Come, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 444. I COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 Jesus is worthy to receive Honor and power divine; And blessings, more than we can give, 3 Let all that dwell above the sky, 4 The whole creation join in one, 445. I O, FROM these visions dark and drear, I struggle yet with darkness here: 2 Refresh my drooping soul with grace My God, remember me. 3 Some cheering ray of hope impart, 4 For the inheritance in light, On trembling wings, I flee; With sins and doubts and fears I fight: My God, remember me. 4 Make channels for the streams of love, Where they may broad-ly run; And love has 0 - ver flowing streams To fill them ev'ry one. 446. I MAKE channels for the streams of love, To fill them every one. 2 But if at any time we cease Such channels to provide, The very fount of love for us Will soon be parched and dried. 3 For we must share, if we would keep, That blessing from above; Ceasing to give, we cease to have: Burnap. C.M. #3 447. I O LOVE! O Life! our faith and sight Thy presence maketh one; As through transfigured clouds of white 2 So, to our mortal eyes subdued, 3 The homage that we render thee Divides the Cross and Throne. 4 Our Friend, our Brother, and our Lord, What may thy service be? Nor name, nor form, nor ritual word, 5 Thy litanies, sweet offices Return, 0 wanderer, now return, And seek thy Father's face; Those new desires which in thee burn, Were kindled by his grace. 448. 1 RETURN, O wanderer, now return, And seek thy Father's face; 2 Return, O wanderer, now return; 3 Return, O wanderer, now return; 4 Return, O wanderer, now return, I New ev'ry morning is the love Our wakening and uprising prove; Through sleep and darkness safely brought, 3 If on our daily course, our mind New treasures still, of countless price, 4 Old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, 5 The trivial round, the common task, 6 4 4 Lift up, lift up your voi-ces now! The whole wide world re-joic-es now: The Lord hath triumphed gloriously, I FATHER of angels and of men, 2 From heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, I O COME! loud anthems let us sing, 2 Into his presence let us haste To thank him for his favors past; Palmæ. L.M. Thy boundless mercies, freely given, 3 Sing, O ye heavens! burst into praise 3 For God the Lord, enthroned in state, 4 O, let us to his courts repair, Supreme and universal Light! Fountain of reason! Judge of right! Parent of good! whose blessings flow On all above, and all be-low. 453. I SUPREME and universal Light! Fountain of reason! Judge of right! 2 Assist us, Lord, to act, to be, 3 May our expanded souls disclaim 1 IT came upon the midnight clear, 2 Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings unfurled; And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world: Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on hovering wing, And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing. 3 But with the woes of sin and strife And man, at war with man, hears not 4 And ye, beneath life's crushing load, With painful steps and slow, - O, rest beside the weary road, And hear the angels sing! 5 For lo! the days are hastening on, And the whole world give back the song |