The church porch; a service book and hymnal for Sunday schools - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...2 Though destruction walk around us, Though the arrows near us fly, Angel guards from theo surround us; We are safe, if thou art nigh. 3 Though the night be dark and dreary. Darkness cannot hide from thee; Thou art he who, never weary, Watchest where thy people be. i Should swift death this night o'ertake us, And our couch become our tomb, May the morn in heaven awake us, Clad in bright and deatLkss bloom. Amew. 1. Hark! hark, my soul; An-gel-ic Songs are swell-ing O'er earth's green fields, and o-cean's wave-beat shore: How sweet the truth those biers-ed strains are tell-ing night, Slug---ing pilgrims of the night, Sing-ing to w.'-l-come the 2 Onward wo go, for still wo hear them singing, 'Gome, weary souls, for Jesus bids you come:" And, through tuo dark, its echoes sweetly ringing, The music of the Gospel leads us home.--Oho. 3 Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing, The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and sea, And laden souls by thousands meekly stealing, Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to thee.--Cho. 4 Rest comes at length, though life be long and dreary, The day must dawn, and darksome night be past; Faith's journey ends in welcome to the weary, And heaven, the heart's true home, will come at last.--Cho. 6 Angels, sing on! your faithful watches keeping; Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above; Till morning joy shall end the night of weeping, And life'a long shadows break in cloudless love.--Cho. Amen. rise, To hide thee from thy rer-vnnt.s eyes! A-Men. 2 When the soft dews of kindly ribep My we iried eyelids ge".tly sleep, By my last thought, how sweet to rest For ever on my Saviour's breast! 3 Abide with me from morn till eve, For without tbeo I cannot live! Abide with me when night is nigh, For without thee I dure not die! 4...