fail, and com-forts flee, Help of the help - less, O a - bide with me. A-MEN.

3 I need Thy presence every passing hour;

What but Thy grace can foil the tempter's power?
Who like Thyself my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, O abide with me.

4 I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless:
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Where is death's sting? where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.

5 Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies:
Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee:
In lite, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

Rev. Henry F. Lyte, 1847

1 This night, O Lord, we bless Thee For Thy protecting

Frederick G. Baker, 1876

3*2 TUE OF DIE AND AL AUT

Sin and want we come con- fess -ing: Thou canst save, and Thou canst heal. A - MEN.

والے

Copyright by GEORGE C. STEBBINS

O Jesus, keep me in Thy sight, And save me thro' the com-ing night. A-MEN.

2 The joys of day are over:
I lift my heart to Thee,
And call on Thee that sinless

The hours of gloom may be.

O Jesus, make their darkness light,
And save me through the coming
night.

3 The toils of day are over:
I raise the hymn to Thee,
And ask that free from peril

The hours of fear may be.

O Jesus, keep me in Thy sight,
And guard me through the coming

night.

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4 Lighten mine eyes, O Saviour,
Or sleep in death shall I,
And he, my wakeful tempter,
Triumphantly shall cry,

"He could not make their darkness light,
Nor guard them through the hours of
night."

5 Be Thou my soul's Preserver,
O God, for Thou dost know
How many are the perils

Through which I have to go.
Lover of men, O hear my call,

And guard and save me from them all.

Cento from early Greek Service Bk. Trans. by Rev. John M. Neale, 1853, 1862