6 But if love be there, true-hearted,
By no grief or terror parted,
Mary stands the cross beside.
136. 7s. M. Bulfinch.
"It Is Finished."
1 It is finished! glorious word
From thy lips, our suffering Lord!
Words of high, triumphant might,
Ere thy spirit takes its flight.
It is finished! all is o'er;
Pain and scorn oppress no more.
2 Now, no more foreboding dread
Shades the path thy feet must tread;
No more fear, lest in thine hour
Pain should patience overpower;
On the perfect sacrifice
Not a stain of weakness lies.
3 Champion! lay thine armor by;
'Tis thine hour of victory!
All thy toils are now o'erpast;
Thou hast found thy rest at last;
All hath faithfully been done,
And the world's salvation won.
137. P. M. H. Ware.
Easter Hymn.
1 Lift your glad voices in triumph on high,
For Jesus hath risen, and man cannot die.
Vain were the terrors that gathered around him,
And short the dominion of death and the grave;
He burst from the fetters of darkness that bound him,
Resplendent in glory, to live and to save.
Loud was the chorus of angels on high,--
"The Saviour hath risen, and man shall not die."
2 Glory to God, in full anthems of joy;
The being he gave us death cannot destroy.
Sad were the life we must part with to-morrow,
If tears were our birthright, and death were our end;
But Jesus hath cheered the dark valley of sorrow,
And bade us, immortal, to heaven ascend.
Lift, then, your voices in triumph on high,
For Jesus hath risen, and man shall not die.
138. 6 & 4s. M. Anonymous.
"Let There Be Light."
1 On earth was darkness spread,
One boundless night;
"Let there be light," God said,--
And there was light!
2 There hung a deeper gloom
O'er quick and dead,
But Jesus burst the tomb,
And darkness fled.
3 God by His word arrayed
Darkness with light;
God by His Son displayed
Day without night.
4 For thee, O man, arose
Creation's ray;
For thee, too, brighter glows
Salvation's day.
5 The beams first poured on earth
For mortals shone;
The light of later birth
Immortals own.
IV. REMEMBRANCE OF CHRIST.
139. C. M. Montgomery.
"In Remembrance of Me."
1 According to thy gracious word,
In meek humility,
This will I do, my dying Lord,
I will remember thee.
2 Thy body, broken for my sake,
My bread from heaven shall be;
Thy testamental cup I take,
And thus remember thee.
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