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THIRD PART.

Joining the heavenly choir. 1 THE God who reigns on high The great archangels sing, And, "Holy, holy, holy," cry, "Almighty King!

Who was and is the same,

And evermore shall be; Jehovah, Father, great I AM, We worship thee."

2 Before the Saviour's face

The ransomed nations bow; O'erwhelmed at his almighty grace, Forever new:

He shows his prints of love,—

They kindle to a flame,

And sound through all the worlds above, The slaughtered Lamb!

3 The whole triumphant host

Give thanks to God on high;

"Hail, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost," They ever cry:

Hail, Ábrah'm's God, and mine!

I join the heavenly lays,—

All might and majesty are thine,
And endless praise.

GETHSEMANE.

Thomas Olivers.

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[C. P. M. Tune, Ganges. Page 248.] The pilgrim's lot.

1 How happy is the pilgrim's lot,
How free from every anxious thought,
From worldly hope and fear!
Confined to neither court nor cell,
His soul disdains on earth to dwell,
He only sojourns here.

2 This happiness in part is mine,
Aiready saved from low design,
From every creature-love;
Blest with the scorn of finite good,
My soul is lightened of its load,
And seeks the things above.

3 There is my house and portion fair;
My treasure and my heart are there,
And my abiding home;
For me my elder brethren stay,
And angels beckon me away,
And Jesus bids me come.

4 "I come," thy servant, Lord, replies,
"I come to meet thee in the skies,
And claim my heavenly rest!
Now let the pilgrim's journey end;
Now, O my Saviour, Brother, Friend,
Receive me to thy breast!"

John Wesley.

RICHARD REDHEAD.

3 When the praise of heaven I hear
Loud as thunders to the ear,
Loud as many waters' noise,
Sweet as harp's melodious voice;
Then, Lord, shall I fully know,
Not till then, how much I owe.
Robert M. M'Cheyne.

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The fruit of the seasons.

1 LORD, in thy name thy servants plead,
And thou hast sworn to hear;
Thine is the harvest, thine the seed,
The fresh and fading year.

2 Our hope, when autumn winds blew wild, We trusted, Lord, with thee;

And still, now spring has on us smiled,
We wait on thy decree.

3 The former and the latter rain,
The summer sun and air,

The green ear, and the golden grain,

All thine, are ours by prayer.

4 Thine, too, by right, and ours by grace, The wondrous growth unseen,

The hopes that soothe, the fears that brace, The love that shines serene.

John Keble.

1 FOUNTAIN of mercy, God of love,
How rich thy bounties are!
The rolling seasons, as they move,
Proclaim thy constant care.

2 When in the bosom of the earth
The sower hid the grain,

Thy goodness marked its secret birth,
And sent the early rain.

3 The spring's sweet influence, Lord, was

thine;

The plants in beauty grew;

Thou gav'st refulgent suns to shine, And the refreshing dew.

4 These various mercies from above
Matured the swelling grain;

A kindly harvest crowns thy love,
And plenty fills the plain.

5 We own and bless thy gracious sway; Thy hand all nature hails:

Seed-time nor harvest, night nor day,
Summer nor winter, fails.

Mrs. Alice Flowerdew.

[L. M. Tune, Duke Street. Page 320.] 1082 Eternal Source of every joy.

1 ETERNAL Source of every joy,
Well may thy praise our lips employ,
While in thy temple we appear,
Whose goodness crowns the circling year.

2 The flowery spring, at thy command,
Embalms the air and paints the land;
The summer rays with vigor shine,
To raise the corn and cheer the vine.

3 Thy hand in autumn richly pours Through all our coasts redundant stores And winters, softened by thy care,

No more a face of horror wear.

4 Seasons, and months, and weeks, and days,

Demand successive songs of praise ;
Still be the cheerful homage paid,
With opening light and evening shade.

5 Here in thy house shall incense rise,
And circling Sabbaths bless our eyes,
Till to those lofty heights we soar,
Where days and years revolve no more.

Philip Doddridge.

ST. GEORGE. 7. D.

SIR GEORGE J. ELVEY.

1 COME, ye thankful people, come,
Raise the song of harvest-home:
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
God, our Maker, doth provide
For our wants to be supplied:
Come to God's own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest-home.

2 All the world is God's own field,
Fruit unto his praise to yield;
Wheat and tares together sown,
Unto joy or sorrow grown;
First the blade, and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear:
Lord of harvest, grant that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be.

3 For the Lord our God shall come,
And shall take his harvest home;
From his field shall in that day
All offenses purge away;
Give his angels charge at last
In the fire the tares to cast;
But the fruitful ears to store
In his garner evermore.

