Praise him in the sacred dance,
Harmony's full concert raise,
Let the virgin choir advance,
And move but to his praise.
3 Celebrate the eternal God
With harp and psaltery,
Timbrels soft and cymbals loud
In his high praise agree:
Praise him every tuneful string;
All the reach of heavenly art,
All the powers of music bring,
The music of the heart.

4 Him, in whom they move and live,
Let every creature sing,

Glory to their Maker give,
And homage to their King:
Hallowed be his name beneath,
As in heaven on earth adored;
Praise the Lord in every breath!
Let all things praise the Lord!

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SECTION II.

HYMNS OF ADORATION.

1 HALL

Hymn to God the Father.

AIL, Father, whose creating call
Unnumbered worlds attend;

Jehovah, comprehending all,
Whom none can comprehend!

2 In light unsearchable enthroned,
Whom angels dimly see,

The fountain of the Godhead owned,
And foremost of the Three.

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3 From thee, through an eternal now,
The Son, thine offspring, flowed;
An everlasting Father thou,
An everlasting God.

4 Nor quite displayed to worlds above,
Nor quite on earth concealed;
By wondrous, unexhausted love,
To mortal man revealed.

5 Supreme and all-sufficient God,
When nature shall expire,
And worlds created by thy nod
Shall perish by thy fire.

6 Thy name, Jehovah, be adored
By creatures without end;
Whom none but thy essential Word
And Spirit comprehend.

2-6s & 4-7 s. Hymn to the Trinity.

1 HALL

[AIL, co-essential Three,
In mystic Unity!

Father, Son, and Spirit, hail !

God by heaven and earth adored,
God incomprehensible;

One supreme, almighty Lord.

2 Thou sittest on the throne,
Plurality in One:

Saints behold thine open face,
Bright, insufferably bright;
Angels tremble as they gaze,
Sink into a sea of light.

3 Ah! when shall we increase
Their heavenly ecstasies?

Chant, like them, the Lord most High,
Fall like them who dare not move;
Holy, holy, holy," cry,

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Breathe the praise of silent love?
4 Come, Father, in the Son
And in the Spirit down;
Glorious Triune Majesty,

God through endless ages blest,
Make us meet thy face to see,
Then receive us to thy breast.

E give immortal praise
To God the Father's love,

For all our comforts here,

And better hopes above;

He sent his own eternal Son,

To die for sins that man had done.
2 To God the Son belongs
Immortal glory too,

Who bought us with his blood
From everlasting woe:

And now he lives, and now he reigns,
And sees the fruit of all his pains.
3 To God the Spirit's name
Immortal worship give,
Whose new-creating power

Makes the dead sinner live;
His work completes the great design,
And fills the soul with joy divine.

4 Almighty God, to thee

Be endless honours done,

The undivided Three,

And the mysterious One:

Where reason fails, with all her powers,
There faith prevails, and love adores.

7 s.

"Gloria Patri."

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1 PATHER, live, by all things feared;
Live the Son, alike revered;

Equally be thou adored,
Holy Ghost, Eternal Lord.

2 Three in person, one in

power, Thee we worship evermore: Praise by all to thee be given,

Endless theme of earth and heaven.

[OLY, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!

HOLY

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Early in the morning our song shall rise to
thee.

Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty,
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity!

2 Holy, holy, holy! all the saints adore thee, Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;

Cherubim and Seraphim falling down before thee, Who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.

3 Holy, holy, holy! though the darkness hide thee, Though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not

see,

Only thou art holy, there is none beside thee
Perfect in power, in love, and purity!

4 Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!
All thy works shall praise thy name, in earth
and sky and sea :

Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty,
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity!

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"Te Deum laudamus."

FIRST PART.

[NFINITE God, to thee we raise

INFIN

6-88.

Our hearts in solemn songs of praise;
By all thy works on earth adored,
We worship thee, the common Lord;
The everlasting Father own,

And bow our souls before thy throne.

2 Thee all the choir of angels sings,
The Lord of hosts, the King of kings;
Cherubs proclaim thy praise aloud,
And seraphs shout the triune God;
And, "Holy, holy, holy," cry,
"Thy glory fills both earth and sky!”

3 God of the patriarchal race,

The ancient seers record thy praise,
The goodly apostolic band

In highest joy and glory stand;
And all the saints and prophets join
To extol thy majesty divine.

4 Head of the martyrs' noble host,
Of thee they justly make their boast;
The church, to earth's remotest bounds,
Her heavenly Founder's praise resounds;
And strives, with those around the throne,
To hymn the mystic Three in One.

5 Father of endless majesty,

All might and love they render thee;
Thy true and only Son adore,
The same in dignity and power;
And God the Holy Ghost declare,
The saints' eternal Comforter.