Songs for the Sanctuary.

AFELY through another week,
God has brought us on our way;

Let us now a blessing seek,
Waiting in his courts to-day:
Day of all the week the best,
Emblem of eternal rest.

2 While we seek supplies of grace,
Through the dear Redeemer's name,
Show thy reconciling face-

Take away our sin and shame;
From our worldly cares set free,-
May we rest this day in thee.

3 Here we come thy name to praise ;
Let us feel thy presence near;
May thy glory meet our eyes,
While we in thy house appear:
Here afford us, Lord, a taste
Of our everlasting rest.

4 May the gospel's joyful sound

Wake our minds to raptures new:

Let thy victories abound,

Unrepenting souls subdue:

Thus let all our Sabbaths prove,
Till we rest in thee above.

78, 61.

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HINE earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love,
But there's a nobler rest above;
To that our longing souls aspire,
With cheerful hope and strong desire.
2 No more fatigue, no more distress,

Nor sin nor death shall reach the place;
No groans shall mingle with the songs
That warble from immortal tongues.

3 No rude alarms of raging foes,
No cares to break the long repose,
No midnight shade, no clouded sun,
But sacred, high, eternal noon.
4 O long-expected day, begin!

Dawn on these realms of woe and sin;
Fain would we leave this weary road,
And sleep in death to rest with God.

Ephesians 3:19.

NOME, gracious Lord, descend and dwell,
/ By faith and love, in every breast;
en shall we know, and taste, and feel

joys that cannot be expressed.

Jome, fill our hearts with inward strength,
Make our enlargéd souls possess,

L. M

And learn the height, and breadth, and length
Of thine eternal love and grace.

3 Now to the God whose power can do
More than our thoughts and wishes know,
Be everlasting honors done,

By all the church, through Christ his Son.

MY opening eyes with rapture see

The dawn of thy returning day;
My thoughts, O God, ascend to thee,
While thus my early vows I pay.

L. M.