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Christians, Awake! Salute the Happy Morn
Author: John Byrom, 1692-1763 Appears in 185 hymnals Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE
Christians, Awake! Salute the Happy Morn
Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round
Author: John W. Chadwick Appears in 124 hymnals Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE
Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round
The God of Glory Sends His Summons Forth
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 70 hymnals Lyrics: 1. The God of glory sends His summons forth,
To nations south and then awakes the north;
From east to west the sovereign orders spread,
Through distant worlds and regions of the dead:
No more shall atheists mock His long delay;
His vengeance sleeps no more: behold the day!
2. Behold, the Judge descends, His guards are nigh;
Tempest and fire attend Him down the sky:
Heav’n, earth, and hell, draw near; let all things come
To hear My justice, and the sinner’s doom:
But gather first My saints, the Judge commands,
“Bring them, ye angels, from their distant lands.
3. “Behold, My covenant stands for ever good,
Sealed by th’eternal Sacrifice in blood,
And signed with all their names; the Greek, the Jew,
That paid the ancient worship or the new.
There’s no distinction here; join all your voices,
And raise your heads, ye saints, for Heav’n rejoices.
4. Here, saith the Lord, ye angels, spread their thrones,
And near me seat My favorites and My sons:
Come, My redeemed, possess the joys prepared
Ere time began; ’tis your divine reward.
When Christ returns, wake every cheerful passion;
And shout, ye saints, He comes for your salvation.
5. “I am the Savior, I th’Almighty God,
I am their Judge: ye heav’ns, proclaim abroad
My just eternal sentence, and declare
Those awful truths that sinners dread to hear:
When God appears, all nature shall adore Him;
While sinners tremble, saints rejoice before Him.
6. Stand forth, thou bold blasphemer, and profane,
Now feel My wrath, nor call My threat’nings vain;
Thou hypocrite, once dressed in saints’ attire,
I doom the painted hypocrite to fire.
Judgment proceeds; hell trembles; Heav’n rejoices;
Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful voices.
7. Not for the want of goats or bullocks slain
Do I condemn thee; bulls and goats are vain
Without the flame of love; in vain the store
Of brutal offerings that were Mine before.
Earth is the Lord’s, all nature shall adore Him;
While sinners, tremble, saints rejoice before Him;
8. If I were hungry, would I ask thee food?
When did I thirst, or drink thy bullocks’ blood?
Mine are the tamer beasts and savage breed,
Flocks, herds, and fields and forests where they feed.
All is the Lord’s, He rules the wide creation;
Gives sinners vengeance, and the saints salvation.
9. Can I be flattered with thy cringing bows,
Thy solemn chatterings and fantastic vows?
Are My eyes charmed thy vestments to behold,
Glaring in gems, and gay in woven gold?
God is the judge of hearts, no fair disguises
Can screen the guilty when His vengeance rises.
10. Unthinking wretch! how couldst thou hope to please
A God, a Spirit, with such toys as these,
While, with My grace and statutes on thy tongue,
Thou lov’st deceit, and dost thy brother wrong?
Judgment proceeds; hell trembles; Heav’n rejoices;
Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful voices.
11. In vain to pious forms thy zeal pretends;
Thieves and adulterers are thy chosen friends.
While the false flatterer at My altar waits,
His hardened soul divine instruction hates.
God is the judge of hearts, no fair disguises
Can screen the guilty when His vengeance rises.
12. Silent I waited with long-suffering love,
But didst thou hope that I should ne’er reprove?
And cherish such an impious thought within,
That the All-Holy would indulge thy sin?;
See, God appears; all nature joins t’adore Him:
Judgment proceeds, and sinners fall before Him.
13. Behold My terrors now: My thunders roll,
And thy own crimes affright thy guilty soul;
Now like a lion shall My vengeance tear
Thy bleeding heart, and no deliverer near.
Judgment concludes; hell trembles; Heav’n rejoices:
Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful voices.
14. Sinners, awake betimes; ye fools, be wise;
Awake before this dreadful morning rise;
Change your vain thoughts, your crooked works amend,
Fly to the Savior, make the Judge your friend;
Then join the saints, wake every cheerful passion;
When Christ returns, He comes for your salvation. Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719, alt.
The God of Glory Sends His Summons Forth
He Shed His Blood
Author: Richard W. Adams Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Christ shed His blood to wash away our sin Lyrics: 1 Christ shed His blood to wash away our sin,
Erase our guilt, and make us pure within;
The Lamb of God removed our every stain,
He died that we might have eternal gain.
