Two persons asked me what I played for the postlude. It was "Blessed Quietness," # 301 in the blue hymnal. Published in 1911, the first line is "Joys are flowing like a river since the Comforter has come." The poet was the Irish-born woman, Manie Ferguson, who married a Presbyterian minister, then got religion in the holiness way and founded a city mission in Los Angeles, "a holiness revival station spreading the message of Christian perfection," as Wikipedia puts it. Our hymnal supplement gives a swinging version and I used that.
"Thine is the Glory" (blue #269, resurrection section) was the prelude before the handbells finished with "Adoro Te Devote," (blue #464). At the offertory the bells gave us a version of "Jesus Shall Reign." The bells really sounded sweet to me.
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