Monthly Theme: Ancestry
Sermon Topic: “ The View From the Mountaintop ”

On Wings of Hope
Music: Richard A. Nichols
Text: Jennifer Klein

On wings of hope you carry me,
To distant lands, to destiny,
Where music breathes its ebb and flow
And sets the flame of love aglow,
Where the spirit soars on drafts of peace
And pinings of the heart release.

These written prose you flood my mind
With sentiment so warm, so kind
As bids my deepest secrets speak.

Through tuneful song you melt away
The anguish of a lonely day-
Your plaintive notes that reach my soul
And for that moment make me whole.

Oh, cruel fate that sets the sun
On happiness at last begun!
On wings of hope you carried me
To distant lands, to destiny-
a destiny which now must keep
as dreams and yearnings fade to sleep.

Companioned
Music: Daniel Brinsmead
Text: Lucy Maud Montgomery

I walked to-day, but not alone,
Adown a windy, sea-girt lea,
For memory, spendthrift of her charm,
Peopled the silent lands for me.

The faces of old comradeship
In golden youth were round my way,
And in the keening wind I heard
The songs of many an orient day.

And to me called, from out the pines
And woven grasses, voices dear,
As if from elfin lips should fall
The mimicked tones of yesteryear.

Old laughter echoed o’er the leas
And love-lipped dreams the past had kept,
From wayside blooms like honeyed bees
To company my wanderings crept.

And so I walked, but not alone,
Right glad companionship had I,
On that gray meadow waste between
Dim-litten sea and winnowed sky.