Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Through every period of my life When nature fails, and day and night Through all eternity to Thee ABIDE WITH ME BY HENRY FRANCIS LYTE Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide; Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; O thou, who changest not, abide with me! Not a brief glance I beg, a passing word, But as thou dwell'st with thy disciples, Lord, Come not in terrors, as the King of kings; Thou on my head in early youth didst smile, I need Thy presence every passing hour. I fear no foe with Thee at hand to bless: Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes; JUST AS I AM BY CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT Just as I am-without one plea Just as I am and waiting not To rid my soul of one. dark blot, To Thee, whose blood can cleanse each spotO Lamb of God, I come! Just as I am-tho tossed about, Just as I am-poor, wretched, blind; Just as I am-Thou wilt receive, O Lamb of God, I come! Just as I am-Thy love unknown Just as I am-of that free love, The breadth, length, depth, and height to prove, Here for a season, then above O Lamb of God, I come! NEARER HOME BY PHOEBE CARY One sweetly solemn thought I am nearer home to-day Than I ever have been before; Nearer my Father's house, Where the many mansions be; Nearer the bound of life, Where we lay our burdens down; Nearer leaving the cross, Nearer gaining the crown! But lying darkly between, Winding down through the night, Is the silent, unknown stream, Closer and closer my steps Come to the dread abysm; Closer death to my lips Presses the awful chrism. Oh, if thy mortal feet Have almost gained the brink; Father, perfect my trust; Let my spirit feel in death, On the rock of a living faith! THE PILGRIMS OF THE NIGHT BY FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Hark! hark! my soul! Angelic songs are swelling O'er earth's green fields and ocean's wave-beat shore; How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling Of that new life when sin shall be no more! Darker than night life's shadows fall around us, |