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Infant holy, Infant lowly

Author: Edith M. G. Reed, 1885-1933 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7.7 Appears in 95 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Infant holy, infant lowly, for his bed a cattle stall; oxen lowing, little knowing Christ the babe is Lord of all. Swift are winging angels singing, nowells ringing, tidings bringing: Christ the child is Lord of all. Christ the child is Lord of all. 2 Flocks were sleeping, shepherds keeping vigil till the morning new, saw the glory, heard the story, tidings of a gospel true. Thus rejoicing, free from sorrow, praises voicing greet the morrow: Christ the child was born for you. Christ the child was born for you. Topics: Children and Youth Christmas; Church Year Christmas Scripture: Luke 2:1-14 Used With Tune: POLISH CAROL

Christ, whose glory fills the skies

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 475 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Christ, whose glory fills the skies, Christ, the true, the only Light, Sun of righteousness, arise, triumph o'er the shades of night. Dayspring from on high, be near; Daystar, in my heart appear. 2 Dark and cheerless is the morn unaccompanied by thee; joyless is the day's return, till thy mercy's beams I see, till thy inward light impart, glad my eyes and warm my heart. 3 Visit then, this soul of mine; pierce the gloom of sin and grief; fill me, radiancy divine; scatter all my unbelief; more and more thyself display, shining to the perfect day. Topics: Church Year Epiphany; Jesus Christ Light of the World Scripture: Proverbs 4:18 Used With Tune: HEATHLANDS

Come, ye faithful, raise the strain

Author: John of Damascus, c.696-c.754; John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 380 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain of triumphant gladness; God hath brought forth 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 today; 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 Hallelujah! now we cry to our King immortal, who triumphant, burst the bars of the tomb's dark portal; hallelujah! with the Son, God the Father praising; hallelujah! yet again to the Spirit raising. Topics: Church Year Easter; Exodus; Jesus Christ Kingship / Reign; Processionals Scripture: Exodus 14:15-22 Used With Tune: AVE VIRGO VIRGINUM Text Sources: Greek

The heavens declare your glory, Lord

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 592 hymnals First Line: The heavens declare your glory, Lord! Lyrics: 1 The heavens declare your glory, Lord! In every star your wisdom shines, but when our eyes behold your word, we read your name in fairer lines. 2 Sun, moon and stars convey your praise to all the earth, and never stand, so when your truth began its race, it touched and glanced on every land. 3 Nor shall your spreading gospel rest till through the world your truth has run, till Christ has all the nations blest who see the light or feel the sun. 4 Great sun of righteousness, arise and bless the world with heavenly light! Your gospel makes the simple wise; your laws are pure, your judgements right. 5 Your noblest wonders here we view in souls renewed and sins forgiven: Lord, cleanse my sins, my soul renew, and make your word my guide to heaven. Topics: Forgiveness / Pardon; God Wisdom of; God Righteousness of; God Glory of; God Creator and Ruler; Light; Mission; The Bible; Truth Scripture: Psalm 19 Used With Tune: CHURCH TRIUMPHANT

O Christ, the Word, incarnate

Author: William Walsham How, 1823-1897 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 485 hymnals First Line: O Christ, the Word incarnate Lyrics: 1 O Christ, the Word incarnate, O Wisdom from on high, O Truth unchanged, unchanging, O Light of our dark sky: we praise you for the radiance that from the hallowed page, a lantern to our footsteps, shines on from age to age. 2 Your people hold this treasure from you, its source divine, a light that to all ages throughout the earth will shine; it is the chart and compass that all life's voyage through, 'mid mists and rocks and tempest, still guides, O Christ, to you. 3 Oh make your church, dear Saviour, a lamp of purest gold, to bear before the nations your true light, as of old; oh teach your wandering pilgrims by this their path to trace, till, cloud and darkness ended, they see you face to face. Topics: Church; Jesus Christ Word; Jesus Christ Way, Truth, Life; Jesus Christ Light of the World; Journey / Pilgrimage / Pilgrims; Mission; The Bible Scripture: Psalm 119:105 Used With Tune: CHENIES

