5 Angels, sing on your faithful watches keeping;

Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above;

Till morning's joy shall end the night of weeping,

And life's long shadows break in cloudless love.

THE CHURCH.

B. GOUGH.

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Isaiah ix. 1.

1

AWAKE, awake, O Zion,

76.76.76.76.

Put on thy strength divine,

Thy garments bright in beauty,
The bridal dress be thine:
Jerusalem the holy,

To purity restored;

Meek Bride all fair and lowly,
Go forth to meet thy Lord.

2 From henceforth pure and spotless,
All glorious within,

Prepared to meet the Bridegroom,
And cleansed from every sin;
With love and wonder smitten,
- And bowed in guileless shame,
Upon thy heart be written
The new mysterious Name.

3 Jerusalem victorious

In triumph o'er her foes; Mount Zion, great and glorious, Thy gates no more shall close.

Earth's millions shall assemble
Around thine open door,
While hell and Satan tremble,
And earth and heaven adore.
4 The Lamb who bore our sorrows,
Comes down to earth again;
No sufferer now, but victor,
For evermore to reign.
To reign in every nation,
To rule in every zone;
Oh world-wide coronation,
In every heart a throne!

5 Awake, awake, O Zion,

Thy bridal day draws nigh;
The day of signs and wonders,
And marvels from on high.
Thy sun uprises slowly,

But keep thou watch and ward;
Fair Bride, all pure and lowly,
Go forth to meet thy Lord.

149

Eph. ii. 20-22.
J. STONE.

76.76.76.76.

1 HE Church's one foundation

Is Jesus Christ her Lord;

She is His new creation

By water and the Word:

From heaven He came and sought her
To be His holy Bride,

With His own Blood He bought her,
And for her life He died.

2 Elect from every nation,
Yet one o'er all the earth,
Her charter of salvation

One Lord, one Faith, one Birth;
One Holy name she blesses,
Partakes one Holy Food,
And to one hope she presses,
With every grace ensued.

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On the fount of life eternal,

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Gazing wistful and athirst;
Yearning, straining, from the prison
Of confining flesh to burst:
Here the soul an exile sighs,
For her native Paradise.

2 There no stormy winter rages,

There no scorching summer glows; But through one perennial spring-tide Blooms the lily with the rose:

And the Lamb with purest ray
Scatters round eternal day.

3 There, the saints of God, resplendent As the sun in all his might,

Evermore rejoice together,

Crowned with diadems of light;

And from peril safe at last,
Glory in their conflicts past.

4 Happy they who with them seated, Shall in all their glory share ; Oh that we, our days completed,

Might but be admitted there! There with them to praise, to sing Of our glorious God and King.

5 Look, O Jesus, on Thy soldiers,

Worn and wounded in the fight;
Grant, oh grant, us rest for ever,
In Thy beatific sight;

And Thyself our Guardian be,
Through a blest Eternity.

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1

HA

Heb. i. 7.

11.10.11.10.9.11.

F. W. FABER.

ARK! hark, my soul; angelic songs are swelling

O'er earth's green fields and ocean's wave-beat shore :

How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling

Of that new life when sin shall be no

more.

CHORUS.

Angels of Jesus, angels of light,
Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the

night.

2 Onward we go, for still we hear them singing,

"Come, weary souls, for Jesus bids you come;

And, through the dark its echoes sweetly ringing,

The music of the Gospel leads us home.

3 Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing, The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and

sea,

And laden souls, by thousands meekly stealing,

Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.

4 Rest comes at length, though life be long

and dreary;

The day must dawn, and darksome night be past;

Faith's journey ends in welcome to the

weary,

And heaven, the heart's true home, will come at last.

5 Angels, sing on! your faithful watches keeping;

Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above;

Till morning's joy shall end the night of weeping,

And life's long shadows break in cloudless love.

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1

THE CHURCH.

Isaiah ix. 1.

76.76.76.76.

B. GOUGH.

WAKE, awake, O Zion,

Put on thy strength divine,

Thy garments bright in beauty,
The bridal dress be thine:
Jerusalem the holy,

To purity restored;

Meek Bride all fair and lowly,
Go forth to meet thy Lord."

2 From henceforth pure and spotless,
All glorious within,

Prepared to meet the Bridegroom,
And cleansed from every sin;
With love and wonder smitten,
-And bowed in guileless shame,
Upon thy heart be written
The new mysterious Name.

S Jerusalem victorious

In triumph o'er her foes; Mount Zion, great and glorious, Thy gates no more shall close.