DEAR LORD AND FATHER OF MANKIND

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways;
Reclothe us in our rightful mind;
In purer lives Thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise.

In simple trust like theirs who heard,
Beside the Syrian sea,
The gracious calling of the Lord,
Let us, like them, without a word
Rise up and follow Thee.

O Sabbath rest by Galilee!
O calm of hills above,
Where Jesus knelt to share with Thee
The silence of eternity,
Interpreted by love.

With that deep hush subduing all
Our words and works that drown
The tender whisper of Thy call,
As noiseless let Thy blessing fall
As fell Thy manna down.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.

Breathe through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and Thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
O still small voice of calm!
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1. THE SORROWS OF THE DAILY LIFE

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2. GLORY TO THEE; THOU SON OF GOD MOST HIGH

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3. ONCE MORE BEFORE WE PART

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4. PRAISE THE LORD, WHO DIED TO SAVE US

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5. THE LOVE THAT JESUS HAD FOR ME

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6. O BLESSED GOD! HOW KIND

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7. KEPT, SAFELY KEPT;

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8. I HAVE BEEN AT THE ALTAR AND WITNESSED THE LAMB

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9. CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN ON HIGH!

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10. JESUS! SOURCE OF LIFE ETERNAL

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11. PRAISE THY SAVIOUR, O MY SOUL!

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12. BRIDE OF THE LAMB, THERE IS FOR THEE

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13. WHAT WILL IT BE TO DWELL ABOVE

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14. BLESSED BE GOD, OUR GOD!

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15. COME, THOU FOUNT OF EVERY BLESSING

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16. WHEN WE REACH OUR PEACEFUL DWELLING

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17. THE HOLIEST NOW WE ENTER

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18. WITHOUT A CLOUD BETWEEN;

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19. TIS PAST, THE DARK AND DREARY NIGHT

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20. 'A LITTLE WHILE!' OUR LORD SHALL COME

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21. LORD, WE WOULD NE'ER FORGET THY LOVE

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22. A MIND AT PERFECT PEACE WITH GOD

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23. O LORD, IT IS THYSELF TO MEET

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24. O LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND SEA

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25. O CHRIST, THOU SON OF GOD!

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26. O LORD, THY LOVE'S UNBOUNDED!

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27. GOD'S ALMIGHTY ARMS ARE ROUND ME

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28. WORTHY, WORTHY IS THE LAMB!

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29. LOOK UPON US, BLESSED LORD

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30. MAY THE MIND OF CHRIST MY SAVIOUR

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