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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Lord in this sacred hour (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: Lord in this sacred hour

Topic: Heaven/Rest in

Writer: Unknown Unknown

Composer: J Woodman

Meter: SM

Tune: State Street

Hymn Number: 427

Page Number: 148, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

LORD, in this sacred hour

Within Thy courts we bend,

And bless Thy love, and own Thy pow'r,

Our Father and our Friend.



But Thou art not alone

In courts by mortals trod;

Nor only is the day Thine own

When man draws near to God.



Thy temple is the arch

Of yon unmeasured sky;

Thy sabbath the stupendous march

Of grand eternity.



Lord, may that holier day

Dawn on Thy servant's sight;

And purer worship may we pay

In heav'n's unclouded light.