431. O LORD, receive the soul of Thy servant, which Thou hast been pleased to call out of the prison of this world; deliver it from the place of punishment, and grant that it may enjoy the blessedness of everlasting rest and light with Thine elect saints in the glory of the Resurrection. Through.

On the Death of a Child.

432. O LORD JESU CHRIST, Who takest the righteous away from the evil to come, and hast been pleased to call a child from this family unto Thyself; comfort, we beseech Thee, the hearts of his parents; and as Thou gavest Thy beloved disciple to console Thy Blessed Mother when she stood by Thy Cross, so now grant that these mourners may be consoled by the ministry of Thy holy Word. Who livest.

For the Repose and Blessedness of the Departed.

433. Absolve, O LORD, we beseech Thee, the soul of Thy servant, that dead unto the world it may live unto Thee, and whatsoever sins it hath committed through the weakness of the flesh in this mortal life, wash away by the pardon of Thy merciful love. Through.

that Thou wouldst place in the abode of peace and light the soul of Thy servant, which Thou hast caused to depart from this world, and unite it to the fellowship of Thy saints. Through.

436. O LORD JESU CHRIST, Who by Thy death broughtest help unto the dead; mercifully hear our prayers for the faithful departed, and grant that we may obtain salvation for ourselves and rest for them, so that the faith by which we and they alike believe in Thee may justify us from our sins and deliver them from all tribulation. Through Thy mercy, O our GOD, Who art blessed and livest.

437. O GOD, perfect Love and loving Truth, unwearied in goodness and mercy, Who willest to save us from death, and madest death that His descent into hell our LORD JESUS CHRIST to undergo might be our ascension into heaven; we humbly entreat Thee that, granting pardon of all his sins to Thy servant whom Thou hast called from the toils and pilgrimage of this world, Thou wouldst place his soul in Abraham's bosom. Through the same.

For the Coming of Christ's Kingdom.

438. O LORD JESU CHRIST, Who hast promised to come again in like manner as Thou didst go into heaven; we pray Thee to hasten the time of Thine Advent, that sin and death may be overcome, and that

with all Thy faithful departed, may be perfected in blessedness in that day when Thou makest up Thy jewels. Through Thy mercy, O our GOD, Who art blessed and livest.

I.

JESU! The very thought is sweet!
In that dear Name all heart-joys meet!
But O than honey sweeter far
The glimpses of His Presence are.

No word is sung more sweet than this:
No name is heard more full of bliss:
No thought brings sweeter comfort nigh,
Than JESUS, SON of GOD most high.

JESU! the Hope of souls forlorn!
How good to them for sin that mourn!
To them that seek Thee, O how kind!
But what art Thou to them that find?

If I find Him, if I follow,
What His guerdon here?
"Many a sorrow, many a labour,
Many a tear."

If I still hold closely to Him,
What hath He at last?
"Sorrow vanquished, labour ended,
Jordan passed!"

If I ask Him to receive me,
Will He say me nay?

"Not till earth, and not till heaven Pass away!"

Finding, following, keeping, struggling, Is He sure to bless?

"Angels, Martyrs, Prophets, Virgins, Answer, Yes!"

III.

O happy band of pilgrims,
If onward ye will tread
With JESUS as your Fellow,
TO JESUS as your Head!

O happy if ye labour

AS JESUS did for men: O happy, if ye hunger

AS JESUS hungered then!

The Cross that JESUS carried
He carried as your due:
The Crown that JESUS weareth
He weareth it for you.

The faith by which ye see Him, The hope in which ye yearn, The love that through all trouble To Him alone will turn,

What are they but forerunners To lead you to His sight; What are they save the effluence Of uncreated Light?

The trials that beset you,
The sorrows ye endure,
The manifold temptations
That death alone can cure,-

What are they but His jewels, Of right celestial worth? What are they but the ladder Set up to heaven on earth?

O happy band of pilgrims, Look upward to the skies, Where such a light affliction Shall win you such a prize.

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IV.

JESU, Name all names above,
JESU, best and dearest,
JESU, Fount of perfect love;

Holiest, tenderest, nearest ;
JESU, Source of grace completest,
JESU purest, JESU Sweetest,

JESU, well of power Divine,

Make me, keep me, seal me Thine!

JESU, open me the gate

That of old he entered,

Who, in that most lost estate,

Wholly on Thee ventured;

Thou Whose wounds are ever pleading,
And Thy Passion interceding,

From my misery let me rise
To a Home in Paradise!

