"These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb." 154. O JESU, Source of sanctity, In Whom Thy servants live, All glory for Thine angel train, All glory for the messenger All glory for Thy chosen band, For Thy meek priests a goodly choir, For these, for all Thy saints Thy Name We laud, and pray that we, Strong in Thy strength may follow them, As they have followed Thee. Commemoration of Apostles. "Their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world." 155. THE LORD's eternal gifts, Lords of the churches they; Brave soldiers of the Heavenly court, True lights for evermore. Theirs was the Saints' high faith, In them the FATHER shone, TO GOD the FATHER, SON, As was, and is, and shall be so, "Who maketh the clouds His chariot and walketh upon the wings of the wind: He maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flaming fire." 156. DISPOSER Supreme, And Judge of the earth, The weak and the poor; Which aye shall endure: Those vessels soon fail, Are broken and gone; As through the clouds breaking X Like clouds are they borne And swift as the wind They thunder-their sound As when the dread trumpets O loud be Thy trump, From sin's deadly sleep; The dull soul awaken Her vigils to keep. |