HYMNS FOR THE PRINCIPAL FESTIVALS, FASTS, AND OTHER SOLEMNITIES ОР The Church. I. ADVENT. 1. FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVent. The advent and offices of Christ, a ground of joy. (C. M.) 1 HARK, the glad sound! the SAVIOUR comes, The SAVIOUR promis'd long; Let ev'ry heart exult in praise, 2 He comes the prisoners to release, The gates of brass before Him break, 3 He comes from thickest films of vice And on the eye, oppress'd with night, 4 He comes the broken heart to bind, 5 Our glad hosannas, PRINCE of PEACE, 1 2. SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT. FATHER For knowledge thus divine! 2 Here the REDEEMER'S welcome voice Spreads heavenly peace around; And life and everlasting joys Attend the blissful sound. 3 O may those heavenly pages be 4 Divine INSTRUCTOR! glorious "LORD! Be Thou for ever near: Teach me to love Thy sacred word, 3. SECOND SUNDAY IN ADvent. The Second Advent of Christ. (P. M.) 1 Lo, He comes! with clouds descending, Once for guilty sinners slain, Thousand thousand saints attending, Swell the triumph of His train. Hallelujah! JESUS comes, and comes to reign. 2 Ev'ry eye shall now behold Him, Those who set at nought and sold Him, Shall the true MESSIAH see. 3 Blest Redemption, long expected, See the Son of GOD is there. 4 Yea, Amen! let all adore Thee Claim the kingdoms for Thine own. 4. THIRD SUNDAY IN Advent. The blessings and extent of Messiah's kingdom. (L. M.) 1 THE LORD shall reign, where'er the sun, Doth His successive journeys run; His empire, stretch from shore to shore, 2 To Him shall fervent pray'r be made, 3 People, and realms of ev'ry tongue, 4 Blessings abound where'er He reigns; And all the sons of want are blest. 5 Let ev'ry creature rise and bring 5. THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT. The example of Christ. (L.M.)—JOHN xiii. 15. 1 Pet. ii. 21 1 AND is the Gospel peace and love? So let our conversation be: 2 Whene'er the angry passions rise, And tempt our thoughts or tongues to strife, On JESUS let us fix our eyes Bright pattern of the Christian life! 3 To do His heavenly Father's will Was His employment and delight : Humanity and holy zeal, Shone through His life divinely bright. 4 Dispensing good where'er He came, 5 But ah! how blind, how weak we are! 6. FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT. Praise for redemption, and our consequent obligations. (C.M.) 1 WITH One consent let all the earth The praise of God proclaim, Who sent the SAVIOUR, by whose birth 2 Let nations join to magnify 3 But vainly thus in songs of praise, If, while our voice aloud we raise, 4 We, by a holy life alone, Our SAVIOUR's laws fulfil; 5 May we to all His words attend, Then shall our songs to heav'n ascend, |