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I love to tell the story

Author: Katherine Hankey, 1834 - 1911 Appears in 1,209 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Epiphany; The Church Year Easter; Church Life and Work The Propagation of the Gospel First Line: I love to tell the story Lyrics: 1 I love to tell the story Of unseen things above, Of Jesus and his glory, Of Jesus and his love. I love to tell the story, Because I know its true; It satisfies my longings As nothing else would do. Refrain: I love to tell the story; 'Twill be my theme in glory To tell the old, old story Of Jesus and his love. 2 I love to tell the story, 'Tis pleasant to repeat What seems, each time I tell it, More wonderfully sweet. I love to tell the story, For some have never heard The message of salvation From God's own holy word. [Refrain] 3 I love to tell the story, For those who know it best Seem hungering and thirsting To hear it like the rest. And when, in scenes of glory, I sing the new, new song, 'Twill be the old, old story, That I have loved so long. [Refrain] Used With Tune: HANKEY

Emmanuel! we sing Thy praise

Author: Catherine Winkworth; Paul Gerhardt Appears in 34 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Christmas Lyrics: 1 Emmanuel! we sing Thy praise, Thou Prince of Life! Thou Fount of Grace! With all Thy saints, Thee, Lord, we sing; Praise, honor, thanks, to Thee we bring! 2 E’er since the world began to be, How many a heart hath longed for Thee! And Thou, O long-expected Guest, Hast come at last to make us blest! 3 Now art Thou here: we know Thee now: In lowly manger liest Thou: A child, yet makest all things great; Poor, yet the earth Thy robe of state. 4 Now fearless I can look on Thee, From sin and grief Thou set'st me free: Thou bearest wrath, Thou conquerest death, Fear turns to joy Thy glance beneath. 5 Thou art my Head, my Lord Divine, I am Thy member, wholly Thine; And by Thy Spirit’s strength would still Serve Thee according to Thy will. 6 Thus will I sing Thy praises here, With joyful spirit year by year: And they shall sound before Thy throne, Where time nor number more is known. Amen. Used With Tune: GERMANY

In the Cross of Christ I glory

Author: John Bowring Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 1,514 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Lent Lyrics: 1 In the Cross of Christ I glory, Towering o'er the wrecks of time; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime. 2 When the woes of life o'ertake me, Hopes deceive and fears annoy, Never shall the Cross forsake me; Lo! it glows with peace and joy. 3 When the sun of bliss is beaming Light and love upon my way, From the Cross the radiance streaming Adds more luster to the day. 4 Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure, By the Cross are sanctified; Peace is there that knows no measure, Joys that through all time abide. Amen. Used With Tune: CROSS OF JESUS

Jesus, refuge of the weary

Author: Jane Francesca Wilde, 1826 - 96; Girolamo Savonarola, 1452 - 98 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 57 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Septuagesima to Lent; The Church Year Lent; The Church Year Holy Week Lyrics: 1 Jesus, refuge of the weary, Object of the spirit's love, Fountain in life's desert dreary, Saviour from the world above; O how oft thine eyes, offended, Gaze upon the sinner's fall; Yet upon the Cross extended, Thou didst bear the pain of all. A-men. 2 Do we pass that Cross unheeding, Breathing no repentant vow, Though we see thee wounded, bleeding, See thy thorn-encircled brow? Yet thy sinless death hath brought us Life eternal, peace, and rest; Only what thy grace hath taught us Calms the sinner's stormy breast. 3 Jesus, may our hearts be burning With more fervent love for thee; May our eyes be ever turning To thy Cross of agony; Till in glory, parted never From the blessèd Saviour's side, Graven in our hearts forever, Dwell the Cross, the Crucified. Amen. Used With Tune: O DU LIEBE MEINER LIEBE

Jesus, the very thought of thee

Author: Edward Caswall, 1814 - 78; St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091 - 1153 Appears in 1,023 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Circumcision and Name of Jesus; The Church Year Epiphany; The Church Year Lent Lyrics: 1 Jesus, the very thought of thee With sweetness fills the breast; But sweeter far thy face to see, And in thy presence rest. 2 Nor voice can sing, nor heart can frame, Nor can the memory find A sweeter sound than thy blest Name, O Saviour of mankind! A-men. 3 O hope of every contrite heart, O joy of all the meek, To those who fall, how kind thou art, How good to those who seek! 4 But what to those who find? Ah, this Nor tongue nor pen can show; The love of Jesus, what it is, None but his loved ones know. 5 Jesus, our only joy be thou, As thou our prize wilt be; Jesus, be thou our glory now, And through eternity. Amen. Used With Tune: ST. AGNES

