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 HYMN. 26l

��HYMN.

&quot; We give Thee hearty thanks for the good examples of all those Thy servants, who, having finished their course in faith, do now rest from their labors.&quot;

WE praise Thee, God, the Pilgrim s stay, Whose hand supports Thy people still, Since first the sea became a path Beneath the footsteps of Thy will

A silver link from shore to shore,

By true Evangel safely crossed, Held fast by prayer at either end,

Tho shaken sore and tempest-tossed.

We bless Thee for the solemn psalm That stirred the forest arches then,

Whose echoes, ringing down the years, Still blend to-day with our Amen.

We thank Thee for our common sire, God s freeman, by the truth made free,

A lineage more blest by far

Than kingly line could ever be.

��So teach his children s children still To walk as wisely as he trod,

And, thanking Thee for Pilgrim sire, Help us to trust the Pilgrim s God.

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