17. LENT.

Thou from whom all goodness flows,
I lift my heart to Thee;

In all my sorrows, conflicts, woes,
O Lord, remember me.

2 When on my aching, burdened heart,
My sins lie heavily,

Thy pardon grant, Thy peace impart,
In love remember me !

3 When trials sore obstruct my way,
And ills I cannot flee,

O let my strength be as my day,
For good remember me !

4 If on my face, for Thy loved name,
Shame and reproach shall be,

All hail reproach, and welcome shame,
If Thou remember me !

5 When in the solemn hour of death I wait Thy just decree,

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Be this the prayer of my last breath-
O Lord, remember me !

18. GOOD FRIDAY.

RIDE on! ride on in majesty!

In lowly pomp ride on to die!

O Christ! Thy triumphs now begin
O'er captive death and conquered sin !

2 Ride on! ride on in majesty !
The winged squadrons of the sky
Look down with sad and wondering eyes,
To see the approaching sacrifice!

3 Ride on ride on in majesty !
Thy last and fiercest strife is nigh;
The Father on his sapphire throne
Awaits His own anointed Son!

4 Ride on! ride on in majesty !
In lowly pomp ride on to die!
Bow Thy meek head to mortal pain!
Then take, O God, Thy power, and reign.

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19. GOOD FRIDAY.

FROM Calvary's cross a fountain flows,

Of water and of blood!

More healing than Bethesda's pool,
Or famed Siloam's flood.

2 The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;

And we would there, defiled as he,
Wash all our sins away.

3 Atoning Lamb, thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power,

Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be saved, to sin no more.

4 O then in nobler, sweeter songs, We'll sing Thy power to save,

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When these poor lisping, stammering tongues Lie silent in the grave.

20. GOOD FRIDAY.

Go to dark Gethsemane,

Ye that feel the tempter's power, Your Redeemer's conflict see;

Watch with Him one bitter hour;
Turn not from His griefs away;
Learn from Him to watch and pray.
2 See Him at the judgment hall,

Beaten, bound, reviled, arraigned;
See Him meekly bearing all !

Love to man His soul sustained;
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;
Learn of Christ to bear thy cross.
3 Calvary's mournful mountain view,
There the Lord of Glory see
Made a sacrifice for you,

Dying on the accursed tree : "It is finished !" hear Him cry ;

Trust in Christ, and learn to die.

4 Early to the tomb repair,

Where they laid the breathless clay;
Angels kept their vigils there-

Who hath taken Him away?

Christ is risen! He seeks the skies;
Saviour teach us so to rise.

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21.

EASTER DAY.

WHEN Christ, victorious from the grave,

Ascended up on high,

He gave to all his saints a pledge
That they should never die.

2 Though for a time they sleep in dust,
Each in his narrow bed,

Soon the archangel's trump shall sound,
And call them from the dead.

3 United to their risen Lord

By true and living faith,

They that are Christ's will persevere,
Obedient unto death.

4 For them, unworthy as they are, Against that joyful day,

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A crown of glory is reserved,
That fadeth not away.

22. EASTER DAY.

PRAISE to the Lord, who left the sky,

Where thrones and powers his word obey; And laid his awful glory by,

To dwell with us in mortal clay,

2 With us he bore the tempter's strife,
And all the woe that sin hath wrought,
Yet brightly, through His spotless life,
Display'd the sacred truths He taught.

3 A friend and brother's name He gave To those He suffer'd to redeem ;

He rose to glory from the

grave, As we shall rise to reign with Him.

4 The Holy Spirit leads us on,

Where He our great example trod ; And through his righteousness alone, We come with humble faith to God.

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23. ASCENSION DAY.

THOU art gone up on high,

To mansions in the skies;

And round Thy throne unceasingly

The songs of praise arise.

But we are lingering here,

With sin and care oppressed;

Lord, send Thy promised Comforter,
And lead us to our rest.

2 Thou art gone up on high;
But Thou didst first come down,
Through earth's most bitter misery
To travel to Thy crown;

And girt with griefs and fears
Our onward course must be;

But only let that path of tears
Lead us at last to Thee!