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A-MEN.

[Tune "Dawn," Copyright, 1909, by E. F. Ulrich.]

10 Then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday. Isa. lviii: 10.

1 My opening eyes with rapture see
The dawn of Thy returning day;
My thoughts, O God, ascend to Thee,
While thus my early vows I pay.

2 I yield my heart to Thee alone

Nor would receive another guest;
Eternal King! erect Thy throne,
And reign sole monarch in my breast.

3 O bid this trifling world retire,

And drive each carnal thought away;

Nor let me feel one vain desire,

One sinful thought, through all the day.

4 Then, to Thy courts when I repair,
My soul shall rise on joyful wing,

The wonders of Thy love declare,

And join the strains which angels sing.

Dox. I,

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In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out
of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

I God of the morning, at whose voice

Ps. xix: 4, 5.

The cheerful sun makes haste to rise,
And like a giant doth rejoice

To run his journey through the skies.

2 From the fair chambers of the east

The circuit of his race begins;

And, without weariness or rest,

Round the whole earth he flies and shines.

3 0, like the sun, may I fulfil

Th' appointed duties of the day,

With ready mind and active will

March on, and keep my heavenly way!

4 But I shall rove and lose the race,
If God, my Sun, shall disappear,
And leave me in the world's wide maze
To follow every wandering star.

5 Lord! Thy commands are clean and pure,
Enlightening our beclouded eyes;

Thy warnings just, Thy promise sure,

Thy Gospel makes the simple wise.

6 Give me Thy counsel for my guide,
And then receive me to Thy bliss:

All my desires and hopes beside

Are faint and cold, compared with this!

Dox. II.

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The dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in

darkness. Luke 1: 78, 79.

I Lord, whose glory fills the skies,

Thou, the true, the only Light,
Sun of Righteousness, arise,

Triumph o'er the shades of night;
Dayspring from on high, be near;
Daystar, in my heart appear.

2 Dark and cheerless is the morn
Unaccompanied by Thee;

Joyless is the day's return

Till Thy mercy's beams I see,
Till they inward light impart,
Glad my eyes, and warm my heart.

3 Visit then this soul of mine;

Pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
Fill me, Radiancy Divine;

Scatter all my unbelief;

More and more Thyself display,
Shining to the perfect day.

Dox. XV.

A-MEN.

I Shine forth, O Sun of boundless love,
The night within our souls remove;
Be Thou our Light, be Thou our Guide,
O'er every thought and step preside.

2 The light of truth to us display,

That we may know and choose Thy way;
Plant holy fear within each heart,
That we may ne'er from Thee depart.
II. NOONDAY.

I O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who orderest time and change aright,
Dost send the early morning ray,
And light the glow of perfect day.

2 Extinguish Thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire;

And while Thou keep'st the body whole,
Shed forth Thy peace upon the soul.

Dox. III.

Dox III.

14 Where two or three are gathered together in my name; there am I in the midst of them.

I Jesus, where'er Thy people meet,
There they behold Thy mercy-seat;
Where'er they seek Thee, thou art found,
And every place is hallowed ground.

2 For Thou, within no walls confined,
Inhabitest the humble mind;

Such ever bring Thee where they come,
And going, take Thee to their home.

3 Dear Shepherd of Thy chosen few,
Thy former mercies here renew;
Here to our waiting hearts proclaim
The sweetness of Thy saving name.

4 Here may we prove the power of prayer,
To strengthen faith and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heaven before our eyes.

5 Lord, we are few, but Thou art near;
Nor short Thine arm, nor deaf Thine ear;
O rend the heavens, come quickly down,
And make a thousand hearts Thine own!

Dox. X.