For All The Saints...

Just thought I'd share a few things from today's service. Mentioned in the bullentin was the Virginia Tech shooting of this week, the bombing of a Bible publishing houses in India, and the killing of three Bible publishing workers in Turkey. In the light of this our message this morning was on Daniel 3: 8-18. And one of the songs that we sang that was so relevant to everything that has happened recently was this one:

For All The Saints

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For all the saints,

who from their labours rest,

Who Thee by faith before the world confessed,

Thy Name, O Jesus,

Be forever blest:

Alleluia, Alleluia.

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Thou wast their Rock,

their Fortress and their Might;
Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well fought fight;
Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true Light.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

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O may Thy soldiers,

faithful, true and bold,
Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
And win with them the victor’s crown of gold.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

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O blest communion,

fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
All are one in Thee, for all are Thine.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

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And when the strife is fierce,

the warfare long,
Steals on the ear the distant triumph song,
And hearts are brave, again, and arms are strong.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

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From earth’s wide bounds,

from ocean’s farthest coast,
Through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,
And singing to Father, Son and Holy Ghost:
Alleluia, Alleluia!

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