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390. Hallelujah! Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power."

Ps. cl. 1.

1 Alleluia! Song of gladness,
Voice of everlasting joy:
Alleluia! Sound the sweetest
Heard among the choirs on high,
Hymning in God's blissful mansion
Day and night incessantly.

2 Alleluia! Church victorious,
Thou may'st lift the joyful strain.
Alleluia! Songs of triumph

Well befit the ransom'd train.
Faint and feeble are our praises
While in exile we remain.

3 Alleluia! Songs of gladness
Suit not always souls forlorn.
Alleluia! Sounds of sadness

'Midst our joyful strains are borne;
For in this dark world of sorrow

We with tears our sins must mourn.

4 Praises with our prayers uniting,
Hear us, blessed Trinity;
Bring us to thy blissful presence,
There the Paschal Lamb to see,
There to thee our Alleluia

Singing everlastingly. Amen.

For those that travel by Land or by Mater.

"THAT IT MAY PLEASE THEE TO PRESERVE ALL THAT TRAVEL BY LAND OR BY WATER;

"WE BESEECH THEE TO HEAR US, GOOD LORD."

391. "I will keep thee in all places whither thou goest." [C.M.

GEN. xxviii. 15.

1 How are thy servants bless'd, O Lord;
How sure is their defence!
Eternal wisdom is their guide;

Their help, omnipotence.

2 In foreign realms, and lands remote,
Supported by thy care,

Through burning climes they pass unhurt,
And breathe in tainted air.

3 From all their griefs and dangers, Lord,
Thy mercy sets them free,
While in the confidence of prayer

Their souls take hold on thee.

4 When by the dreadful tempest borne
High on the broken wave,

They know thou art not slow to hear,
Nor impotent to save.

5 The storm is laid, the winds retire,
Obedient to thy will;

The sea, that roar'd at thy command,
At thy command is still.

6 In midst of dangers, fears, and deaths,
Thy goodness I'll adore;

And praise thee for thy mercies past,
And humbly hope for more.

7 My life, while thou preserv'st my life,
Thy sacrifice shall be ;

And death, when death shall be my lot,
Shall join my soul to thee.

HYMN TO BE USED AT SEA.

392. "O God of our salvation, who art the confidence of them that are afar off upon the sea."-Ps. lxv. 5.

1 ALMIGHTY FATHER, hear our cry,
As o'er the trackless deep we roam;
Be thou our haven always nigh,
On homeless waters thou our home.

2 O Jesu, Saviour, at whose voice

The tempest sank to perfect rest,
Bid thou the mourner's heart rejoice,

And cleanse and calm the troubled breast.

3 O Holy Ghost, beneath whose power The ocean woke to life and light, Command thy blessing in this hour,

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Thy fostering warmth, thy quickening might.

4 Great God, Triune Jehovah, thee
We love, we worship, we adore;
Our refuge on time's changeful sea,
Our joy on heaven's eternal shore".

393.

"These see the works of the Lord, and his
wonders in the deep."-Ps. cvii. 24.

1 ETERNAL FATHER, strong to save,
Whose arm doth bind the restless wave,
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
O hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea.

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2 O Saviour, whose almighty word
The winds and waves submissive heard,
Who walkedst on the foaming deep,
And calm amid its rage didst sleep;
O hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea.

3 O sacred Spirit, who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
Who bad'st its angry tumult cease,
And gavest light, and life, and peace;
O hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea.

4 O Trinity of love and power,
Our brethren shield in danger's hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them wheresoe'er they go;
And ever let there rise to thee

Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.

394. "We, brethren, being taken from you for

a short time in presence, not in heart."
1 THESS. ii. 17.

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AND let our bodies part,
To different climes repair,
Inseparably join'd in heart
The friends of Jesus are:
Jesus, the corner-stone,
Did first our hearts unite,
And still he keeps our spirits one,

Who walk with him in white.

395.

2 O let us still proceed
In Jesus' work below;

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And, following our triumphant Head,
To farther conquests go.

The vineyard of their Lord
Before his labourers lies;
And lo, we see the vast reward
Which waits us in the skies.

O let our heart and mind
Continually ascend,

That haven of repose to find,
Where all our labours end:
Where all our toils are o'er,
Our suffering and our pain;
Who meet on that eternal shore,
Shall never part again.

Ordination or Disitation.

"VENI, CREATOR SPIRITUS."

"He breathed on them, and saith unto
them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost."
-JOHN XX. 22.

COME, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire,
And lighten with celestial fire.

Thou the anointing Spirit art,
Who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart.

Thy blessed unction from above
Is comfort, life, and fire of love.

Enable with perpetual light
The dulness of our blinded sight.

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