There are three scriptures I'd like to read together tonight. Verse of the Second Chronicles, chapter twenty-nine. Second Chronicles twenty-nine, verse twenty-seven. And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the Son of the Lord began, also, with a comfort. under the instruments ordained by David, king of Israel. Lord, the congregation worshiped, and the fingers hanged, and the compass resounded, and all that continued until the burnt offering was finished. Let's go to the New Testament, Matthew chapter eighteen. Verse nineteen. Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall not, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of death." Now please go as to Mark's nutshell, chapter two, and again he entered into Capernaum after some day. and it was noise that he was in the house. And straightway many were gathered together, in so much that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door. And he preached the word unto them. And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the fall tree, which was born of Paul. And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, They uncovered the root where he was, and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. When Jesus saw their face, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there were certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their house. Why does this man just eat nothing? who can forgive sins, but God only. The Lord has his blessing to leave three portions of his precious word. My nephew tonight has a musical ring to it. I think it was Martin Luther who once said that next to theology, that's how he put it, he put music on the list of important things. Well, he certainly was very fond of music. And I think he must have been a musician, because he not only wrote that hymn, My King's Fortress is Our God, but he also composed a tune to it. And you know it's a very stirring hymn, isn't it, with an appropriate stirring tune. Now, in these three scriptures, I want to speak of three symphonies. First of all, a symphony of songs. then a symphony of supplication and a symphony of service. First of all, with regard to the symphony of songs, we know with regard to a symphony that there is a theme that runs right through it. I think Beethoven, if I remember right, composed about nine of them. And to an ear assumes a music, one can detect a theme running right through from beginning to end. Now with regard to the symphony of songs which we enjoy and we have been taking part in tonight, there is a theme running right through. It begins with Christ and it ends with Christ and it is Christ right through. There is a name I love to hear, I love to sound it word. It sounds like music in my ear, the sweetest name on earth. And you remember that in the day that Pesichaya, as is recorded, that when the burnt offerings began, the song of the Lord began. It continued with all the instruments of music until the burnt offerings were finished. One cannot help the think of the Lord Jenga in that burnt offering. Ragnar who were exclusively holy and solely for the eye of his God. He was the one who offered himself with that touch of God through eternal spirit. And isn't it true that when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord began also, For surely the burnt offering began when he came into this world with its language upon his lips. Lo, I come in the volume of the book, it is written of me to do thy will, O my God. And that unmitigate rung you for well what the doing of that will would evolve. All the thorny pathways of the cross, and all the anguish, and the sorrows, and the shame of the tree. And yet he was willing to go all the way to Calvary in order that we might have a song in our hearts tonight to sing for the everlasting praise and glory of our God. So I would suggest that that was when the burnt offering began. And when did the burnt offering finish? There upon the cross dear friends, if we listen to that word, that mighty word of triumph, it is finished. Lifted up by Peter die. It is peace once is tried. Now in heaven it goes in high. Hallelujah. What a savior. All the purposes of God were then worked out in grace. The majesty of the law was upheld. The work which God gave him to do was finished. And eternal redemption obtained for all who would believe in him. So because of the fact of the burned offering, we have a song within our hearts tonight. The song of the Lord began. And not you, it was the new song. And it's a song that has begun on earth, and it will be a song that will continue throughout eternity, and it will be a song that will never, never end. It will be the hallelujah chorus. When I think of the grand background choir that will be singing in that day, glory is the land that was slain to receive power and wisdom and riches and strength and glory and honor and blessing. That's all that's all for the utmost. The thing that we are going to join in that hallelujah chorus. and of tribal worship and praise unto the land of which the throne the throne. The song begun on earth will continue without end because his praises will have no end. I tell you, if Her Majesty Queen Victoria could hand on her feet during the rendering of Hamble's Messiah, a very unusual thing for a sovereign to do, when that masterpiece of melody birthed out the king of kings as lords of lords. When we see him in all the royal splendor of his person, we too shall rise, and will rise with heart adorning and Belgian worshipper throughout the ages to come. One, the friends, the king is good in this chapel tonight. You know why, students? Because the Lord had implanted into our own heart that wonderful song that's never going