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Come and behold Him
Born, the King of angels;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,

O come, let us adore Him, Christ the
Lord.

True God of True God,

Light of Light eternal,

Lo, He abhors not the Virgin's womb;
Son of the Father,
Begotten, not created;

O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,

O come, let us adore Him, Christ the
Lord.

3 Sing, choirs of angels,

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O sing, Hallelujah!

O fill

ye

the courts of heaven with song;

Sing ye, All glory

To God in the highest:'

O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,

O come, let us adore Him, Christ the
Lord.

Yea, Lord, we hail Thee,

Born as our Redeemer ;

Jesu, for ever be Thy Name adored;
Word of the Father,

Now in flesh appearing;

O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,

O come, let us adore Him, Christ the

Lord.

Amen.

From the Latin, tr. F. Oakeley, alt.

116

And the angel said unto them, Fear not.

Luke ii. 10.

C.M.

1 mf WHILE shepherds watched their flocks by

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night,

All seated on the ground,

The angel of the Lord came down,

And glory shone around.

2' Fear not,' (mf) said he,—for mighty dread Had seized their troubled mind,—

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Glad tidings of great joy I bring
'To you and all mankind.

3 mf' To you, in David's town this day,
'Is born, of David's line,

'A Saviour, Who is Christ the Lord,
'And this shall be the sign,—

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4 mf The heavenly Babe you there shall find
'To human view displayed,

All meanly wrapt in swathing bands,
'And in a manger laid.'

5 m Thus spake the seraph, (cres) and forthwith Appeared a shining throng

Of angels praising God, who thus
Addressed their joyful song,-

6 All glory be to God on high,

dim

'And to the earth be peace!

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Also the following:

Amen.

It came upon the midnight clear
O Highest Love, in lowliest guise
Once in royal David's city.

N. Tate (1652-1715).

117

St. Stephen's Day.

I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing 63. on the right hand of God. Acts vii. 56.

1 Go forward in your course,
Ye armies of the sky ;
Be sure the Lord your God
Will lead to victory.

2 Press onward to the mark,

Ye that have life and breath,

Resolved for good or ill,

For peril and for death.

3 mf The first who dared to die
Had blessed visions given:
The glory on him shone

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5 mf Your bitter foes in vain

Their storms of malice shower:

Behold your Captain stand

At God's right hand in power.

6 mf Lift

prayer

up the voice of
Before your enemies;

And from their very ranks
Fresh martyrs shall arise.

7 To God the Father, Son,
And Spirit, glory be
From the beginning, now,
And everlastingly. Amen.

Dean Alford (1810-1871).

118

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in
tongue; but in deed and in truth. 1 John iii. 18.

1 mƒʻLITTLE children, dwell in love;
New begotten from above,

Ye by this your birth may know
That ye dwell in love below.

2' God your Father reigns on high,
Unbeheld by mortal eye;

mf Him ye see not: love Him then
In His types, your fellow men.

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3 mf Not in semblance nor in word,

But in holy thoughts unheard,

: But in very truth and deed

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4 m Thus the saint whom Jesus loved Spoke in word, in action proved :

dim Lord, may Thy disciples be

p Like to him, and like to Thee. Amen.

78.

Dean Alford (1810-1871).

119

He then lying on Jesus' breast. John xiii. 25. L.M.

1 mf O THOU! Who gav'st Thy servant grace
On Thee, the Living Rock, to rest;
To look on Thine Incarnate Face,
And lean on Thy protecting Breast,-

2 mf Be ours, O King of mercy! still
To feel Thy Presence from above,
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3

To hear Thy voice, and know Thy love ;And when the toils of life are done,

And nature waits Thy dread decree, cres To find our rest beneath Thy throne, And look in humble hope to Thee.

4 To Thee, O Jesu, Light of Light,

Whom, as their King, Thy saints adore,
Their Strength and Refuge in the fight,
Be praise and glory evermore.

Amen.

Bishop R. Heber (1783-1826).

120

The Innocents' Day.

The firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Rev. xiv. 4.

1 mf HOLY Jesu, Mighty Lord,
Light of Light, Incarnate Word,
Who didst take our fleshly dress
In an infant's helplessness,

And didst pass to manhood's stage,
Consecrating every age;

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ƒ Be Thou worshipped, Lord, by all,

78.