At the end of the first day, participants gathered with members of the wider community in Marquand Chapel for a hymn festival. In an hour of time on a certain summer evening, they experienced music, texts, prayers, and reflections that invoked God’s presence and illuminated the Christian affirmation that all our years are in God’s keeping. “Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all our years away,” we sang, acknowledging time’s inexorable passage in the words of the great hymn by Isaac Watts while also turning to “God, our help in ages past.” “Precious Lord, take my hand,” we sang, joining in Thomas Dorsey’s plea for God’s presence in the midst of a painful life passage. “Be there at our waking … our labors … our homing … our sleeping,” we sang in Jan Struther’s “Lord of All Hopefulness,” as we remembered our busy lives and expressed our yearning to know Christ’s “joy … faith … grace … calm” within them.