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People of the living God

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #51 (1854) Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Lyrics: People of the living God, I have sought the world around, Paths of sin and sorrow trod, Peace and comfort nowhere found. 55 Now to you my spirit turns, Turns, a fugitive unbless'd; Brethren, where your altar burns, O receive me into rest! Lonely I no longer roam, Like the cloud, the wind, the wave; Where you dwell shall be my home, Where you die shall be my grave; Mine the God whom you adore, Your Redeemer shall be mine; Earth can fill my heart no more, Every idol I resign. Tell me not of gain or loss, Ease, enjoyment, pomp, and power, Welcome poverty and cross, Shame, reproach, affliction's hour: "Follow me!"--I know the voice; Jesus, Lord, Thy steps I see; Now I take Thy yoke by choice, Light Thy burden now to me. Topics: Heritage of God's people Languages: English

The scene arround me disappears

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #52 (1854) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Lyrics: The scene arround me disappears, And, borne to ancient regions, While Time recals the flight of years, I see angelic legions Descending in an orb of light, Amidst the dark and silent night; I hear celestial voices. 56 "Tidings, glad tidings from above To every age and nation; Tidings, glad tidings,--God is love, To man He sends salvation: His Son beloved, His only Son, The work of mercy hath begun; Give to his name the glory." Through David's city I am led; Here all around are sleeping; A light directs to yon poor shed, There lonely watch is keeping: I enter;--ah! what glories shine! Is this Immanuel's earthly shrine? Messiah's infant temple? It is, it is; and I adore This Stranger meek and lowly, As saints and seraphs bow before The throne of God thrice holy: Faith through the veil of flesh can see The face of thy Divinity, My Lord, my God, my Saviour! Topics: Bethlehem; Christ Birth of Languages: English

Like Mary, when the angel came

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #53 (1854) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Lyrics: Like Mary, when the angel came To hail her from on high; When God's Messengers proclaim Glad tidings, would reply,-- 57 "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, Be it according to Thy word." Come, Holy Ghost, Thy power impart, Form Christ in every heart. Like Mary, placed at Jesus' feet, We hear His words with joy; Nor would we change our humble seat For Martha's hard employ. Now, too, like Mary, when she shed The precious spikenard on his head, Sweet fall our tears from grateful eyes, While prayers'like incense rise. Like Mary at the Sepulchre, The risen Lord we seek: Jesus, reveal Thyself:--like her, Oh! might we hear Thee speak! Thy look, Thy voice, Thy love the same, Call each poor handmaid by her name, While, with full heart and kindling eye, All, all, "Rabboni!" cry. Topics: Mary Magdalene sister of Lazarus; Mary Magdalene mother of Jesus; Mary Magdalene; Three Marys Languages: English

Green pastures and clear streams

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #54 (1854) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Lyrics: Green pastures and clear streams, Freedom and quiet rest, 58 Christ's flock enjoy, beneath His beams, Or in His shadow rest. The mountain and the vale, Forest and field, they range; The morning dew, the evening gale, Bring health in every change. Secure amidst alarms, From violence or snares, The lambs He gathers in His arms, And in His bosom bears. The woumded and the weak He comforts, heals, and binds; The lost He came from heaven to seek, And saves them when He finds. Through wilds of brier and thorn, In darkness if they stray, They wander not like waifs forlorn; Their Shepherd is their way. Should storms of trouble blow, Warn'd of the coming shock, They to the Rock of Ages go; Their Shepherd is their Rock. Let earth and hell oppose, Let Satan take the field; Quench'd are the darts of all their foes; Their Shepherd is their shield. Death may assail; but death Is vanquish'd in the strife; The moment of departing breath, Begins eternal life. 59 Conflicts and trials done, His glory they behold, Where Jesus and His flock are one, One Shepherd and one fold. When the last trump shall sound, And graves break up their sleep, At His right hand may we be found, Among the chosen sheep. Topics: Flock of Christ; Good Shepherd Languages: English

Thus far on life's perplexing path

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #55 (1854) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: Thus far on life's perplexing path, Thus far, Thou, Lord, our steps hast led; Snatch'd from the world's pursuing wrath, Unharm'd, though floods hung o'er our head; Like ransom'd Israel on the shore, Here, then, we pause, look back, adore. Strangers and pilgrims here below, Like all our fathers in their day, We to the land of promise go, Lord, by Thine own appointed way: Still guide, illumine, cheer our flight, In cloud by day, in fire by night. Safety Thy presence is, and rest; While,--as the eagle, o'er her brood Flutters her pinions, stirs the nest, Covers, defends, provides them food, Bears on her wings, instructs to fly,-- Thy love prepares us for the sky. 60 Protect us through the wilderness From fiery tempest, plague, and foe; With bread from heaven Thy people bless, And living streams where'er we go: Nor let our rebel hearts repine, Or follow any voice but Thine. Thy holy law to us proclaim, But not from Sinai's top alone; Hid in the rock-cleft, be Thy Name, Thy power and all Thy goodness shown; And may we never bow the knee, Or worship any God but Thee. When we have number'd all our years, And stand, at length, on Jordan's brink, Though the flesh fail with mortal fears, O let not then the spirit sink; But, strong in faith, and hope, and love, Plunge through the stream to rise above. Topics: Christian Israel; Pilgrimage of life Languages: English

