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After Service.

Is this thy word our ears have heard?
Thy name be prais'd, thy goodness fear'd;
On all our minds it's truths impress,
And let our lives it's power confess.
Dismiss us hence in that great name,
In which we here together came;
And as we hence again depart,
Transfuse it's life thro' every heart:
That grafted in thy word below,
We may in thee, the grafter, grow;
'Till fill'd with fruits of heav'nly love,
We fade on earth to bloom above.
All glory then to him we give,
By whom we grow, by whom we live;
To whom alone we fall or rise,
Descend the grave, or mount the skies.