47.

8s, 7s & 48.

1 LORD, dismiss us with thy blessing;
Fill our hearts with joy and peace;
Let us each, thy love possessing,
Triumph in redeeming grace:
Oh refresh us,

Travelling through this wilderness.

2 Thanks we give, and adoration,
For thy gospel's joyful sound;
May the fruits of thy salvation
In our hearts and lives abound;
Ever faithful

To the truth may we be found.

3 So, whene'er the signal's given
Us from earth to call away,
Borne on angels' wings to heaven,
Glad the summons to obey,
May we ever

Reign with Christ in endless day!

48.

Walter Shirley, 1779.

10s.

1 SAVIOUR, again to thy dear name we raise With one accord our parting hymn of praise ;

We rise to bless thee ere our worship

cease,

And, now departing, wait thy word of

peace.

2 Grant us thy peace upon our homeward

way;

With thee began, with thee shall end the

day;

Guard thou the lips from sin, the hearts from shame,

That in this house have called upon thy

name.

3 Grant us thy peace, Lord, through the coming night,

Turn thou for us its darkness into light; From harm and danger keep thy children free,

For dark and light are both alike to thee.

4 Grant us thy peace throughout our earthly life,

Our balm in sorrow, and our stay in strife; Then, when thy voice shall bid our conflict cease,

Call us, O Lord, to thine eternal peace.

J. Ellerton, 1861.

49.

THE LORD'S DAY.

10s.

1 AGAIN returns the day of holy rest, Which, when he made the world, Jehovah blest;

When, like his own, he bade our labors cease,

And all be piety, and all be peace. 2 Let us devote this consecrated day To learn his will, and all we learn obey; So shall he hear when fervently we raise Our choral harmony in hymns of praise. 3 Father in heaven! in whom our hopes confide,

Whose power defends us, and whose pre-
cepts guide;

In life our Guardian, and in death our
Friend;

Glory supreme be thine, till time shall end.

50.

William Mason, 1811.

1 WELCOME, Sweet day of rest, That saw the Lord arise;

S. M.

Welcome to this reviving breast
And these rejoicing eyes.
2 The King himself comes near,
And feasts his saints to-day;
Here we may sit, and see him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.

3 One day amidst the place

Where my dear God hath been,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
Of pleasurable sin.

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

And sit and sing herself away
To everlasting bliss.

51.

Isaac Watts, 1709.

1 SWEET is the work, O Lord, Thy glorious acts to sing,

S. M.

To praise thy name, and hear thy word,
And grateful offerings bring.

2 Sweet, at the dawning light,

Thy boundless love to tell;
And, when approach the shades of night,
Still on the theme to dwell.

3 Sweet, on this day of rest,

To join in heart and voice

With those who love and serve thee best,
And in thy name rejoice.

4 To songs of praise and joy
Be every Sabbath given,

That such may be our blest employ
Eternally in heaven.

52.

H. F. Lyte, 1834. a.

PSALM 118.

1 SEE what a living Stone The builders did refuse!

S. M.

Yet God has built his church thereon,
In spite of envious Jews.

2 The scribe and angry priest
Reject thine only Son;

Yet on this Rock shall Zion rest,
As the chief corner-stone.

3 The work, O Lord, is thine,
And wondrous in our eyes;
This day declares it all divine;
This day did Jesus rise.

4 This is the glorious day

That our Redeemer made:
Let us rejoice, and sing, and pray;
Let all the church be glad.

5 Hosanna to the King

Of David's royal blood :
Bless him, ye saints! he comes to bring
Salvation from your God.

6 We bless thine holy word,
Which all this grace displays,
And offer on thine altar, Lord,
Our sacrifice of praise.

53.

Isaac Watts, 1719.

PSALM 122.

C. P. M.

1 THE festal morn, my God, is come,
That calls me to thy honored dome,
Thy presence to adore;

My feet the summons shall attend,
With willing steps thy courts ascend,
And tread the hallowed floor.

2 Hither from Judah's utmost end
The heaven-protected tribes ascend,
Their offerings hither bring:
Here, eager to attest their joy,

In hymns of praise their tongues employ,
And hail the immortal King.

3 Be peace implored by each on thee,
O Zion, while with bended knee
To Jacob's God we pray;

How blest, who calls himself thy friend!
Success his labor shall attend,

And safety guard his way.

4 Seat of my friends and brethren, hail!
How can my tongue, O Zion, fail
To bless thy loved abode ?

How cease the zeal that in me glows,
Thy good to seek, whose walls enclose
The mansions of my God?

5 With joy shall I behold the day
That calls my thirsting soul away
To dwell among the blest!
For lo, my great Redeemer's power
Unfolds the everlasting door,
And leads me to his rest!

James Merrick, 1765, a.

54.

7s & 6s.

1 O DAY of rest and gladness,
O day of joy and light,
O balm of care and sadness,
Most beautiful, most bright!
On thee the high and lowly,
Before th' eternal throne,
Sing Holy, Holy, Holy,

To the great THREE IN ONE!

2 On thee, at the creation,

The light first had its birth;
On thee, for our salvation,

Christ rose from depths of earth;

On thee our Lord victorious
The Spirit sent from heaven;
And thus on thee most glorious
A triple light was given.