to end. And our hearts are filled and enthused as we think of the glorious person of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. But as we think of the symphony of songs, and we're all past it, let us speak to it in our practical experience that the song does not go out of our life. Alasic does so often. You know, Beethoven was really afraid day after day and month after month that he would gradually get debt, which would indeed be a great blow to his musical career, because everything depended on his good hearing. He went to ear specialist after ear specialist, but all to no avail. Gradually the great master of melody became tone deaf. And yet it's an amazing fact. Musical critics will tell you that the sweetest melody, the chamber from that master musician, were those composed during that period of tone deafness. And it would seem that when he was shut out, shall I say, from the noises of the world, or the noises of the world were shut out of his experience, then those wonderful melodies burst out of his emotional soul. And we're living in a day of noise, a day of din, the passion war, the scepter, the infidel smear. We hear so many jarring notes today. And if we're not careful, we will find it will begin to affect us our spiritual faith. How wonderful to be shut in with him far, far above the restless world, that wards below. And I'm going to say this, friend, that the more we are shut in with himself, and the more we are taken up with his glorious person. so the more will the noises of this life less affect us and will enjoy the song that fills our heart to its fullest capacity. But I'll let the last of us often the things of life and things of time come in to our experience and then we begin to feel ourselves getting detached. and discouraged it. And sometimes it doesn't just occur to us that it begins to sing. But I'll tell you this strength that if we can sing in the dark, we'll certainly triumph over our circumstances. It's not easy to do so, but it can be done. It can be done. Why? Because he gave us songs in the night. We were just singing about that. Our brother was telling another one the other day that he was very speechless. The brother said, can we count a hundred sheep? No, he said, I didn't. He said, but I take to the shepherd. And dear friend, that's what it's still, isn't it? And I think it wouldn't be elsewhere, shall I say, of reckoning, if we sang to the shepherd too. He'd give it song in the night. And very often, if we will, shall I say, change our care to prayer, he'll turn the midnight into music. And this was certainly true with regard to the Apostle Paul and Silas. Just think of them in that prison. Their backs were bleeding. Their feet were aching in the south. But their heart was sinking. And the earth was trembling. And the Philippian gave a cry. What must I do to be saved? And then the Pilate, he too is singing. And he and his household are being baptized, and they are rejoicing. Why? He gave songs in the night. It was Paul and Silas, not Haynes and Silas. I don't know whether Paul was singing in the bass or Silas was singing in the tenor. I don't know, but I know this, but they were in unity. And their hearts beat alike, and were in tune with God. and consequently, although stopping terribly, physically, and no doubt mentally, through the course of the chain, they could rise above their circumstances, and the prisoners heard that burst of thronged with hallelujah chorus no doubt and blessing followed. A recent time ago about a ship load of songbirds being transported to a certain country, And during the first three days, it was a beautiful voyage the first three days, because the sea was calm and tranquil, and there were some that seemed to be strangely quiet. Most of them, by the way, were canaries. But after the third day they ran into a terrible storm, so much so that the passengers on board that ship were greatly depressed. Then a strange thing happened. A few of the birds began to sing. And then they were joined by others. Until all the birds on that ship, and I understand that there were thousands of them, were singing together in the height of the storm. Well, it was recorded that they got into the harbour, slightly. But the passengers in their testimony concerning that experience had what a great change it was in the hour of danger, in the darkness of the temple, to hear the birds singing at the height of the storm. And friends, that's the reason why God sometimes is pleasing his robbery won't have been nothing to us for. And some of us have passed through some very severe ones. Perhaps storms of sickness or storms of peril, storms of trials, storms of adversity. But he's right at first. And in the midst of a storm, as it's through every horizon, we have enjoyed the center. In that very central calm, we have been conscious of the stillness, as we mentioned last night, the stillness of our God. But there is a strange, central calm in the heart of the listener. It's so calm that even a child can slumber undisturbed without the ruffle of one fair curl. In that strange, central calm, it is the mighty we're whole. And so it is two of the Christians. Although the winds may be howling round about, and the billows might seem to be melting fine in their foaming strength, we can endure the presence of the Lord in the midst of the storm, and he gives the strong thin the night, fine, in order that we may be able to comfort others with the comforts of which we ourselves have been comforted of God. Instead of beginning to murmur and complain, Let us seek the grace that lies above our circumstances, friends. And then we'll not only encourage others, but we'll lead them to happen to