Matthew 14:23

• [Mat 14:23] I Love To Steal Awhile Away

  I love to steal awhile away From every cumbering care, And spend the hours of closing day In humble, grateful, prayer. I love in solitude to shed The penitential tear, And all His promises to plead Where none but god can hear. I love to think on mercies past, And future good implore, And all my cares and sorrows cast On God, whom I adore. I love by faith to take a view Of brighter scenes in heaven; The prospect doth my strength renew, While here by tempests driven. Thus, when life’s toilsome day is o’er, May its departing ray, Be calm at this impressive hour, And lead to endless day.

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  source: Cyberhymnal

Matthew 28:2

• [Mat 28:2] God Hath Sent His Angels

  God hath sent His angels to the earth again, Bringing joyful tidings to the sons of men; They who first at Christmas thronged the heavenly way, Now beside the tomb door sit on Easter day. Refrain Angels, sing His triumph as you sang His birth, “Christ the Lord is risen, peace, goodwill on earth!” In the dreadful desert, where the Lord was tried, There the faithful angels gathered at His side; And when, in the garden, grief and pain and care Bowed Him down with anguish, they were with Him there. Refrain Yet the Christ they honor is the same Christ still Who, in light and darkness, did His Father’s will; And the tomb, deserted, shineth like the sky, Since He passed from out it, into victory. Refrain God has still His angels, helping at His word, All His faithful children, like their faithful Lord; Soothing them in sorrow, arming them in strife, Opening wide the tomb doors, leading into life. Refrain

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  source: Cyberhymnal