The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book

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in ward sight,

2 We are sinful; cleanse us, Lord:
We are faint; thy strength afford:
Lost,-until by thee restored,
Comforter divine!

3 Like the dew, thy peace distill;
Guide, subdue our wayward will,
Things of Christ unfolding still,
Comforter divine!

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252, 254, 359.

2 If earthly parents hear

Their children when they cry,
If they, with love sincere,

Their varied wants supply,
Much more wilt thou thy love display,
And answer when thy children pray.

Comfort

ZEBULON. H. M.

4 In us "Abba Father," cry,-
Earnest of our rest on high,
Hope of immortality,
Comforter divine!

5 Search for us the depths of God;
Bear us up the starry road
To the hight of thine abode,
Comforter divine!

1. 0 thou that hear-est prayer, At-tend our hum-ble cry, And let thy servants share

George Rawson. LOWELL MASON.

8, 47, 215.

2 The dust of time is on thy page,

Yet dims no pure and hallowed thought; In every clime, in every age,

Have saints thy holy comfort sought. 3 Thou art the life, the joy, the light,

The hope of trusting thousands here, Whose faith shall find eternal sight

Beyond this dreary mortal sphere. 4 No other rule by which to live,

No other faith like thine to save;
No other hope such peace can give

When near the cold and silent grave. 5 O wondrous lamp of promise sweet!

Thy light illumes the trusting soul With glory that shall be complete When days and years have ceased to roll.

F. E. Belden.

Through countless ages of de-cline Thy glow-ing truths

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3, 101, 336.

1 THE heavens declare thy glory, Lord; In every star thy wisdom shines; But when our eyes behold thy word, We read thy name in fairer lines.

2 The rolling sun, the changing light,

And nights and days, thy power confess; But the blest volume thou didst write, Reveals thy justice and thy grace.

3 Sun, moon, and stars convey thy praise Round the whole earth, and never stand; So, when thy truth began its race,

It touched and lightened every land.

L. O. EMERSON

E-ter - nal as thy Mak-er's name;

11: 11:11

4 Nor shall thy spreading gospel rest
Till through the world thy truth has run;
Till Christ has all the nations blessed
That see the light or feel the sun.
Great Sun of righteousness! arise;
Bless the dark world with heavenly light;
Thy gospel makes the simple wise,

Thy laws are pure, thy judgments right.

have stood the same.

By permission.

1. I love the sa- - cred book of God, No other can its

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GREGORIAN, ARR. BY LOWELL MASON.

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223,542, 592.

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1'T WAS by an order from the Lord

The ancient prophets spoke his word;
His Spirit did their tongues inspire,
And warmed their hearts with heavenly fire.
2 Great God, mine eyes with pleasure look
On the dear volume of thy book;
There my Redeemer's face I see,
And read his name who died for me.

ply;

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168, 336, 51.001

1 THE starry firmament on high,
And all the glories of the sky,
Yet shine not to thy praise, O Lord,
So brightly as thy written word.

2 The hopes that holy word supplies,
Its truths divine and precepts wise,
In each a heavenly beam I see,
And every
beam conducts to thee.

Almighty Lord, the sun shall fail,
The moon her borrowed glory veil,
And deepest reverence hush on high
The joyful chorus of the sky:
4 But fixed for everlasting years,
Unmoved amid the wreck of spheres,
Thy word shall shine in cloudless day,
When heaven and earth have passed away

Robert Grant.