a deeper experience with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. So we are to be found humanly and making melody in our heart unto the Lord and that continually. The symphony of song. And we all have a part to play with them. Let us play our part well. Now we come to the symphony of supplications. If you notice in this passage in Matthew chapter eighteen, verse nineteen, we have a word here that's really a musical term. Again I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as much again it seems that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my father which is in heaven. And that word, agree, is a musical word, really. It means to symphonize. If two of you shall symphonize, unheard of certain anything, they shall ask, which shall be done, for them of my power, which is in heaven. It means to strike the right note. Well, it's so easy, isn't it, to strike the wrong note. And when the wrong note is struck, than this gift sword. Now, before I was ever introduced to an assembly, I would allow me to abrade them. Now, I hope you won't be horrified when I tell you that. Of course, some of my assembly friends who were just watching over my critical space, they often said to me, Come ye out from among them and be separate. So the time came when I left the realm of sounding brass and teaching symbols for the quieter atmosphere of assembly life. But I'll tell you this, that during my experience in the assembly, there were many lessons which I was able to apply to my own part in conscience in the spiritual realm, lessons that I learned when I was in the brass band. And one of the lessons I learned, and one of the first lessons I had to learn, was this? To keep my eye keeps on the man in the center. We would be about thirty instrumentalists in the circle. There would be the conductor with his pattern standing right in the center of the circle. And while we were playing, of course, our instrument, we'd have to keep one eye on the music and one eye on the man in the center. Now, suppose in players we were looking at one another or interested in what the other members were in. What would happen? By taking our eyes off the men in the center, we would get off the beach, and consequently we would be out of tune, and there would be a gift for us. That one lesson I learned, friends, and it was a big lesson to my own soul in assembly capacity. I remember your friend's oath that could grip me that the Lord is in the midst of his people. Yes, in the midst of the church he himself said, I will sing praise unto thee, so he is in the midst of his people, leading the praises and the worshiping of his people. And it's well for us to recognize that. No wonder he goes on to say here, for where two or three are gathered together in my name, Jeremiah, in the midst of death. Not where two or three are met together in my name. Where two or three are gathered together in my name. Well, what is the difference? There is a difference. To be gathered unto the name of the Lord Jesus suggests to gather up. The world might meet together, but not gather together usually. But when the Lord's people come together in a collective way, they are gathered together by the gatherer who is the sovereign spirit himself. And they gather together in order that we might worship the Lord in a beauty of holiness, and serve the Lord in gospel testimony, recognizing that there is one and only one who is in the midst of his own. Well, that's the last I'm afraid many Christians forget this. And then their eyes wander from the Lord and begin to look at one another. And oh, how true it is that when you get occupied with one another, instead of being occupied with the Lord, then you type the wrong note. And there's this code. It is most important that we see in this thing no man saves Jesus only. And when we are doing that, then we are working harmoniously together. We'll be starting to write notes. We will synchronize. And the three chords of ascending prayer will go to God, and we will hear that prayer and come down in blessings. And we ask all to be encouraged. There was once a young composer... And there were thousands of people gathered together in a certain place to listen to the performing of his work. But as were the applause ran through that building over and over again, the young composer, she was looking at the crowd. He was looking at one man in that audience, and that was his teacher. No, he said not for the applause of the crowd, as long as they have the smile of approval of his teacher. But it is with us, when you come together in the name of the Lord Jesus, let us speak to the occupied with him alone, that our eyes might be upon him. Beholding to his beauty, all the devil's loveliness, antipathic ecstasy. And in so days, We will have his smile of approval, which will indeed cheer our hearts and strengthen our souls. This reminds me of his late majesty, King George VIII, of fragrant memory. We will remember with the abdication of King Edward VIII, how that the kingship was thrust upon him suddenly. And unfortunately for him he had an impediment in his speech. which of course for the man in his tradition was really a tremendous drawback and he knew it. So they came for a young man who lived in this country. I don't know just where he came from, but he was an expert in these things. And he went to Buckingham Palace and he gave the king a series of lessons. And the king did very well. Then came the opening, the safe opening, of Parliament, and the king was to give a very important address. There he stood, and before him, githering away of the nobility, the Jews, the monarchs, the earls, the barons, and so on. But he looked beyond those men, and