Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion Part 84

Hallelujah, For the Lord Reigneth.

1 Hallelujah! best and sweetest Of the hymns of praise above; Hallelujah! thou repeatest, Angel-host, these notes of love; This ye utter, While your golden harps ye move.

2 Hallelujah! strains of gladness Comfort not the faint and worn; Hallelujah! sounds of sadness Best become the heart forlorn: Our offences We with bitter tears must mourn.

3 But our earnest supplication, Holy G.o.d! we raise to Thee; Visit us with Thy salvation, Make us all Thy peace to see!

Hallelujah!

Ours at length this strain shall be.

499. 7s. M. Montgomery.

Praise the Lord!

1 All ye nations, praise the Lord; All ye lands, your voices raise; Heaven and earth, with loud accord, Praise the Lord, forever praise.

2 For His truth and mercy stand, Past, and present, and to be, Like the years of His right hand, Like His own eternity.

3 Praise Him, ye who know His love; Praise Him, from the depths beneath; Praise Him in the heights above; Praise your Maker, all that breathe!

500. C. M. Martineau's Coll.

Closing Hymn.

O Thou great Spirit! who along The waters first did move, And straight, from warring chaos sprung Light, harmony and love; Upon our waiting spirits brood, Bid all their discord cease, And breathe upon the troubled soul Thy last, best gift of peace!

501. L. M. C. Wesley.

The Bread of Life.

1 Father, supply my every need; Sustain the life Thyself hast given; Oh! grant the never-failing bread, The manna that comes down from heaven!

2 The gracious fruits of righteousness, Thy blessings' unexhausted store, In me abundantly increase, Nor ever let me hunger more!

502. 7s. M. Bowring.

The Pilgrim's Prayer.

1 Lead us with Thy gentle sway, As a willing child is led; Speed us on our upward way, As a pilgrim, Lord, is sped, Who with prayers and helps divine Seeks a consecrated shrine.

2 Lead us, Father! Thou dost know All the way; but, wanderers, we Often miss our way below, And stretch out our hands to Thee; Guide us, save us, and prepare Our appointed mansion there!

503. L. M. Univ. Coll.

Close of Wors.h.i.+p.

1 Ere to the world again we go, Its pleasures, cares, and idle show, Thy grace once more, O G.o.d, we crave, From folly and from sin to save.

2 May the great truths we here have heard-- The lessons of Thy holy word-- Dwell in our inmost bosoms deep, And all our souls from error keep.

3 Oh! may the influence of this day Long as our memory with us stay, And as an angel guardian prove, To guide us to our home above.

504. C. M. Anonymous.

Peace Be Unto This House.

1 Lord of the families below!

To Thee our prayers we send; Do Thou from danger and from woe This dwelling-place defend.

2 Here let Thy peace, O Father, rest; Here let Thy love abide!

Our every joy in Thee more blest, Each sorrow sanctified.

3 May our pet.i.tions when we meet, And every secret prayer, Come up before Thy mercy-seat, And find acceptance there.

4 Teach us, with hearts made one in love, To do Thy pure commands; And give us, in Thy time, above, A house not made with hands.

505. 7s. M. C. Wesley.

Brotherly Love.

1 Lord! subdue our selfish will; Each to each our tempers suit, By Thy modulating skill, Heart to heart, as lute to lute.