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Hymns
For Your Service |
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This
hymn is about celebration and praise, making it suitable as the
first hymn sung at the beginning of the service, which is in
praise of God in whose presence everyone has assembled. It is
also suitable as the third hymn that is sung after the signing
of the register, which usually speaks of the desire that God
goes with you into the future to help you live out your vows.
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Dear
Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways!
Re-clothe us in our rightful mind,
In purer lives thy service find,
In deeper reverence praise.
In
simple trust like theirs who heard,
Beside the Syrian sea,
The gracious calling of the Lord,
Let us, like them, without a word
Rise up and follow thee.
O
Sabbath rest by Galilee!
O calm of hills above,
Where Jesus knelt to share with thee
The silence of eternity,
Interpreted by love!
Drop
thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of thy peace.
Breathe
through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still small voice of calm!
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