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Christ is alive! Let Christians sing

Author: Brian A. Wren, b. 1936 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 54 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. The cross stands empty to the sky. Let streets and homes with praises ring. Love, drowned in death, shall never die. 2 Christ is alive! No longer bound to distant years in Palestine, but saving, healing, here and now, and touching every place and time. 3 In every insult, rift and war, where colour, scorn or wealth divide, Christ suffers still, yet loves the more, and lives, where even hope has died. 4 Women and men, in age and youth, can feel the Spirit, hear the call, and find the way, the life, the truth, revealed in Jesus, freed for all. 5 Christ is alive, and comes to bring good news to this and every age, till earth and sky and ocean ring with joy, with justice, love and praise. Topics: Easter; Easter V Year A Scripture: Acts 9:5 Used With Tune: TRURO

Come, ye faithful, raise the strain

Author: St John of Damascus, d. c. 754; J. M. Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 380 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain of triumphant gladness! God hath brought his Israel into joy from sadness; loosed from Pharaoh's bitter yoke Jacob's sons and daughters; led them with unmoistened foot through the Red Sea waters. 2 'Tis the spring of souls to-day; Christ hath burst his prison, and from three days' sleep in death as a sun hath risen: all the winter of our sins, long and dark, is flying from his light, to whom we give laud and praise undying. 3 Now the queen of seasons, bright with the day of splendour, with the royal feast of feasts, comes its joy to render; comes to glad Jerusalem, who with true affection welcomes in unwearied strains Jesu's resurrection. 4 Alleluia now we cry to our King immortal, who triumphant burst the bars of the tomb's dark portal; Alleluia, with the Son God the Father praising; Alleluia yet again to the Spirit raising. Topics: Easter; Easter III Year C; Easter IV Year A; Easter V Year B Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:17 Used With Tune: AVE VIRGO VIRGINUM

Crown him with many crowns

Author: Matthew Bridges, 1800-1894 Appears in 796 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon his throne; hark, how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own! Awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for thee, and hail him as thy matchless king through all eternity. 2 Crown him the Virgin's Son, the God incarnate born, whose arm those crimson trophies won which now his brow adorn: Fruit of the mystic Rose, as of that Rose the Stem; the Root whence mercy ever flows, the Babe of Bethlehem. 3 Crown him the Lord of love; behold his hands and side, those wounds yet visible above in beauty glorified: no angel in the sky can fully bear that sight, but downward bends his burning eye at mysteries so bright. 4 Crown him the Lord of peace, whose power a sceptre sways from pole to pole, that wars may cease, and all be prayer and praise: his reign shall know no end, and round his piercèd feet fair flowers of paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet. 5 Crown him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time, creator of the rolling spheres, ineffably sublime: all hail, Redeemer, hail! for thou hast died for me; thy praise shall never, never fail throughout eternity. Topics: Ascension Day; Easter VII Year B; Easter VII Year C; Proper 21 Year A; Christ the King Year A; Christ the King Year C Scripture: Galatians 1:20 Used With Tune: DIADEMATA

Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round

Author: J. W. Chadwick, 1840-1904 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 124 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round of circling planets singing on their way; guide of the nations from the night profound into the glory of the perfect day; rule in our hearts, that we may ever be guided and strengthened and upheld by thee. 2 We are of thee, the children of thy love, the brothers of thy well-belovèd Son; descend, O Holy Spirit, like a dove, into our hearts, that we may be as one: as one with thee, to whom we ever tend; as one with him, our Brother and our Friend. 3 We would be one in hatred of all wrong, one in our love of all things sweet and fair, one with the joy that breaketh into song, one with the grief that trembles into prayer, one in the power that makes thy children free to follow truth, and thus to follow thee. 4 O clothe us with thy heavenly armour, Lord, thy trusty shield, thy sword of love divine; our inspiration be thy constant word; we ask no victories that are not thine: give or withhold, let pain or pleasure be; enough to know that we are serving thee. Topics: Pentecost Scripture: Ephesians 6:11 Used With Tune: SONG 1

Lord of all, to thee we raise

Author: F. S. Pierpoint, 1835-1917 Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 631 hymnals First Line: For the beauty of the earth Lyrics: 1 For the beauty of the earth, for the beauty of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies, Refrain: Lord of all, to thee we raise this our sacrifice of praise. 2 For the beauty of each hour of the day and of the night, hill and vale and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light: [Refrain] 3 For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child, friends on earth, and friends above, pleasures pure and undefiled: [Refrain] 4 For each perfect gift of thine, to our race so freely given, graces human and divine, flowers of earth and buds of heaven: [Refrain] 5 For thy church which evermore lifteth holy hands above, offering up on every shore her pure sacrifice of love, [Refrain] Topics: Creation; Second Sunday Before Lent Year A; Proper 17 Year B; Proper 21 Year B Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:9 Used With Tune: ENGLANDS LANE

