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Fight the good fight with all thy might

Author: John Samuel Bewley Monsell, 1811-1875 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 497 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Fight the good fight with all thy might, Christ is thy strength and Christ thy right; lay hold on life, and it shall be thy joy and crown eternally. 2 Run the straight race through God's good grace, lift up thine eyes and seek his face; life with its way before us lies, Christ is the path and Christ the prize. 3 Cast care aside, lean on thy Guide; his boundless mercy will provide; trust, and thy trusting soul shall prove Christ is its life and Christ its love. 4 Faint not nor fear, his arms are near; he changeth not, and thou art dear; only believe, and thou shalt see that Christ is all in all to thee. Topics: Christian Vocation and Pilgrimage Used With Tune: RUSHFORD

Praise we the Lord this day

Author: Anonymous Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 52 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Praise we the Lord this day, this day so long foretold, whose promise shone with cheering ray on waiting saints of old. 2. The prophet gave the sign for faithful folk to read: a virgin born of David's line shall bear the promised seed. 3. Ask not how this should be, but worship and adore, like her whom heaven's Majesty came down to shadow o'er. 4. She meekly bowed her head to hear the gracious word, Mary, the pure and lowly maid, the favored of the Lord. 5. Most blest shall be her name in all the Church on earth, through whom that wondrous mercy came, the incarnate Savior's birth. Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions The Annunciation (March 25) Used With Tune: ST. GEORGE Text Sources: Hymns for the Festivals and Saints' Days of the Church of England, 1846, alt.

Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding

Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 142 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding. "Christ is nigh," it seems to say; "Cast away the works of darkness, O ye children of the day." 2 Wakened by the solemn warning, from earth's bondage let us rise; Christ, our sun, all sloth dispelling, shines upon the morning skies. 3 Lo! the Lamb, so long expected, comes with pardon down from heaven; let us haste, with tears of sorrow, one and all to be forgiven; 4 so when next he comes with glory, and the world is wrapped in fear, may he with his mercy shield us, and with words of love draw near. 5 Honor, glory, might, and blessing to the Father and the Son, with the everlasting Spirit, while unending ages run. Used With Tune: MERTON Text Sources: Latin, ca. 6th cent.; Hymns Ancient and Modern,1861, alt. (tr.)

The Song of Zechariah

Appears in 311 hymnals First Line: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel Lyrics: 1. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed his people; 2. And hath raised up a might salvation for us in the house of his servant David, 3. As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: 4. That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; 5. To perform the mercy promised to our forefathers, and to remember his holy covenant; 6. To perform the oath which he sware to our forefather Abraham, that he would give us, 7. That we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, 8. In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. 9. And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest, for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; 10. To give knowledge of salvation unto his people for the remission of their sins, 11. Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us; 12. To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Topics: Canticles Used With Tune: [Blessed be the Lord God of Israel]

Blessed feasts of blessed martyrs

Author: John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 28 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Blessed feasts of blessed martyrs, holy women, holy men, with affection's recollections greet we your return again. Worthy deeds they wrought, and wonders, worthy of the Name they bore; we, with meetest praise and sweetest, honor them for evermore. 2. Faith prevailing, hope unfailing, loving Christ with single heart, thus they, glorious and victorious, bravely bore the martyr's part, by contempt of every anguish, by unyielding battle done; victors at the last, they triumph, with the host of angels one. 3. Therefore, ye that reign in glory, fellow-heirs with Christ on high, join to ours your supplication when before him we draw nigh, praying that, this life completed, all its fleeting moments past, by his grace we may be worthy of eternal bliss at last. Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Martyrs Used With Tune: HOLY MANNA Text Sources: Latin, 12th Cent.

New songs of celebration render

Author: Erik Routley, 1917-1872 Meter: 9.8.9.8 D Appears in 33 hymnals Lyrics: 1 New songs of celebration render to him who has great wonders done; awed by his love his foes surrender and fall before the Mighty One. He has made known his great salvation which all his friends with joy confess; he has revealed to every nation his everlasting righteousness. 2 Joyfully, heartily resounding, let every instrument and voice peal out the praise of grace abounding, calling the whole world to rejoice. Trumpets and organs set in motion such sounds as make the heavens ring; all things that live in earth and ocean, make music for your mighty King. 3 Rivers and seas and torrents roaring, honor the Lord with wild acclaim; mountains and stones look up adoring and find a voice to praise his Name. Righteous, commanding, ever glorious, praises be his that never cease; just is our God, whose truth victorious establishes the world in peace. Scripture: Psalm 98 Used With Tune: RENDEZ À DIEU

O Food to pilgrims given

Author: John Athelstan Lurie Riley, 1858-1945 Meter: 7.7.6 D Appears in 18 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O Food to pilgrims given, O Bread of life from heaven, O Manna from on high! We hunger; Lord, supply us, nor thy delights deny us, whose hearts to thee draw nigh. 2. O stream of love past telling, O purest fountain, welling from out the Savior's side! We faint with thirst; revive us, of thine abundance give us, and all we need provide. 3. O Jesus, by thee bidden, we here adore thee, hidden in forms of bread and wine. Grant when the veil is riven, we may behold, in heaven, thy countenance divine. Topics: Holy Eucharist Used With Tune: O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN Text Sources: Latin, 1661

O Master, let me walk with thee

Author: Washington Gladden, 1836-1918 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 591 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O Master, let me walk with thee in lowly paths of service free; tell me thy secret; help me bear the strain of toil, the fret of care. 2 Help me the slow of heart to move by some clear, winning word of love; teach me the wayward feet to stay, and guide them in the homeward way. 3 Teach me thy patience; still with thee in closer, dearer company, in work that keeps faith sweet and strong, in trust that triumphs over wrong, 4 In hope that sends a shining ray far down the future's broadening way, in peace that only thou canst give, with thee, O Master, let me live. Topics: The Christian Life Used With Tune: DE TAR

Lord Christ, when first thou cam'st to earth

Author: Walter Russell Bowie, 1882-1969 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 35 hymnals Topics: Christian Responsibility Used With Tune: MIT FREUDEN ZART

This joyful Eastertide

Author: George R. Woodward. 1848-1934 Meter: 6.7.6.7 with refrain Appears in 68 hymnals Lyrics: 1. This joyful Eastertide, away with sin and sorrow! My Love, the Crucified, hath sprung to life this morrow. Refrain: Had Christ, that once was slain, ne'er burst his three-day prison, our faith had been in vain; but now is Christ arisen, arisen, arisen, arisen. 2. Death's flood hath lost its chill, since Jesus crossed the river: Lord of all life, from ill my passing life deliver. [Refrain] 3. My flesh in hope shall rest, and for a season slumber, till trump from east to west shall wake the dead in number. [Refrain] Topics: Easter Used With Tune: VRUECTEN