he had his eyes fixed while he delivered his address, and one man who was not among the nobility, but among the commoners. It was the face of that young man, his teacher. And as the king gave his address on a memorable occasion, he was looking all the time at that young man, and he saw the smile of his approval, as must say, go on, you're doing well, you're doing well, and the king was encouraged. and understand he never made one single slip. The most appraises, put him in. If we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord's end, if we seek his approval, and we enjoy the smile of it, we have no need to fear, and will be found sighting the right note. And when we strike the light note, we are in a position and a condition for God to come down and answer our prayers if they be according to his will, according to his will. That's wonderful first lessons I learned to keep my eyes fixed on the man in the church. You know there was a dear sister the other day and she's complaining about a brother in the assembly and she's having so much to say. that an old brother who was standing by, he said, oh, how delighted our heavenly father must be with such a variety of characters in his family. And he went on to say, my dear sister, he can get music out of them all. So why don't you listen to the tune, listen for the melody, and don't support it by being able to tune yourself? Well, that was sort of the fight, but he said, I kind of think the Apostle Paul had this in mind when he was writing to the Philippians. You know, there were a couple of sisters who were having a lot of trouble. Nervous and some kicking. And he was deceiving them that they might be of one mind in the Lord. You've probably heard of the college brother who read that scripture not being a very good reader. He read, I beseech odious, and I beseech them touching. Well, probably, that might have been the reason for the trouble. Seems pertinent, you know, is an odious, content, isn't it? And the apostle is appealing to these two sisters. Now, you may be very sentiment, and you may be different in disposition. Fair enough, two blades of flesh alike. The Lord had to provide his character. And if you come to grace this position, then there's one thing you can do. You can be of one mind in the Lord. In the Lord. So he goes on to say, let your yieldiness, that's the word, be known unto all. In other words, let us be very, very pliable when it comes to non-essentials. But let us be firm and rigid when it comes to fundamentals and not move one Iota. Let's give our eyes to the Son and the Son. Looking now unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cruft of fighting the shame, and he sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him who endures such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest he be really detained in your mind. In another lesson I learned, dear friends, in this wonderful symphony was, that the instrument must be enthused. Now, before we gave any performance in public, what a noise? What a jangle? What a discord? What was happening? What did instruments were tuning in? And we all have to blend with the middle stage. It is no good performing in public unless we were in tune. The middle stage, I'll say very reverently, we think of Christ. And we must be in tune with him, dear friends. If we're in tune with him, we're in tune with one another. If we're out of tune with him, we're out of tune with one another. No doubt about that. You take the violin, for instance. Sometimes the violins are a little bit on the flat side. They're too loose. So they happen to be tight and good a bit. And then sometimes they're a little bit over ten. They're too tight. So they may be flattened up a little bit. But if they were too loose or too tight, they'll hold out a tune. That's the point. And how many Christians, dear friends, are too loose? In practice. And they're too tight. They're too legal. In doctrine. And I'm going to say, they both have a choose. Both have a choose. Oh, how wonderful it is to have the person of the Lord Jesus Christ before us. And that we might regard our bodies as an instrument. An instrument which must be in his and in perfect tune with himself and in accord and harmony with his blessed book because we have to appear in public. And our testimony, shall I say, is symphonic in its witness. In other words, it's symphonic in public. And how careful we should be of the Lord's people, with all our talk and in our walk and our very deportment. It was with a fear in the public eye. And if somebody has well said, the world generally speaking isn't reading the Bible, but the world is reading the Christian. You remember in Genesis thirteen, I think it is, it is recorded that the Cadizites and the Canaanites were in the land. Now it's very significant that Abraham, following that statement, says to Lot, Let there be no strife between me and thee, between my herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we be brethren. And because of the fact that we are brethren, remember that the Canaanites and the Parasites in the land, and they, the enemies of the Lord, are looking on. And because of the fact that they are looking on how important it should be that we as a Lord's people should be pulling together and striving together and praying together, because you're going to be called up together one day. Be the Lord in the air and so shall you ever be with the Lord. Well, I was back to years old, a very young year since. How successful Satan has been in order to divide the ranks of the Lord's people, in order that he might written their testimony. And while it may not apply to us here tonight in this sense, it's the