Children’s Evening Hymn

In our hearts celestial voices
Softly say:
“Day is passing, Night is closing,
Kneel and Pray!”

Father, we obey the summons,
Hear our cry!
Pity us, and help our weakness,
Thou Most High!

For the joys that most we cherish
Praised be Thou!
Good and gentle art Thou ever,
Hear us now!

Coming morrow we may never
Live to see;
All we ask Thee is to keep us
Safe with Thee!

May our dreams be of Thy Kingdom
Bright and fair;
Where at last we hope to meet Thee,
Free from care.

Now the stars are shining o’er us
In the skies;
Looking like the watching Angels’
Loving eyes.

Softly now and slowly dying
Ends our strain,—
Grant that we may in Thy Kingdom
Sing again.

There, when all our strife is over,
Sin forgiven,
May we dwell with Thee for ever
Up in Heaven!

Footnotes

1 “Effects of the Factory System.”—Allen Clarke.

2 John xii. 49.

3 By permission of Messrs. Landy & Co., Publishers, 139 Oxford Street, London, who own the musical copyright.