Your lamps with gladness take!

Hallelujah!

With bridal care Yourselves prepare
To meet the Bridegroom, who is near!

2 Zion hears the watchmen singing,
And all her heart with joy is springing,
She wakes, she rises from her gloom;
For her Lord comes down all glorious,
The strong in grace, in truth victorious,

Her Star is risen, her Light is come! Now come, Thon Blessed One,

Lord Jesus, God's own Son,

Hail! Hosanna!

The joyful call We answer all,
And follow to the nuptial hall.

3 Glory unto Thee be given,

By men and by the host of heaven,

With harp and cymbal's clearest tone;
Of one pearl each shining portal,
Where we are with the choir immortal
Of angels round Thy dazzling throne,
Nor eye hath seen, nor ear

Hath yet attained to hear
Such great glory;

Therefore will we Eternally

Sing hymns of joy and praise to Thee.

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LET thoughtless thousands choose the

road

That leads the soul away from God;
This happiness, dear Lord, be mine,
To live and die entirely Thine.

2 On Christ, by faith, I fain would live, From Him, my life, my all receive;

To Him devote my fleeting hours, Serve Him alone with all my powers.

3 Christ is my everlasting All;
To Him I look, on Him I call;
He will my every want supply,
In time, and through eternity.

4 Soon will the Lord, my Life, appear;
Soon shall I end my trials here;
Leave sin and sorrow, death and pain,
To live is Christ, to die is gain.

5 Soon will the saints in glory meet,
Soon walk through every golden street,
And sing on every blissful plain,-
To live is Christ, to die is gain.

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THAT day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away! What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day?

2 When, shriveling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead:

3 Lord, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be Thou the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.

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THE day is surely drawing near,
When God's Son, the Anointed.
Shall with great majesty appear,
As Judge of all appointed.

All mirth and laughter then shall cease,
When flames on flames will still increase
As the Apostle teacheth.

2 A trumpet loud shall then resound,
And all the earth be shaken;

Then all who in their graves are found
Shall from their sleep awaken;
But all that live shall in that hour,
By the Almighty's boundless power
Be changed at His commanding.

3 A book is opened then to all A record truly telling

What each hath done, both great and
small,

When he on earth was dwelling;'
And every heart be clearly seen,
And all be known as they have been,
In thoughts and words and actions.

4 Then woe to those who scorned the Lord, And sought but carnal pleasures, Who here despised His precious Word, And loved their earthly treasures! With shame and trembling they will

stand,

And at the Judge's stern command
To Satan be delivered.

5 O Jesus, who my debt didst pay, And for my sin wast smitten, Within the book of life, O may

My name be also written!

I will not doubt; I trust in Thee, From Satan Thou hast made me free, And from all condemnation.

6 Therefore my Intercessor be,
And for Thy bloody merit

Declare my name from judgment free,
With all who life inherit;

That I may see Thee face to face,
With all Thy saints in that blest place,
Which Thou for us hast purchased.

7 O Jesus Christ, do not delay, But hasten our salvation!

We often tremble on our way

In fear and tribulation.

Then hear us when we cry to Thee; Come, mighty Judge, and make us free From every evil.

Amen!

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GREAT God, what do I see and hear?
The end of things created;

The Judge of mankind doth appear
On clouds of glory seated;

The trumpet sounds; the graves restore
The dead which they contained before:
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him.

2 The dead in Christ shall first arise, At the last trumpet's sounding, Caught up to meet Him in the skies;

With joy their Lord surrounding; No gloomy fears their souls dismay; His presence sheds eternal day

On those prepared to meet Him.

3 But sinners, filled with guilty fears, Behold His wrath prevailing,

For they shall rise, and find their tears And sighs are unavailing;

The day of grace is past and gone; Trembling they stand before the throne, All unprepared to meet Him.

4 O Christ, who diedst and yet dost live,
To me impart Thy merit;

My pardon seal, my sins forgive,
And cleanse me by Thy Spirit.

Beneath Thy cross I view the day
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
And thus prepare to meet Thee.

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AND will the Judge descend?

And must the dead arise
And not a single soul escape
His all-discerning eyes?

2 And from His righteous lips

S. M.

Shall this dread sentence sound;
And, through the numerous guilty throng,
Spread black despair around?

3 "Depart from me accursed,
To everlasting flame,
For rebel angels first prepared,
Where mercy never came."

4 How will my heart endure The terrors of that day,

When earth and heaven before His face

Astonished shrink away?