character of our soul to maintain the unity of the Spirit of God, because we belong to one family, and they go into one place, and they don't extend eternity together. Therefore, let us see that our instruments are in tune with the Christ and with his work. And then, of course, with regard to my band experience, if you remember the lessons I learned, tactics have to commence at home. That's all true. We're all true witness, and the testimony begins. Tactics must be given at home. You remember that when that man said to the Lord Jesus, out of whom it was kept the legion of devils, I want to follow thee with us, however they're going, the Lord said in any sense, your witness begins to turn. The light that shines afar, this shines of brightness near its home. Go home and tell how great things the Lord has done for thee. and have had compassion on thee, go home and shoo. How great things the Lord has done for thee, and have had compassion on thee, and that's just what he did. And the impact that he had on thee was so powerful, he was well known in that district. That all meant a marvel. Because his testimony began with hope. Which reminds me, you know, speaking about a brass band, Persian didn't like brass bands at all. He said they used to disturb his study when the bands marched up and down the streets of London. Somebody once said to him, Mr. Persian, can a man be a Christian and belong to a brass band? Well, he was very apt, you know, in his remarks, he said, well, we see no impediments in the way. But if the young man is a corner player and he's given the practice and the tone, We consider it's much harder for the man next door to be a Christian as a clergyman. Well, now, that rather tickled me for the fact because I was a young man practicing at home on a cornice. And the man next door happened to be a dentist. And I wondered, this was causing his patients the most pain, his troubles with a cook or my struggles with a tune. Well, anyway, after a little bit of passage of the poem, I became a little bit more efficient. And I'm going to suggest this, perhaps to the trumpet of testimony, if it's a clear one, or to make it easier for the man next door to become a Christian. If our witness is clear and reading and has a clarion note, I say it will make it easier for the man next door to be a Christian. I must tell you this, before I get up the subject of the conflict, when I returned home on furlough, I went up against it, and I had my teeth removed, and of course, before I went back to the Bahamas, I had to set it with not my own. So one of the first things I did was to set out my possibly conflict, to just try and see if I'd have an opportunity on the instrument. And lo and behold, I couldn't get a clear note. So I said, I don't know what's happened to this. I put it under the tap and I let the water run through it. I had to cough those as that came to this during my actions. And I tried again. Oh, if you'd have heard of the noise, then. And my wife was there. Oh, she said, don't give up. Don't give up. She thought I was using my talent. I said, if I don't give up, the neighbors will give up. Like the devourable ones? You know, dear friends, not to this day that I was able to get a clear note out of that country. I suppose my teeth at all could be formation of my lips. In the formation of my lips, I'm the mouth teeth that made all the lips, because I couldn't get a clear note at all. But I've used other than illustration. If there's anything false about the preacher, the trumpet will make an uncertain sound. And dear friends, if there's anything false about the Christian, mark it well, the trumpet will make an uncertain sound. And no wonder that unconverted people are not impressed when they see a sad contradiction between the little ones of professing Christians. Precious must begin at home. Ye shall be my witnesses. Beginning at Jerusalem, it told this week. then expanding in ever-widening circles to Judea, Samaria, and unto the utmost heart of Europe. A very famous queen had said this one. He said, if I only practice at home, I notice it. For one day, I notice it. For two days, he said, my friend notices it. And for three days, he said the public will notice it. Oh, how important it is then, friends, that if we don't have quite the right note, we'll have to practice it at home. And how wonderful it is, the promise is here, that if two of you shall synchronize. If we gather in our own homes and have this quiet time and take the throne of grace so that to those ascendant halls of prayer will reach the majesty unheard, it shall be done, is a promise, it shall be done, for those trance will reach the throne of grace and prayer is the simplest form of truth. But infant lips and cry. and share that the blindness pains at which the maggot trees are on time. The Symphony of Proplication. For the time has done, and I haven't missed the last point, but I'm just going to mention what it is before I close. The Symphony of Service? Well, sort of four minutes' time in the right notes. What a happy quartet. Not a quartet of singers, but a quartet of worship. We don't know their names, but I think you could put over the heads of each one, L-O-G-E. No. They were striking the right note. They were symphonizing together. They had this harmonic desire that this poor man should be laid at the feet of Jesus for his blessings. And the sweet love of music and oneness touched and reached the heart of the Christ. what it was when he saw their faith. I love that. His great heart of love was cheered with the unity and the oneness that existed among those four men when he saw their faith. He said unto the sick of the haughty sons, five, ten, three, four, seven, three, and