HOLY COMMUNION.

Holy Communion.

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THE Heavenly WORD proceeding forth, Yet leaving not the FATHER'S side, Accomplishing His work on earth Plad reached at length life's eventide.

By false disciple to be given Te foemen for His life athirst, Himself, the very Bread of Heaven, He gave to His disciples first.

He gave Himself in either kind,

His precious Flesh, His precious Blood; In love's own fulness thus designed Of the whole man to be the Food.

By Birth their Fellow- man was He; Their Meat, when sitting at the board; He died, their Ransomer to be; He ever reigns, their great Reward.

PART II.

O Saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.

All praise and thanks to Thee ascend, For evermore, Blest ONE IN THREE; O grant us life that shall not end In our true native land with Thee. Amen.

" He that eateth My Flesh and drinketh My Blood dwelleth in Me and I in him." 346

O FOOD that weary pilgrims love, O Bread of angel hosts above, O Manna of the saints, The hungry soul would feed on Thee; Ne'er may the heart unsolaced be

Which for Thy sweetness faints.

LORD JESU, Whom, by power divine Now hidden' neath the outward sign, We worship and adore, Grant, when the veil away is rolled, With open face we may behold

Thyself for evermore. Amen.

" One offering, single and complete," With lips and heart we say; But what He never can repeat He shows forth day by day.

347" We have an Altar." ONCE, only once, and once for all, His precious life He gave; Before the Cross our spirits fall, And own it strong to save.

For, as the Priest of Aaron's line Within the Holiest stood,

And sprinkled all the mercy- shrine With sacrificial blood;

O Fount of love, O cleansing Tide, Which from the SAVIOUR'S pierced Side And Sacred Heart dost flow, Be ours to drink of Thy pure rill, Which only can our spirits fill

And all we need bestow.

So He, Who once atonement wrought, Our Priest of endless power,

Presents Himself for those He bought In that dark noontide hour.

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His Manhood pleads where now It lives On heaven's eternal throne,

And where in mystic rite He gives Its Presence to His own.

And so we shew Thy death, O LORD, Till Thou again appear;

And feel, when we approach Thy Board, We have an Altar here.

All glory to the FATHER be, All glory to the SON,

All glory, HOLY GHOST, to Thee While endless ages run. Amen.

" Wisdom saith, Come eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled."

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DRAW nigh and take the Body of the LORD,

And drink the holy Blood for you out poured.

Saved by that Body and that holy Blood, With souls refreshed, we render thanks to GOD.

Salvation's Giver, CHRIST the Only SON, By His dear Cross and Blood the victory

won.

Offered was He for greatest and for least, Himself the Victim and Himself the Priest.

Victims were offered by the law of old Which in a type this heavenly mystery told.

He, Ransomer from death, and Light from shade, [ aid.

Now gives His holy grace His saints to Approach ye then with faithful hearts sincere,

And take the safeguard of salvation here.

He, that in this world rules His saints and shields,

To all believers life eternal yields;

With heavenly bread makes them that hunger whole,

Gives living waters to the thirsting soul Alpha and Omega, to Whom shall bow All nations at the Doom, is with us now Asien.

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