then Satan doth fear,
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His citadels fall:
As when the dread trumpets Went forth at Thy Word, And one long blast shattered The Canaanite's wall.
O loud be their trump,
And stirring their sound, To rouse us, O LORD,
From slumber of sin; The lights Thou hast kindled In darkness around, O may they illumine Our spirits within.
All honour and praise, Dominion and might, To GOD, THREE in ONE, Eternally be,
Who round us hath shed
His own marvellous light, And called us from darkness His glory to see. Amen.
" Ye also shall sit upon twelve throne 432 judging the twelve tribes of Israel" CAPTAINS of the saintly band, Princes who with JESUS dwell, Lights who lighten every land, Judges of His Israel,
On the nations sunk in night Ye have shed the Gospel light;! Sin and error flee away, Truth reveals the promised day