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Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Author: Thomas O. Chisholm Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Appears in 184 hymnals First Line: Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father! Lyrics: 1 Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father!
There is no shadow of turning with thee;
Thou changest not, thy compassions, they fail not;
As thou hast been thou forever wilt be.
Refrain:
Great is thy faithfulness,
Great is thy faithfulness,
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed thy hand hath provided:
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!
2 Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love. [Refrain]
3 Pardon for sin, and a peace that endureth,
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide,
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside! [Refrain] Topics: Blessing (blessedness); Creation; Faithfulness; Forgiveness; God's Care; God's Presence; Harvest; Hope; Love; Mercy; Morning; Noah; Peace; Sin; Spring; Summer; Thankfulness; Winter Scripture: Lamentations 3:22-23 Used With Tune: GRANDE ES TU FIDELIDAD Text Sources: Songs of Salvation
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Forward Through the Ages
Author: Frederick Lucian Hosmer Appears in 83 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Forward through the ages, in unbroken line,
move the faithful spirits at the call divine;
gifts in differing measure, hearts of one accord,
manifold the service, one the sure reward.
Refrain
Forward through the ages, in unbroken line,
move the faithful spirits at the call divine.
2 Wider grows the vision, realm of love and light;
for it we must labor, till our faith is sight.
Prophets have proclaimed it, martyrs testified,
poets sung its glory, heroes for it died. [Refrain]
3 Not alone we conquer, not alone we fall;
in each loss or triumph lose or triumph all.
Bound by God’s far purpose in one living whole,
move we on together to the shining goal. [Refrain] Topics: Commitment; Community; Faith; Faithfulness; Gifts; God's voice (or call); Light; Love; Obedience; Service; Corporate worship Used With Tune: ST. GERTRUDE
Forward Through the Ages
Steal Away
Meter: 10.11.10.11 Appears in 117 hymnals First Line: My Lord, you call me, You call me by the thunder Refrain First Line: Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus! Lyrics: Refrain:
Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus!
Steal away, steal away home,
I ain't got long to stay here!
1 My Lord you call me,
You call me by the thunder;
The trumpet sounds within-a my soul,
I ain't got long to stay here. [Refrain]
2 Green trees are bending,
Poor sinners stand a trembling;
The trumpet sounds within-a my soul;
I ain't got long to stay here. [Refrain]
Ain't got long to stay here.
Topics: Comfort; Death; Freedom; Sin; Suffering Scripture: Isaiah 61:1-3 Used With Tune: STEAL AWAY Text Sources: African-American spiritual
Steal Away
A Song of Peace
Author: Lloyd Stone Meter: 11.10.11.10.11.10 Appears in 29 hymnals First Line: This is my song, O God of all the nations Topics: Children; Peace; Singing (or Song) Used With Tune: FINLANDIA
A Song of Peace
Lo, the Earth Is Risen Again
Author: Samuel Longfellow Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 32 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lo, the earth is risen again
From the winter's bond and pain!
Bring we leaf and flower and spray
To adorn our holiday.
2 Once again the word comes true,
Lo, he maketh all things new.
Now the dark cold days are over,
Light and gladness are before.
3 How our hearts leap with the spring!
How our spirits soar and sing!
Light is victor over gloom,
Life triumphant o'er the tomb.
4 Change, then, mourning into praise,
And, for dirges, anthems raise!
All our fears and griefs shall be
Lost in immortality. Topics: Darkness; Easter; Eternal Life; Hope; Story of Jesus; Praise; Rebirth; Resurrection; Spring; Winter Used With Tune: MONKLAND
Lo, the Earth Is Risen Again
Let All Things Now Living
Author: Katharine K. Davis Meter: 12.11.12.11 D Appears in 55 hymnals First Line: Let all things now living a song of thanksgiving Topics: Adoration; Creation; Darkness; Joy; Light; Love; Nature; Praise; Singing (or Song); Thankfulness; Thanksgiving Day Used With Tune: LLWYN ON
Let All Things Now Living
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Appears in 93 hymnals First Line: I looked over Jordan, and what did I see Lyrics: Refrain:
Swing low, sweet chariot,
coming for to carry me home.
