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Come, O thou Traveler unknown

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 289 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, O thou Traveler unknown, whom still I hold, but cannot see; my company before is gone, and I am left alone with thee. With thee all night I mean to stay, and wrestle till the break of day. 2 I need not tell thee who I am, my misery or sin declare; thyself hast called me by my name, look on thy hands, and read it there. But who, I ask thee, who art thou? Tell me thy name, and tell me now. 3 Yield to me now, for I am weak but confident in self-despair; speak to my heart, in blessings speak, be conquered by my instant prayer. Speak, or thou never hence shalt move, and tell me, if thy name is Love. 4 'Tis Love, 'tis Love! Thou diedst for me! I hear thy whisper in my heart: the morning breaks, the shadows flee. Pure Universal Love thou art; thy mercies never shall remove, thy nature and thy name is Love. Topics: The Christian Life Used With Tune: VERNON

Hear, Heven And Earth, Your God's Appeal

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Hear, heaven and earth, your God’s appeal Lyrics: 1 Hear, heaven and earth, your God’s appeal, Jehovah to His creature cries. "Angels and men, My justice tell, When all My storms of vengeance rise To plague a vile rebellious race, Apostates from My richest grace. 2 "Children I have nursed up and bred, Marked with the new, the Christian name, But lo! the base degenerate seed Impatient to divulge their shame, Their foul ingratitude to prove, Have spurned the bowels of My love." Used With Tune: VERNON Text Sources: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)

When gathering clouds around I view

Author: Grant Appears in 276 hymnals Used With Tune: VERNON

Thy presence, gracious God, afford

Author: Fawcett Appears in 174 hymnals Used With Tune: VERNON

'Tis hard, when we are sick and poor

Appears in 8 hymnals Used With Tune: VERNON

This is the field,—the world below

Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: VERNON

Leaving Her Water Jar Behind

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Feminine Images; Grace; Jesus Christ's Ministry; Living Water; Mission; New Life in Christ; Seeking; Teaching; Truth; Witness Scripture: John 4:7-42 Used With Tune: VERNON

Blow Ye The Trump, In Sion Blow

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Blow ye the trump, in Sion blow, That all may hear and understand, Their time of visitation know, Sound an alarm throughout My land; Let all the people quake for fear, The day, the evil day is near. 2 A day of gloominess and dread, A day of clouds and sore affright, As mists upon the mountains spread, Dark as the deepest noon of night; A day where only meteors shine, A day of righteous wrath divine. 3 Destruction from the Lord is come, The terrible almighty Lord, To seal a guilty nation’s doom: Lo! He hath bared th’avenging sword, And sent His hostile armies forth To plague, and waste, and shake the earth. 4 Lo! At His Word th’embattled powers Marching in dread array appear! A fire before their face devours, A flame is kindled by their rear, Plague, famine, fire and sword are joined, And ghastly ruin stalks behind. 5 Before their face an Eden blooms, But where the grounded staff hath passed, Their breath the paradise consumes, And lays the pleasant landscape waste; No more the seat of joy and peace, But one great dreary wilderness. 6 As horsemen harnessed for the fight, They rush impetuous from afar, Borne headlong with resistless might, Loud-rattling as the rolling car, Light o’er the mountain tops they bound, The vales with clanging arms resound. 7 As fire on crackling stubble feeds, And wins its desolated way, The mighty host destruction spreads, Wide wasting, and devours its prey, With noise confused, and shoutings loud, And groans, and garments rolled in blood. 8 Where'er they turn, the people fail, Pained and astonished at the sight, Their face o’erspread with deadly pale, Their heart o’erwhelmed with huge affright, Helpless to stand the invader’s force, Or stop their all victorious course. 9 Nothing against their might shall stand, While firmly ranked in close array And marshaled by divine command; Secure they urge their rapid way, Or rise when fallen on the sword, Unwounded champions of the Lord. 10 Swift to the slaughter and the spoil The fierce, invulnerable powers Shall run, shall fly; their foemen foil, And scale the walls, and mount the towers: The earth beneath their rage shall quake, The battlements of Heaven shall shake. 11 The sun no more shall rule the day, But set eclipsed in sudden night; The moon shall lose her paler ray, The stars withdraw their glimmering light; The higher powers shall disappear, When God, the glorious King, is near. 12 Before His dreadful camp the Lord Shall utter His majestic voice; For He is strong, and keeps His Word, And all His vengeful power employs Against the world in that great day, When Heav’n and earth shall flee away. Used With Tune: VERNON Text Sources: Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution by John and Charles Wesley (London: Strahan, 1744)

Alone

Author: Jessie Anne Lee Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: He came to Pharaoh, the king who could kill Refrain First Line: Alone, alone, I feel alone Lyrics: 1 He came to Pharaoh, the king who could kill Him if he had the mind and the will; But Moses stood his ground and cried, Oh let my people go, not die! Refrain: "Alone, alone, I feel alone; O God, forsake me not Your child!" 2 The people God saved with His might Did grievous evil in God’s sight. The friend of God gave them bold reply, "Choose you this day to live or die!" [Refrain] 3 To feed the king, his men and beasts, She secretly prepared a feast; And Abigail pled while Nabal raged, For he was a brute and she was a slave. [Refrain] 4 She pled for Nabal’s life, though he Would have killed his wife long since, though she Had loved alone and did not fail Him, she his faithful Abigail. [Refrain] 5 Elijah faithfully preached God’s word Though he was nearly killed by the sword; Outran a chariot and hid from the king Then cried to God, too weary to think, [Refrain] 6 God sent him meat on ravens’ wing, And God made from a drought, a spring; Assuring him there were yet more, Seven thousand who still loved the Lord. [Refrain] 7 See Mary weep beside the tomb, Of One who gave her life from gloom, Who healed her and restore purity Yet now they said so dead was He! [Refrain] 8 Christ walked the wearying miles on foot, To give the people life and good. He healed them, loved them and set them free, Yet alone in death’s garden wailed He: [Refrain] 9 He stood and sobbed while watching them, "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! I would have gathered you to Me, Yet you would not; I came for thee!" [Refrain] 10 He who had walked that very road, Now watched the crowd behind him grow; But not to follow in His steps; For they loved this life, and gave Him death. [Refrain] 11 They once who listened to Him speak Like eager children round His feet, Now watched Him die and wail aloud. Forsaking Him, they loved the world. [Refrain] 12 He rose and now He is to me All that I ever need Him to be, Although the many days I cry, While staring at the days gone by, [Refrain] 13 While in my heart of hearts I see, The ones who had been friends to me, But who would not leave behind their all, Forsook me and the precious call. [Refrain] 14 When all is gone I look and see If I can touch the smallest of these, That they perhaps would become as I And follow Jesus now or die! [Refrain] Used With Tune: [He came to Pharaoh, the king who could kill]

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