- In pray’r your voices raise ye
To God, and Him now praise ye,
Who to our life from heaven
All needed strength hath given. - The stream of years is flowing,
And we are onward going,
From old to new surviving,
And by His mercy thriving. - In woe we often languish,
And pass through times of anguish,
When fearful war aboundeth,
That earth itself surroundeth. - As faithful mother keepeth
Guard while her infant sleepeth,
And all its grief assuageth
When angry tempest rageth; - So God His children shieldeth,
Them full protection yieldeth;
When need and woe distress them,
His loving arms caress them. - In vain is all our doing,
The labour we’re pursuing
In our hands prospers never,
Unless God watcheth ever. - Our song to Thee ascendeth,
Who every day defendeth
Us, and whose arm averteth
The pain our hearts that hurteth. - O God of mercy! hear us;
Our Father! be Thou near us;
’Mid crosses and in sadness
Be Thou our Spring of gladness. - To me and all be given,
Who from the heart have striven
To gain Thy benediction,
Hearts patient in affliction. - Oh! close the gates of sorrow,
And by a glorious morrow
Of peace, may places sadden’d
By bloodshed dire be gladden’d. - With richest blessings crown us,
In all our ways, Lord! own us;
Give grace, who grace bestowest
To all, e’en to the lowest. - Of all forlorn be Father,
All erring ones ingather,
And of the poor and needy
Be Thou the succour speedy. - Grace show to all afflicted,
And to all souls dejected,
By melancholy haunted,
May happy thoughts be granted. - All earthly gifts excelling,
The Holy Ghost indwelling,
Give us to make us glorious,
And lead to Thee victorious. - All this Thy hand bestoweth,
Thou Life! whence our life floweth,
Thus Thou Thy people meetest
With New Year’s blessing greetest.