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Shepherd of Tender Youth
Author: Clement of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Clemens); Henry M. Dexter Meter: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4 Appears in 278 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Shepherd of tender youth,
guiding in love and truth
Through devious ways;
Christ our triumphant king,
We come Thy name to sing
and here our children bring
To join Thy praise.
2. Thou art our holy Lord,
O all subduing Word,
Healer of strife.
Thou didst Thyself abase
That from sin’s deep disgrace
Thou mightest save our race
And give us life.
3. Thou art the great high priest;
Thou hast prepared the feast
Of holy love;
and in our mortal pain,
None calls on Thee in vain;
help Thou dost not disdain,
Help from above.
4. Ever be Thou our guide,
our shepherd and our pride,
Our staff and song;
Jesus, Thou Christ of God,
By Thine enduring Word
lead us where Thou hast trod,
Make our faith strong.
5. So now, and till we die,
sound we Thy praises high
And joyful sing;
infants and the glad throng
Who to Thy church belong,
unite to swell the song
To Christ, our king. Used With Tune: OLIVET (Mason)
Shepherd of Tender Youth
Sing a New Song to Jehovah
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 17 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Sing a new song to Jehovah,
for the wonders He has wrought,
His right hand and arm most holy
triumph to His cause have brought.
In His love and tender mercy
He has made salvation known,
In the sight of every nation
He His righteousness has shown.
2. Truth and mercy toward His people
He has ever kept in mind,
And His full and free salvation
He has shown to all mankind.
Sing, O earth, sing to Jehovah,
praises to Jehovah sing;
With the swelling notes of music
shout before the Lord, the King.
3. Seas and all your fullness, thunder,
all earth’s peoples, now rejoice,
Floods and hills, in praise uniting,
to the Lord lift up your voice.
For, behold, Jehovah cometh,
robed in justice and in might;
He alone will judge the nations,
and His judgment shall be right. Used With Tune: AUSTRIA (Haydn) Text Sources: The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912), number 261
Sing a New Song to Jehovah
So Did the Hebrew Prophet Raise
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 49 hymnals Lyrics: 1. So did the Hebrew prophet raise
The brazen serpent high,
The wounded felt immediate ease,
The camp forbore to die.
2. Look upward in the dying hour,
And live, the prophet cries;
But Christ performs a nobler cure,
When Faith lifts up her eyes.
3. High on the cross the Savior hung,
High in the heav’ns he reigns:
Here sinners by th’ old serpent stung
Look, and forget their pains.
4. When God’s own Son is lifted up,
A dying world revives;
The Jew beholds the glorious hope,
Th’expiring Gentile lives. Used With Tune: DOWNS Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Songs, Book I, 1707, number 112
So Did the Hebrew Prophet Raise
The Son of God Goes Forth to War
Author: Reginald Heber Appears in 837 hymnals Lyrics: 1. The Son of God goes forth to war,
A kingly crown to gain;
His blood red banner streams afar:
Who follows in His train?
Who best can drink His cup of woe,
Triumphant over pain,
Who patient bears his cross below,
He follows in His train.
2. That martyr first, whose eagle eye
Could pierce beyond the grave;
Who saw his Master in the sky,
And called on Him to save.
Like Him, with pardon on His tongue,
In midst of mortal pain,
He prayed for them that did the wrong:
Who follows in his train?
3. A glorious band, the chosen few
On whom the Spirit came;
Twelve valiant saints, their hope they knew,
And mocked the cross and flame.
They met the tyrant’s brandished steel,
The lion’s gory mane;
They bowed their heads the death to feel:
Who follows in their train?
4. A noble army, men and boys,
The matron and the maid,
Around the Savior’s throne rejoice,
In robes of light arrayed.
They climbed the steep ascent of Heav’n,
Through peril, toil and pain;
O God, to us may grace be giv’n,
To follow in their train. Used With Tune: ALL SAINTS
The Son of God Goes Forth to War
Stealing from the World Away
Author: Ray Palmer Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 78 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Stealing from the world away,
We are come to seek Thy face;
Kindly meet us, Lord, we pray,
Grant us Thy reviving grace.
2. Yonder stars that gild the sky
Shine but with a borrowed light:
We, unless Thy light be nigh,
Wander, wrapped in gloomy night.
3. Sun of righteousness! dispel
All our darkness, doubts and fears:
May Thy light within us dwell,
Till eternal day appears.
