Assist the offerings of my tongue 2. Through all the dangers of the day, 3. Perpetual blessings from above, But, O, how few returns of love 4. Lord, cleanse this guilty heart of mine, I to Thy will my soul resign, Amen. "Behold, He That keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep."-Ps. cxxi 4 113 THE day is past, and still we live ; To Thee, great God, the praise we give; 2. May deep repentance turn away 4. When shall we see the unchanging dawn In lands where foes from troubling cease, 5. The soul's dark gloom, O Lord, dispel, Amen. "The Lord is thy Keeper: the Lord is thy Shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night."-Ps. cxxi 5, 6. 114 GLORY to Thee, my God, this night, For all the blessings of the light; Keep me, O keep me, King of kings, 3. Teach me to live, that I may dread 4. O may my soul on Thee repose, And may sweet sleep mine eyelids close; 5. Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow; Amen. SATURDAY. "On the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the SEVENTH DAY from all His work which He had made."- Gen. ii. 2. "For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His."-Heb. iv. 10. 115 THOU, Who, when Thou hadst begun To form the earth and sky, Until Thy six-days' work was done, 2. O Thou, Whose love such sorrow bore 3. Lord of unsleeping love, to Thee And still, whate'er our tasks may be, 4. Our arms shall know no idle rest, Yet, when the hand hath done its best, 5. O God, Thou hast us still in view, Then teach us what we find to do, 6. And take us to our Sabbath rest, Thec, Father, Son, and Spirit blest, Holy Communion. "Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. "This is the Bread Which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat Thereof, and not die."-S. John, vi. 49, 50. 116 AUD, O Sion, thy Salvation, 2. Richest Theme of glad thanksgiving, 3. What at Supper Christ completed, His Memorial to our eyes; Taught by precepts of salvation, Bread and Wine, a pure oblation, Mal. i. 11. 1 Cor. xi. 4. Lo, the Bread Which angels feedeth! All that ancient type conveyeth, 26. And the manna rained from Heaven! 5. Jesu, Shepherd, Who dost lead us, Unto us Thy fulness give; 6. Thou, Almighty, all things knowing, Long as lasts our earthly day, Sharers with the saints for aye. Amen Alleluia. "For My Flesh is meat indeed, and My Blood is drink in deed."-S. John, vi. 55 117 BREAD of heaven, on Thee we feed, For Thy Flesh is meat indeed; Ever may our souls be fed With this true and living Bread; 2. Vine of heaven! Thy Blood supplies Lord, Thy Wounds our healing give; Grafted, rooted, built in Thee. 3. Praise and honour without end Who for man's redemption died; Blessed Comforter, to Thee. Amen. K |