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O THOU, who sitt'st on high,
Lord of the earth and sky,
Encircled by thy six-wing'd seraph train";
Whom rapt Isaiah view'd,

As round thy throne they stood,

And heard them chanting in alternate strain,

"O holy, holy, holy, Lord of hosts,

Whose glory fills the earth, while heaven thy presence

boasts :"

Lord of the earth and sky,
Whether thou sitt'st on high,

Or wendest forth to manifest thy will;
Still on thy royal state

Attendant spirits wait,

To swell thy pomp, and thy behests fulfil : Where'er thou art, thine angel hosts are there, Bright as the lambent flame, free as the viewless air o.

All glorious was the array,

When, on Creation's day,

Thou bad'st the earth self-pois'd" on nothing hang":"
To see so fair a place

For man's intended race,

Heaven's wide expanse with Hallelujah rang ; Together sang the stars of morning bright, And all the sons of God shouted for deep delight.

" Is. vi. 1-3. 4 Job xxxviii. 7.

• Psalm civ. 4.

P Job xxvi. 7.

All glorious was the array,
When thou, on Israel's day,

Gavest forth from Sinai's top the "

Ten thousand saints around,

fiery law":"

(While peal'd the trumpet's sound,) Resplendent forms, astonished Moses saw : No human breath that pealing trumpet blew, Which sounded long and loud, and still more loud it grew.

And glorious was the array,

When, on redemption's day,
Thou camest in lowly guise to visit earth:
To Bethlehem's nightly fold'

The news thy angel told,

And heavenly voices hymn'd the Saviour's birth: Glory they sang for God's redeeming grace, And peace restor❜d to earth, and love for man's lost race.

But yet another day

Demands that bright array,

When thou shalt come in glorious majesty:
Thy holy angels then

Shall call the tribes of men

From the four corners of the ambient sky":

"To judgment," hark, a shout proclaims abroad! Hark, the Archangel's voice sounds from the trump of God!

Deut. xxxiii. 2. "Matt. xxiv. 31.

› Ex. xix. 19.

Luke ii. 9, 13.

* 1 Thess. iv. 16.

Blest beyond thought are they,
Whom, on that dreadful day,
EMANUEL, thou shalt welcome for thine own:
Mix'd with a countless band y

Of angels they shall stand,

And sing to Him who sitteth on the throne';

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Worthy is He, the great, the good I AM, All blessing to receive; and worthy is the Lamb."

Lord of the earth and sky,
Whose angel hosts on high

Wait at thy bidding, at thy bidding move:

O grant us to fulfil

On earth thy sovereign will,

As they fulfil it in thy courts above:

That striving now to serve thee, ev'n as they, Like them we may become through thine eternal day"!

y Heb. xii. 22.

* Rev. v. 12, 13. a Matt. xxii. 30.

ST. LUKE.

Luke, the beloved physician. COL. iv. 14.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF ST. LUKE.

OF the Saint, whom the Church commemorates this day, Luke the Evangelist, there are not many particulars recorded in the New Testament. No mention is made of him in the Gospels nor in the Acts of the Apostles, allowed to have been his composition, is there express mention of him individually; although, by the use of the pronoun "we" and "us," he includes himself amongst the company attendant on St. Paul during a large portion of his travels. By that Apostle he is mentioned three several times expressly: in the Epistle to the Colossians, where it is the most ancient and common, and at the same time the most probable opinion, that "Luke the beloved physi

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