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2 Anoint them prophets! Make their ears attent
To Thy divinest speech; their hearts awake
To human need; their lips make eloquent

To assure the right, and every evil break.

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3 Anoint them priests! Strong intercessors they
For pardon, and for charity and peace!
Ah, if with them the world might pass, astray,
Into the dear Christ's life of sacrifice!

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4 Anoint them kings! aye kingly kings, O Lord!
Anoint them with the spirit of Thy Son:
Theirs, not a jewelled crown, a blood-stained sword;
Theirs, by sweet love, for Christ a kingdom won.

5 Make them apostles! Heralds of Thy Cross,

Forth may they go to tell all realms Thy grace;
Inspired of Thee, may they count all but loss,

And stand at last with joy before Thy face.

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6 O mighty age of prophet-kings, return!

O truth, O faith enrich our urgent time!
Lord Jesus Christ, again with us sojourn;

A weary world awaits Thy reign sublime! Amen.

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Chos-en of the Lord, and precious, Bind-ing all the Church in one;

Holy Zion's help for ev - er, And her con- fi- dence alone. A-men.

HENRY SMART

3 To this temple, where we call Thee,
Come, O Lord of Hosts, to-day:
With Thy wonted loving-kindness,

Hear Thy servants as they pray;
And Thy fullest benediction

Shed within its walls alway.

4 Here vouchsafe to all Thy servants
What they ask of Thee to gain,
What they gain from Thee, for ever
With the blessed to retain,
And hereafter in Thy glory

Evermore with Thee to reign. Amen.

Latin Hymn, 6th or 7th Cent. Tr. JOHN M. Neale

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Let all within Thy house who come,
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3 Yet everywhere Thou guid'st Thine own
To raise for Thee an earthly throne;
And where Thy Name Thou dost record,
There Thou wilt come and bless them,
Lord!

4 Great Shepherd of Thy chosen few,
Thy former mercies here renew;
And here to wayward hearts proclaim
The sweetness of Thy saving Name!

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5 Here may we prove the might of prayer,
To strengthen faith and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heaven before our eyes!

6 Here to the weary, hungry soul,
Give Thou the gift that maketh whole;
The bread that is Christ's flesh, for food,
The wine that is the Saviour's blood.

7 Lord, we are few, but Thou art near; Nor short Thine arm, nor deaf Thine

ear;

Oh, rend the heavens, come quickly down,
And make a thousand hearts Thine own!
Amen.
WILLIAM COWPER