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Text:The eternal Sabbath
Tune:MORNINGTON

39. The eternal Sabbath

1 Hail to the Sabbath day!
The day divinely given,
When men to God their homage pay,
And earth draws near to heaven.

2 Lord, in this sacred hour,
Within thy courts we bend,
And bless thy love, and own thy power,
Our Father and our Friend.

3 But thou art not alone
In courts by mortals trod;
Nor only is the day thine own
When man draws near to God.

4 Thy temple is the arch
Of yon unmeasured sky;
Thy Sabbath, the stupendous march
Of vast eternity.

5 Lord, may that holier day
Dawn on thy servants' sight;
And purer worship may we pay
In heaven's unclouded light.

Text Information
First Line: Hail to the Sabbath day!
Title: The eternal Sabbath
Language: English
Publication Date: 1884
Topic: Opening of Service
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: MORNINGTON
Meter: S. M.
Key: E Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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