P1 WE f Blessed are they that have not seen.-JOHN XX. 29. saw Thee not when Thou didst | mf 4 We stood not by the empty tomb, come To this poor world of sin and death; cr Nor e'er beheld Thy cottage home, In that despised Nazareth; But we believe Thy footsteps trod Its streets and plains, Thou Son of God. dim f Where late Thy sacred body lay; Nor sat within that upper room, Nor met Thee in the open way; But we believe that angels said, 'Why seek the living with the dead?' 5 We did not mark the chosen few, First lift to heaven their wondering view, 6 And now that Thou dost reign on high, And thence Thy waiting people bless, No ray of glory from the sky Doth shine upon our wilderness; But we believe that Thou art there, And seek Thee, Lord, in praise and prayer. J. Hampden Gurney. 112 J. B. DYKES. (4) HIS DEATH. (See also Section VIII. (3), The Lord's Supper.') All the people that came together to that sight.. p1 COME and mourn with me awhile; pp PP Pp PP PP O come, together let us mourn : 2 Have we no tears to-shed for Him, 3 Seven times He spake, seven words of love; Jesus, our Lord, is crucified. 4 Come, let us stand beneath the cross; 5 A broken heart, a fount of tears, fp 60 love of God! O sin of man! Amen. F. W. Faber (alt.). mf 1 WH HEN I survey the wondrous cross And pour contempt on all my pride. 2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, p 3 See from His head, His hands, His feet, f 4 Were the whole realm of nature mine, ст 114 The preaching of the cross.-1 COR. i. 18. f 1 WE sing the praise of Him who died, Of Him who died upon the cross; 2 Inscribed upon the cross we see, And nerves the feeble arm for fight; The measure and the pledge of love; The angels' theme in heaven above. 115 mf1 Amen. d. d. of His cross.-COL. i 20. Having made peace through the blood ATURE with open volume stands, N To spread her Maker's praise abroad; And every labour of His hands Shows something worthy of a God. 2 But in the grace that rescued man, 4 O the sweet wonders of that cross, f 116 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.-PHIL. ii. 5. p10 to dark Gethsemane, f Ye that feel the tempter's power; Watch with Him one bitter hour: See the Lord of life arraigned: O the pangs His soul sustained! 3 Calvary's mournful mountain climb; 'It is finished!' hear Him cry : 4 Early hasten to the tomb, Where they laid His breathless clay; All is solitude and gloom : Who hath taken Him away? Christ is risen; He seeks the skies: 117 My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?-MATT. xxvii. 46. HRONED upon the awful tree, Pl THR King of grief, I watch with Thee: Darkness veils Thine anguished face, None can tell what pangs unknown 2 Silent through those three dread hours, Till the appointed time is nigh, 3 Hark! that cry that peals aloud Thou dost ask Him-can it be?- 4 Lord, should fear and anguish roll James Montgomery. |