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Coming for to carry me home.
1 I looked over Jordan, and what did I see
Coming for to carry me home.
A band of angels coming after me,
Coming for to carry me home. O, [Refrain]
2 If you get there before I do,
Coming for to carry me home.
Tell all my friends I’m coming too,
Coming for to carry me home. O, [Refrain]
3 I’m sometimes up I'm sometimes down,
Coming for to carry me home.
But still my soul feels heavenly bound,
Coming for to carry me home. O, [Refrain]
Topics: African-American spiritual African-American spiritual; Angels; Death; Hope; Trust Scripture: 2 Kings 2:11 Used With Tune: [I looked over Jordan and what did I see] Text Sources: African-American spiritual
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
From All That Dwell Below The Skies
Author: Isaac Watts ; Thomas Ken Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,278 hymnals Lyrics: 1 From all that dwell below the skies
Let songs of hope and faith arise;
Let peace, good-will on earth be sung
Through every land by every tongue.
2 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,
Praise God all creatures here below,
O give God praise ye heavens above,
Revealed in grace and truth and love. Topics: Creation; Faith; Good will; Hope; Love; Peace; Praise; Singing (or Song); Truth Used With Tune: OLD HUNDREDTH
From All That Dwell Below The Skies
Almighty Creator on Earth and Above
Author: Robert H. Grant Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 1,142 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Almighty Creator on earth and above,
We gratefully sing your power and your love;
Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days,
Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.
2 We tell of your might, we sing of your grace,
Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space;
Your chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,
And dark is your path on the wings of the storm.
3 Your 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.
4 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
In you do we trust, nor find you to fail,
Your mercies how tender, how firm to the end,
Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer and Friend. Topics: Creation; God's Care; God's Love; God's power; Grace; Light; Mercy; Nature; Praise; Singing (or Song); Trust Scripture: Psalm 104 Used With Tune: LYONS Text Sources: Christian Psalmody, 1833, alt.
Almighty Creator on Earth and Above
Come, My Soul, Thou Must Be Waking
Author: Friedrich R. L. von Canitz; Henry J. Buckoll Meter: 8.4.7 D Appears in 235 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, my soul, thou must be waking;
Now is breaking
Over the earth another day;
Come to him who made this splendor;
See thou render
All thy feeble strength can pay.
2 Gladly hail the sun returning;
Ready burning
Be the incense of thy powers;
For the night is safely ended;
God hath tended
With his care thy helpless hours.
3 Pray that he may prosper ever
Each endeavor,
When thine aim is good and true;
But that he may ever thwart thee,
And convert thee,
When thou evil wouldst pursue.
4 Only God's free gifts abuse not,
Light refuse not,
But this Spirit's voice obey;
Thou with him shalt dwell, beholding
Light enfolding
All things in unclouded day. Topics: Creation; Day; God's Care; Light; Morning; Obedience; Spirit of God Used With Tune: HAYDN
Come, My Soul, Thou Must Be Waking
All Through the Night
Author: Sir Harold Boulton Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4 Appears in 15 hymnals First Line: Sleep, my child, and peace attend thee Lyrics: 1 Sleep, my child, and peace attend thee
All through the night;
Guardian angels God will send thee
All through the night.
Soft the drowsy hours are creeping,
Hill and vale in slumber sleeping,
I my loving vigil keeping,
All through the night.
2 While the moon her watch is keeping
All through the night;
While the weary world is sleeping
All through the night.
Over thy spirit gently stealing,
Visions of delight revealing,
Breathes a pure and holy feeling,
All through the night.
3 Deep the silence round us spreading,
All through the night;
Dark the path that we are treading,
All through the night.
Still the coming day discerning,
By the hope within us burning,
To the dawn our footsteps turning,
All through the night.
