EASTER.

I.

HYMN.

2.

SCRIPTURE LESSON:

JOHN XX. 1 COR. xv.

3.

AWAKE, thou wintry earth!

Fling off thy sadness!

Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness!

Christ is risen!

Wave, woods, your blossoms all; Grim Death is dead!

Ye weeping funeral-trees,

Lift up your head!

Christ is risen!

Come, see! the graves are green;

It is light let's go Where our loved ones rest

In hope below.

Christ is risen!

All is fresh and new,

Full of spring and light:
Wintry heart, why wear'st the hue
Of sleep and night?
Christ is risen!

Leave thy cares beneath;
Leave thy worldly love;
Begin the better life

With God above!

Christ is risen!

Thomas Blackburn.

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4.

EASTER CAROL.

ET the merry church-bells ring; Hence with tears and sighing: Frost and cold have fled from spring; Life hath conquered dying; Flowers are smiling, fields are gay,

Sunny is the weather:

With our risen Lord, to-day,

All things rise together.

Let the birds sing out again
From their leafy chapel,
Praising Him with whom in vain
Sin hath sought to grapple.
Sounds of joy come loud and clear

As the breezes flutter:

"He arose, and is not here,"
Is the strain they utter.

Let the past of grief be past;
This our comfort giveth,
He was slain on Friday last,
But to-day he liveth:
Mourning heart must needs be gay
Out of sorrow's prison,

Since the very grave can say,
"Christ- he hath arisen!"

5.

LESSONS OR ADDRESS.

6.

FESTIVITIES.

7.

HYMN OR SONG.

8.

BENEDICTION.

WHITSUNDAY.

I.

HYMN.

2.

SCRIPTURE LESSON:

ISA. lv. JOHN iii.

3.

YOME, deck our feast to-day

COME, a

With flowers and wreaths of May;

And bring an offering holy, pure, and sweet.

The Spirit of all grace

Makes earth his dwelling-place:

Prepare your hearts your Lord with joy to meet!

O golden rain from heaven!

Thy precious drops be given

Upon the Church's waiting, thirsty field;

And let thy waters flow,

Where'er the sowers sow

The seed of Truth, that living fruit it yield.

Come, O thou trackless wind! Breathe quickening o'er our mind; Let not the flesh to rule the soul aspire! O sunshine of pure love!

Thy sweet glow let us prove,

And fill our hearts with thy soft, quenchless fire.

O Spirit! stir our will

Its high aims to fulfil;

Be with us always when we go and come;
Deep in our spirits dwell,

And make their inmost cell

Thy temple pure, thine ever-holy home.

4.

HYMN OR SONG.

COME, HOLY SPIRIT.

COME

NOME, thou Almighty Will!
Our fainting bosoms fill

With thy great power:
Strength of our good intents,
Our tempted hours' defence,
Calm of faith's confidence,

Come in this hour!

Schmolck.