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5. Could I command the spacious land
And the more boundless sea,
For one blest hour at Thy right hand
I'd give them both away.

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1. HERE cares and angry passions cease,
For saints together meet

To spend an hour of prayer and peace
At their Redeemer's feet.

2. No sculptured wonders meet the sight,
Nor pictured saints appear,

Nor storied window's gorgeous light,
For God himself is here.

3. And here are comrades in the war
With Satan and with sin,

Who now in God's own favor share,
And soon their heaven will win.

4. Glory to God! who deigns to bless
This consecrated day,

Unfolds His wondrous promises
And makes it sweet to pray.

5. Glory to God! who deigns to hear
The humblest sigh we raise,
And answers every heartfelt prayer,
And hears our hymn of praise.

NOEL'S COLL.

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1. AGAIN the Lord of life and light
Awakes the kindling ray,

Dispels the darkness of the night,
And pours increasing day.

2. O what a night was that which wrapt
A guilty world in gloom!

O what a sun which broke this day
Triumphant from the tomb!

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3. The powers of darkness leagued in vain
To bind our Lord in death;

He shook their kingdom, when He fell,
By His expiring breath.

4. And now His conquering chariot wheels
Ascend the lofty skies;

Broken beneath His powerful cross,
Death's iron scepter lies.

5. This day be grateful homage paid,
And loud hosannas sung;

Let gladness dwell in every heart,
And praise on every tongue.

6. Ten thousand thousand voices join
To hail this happy morn,

Which scatters blessings from its wings
On nations yet unborn.

C. M.

1. AND now another week begins,
This day we call the Lord's;

MRS. BARBAULD.

This day He rose, who bore our sins—
For so His word records.

2. Hark, how the angels sweetly sing!--
Their voices fill the sky;

They hail their great victorious King,
And welcome Him on high.

3. We'll catch the note of lofty praise;
May we their rapture feel;

Our thankful songs with theirs we'll raise
And emulate their zeal.

4. Come, then, ye saints! and grateful sing
Of Christ, our risen Lord-

Of Christ, the everlasting King-
Of Christ, th' incarnate word.

5. Hail, mighty Saviour! Thee we hail!
High on Thy throne above;
Till heart and flesh together fail,
We'll sing Thy matchless love.

KELLY.

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1. BLEST morning, whose young dawning rays
Beheld our living God,

That saw Him triumph o'er the dust,
And leave His dark abode.

2. In the cold prison of the tomb
The dead Redeemer lay,

Till the revolving skies had brought
The third, th' appointed day.

3. Hell and the grave unite their force
To hold our Lord, in vain;
The sleeping conqueror arose,
And burst their feeble chain.

4. To Thy great name, almighty Lord,
These sacred hours we pay,
And loud hosannas shall proclaim
The triumph of the day.

5. Salvation and immortal praise

To our victorious King!

Let heaven and earth, and rocks and seas,

With glad hosannas ring.

Doxology. C. M.

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,

One God, whom we adore,

Be glory as it was, is now,

And shall be evermore.

S. P. M.

1. How pleased and blessed was I

To hear the people cry—

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Come, let us seek our God to-day!"

Yes, with a cheerful zeal

We haste to Zion's hill,

And there our vows and honors pay.

2. Zion, thrice happy place,
Adorned with wondrous grace,

And walls of strength embrace thee round.
In thee our tribes appear

To pray, and praise, and hear

The sacred Gospel's joyful sound.

3. May peace attend thy gate,
And joy within thee wait

To bless the soul of every guest:
The man that seeks thy peace,
And wishes thine increase,

A thousand blessings on him rest!

4. My tongue repeats her vows-
"Peace to this sacred house !"

For here my friends and kindred dwell :
And since my glorious God

Makes thee his blest abode,

My soul shall ever love thee well.

WATTS.

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1. THE Lord Jehovah reigns,

And royal state maintains,

His head with awful glories crowned;
Arrayed in robes of light,

Begirt with sovereign might,

And rays of majesty around.

2. Upheld by Thy commands,

The world securely stands,

And skies and stars obey Thy word;

Thy throne was fixed on high

Before the starry sky;

Eternal is Thy kingdom, Lord!

3. In vain the noisy crowd,

Like billows fierce and loud,

Against Thine empire rage and roar;

In vain, with angry spite,

The surly nations fight,

And dash like waves against the shore.

4. Let floods and nations rage,
And all their powers engage—

Let swelling tides assault the sky-
The terrors of Thy frown
Shall beat their madness down;
Thy throne forever stands on high.

5. Thy promises are true;

Thy grace is ever new;

There fixed, Thy church shall ne'er remove; Thy saints, with holy fear,

Shall in Thy courts appear,

And sing Thine everlasting love.

WATTS.

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1. WELCOME, Sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise,
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes.

2. The King himself comes near,
And feasts His saints to-day;
Here may we sit, and see Him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.

3. One day, amid the place

Where God, my God, hath been,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
Within the tents of sin.

4. My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this,

And sit and sing herself away
To everlasting bliss.

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1. BEHOLD, the morning sun

Begins his glorious way;

His beams through all the nations run,
And life and light convey.

WATTS.

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