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5 While sinners, in despair, shall call, Rocks, hide us; mountains, on us fall! The saints ascending from the tomb, Shall joyful sing-The Lord is come! 112.

THE LAST DAY.
Luther's Hymn2

8. 7. 8.7.

8.8.7.

1 Great God! what do I see and hear?
The end of things created!
Behold the Judge of man appear,
On clouds of glory seated!

The trumpet sounds, the graves restore
The dead which they contained before:
Prepare, my soul, to meet him!
2 The dead in Christ shall first arise,
At the last trumpet's sounding,
Caught up to meet him in the skies,

With joy their Lord surrounding; No gloomy fears their souls dismay; His presence sheds eternal day

On those prepared to meet him. 3 But sinners, filled with guilty fears, Behold his wrath prevailing;

For they shall rise, and find their tears And sighs are unavailing;

The day of grace is past and gone; Trembling they stand before the throne, All unprepared to meet him!

4 Great God, what do I see and hear?
The end of things created!
Behold the Judge of man appear,
On clouds of glory seated!
Low at his cross I wait the day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
And thus prepare to meet him!

113. REDEMPTION Drawing Near.

Alma-Emperor's Hymn Lewes.

8. 7. 8. 7.

4.7.

1 Lo! he comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain! Thousand thousand saints attending, Swell the triumph of his train: Hallelujah!

Jesus shall for ever reign.

2 Every eye shall now behold him
Robed in dreadful majesty;

Those who set at nought and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to the tree,
Deeply wailing,

Shall the true Messiah see.

3 Now redemption, long expected,
See in solemn pomp appear!

All his saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet him in the air!

Hallelujah!

See the day of God appear!

4 Yea! Amen! let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne!
Saviour, take the power and glory;
Claim the kingdom for thine own!
O come quickly!

Hallelujah! come, Lord, come.

114.

"DIES IRE."

L.M.

Soldau-Advent-Calvin-Submission-Ely.

1 The day of wrath! that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away! What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day? 2 When shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll;

When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead; 3 Oh on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay; Be thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.

115.

THE JUDGMENT.

St. Werbergh's-Linden-Lewes.

8.7.8.7.

1 Day of judgment, day of wonders! Hark! the trumpet's awful sound,

4.7.

Louder than a thousand thunders,
Shakes the vast creation round:
How the summons

Will the sinner's heart confound!

2 See the Judge, our nature wearing, Clothed in majesty divine!

Ye who long for his appearing,

Then shall say, "This God is mine!"
Gracious Saviour!

Own me in that day for thine.

3 Under sorrows and reproaches,
May this thought our courage raise!
Swiftly God's great day approaches--
Sighs shall then be changed to praise :
We shall triumph

When the world is in a blaze.

116. THE RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS. C. M.

St. Nicholas

Belgrave-Bremen-University.

1 Lo! what a glorious sight appears
To our admiring eyes!

The former seas have passed away,
The former earth and skies.

2 From heav'n the New Jerus'lem comes, All worthy of its Lord:

See all things now at last renewed,
And paradise restored!

3 Attending angels shout for joy, And the bright armies sing;

Mortals

behold the sacred seat

Of your descending King!

4 The God of glory down to men
Removes his blessed abode;

He dwells with men; his people they,
And he his people's God.

5 His gracious hand shall wipe the tears
From every weeping eye:

And pains and groans, and griefs and fears,
And death itself, shall die.

6 Behold, I change all human things!
Saith he, whose words are true;
Lo! what was old is passed away,
And all things are made new!

7 O may we stand before the Lamb,
When earth and seas are fled,

And hear the Judge pronounce our name,
With blessings on our head!

117.

CHARACTER AND TITLES OF CHRIST. C. M. Newington-Dunfermline-Burton-Loughton. 1 We bless the Prophet of the Lord,

Who comes with truth and grace:
Jesus, thy Spirit and thy Word
Shall lead us in thy ways.

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