FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. BP. TAYLOR. FULL of mercy, full of love, Look upon us from above! Thou who taught'st the blind man's night To entertain a double light, Thine and the day's, (and that thine too): Return'd unto its infancy; The dumb amazed was to hear His own unchain'd tongue strike his ear: The Devil from his usurped place, Where thou Thyself shouldst dwell, not he; Oh let Thy love our pattern be! Let Thy mercy teach one brother Our souls unto Thy glory, when FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. R. H. Lo the lilies of the field, How their leaves instruction yield? 66 66 Mortal, fly from doubt and sorrow : Say, with richer crimson glows Say, have kings more wholesome fare Than we poor citizens of air? Mortal fly from doubt and sorrow! eye "One there lives whose Guardian God provideth for the morrow!" SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. No. 1. R. H. WAKE! not, oh mother! sounds of lamentation ! Bear forth the cold corpse, slowly, slowly bear him : Why pause the mourners? Who forbids our weeping? Who the dark pomp of sorrow has delay'd? "Set down the bier, he is not dead but sleeping! Young man arise !"— He spake, and was obey'd! Change then, oh sad one ! grief to exultation ; SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. No. II. H. H. M. WHEN our heads are bow'd with woe, When our bitter tears o'erflow; When we mourn the lost, the dear, Thou our throbbing flesh hast worn, When the sullen death-bell tolls Thou hast bow'd the dying head ; When the heart is sad within Thou the shame, the grief hast known, SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. H. H. M. GREAT GOD of Hosts! come down in Thy glory! Shake earth and heaven with Thine awful tread : Seal Thou the book of our world's dark story; Summon to judgement the quick and the dead! Great God of Hosts! come down to rule o'er us! Long have we pray'd for Thy peaceful reign : Change this sad earth to an Eden before us; Make it the mansion of bliss again! Great God of Hosts! the dreadful, the glorious! Come and set up Thy kingly Throne : Over the legions of Hell victorious, Rule in the world of Thy saints alone! |