Sunday School Concert Book Author:Hezekiah Butterworth Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Cnnes. SPEAKING WITH SINGING. FOR THE SINGING CONCERT. OLD TUNES. To be spoken. 1 The good old tunes of other days, In which we sang our Maker's pra... more »ise, When life with us was young, When music flowed from heart and tongue, O, how .to memgry now they rise, Like angel notes from yonder skies! For oft we sang them with the blest Who now in heavenly mansions rest. My father sang them ; when a boy I heard their notes with glowing joy; And round his dying bed we raised The words and notes in which he praised The name of God, and sang of bliss In purer, brighter worlds than this. And oft, when pensive evening falls, The past returns again, As memory to my ear recalls That old familiar strain : To be sung by the speaker or the school. How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in this excellent word ; What more can he say than to you he hath said, You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled. In every condition, in sickness and health, In poverty's vale, or abounding in wealth,At home or abroad, on the land or the sea, As thy days shall demand,, shall thy strength ever be. Spoken. . . n -My mother sang them, soft and sweet, And oft her tones my spirit greet, When dreams, beyond the upper air, My soul on wings of fancy bear, To that bright world to which she rose, When, leaving life, with all its woes, Oppressed with grief, of joy bereft, An orphan I was early-left. And oft, when pensive' evening falls, The past returns again, As memory to my mind recalls This old, familiar strain : To be sung. Though troubles assail, And though dangers affright, Though friends should all fail. And foes all unite, Yet one thing secures us, — Whatever betide, The promise assures us The Lord will provide. ...« less