4 Here may we prove the power of prayer To strengthen faith and sweeten care,
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heaven before our eyes.
5 Behold, at Thy commanding word,
We stretch the curtain and the cord;
Come, with Thy glory fill the place,
And bless us with a large increase.
2 Fierce is our subtle foeman:
The forces at his hand
With woes that none can number
Despoil the pleasant land;
All they who war against them,
In strife so keen and long,
Must in their Saviour's armor
Be stronger than the strong.
8 So hast Thou wrought among us The great things that we see: For things that are we thank Thee, And for the things to be.
For bright hope is uplifting Faint hands and feeble knees, To strive beneath Thy blessing For greater things than these. 4 Lead on, O love and mercy, O purity and power, Lead on till peace eternal
Shall close this battle-hour: Till all who prayed and struggled To set their brethren free, In triumph meet to praise Thee, Most Holy Trinity.
TERNAL Fa-ther! strong to save, Whose arm doth bind the rest-less wave,
Our guard, when on the silent deck The night-ly watch we keep.
And Thy disciples quailed in dread,
One word of Thine could save;
5 So when the fiercer storms arise
From man's unbridled will,
Be Thou, Lord, present in our hearts
To whisper, "Peace, be still."
6 Across this troubled tide of life
Thyself our pilot be,
Until we reach that better land,
The land that knows no sea.
E. A. Dayman, 1865
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
2 0 Jesus, once rocked on the breast of the billow,
Aroused by the shriek of despair from Thy pillow,
Now, seated in glory, the mariner cherish,
Who cries in his anguish, "Help Lord, or we perish!"
3 And, oh, when the whirlwind of passion is raging,
When sin in our hearts its wild warfare is waging,
Arise in Thy strength, Thy redeemed to cherish;
Rebuke the destroyer: "Help, Lord, or we perish!"
492 SAFE HOME 6, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8
1. SAFE home, safe home in port! Rent cord - age, shat-tered deck, Torn sails, pro
St. Joseph of the Studium, c. 830 Tr. J. M. Neale, 1863
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