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Our hearts in Christian love:
The fellowship of kindred minds

Is like to that above.

2 Before our Father's throne

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We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares.

3 We share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.

4 When we asunder part,

It gives us inward pain;

But we shall still be joined in heart
And hope to meet again.

5 This glorious hope revives

Our courage by the way;

While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.

6 From sorrow, toil, and pain,
And sin, we shall be free,

And perfect love and friendship reign,
Through all eternity.

FOR all Thy saints, O Lord,

Who strove in Thee to live,

Who followed Thee, obeyed, adored,
Our grateful hymn receive.

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2 For all Thy saints, O Lord,

Accept our thankful cry,

Who counted Thee their great reward,

And strove in Thee to die.

3 They all, in life or death,

With Thee, their Lord, in view, Learned from Thy Holy Spirit's breath To suffer and to do.

4 For this, Thy name we bless,

And humbly pray that we
May follow them in holiness,
And live and die in Thee.

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H what, if we are Christ's,
Is earthly shame or loss?

Bright shall the crown of glory be,
When we have borne the cross.

2 Keen was the trial once,
Bitter the cup of woe,

When martyred saints, baptized in blood,
Christ's sufferings shared below.

3 Bright is their glory now,

Boundless their joy above,
Where, on the bosom of their God,
They rest in perfect love.

4 Lord, may that grace be ours;
Like them in faith to bear
All that of sorrow, grief, or pain
May be our portion here!

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`OME, let us join our friends above That have obtained the prize; And on the eagle wings of love,

To joys celestial rise.

2 Let all the saints terrestrial sing
With those to glory gone;

For all the servants of our King,
In heaven and earth, are one.

3 One family, we dwell in Him,
One church above, beneath,

Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death.

4 One army of the living God,
To His command we bow;

Part of His host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.

5 Ten thousand to their endless home
This solemn moment fly;

And we are to the margin come,
And we expect to die.

6 His militant, embodied host,
With wishful looks we stand,
And long to see that happy coast,
And reach the heavenly land.

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IVE me the wings of faith, to rise
Within the veil, and see

The saints above, how great their joys,

How bright their glories be.

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2 Once they were mourning here below,
And wet their couch with tears;
They wrestled hard, as we do now,
With sins and doubts and fears.

3 I ask them, whence their victory came;
They, with united breath,
Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,
Their triumph to His death.

4 They marked the footsteps He had trod;
His zeal inspired their breast;
And following their incarnate God,
Possess the promised rest.

5 Our glorious Leader claims our praise,
For His own pattern given,

While the long cloud of witnesses
Show the same path to heaven.

LORY to God! whose witness-train,

GLORY

Those heroes bold in faith,

Could smile on poverty and pain,

And triumph e'en in death.

2 God whom we serve, our God, can save,
Can damp the scorching flame,

Can build an ark, can smooth the wave,
For such as love His name.

3 Lord, if Thine arm support us still
With its eternal strength,

We shall o'ercome the mightiest ill,
And conquerors prove at length.

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HEY are evermore around us,
Though unseen to mortal sight,

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In the golden hour of sunshine,
And in sorrow's starless night,
Deepening earth's most sacred pleasures
With the peace of sin forgiven,
Whispering to the lonely mourner

Of the painless joys of heaven.

2 Lovingly they come to help us,
When our faith is cold and weak,
Guiding us along the pathway,

To the blesséd home we seek:
In our hearts we hear their voices
Breathing sympathy and love :
Echoes of the spirit language

In the sinless world above.

3 They are with us in the conflict,

With their words of hope and cheer,
When the foe of our salvation

And his arméd hosts draw near:

And a greater One is with us,

And we shrink not from the strife,
While the Lord of angels leads us
On the battle-field of life.

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"Go, preach My gospel,” saith the Lord;

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"Bid the whole earth My grace receive; He shall be saved that trusts My word; And he condemned that won't believe.