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What Child Is This

Author: W. Chatterton Dix Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 204 hymnals First Line: What child is this, who, laid to rest Refrain First Line: This, this is Christ the King Lyrics: 1 What Child is this, who, laid to rest, On Mary's lap is sleeping? Whom ... shepherds watch are keeping? Chorus: This, this is Christ, the King, Whom shepherds ... sinners here The silent Word is pleading.[Chorus] 3 So bring ...

Good News From Heaven the Angels Bring

Author: Martin Luther Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 41 hymnals First Line: Good news from heav'n the angels bring Lyrics: ... they sing: To us this day a Child is giv'n, To crown ... joy of heav'n. 2 This is the Christ, our God and ... hail, Thou noble Guest, this morn, Whose love did not ... Thou com'st to me, What thanks shall I return to ... 6 Ah, dearest Jesus, holy Child, Make Thee a bed, soft ... Topics: Advent and Christmas Used With Tune: VOM HIMMEL HOCH DA KOMM ICH HER

How happy every child

Appears in 381 hymnals First Line: How happy every child of grace Lyrics: ... child of grace, Who knows his sins forgiven! "This earth," he cries, "is ... for me." 2 O what a blessed hope is ours! While here ... Used With Tune: ALIDA

The new-born Child this early morn

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 7 hymnals Lyrics: ... new-born Child this early morn, The dear Christ-child of virgin ... sing that in this wondrous Child God now with man is reconciled. 3 ... Since God is reconciled with men, What harm can Satan do ... Cheer up! This is a joyous day, The Christ-child drives all care ... Topics: New Year

God’s Will is Best

Author: C. Austin Miles Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Across the mystic maze of years Refrain First Line: Some day I know His face I'll see Lyrics: ... veil lest I might see What grief and pain and weight ... I’m content with this to rest, This is God’s way, It ... must be best. 2 There is no ... . [Refrain] 3 I am His child, He will not leave His ... He will forgive, for He is God. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Across the mystic maze of years]

What wondrous love is this

Appears in 252 hymnals Used With Tune: WONDROUS LOVE Text Sources: Heard from my parents as a child; also from Virginia folk-singers

Oh, How I Love Jesus

Author: Frederick Whitfield Meter: 8.6.8.6.6.6.6.6 Appears in 570 hymnals First Line: There is a Name I love to hear Lyrics: 1 There is a Name I love ... Beaming upon His child; It cheers me through this little while, ... Refrain] 4 It tells me what my Father hath In store ... how dear. [Refrain] 8 This Name shall shed its fragrance ... still Along this thorny road, Shall sweetly ... Scripture: 1 John 4:19 Used With Tune: [There is a Name I love to hear] Text Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Oh_How_I_Love_Jesus); The Cyber Hymnal (http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/o/h/ohiljesu.htm)

Give Thou Thy Youth To God

Author: Horatius Bonar Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 21 hymnals Lyrics: ... above. 2 He seeks thy heart, my child, He wants to make ... the ground: Aim high! this life is not the last; The higher ... the future man. 14 Shun what is low or mean, Be generous ... , And be what thou dost seem: The true is fairer than the ... Used With Tune: DENNIS Text Sources: The Song of the New Creation (London: James Nesbit, 1872)

What Law Have You Broken

Author: Johann Heermann, 1585-1647; Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 22 hymnals First Line: O dearest Jesus, what law have you broken Lyrics: ... have you to make confession, what dark transgression? 2 They crown ... these sorrows, whence this mortal anguish? It is my sins for which ... inherit, this I do merit. 4 What punishment so strange is suffered yonder ... die in sadness, the sinful child of man may live in ... Scripture: Isaiah 53:4-6 Used With Tune: HERZLIEBSTER JESU Text Sources: Tr. st. 5 The Lutheran Hymnal , 1941, alt.

The Past

Author: Bessie Q. Jordan Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: The past we never can undo Refrain First Line: O Lord, forgive, O Lord, receive Lyrics: ... Lord, receive, And bless thy erring child; I do repent and now ... be; We would not have this awful pain Which gnaws so ... constantly. [Refrain] 3 But it is gone beyond our reach, With ... ’ sake. [Refrain] 5 No matter what thy past may be, Just leave ... Used With Tune: [The past we never can undo]