the sweet note of pardon, hallelujah. Let us recognize, friend, that in this wonderful symphony, everybody has a part to play. I played a solo part in flying the compass. What about that man who was just teaching in this triangle? He didn't want very much gift in telling him to do that. Just target a single triangle with a steel rod. But he had a part to fly. It was necessary for the whole. And let me tell you this, that a practice, if that man wasn't playing this triangle, then he was just sitting by the... Well, I didn't get a permanent part to fly. I didn't put him here. The conductor would have brought us up to an immediate halt. looking at its core. If they know, there was a triangle there. You see, it doesn't matter how small our part might be in the company of service, Lord, it means that her friends, it is needed. It is needed. It may be a very small part to play, but let us play it well to the glory of our God. Some people, if they won't come by the first fiddle, they won't fiddle at all. But it takes all the grace that one can tell to learn to play the second single well. And after all, in this symphony, there are all kinds of gifts and all kinds of columns we've told. And there's one little column called a shell. Well, it's what doesn't run very much in intellectuality. It doesn't run very much education that we have held, that is, in the service of the Lord. So I'm damned that we might always be a hell to another hindrance. It doesn't matter how small our part may be, we've got a part to play. Let us play it well to the best of our ability, because it is essential to the whole, and if it isn't in the symphony, the part will be missed by the heavenly conductor. He has to score before this. He knows what part we have to play, and it's looking for us to play that part, and to play it effectively, and to play it well. Two tourists were looking at Cologne Cathedral, and they were admiring just one of the most wonderful buildings in the world. And there was a poor workman standing by, and he said, I'll tell you, he took this many a year to finish that. And they looked at him. Why, you? What did you do? Well, he said, I mixed the mortar. It wasn't an arsenic. It wasn't even a builder. But his part was very essential just as much as the architect or the builder. Without the mixing of the mortar there would be no cement. Without the cement there would be no cathedral. So it doesn't matter how small the part may be, friends. Let us play it well. And let us remember that the day is coming when we'll have to stand before the judgment sheet of Christ. And in the symphony of service, shall we hear him say, I missed your part when David most. Or shall we hear him say, You played it well. I wonder if you'll give me permission to read a poem that I wrote in closing. It won't take very long. The jarring sounds of this hour day are terrible to solve its constant dim. The clang of strife of skeptic gear The tach of war, the cry of sin. Still read its music in the air, Gladly the well-tuned ear for sea. The feel of bells, the song of birds, the murmuring brook, the rustling leaves. Sweet of the song no bird can trail, its silver notes no bells can shine. Christ in redemption is extreme, nor shall it end with course of time. Rising above the babbling stripes, some parts of love attuned by grace, majestic in symbolic praise from every kindred tongue and race. Christ, in the midst of all his own, conducts his symphony with skill. He sowed his talents with his power. to every one to do his will. Maybe a solo part to leave, perhaps a smaller place to fill. Each piece is vital to the field. Major or minor is needed still. All instruments must be in tune. Trains over tents will surely break. And Luke one playing with the truth is important notes for certain mates. in harmony with God's own words, observe the rest and be in time, obey the Vassanovs' will, blending in melody sublime. Perhaps it must first begin at home in sweet ascending chords of prayer. To carry up the throne of grace, no grander music rises there. If two of you shall chimp an eyes, touching the things they properly take, Jesus declared it shall be done, when saints upon his father wait. Thus life is like a testy given. God hath composed the music for. Our lips receive his wondrous love, our heart to work his hand at all. Before its service reproduces, he will arise. Its value tells. Your part I missed when needed most? Or shall you hear? He played it well. Let us pray. So God, our Father, we thank you for the new song which thou hast put into our mouths, even praised unto our God. We thank you that this note begun on earth will continue throughout the ages to come. Christ himself will be the everlasting dream. We pray that God is in this our day, when we seek to serve thee, until our Lord shall come, we pray that we might fill our niche, that we might faithfully do the work that thou hast assigned to us. And we pray that we may do it with a single eye to thy glory, with undivided notice, serving the Lord Christ. because of the love he had implanted in our hearts. We thank you for the privilege of being here for a few nights, O God. We would give these thanks for the very happy season of prophecy that we have sent together the wise people. Surely they have been days of heaven upon earth. And we pray that the work may continue, and that our saints may be richly blessed. Give wisdom to the directors in all the responsibility of this fight. And may all the people rejoice in the knowledge of thy good hand of blessing upon them. So we would commend ourselves into our loving care and seeking. In the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.