Then rose again to prove the Scripture true,
Performed the work that only God can do.
2 How then can we receive this perfect gift?
Only believe, and feel the burden lift.
Christ did it all, and you can do no more:
Now go and spread the news the wide world o’er;
Proclaim that we no longer need to fear,
Death’s darkest prison or the Judge severe.
3 Send out the light to earth’s remotest bound,
Make shadows flee wherever sin is found;
Speak of the Christ who died our souls to save,
Tell of the God whose power destroyed the grave.
Tell how His grace and mercy set us free,
That we might live with Him eternally.
4 Announce the King who lives and reigns above,
Publish good tidings of His mighty love.
Tell how the Spirit comes when we believe,
Tell of the promise: He will never leave.
When Christ returns, O, how will we be then?
The Gospel spreading to the very end? Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE
He Shed His Blood
O Glorious Day
Author: J. R. Peacey (1896-1971) Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: O glorious day when God's love overflowed Lyrics: 1 O glorious day when God's love overflowed
and all its beauty on the earth bestowed;
the Spirit gave all creatures life and health
and on them breathed the life of God's own self.
In all creation, in each tiny flower,
in every life we see God's living power.
2 More glorious still that day of storm and flame
when God on Sinai's mount to Moses came;
when Israel, from the waters brought ashore,
received its calling and God's holy law.
For on that day of God, the great I AM,
the spirit on the chosen people came.
3 Most wonderful of all that holy dawn
in which the Saviour of the world was born!
The Spirit rest on a Hebrew maid
and God in human form came to our aid.
Then, Holy Spirit,your great love excelled
when we our God in flesh and blood beheld.
4 Christ rose from death, victorious over sin;
the ascended Lord now reigns, the world to win;
and on the church that it may witness give,
God's love was poured, that through it all might live.
On this fresh Pentecost, life-giving Lord,
come, spread through us your saving love abroad. Topics: Pentecost Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5 Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE
O Glorious Day
Day of the Lord, Ordained for Our Repose
Author: Robert Lansing Edwards Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE
Day of the Lord, Ordained for Our Repose
Stay, Master, Stay
Author: Samuel Greg, 1804-1887 Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: Stay, Master, stay upon this heavenly hill Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE
Stay, Master, Stay
Glory To God! We Were In Bitter Need
Author: A. M. M. Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Glory to God! We were in bitter need,
We sat in darkness long and weary days;
But now our light is come, the Light indeed,
And we may rise and shine with kindred rays;
The God-Man comes down so we can now ascend,
The Guiltless drinks guilt’s woes to work their end.
2 O mystic gift of God Omnipotent!
O happiness for man, most deep, most dear!
This is no theme for subtle argument,
No lore of earth hath lot or portion here;
That the Great God should so abasèd be—
We speak, we cannot search, the mystery.
3 The dew of God is on the parchèd fleece,
The sapless rod blooms with immortal flowers,
The virgin bears a Son, our utter peace,
Nor knows pollution in her travail’s hours;
We cannot speak that birth, but we confess
Most great the mystery of godliness.
4 Though it may chance the shipmen toil and row,
With countless wrecks far strewn on either hand,
They see a star above the waters glow,
There is an ark which sights the pleasant land;
There is a door of life set wide, which none
Can open to lorn souls, can shut, save One.
5 O not with observation came He then
Into our world, but soon the day shall be
When with great glory He shall come again
With all His saints, and every eye shall see
Him whom they piercèd. When we meet Thee thus
Let there be mercy, O our God, on us. Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE Text Sources: Missal of Noyon; Tr.: Lyra Messianica by Orby Shipley (London: Longman, Green, Longman, roberts & Green, 1864)
Glory To God! We Were In Bitter Need
A Noble Theme Inspires My Heart
Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: A noble theme inspires my heart and mind Topics: Annunciation of our Lord; Anoint; Ascension; Christmas Season; Epiphany Season; Evangelism; God as King of Kings; Kingdom of God; Missions; Prophecy; St. Mary; Stewardship Scripture: Psalm 45 Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE Text Sources: Sing Psalms
A Noble Theme Inspires My Heart
Now comes the light for which our souls
Author: Malcolm Quinn Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Tune: STOCKPORT (YORKSHIRE)
Now comes the light for which our souls
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