2 The task Thy Wisdom hath assigned
O let me cheerfully fulfil !

In all my works Thy Presence find,

And prove Thy good and perfect Will.* acceptable, orig. *Rom. xii. 2.

6 TO FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST,++ ++ The Doxology is added. The GOD Whom heaven and earth adore,

From men and from the angel-host

Be praise and glory evermore.

Amen.

CHARLES WESLEY, 1749.

The Third Hour.

HYMN 7.

"It is but the third hour of the day."-Acts ii. 15.

COME, HOLY GHOST, Who ever One
Art with the FATHER and the SON;

NUNC SANCTE nobis SPIRITUS,

Unum PATRI cum FILIO,

Come, HOLY GHOST, our souls pos

sess

With Thy full flood of holiness.*

2 In word and deed, by heart and tongue,

With all our powers, Thy praise be

sung;

May love enwrap our mortal frame,
And others catch the living flame.+

3 Almighty FATHER, hear our cry
Through JESUS CHRIST Our LORD

most High,

Who, with the HOLY GHOST and
Thee,

Doth live and reign eternally. Amen.

Very Rev. JOHN H. NEWMAN, 1836 (altered, Doxology added).

66

Dignare promptus ingeri

Nostró refusus pectori.*

2 Os, lingua, mens, sensus, vigor
Confessionem personent,

Flammescat igne caritas,
Accendat amor proximos.+

3 Praesta, PATER Piissime, PATRIque Compar UNICE,

Cum SPIRITU PARACLITO

Regnans per omne saeculum.

Amen.

From S. AMBROSE.

At noon-day will I pray.”—Psalm lv. 18.

O GOD of Truth, O LORD of Might, Who orderest time and change aright,*

Brightening the morn with golden gleams,

Kindling the noon-day's fiery beams;

*Acts xvii. 26.

RECTOR potens, verax DEUS,
Qui temperas rerum vices,*

Splendore mane illuminas,

Et ignibus meridiem.

2 Quench Thou in us the flames of
strife,*

From passion's heat preserve our life,
Our bodies keep from perils free,
And give our souls true peace in
Thee.

3 Almighty FATHER, hear our cry
Through JESUS CHRIST our LORD
most High,

Who, with the HOLY GHOST and
Thee,

Doth live and reign eternally. Amen.

Rev. JOHN MASON NEALE (altered).

2 Exstingue flammas litium,*

Aufer calorem noxium,
Confer salutem corporum,
Veramque pacem cordium.

3 Praesta, PATER Piissime, PATRIque Compar UNICE,

Cum SPIRITU PARACLITO

Regnans per omne saeculum.
Amen.

From S. AMBROSE.

(Roman and Sarum Breviary, for Sext.)
* Prov. xvi. 27, 28.

See also Hymn 256.

The Ninth Hour.

HYMN 9.

"The hour of prayer, being the ninth hour."—Acts iii. 1.

O GOD, of all the Strength and

Power,*

Who dost unmoved, each passing hour,

Through all its changes guide the day,
From early morn to evening's ray;

2 Brighten life's eventide with light +
That ne'er shall set in gloom of
night;

Till we a holy death attain,

And everlasting Glory gain.

Heb. i. 3.

2

RERUM DEUS tenax Vigor*

Immotus in Te permanens,

Lucis diurnae tempora
Successibus determinans :
Largire lumen vespere, †
Quo vita nusquam decidat,

Sed praemium mortis sacrae
Perennis instet Gloria.

See 3rd Collect for Evensong, "Lighten our darkness.”

"He shall defend thee under His Wings."-Psalm xci. 4.

GLORY to Thee, my GOD, this night
For all the blessings of the light;
Keep me, O keep me, King of kings,
Under Thine own Almighty Wings.*

2 Forgive me, LORD, for Thy dear SON,
The ill that I this day have done,
That with the world, myself, and Thee,
I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.

3 Teach me to live, that I may dread
The

grave as little as my bed; Teach me to die, that So I

may

Rise glorious at the awful Day.

All praise, orig.

* Compare the Mozarabic Breviary Hymn, beginning, "Quieti tempus adest:"

"Ut sub umbrâ Alarum

Tutissimâ Tuarum

Protecti maneamus

Ad Tuasque Laudes surgamus." Also Hymn 82, last verse.

To die, that this vile body may, orig.

And may sweet sleep mine eyelids close, t
Sleep that shall me more vigorous make
To serve my GOD when I awake.

+ Prov. iii. 24.

may, orig.