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Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

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Lord God of truth and grace, Teach us that death to shun, Lest we be banished from Thy face, And evermore undone.

Here would we end our quest; Alone are found in Thee

The life of perfect love, the rest Of immortality. Amen.

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325 STROUDWATER, C. M.

WILKINS'S PSALMODY, C. 1730,

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See also KILMARNOCK, No. 222.
So shall we ever be with the Lord.

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TAKE comfort, Christians, when your In Jesus fall asleep; Their better being never ends; Why then dejected weep? mp2 Why inconsolable, as those To whom no hope is given ? Death is the messenger of peace, And calls the soul to heaven.

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Christ shall with shouts descend, And the last trumpet's awful voice The heavens and earth shall rend,

326 RETREAT. L. M.

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5 Then they who live shall changèd be, And they who sleep shall wake; The graves shall yield their ancient charge,

And earth's foundations shake. 6 The saints of God, from death set free, With joy shall mount on high; The heavenly hosts with praises loud Shall meet them in the sky. mf 7 Together to their Father's house With joyful hearts they go; And dwell forever with the Lord Beyond the reach of woe. dim 8 A few short years of evil past, We reach the happy shore, Where death-divided friends at last Shall meet to part no more. Amen. MICHAEL BRUCE.

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Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. in Jesus! blessèd sleep From which none ever wakes to weep,

ASLEEP

A calm and undisturbed repose Unbroken by the last of foes! mp 2 Asleep in Jesus! O how sweet To be for such a slumber meet, With holy confidence to sing That death hath lost his venomed sting.

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4 Asleep in Jesus! O for me
May such a blissful refuge be!
Securely shall my ashes lie
Waiting the summons from on high.

mp 5 Asleep in Jesus! time nor space
Debars this precious hiding-place;
On Indian plains or Lapland snows
Believers find the same repose.

6 Asleep in Jesus! far from thee
Thy kindred and their graves may be;
But thine is still a blessèd sleep
From which none ever wakes to weep.

Amen.

MARGARET MACKAY.

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Fallen asleep in Christ.

Under the sod,

Earth, receive our treasure,

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To rest in God,

Waiting all His pleasure.

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LEEP thy last sleep,

Free from care and sorrow;

Rest where none weep,

Till the eternal morrow;

Though dark waves roll O'er the silent river.

Thy fainting soul

Jesus can deliver.

2 Life's dream is past,

All its sin, its sadness;
Brightly at last

Dawns a day of gladness.

RETREAT. L. M.

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3 Though we may mourn

Those in life the dearest,

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See also ANGELUS, No. 366.

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They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more,

wipe away all tears from their eyes.

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To the cross their dying eyes,
All the love of Jesus learn
At His feet in Paradise.

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Now the battle-day is past;

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Now upon the further shore Lands the voyager at last.

Thy servant sleeping.

2 There the tears of earth are dried; There its hidden things are clear; There the work of life is tried By a juster Judge than here. p 3 There the Shepherd, bringing home Many a lamb forlorn and strayed, Shelters each, no more to roam, Where the wolf can ne'er invade.

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JOHN ELLERTON.

There is a world above
Where parting is unknown;
A whole eternity of love

Formed for the good alone :
And faith beholds the dying here
Translated to that happier sphere.
Thus star by star declines
Till all are passed away,

As morning high and higher shines
To pure and perfect day;
Nor sink those stars in empty night;
They hide themselves in heaven's own
light. Amen. JAMES MONTGOMERY.

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