PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT. MOST of the music in this collection is COPY-RIGHT PROPERTY. It must not be used in any other collection without special permission. No application will avail to either the compiler or the publishers of the "Songs for THE SANCTUARY," or "SONGS OF THE CHURCH." Any request of this sort will have to be addressed to the various owners of the tunes, or of the works from which this selection has been most expensively made. SONGS FOR THE SANCTUARY. SABBATH. 7s. 6L. 4 1. Safe-ly thro' an- oth-er week, God has brought us on our way; Let us now f f a blessing 1 THINE earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love, But there's a nobler rest above; To that our longing souls aspire, With cheerful hope and strong desire. 2 No more fatigue, no more distress, Nor sin nor death shall reach the place; No cares to break the long repose, 3. Dawn on these realms of woe and sin; Fain would we leave this weary road, And sleep in death to rest with God. Ephesians, 3: 19. 1 COME, gracious Lord, descend and dwell, 2 Come, fill our hearts with inward strength, Make our enlargéd souls possess, And learn the height, and breadth, and length Of thine eternal love and grace. 3 Now to the God whose power can do More than our thoughts and wishes know, Be everlasting honors done, By all the church, through Christ his Son. 4. 1 My opening eyes with rapture see 2 Oh, bid this trifling world retire, 5. 2 1 SWEET is the light of Sabbath eve, The time how lovely and how still; 3 Season of rest! the tranquil soul |