Thou didst call the Prodigal,

Thou didst pardon Mary:

Thou Whose words can never fail,
Love can never vary;
LORD, to heal my lost condition,
Give for Thou canst give-contrition;
Thou canst pardon all mine ill,
If Thou wilt: O say, "I will!"

Woe, that I have turned aside
After fleshly pleasure!
Woe, that I have never tried

For the Heavenly Treasure!
Treasure, safe in Homes supernal;
Incorruptible, eternal!

Treasure no less price hath won
Than the Passion of the SON!

JESU, crowned with thorns for me, Scourged for my transgression, Witnessing through agony,

That Thy good confession! JESU, clad in purple raiment, For my evils making payment: Let not all Thy woe and pain, Let not Calvary, be in vain! When I reach death's bitter sea, And its waves roll higher, Help the more forsaking me

As the storm grows nigher : JESU, leave me not to languish, Helpless, hopeless, full of anguish ! Tell me- Verily I say,

Thou shalt be with Me to-day!"

V.

Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee:
Let the Water and the Blood,
From Thy riven side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,

Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

Not the labours of my hands,
Can fulfil Thy law's demands;
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears for ever flow,
All for sin could not atone;
Thou must save, and Thou alone.

Nothing in my hand I bring,
Only to Thy Cross I cling;
Naked, come to Thee for dress;
Helpless, look to Thee for grace;
Vile, to David's fountain fly:
Cleanse me, SAVIOUR, or I die.

While I draw this fleeting breath,
When mine eye-strings break in death,
When I soar through tracts unknown-
See Thee on Thy Judgment-throne,
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,

Let me hide myself in Thee. Amen.
VI.

JESU, Lover of my soul,

Let me to Thy bosom fly,
While the nearer waters roll,
While the tempest still is high:
Hide me, O my SAVIOUR, hide,
Till the storm of life is past;
Safe into the haven guide;
O receive my soul at last!

Other refuge have I none;
Hangs my helpless soul on Thee:
Leave, ah! leave me not alone,

Still support and comfort me:
All my trust on Thee is stayed;
All my help from Thee I bring;
Cover my defenceless head

With the shadow of Thy wing.

Plenteous grace with Thee is found,
Grace to cover all my sin:
Let the healing streams abound,
Make and keep me pure within.
Thou of Life the Fountain art,
Freely let me take of Thee;
Spring Thou up within my heart,
Rise to all eternity. Amen.

VII.

Let every faithful heart rejoice,
And render thanks to GOD on high:
And with each power of soul and voice
Extol His praises worthily.

Into this dark world JESUS came,
And all men might His Form behold;
While to the limits of the same

He passed, that we might be consoled.

To all He showed that gentle Face;
On good and bad alike it shone :
Its perfect loveliness and grace

The LORD of all concealed from none.

O love of CHRIST beyond all love!
O clemency beyond all thought!
O grace all praise of men above,
Whereby such gifts to men are brought!

O Blessed Face, Whose praise we sing!
Here in the Way we worship Thee:
That in the Country of our King
Filled with Thy glory we may be!

To GOD on high be glory meet!
Equal to Thee, Eternal SON!
Equal to Thee, Blest PARACLETE,
While never-ending ages run! Amen.

VIII.

Sweet the moments, rich in blessing, Which before the Cross I spend, Life, and health, and peace possessing, From the sinner's dying Friend.

Here I rest, for ever viewing

Mercy poured in streams of Blood; Precious drops, my soul bedewing, Plead and claim my peace with GOD.

Truly blessed is the station,

Low before His Cross to lie,
While I see Divine compassion
Floating in His languid eye.

Love and grief my heart dividing,
With my tears His feet I'll bathe,
Constant still in faith abiding,

Life deriving from His death.

IX.

Sun of my soul, Thou SAVIOUR dear,
It is not night if Thou be near;
O may no earth-born cloud arise
To hide Thee from Thy servant's eyes.

When the soft dews of kindly sleep
My weary eyelids gently steep,
Be my last thought, how sweet to rest
For ever on my SAVIOUR'S breast.

Abide with me from morn till eve,
For without Thee I cannot live;
Abide with me when night is nigh,
For without Thee I dare not die.

If some poor wandering child of Thine
Have spurned to-day the voice divine,
Now, LORD, the gracious work begin;
Let him no more lie down in sin.

Watch by the sick; enrich the poor
With blessings from Thy boundless store;
Be every mourner's sleep to night,
Like infant's slumbers, pure and light.

