Another Year Completed

Another year com­plet­ed

The day comes round once more

Which with our pa­tron’s ra­di­ance

Is bright as here­to­fore.

Now

strong in hope

unit­ed

His fes­tiv­al we greet;

He will pre­sent our trou­bles

Before the mer­cy-seat.

The Scrip­tures tell how Mos­es

Did for the peo­ple pray

Appeased the Judge eter­nal

And turned His wrath away;

Elijah’s pray­er had pow­er

To close and op­en Heav’n;

Such saints as were afore­time

Such saints to us are giv’n.

O saint of God

be­lov­èd

And placed on His right hand

Thy pray­ers be like a ram­part

As ’gainst the foe we stand;

For Ab­ra­ham’s God is thy God

And Is­aac’s God is thine

Thine is the God of Ja­cob

The Lord of pow­er be­nign.

For for­ty years His Is­ra­el

He fed with an­gels’ food;

The flin­ty rock He op­ened

The streams of wa­ter flowed.

Entreat that Christ His peo­ple

May lead to vic­to­ry:

The God of Jo­shua’s tri­umph

The Lord thy God is He.