Joy to the world! the Lord is come

Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 1,856 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Christmas Lyrics: 1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room, And heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth! the Saviour reigns; Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, Repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found. 4 He rules the world with truth and grace, And makes the nations prove The glories of His righteousness, And wonders of His love. Amen. Used With Tune: ANTIOCH

Lo, God is here! let us adore

Author: John Wesley, 1703 - 91; Gerhard Tersteegen, 1697 - 1769 Appears in 289 hymnals Topics: The Church Worship - The Lord's Day; The Church The House of God; The Church Worship - In The Presence Lyrics: 1 Lo, God is here! let us adore, And own how dreadful is this place! Let all within us feel his power, And silent bow before his face; Who know his power, his grace who prove, Serve him with awe, with reverence love. A-men. 2 Lo, God is here! him day and night United choirs of angels sing; To him, enthroned above all height, The hosts of heaven their praises bring; Disdain not, Lord, our meaner song, Who praise thee with a faltering tongue. 3 Being of beings, may our praise Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill! Still may we stand before thy face, Still hear and do thy sovereign will; To thee may all our thoughts arise A true and ceaseless sacrifice. Amen. Used With Tune: WINCHESTER NEW

Glory, glory, Hallelujah!

Author: Julia Ward Howe, 1819 - 1910 Appears in 551 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Advent; The Church The People of God; Church Life and Work City, Nation, World First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord Lyrics: 1 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. Refrain: Glory, glory, Hallelujah! Glory, glory, Hallelujah! Glory, glory, Hallelujah! His truth is marching on. 2 He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment-seat; O be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. [Refrain] 3 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me: As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. [Refrain] Used With Tune: BATTLE HYMN

O Christ, our true and only light

Author: J. Heermann Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 96 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Epiphany; The Church Year Epiphany Lyrics: 1 O Christ, our true and only light, Illumine those who sit in night; Let those afar now hear Thy voice, And in Thy fold with us rejoice. 2 Fill with the radiance of Thy grace The souls now lost in error's maze, And all whom in their secret minds Some dark delusion haunts and blinds. 3 And all who else have strayed from Thee, O gently seek! Thy healing be To every wounded conscience given, And let them also share Thy heaven. 4 O make the deaf to hear Thy word, And teach the dumb to speak, dear Lord, Who dare not yet the faith avow, Though secretly they hold it now. 5 Shine on the darkened and the cold; Recall the wanderers from Thy fold. Unite all those who walk apart, Confirm the weak and doubting heart. 6 So they with us may evermore Such grace with wondering thanks adore, And endless praise to Thee be given By all Thy Church in earth and heaven. Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary #198 Used With Tune: [O Christ, our true and only light]

O day of rest and gladness

Author: C. Wordsworth Appears in 813 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity; The Church Year Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity Lyrics: 1 O day of rest and gladness, O day of joy and light, O balm of care and sadness, Most beautiful, most bright, On thee the high and lowly, Through ages joined in tune, Sing holy, holy, holy! To the great God Triune. 2 On thee, at the Creation The light first had its birth; On thee for our salvation, Christ rose from depths of earth; On thee our Lord, victorious The Spirit sent from heaven; And thus on thee, most glorious, A triple light was given. 3 Thou art a port protected From storms that round us rise; A garden intersected With streams of Paradise; Thou at a cooling fountain, In life's dry, dreary sand; From thee, like Pisgah's mountain, We view our promised land. 4 Today on weary nations The heavenly manna falls; To holy convocations The silver trumpet calls, Where gospel-light is glowing With pure and radiant beams, And living water flowing With soul-refreshing streams. 5 New graces ever gaining From this our day of rest, We reach the rest remaining To spirits of the blest. To Holy Ghost be praises; To Father, and to Son; The Church her voice upraises To Thee, blest Three in One. Used With Tune: [O day of rest and gladness]