Break now the bread of life

Author: Alexander Groves, 1842-1909; Mary A. Lathbury, 1841-1913 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 723 hymnals First Line: Break now the bread of life, dear Lord, to me (Rompsnous le pain de vie!) Lyrics: 1 Break now the bread of life, dear Lord, to me, as once you broke the loaves beside the sea: beyond the sacred page I seek you, Lord: my spirit longs for you, O living Word. 2 You are the bread of life, dear Lord, to me; your holy word the truth redeeming me. Give me to eat and live with you above; teach me to love your truth, for you are love. 3 Oh send your Spirit now, dear Lord, to me; touch now my blinded eyes and make me see: then shall all bondage cease, all fetters fall, and I shall find my peace, my all in all. --- FRENCH - 1 Rompsnous le pain de vie! Que ta bonté, Seigneur, nous rassasie de vérité! Amour qui nous fait vivre, révèle-toi! Parle dans le saint livre à notre foi! 2 O toi, don't la clémence créa du pain pour une foule immense mourant de faim, vois, ton peuple se presse autour de toi: secours notre détresse et notre foi! 3 C'est toi, le pain de vie, Verbe puissant! C'est de ta chair meurtrie, c'est de ton sang, que notre âme doit vivre. Ah! donne-toi par l'Esprit et le livre à notre foi! 4 Tu bénis tes apôtres, puis, à leur tour, ils portèrent à d'autres ton grand amour… Ô parole féconde, que notre foi t'offre à ce pauvre monde qui meurt sans toi! Topics: Communion; Holy Spirit Illuminator / Teacher; Jesus Christ Word; Languages other than English French; Peace; The Bible; Truth Scripture: Mark 6:30-44 Used With Tune: LATHBURY

Let all mortal flesh keep silence

Author: Gerard Moultrie, 1829-1885 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 descending, our full homage to demand. 2 King of kings, yet born of Mary, as of old on earth he stood, Lord of all, in human vesture, in the body and the blood, Christ 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, descending from the realms of endless day, comes the powers of hell to vanquish 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, “Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Lord most high.” Topics: Jesus Christ Light of the World; Jesus Christ Kingship / Reign; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Sacraments and Ordinances Communion Scripture: Habakkuk 2:20 Used With Tune: PICARDY Text Sources: Liturgy of St. James

Here, O my Lord, I see thee

Author: Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 315 hymnals First Line: Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face Lyrics: 1 Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face; here would I touch and handle things unseen, here grasp with firmer hand eternal grace, and all my weariness upon thee lean. 2 Here would we feed upon the bread of God, here drink with thee the royal wine of heaven; here would we lay aside each earthly load, here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven. 3 This is the hour of banquet and of song; this is the heavenly table for us spread; here let us feast, and, feasting, still prolong this fellowship in thee, our living bread. 4 Too soon we rise; the symbols disappear. The feast, though not the love, is past and gone; the bread and wine remove, but thou art here, nearer than ever, still our shield and sun. 5 We have no help but thine, nor do we need another arm but thine to lean upon; it is enough, my Lord, enough indeed; our strength is in thy might, thy might alone. 6 Mine is the sin, but thine the righteousness; mine is the guilt, but thine the cleansing blood. Here is my robe, my refuge and my peace, thy blood, thy righteousness, O Lord, my God. 7 Feast after feast thus comes and passes by, yet, passing, points to the glad feast above, giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy, the Lamb's great marriage feast of bliss and love. Topics: Communion; Feast / Food; Forgiveness / Pardon; Heaven; Jesus Christ Lamb of God; Languages other than English Korean; Lent; Our Hope in God; Sacraments and Ordinances Communion Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-5 Used With Tune: LANGRAN

Let saints on earth in concert sing

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Appears in 175 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Let saints on earth in concert sing with those whose work is done, for all the servants of our King in heaven and earth are one. 2 One family, we dwell in him, one church, above, beneath, though now divided by the stream, the narrow stream of death. 3 One army of the living God, to his command we bow: part of the host have crossed the flood, and part are crossing now. 4 E'en now to their eternal home there pass some spirits blest, while others to the margin come, waiting their call to rest. 5 Jesu be thou our constant guide; then, when the word is given, bid Jordan's narrow stream divide, and bring us safe to heaven. Topics: Church Family of God; Communion of Saints; Heaven; Servant / Service Scripture: Psalm 48:14 Used With Tune: DUNDEE (FRENCH)

Take my life, and let it be consecrated

Author: Francis Ridley Havergal, 1836-1879 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 1,200 hymnals First Line: Take my life and let it be Lyrics: 1 Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee; take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise. 2 Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love; take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee. 3 Take my voice and let me sing always, only, for my King; take my lips and let them be filled with messages from thee. 4 Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold; take my intellect, and use every power as thou shalt choose. 5 Take my will and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine; take my heart: it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne. 6 Take my love; my Lord, I pour at thy feet its treasure store; take myself and I will be ever, only, all for thee. Topics: Jesus Christ Union with; Music / Singing / Song; One Life in Christ Discipleship; Profession of Faith; Stewardship Scripture: Romans 12:1-2 Used With Tune: LÜBECK

