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O that, as free from wilful sin,
We shrank not from thy sight!

Lord, help us every hour
Thy cleansing grace to claim;
In life to glorify thy power,

In death to praise thy name."

THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE.

348 They brought him to Jerusalem, to present him [8s. 7s. to the Lord.-Luke ii. 22.

1 In his temple now behold him;
See the long-expected Lord :
Ancient prophets had foretold him;
God hath now fulfill'd his word.
Now to praise him his redeemèd

Shall break forth with one accord.

2 In the arms of her who bore him,
Virgin pure, behold him lie;
While his aged saints adore him,
Ere in perfect faith they die.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Lo, the incarnate God Most High.

3 Jesu, by thy presentation,
Thou who didst for us endure,
Make us see thy great salvation,
Seal us with thy promise sure;
And present us in thy glory

To thy Father, cleansed and pure.
4 Prince and Author of salvation,

Be thy boundless love our theme:
Jesu, praise to thee be given

By the world thou didst redeem,
With the Father and the Spirit,

Lord of majesty supreme. Amen.

349 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see

1.

2

3

God.-Matt. v. 8.

BLESS'D are the pure in heart,
For they shall see our God:
The secret of the Lord is theirs,
Their soul is Christ's abode.

The Lord, who left the heavens
Our life and peace to bring,

To dwell in lowliness with men,
Their pattern and their king:
He to the lowly soul

Doth still himself impart,

[S.M.

And for his dwelling and his throne,

Chooseth the pure in heart.

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Lord, we thy presence seek;

May ours this blessing be;

Give us a pure and lowly heart,

A temple meet for thee."

THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.

350 A virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall [Six 8s. call his name Emmanuel.-Isa. vii. 14.

1 O SAVIOUR, who in love didst take
A human body, for our sake;
To share with us the griefs of life,
Its watchings, weariness, and strife
All that belongs to man, but sin,
Thou didst this day thyself begin.
2 Saviour of infants, thou didst rest,
Helpless, upon thy mother's breast;
Saviour of children, thou didst play,
And grow beside her, day by day,
All human life to soothe and save,
Up from the cradle to the grave.
3 Saviour, as low as thou didst bend
From heaven to be the sinner's friend,

So high our nature lift with thine,
Till human things become divine,
And thy eternal love once more
God's image to the soul restore.

4 And when we cling too close to earth,
Forgetful of our heavenly birth.
And for the love of its poor dross,
Despise thy crown or shun thy cross,
O let this festal day reprove

Such wrong to thine incarnate love."

"WITH ALL THE COMPANY OF HEAVEN WE LAUD AND MAGNIFY THY GLORIOUS NAME.

Be ye followers of them who through faith and [S.M. patience inherit the promises.--Heb. vi. 12.

351

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FOR all thy saints, O Lord,

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2

Who strove in thee to live,

Who follow'd thee, obey'd, adored,

Our grateful hymn receive.

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 and death,

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With thee their Lord in view,

Learn'd from thy Holy Spirit's breath
To suffer and to do.

For this thy name we bless,

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

The armies in heaven followed him.
Rev. xix. 14.

1 THE Son of God goes forth to war,
A kingly crown to gain;
His blood-red banner streams afar,
Who follows in his train ?

[D.C.M.

Who best can drink his cup of
Triumphant over pain;

woe,

Who patient bears his cross below,
He follows in his train.

2 The martyr first, whose eagle eye
Could pierce beyond the grave;
Who saw his Master in the sky,
And call'd on him to save.
Like him, with pardon on his tongue,
In midst of mortal pain,

He pray'd for them that did the wrong:
Who follows in his train?

3 A glorious band, the chosen few,
On whom the Spirit came:

Twelve valiant saints, their hope they knew,
And mock'd the cross and flame.
They met the tyrant's brandish'd steel,
The lion's gory mane;

They bow'd their necks the death to feel:
Who follows in their train?

4 A noble army-men and boys,
The matron and the maid;
Around the Saviour's throne rejoice,
In robes of light array'd.

They climb'd the steep ascent of heaven
Through peril, toil, and pain :

O God, to us may grace be given

To follow in their train.

353 Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God [7s. 6s. Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou

King of saints.-Rev. xv. 3.

1 FROM all thy saints in warfare, for all thy saints at rest,

To thee, O blessed Jesu, all praises be address'd. Thou, Lord, didst win the battle that they might conquerors be;

Their crowns of living glory are lit with rays from thee.

[Insert here the stanza for the special Saint's Day to be celebrated.]

Saint Andrew.

2 Praise, Lord, for thine Apostle, the first to welcome thee,

The first to lead his brother the very Christ to see. With hearts for thee made ready, watch we throughout the year,

Forward to lead our brethren to own thine Advent near.

Saint Thomas.

3 All praise for thine Apostle, whose short-lived doubtings prove

Thy perfect twofold nature, the fulness of thy love.

On all who wait thy coming shed forth thy peace, O Lord,

And grant us faith to know thee, true Man, true God, adored.

Saint Stephen.

4 Praise for the first of Martyrs, who saw thee ready stand,

To aid in midst of torment, to plead at God's right hand.

Share we with him, if summon'd by death our Lord to own,

On earth the faithful witness, in heaven the martyr-crown.

Saint John the Evangelist.

5 Praise for the loved disciple, exile on Patmos'

shore ;

Praise for the faithful record he to thy Godhead bore.

Praise for the mystic vision, through him to us reveal'd;

May we, in patience waiting, with thine elect be seal'd.