4 Star of Faith the dark adorning,
All through the night;
Leads us fearless toward the morning,
All through the night.
Though our hearts be wrapped in sorrow,
From the home of dawn we borrow,
Promise of a glad tomorrow,
All through the night. Topics: Angels; Children; Comfort; Darkness; Day; Faith; Hope; Lullaby; Morning; Night; Silence; Sorrow Used With Tune: AR HYD Y NOS Text Sources: Verses 3 and 4 anonymous
All Through the Night
Heap High the Farmer's Wintry Hoard
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Lyrics: 1 Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard!
Heap high the golden corn!
No richer gift has autumn poured
from out her lavish horn!
Through vales of grass and meads of flowers
our plows their furrows made,
While on the hills the sun and showers
of changeful April played.
2 We dropped the seed over hill and plain
beneath the sun of May,
And frightened from our sprouting grain
the robber crows away.
All through the long, bright days of June
its leaves grew green and fair,
And waved in hot midsummer's noon
its soft and yellow hair.
3 And now with autumn's moonlit eyes,
It's harvest-time has come,
We pluck away the frosted leaves,
and bear the treasure home.
Oh let the good old crop adorn
the hills our fathers (forbears) trod;
Still let us, for his (this) golden corn,
send up our thanks to God! Topics: Autumn; Creation; Harvest; Quaker author; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Thankfulness; Thanksgiving Day Used With Tune: ELLACOMBE
Heap High the Farmer's Wintry Hoard
'Twas in the Moon of Winter Time
Author: Jesse Edgar Middleton Appears in 41 hymnals Refrain First Line: Jesus, your king, is born Topics: Angels; Beauty; Children; Christmas; Gifts; Story of Jesus; Joy; Light; Native American; Nativity; Singing (or Song); Winter Used With Tune: JESU AHATONIA
'Twas in the Moon of Winter Time
Simple Gifts
Appears in 21 hymnals First Line: ’Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free Refrain First Line: When true simplicity is gained Lyrics: 1 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
It will be in the valley of love and delight.
Refrain:
When true simplicity is gained,
To bow and to bend we shan't be ashamed,
To turn, turn will be our delight,
'Til by turning, turning we come 'round right.
2 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be fair,
'Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air.
To walk every day in the path we choose.
'Tis the gift that we pray we never, never lose. [Refrain]
3 'Tis the gift to be knowing, 'tis the gift to be kind,
'Tis the gift to wait to hear another's mind,
That when we speak our feelings we might come out true,
'Tis the gift for me and the gift for you. [Refrain]
4 'Tis the gift to be loving, 'tis the best gift of all,
Like the warm spring rain bringing beauty when it falls,
And as we use this gift we might come to believe
it is better to give than it is to receive. [Refrain] Topics: Children; Freedom; Gifts; Kindness; Listening; Love; Simplicity Used With Tune: ['Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free[ Text Sources: Vs. 1 Traditional American Shaker; Vs. 2-4 Traditional
Simple Gifts
The Spacious Firmament on High
Author: Joseph Addison Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 785 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The spacious firmament on high,
with all the blue ethereal sky,
and spangled heavens, a shining frame,
their great Original proclaim.
The unwearied sun from day to day
does its Creator's powers display;
and publishes to every land
the work of an almighty hand.
2 Soon as the evening shades prevail,
the moon takes up the wondrous tale,
and nightly to the listening earth
repeats the story of its birth;
whilst all the stars that round it burn,
and all the planets in their turn,
confirm the tidings, as they roll
and spread the truth from pole to pole.
3 What though in solemn silence all
move round the dark terrestrial ball?
What though no real voice nor sound
amid their radiant orbs be found?
In reason's ear they all rejoice,
and utter forth a glorious voice;
forever singing as they shine,
“The hand that made us is divine.” Topics: Creation; God's power; Nature; Praise; Singing (or Song) Scripture: Psalm 19:1-6 Used With Tune: CREATION
The Spacious Firmament on High
O God, our help in ages past
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,239 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.
