Or else this. 1 COME, thou Almighty King! Help us thy name to sing; Help us to praise ; Father all glorious, O'er all victorious, Come and reign over us, Ancient of Days. 2 Come, thou all-gracious Lord, By heaven and earth adored, Our prayer attend; Come, and thy children bless; 3 Never from us depart; Thy sovereign majesty And to eternity Love and adore. INTRODUCTORY SENTENCES AND HYMNS FOR Evening Prayer. FROM the rising of the sun, unto the going down of the same, the Lord's name is to be praised. Let our prayers be set forth in his sight as incense; and the lifting up of our hands as an evening sacrifice. Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Even the youth shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merci ful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before the High God? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly, and love mercy and walk humbly with thy God? O come, let us worship, and bow down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Min. Lift up your hearts. Cong. We lift them up unto the Lord. 1 FORTH from the dark and stormy sky, 2 Long have we roamed in want and pain; Turn not, O Lord, thy guests away. Or else this. COME ye disconsolate, where'er you languish, Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish, Earth has no sorrows that Heaven cannot heal. Joy of the comfortless, light of the straying, General Confession. (By the Minister and Congregation together.) Ir we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the Truth is not in us; If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unright eousness. I will arise and go to my Father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned Against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. God be merciful to me a sinner. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. Speak the word only, and thy servant shall be healed. |