Spring up, O well, sweet fountain, spring

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #56 (1854) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Lyrics: Spring up, O well! sweet fountain, spring! And fructify the desert sand; Sing ye that drink; the waters sing, They dance along the, smiling land; With flowers adorn, with verdure bless, The waste and howling wilderness. Ho, every one that thirsts draw nigh, With sickness fainting, worn with toil; 61 Let him that hath no money buy, Buy milk and honey, wine and oil, The fourfold streams of Paradise, Priceless, because above all price. Come to the pools, ye lame and blind; Ye lepers, to this Jordan come; Sight, strength, and healing each may find; Approach the waves, ye deaf and dumb; Their joyful sound ye soon shall hear, And your own voice delight your ear. In every form the waters run, Rill, river, torrent, lake, and sea; Through every clime beneath the sun, Free as the air, as daylight free, Till earth's whole face the floods o'erweep, As ocean's tides the channel'd deep. As moved with mighty wings outspread, God's Spirit o'er the formless void, So be that Spirit's influence shed To new-create a world destroy'd; Till all that died through Adam's fall Revive in Christ, who died for all. Topics: Waters of life Scripture: Numbers 21 Languages: English

Come to Calvary's holy mountain

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #57 (1854) Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Lyrics: Come to Calvary's holy mountain, Sinners ruin'd by the fall; Here a pure and healing fountain Flows to you, to me, to all, In a full, perpetual tide, Open'd when our Saviour died. 62 Come in poverty and meanness, Come defiled, without, within; From infection and uncleanness, From the leprosy of sin, Wash your robes and make them white: Ye shall walk with God in light. Come, in sorrow and contrition, Wounded, impotent, and blind; Here the guilty free remission, Here the troubled peace may find; Health this fountain will restore, He that drinks shall thirst no more:-- He that drinks shall live for ever; 'Tis a soul-renewing flood: God is faithful;--God will never Break his covenant in blood, Sign'd when our Redeemer died, Seal'd when he was glorified. Topics: Calvary; Waters of life Languages: English

The world in condemnation lay

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #58 (1854) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7.7 Lyrics: The world in condemnation lay, And death, from Adam reigning, O'er man maintain'd remorseless sway, While sin his soul enchaining, Foredoom'd the second death to all That shared the ruins of the fall; But Christ's triumphant mission Redeem'd us from perdition. 63 Then round His manger let us throng, Attend Him in temptation, Carry our cross with joy along His path of tribulation; With Him to Olivet retire, On Calvary at His feet expire; Then, on Mount Zion seated, Our bliss shall be completed. Topics: Christ's mission; Millennial anticipations Languages: English

When war on earth suspended

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #59 (1854) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Lyrics: When war on earth suspended His wild career of woes, The Prince of Peace descended, A guiltier strife to close: Vain battles worms were waging With their Creator God: He came, and wrath assuaging, Made peace with His own blood. The storm that flamed and lower'd, Was calm at His command; The rod of Justice flower'd, Like Aaron's, in His hand: That sceptre, love-revealing, Rebels approach and kiss; Its leaves are for your healing, Its fruits--immortal bliss. Topics: Christ the Prince of peace; Prince of Peace Languages: English

Go to dark Gethsemane

Author: James Montgomery Hymnal: MSPH #60 (1854) Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Lyrics: Go to dark Gethsemane, Ye that feel the tempter's power; Your Redeemer's conflict see, Watch with Him one bitter hour: Turn not from his griefs away, Learn of Jesus Christ to pray. Follow to the judgment-hall; View the Lord of Life arraign'd; O the wormwood and the gall! O the pangs His soul sustain'd! Shun not suffering, shame, or loss; Learn of Him to bear the cross. Calvary's mournful mountain climb, There, adoring at His feet, Mark that miracle of time, God's own sacrifice complete: It is finish'd;"--hear the cry; Learn of Jesus Christ to die. Early hasten to the tomb, Where they laid His breathless clay: All is solitude and gloom; Who hath taken Him away? Christ is risen!--He meets our eyes. Saviour, teach us so to rise. Topics: Calvary; Christ our example in suffering; Gethsemane Languages: English