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Know that the Lord is God alone;
He can create, and He destroy.

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2 His sovereign power, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and formed us men;
And, when like wandering sheep we strayed,
He brought us to His fold again.

3 We are His people, we His care,

Our souls and all our mortal frame:
What lasting honours shall we rear,
Almighty Maker, to Thy name?

f 4 We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs,
High as the heavens our voices raise;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill Thy courts with sounding praise.

5 Wide as the world is Thy command,
Vast as eternity Thy love;

Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.

'The hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem,

worship the Father.'

THOU to whom in ancient time

The lyre of Hebrew bards was strung,

Whom kings adored in song sublime,

And prophets praised with glowing tongue,

Hear Thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of Thy servants.'

'In this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.'

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Let my prayer be set forth before Thee as incense; and the lifting up of my

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hands as the evening sacrifice.'

S darker, darker fall around

The shadows of the night,

We gather here, with hymn and prayer,
To seek the eternal light.

2 Father in heaven, to Thee are known
Our many hopes and fears,

Our heavy weight of mortal toil,
Our bitterness of tears.

3 We pray Thee for all absent friends,
Who have been with us here;

And in our secret heart we name
The distant and the dear.

4 For weary eyes, and aching hearts,
And feet that from Thee rove,

The sick, the poor, the tried, the fallen,
We pray Thee, God of love.

m 5 We bring to Thee our hopes and fears,
And at Thy footstool lay;

And, Father, Thou who lovest all
Wilt hear us when we pray.