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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Time: A longing in man for reuniting with God.

SONGS OF PRAISE

SONGS OF PRAISE

DREAD FRAMER OF THE EARTH

Æterne rerum conditor.
DREAD FRAMER of the earth and sky,
Who dost the light and darkness give,
And all the cheerful change supply
Of alternating morn and eve!
Light of the midnight traveller!
Who dost divide the day …

SONGS OF PRAISE

BURIAL OF THE DEAD

Day of Wrath! Oh, day of mourning!
See fulfilled the prophets’ warning!
Heaven and earth in ashes burning!
Oh, what fear man’s bosom rendeth,
When from heaven the Judge descendeth.
On Whose sentence all dependeth!
Wondrous sound the trumpet flingeth,
Through earth’s sepulchres it ringeth,
All before …

SONGS OF PRAISE

O FAITHFUL CROSS!

O FAITHFUL CROSS! O noblest tree!
In all our woods there’s none like thee:
No earthly groves, no shady bowers,
Produce such leaves, such fruit, such flowers.
Sweet are the nails, and sweet the wood.
That bears a weight so sweet, so good.
Sing, my …

SONGS OF PRAISE

TRANSFIGURATION

χορός ^/σραηλ.
The choirs of ransomed Israel,
The Red Sea’s passage o’er,
Upraised the hymn of triumph
Upon the farther shore,
And shouted, as the foeman
Was whelmed beneath the sea,
“Sing we to Judah’s Saviour,
For glorified is …

SONGS OF PRAISE

ADAM’S COMPLAINT

“The Lord my Maker, forming me of clay,
By His own Breath the breath of life conveyed:
O’er all the bright new world He gave me sway,
A little lower than the Angels made.
But Satan, using for his guile
The crafty serpent’s cruel wile,
Deceived …

SONGS OF PRAISE

THAT FEARFUL DAY

την -ημέραν τήν ψρζχτην.
THAT fearful day, that day of speechless dread,
When Thou shalt come to judge the quick and dead-
I shudder to foresee,
O God! what then shall be!
When Thou shalt come, angelic legions round,
With thousand thousands, and with …

SONGS OF PRAISE

OH, WONDROUS MYSTERY

μυστηρίον ξένον.
OH, wondrous mystery, full of passing grace!
The grot becometh Heaven: the Virgin’s breast
The bright Cherubic Throne: the stall that place
Where He, Who fills all space, vouchsafes to rest:
Christ our God, to Whom we raise
Hymns …

SONGS OF PRAISE

GOD BLESSED FOREVER

oi παΐοες ευσέβεια.
The Holy Children boldly stand
Against the tyrant’s dread command:
The kindled furnace they defy, —
No doom can shake their constancy:
They in the midmost flame confessed,
“God of our Fathers! Thou art blessed!”
The Shepherds keep their flocks by night;
The …

SONGS OF PRAISE

ART THOU WEARY?

χόπον τε χάΐ χάματον.
Art thou weary, art thou languid,
Art thou sore distrest?
“Come to Me,” — saith One, — “and, coming,
Be at rest!”
Hath He marks to lead me to Him,
If He be my Guide?
“In His …

SONGS OF PRAISE

THE GOD-MAN

‘Ράβδος έχ ττ^ς ρίζης.
Rod of the Root of Jesse,
Thou, Flower of Mary born,
From that thick shady mountain
Cam’st glorious forth this morn:
Of her, the Ever Virgin,
Incarnate wast Thou made.
The immaterial Essence,
The God …