Come, ye thankful people, come

Author: Henry Alford, 1810-1871 Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 726 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest-home: all be safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin; God, our Maker, doth provide for our wants to be supplied; come to God's own temple, come; raise the song of harvest-home! 2 All the world is God's own field, fruit unto his praise to yield; wheat and tares together sown, unto joy or sorrow grown; first the blade and then the ear, then the full corn shall appear: grant, O harvest Lord, that we wholesome grain and pure may be. 3 For the Lord our God shall come, and shall take his harvest home; from his field shall purge away all that doth offend, that day; give his angels charge at last in the fire the tares to cast, but the fruitful ears to store in his garner evermore. 4 Then, thou Church Triumphant, come, raise the song of harvest-home; all be safely gathered in, free from sorrow, free from sin, there for ever purified in God's garner to abide: come, ten thousand angels, come, raise the glorious harvest-home! Topics: Harvest Scripture: 1 Corinthians 5:7-8 Used With Tune: ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR

All good gifts around us

Author: Matthias Claudius, 1740-1815; Jane Montgomery Campbell, 1817-1878 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain Appears in 453 hymnals First Line: We plough the fields, and scatter Lyrics: 1 We plough the fields, and scatter the good seed on the land, but it is fed and watered by God's almighty hand: he sends the snow in winter, the warmth to swell the grain, the breezes, and the sunshine, and soft, refreshing rain. Refrain: All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above; then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord, for all his love. 2 He only is the maker of all things near and far; he paints the wayside flower, he lights the evening star; the winds and waves obey him, by him the birds are fed; much more to us, his children, he gives our daily bread. [Refrain] 3 We thank thee then, O Father, for all things bright and good, the seed-time and the harvest, our life, our health, our food. Accept the gifts we offer for all thy love imparts, and, what thou most desirest, our humble, thankful hearts. [Refrain] Topics: Harvest; Easter VI Rogationtide Scripture: Acts 14:17 Used With Tune: WI PFLÜGEN

Let all mortal flesh keep silence

Author: Gerard Moultrie, 1829-1885; J. M. Neale ; R. F. Littledale Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 172 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Let all mortal flesh keep silence and with fear and trembling stand; ponder nothing earthly-minded, for with blessing in his hand Christ our God to earth descendeth, our full homage to demand. 2 King of kings, yet born of Mary, as of old on earth he stood, Lord of lords, in human vesture — in the body and the blood — he will give to all the faithful his own self for heavenly food. 3 Rank on rank the host of heaven spreads its vanguard on the way, as the Light of light descendeth from the realms of endless day, that the powers of hell may vanish as the darkness clears away. 4 At his feet the six-winged seraph; cherubim with sleepless eye veil their faces to the Presence, as with ceaseless voice they cry, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, Lord most high. Topics: Holy Communion; Proper 26 Year C Scripture: Galatians 4:4 Used With Tune: PICARDY Text Sources: Liturgy of St James

Where cross the crowded ways of life

Author: Frank Mason North, 1850-1935 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 369 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Where cross the crowded ways of life, where sound the cries of race and clan, above the noise of selfish strife, we hear thy voice, O Son of Man. 2 In haunts of wretchedness and need, on shadowed thresholds dark with fears, from paths where hide the lures of greed, we catch the vision of thy tears. 3 The cup of water given for thee still holds the freshness of thy grace; yet long these multitudes to see the strong compassion of thy face. 4 O Master, from the mountain-side make haste to heal these hearts of pain; among these restless throngs abide, O tread the city's streets again: 5 Till all shall come to learn thy love, and follow where thy feet have trod; till glorious from thy heaven above shall come the city of our God. Topics: Proper 8 Year A; The City Scripture: Ezekiel 48:35 Used With Tune: ST BARTHOLOMEW

Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost

Author: Christopher Wordsworth, 1807-1885 Meter: 7.7.7.5 Appears in 205 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost, taught by thee, we covet most of thy gifts at Pentecost, holy, heavenly love. 2 Love is kind, and suffers long, love is meek, and thinks no wrong, love than death itself more strong; therefore give us love. 3 Prophecy will fade away, melting in the light of day; love will ever with us stay; therefore give us love. 4 Faith will vanish into sight; hope be emptied in delight; love in heaven will shine more bright; therefore give us love. 5 Faith and hope and love we see joining hand in hand agree; but the greatest of the three, and the best, is love. 6 From the overshadowing of thy gold and silver wing shed on us, who to thee sing, holy, heavenly love. Topics: Pentecost; Pentecost Year B Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:31 Used With Tune: CAPETOWN