BUCKLANDS S. M.

up, and bless the Lord your God, With heart and soul and voice. would not fear His ho ly Name, And laud and mag - ni - fy? touch our lips, our minds in - spire, And wing to heaven our thought.

Ye peo - ple
Above all
From His own

Know that the Lord is God a-lone,

He can cre- ate, and He

And when like wand'ring sheep we strayed, He bro't us to His fold
What last-ing hon-ors shall we rear, Almight-y Mak-er to

EPPE OF COIFF

4 We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs,
High as the heavens our voices raise;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill Thy courts with sounding praise.

5 Wide as the world is Thy command,
Vast as eternity Thy love;

Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.

LOUIS BOURGEOIS, 1551

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de-stroy.
a-gain.

Thy name. A-men.

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Rev. EDMUND H. SEARS, 1850

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up - on the clo

the mid-night clear, That glo-rious song of

old,

ven skies they come, With peace-ful wings un - furled, beneath life's crushing load, Whose forms are bend-ing low, the days are hastening on, By proph-et bards fore – told,

CAROL C. M. D.

"Peace on the

earth, good-will
A-bove its sad
Look now! for glad
When peace shall o

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mu

the

From an - gels bend-ing near the earth To touch their harps of
And still their heav'nly
all
- sic floats O'er
wea ry
Who toil a long the climb-ing way With pain-ful steps and
When with the
ev · er - circ - ling years Comes round the age of

and low
and gold

RICHARD S. WILLIS, 1850

The world in sol-emn still-ness lay, To hear the
And ever o'er its Ba-bel-sounds The bless-ed

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ly plains They bend on

to men From heav'n's all-gra-cious King:" hov-'ring wing, en hours Come swift - ly on the wing: the earth Its ancient splen-dors fling,

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an- gels

O rest beside the weary road, And hear the angels And the whole world give back the song Which now the an - gels

gold:

world:

slow,gold;

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"Fear not," said He, for mighty dread Had seized their troub-led
The heav'n-ly Babe you there shall find To hu
"All glo- ry be to God on high, And to

mind,

man view displayed, the earth be peace;

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"Glad tidings of great joy I bring To you and all man-kind." All mean -ly wrapt in swath-ing bands, And in a man- ger laid." Good-will hence-forth from heav'n to men, Be - gin, and never cease.' A-men.