Come near and bless us when we wake,
Ere through the world our way we take;
Till in the ocean of Thy love

We lose ourselves in heaven above. Amen.

X.

O come and mourn with me awhile, See, Mary calls us to her side;

O come and let us mourn with her: JESUS, our Love, is Crucified !

Have we no tears to shed for Him, While soldiers scoff and Jews deride? Ah! look how patiently He hangs : JESUS, our Love, is Crucified!

How fast His hands and feet are nailed, His blessèd tongue with thirst is tied! His failing eyes are blind with blood: JESUS, our Love, is Crucified!

His Mother cannot reach His Face;
She stands in helplessness beside;
Her heart is martyred with her Son's:
JESUS, our Love, is Crucified !

Seven times He spoke, Seven Words of
Love;

And all three hours His silence cried
For mercy on the souls of men :
JESUS, our Love, is Crucified!

Death came, and JESUS meekly bowed:
His failing eyes He strove to guide
With mindful love to Mary's face:
JESUS, our Love, is Crucified !

O break! O break, hard heart of mine!
Thy weak self-love and guilty pride
Ilis Pilate and His Judas were:
JESUS, our Love, is Crucified!

Come, take thy stand beneath the Cross,
And let the blood from out that side
Fall gently on thee, drop by drop:
JESUS, our Love, is Crucified!

A broken heart, a fount of tears,
Ask, and they will not be denied ;
A broken heart love's cradle is :
JESUS, our Love, is Crucified!

O love of GOD! O sin of man!

In this dread act your strength is tried;
And victory remains with love:
JESUS, our Love, is Crucified !

XI.

SAVIOUR, when in dust to Thee
Low we bow the adoring knee ;
When, repentant, to the skies
Scarce we lift our weeping eyes;
O by all Thy pains and woe
Suffered once for man below,
Bending from Thy throne on high,
Hear our solemn Litany!

By Thy helpless infant years,
By Thy life of want and tears,
By Thy days of sore distress
In the savage wilderness;
By the dread mysterious hour
Of the insulting tempter's power,
Turn, O turn a favouring eye,
Hear our solemn Litany!

By the sacred grief that wept
O'er the grave where Lazarus slept;
By the boding tears that flowed
Over Salem's loved abode ;
By the anguished sigh that told
Treachery lurked within Thy fold;
From Thy seat above the sky,
Ilear our solemn Litany!

By Thine hour of dire despair;
By Thine agony of prayer:
By the Cross, the nail, the thorn,
Piercing spear, and torturing scorn;
By the gloom that veiled the skies
O'er the dreadful Sacrifice;
Listen to our humble cry,
Hear our solemn Litany!

For I fain would gaze on Thee,

With the lambs to whom 'tis given That they feed, from danger free,

In the happy fields of heaven; Praising Thee, all terrors o'er, Never can they wander more.

Here I live in sore distress,

Fearing, watching, hour by hour; For my foes around me press,

And I know their craft and power: LORD, Thy lamb can never be Safe one moment, but with Thee.

O LORD JESU, let me not

'Mid the ravening wolves e'er fall, Help me as a shepherd ought,

That I may escape them all : Bear me homeward in Thy breast, To Thy fold of endless rest.

XIV.

Sweet SAVIOUR, bless us ere we go;
Thy Word into our minds instil;
And make our lukewarm hearts to glow
With lowly love and fervent will.
Through life's long day and death's dark
night,

O gentle JESU, be our Light.

The day is gone, its hours have run,

And Thou hast taken count of all, The scanty triumphs grace hath won, The broken vow, the frequent fall. Through life's long day and death's dark night,

O gentle JESU, be our Light.

Grant us, dear LORD, from evil ways
True absolution and release;
And bless us more than in past days,
With purity and inward peace.
Through life's long day and death's dark
night,

O gentle JESU, be our Light.

Do more than pardon; give us joy,
Sweet fear, and sober liberty,

And simple hearts without alloy
That only long to be like Thee.
Through life's long day and death's dark
night,

O gentle JESU, be our Light.

Labour is sweet, for Thou hast toiled;

And care is light, for Thou hast cared;

Ah! never let our work be soiled
With strife, or by deceit ensnared.
Through life's long day and death's dark
night,

O gentle JESU, be our Light.

For all we love, the poor, the sad,
The sinful, unto Thee we call ;
O let Thy mercy make us glad;
Thou art our JESUS, and our All.
Through life's long day and death's dark
night,

O gentle JESU, be our Light Amen.