Take time to be holy

Author: W. D. Longstaff, 1822-1894 Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 306 hymnals First Line: Take time to be holy; speak oft with thy Lord Lyrics: 1 Take time to be holy; speak oft with thy Lord, abide in him always, and feed on his word. Make friends of God's children; help those who are weak, forgetting in nothing his blessing to seek. 2 Take time to be holy; the world rushes on; spend much time in secret with Jesus alone. By looking to Jesus, like him thou shalt be; thy friends in thy conduct his likeness shall see. 3 Take time to be holy; let him be thy guide, and run not before him, whatever betide. In joy or in sorrow, still follow thy Lord, and, looking to Jesus, still trust in his word. 4 Take time to be holy; be calm in thy soul; each thought and each motive beneath his control. Thus led by his Spirit to fountains of love, thou soon shalt be fitted for service above. Topics: Eternal Life; Growth in Faith; Holy / Holiness; One Life in Christ Discipleship; Prayer / Prayers / Poems Scripture: Psalm 46:10 Used With Tune: TAKE TIME TO BE HOLY

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine

Author: Fanny J. Crosby, 1820-1915 Appears in 1,059 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Oh what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, born of his Spirit, washed in his blood. Refrain: This is my story; this is my song: praising my Saviour all the day long; this is my story; this is my song: praising my Saviour all the day long. 2 Perfect submission, perfect delight, visions of rapture now burst on my sight; angels descending bring from above echoes of mercy, whispers of love. [Refrain] 3 Perfect submission, all is at rest; I in my Saviour am happy and blest, watching and waiting, looking above, filled with his goodness, lost in his love. [Refrain] Topics: One Life in Christ Faith; Our Hope in God; Praise Scripture: Hebrews 1:14 Used With Tune: ASSURANCE

Where cross the crowded ways of life

Author: Frank Mason North, 1860-1935 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 your 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 your tears. 3 From tender childhood's helplessness, from woman's grief, man's burdened toil, from famished souls, from sorrow's stress, your heart has never known recoil. 4 The cup of water given for you still holds the freshness of your grace; yet long these multitudes to view the sweet compassion of your face. 5 O Saviour, from the mountain side, make haste to heal these hearts of pain; among these restless throngs abide, oh tread the city's streets again; 6 Till all the world shall learn your love, and follow where your feet have trod; till glorious from your heaven above, shall come the city of our God. Topics: City / City of God; Grace; Gratitude; Jesus Christ Healer and Teacher; One Life in Christ Mission; Recessionals; Social Concerns / Social Justice; Tears / Weeping; Water; Work Scripture: Matthew 9:36 Used With Tune: WALTON (FULDA)

Christ is made the sure foundation

Author: Anonymous; John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 289 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Christ is made the sure foundation, Christ the head and cornerstone, chosen of the Lord, and precious, binding all the church in one, holy Zion's help forever, and her confidence alone. 2 All within that holy city, dearly loved of God on high, in exultant jubilation pour perpetual melody, God the One-in-Three adoring in glad hymns eternally. 3 To this temple, where we call thee, come, O Lord of hosts, today; with thy faithful lovingkindness, hear thy people as they pray, and thy fullest benediction shed within its walls alway. 4 Here bestow on all thy servants what they ask of thee to gain, what they gain from thee forever with the blessed to retain, and hereafter in thy glory evermore with thee to reign. 5 Laud and honour to the Father, laud and honour to the Son, laud and honour to the Spirit, ever Three, and ever One, one in might and one in glory while unending ages run. Topics: Descants and Fauxbourdons; Hymns with Doxologies; Jesus Christ Cornerstone / Foundation; The Church; Trinity; Worship Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:11 Used With Tune: WESTMINSTER ABBEY Text Sources: 7th-8th cent.