O enter, Lord, Thy temple

Author: Catherine Winkworth; Paul Gerhardt Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 38 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Whitsunday-The Holy Spirit Lyrics: 1 O enter, Lord, Thy temple, Be Thou my spirit's Guest, Who, at my birth, didst give me A second birth more blest. Though here to dwell Thou deignest, Thou in the Godhead, Lord, For ever equal reignest, Art equally adored. 2 O enter, let me know Thee, And feel Thy power within, The power that breaks our fetters, And rescues us from sin. That I may serve Thee truly, O wash and cleanse Thou me, To render honor duly With perfect heart to Thee. 3 'Tis Thou, O Spirit, teachest The soul to pray aright; Thy songs have sweetest music, Thy prayers have wondrous might. They pierce the highest heaven; Unheard they cannot fall, Till He His help hath given Who surely helpeth all. 4 The whole wide world, O Spirit, Upon Thy hands doth rest; Our wayward hearts Thou turnest As it may seem Thee best. As Thou hast done so often, Once more Thy power make known, Convert the wicked, soften To tears the heart of stone. 5 Order our path in all things According to Thy mind; And when this life is over, And all must be resigned, With calm and fearless spirit O grant us then to die, And after death inherit Eternal life on high. Amen. Used With Tune: ST. THEODULPH

O Golden Day

Author: Charles A. Dickinson Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 17 hymnals Topics: The Church and Doctrines The Church First Line: O golden day, so long desired Used With Tune: ELLECOMBE

O Holy Spirit, enter in

Author: Catherine Winkworth; Michael Schirmer Meter: Irregular Appears in 73 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Whitsunday-The Holy Spirit Lyrics: 1 O Holy Spirit, enter in, Among these hearts Thy work begin, Thy temple deign to make us; Sun of the soul, Thou Light divine, Around and in us brightly shine, To strength and gladness wake us. Where Thou shinest, Life from heaven there is given; We before Thee For that precious gift implore Thee. 2 Left to ourselves, we shall but stray; O lead us on the narrow way, With wisest counsel guide us; And give us steadfastness, that we May henceforth truly follow Thee, Whatever woes betide us; Heal Thou gently Hearts now broken: give some token Thou art near us, Whom we trust to light and cheer us. 3 O mighty Rock! O Source of life! Let Thy dear Word ’mid doubt and strife, Be so within us burning, That we be faithful unto death In Thy pure love and holy faith. From Thee true wisdom learning. Lord, Thy graces On us shower; by Thy power Christ confessing, Let us win His grace and blessing. 4 Grant that our days, while life shall last, In purest holiness be passed; Our minds so rule and strengthen That they may rise o’er things of earth, The hopes and joys that here have birth; And if our course Thou lengthen, Keep Thou pure, Lord, From offenses, heart and senses; Blessèd Spirit, Bid us thus true life inherit. Amen. Used With Tune: WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET

O how shall I receive Thee

Author: Arthur Tozer Russell; Paul Gerhardt Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 94 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Advent Lyrics: 1 O how shall I receive Thee, How greet Thee, Lord, aright? All nations long to see Thee, My Hope, my heart's delight! O kindle, Lord, most holy, Thy lamp within my breast. To do in spirit lowly All that may please Thee best. 2 Thy Zion palms is strewing, And branches fresh and fair; My heart, its powers renewing, An anthem shall prepare. My soul puts off her sadness Thy glories to proclaim; With all her strength and gladness She fain would serve Thy Name. 3 I lay in fetters groaning, Thou comest to set me free! I stood, my shame bemoaning, Thou comest to honor me! A glory Thou dost give me, A treasure safe on high, That will not fail nor leave me As earthly riches fly. 4 Love caused Thine Incarnation, Love brought Thee down to me, Thy thirst for my salvation Procured my liberty. O love beyond all telling, That led Thee to embrace, In love all love excelling, Our lost and fallen race! 5 Rejoice, then, ye sad-hearted, Who sit in deepest gloom, Who mourn o'er joys departed, And tremble at your doom: He Who alone can cheer you Is standing at the door; He brings His pity near you, And bids you weep no more. Amen. Used With Tune: ST. THEODULPH

