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<h2>LIFT THE STRAIN OF HIGH THANKSGIVING</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago.” Ezra 5:11</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_e_l_ellerton_j.jpg" alt="John Ellerton (1826-1893)" width="124" height="184"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_e_l_ellerton_j.html" target="_blank">John Ellerton</a> (1826-1893).
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Rex Gloriae,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_m_smart_ht.html" target="_blank">Henry Thomas Smart</a> (1813-1879) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_r_e_rexglori.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Lift the strain of high thanksgiving!<br>
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Tread with songs the hallowed way!<br>
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Praise our fathers’ God for mercies<br>
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New to us their sons today:<br>
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Here they built for Him a dwelling,<br>
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Served Him here in ages past,<br>
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Fixed it for His sure possession,<br>
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Holy ground, while time shall last.</p>
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<p>When the years had wrought their changes,<br>
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He, our own unchanging God,<br>
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Thought on this His habitation,<br>
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Looked on His decayed abode;<br>
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Heard our prayers, and helped our counsels,<br>
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Blessed the silver and the gold,<br>
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Till once more His house is standing<br>
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Firm and stately as of old.</p>
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<p>Entering then Thy gates with praises,<br>
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Lord, be ours Thine Israel’s prayer:<br>
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“Rise into Thy place of resting,<br>
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Show Thy promised presence there!”<br>
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Let the gracious Word be spoken<br>
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Here, as once on Sion’s height,<br>
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“This shall be My rest forever,<br>
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This my dwelling of delight.”</p>
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<p>Fill this latter house with glory<br>
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Greater than the former knew;<br>
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Clothe with righteousness the priesthood,<br>
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Guide its choir to reverence true;<br>
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Let Thy Holy One’s anointing<br>
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Here its sevenfold blessings shed;<br>
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Spread for us the heavenly banquet,<br>
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Satisfy Thy poor with bread.</p>
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<p>Praise to Thee, almighty Father,<br>
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Praise to Thee, eternal Son,<br>
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Praise to Thee, all quickening Spirit,<br>
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Ever blessèd Three in One;<br>
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Threefold power and grace and wisdom,<br>
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Molding out of sinful clay<br>
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Living stones for that true temple<br>
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Which shall never know decay.</p>
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