For Thy Mercy And Thy Grace

For thy mercy and thy grace,
Constant through another year,
Hear our song of thankfulness;
Jesus, our redeemer, hear.

Lo! our sins on Thee we cast,
Thee, our perfect sacrifice;
And, forgetting all the past,
Press towards our glorious prize.

Dark the future: let thy light
Guide us, bright and morning star:
Fierce our foes, and hard the fight;
Arm us, Savior, for the war.

In our weakness and distress,
Rock of strength, be Thou our stay;
In the pathless wilderness
Be our true and living way.

Who of us death’s awful road
In the coming year shall tread?
With thy rod and staff, O God,
Comfort Thou his dying bed.

Keep us faithful, keep us pure,
Keep us evermore Thine own;
Help, O help us to endure;
Fit us for the promised crown.

So within thy palace gate
We shall praise, on golden strings,
Thee the only potentate,
Lord of lords, and king of kings.