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In the weary hours of sickness,
In the times of grief and pain, When we feel our mortal weakness, When the creature's help is vain, By Thy mercy,
O deliver us, good LORD.
THE TRANSFIGURATION.
In the solemn hour of dying, In the awful judgment day, May our souls, on Thee relying, Find Thee still our Hope and Stay: By Thy mercy,
O deliver us, good LORD.
Amen.
" In the day time also He led them with a cloud, and all the night through with the light of fire."
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LEAD, Kindly Light, amid the encircling
gloom,
Lead Thou me on; The night is dark, and I am far from home,
Lead Thou me on. Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for
me.
I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me on;
I loved to choose and see my path; but
now
Lead Thou me' on.
I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still
Will lead me on
O'er moor and fen, o'er erag and torrent,
The night is gone,
Aud with the morn those angel faces smile,
Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.
Amen.
" There remaineth a rest to the people of 343 GOD."
O what the joy and the glory must be, Those endless Sabbaths the blessèd ones see;
Crown for the valiant, to weary ones rest; GOD shall be all and in all ever blest.
What are the Monarch, His Court, and His Throne?
What are the peace, and the joy that they own?
O, that the blest ones, who in it have share,
All that they feel could as fully declare.
This Hymn, according to Mone, is for us on Ugurday.
Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, Vision of Peace, that brings joy ever
more;
Wish and fulfillment can sever'd be ne'er, Nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer.
There, where no troubles distraction can bring,
We the sweet anthems of Sion shall sing, While for Thy grace, LORD, their voices of praise
Thy blessèd people eternally raise.
There dawns no Sabbath, no Sabbath is o'er,
Those Sabbath- keepers have one ever
more;
One and unending is that triumph- song Which to the angels and us shall belong. Now in the meanwhile with hearts ralsed
on high,
We for that country must yearn and must sigh;
Seeking Jerusalem, dear native land, Thro' our long exile on Babylon's strand. Low before Him with our praises we fall, Of Whom, and in Whom, and thro Whom are all;
Of Whom, the FATHER; and in Whom, the SON;
Thro' Whom, the SPIRIT, with Them ever One. Amen.
The Transfiguration.
" His Face did shine as the sun, and lis raiment was white as the light."
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IN days of old on Sinal
The LORD ALMIGHTY came, In majesty of terror,
In thunder- cloud and flame: Or Tabor with the glory
Of sunniest light for vest, The excellence of beauty
In JESUS was expressed. All light created paled there, And did Him worship meet; The sun itself adored Him, And bowed before His feet; While Moses and Elias, Upon the Holy Mount, The co- eternal glory
Of CHRIST our GOD recount. O holy, wondrous vision!
But what, when, this life past, The beauty of Mount Tabor Shall end heaven at last? But what, when all the glory Of uncreated light
Shall be the promised guerdon
Of them that win the fight? Amen.