Great God, your love has called us here

Author: Brian A. Wren, 1936- Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 32 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Great God, your love has called us here, as we, by love, for love were made. Your living likeness still we bear, though marred, dishonoured, disobeyed. We come, with all our heart and mind, your call to hear, your love to find. 2 We come with self-inflicted pains of broken trust and chosen wrong, half-free, half-bound by inner chains, by social forces swept along, by powers and systems close confined yet seeking hope for humankind. 3 Great God, in Christ you call our name and then receive us as your own, not through some merit, right or claim, but by your gracious love alone. We strain to glimpse your mercy seat and find you kneeling at our feet. 4 Then take the towel, and break the bread, and humble us, and call us friends. Suffer and serve till all are fed, and show how grandly love intends to work till all creation sings, to fill all worlds, to crown all things. 5 Great God, in Christ you set us free, your life to live, your joy to share. Give us your Spirit's liberty to turn from guilt and dull despair, and to offer all that faith can do, while love is making all things new. Topics: Church Year Maundy Thursday; Companion / Friend; Freedom / Liberation; Jesus Christ Servant; Love; Repentance Scripture: Galatians 5:1 Used With Tune: ABINGDON

This is the threefold truth

Author: Fred Pratt Green, 1903- Meter: 12.12.12 Appears in 19 hymnals First Line: This is the threefold truth on which our faith depends Lyrics: 1 This is the threefold truth on which our faith depends, and with this joyful cry worship begins and ends: Refrain: Christ has died! Christ is risen! Christ will come again! 2 On this we fix our minds as, praying side by side, we take the bread and wine from Christ the crucified: [Refrain] 3 By this we are upheld when doubt or grief assails our Christian fortitude, and only grace avails: [Refrain] 4 This is the threefold truth which, if we hold it fast, changes the world and us and brings us home at last: [Refrain] Topics: Doubt; Easter / Eastertide; Faith; God in Christ; Grace; Gratitude; Worship Scripture: Acts 2:22-24 Used With Tune: ACCLAMATIONS

Grief of ending, wordless sorrow

Author: Brian A. Wren, 1936- Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Grief of ending, wordless sorrow, pain of parting, dry or weeping, on our lips and in our bodies, loving God, to you we offer. 2 Times remembered, joy discovered, love and friendship, voice and gesture, precious, lovely, one and only, giving God, we tell and treasure. 3 Word of promise, lift our singing, blending grieving with believing. In your hands is all completed, lasting God, our hope and measure. 4 Christ among us, Spirit-breathing, safe companion, in your keeping, death is birth to resurrection, living God, our joy forever. Topics: Companion / Friend; Our Hope in God; Sacraments and Ordinances Funeral Scripture: Luke 23:46 Used With Tune: MOUNT AUBURN

Your strong word once cleaved the darkness

Author: Martin H. Franzmann, 1907-1976 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Glory; God Creator and Ruler; God Word of; God Holiness of; Hymns with Doxologies; Light; Salvation; Trinity; Worship Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5 Used With Tune: TON Y BOTEL

Tomorrow Christ is coming

Author: Fred Kaan, 1929- Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 7 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Tomorrow Christ is coming, as yesterday he came; a child is born this moment; we do not know its name. The world is full of darkness: again there is no room; the symbols of existence are stable, cross and tomb. 2 Tomorrow will be Christmas, the feast of love divine, but, for the nameless millions, the star will never shine. Still is the census taken, with people on the move; new infants born in stables are crying out for love. 3 There will be no tomorrows for many a baby born; Good Friday falls on Christmas when life is sown as corn, but Jesus Christ is risen and comes again in bread to still our deepest hunger and raise us from the dead. 4 Our Lord becomes incarnate in every human birth. Created in God's image, we must make peace on earth. God will fulfil love's purpose, and this shall be the sign: we shall find Christ among us as woman, child or man. Topics: Church Year Advent; Lament; Peace; Social Concerns / Social Justice; Suffering Scripture: Genesis 1:26-28 Used With Tune: LITTLE BADDOW

This is a story full of love

Author: Brian A. Wren, 1936- Appears in 4 hymnals Lyrics: 1 This is a story full of love, a song to set us free, of God, the Wisdom and the Word, the keystone and the key, the keystone and the key. 2 For Wisdom guides the flow of life and governs, hour by hour, the forces of the universe, the fragrance of a flower, the fragrance of a flower. 3 And faith, awakened, hears the word that Abraham must move, and slaves of Pharaoh take the road to freedom, law and love, to freedom, law and love. 4 The Wisdom and the Word are one when flesh and bone and breath reveal the human face of God, the child of Nazareth, the child of Nazareth. 5 Arising over earthly powers, our Saviour has begun to catch them in a web of love and weave them into one, and weave them into one. 6 Praise God, the Wisdom and the Word, till all the world can see that Jesus is the first and last, the keystone and the key, the keystone and the key. . Topics: Exodus; Faith; Freedom / Liberation; God Creator and Ruler; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Jesus Christ First and Last / Alpha and Omega; Love; The Bible; Wisdom Scripture: Genesis 12:1-5 Used With Tune: TIMOTHY

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