4. Warm our hearts in prayer and praise,
Lift our every thought above;
Hear the grateful songs we raise,
Fill us with Thy perfect love. Used With Tune: PLEYEL'S HYMN
Stealing from the World Away
Thou God of Glorious Majesty
Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 98 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Thou God of glorious majesty,
To Thee, against myself, to Thee,
A worm of earth, I cry;
A half-awakened child of man;
An heir of endless bliss or pain;
A sinner born to die!
2. Lo! on a narrow neck of land,
’Twixt two unbounded seas I stand,
Secure, insensible;
A point of time, a moment’s space,
Removes me to that heavenly place,
Or shuts me up in hell.
3. O God, mine inmost soul convert!
And deeply on my thoughtful heart
Eternal things impress:
Give me to feel their solemn weight,
And tremble on the brink of fate,
And wake to righteousness.
4. Before me place, in dread array,
The pomp of that tremendous day,
When Thou with clouds shalt come,
To judge the nations at Thy bar;
And tell me, Lord, shall I be there
To meet a joyful doom?
5. Be this my one great business here,
With serious industry and fear
Eternal bliss to ensure;
Thine utmost counsel to fulfill,
And suffer all Thy righteous will,
And to the end endure.
6. Then, Savior, then my soul receive,
Transported from this vale to live
And reign with Thee above;
Where faith is sweetly lost in sight,
And hope in full supreme delight,
And everlasting love. Used With Tune: MERIBAH Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749
Thou God of Glorious Majesty
Thou Art the Way
Author: George W. Doane Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 600 hymnals First Line: Thou art the way: to Thee alone Lyrics: 1. Thou art the way: to Thee alone
From sin and death we flee;
And he who would the Father seek
Must seek Him, Lord, by Thee.
2. Thou art the truth: Thy Word alone
True wisdom can impart;
Thou only canst inform the mind,
And purify the heart.
3. Thou art the life: the rending tomb
Proclaims Thy conquering arm,
And those who put their trust in Thee
Nor death nor hell shall harm.
4. Thou art the way, the truth, the life;
Grant us that way to know,
That truth to keep, that life to win,
Whose joys eternal flow. Used With Tune: ST. JAMES
Thou Art the Way
'Tis by the Faith of Joys to Come
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 300 hymnals Lyrics: 1. ’Tis by the faith of joys to come
We walk through deserts dark as night;
Till we arrive at Heav’n our home,
Faith is our guide, and faith our light.
2. The want of sight she well supplies,
She makes the pearly gates appear;
Far into distant worlds she pries,
And brings eternal glories near.
3. Cheerful we tread the desert through,
While faith inspires a heav’nly ray;
Though lions roar, and tempests blow,
And rocks and dangers fill the way.
4. So Abra’m, by divine command,
Left his own house to walk with God;
His faith beheld the promised land,
And fired his zeal along the road. Used With Tune: DUKE STREET Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-9, Book II, number 129
'Tis by the Faith of Joys to Come
There Is a Happy Land
Author: Andrew Young Appears in 601 hymnals First Line: There is a happy land, far, far away Lyrics: 1. There is a happy land, far, far away,
Where saints in glory stand, bright, bright as day.
Oh, how they sweetly sing, worthy is our Savior king,
Loud let His praises ring, praise, praise for aye.
2. Come to that happy land, come, come away;
Why will ye doubting stand, why still delay?
Oh, we shall happy be, when from sin and sorrow free,
Lord, we shall live with Thee, blest, blest for aye.
3. Bright, in that happy land, beams every eye;
Kept by a Father’s hand, love cannot die.
Oh, then to glory run; be a crown and kingdom won;
And, bright, above the sun, we reign for aye. Used With Tune: HAPPY LAND
There Is a Happy Land
Wait, My Soul, upon the Lord
Author: William F. Lloyd Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 163 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Wait, my soul, upon the Lord,
To His gracious promise flee,
Laying hold upon His Word,
As Thy days thy strength shall be.
2. If the sorrows of thy case
Seem peculiar still to thee,
God has promised needful grace:
As Thy days thy strength shall be.
3. Days of trial, days of grief,
In succession thou mayst see;
This is still thy sweet relief:
As Thy days thy strength shall be.
4. Rock of Ages, I’m secure,
With Thy promise, full and free,
Faithful, positive, and sure,
As Thy days thy strength shall be. Used With Tune: ST. BEES
Wait, My Soul, upon the Lord
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