(OPENING OF A MISSION ROOM.)
313 "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there am I
in the midst of them."-St. Matt. xviii. 20.
I GREAT Shepherd of Thy people, hear! Thy presence now display:
As Thou hast given a place for prayer, So give us hearts to pray.
Within these walls let holy peace, And love and concord dwell: Here give the troubled conscience ease, The wounded spirit heal.
3 May we in faith receive Thy word, In faith present our prayers; And in the presence of our Lord Unbosom all our cares.
4 The hearing ear, the seeing eye, The contrite heart bestow; And shine upon us from on hign,
That we in grace may grow. Amen.
N. B. The chord enclosed in brackets to be omitted in second verse.
(ANNIVERSARY OF DEDICATION.)
"Glory and honour are in His presence; strength and gladness are in His place."- "I Chron. xvi. 27.
FI HOLY, Holy, Holy, to Thee our vows we pay, With Eucharist and canticle, on this our festal day : For Thee, O Lord Almighty, high praise in Sion waits; Glad city of the King most high, lift up, lift up thy gates! Holy, Holy, Holy, to Thee our vows we pay, With Eucharist and canticle, on this our festal day!
2 Thyself the Master Builder, oh! build us up in Thee, A temple pure and beautiful, where Thou wilt deign to be, Precious, elect, compacted, Thyself the Corner-stone, And full of love and graces sweet which Thou dost give alone. For Thee, O Lord Almighty, high praise in Sion waits, Glad city of the King most high, lift up, lift up thy gates! 3 O Comforter most blessèd, Thou source of Life and Light, The Bride to-day is glorious in raiment fair and white; Bring back the sheep that wander, raise up the souls that fall, Give joy for tears to penitents, and robes of praise to all! Holy, Holy, Holy, to Thee our vows we pay, With Eucharist and canticle, on this our festal day!
4 Vouchsafe us, Lord, hereafter, to see Thee face to face, In peaceful glad Jerusalem, thrice holy happy place; When Sacrament and Temple shall never more be known, When Thou art Temple, Sacrifice, and Priest upon the throne! For Thee, O Lord Almighty, high praise in Sion waits,
Glad city of the King most high, lift up, lift up thy gates! Amen. Also the following:-
BLESSED City, Heavenly Salem (338). CHRIST is our Corner-stone (344). Lo, God is here, let us adore (415).
LORD of the worlds above (423). OH, happy feet that tread (469).. PLEASANT are Thy courts above (483).
WE love the place, O God (540).
PIO THOU in whom Thy saints repose, When life's brief conflict finds its close: Behold us met before Thy face To hallow this their resting-place: Safe are the souls whom Thou dost keep; And safely here their dust shall sleep.
2 Thou knowest, Lord, for Thou hast wept Beside the tomb where Lazarus slept, What tears must flow, what hearts must bleed,
When here we sow the precious seed; Thou still rememb'rest on Thy Throne M Thy garden grave and sealed stone.
3 Bid then Thy hosts encamp around This chosen spot of holy ground: Herelet calm Hope with Memory dwell,
BRIEF life is here our portion GOD hath two families of love
And Faith of heavenly comfort tell : No thought of ill, no footstep rude Profane the sacred solitude.
4 Here when Thy mourners shall repair In lonely grief and trembling prayer, - Lift Thou sad hearts and streaming eyes To those fair glades of Paradise, Where safe within the guarded gate Thy ransomed souls in patience wait.
5 And when the Valley, thick with corn, Shall laugh to see Thy Harvest Morn, Here may the Angel-reapers find Full many a sheaf for Thee to bind, And in Thy golden garner store Our fruit of tears for evermore. Amen.
ANGEL VOICES. [First Tune.] 8.5.8.5.8.4.3.
DULCE SONANS. [Second Tune.] 8.5.8.5.8.4.3.
316 "Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and
were created."-Rev. iv, 11.
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