2 Before our Father's throne

We pour our ardent prayers;

Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, Our comforts and our cares.

3 We share our mutual woes;

Our mutual burdens bear; And often for each other flows

The sympathizing tear.

4 When we asunder part,

It gives us inward pain;

But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.

5 This glorious hope revives

Our courage by the way;
While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.
6 From sorrow, toil, and pain,

And sin we shall be free;

And perfect love and friendship reign. Through all eternity.

3 They all in life and death,

With Thee, their Lord, in view, Learned from Thy Holy Spirit's breath

To suffer and to do.

4 For this Thy name we bless,
And humbly pray that we
May follow them in holiness,
And live and die in Thee.

IO WHAT, if we are Christ's,

Is earthly shame or loss?
Bright shall the crown of glory be,
When we have borne the cross.

2 Keen was the trial once,
Bitter the cup of woe,

When martyred saints, baptized in blood, Christ's sufferings shared below.

3 Bright is their glory now,

Boundless their joy above,
Where, on the bosom of their God,
They rest in perfect love.

4 Lord, may that grace be ours,
Like them in faith to bear
All that of sorrow, grief, or pain
May be our portion here.

5 Enough, if Thou at last

The word of blessing give,
And let us rest beneath Thy feet,
Where saints and angels live.

Rev. Sir Henry Williams Baker. (1821-) 1852

Christ the Corner-Stone.
Eph. ii. 20.

2 Elect from every nation,

Yet one o'er all the earth,

Her charter of salvation

One Lord, one faith, one birth;
One holy Name she blesses,
Partakes one holy food,
And to one hope she presses,

With every grace endued.

3 Though with a scornful wonder,
Men see her sore opprest,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distrest;

Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.

4 'Mid toil and tribulation,
And tumult of her war,
She waits the consummation
Of peace for evermore;
Till with the vision glorious

Her longing eyes are blest,
And the great Church victorious
Shall be the Church at rest.

5 Yet she on earth hath union

With God the Three in One,
And mystic sweet communion
With those whose rest is won:
O happy ones and holy!

Lord, give us grace that we
Like them, the meek and lowly,

On high may dwell with Thee.
Rev. Samuel John Stone. 1866. ab. and sl. alt.

930 "And there shall be one Fold and one Shepherd."

John x. 16.

I AND is the time approaching,
By prophets long foretold,
When all shall dwell together,

One Shepherd and one fold?
Shall every idol perish,

To moles and bats be thrown,
And every prayer be offered
To God in Christ alone?

2 Shall Jew and Gentile, meeting
From many a distant shore,
Around one altar kneeling,

One common Lord adore?
Shall all that now divides us

Remove and pass away,
Like shadows of the morning
Before the blaze of day?

3 Shall all that now unites us
More sweet and lasting prove,
A closer bond of union,

In a blest land of love?
Shall war be learned no longer,
Shall strife and tumult cease,
All earth His blessed kingdom,
The Lord and Prince of Peace?

4 O long-expected dawning,

Come with thy cheering ray:
When shall the morning brighten,
The shadows flee away?
O sweet anticipation,

It cheers the watchers on,
To pray, and hope, and labor,
Till the dark night be gone.
Miss Jane Borthwick. 1864

John Hullah. (1812-) 1865.

BENTLEY. 7, 6.

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"The Day which the Lord hath made."
Ps. cxviii. 24.

2 On thee, at the creation,

The light first had its birth;
On thee, for our salvation,
Christ rose from depths of earth;
On thee our Lord, victorious,

The Spirit sent from heaven,
And thus on thee, most glorious,
A triple light was given.
3 To-day on weary nations
The heavenly manna falls;
To holy convocations

The silver trumpet calls,
Where gospel light is glowing
With pure and radiant beams,
And living water flowing

With soul-refreshing streams. 4 New graces ever gaining

From this our day of rest,
We reach the rest remaining
To spirits of the blest;
To Holy Ghost be praises,

To Father, and to Son;
The Church her voice upraises

To Thee, blest Three in One.

Bp. Christopher Wordsworth. (1807-) 1862. ab. and alt.

I THE day of resurrection,
Earth, tell it out abroad:
The Passover of gladness,

The Passover of God.
From death to life eternal,

From earth unto the sky,
Our Christ hath brought us over,
With hymns of victory.

2 Our hearts be pure from evil,
That we may see aright
The Lord in rays eternal
Of resurrection-light;
And, listening to His accents,

May hear, so calm and plain,
His own "All hail !" and, hearing,
May raise the victor-strain.

3 Now let the heavens be joyful;

Let earth her song begin;
Let the round world keep triumph,
And all that is therein;

Invisible and visible,

Their notes let all things blend,
For Christ the Lord hath risen,
Our Joy that hath no end.

John of Damascus. (-c 780.
Tr. by Rev. John Mason Neale. (1818-1866.) 1862.

I SWEET is the work, O Lord,

Thy glorious acts to sing,

To praise Thy name, and hear Thy word, And grateful offerings bring.

2 Sweet, at the dawning light,

Thy boundless love to tell ;

And, when approach the shades of night, Still on the theme to dwell,

3 Sweet, on this day of rest,

To join in heart and voice

With those who love and serve Thee best, And in Thy name rejoice.

4 To songs of praise and joy

Be every Sabbath given,

That such may be our blest employ
Eternally in heaven.

Miss Harriet Auber. (1773-1862.) 1829. alt.

Given in Mercy to our Fathers.
Ps. lxxxi.

I SING to the Lord, our Might,
With holy fervor sing;
Let hearts and instruments unite
To praise our heavenly King.

2 This is His holy house,

And this His festal day, When He accepts the humblest vows That we sincerely pay.

3 The Sabbath to our sires

In mercy first was given;

The Church her Sabbaths still requires To speed her on to heaven.

4 We still, like them of old,

Are in the wilderness;

And God is still as near His fold,
To pity and to bless.

5 Then let us open wide