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Hymn of the Week – Thou, My Everlasting Portion

Poetry by Fanny J. Crosby (1874)
Music by S. J. Vail (1874)

Thou, my everlasting portion,
More than friend or life to me;
All along my pilgrim journey,
Savior, let me walk with Thee.
Close to Thee, close to Thee,
Close to Thee, close to thee!
All along my pilgrim journey,
Savior, let me walk with Thee.

Lead me through the vale of shadows,
Bear me o’er life’s fitful sea;
Then the gate of life eternal
May I enter, Lord, with Thee.
Close to Thee, close to Thee,
Close to Thee, close to thee!
Then the gate of life eternal
May I enter, Lord, with Thee.

Hymn of the Week – Blest Be the Tie That Binds

Poetry by John Fawcett (1782)
Music by Johann George N盲geli (1828)
Audio recording

Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.

Before our Father鈥檚 throne
We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one
Our comforts and our cares.

We share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.

When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.

Hymn of the Week – Now the Day Is Over

Music by Joseph Barnby (1868)
Poetry by Sabine Baring-Gould (1865)

Now the day is over,
Night is drawing nigh;
Shadows of the evening
Steal across the sky.

Jesus, give the weary
Calm and sweet repose;
With Thy tenderest blessing
May our eyelids close.

Grant to little children
Visions bright of Thee;
Guard the sailors tossing
On the deep blue sea.

Comfort every sufferer
Watching late in pain;
Those who plan some evil
From their sin restrain.

When the morning wakens,
Then may I arise
Pure, and fresh, and sinless
In Thy holy eyes.

Amen.

Hymn of the Week – Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah

Words from Psalm 148, arranged by William Kirkpatrick (1894)
Music by William Kirkpatrick (1894)
Sound recording

Hallelujah, praise Jehovah,
from the heavens praise His name;
Praise Jehovah in the highest,
all His angels praise proclaim.
All His hosts together praise Him,
sun and moon and stars on high;
Praise Him, O ye heaven of heavens,
and ye floods above the sky.

Let them praises give Jehovah,
for His name alone is high,
And His glory is exalted,
far above the earth and sky.

Let them praises give Jehovah,
they were made at His command;
Them forever He established,
His decree shall ever stand,
From the earth, O praise Jehovah,
all ye floods, ye dragons all,
Fire and hail and snow and vapors,
stormy winds that hear His call.

All ye fruitful trees and cedars,
all ye hills and mountains high,
Creeping things and beasts and cattle,
birds that in the heavens fly,
Kings of earth, and all ye people,
princes great, earth鈥檚 judges all;
Praise His name, young men and maidens,
ag猫d men, and children small.