Page 182 - Voices in Praise

380 Sing praises, all you peoples, Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary
Sing praises, all you peoples, Sing praises to the feet, come to the place for which our fathers
Lord. Sing praises, all you peoples, Sing praises sighed?
to the Lord.
HOME We have come over a way that with tears has
381 Lord, dismiss us with your been watered, We have come, treading our
blessing, path through the blood of the slaughtered;

Verse 1 Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at
Lord, dismiss us with your blessing, last where the white gleam of our bright star
Fill our hearts with joy and peace; is cast;. 2/3
Let us each, your love possessing,
Verse 3
Triumph in redeeming grace; God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
O refresh us, O refresh us, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Travelling though this wilderness. 1/2
Thou who hast by thy might, led us into the
Verse 2 light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Thanks we give, and adoration,
For your gospel's joyful sound; Lest our feet stray from the places, our God
May the fruits of your salvation where we met thee. Lest our hearts, drunk with
the wine of the world, we forget thee.
In our hearts and lives abound;
May your presence, Shadowed beneath they hand, may we forever
May your presence, With us evermore be found. stand, True to our God, true to our native land.
2/2 Amen. 3/3
HOME HOME
382 Lift every voice and sing 383 Lord we come with hearts
Verse 1 Lift every voice and sing, till earth and o'er-flowing
heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Verse 1
liberty; Lord we come with hearts o'er-flowing
On this glad, triumpant day;
Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies, Thanking you for grace bestowing
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. As we walked our pilgrim way,

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past Grant us pardon, humbly pleading,
has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that For the sins we here confess
the present has brought us; Give us still your Spirit's leading
And our service richly bless. 1/3
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won. 1/3 Verse 2
Gone the days of cruel scourging,
Verse 2 Stony the road we trod, bitter the Gone the slaver's blood-stained chains,
chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope Now for us the Spirit's urging,
unborn had died; Now the love of Christ constrains.

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