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When for vanished days we yearn,
Days that never can return,
Teach us in Thy love to learn
Love for evermore!

When the breath of life is flown,
When the grave must claim its own,
Lord of Life! be ours Thy crown-
Life for evermore! Amen.

8, 8, 7, 8, 8, 7.

AT the Cross her station keeping,
Stood the mournful Mother weeping,
Where He hung, the dying Lord;
For her soul, of joy bereaved,
Bowed with anguish, deeply grieved,
Felt the sharp and piercing sword.

Oh, how sad and sore distressèd
Now was she, that Mother blessed
Of the sole-begotten One;
Deep the woe of her affliction
When she saw the Crucifixion
Of her ever-glorious Son.

Who, on Christ's dear Mother gazing,
Pierced by anguish so amazing,

Born of woman, would not weep?
Who, on Christ's dear Mother thinking,
Such a cup of sorrow drinking,

Would not share her sorrows deep?

For His people's sins chastised,
She beheld her Son despised,

Scourged, and crowned with thorns en-
twined;

Saw Him then from judgment taken,
And in death by all forsaken,

Till His Spirit He resigned.

Jesu, may such deep devotion
Stir in me the same emotion,
Fount of love, Redeemer kind,
That my heart, fresh ardour gaining,
And a purer love attaining,

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May with Thee acceptance find.

THERE is an everlasting Home,
Where contrite souls may hide:

8, 6, 8, 4.

Where death and danger dare not come,The Saviour's side.

It was a cleft of matchless love

Opened when He had died;

When mercy hailed, in worlds above,
That Wounded Side.

Hail! Rock of Ages! pierced for me,
The grave of all my pride;

Hope, peace, and heaven, are all in Thee,
Thy sheltering Side.

There issued forth the double Flood,
The sin-atoning tide,-

In streams of water and of Blood
From that dear Side.

There is the only Fount of bliss,
In joy and sorrow tried,-

No refuge for the heart like this,-
A Saviour's Side.

Thither the Church through all her days
Points as a faithful guide,

And celebrates with ceaseless praise

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That spear-pierced Side.

Amen.

8, 7, 8, 7, 7, 7, 4, 4, 7, 7.

Or Thy love some gracious token
Grant us, Lord, before we go;

Bless Thy word which has been spoken;
Life and peace on all bestow!

When we join the world again,

Let our hearts with Thee remain:

O direct us

And protect us,

Till we gain the heavenly shore,
Where Thy people want no more! Amen.

THE END.

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DAYSPRING of eternity!

P. M.

Hide no more Thy radiant dawning! Light from Light's exhaustless sea, Shine on us afresh this morning And dispel with glorious might All our night.

Let Thy mercies' morning dew
Rouse our conscience from its blindness;
Gladden life's dry plains anew.
With the rivers of Thy kindness;
Water daily us Thy Flock

From the Rock.

Let the glow of love destroy
Cold obedience faintly given,
Wake our hearts to love and joy
With the flushing eastern heaven;
Let us truly rise ere yet

Life hath set.

Brightest Star of eastern skies!
Grant that at Thy last appearing
These frail bodies may arise,

Joyfully Thy summons hearing, Strong their heavenward course to run As the Sun.

Through this dark and tearful place,
Never be Thy light denied us;
O Thou glorious Sun of grace,

To yon world of gladness guide us,
When to joys that never end
We ascend!

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Amen.

12 of 6, 5.

Fierce the battle rages,

Foe succeeds to foe,
Seething tides of tumult
Surging to and fro:
Soul-destroying spirits
Round us rush and rave;
JESUS, to the rescue!

His redeem'd to save:
Here are toil and tumult,

Rest and peace above :

Christ the Lord,-the Leader,

And His banner-Love.

Courage, Christian soldiers!

Fear not harm or loss,
Long as ye are fighting
Round the Holy Cross;
He who on it suffer'd,
By it can o'erthrow
Every inward passion,