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Through life's long day and death's dark night,
O Gentle JESUS! be our Light!

Grant us, dear LORD! from evil ways
True absolution and release;
And bless us more than in past days
With purity and inward peace.
Through life's long day and death's dark night,
O Gentle JESUS! be our Light!

For all we love, the poor, the sad,
The sinful, unto Thee we call ;
O let Thy Mercy make us glad :
Thou art our JESUS, and our All!
Through life's long day and death's dark night,
O Gentle JESUS! be our Light!

Sweet SAVIOUR! bless us, night is come;
Through night and darkness near us be;
Good Angels watch about our home,

And we are one day nearer Thee.

Through life's long day and death's dark night, O Gentle JESUS! be our Light!

111.

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BIDE with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; LORD, with me abide; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see;

O Thou Who changest not, abide with me.

I need Thy Presence every passing hour; What but Thy Grace can foil the Tempter's power?

Who like Thyself my guide and stay can be? Through cloud and sunshine, LORD, abide with

me.

I fear no foe with Thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness;
Where is death's sting, where, Grave, thy
victory :

I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.

Hold Thou Thy Cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies;

Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee;

In life, in death, O LORD, abide with me.

Amen.

Miscellaneous Hymns.

112. B For they shall see our GOD;

LEST are the pure in heart,

The secret of the LORD is theirs ;
Their soul is CHRIST'S abode.

The LORD, Who left the Heavens
Our Life and peace to bring,
To dwell in lowliness with men,
Their Pattern and their King;

He to the lowly soul

Doth still Himself impart;

And for His dwelling and His throne
Chooseth the pure in heart.

LORD, we Thy Presence seek;
May ours this blessing be;
Give us a pure and lowly heart,
A temple meet for Thee.

All glory, LORD, to Thee,

Whom Heaven and earth adore: TO FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST, One GOD for evermore. Amen.

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YHRIST is born! tell forth His fame!

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Cuns from Heaven! His Love proclaim!

CHRIST on earth! Exalt His Name!

Sing to the Lord, O world, with exultation!
Break forth in glad thanksgiving, every nation!
For He hath triumph'd gloriously!

Man, in GOD's own Image made,
Man, by Satan's wiles betray'd,
Man, on whom corruption prey'd,

Shut out from hope of Life and of salvation,-
To-day CHRIST maketh him a new creation!
For He hath triumph'd gloriously!

For the Maker, when His foe

Wrought the creature's death and woe,
Bow'd the Heavens, and came below,

And, in the Virgin's womb His dwelling making,
Became true Man-man's very nature taking!
For He hath triumph'd gloriously!

He, the Wisdom, WORD, and Might,
GOD the SON,-the LIGHT of Light,
Veiled from the envious sight

Of earthly monarch, or of evil spirit,

Incarnate was, that we might Heaven inherit! For He hath triumph'd gloriously.

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F the FATHER's Love begotten
Ere the worlds began to be,

He is Alpha and Omega,

He the Source, the Ending He,
Of the things that are, that have been,
And that future years shall see,
Evermore and evermore!

O that Birth, for ever blessed,
When the Virgin, full of Grace,
By the HOLY GHOST conceiving,
Bare the SAVIOUR of our race;
And the Babe, the world's REDEEMER,
First reveal'd His sacred Face,
Evermore and evermore!

This is He Whom seers in old time
Chanted of with one accord;
Whom the voices of the Prophets
Promised in their faithful word.
Now He shines, the long-expected:
Let creation praise its LORD:
Evermore and evermore!
(ye heights of Heaven adore Him!
Angel-hosts His praises sing!
All dominions bow before Him,
And extol our GOD and King:
Let no tongue on earth be silent,
Every voice in concert ring,
Evermore and evermore!

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