Morning and evening hymns for a week

Chapter 13: Friday Evening.

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The collection presents pairs of short devotional hymns for mornings and evenings across a seven-day cycle, each offering prayerful reflection, instruction, and petition. Themes include reliance on divine light and guidance, penitence and intercession, vigilance against temptation, perseverance in the Christian life, and hope of heaven. Language uses domestic and pastoral imagery—garden, sunrise, throne of grace—to evoke spiritual growth, consolation in sorrow, and missionary concern for the lost. Verses alternate assurance of Christ’s presence with appeals for sanctifying grace, practical encouragement for daily conduct, and longing for final rest in God’s presence.

Friday Evening.

“Having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.”

—Philip. i. 23.

Let me be with thee where thou art!

My Saviour, my eternal rest!

Then only with this longing heart

Be fully and for ever blest.

Let me be with thee where thou art!

Thy unveiled glory to behold;

Then only will this wandering heart

Cease to be treacherous, faithless, cold.

Let me be with thee where thou art!

Where spotless saints thy name adore;

Then only will this sinful heart

Be evil and defiled no more.

Let me be with thee where thou art!

Where none can die, where none remove;

There neither life nor death will part

Me from thy presence and thy love.