4 Even so, Lord, quickly come
To thy final harvest-home;
Gather thou thy people in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin;
There, forever purified,
In thy presence to abide:
Come, with all thine angels, come,
Raise the glorious harvest-home.
Henry Alford.

1084 Thanksgiving hymn.

1 PRAISE to God, immortal praise,
For the love that crowns our days!
Bounteous Source of every joy,
Let thy praise our tongues employ.

2 For the blessings of the field,
For the stores the gardens yield;
For the fruits in full supply,
Ripened 'neath the summer sky;

3 All that spring with bounteous hand
Scatters o'er the smiling land;
All that liberal autumn pours
From her rich, o'erflowing stores;

4 These to thee, my God, we owe,
Source whence all our blessings flow;
And for these my soul shall raise
Grateful vows and solemn praise.

5 Should thine altered hand restrain
The early and the latter rain;
Blast each opening bud of joy,
And the rising year destroy;

6 Yet to thee my soul should raise
Grateful vows and solemn praise;
And, when every blessing's flown,
Love thee for thyself alone.

Mrs. Anna L. Barbauld, alt.

Doxology.

SING we to our God above,
Praise eternal as his love;
Praise him, all ye heavenly host,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

Charles Wesley.

ST. JAMES.

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FROM LINDEMAN'S KORAL BOK.

1085 Praise to the Lord of harvest.
1 SING to the Lord of harvest!
Sing songs of love and praise!
With joyful hearts and voices
Your hallelujahs raise:
By him the rolling seasons
In fruitful order move;
Sing to the Lord of harvest
A song of happy love.

2 By him the clouds drop fatness,
The deserts bloom and spring,
The hills leap up in gladness,
The valleys laugh and sing:
He filleth with his fullness

All things with large increase, He crowns the year with goodness, With plenty, and with peace.

3 Heap on his sacred altar

The gifts his goodness gave,
The golden sheaves of harvest,
The souls he died to save:
Your hearts lay down before him
When at his feet ye fall,
And with your lives adore him
Who gave his life for all.

4 To God, the gracious Father,

Who made us "very good,"

To Christ, who, when we wandered Restored us with his blood,

And to the Holy Spirit,

Who doth upon us pour His blessed dews and sunshine, Be praise for evermore!

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John S. B. Monsell.

God's gifts in nature.

1 WE plow the fields and scatter
The good seed on the land,
But it is fed and watered

By God's almighty hand;
He sends the snow in winter,
The warmth to swell the grain,
The breezes and the sunshine,
And soft refreshing rain.
2 He only is the Maker
Of all things near and far;
He paints the wayside flower,
He lights the evening star;
The winds and waves obey him,
By him the birds are fed;
Much more to us, his children,
He gives our daily bread.

3 We thank thee, then, O Father,
For all things bright and good,
The seed-time and the harvest,

Our life, our health, our food;
Accept the gifts we offer

For all thy love imparts,
And, what thou most desirest,
Our humble, thankful hearts.

From the German of Matthias Claudius.

For - ests and

1087 Praise to the God of harvest.
1 THE God of harvest praise;
In loud thanksgiving raise

Hand, heart, and voice;
The valleys laugh and sing,
Forests and mountains ring,
The plains their tribute bring,
The streams rejoice.

2 Yea, bless his holy name,
And joyful thanks proclaim
Through all the earth;
To glory in your lot
Is comely, but be not
God's benefits forgot,
Amid your mirth.

3 The God of harvest praise;
Hands, hearts, and voices raise
With one accord;

From field to garner throng,
Bearing your sheaves along,
And in your harvest song
Bless ye the Lord.

James Montgomery.

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1088 The preaching leaves.
1 THE leaves, around me falling,
Are preaching of decay,
The hollow winds are calling,

"Come, pilgrim, come away!"

The day, in night declining,
Says I must, too, decline;
The year, its life resigning,-
Its lot foreshadows mine.

2 The light my path surrounding,
The loves, to which I cling,
The hopes within me bounding,
The joys that round me wing,-
All melt, like stars of even,
Before the morning's ray,
Pass upward unto heaven,
And chide at my delay.

3 The friends, gone there before me, Are calling from on high;

And joyous angels o'er me

Tempt sweetly to the sky: "Why wait," they say, "and wither 'Mid scenes of death and sin?

O rise to glory, hither,

And find true life begin."

4 I hear the invitation,

And fain would rise and come,

A sinner, to salvation;

An exile, to his home:

But, while I here must linger,
Thus, thus let all I see
Point on, with faithful finger,
To heaven, O Lord, and thee.

Henry F. Lyte.