As that before His wondrous birth To Christ the Sav- iour giv

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p SOLO. Quietly.

THE LADDER OF GOLD.

Rev. H. F SHEPPARD.

1. When Ja - cob left his father's house, An ex

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He laid him help - less, hope-less, down, His head up - on

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a stone.

When lo! the heav-ens flashed with light, He saw a ladder stand

CHORUS.

O Ladder of Gold, O Lad-der of Gold, that lead- eth a-way from night,

2 The ladder planted on the earth,

Attained the firmament,

The throne of God,-and on the stair
The angels came and went.
O golden splendor up aloft!
O shadow drear below!

O land of light and love above!
Beneath, O bed of woe!

-O Ladder, etc.
3 The angels came from God to man,
They came with drops of balm,
With overflowing laps of flowers,
From fields of summer calm.
And up the stair they went with tears,
And sob, and prayer and moan
Of men in pain and banishment,
To cast before the throne.

-O Ladder, etc.
4 The angels went with broken lives,
With ashes, whence the fire
Had faded, with the faults and falls
Of men, with sick desire.

They came again with faces lit

With laughter, and with smile, [grace, And urns that streamed with saving To soothe and reconcile.

-O Ladder, etc.

5 When Jacob woke, he said, Alas!
The vision is no more,

He went his way relieved, but yet
His heart continued sore.
But now the ladder barr'd with gold
No more is drawn on high,
It standeth ever, day and night,
Uniting earth and sky.

-O Ladder, etc.

6 And up the ladder every day
Our prayers and praises go,
And down the ladder every day
Unnumbered favours flow.
And up the ladder let us look

To God, our all in all;

Then, down the ladder He will send
Our final homeward call.

-O Ladder, etc.

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MISSIONARY HYMN. 7s, 6s. D.

Dr. LOWELL MASON.

1. From Greenland's i-cy mountains, From In-dia's co- ral strand,

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Where Af- ric's sun-ny fountains Roll down their gold-en sand;

From many an an-cient river, From many a palmy plain,

They call us to de-liv er Their land from error's chain. Amen.