Conducted by the Rev. Percy Robson
assisted by other Ministers
ORDER OF SERVICE
O God, our help in ages past.
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast.
And our eternal home:
Beneath the shadow of thy throne
Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficie 'tis Thine Arm alone,
And our defence is sure.
Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting thou art God,
To endless years the Same.
A thousand ages in thy sight.
Are like an evening gone:
Short ns the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all his sons away;
Thy fly forgotten as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Be thou our guard while troubles lost,
And our eternal home. Amen.
Prayers
Duet - Mrs. Brightwell and Miss West.
Reading
Duet - 'Homeland' (by request)- Mrs. Brightwell and Miss West
Homeland
'The homeland! the homeland!
The land of the free born;
There's no night in the homeland.
Put aye the fadeless morn:
I'm sighing for the homeland,
My heart is aching here;
There's no pain in the homeland,
To which I'm drawing near.
My Lord is in the homeland,
With angels bright and fair;
There's no sin in the homeland,
And no temptation there;
The voices of the homeland
Are ringing in my ears;
And when I think of the homeland,
My eyes are filled with tears.
For those I love in the homeland
Are calling me away,
To the rest and peace of the homeland
And the life beyond decay;
For there's no death in the homeland,
There is no grief above:
Christ bring us all to the homeland
Of His eternal love.
Address
On the Resurrection morning
Soul and body meet again;
No more sorrow, no more weeping, no more pain !
Here awhile they must be parted,
And the flesh its Sabbath keep,
Waiting in a holy stillness, wrapt in sleep.
For a while the tired body
Lies with feet towards the morn;
Till the last and brightest Easter day be born.
But the soul in contemplation
Utters earnest prayer and strong,
Bursting at the Resurrection into song.
Soul and body reunited
Thenceforth nothing shall divide.
Waking up in Christ's own likeness, satisfied.
Oh ! the beauty, Oh ! the gladness
On that Resurrection day.
Which shall not through endless ages pass away.
On that happy Faster mining
All the graves their dead restore;
Father, sister, child and mother, meet once more.
To that brightest of all meetings
Bring us, Jesu Christ, at last;
By Thy Cross, through death and judgement holding fast.
Amen.
God save our gracious King,
Long live our noble King,
God save the King !
Send him victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the King!
'Greater love hath no man than this:
that a man lay down his life for his friends'
