The Church Hymnary: A Collection of Hymns and Tunes for Public Worship

MELITA L. M. 6 lines

J. B. Dykes

Eternal Fa-ther, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the rest-less wave, Who bid'st the might-y o-cean deep

Its own ap-point-ed lim-its keep; O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in per il on the sea

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ALBANY

8s, 7s. D.

G. E. Oliver

Toss'd upon life's raging billow, Sweet it is, O Lord, to know Thou hast press'd a sailor's pillow, And canst feel a sail-or's woe:

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WEST 7s, 6s. D.

J. E. West

909

O LOVE divine and golden,
Mysterious depth and height!
To Thee the world beholden,
Looks up for life and light;
O Love divine and gentle,

The blesser and the blest!
Beneath Thy care parental

The world lies down in rest.

2 0 Love divine and tender,

That through our homes dost move, Veiled in the softened splendor

Of holy household love.

A throne without Thy blessing
Were labor without rest,
And cottages possessing

Thy blessedness, are blest.

3 God bless these hands united! God bless these hearts made one! Unsevered and unblighted

May they through life go on:
Here in earth's home preparing
For the bright home above;
And there for ever sharing
It's joy where "God is Love."

John Samuel Bewley Monsell 1862

J. Stainer

910

THE voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day,

The primal marriage blessing,

It hath not passed away.
2 Still in the pure espousal
Of Christian man and maid,
The holy Three are with us,

The threefold grace is said.
3 Be present, awful Father,
To give away this bride,
As Eve thou gav'st to Adam

Out of his own pierced side:

4 Be present, Son of Mary,
To join their loving hands,
As Thou didst bind two natures
In Thine eternal bands!

5 Be present, holiest Spirit,

To bless them as they kneel,
As Thou, for Christ the Bridegroom,
The heavenly Spouse dost seal!

6 Oh, spread Thy pure wing o'er them
Let no ill power find place,
When onward to Thy presence
Their hallowed path they trace.

John Keble 1857

PERFECT LOVE

IIS, IOS.

J. Barnby

per-fect Love, all human thought transcending, Low-ly we kneel in prayer be-fore Thy throne,

That theirs may be the love which knows no ending, Whom Thou for ev-er-more dost join in

911

O PERFECT Love, all human thought transcending,
Lowly we kneel in prayer before Thy throne,
That theirs may be the love which knows no ending,
Whom Thou for evermore dost join in one.

2 O perfect Life, be Thou their full assurance
Of tender charity and steadfast faith,

Of patient hope, and quiet, brave endurance,

With childlike trust that fears nor pain nor death.
3 Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;
Grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife,
And to life's day the glorious unknown morrow
That dawns upon eternal love and life.

GENESIS

7s, 6s. D.

Dorothy F. Bloomfield 1883

one.

G. M. Garrett

The voice that breath'd o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day, The primal marriage bless-ing, It hath not passed a

SPRING 8s, 7s. D.

W. H. Walter

All is bright and cheer-ful round us, All above is soft and blue; Spring at last hath

come and found us; Spring and all its pleas-ure too: Ev'ry flow'r is full of glad-ness,

Dew is bright, and buds are gay; Earth,with all its sin and sad-ness, Seems a hap-py place to-day.

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