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Response.

(Music as before.)

[Ps. xcvi.]

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness;

Fear before him, all the earth.

Hear these rules for this joyful day:

Preserve Peace and Quiet; put away noisy business and noisy mirth. Let the day be Rest, for body and for mind.

Provide rest for all who serve us; therefore, let the day be simple. Give our dumb animals-our fellow creatures--rest and refreshment. Let it be a glad day; keep the mind, the behavior and the face cheerful.

Let it be a day of love, conversation and companionship at Home. Think how we are living and resolve how to live better.

Look at the beauty and grandeur of Nature, the glorious works of God.

Go, with simple heart, to the Church to join in praise and prayer. Thus the Sunday, our Home-Day and our Church-Day, will be quiet, restful, merciful, joyful, prayerful and hallowed.

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Who can tell where the stream doth flow
By which we shall rest one day?
Who can tell where the sheep now feed,

In whose wool we shall dress one day?
Who can tell where the corn-seed grows
That shall yield us bread one day?
Who can tell where a kindly board

For us shall be spread one day?
Who can tell where the road is made
Whereon we shall walk one day?

Who can tell when death will come
To bear us home one day?

There is One who knoweth all hidden things:
They are open to him each day.

He knoweth well what is best for all;

We are all in his hand each day.

Then, sorrow, cease, and leave us in peace:

The Lord will provide alway.

4. Prayer.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn unto the Lord.
Then the school will stand.

[Lam. iii.]

O God, who givest us not only the day for labor and the night for rest, but also the peace of this blessed day, grant, we beseech thee, that this season of holy quiet may be profitable to us in heavenly things, and refresh and strengthen us to return to the work which thou hast given us to do.

Then all will read in unison.

Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace, good-will to men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O God, the Father Almighty! Merciful Father, who takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer! Thou rulest with the kind hand of a Father; thou hast mercy upon us. For thou only art holy; thou only art the Lord.

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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is

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And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass a-gainst us. For thine is the kingdom and the power and

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5. Hymn-selected.

6. Here will be opportunity for any customary or special exercise; Or for a five minute sermon or address.

7. Hymn-selected.

8. The Class Lessons.

9. Close of school:

Psalmody.

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1. How sweet to be al-lowed to pray To God the Holy One,

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With filial love and trust to say, "O God, thy will be done."

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Supt.: The Lord will give strength unto his people. The Lord will bless his people with peace.

[Ps. xxix.],

[Ps. lxxi.]

School: He is our strong habitation, whereunto we may continually resort. He is our rock and our fortress.

Supt.: The Lord preserve thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth, and even forevermore.

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[Ps. cxxi.]

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VII. FREEDOM.

'FREEDOM, FELLOWSHIP AND CHARACTER IN RELIGION."

Freedom in Religion is to think and speak about religion freely and reverently, unfettered by any power, or by any person, or by our own passions or prejudices: and to claim the same liberty for all men.

1. Let the counsel of thine own heart stand;

For a man's mind is sometimes wont to tell him more

Than seven watchmen that sit above in a high tower:
And above all, pray to the Most High,
That he will direct thy way in truth.

2. The School will stand and sing responsively.

God speaketh in every faithful human spirit;

[Ecclesiasticus xxxvii.]

Therefrom have come the Bible and all scriptures.

We learn to feel the blessedness of knowing

That God, our Father and Friend,

Is nearer to us than anything can be:

That his voice within the heart will be our teacher and our guide, When all other things fail.

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Because God, who inhabits eternity, is the same from everlasting to everlasting,

The present moment comes as a scroll unrolled from his hand,
Bringing its own divine message for us.

On the faithful, he will pour out his spirit now

As on the holy men of old:

He comes near, he stands by; he dwells with us mightily:

Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of his glory.

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Glory and might encompass the works of God;
All the earth owns his holy will,
Raising the poor to stand upright
With the great princes of the land!
Sing praise to God, Amen! Amen!

Listen to the holy seers who speak of God, but acquaint thine ownself with him if thou would'st know his works. Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before. Thine eye shall be instructed and thy heart made pure. Then we are free! Then liberty, like day, breaks on the soul, and by a flash from heaven fires all the faculties with glorious joy. [Cowper.]

Response.

(Music as before.)

He lighteth minds and healeth the broken heart:
He telleth all the hosts of stars

And calleth them all by their names!
These are the wonders of his ways:

Sing praise to God, Amen! Amen!

The School seated.

3. Responses.

We believe in the perfect order and living power of God

Which make for truth and righteousness in the world.

It is he that leadeth us and speaketh in the still places of the heart: Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

[Paul.]

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