The words are old-fashioned, but there is a certain majesty about them. Every Easter Sunday in my ministry, someone in the congregation has come forward and recited the traditional sentences of the liturgy below -- usually at the very beginning of the service. I have typically handed out copies as people enter Church. It is taken from the 1936 Congregational Manual for Ministers.
• On this the day of Resurrection let us call to mind the things which are eternal and which cannot be held by death
• We worship Him, Who from everlasting to everlasting is God
• We adore him, Who is the Living One, the First and the Last, Who is alive for evermore, and has the keys of death and of hell
• We praise Him, Who is the God, not of the dead, but of the living, for all live to Him
• We gratefully remember the souls of the righteous, who in the eyes of the foolish seem to have died, but are in the hands of God
• We exalt the Kingdom of truth and righteousness which shall have no end, and the Church of Christ which is founded on a rock, and which the gates of hell cannot overcome
• We rejoice in the love of God, from which neither death nor life, nor things present nor things to come, can separate us
• We look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal
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