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In all his works he praised the Holy One Most High with words of glory with his whole heart he sung songs, and loved Him that made him.

He set singers also before the Altar, that by their voices they might make sweet melody, and daily sing praises in their songs.

He beautified their Feasts, and set in order the Solemn Times, until the end, that they might praise His Holy Name, and that the Temple might sound from morning.

HYMNS AND ANTHEMS.

Proper of the Bay.

MORNING.

I.

His compassions fail not: they are new every morning.

1. GLORY to Thee, Who safe hast kept,
And hast refreshed us whilst we slept:
Grant, Lord, when we from death shall wake,
We may of endless life partake.

2. Our misspent time may we redeem,
And each new day our last esteem;
Our talent use with holy care,

And for the Judgment-day prepare.

3. Direct, control, suggest, this day,
All we design, or do, or say;

Guard the first springs of thought and will,
And with Thyself our spirits fill.

4. Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly Host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Morning Hymn.

Man goeth forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.

1. Now the day-star bright is born:
Thee we seek each dawning morn:
Thou, the Uncreated Light,
Guide this day our steps aright.

2. Keep from sin the hand and tongue,
Keep the soul from thought of wrong:
On our lips let truth be found,

In our hearts let love abound.

3. All day long, Lord, shield us well;
Be the spirit's Sentinel ›

Guard the gates of sense and sin,
Lest the foe should entrance win.

4. While our daily tasks we ply,
Stand Thou still propitious by:
All our works, begun in Thee,
By Thy favour furthered be.

5. Lest the haughty flesh control
And enslave the yielding soul,
Sober draughts and homely fare
Quell the flesh, and break the snare!

6. God the Father! God the Son!

God the Spirit! Three in One!
Laud to Thee and praise be given,
Now and aye, in earth and Heaven!

Peculiar.

I am the Light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness.

1. From the Father's glory shining,
Out of light unfolding light,
Light of Light, all light enshrining,
Day, in whom the day is bright!

2. Sun of suns! upon us lighten

With Thy pure perpetual gleam;
Fill our hearts, our senses brighten,
With Thy Spirit's hallowing beam.
3. Yea the Father too implore we,
Father of almighty grace,
Father of immortal glory,

To dispel all sinful trace;—

4. In each strong resolve to aid us,

Back to turn the Tempter's might;
Through each rugged chance to speed us,
Thought and act to guide aright.

5. Morn rides forth, the light revealing;-
O'er us be Thy brightness poured,
Son, in Father's fulness dwelling,
Father in Co-equal Word.

6. To the Father praise unending,
To the Son and Spirit blest,
Still from every heart ascending,
Be for evermore addrest.

Peculiar.

The day is Thine, and the night is Thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

1. O Thou true Life of all that live!

Who dost unmoved all motion sway;
Who dost the morn and evening give,
And through its changes guide the day,-

2. Thy light upon our spirits pour,
And so shall they no sunset see,
But death to us an open door
To an eternal morning be.

3. Father of mercies! hear our cry;
Hear us, O Sole-begotten Son,
Who, with the Holy Ghost Most High,
Reignest while endless ages run.

Old Hundredth.

EVENING.

V.

Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to praise Thee.

1. Glory to Thee, O God, this night,
For all the blessings of the light;
Keep us, O keep us, King of kings,
Beneath Thine own Almighty wings.