We are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.-Heb. xii. 1. f616 FOR all the saints, who from their labours rest, Who Thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy name, O Jesus, be for ever blest. Hallelujah. 2 Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might; Hallelujah! 3 O may Thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold, mf 4 0 blest communion, fellowship divine! dim 5 And, when the strife is fierce, the warfare long, mf 6 The golden evening brightens in the west; A-men. ff 8 From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast, Hallelujah! Amen. So He bringeth them unto their desired haven.-Psa. cvii. 30. mj 617 SAFE home, safe home in port! cr But, O! the joy upon the shore, mp 2 The prize, the prize secure! cr But he may smile at troubles gone And yet how nearly had he failed; dim 4 The lamb is in the fold, In perfect safety penned; And thought to make an end: mf 5 The exile is at home; O nights and days of tears! O sins, and doubts, and fears! Amen. JOSEPH OF THE STUDIUM, tr. by J. M. NEALE. The Church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.-Acts xx. 28. mf 618 THE Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord; She is His new creation dim With His own blood He bought her, mf 2 Elect from every nation, Yet one o'er all the earth, One Lord, one faith, one birth. dim 3 Though with a scornful wonder cr Yet saints their watch are keeping, Their cry goes up, "How long? mf And soon the night of weeping f Shall be the morn of song. mf4 'Mid toil, and tribulation, cr And tumult of her war, Of peace for evermore; mf5 Yet she on earth hath union With those whose rest is won: Like them the meek and lowly, cr On high may dwell with Thee. Amen. SAMUEL J. STONE. |