This God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death.

3 Dark the future; let Thy light
Guide us, bright and morning Star:
Fierce our foes, and hard the fight;
Arm us, Saviour, for the war.

mp 4 In our weakness and distress,

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Rock of strength, be Thou our stay;
In the pathless wilderness
Be our true and living way.

5 Who of us death's awful road
In the coming year shall tread?
With Thy rod and staff, O God,
Comfort Thou his dying bed.

mf 6 Keep us faithful, keep us pure,
Keep us evermore Thine own;
Help, O help us to endure;

Fit us for the promised crown.

f 7 So within Thy palace gate

We shall praise on golden strings
Thee, the only Potentate,

Lord of lords, and King of kings. Amen.

HENRY DOWNTON.

So teach us to number our days that we may get us an heart of wisdom.

mp WHILE with ceaseless course the sun

Hasted through the former year,

Many souls their race have run,

Never more to meet us here:

Fixed in an eternal state,

They have done with all below;

We a little longer wait,

But how little none can know.

mp2 As the winged arrow flies,

Speedily the mark to find;
As the lightning from the skies
Darts, and leaves no trace Lehind:
Swiftly thus our fleeting days

Bear us down life's rapid stream;
Upwards, Lord, our spirits raise,
All below is but a dream.

mf 3 Thanks for mercies past receive;
Pardon of our sins renew;

Teach us, henceforth, how to live
With eternity in view.

Bless Thy word to young and old;

Fill us with a Saviour's love;
And, when life's short tale is told,

May we dwell with Thee above!

Amen. JOHN NEWTON.

See also AURELIA, No. 464.

They shall be changed, but Thou art the same, and Thy years shall have no end.

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Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your

TILL on the homeward journey

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We meet, for some are wanting,—
All loved ones are not here.