O Sacred Head, now wounded

Author: Paul Gerhardt; James Waddell Alexander Appears in 724 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Good Friday Lyrics: 1 O sacred Head, now wounded, With grief and shame weighed down, Now scornfully surrounded With thorns, Thy only crown! O Sacred Head, what glory, What bliss, till now, was Thine! Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call Thee mine. 2 How art Thou pale with anguish, With sore abuse and scorn! How does that visage languish, Which once was bright as morn! What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered, Was all for sinners' gain: Mine, mine was the transgression, But Thine the deadly pain. 3 Lo, here I fall, my Saviour! 'Tis I deserve Thy place! Look on me with Thy favor, Vouchsafe to me Thy grace. Receive me, my Redeemer; My Shepherd, make me Thine! Of every good the Fountain, Thou art the Spring of mine! 4 What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end! O make me Thine for ever; And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never, Outlive my love to Thee. 5 Be near when I am dying; O! show Thy Cross to me; Lord, on Thy help relying Come Thou and set me free; These eyes, new faith receiving, From Thee shall never move; For he who dies believing, Dies safely in Thy love. Amen. Used With Tune: PASSION CHORAL Text Sources: Based on a Latin Hymn of Bernard of Clairvaux, d. 1153

O worship the King, all glorious above

Author: Robert Grant, 1779 - 1838 Appears in 1,140 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Epiphany; The Church Year Trinity Sunday - The Holy Trinity; The Church Worship - In The Presence Lyrics: 1 O worship the King, all glorious above, O gratefully sing his wonderful love; Our shield and defender, the Ancient of Days, Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise. 2 O tell of his might, O sing of his grace, Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space; His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form, And dark is his path on the wings of the storm. 3 The earth with its store of wonders untold, Almighty, thy power hath founded of old; Hath stablished it fast by a changeless decree, And round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea. 4 Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite? It breathes in the air, it shines in the light; It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain. 5 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, In thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail; Thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end, Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend. 6 O measureless Might, ineffable Love, While angels delight to hymn thee above, The humbler creation, though feeble their lays, With true adoration shall sing to thy praise. Scripture: Psalm 104 Used With Tune: HANOVER

Shepherd of tender youth

Author: Henry Martyn Dexter, 1821 - 90; Clement of Alexandria Appears in 278 hymnals Topics: Church Life and Work Home and Family; The Church Worship - In The Presence Lyrics: 1 Shepherd of tender youth, Guiding in love and truth Through devious ways, Christ, our triumphant King, We come thy name to sing; Hither thy children bring Tributes of praise. 2 Thou art our holy Lord, The 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. A-men. 3 Ever be near our side, Our Shepherd and our guide, Our staff and song; Jesus, thou Christ of God, By thine enduring word Lead us where thou hast trod, Make our faith strong. 4 So now, and till we die, Sound we thy praises high. And joyful sing; Let all the holy throng, Who to thy Church belong, Unite and swell the song To Christ, our King. Amen. Used With Tune: KIRBY BEDON

The day of Resurrection!

Author: John Mason Neale; John of Damascus Appears in 517 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Easter Lyrics: 1 The day of Resurrection! Earth, tell it out abroad! The Passover of gladness! The Passover of God! From death to life eternal, From earth unto the sky, Our Christ hath brought us over With hymns of victory. 2 Our hearts be pure from evil, That we may see aright The Lord in rays eternal Of resurrection-light And, list'ning to His accents, May hear, so calm and plain, His own "All hail!"--and, hearing, May raise the victor-strain. 3 Now let the heavens be joyful! Let earth its song begin! Let all the world keep triumph, And all that is therein; In grateful exultation Their notes of gladness blend, For Christ the Lord has risen, Our Joy that hath no end! Amen. Used With Tune: LANCASHIRE

The Spirit in our hearts

Author: Henry U. Onderdonk Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 427 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity; The Church Year Twentieth Sunday after Trinity Lyrics: 1 The Spirit in our hearts Is whispering, “Sinner, come!” The Bride, the Church of Christ, proclaims To all His children, “Come!” 2 To him that heareth say To all about him, “Come!” Let him that thirsts for righteousness To Christ the fountain come. 3 Yes, whosoever will, O let him freely come, And freely drink the stream of life, 'Tis Jesus bids him come. 4 Lo, Jesus, who invites, Declares, “I quickly come:” Lord, even so; we wait Thine hour; O blest Redeemer, come. Used With Tune: [The Spirit in our hearts is whispering]

There is a fountain filled with blood

Author: W. Cowper Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 2,471 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Good Friday; The Church Year Good Friday Lyrics: 1 There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immanuel's veins, And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains. 2 The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day; And there have I, as vile as he, Washed all my sins away. 3 Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed Church of God Be saved, to sin no more. 4 E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme And shall be till I die. 5 Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing Thy power to save, When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue Lies silent in the grave. Used With Tune: [There is a fountain filled with blood]

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