4 And some have found the world is vain,
Yet from the world they break not free;
And some have friends who give them pain,
Yet have not sought a friend in Thee;

5 And none, O Lord, have perfect rest,
For none are wholly free from sin;
And they who fain would serve Thee best
Are conscious most of wrong within.

6 O Saviour Christ, Thou too art Man;

Thou hast been troubled, tempted, tried; Thy kind but searching glance can scan The very wounds that shame would hide 7 Thy touch has still its ancient power; No word from Thee can fruitless fall: Hear in this solemn evening hour, And in Thy mercy heal us all. Amen.

20

"Let the lifting up of my hands be
an evening sacrifice."

1 THE sun is sinking fast,
The daylight dies;
Let love awake and pay
Her evening sacrifice.

2 As Christ upon the Cross
His head inclined,

And to His Father's hands
His parting soul resigned;

3 So now, herself my soul
Would wholly give

Into His sacred charge,
In Whom all spirits live;

4 So now beneath His eye
Would calmly rest,
Without a wish or thought
Abiding in the breast,

5 Save that His will be done,
Whate'er betide;

Dead to herself, and dead
In Him to all beside.

76 Thus would I live: yet now
Not I, but He

In all His power and love
Henceforth alive in me.

7 One sacred Trinity!
One Lord Divine!

May I be ever His,

And He for ever mine. Amen.

21 "I will say of the Lord, He is my
Refuge in Him will I trust.”

1 ERE I sleep, for every favour
This day showed by my God,
I will bless my Saviour.

2 0 my Lord, what shall I render
To Thy Name, still the same,
Gracious, good, and tender?

3 Leave me not, but ever love me;
Let Thy peace be my bliss,
Till Thou hence remove me.

4 Visit me with Thy salvation;
Let Thy care still be near,
und my habitation.

5 Thou, my Rock, my Guard, my Tower, While I sleep, safely keep

Me with all Thy power.

6 And, whene'er in death I slumber,
Let me rise with the wise,

Counted in their number. Amen.

22 The Lord shall be thine everlasting Light."

1 THE radiant morn hath passed away, And spent too soon her golden store ; The shadows of departing day

Creep on once more.

2 Our life is but a fading dawn,
Its glorious noon how quickly past;
Lead us, O CHRIST, when all is gone,
Safe home at last.

3 Oh! by Thy soul-inspiring grace,
Uplift our hearts to realms on high;
Help us to look to that bright place
Beyond the sky;

4 Where light, and love, and joy, and peace In undivided empire reign,

And thronging angels never cease

Their deathless strain;

5 Where saints are clothed in spotless white, And evening shadows never fall,

Where Thou, Eternal Light of Light,

Art LORD of all.

Amen.

23 "Under the shadow of the Almighty."
1 GOD who madest earth and heaven,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost;
Who the day and night hast given,
Sun, and moon, and starry host;
2 Ever lead us, ever guide

All our wanderings by Thy word:
As Thou hast been, still abide

Our Defence, our Refuge, Lord.
3 Mighty God, we now commend
Soul and body unto Thee;
All the powers that Thou dost lend
By Thy hand directed be.

4 Never safe except with Thee,
Ever Thou our Guardian be,

Till our final rest be come,

And Thine angels bear us home. Amen.

24 "Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

1 SAVIOUR, breathe an evening blessing, Ere repose our spirits seal;

Sin and want we come confessing,

Thou canst save and Thou canst heal.

2 Though the night be dark and dreary
Darkness cannot hide from Thee;
Thou art He Who, never weary,
Watchest where Thy people be.

3 Though destruction walk around us,
Though the arrow past us fly,
Angel-guards from Thee surround us;
We are safe if Thou art nigh.

4 Should swift death this night o'ertake us, And our couch become our tomb,

May the morn in heaven awake us

Clad in light and deathless bloom. Amen.

25 "Thy sun shall no more go down by
day."

1 THE day, O Lord, is spent;
Abide with us, and rest;

2

Our hearts' desires are fully bent
On making Thee our guest.

We have not reach'd that land,
That happy land, as yet,

Where holy angels round Thee stand,

Whose sun can never set.

O Sun of Righteousness, do Thou

Shine on us evermore.

Amen.

26 "The Lord will lighten my darkness.”

1 GOD the Father, be Thou near,
Save from every harm to-night,
Make us all Thy children dear,
In the darkness be our light.

2 God the Saviour, be our Peace,
Put away our sins to-night,
Speak the word of full release,

Turn our darkness into light.