Your fes-tal ban- ner wave on high, The cross of Christ your King. REFRAIN. Re-joice, re- - joice, Re-joice, Re-joice, give thanks and sing. Amen. re-joice, With all the saints on earth, 2. Bright youth and snow crowned age, 3. With all the angel choirs, God's wondrous praises speak. Pour out the strains of joy and bliss, Refrain-Rejoice, rejoice, Rejoice, give thanks and sing. 4. Yes on, through life's long path, From youth to age, by night and day, In gladness and in woe, 5. At last the march shall end, The wearied ones shall rest, The pilgrims find their Father's house, Jerusalem the blest. Amen. -E. H. PLUMPTRE II-PRAYER (ALL SEATED, WITH BOWED HEADS, reading together)— O God, who hast taught us to keep all thy heavenly commandments by loving thee and our neighbor; grant us the spirit of peace and grace that we may be both devoted to thee with our whole heart, and united to each other with a pure will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Hear our prayers, O Lord, and consider our desires. Give unto us true humility, a meek and quiet spirit, a loving and a friendly, a holy and a useful manner of life; bearing the burdens of our neighbors, denying ourselves, and studying to benefit others, and to please thee in all things. Grant us to be righteous in performing promises, loving to our relatives, careful of our charges; to be gentle and easy to be entreated, slow to anger, and readily prepared for every good work. Amen. Look upon us, O Lord, and let all the darkness of our souls vanish before the beams of thy brightness. Fill us with holy love, and open to us the treasures of thy wisdom. All our desire is known unto thee; therefore perfect what thou hast begun, and what thy Spirit has awakened us to ask in prayer. We seek thy face: turn thy face unto us and show us thy glory. Then shall our longing be satisfied, and our peace shall be perfect. Amen. Grant, Lord, that we may not, for one moment, admit willingly into our souls any thought contrary to thy love. Amen. O God, who hast commanded us to be perfect, as thou, our father in heaven, art perfect; put into our hearts, we pray thee, a continual desire to obey thy holy will. Teach us day by day what thou wouldst have us do, and give us grace and power to fulfil the same. May we never, from love of ease, decline the path which thou pointest out, nor, for fear of shame, turn away from it. Amen. IV-RESPONSIVE READING (ALL SEATED)— Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor. In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he that honoreth them that fear the Lord; he that sweareth not to his own hurt, and changeth not. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. V-SONG (ALL STANDING) Laban Lowell Mason (1792-1872) 1. A charge to keep I have, A God to glo- ri fy, A VI-SCRIPTURE READING (ALL STANDING AND READING TOGETHER, OR LEADER MAY READ ALONE)— Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in that law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in its season; whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish. |