2 Under the shadow of thy throne
Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient is thine arm alone,
And our defense is sure.
3 Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting thou art God,
To endless years the same.
4 A thousand ages in thy sight
Are like an evening gone,
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
5 Time, like an ever rolling stream,
Soon bears us all away;
We fly, forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
6 O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Be thou our guard while life shall last,
And our eternal home. Topics: Creation; Eternal Life; Eternity; God's Care; Hope; Saints Scripture: Psalm 90 Used With Tune: ST. ANNE
O God, our help in ages past
Morning Has Broken
Author: Eleanor Farjeon Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Appears in 93 hymnals First Line: Morning has broken Topics: Children; Children; Creation; Day; Light; Marriage; Morning; Nature; Praise; Service; Singing (or Song) Used With Tune: BUNESSAN Text Sources: Enlarged Songs of Praise, 1931
Morning Has Broken
O Young and Fearless Prophet
Author: S. Ralph Harlow Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 37 hymnals First Line: O young and fearless Prophet of ancient Galilee Lyrics: 1 O young and fearless Prophet of ancient Galilee:
your life is still a summons to serve humanity,
to make our thoughts and actions less prone to please the crowd,
to stand with humble courage for truth with hearts unbowed.
2 O help us stand unswerving against war's bloody way,
where hate and lust and falsehood hold back your holy sway;
forbid false love of country, that turns us from your call
who lifts above the nation the neighborhood of all.
3 Create in us the splendor that dawns when hearts are kind,
that knows not race nor station as boundaries of the mind;
that learns to value beauty, in heart, or mind, or soul,
and longs to see God's children as sacred, perfect, whole.
4 Stir up in us a protest against unneeded wealth;
for some go starved and hungry who plead for work and health.
Once more give us your challenge above our noisy day,
and come to lead us forward along your holy way. Topics: Beauty; Discipleship; Equality; God's glory; Story of Jesus; Love; Peace; Praise; Simplicity; Truth Used With Tune: MEIRONYDD
O Young and Fearless Prophet
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Author: John M. Neale; Henry Sloane Coffin Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 509 hymnals Refrain First Line: Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Lyrics: 1 O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here,
Until the Son of God appear.
Refrain:
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel!
2 O come, thou Wisdom from on high,
And order all things, far and nigh;
To us the path of knowledge show,
And cause us in her ways to go. [Refrain]
3 O come, Desire of nations, bind
All peoples in one heart and mind;
Bid envy, strife and quarrels cease;
Fill the whole world with heaven's peace. [Refrain] Topics: Christmas; Peace; Wisdom Used With Tune: VENI EMMANUEL Text Sources: 12th cent. Latin Antiphons
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Comfort, Comfort Ye My People
Author: Johann Olearius; Catherine Winkworth Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7.8.8 Appears in 126 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Comfort, comfort ye my people,
Speak ye peace, thus saith our God;
Comfort those who sit in darkness
Mourning 'neath their sorrows' load.
Speak ye to Jerusalem
Of the peace that waits for them;
Tell her that her sins I cover,
And her warfare now is over.
2 Hark, the voice of one that crieth
In the desert far and near,
Bidding all men to repentance
Since the kingdom now is here.
Oh, that warning cry obey!
Now prepare for God a way;
Let the valleys rise to meet him
And the hills bow down to greet him.
3 Make ye straight what long was crooked,
Make the rougher places plain;
Let your hearts be true and humble,
As befits his holy reign.
For the glory of the Lord
Now over earth is shed abroad;
And all flesh shall see the token
That his word is never broken. Topics: Christmas; Comfort; Darkness; God's glory; Kingdom of God; Mourning; Peace; Prophecy; Repentance; Sin; Sorrow Scripture: Isaiah 40:1-5 Used With Tune: GENEVA 42
Comfort, Comfort Ye My People
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