35. All My Heart This Night Rejoices.

Warum sollt ich mich denn grämen. 83, 36. D.

JOHANN GEORG EBELING, 1666.

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1. All my heart this night rejoic es, As I hear, Far and near,

2 God in man's nature! O mystery past comprehending!
Now is the temple thrown wide and the incense ascending!
Christ is the way!

We who were once far away,

Now at His footstool are bending.

3 Hast Thou, O Holy One, deigned of my need to be thinking? Chosen me, called me, the waters of life to be drinking?

Shall not my mind

Fullness of blessing here find,

Deep in humility sinking?

4 Faithful Immanuel! let me Thy glories be telling;
Ever, my Saviour, be Thou in mine inmost heart dwelling.
With me abide;

Teach me to stay at Thy side,

Where the love-fountain is welling.

Gerhard Tersteegen, 1785.

38. Calm on the Listening Ear of Night.'

1. Calm on the lis-t'ning ear of night Come heav'n's melodious strains, 2. The an-sw'ring hills of Palestine Send

And an-gels, with their sparkling lyres, Make music on the air.
And Sharon waves in solemn praise Her

39. It Came upon the Midnight Clear.

1. It came up on the mid-night clear, That glo-ri-ous song of old, 2. Still thro' the clo - ven skies they come, With peace-ful wings un - furled,

From an gels bend-ing near the earth To touch their harps of gold: And still their heav'nly music floats O'er all the weary world;

The world in sol - emn still-ness lay, To hear the angels sing.

er o'er its Babel sounds The bless-ed angels sing. A-MEN.